The Kingdom of Orr spent a lot of money to equip the battleship Kingdom of Orr with breech-mounted naval guns. Not counting other additional expenses, it cost more than 150 dollars just to purchase and assemble the ship's breech-mounted rifled naval guns.
Wan Hengyuan.
Moreover, he later attracted Lin Ziran with a bigger order!
Even though the unification war situation was difficult and there were certain threats at sea, Lin Ziran did not seize the warship, but delivered it after it was completed.
Who makes people rich!
From last year to now, the Orr Kingdom's orders for various battleship weapons have totaled more than 50 million yuan. Such a large amount of money is enough for Lin Ziran to keep his promise and deliver on time.
Luohai Shipyard and the defense industry system behind it can even build a 10,000-ton armored ship like the Orr Kingdom. It is naturally not a big problem to build an 8,000-ton armored ship with a smaller tonnage.
This 8,000-ton armored ship will still adopt a brand-new hull design and firepower layout in order to maximize the power of the large-caliber breech-mounted rifled gun.
After seeing the design drawings and simple models of this type of ship at the shipyard, Lin Ziran expressed his expectation and hoped to see the ship start construction one day early and put it into service as soon as possible.
For this reason, Lin Ziran named the ship on the spot before construction of the ship officially started.
This name has great political meaning: Unity!
The Unification armored ship, which is still in the design drawing stage, will be a large warship with a standard displacement of more than 8,000 tons. It will have a full waterline armor belt, although the armor belt still uses wrought iron composite armor (wrought iron and wooden boards are superimposed on each other)
It is formed after multiple layers), but the processing technology and thickness of the armor are enough to keep up with the contemporary first-class level, and the protective effect is not weaker than the wrought iron composite armor of other naval powers.
In addition to the standard waterline armor belt, steel plates are used in many parts of the hull.
Steel began to be used on a large scale in warship hulls as materials for hulls and superstructures. This is also the experience gained by the Daheng United Army in the previous construction process of the Luo Hai cruiser.
Of course, they still follow the example of other naval powers. Some of the unprotected warships of many contemporary naval powers use iron-ribbed wooden shells, while some have already adopted iron-ribbed steel shells. This steel shell is actually quite thick and can be effective.
Resist small-caliber artillery shells and protect personnel.
The Luo Hai cruiser is the first iron-ribbed steel hull cruiser built by Luo Hai Shipyard, but it also uses a dome armor design internally, which is different from the cruisers of other naval powers.
The protection design of the Unity has basically reached the limit of what the Daheng Unification Army can achieve. Overall, it should be able to reach the first-class average level of the navies of various countries in the same period, and is better than the Orr Kingdom that was previously built for the Orr Kingdom.
It's slightly better than the previous Pingbo number.
However, armor alone cannot actually reflect the protective design concept of the Tongyi, because the Tongyi is not a shipside gun ship in the traditional sense, but a ship with a new artillery layout.
The ship's firepower layout follows the Luo Hai's main gun layout of fore and aft and amidships.
A twin main gun is deployed at the front and rear, and is expected to be equipped with a 250 mm steel breech-loading rifled gun with a caliber of 25 times.
At the same time, a large number of 150mm secondary guns were deployed in the middle part.
Its biggest feature is the four 250mm breech-mounted guns with a caliber of 25 times. It still uses a rotating gun mount. However, according to Lin Ziran's suggestion, in order to strengthen protection, the original open-air semi-open gun mount was changed to a rotating gun mount.
It is a closed turret to strengthen the front protection of the turret.
How should I put it? When Lin Ziran originally proposed the layout of the front and rear main turrets, he directly referred to the battleships on the earth, but whether it is suitable for the contemporary Blue Star Navy, it is actually difficult to say.
But, it is always right to pile up artillery pieces with the largest caliber and as long barrels as possible.
Therefore, this time, we are preparing to equip it with the 250mm 25x main gun that is still being developed and tested by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau.
At the same time, if the development of this main gun does not go smoothly, there is an alternative 200mm main gun with a caliber of 25 times. The Nanzhou Machinery Bureau is still continuing to develop and upgrade this main gun, and is preparing to build a 30 times or even three times the caliber.
Main gun with fifteen times the caliber.
As for the larger 300 mm caliber main gun, this is actually being developed, but the development progress is slower. Although the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau has rich experience in artillery, it is all experience with front-loading smoothbore guns.
Even for front-loaded rifled guns, they have only been using them for a few years.
Now it is time to jump to the breech-mounted rifled gun. It is already very difficult to carry out simultaneous research and development. As for the challenge of a long-barreled main gun with a caliber of more than 300 mm, to be honest, it is a bit difficult. It will take a while.
Difficulty.
Generally speaking, the firepower layout of the Tongyi is very similar to that of the Luohai. They both use front and rear main guns and midship secondary guns.
Because to a certain extent, the Tongyi armored ship is actually improved from many design concepts of the Luo Hai dome cruiser.
Change the dome armor into a waterline armor belt, increase the caliber and quantity of the main guns, increase the number of secondary guns, and then you come up with something like this.
Lin Ziran still has relatively high expectations for the Unification armored ship, which is an important part of rebuilding the Daheng Navy.
Although the Daheng Unified Army has not yet completely unified Daheng, both Lin Ziran and others in the system have already begun to consider many matters after the unification.
For example, the design and construction of the Unification armored ship were the product of this kind of thinking. The construction period plus sea trials for such a large warship will take at least two or three years.
After two or three years have passed, it is estimated that the situation in Daheng will be different. Perhaps at that time, Lin Ziran either unified Daheng or was destroyed by the seven northern states.
This also means that the armored ship Tongyi will most likely not be able to participate in the Unification War. The armored ships that can really participate in the Unification War and are expected to play a larger role are the armored ships Pingbo and Luo Hai.
The dome-armored cruiser and two sister ships as well as a number of existing old battleships.
In addition, it is estimated that some small and medium-sized warships are under construction. These are small-tonnage warships with a relatively short construction period and an obvious temporary nature.
These are the main battleships participating in the Unification War now and in the future, not the Unification armored ship.
But even so, in fact, the navy of the Daheng United Army is enough to compete with the navies of the northern vassals, both in size and strength.