But when the Prime Minister rushed to the palace, there was someone faster than him.
"Your Majesty, this matter has a great impact on our navy."
The person who was speaking was Lieutenant General Lomodan. It must be very important for him to come to Eder quickly. This was indeed the case. The reason why Lieutenant General Lomodan came was that the Italian side withdrew their aid personnel, and
The answer given was that Italy needs these people.
Initially, Lieutenant General Romodan did not and had no doubts about this. After all, these Italian technicians had been in Romania for several years and had made great contributions to the construction of the Romanian battleship Mircea. However, after hosting a banquet for these technicians who were preparing to return home,
At that time, something happened that Lieutenant General Romodan felt should be taken seriously. That is, someone was drunk and said that this time they would design a new battleship when they returned to China to achieve the purpose of protecting Italian transportation lines.
Purpose.
Lieutenant General Lomodan felt that this matter needed to be reported to Eder. Regardless of whether it had a big impact on Romania, at least it would have a profound impact on the balance of the Mediterranean.
So when Edel heard Lomodan's words, he finally sighed in his heart. "The impact of developing Libyan oil has finally arrived."
In fact, the impact of Libyan oil development goes far beyond that.
Italy's domestic economy has rapidly recovered due to the development of Libyan oil in recent years. Its reliance on oil mining, refining and related chemical industries has allowed Italy's economy to grow rapidly in recent years. The refinery it built in Genoa and the
Milan and Turin chemical plants have allowed Italian related industries to flourish.
As the most direct evidence, Italy used to have about 200,000 people outmigrating each year. After the development of Libyan oil, the annual outflow population dropped sharply to 10,000 or 20,000. Only when the economy is bad will people have to go abroad to make a living. If the economic conditions are good,
Who would be willing to leave a familiar environment and go to a strange place to work hard?
Moreover, Libyan oil not only allowed Italy to reduce a large amount of expenditure, but Romania was damaged, and the excess oil was exported to other countries in exchange for profits.
Therefore, even the arrival of the economic crisis has made the current situation in Italy much better. Therefore, the Italian government, which has a lot of spare money, urgently needs to protect Libyan oil, which is vital to it.
The navy currently owned by Italy clearly does not have an advantage over France. The battleships composed of two Count of Cavour class and two Andrea Doria class battleships are obviously not the equivalent of the three Provence class battleships of the French Navy.
Opponent, facing the performance of lagging behind the imaginary enemy France, the Italian government is naturally dissatisfied. One more thing, there is not much difference between these two battleships, and they are both dreadnoughts built before the war.
Since it is not satisfied, it is necessary to build new battleships to compete with France. Therefore, in order to adapt to the new situation of Italy's needs for the Mediterranean, a new level of battleship construction task was born under such a situation. This has both military and
The demand also has political interests. Mussolini, who is currently in charge of the Italian government, also needs to build new battleships to satisfy the people's confidence in the country and to demonstrate his ability to govern.
Therefore, this shipbuilding plan is completely designed to meet the needs of the whole country. Of course, according to the Washington Naval Treaty, Italy also has enough capital ship tonnage to use. You must know that the current Italian four-tiered battleships are less than 100,000 tons. There are enough
The tonnage allows Italy to use it, and the only factor affecting its construction is funding. The development of Libyan oil has made up for this shortcoming.
So this time Italy plans to build a first-class battleship that can crush its opponents, and this requires the technicians who are currently helping Romania build ships to return home. Because these technicians are of great help to Italian shipbuilding. No matter from what aspects.
A great help to Italy's shipbuilding industry.
Since it is Italy's ambitious project, the battleship built this time must also be outstanding.
Here Italy needs to thank Edel.
Because of its participation in the development and construction of the Mircia battleship, Italy has sufficient confidence in building a super battleship equipped with 380 naval guns. Many of the Italian design plans for this class of battleship are based on the design of the Mircia.
Such as long forecastle, cylindrical structure underwater protection, etc., but the most important thing is that the 38050 times caliber naval gun will also be the main gun of this class of Italian battleships.
As a 38050 times caliber naval gun jointly developed by the three countries, its gun body has a movable barrel structure. From the inside to the outside, it is an integral inner barrel, which is divided into two parts of the liner reinforcement layer, namely the liner coating and the directional liner.
There are two partial reinforcement layers in the rear half of the gun body and a reinforcement layer in the front part of the barrel. The outermost layer is a movable quilt tube that accounts for about 72% of the total length of the gun body.
There is a tight-mouth hoop structure with an outer diameter of 610 mm at the muzzle. The breech is installed on the barrel with a connecting ring. The breech is threaded and has 6 air-closing isolation threads. The latch is semi-automatically opened and closed driven by a hydraulic-pneumatic mechanism.
, the action cycle is 35 seconds. Among them, the breech of the left gun of the turret opens to the left, and the switch direction of the other two guns is in the opposite direction. 4 cylindrical liquid-gas recovery machines are evenly arranged around the gun tail, and the normal recoil distance is 1 meter. Each turret is equipped with
There were 222 rounds of ammunition, including 195 armor-piercing rounds and 57 grenades.
The total weight of the main gun gun body is 1024 tons, the total length is 195 mm, the barrel length is 19000 mm500, the rifled part is 15850 mm long, the chamber is 3071 mm long, and the volume is 456216 liters. There are 96 uniform right-handed rifling lines engraved on the surface of the inner bore.
, the negative line is 31 mm deep, 8458 mm wide, and the positive line is 40 mm wide. The rifling twist pitch is 30 times the diameter. It refers to the length of the rifling that rotates around the bore axis and moves in the axial direction.
The ammunition types include capped armor-piercing projectiles and grenades. The armor-piercing projectile is 1,699 meters long and weighs 885 kilograms. The base charge of the projectile is 88 kilograms. The grenade is the same length as the armor-piercing projectile and weighs 774 kilograms. The propellant is packed in 6 powder bags, with a total weight of 2,717 kilograms.
The normal operating pressure of the artillery is 320 MPa, and the muzzle velocity of the armor-piercing projectile is 0850 meters per second. The service life of the gun is 210230 rounds, and the maximum range is 41800 meters.
This is also the reason why Italy needs to choose this gun. This main gun developed by combining the strengths of the three countries is so powerful that Italy is reluctant to leave it idle and then re-develop it.
Since this class of battleship uses a 380-caliber main gun, it will not be bad in other aspects. The on-paper design of the battleship currently tentatively called a 380-caliber battleship is 35,000 tons, equipped with 9 380-caliber main guns, two at the front and one at the rear.
One layout.
The maximum horsepower reaches 12,500 horsepower. The maximum speed is 29 knots. It is expected to carry 1,978 officers and soldiers.
In order to show Italy's emphasis on the navy, this class will be built twice.
