Chapter 346 – The Navy’s Plan for Fiscal Year 1934 (2)”

“Under the four year plan, 544 million yen will be allocated for warships, and 60 million yen for air groups. However, the air group program will be carried out over three years.”

Commander Donrou’s mumbling voice quietly echoed through the room.

“Four years? Are there ships that take that much time to build? Even so, considering the size of this year’s budget, isn’t the allocation for warships rather small?”

“About that, the battleships will undergo large scale modernization refits one after another.”

“Because the London Treaty made it impossible to build new capital ships?”

“Precisely. It appears they intend to carry out a thorough modernization, including a complete replacement of the machinery.”

“The older ones were built twenty years ago, after all. They must want to rebuild them.”

(So they’ll finally become the versions I remember from my previous life.