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Poor submariners...

The final descision came rather quick. Have there been earlier incidents with those boats?

OOC:
No, this was the first incident with a chinese sub, but these vessels are 25 years old and brand new subs are on build so the old could be scrapped.

No surprise about the submarines. When RA sold them, he admitted they were already in a pretty bad way, and didn't have more than a year or two of service left. That was, eh, five or six years ago?

Really, submarine accidents like this weren't all that unusual in this period, so it's nice that somebody showed an accident occurring.

01.February
The first 5 submarines of the S-Class are towed to the docks for scrapping. The crews will be shifted to new submarines or will work as teachers on the submarine academy.


11.February
The two Seaplane Support Vehicles HICMS Lincang und HICMS Lincong are officially taken into service at the Shanghai naval base.

Hepu Air Force Base (testing ground for new aircrafts of the chinese airforce), 17. February 1943, 7:18pm local time

Captain Lai Ming Tang woke up half an hour before his alarm clock was ringing. Two more hours until today's briefing for the test flight.
A little more sleep would have been better for him, but he knew he was too hyped to get more sleep. His bedroom, which he shared
with Captain Lu Ji-Chun, was one of the maintenance office on the top floor of Hangar 509 at the northern area of Hepu Air Force Base.
In the huge hangar among them were two brand new aircraft: Ming Tang ST-205 and an aircraft that he had never seen before. This
other aircraft has, like his ST-205, two propellers, but however which was unusual, a triple fin. He had no idea about what this aircraft was.
But also it does not really matter, because he focused on the task which lay before him, another test flight of its ST-205.

23.February

In Beijing as part of the Chinese National Air Defense (CNAD), the Air Battle Force (ABF) was founded. The Air Battle Force consists of three squadrons, and sees itself as a rapid reaction force of the CNAD. While the remaining parts of the CIC are used more or less only for defensive tasks, the ABF is the attack component of the CNAD.

27.February
Wing Commander Wang Hongju is promoted to the rank of an Air Force Colonel. With this promotion, he also gets the command of the newly formed Air Battle Force.

03.March

The 3 first produced EW-800 will be assigned to the first squadron of the Air Battle Force. There, the aircrafts will continue to undergo extensive tests.

Hepu Air Force Base, 11. March 1943

After intensive test flights of the two variants of ST-205, today the first interaction in submarine tracking is tested. The concept seems to meet expectations.

23.March
In a solemn ceremony the industrial complex of China Aviation Industry Corporation is opened in Loiwing. In addition to numerous offices and manufacturing facilities even a wind tunnel have been built. The first mock-up of the X-PO fighter will be presented to the military in the near future.