Although the directors of Feng's Aerospace Company had concerns about Guo Yadong's plan, after detailed inquiries, they finally approved Guo Yadong's high-end market revitalization plan.
By building and operating the largest, most luxurious and fastest super luxury passenger ship to turn around the company's image, and at the same time cooperate with the company to reorganize the mid-to-high-end passenger ship operation business and improve service quality, in order to stimulate the market of the entire mid-to-high-end market.
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Let’s not talk about other cooperation measures, let’s talk about the super luxury liner ‘New Star’ in this plan.
It is not that easy to build this super luxury liner.
Even at the board meeting, Guo Yadong has temporarily come up with a simple design plan and said that the current technology is enough to complete it, but whether it can be successfully built in the end and how much money it will cost in the end is still unknown.
Whether it is the directors or the general manager Guo Yadong, in fact they are not professional shipbuilders, and they cannot solve more detailed technical problems.
However, Feng Shipping Company also owns shipyards, and there are more than one.
There are a total of eight shipyards affiliated to Feng's Shipping Company, seven of which are small and medium-sized shipyards, but the Feng's First Shipyard among them is a large shipyard.
Most of the previous luxury passenger ships, large-tonnage cargo ships and other ships of Feng Shipping Company were built at Feng's No. 1 Shipyard. Through years of technology accumulation and no shortage of orders, this Feng's No. 1 Shipyard
The technology has already entered the first echelon of the domestic shipbuilding industry.
It has already begun to build cargo ships and passenger ships with a capacity of 10,000 tons.
Feng Shipping Company wants to build a 30,000-ton luxury liner. Since the difference in strength between the shipyards is not too obvious, it will naturally be handed over to its own shipyard.
Therefore, Feng's No. 1 Shipyard soon received such a super order!
A 30,000-ton super luxury passenger ship!
Thirty thousand tons!
When the management of Feng's No. 1 Shipyard heard this data, they were shocked!
The first reaction was that everyone at the company headquarters must have gone crazy, otherwise why would they shout the slogan of 30,000 tons?
This is not three hundred tons, three thousand tons, but thirty thousand tons.
So far, the empire has not built a 30,000-ton giant ship, let alone a 30,000-ton ship. In fact, so far, it has not even built a 20,000-ton ship.
So far, among the warships that have been put into service, the largest tonnage is the Banten, with a standard displacement of more than 12,000 tons and a full load of 14,000 tons.
The one under construction is the India which started last year and is still under construction. Technically speaking, this ship continues the technical characteristics of the Banten and continues to use a 300mm main gun with a power of 300mm and a secondary gun of
There are a lot of 150mm naval guns. Although the overall tonnage is more than a thousand tons and the standard displacement reaches more than 13,000 tons, there is actually not much difference with the Banten.
Because the increased displacement is more used to improve seaworthiness and endurance, not to increase firepower or protective capabilities.
The new generation of battleships that the Navy really wants to carry out technological innovation is the Navy's internal 20,000-ton battleship project.
The Navy's internal 20,000-ton battleship plan is also called the "Future Capital Ship Plan." When designing the ship, the Navy could not find a clear imaginary enemy for a while, so it could only think in the direction of false plans.
, and combined with some arguments from the alien threat theory, finally proposed several major technical standards for future battleships:
More powerful, longer range, and more main guns.
Stronger and better protective capabilities.
Faster speed, longer battery life.
If you look at the literal meaning of these technical standards, it is estimated that they are still an enlarged version of the Banten, but in fact this is not the case.
Because Shengtianzi was involved in the navy's plan for a 20,000-ton battleship from the very beginning, the navy was really just thinking about building a simple enlarged version of the Banten pre-dreadnought battleship.
But Li Xuan didn't want to.
There is no clear threat here. Building a 10,000-ton pre-dreadnought battleship with mature technology and not too expensive is enough for the time being. There is no need to build a 20,000-30,000-ton pre-dreadnought battleship.
Battleships with larger tonnage should have clear technical upgrades.
So Li Xuan just sent a few words to the Navy, and then directly formulated technical standards, that is, the firepower of the new battleship must be able to crush the existing battleships, and it must be successful in terms of quantity, effective range, and power.
Multiplied.
The Banten already has four main guns. If you want to double the number, you will need at least eight.
Not only firepower, but also in terms of speed, Li Xuan also requires that the speed of the new battleship must reach the speed of the existing cruiser. The current Xiyin-class dome-armored cruiser has a speed of eighteen knots under normal pressure. Under forced ventilation,
Its maximum speed can reach twenty knots.
If you want to reach the speed of today's cruisers, you have to make 20 knots. If you want a 20,000-ton battleship to run at a speed of 20 knots, it is conservatively estimated that more than 20,000 horsepower is needed.
It is very simple to have more than 20,000 horsepower. One steam engine is not enough for two, or even three can be superimposed. However, the hull space on a battleship is limited, and armor is needed to protect the power compartment, so the power unit is
The volume and weight of steam engines are extremely limited. Under the premise of limiting the volume and weight, even the most advanced triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine cannot do it.
In terms of protection capabilities, Shengtianzi requires a new type of battleship whose main armor can withstand medium-range bombardment from its own main guns.
Li Xuan actually set the technical standards for later generations of dreadnought battleships!
Now that it has been taken out, there is no expectation that the Navy will achieve these technical goals now. He just set a goal for the Navy and then let the Navy work hard.
He estimated that there would be no hope for at least ten years.
Because if you want to achieve the above technical standards, you have to reach the technical level of the early 20th century in the original time and space. You need a main gun with a caliber of more than 300 mm and forty times more, and you need a more advanced firing director and optical sighting system.
More efficient steam turbines are needed.
The navy's postponement of the 20,000-ton battleship plan may have been thought by outsiders only to be due to funding issues, but in fact it was more due to technical issues. Currently, the Tang Empire's technology was not sufficient to build such a battleship.
However, the technical insufficiency mentioned here is limited to subsystems such as firepower, power, aiming, etc. It does not mean that the Tang Empire cannot even build a 20,000-ton ship hull.
As long as you have money and no other technical requirements, if you just want a hull, any of the top ten domestic shipyards can build you a hull with a full load displacement of tens of thousands of tons.