For these two super battleships, the entire shipyard is indeed worshiped almost as gods. In this era when giant ships and cannons are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, tonnage and artillery caliber are signs of strength. The standard displacement is close to 40,000 tons, eight guns and five guns.
Compared with the current battleships, these two numbers can only be described in one word: crushing.
There is also the perfect protection capability. The entire battleship is simply a piece of iron welded purely with the latest high-performance alloy armor, not to mention the 280 and 305 mm main guns that are the most important on those battleships.
Well, even its own 380 main gun may not be able to penetrate its main armor.
The armor of the Kunlun-class battleships has been described as indestructible. The thickness of the main armor of the two battleships is almost half that of the Kunlun-class. Even the engineers in charge of the construction, Zheng Qinglian, believed that such thick armor was completely unnecessary. In fact,
They didn't know that this was because Emperor Yang had slightly reduced the armor for his thirty-two knot speed, but even so, the total armor of this super battleship exceeded 15,000 tons, and the tonnage of the armor alone was
It has reached the standard displacement of the Kunlun class.
The power system is the same as the original version, with three steam turbines and three-axis propulsion. The situation that appears on the aircraft carrier also occurs here. Because of the advantages of the beauty head processing technology, the power of the imitation original steam turbine greatly exceeds the original version, and a single unit is close to 60,000 yuan.
Horse power, the total power of the three units is 170,000, plus the weight reduction in armor and anti-aircraft artillery, this super battleship standard row is 3,000 tons lower than the Bismarck class, and it is estimated that the speed of 32 knots is completely guaranteed, so that's it
Ensure that their speed is not lower than the current perfect battleship.
As for the sighting system, Yang Feng has nothing to hide on these two battleships. He goes directly to the radar. In fact, he plans to install radar on all his large battleships when he actually joins the war, and then he will specially install them on the radar.
Running out at night to bully others. You can imagine how sad and angry those ghost guys who were staring at the sea with searchlights were when the Chinese battleships opened fire on the British battleships from 20 kilometers away in the dark night.
Although the Bismarck-class battleships have the flaw of insufficient horizontal armor, this point can be completely ignored in Yang Feng's view. First of all, he does not need to worry about air attacks. It will probably take another two years for the European powers to build aircraft that can carry heavy bombs to the sky.
ten years.
Second, the current sighting systems of European countries are not enough to support their warships to shoot targets more than fifteen kilometers away. Even the longest attack record during World War I was only seventeen kilometers, and the goals they are currently pursuing are not ten.
Five kilometers is already pretty good. Historically, it was not until the Russo-Japanese War that fighting began at a distance of ten kilometers.
There is also the issue of artillery elevation. Currently, only China’s own battleship main guns have an elevation of 45 degrees. None of the others have such a large angle. Although the elevation greatly increases the range, the problem is that the sighting system is useless if it cannot be reached. Even the French
The elevation angle of the main gun of the Guba-class battleship is less than 20 degrees. It is impossible for such a gun to fire top-attack shells at a large angle.
Moreover, based on the armor performance currently produced by China, the 120 mm thick alloy armor is enough to withstand the direct attack of the 305 main gun on the French Charles Martel-class battleship at a distance of seven kilometers. This was the last time it was used
The captured French battleship was tested because at this distance, the French main guns could not penetrate a 120 mm thick armor plate riveted to a merchant ship.
Even if the distance is reduced to an exaggerated one kilometer, the 305mm main gun of the Charles Martel cannot penetrate the main armor of the Kunlun class battleship. The thickness of the main armor of the Kunlun class is only 200 millimeters, and these two ships
It is three hundred, so Yang Feng can almost pat his chest and guarantee that, at least within the time frame he needs. These two super battleships are completely despairing to all European countries.
The only thing that can pose a threat to them is torpedoes. The best steam gas torpedoes now have a range of only ten kilometers, and they have to be made in Bofors. But neither torpedo boats nor destroyers can get close to them, even without small ones.
Even if a warship intercepts it, it is impossible to break through the firepower network composed of their six twin 150's and eight twin 105's secondary guns. Don't even expect it during the day, not even at night.
As for submarines, they are a complete joke in front of their high-performance sonar.
To take a step back, even if there is an accident within an accident and one or two torpedoes are hit, it is nothing to mention based on the actual combat record of the Bismarck class. The British's underwater explosion of eight tons of explosives did not kill Tilpi
This fact was enough for Emperor Yang to dismiss the two hundred kilograms of antimony and antimony produced by him.
In three years, these two maritime overlords will be able to gallop on the battlefield. Thinking of this, Emperor Yang couldn't help but feel fascinated.
"Your Majesty, you haven't given names to these two battleships yet!" Zheng Qinglian said from the side.
"Giving names? Then why give names? One is called Huaxia and the other is called Yanhuang." Yang Feng said simply while stroking his super battleship.
"Then it's hard to name the follow-up, right?" Yuan Shikai reminded him carefully.
"Follow-up? No, there is no follow-up. Only these two battleships will be built. After they are launched, these two docks, like the other two, will be converted into aircraft carriers. You must understand that the era of battleships is about to pass, and aircraft carriers
is the future of naval warfare. As for these two super battleships, their greatest use in the future is just deterrence. To put it bluntly, they are used to scare people and show our strength. The ones that can really win for us thousands of miles away are aircraft carriers or those small
Battleships are also fine. They are the treasure of the country and cannot be taken out casually. Why would you need more?" Yang Feng said.
He was embarrassed to say that these two maritime overlords, which cost nearly 1.5 billion yuan, were simply to satisfy his personal hobbies.
However, his decision shocked the attendants around him. They really didn't expect that Emperor Yang would actually build these two ships.
"But with only these two ships, the number of our battleship fleet will be somewhat insufficient." Ding Ruchang said, the number of eight battleships and eight battlecruisers is indeed a bit tight, especially now that the territory that China needs to protect is really too big.
From the Americas to Asia, the entire vast Pacific Ocean, and even the Indian Ocean and Europe need to be blended in. Sixteen capital ships are not enough anyway.
"Continue to build Hongwu-class battle cruisers. When the orders from Swedish shipyards are completed and European countries start fighting, we will definitely not be able to sell warships anymore. What are we doing with idle shipyards? Even Sweden and China are building them together. Now this thing is all
It has been built, and it will basically take less than two years to build one. With a total of sixteen shipyards, sixteen ships will be built at the same time, and the size of the fleet will double in two years." Yang Feng said with a smile.
In fact, there is no more suitable warship to escort an aircraft carrier formation than this kind of warship. It is fast and has powerful firepower. Even if it does not rely on aircraft carrier-based aircraft, it will not lose to any enemy in a simple naval gun battle. More importantly, it is low cost.
One million pounds is the export price. In fact, the shipyard's price to the navy was only 35 million Chinese dollars, which is equivalent to more than 1.5 million pounds in pounds.
But this price is the purchase price of the Ministry of Navy. It is for Congress. For Yang Feng, there is no concept of price at all. Five hundred thousand of it is the domestic quotation of his engine. As for the remaining gearbox, artillery and transmission shaft,
It was produced by his own company, and it was nothing more than raw materials and workers' wages. To be honest, he would not frown even if he built another 160 ships, let alone sixteen more.
Since he plans to continue building Hongwu-class battlecruisers, Ding Ruchang has nothing to say. In fact, he also feels that these two super battleships are a complete waste. As for what Yang Feng said about aircraft carriers dominating naval battles in the future, he cannot express this.
What's your opinion? Until now, his impression of airplanes is just a pile of wood and canvas, and at most a few steel pipes and steel cables. And the only one that can be used in combat is the last naval battle with the French.
, based on the experience of the pilots of both sides shooting each other with pistols and submachine guns, he tested an air-cooled heavy machine gun mounted on it. To say that this kind of thing can sink a battleship is still a bit too abstract for him.
But he doesn't need to wait long, because at the Yanliang base, the fighter jets and torpedo bombers that Yang Feng wants are almost completed. Compared with the construction of warships, with the drawings and materials, the development of aircraft like Hawker and Swordfish
Such a small plane is a very simple thing.
But now Yang Feng also has a problem in front of him. Where can he test these things? Especially the trials of aircraft carriers and super battleships, including future training, which requires a large area of sea area, at least until the European powers are bleeding each other.
He is not ready to disclose these things yet. Aircraft carriers are better. Even if this thing is exposed, it will not scare the European powers to wet their pants. After all, an aircraft attacking a battleship still seems a bit fanciful at this time, but a super battleship is certain.
To be kept confidential.
He does not want to scare the European countries that are at war into trudging the war as quickly as possible, and then carefully prepare to face his aggression one by one. It is conceivable that once these two maritime overlords appear in public, his ambition to dominate the world will become clear.
If exposed.
So far, he has done a good job in this area. The outside world, even the country, still doesn’t know that such a huge project is going on here, but this is under the construction of a shipyard, and it will be released later.
Things are different in the dock, especially when battleships need to test artillery, and aircraft carriers need to test aircraft takeoffs and landings or even sea attacks. It will be difficult to keep it secret. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!