Chapter 679 The First Blue Star Ship Xia Lin (again
Even the specific design indicators are similar. The Krul Kingdom Navy hopes that the new torpedo boat destroyer will have at least four artillery guns with a caliber of more than 100 mm and multiple small-caliber machine guns, equipped with multiple torpedo launchers, and can exceed 25 knots or even
Higher speed, and considering that the actual speed of many torpedo boats now exceeds 25 knots, they hope that the speed of torpedo boat destroyers can reach more than 27 knots.
At the same time, it is hoped that the destroyer will have greater endurance and seaworthiness for ocean operations.
The design indicators of the above-mentioned destroyers and frigates are very similar to the design indicators of the Daheng Empire Navy for the Li Jiang-class second-class destroyers. This is because the strategies of the two navies are similar, and they are both offensive navies with ocean warfare as the core.
, and even more demanding ocean combat performance.
Relatively speaking, other countries have different needs for warships similar to large torpedo boats. They generally do not require much endurance, but pay more attention to speed and firepower, because they do not need to conduct ocean warfare at all, and most of them are defensive.
Task.
Based on the needs of naval warfare in the new era, the Navy of the Kingdom of Krul has put forward relevant design plans internally and is preparing to design and build a variety of different destroyers, including three-hundred-ton and five-hundred-ton destroyers.
Its 500-ton destroyer is very similar to the Li Jiang-class second-class destroyer designed and launched by the Daheng Imperial Navy last fall. The ship has a standard displacement of 500 tons, is equipped with two twin torpedo launchers, and has a speed of 27 knots.
Battery life is very good!
In addition to the Li Jiang-class second-class destroyers, the Daheng Empire Navy also has the first-class destroyers Yuanlin class.
This ship is very different from the torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers of other countries. Instead, it is more similar to the third-class cruisers of other countries.
This is mainly because the Daheng Empire Navy does not have many new third-class cruisers, and the old third-class cruisers are no longer useful.
Therefore, the Navy developed the Yuanlin-class destroyer to undertake many combat missions of third-class cruisers, as well as the combat missions of the destroyer itself, including lightning strikes.
Therefore, this ship actually has two models, one is the Fleet Yuanlin-class Type A which focuses on peripheral early warning and anti-lightning strike operations, and the other is the Type B which focuses on lightning strike operations.
One ship and two types, this is to improve the ship's versatility and reduce construction costs. After all, their hulls are the same, but they are different in firepower and power layout. The fleet type focuses more on artillery firepower, and the lightning strike type focuses more on speed and torpedo firepower.
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Because of the existence of the Yuanlin-class first-class destroyer Type A, it directly caused the Daheng Empire Navy to completely stop the development of third-class cruisers. In other words, this Yuanlin-class first-class destroyer is the third-class destroyer in the Daheng Empire Navy.
Successor model of the cruiser.
In the third phase of the development plan of the Daheng Empire Navy, there was initially a construction plan for two third-class cruisers, but it was quickly canceled and replaced with an order for Yuanlin-class first-class destroyers.
The Navy feels that if it builds a specialized unprotected cruiser of more than 2,000 tons, it might as well just use the Yuanlin-class first-class destroyer. This ship has wider applicability, cheaper cost, and low daily use cost. At the same time, it can take into account various aspects.
Miscellaneous tasks, such as serving as a notification ship, VIP transport ship, etc.
In short, it can do everything that a third-class cruiser can do, and it can also conduct lightning strikes and is cheaper.
It can also be seen from this that the Daheng Empire Navy is not only becoming larger in size of battleships, but also cruisers, and destroyers are also starting to become larger.
And this also comes with a kind of compromise and helplessness!
Because with the development of technology, battleships are getting larger and more expensive, which forces the Daheng Navy to try to develop smaller and cheaper battleships to replace some of the combat missions of the battleships. This is also the beginning of the Daheng Empire Navy.
The reason for building armored cruisers.
The reason is very simple!
The price of a battleship changes every year. Ten years ago, a battleship could be built for about 3 million hengyuan. However, the price soon rose to 4 million hengyuan or 5 million hengyuan. As for the current Jingzhou-class battleship
, the price is more than 7 million yuan.
With such a high price, except for the Krul Kingdom's navy which can continue to build one by one, most other countries are already looking for alternatives.
Building armored cruisers for use as capital ships has become the choice of many navies in recent years.
The Daheng Empire's navy is no exception. Although the economy of the Daheng Empire is developing well, it still lacks foundation, and its per capita income is far behind that of the Kingdom of Krul.
In addition, there are many places where money is spent in the country, so it is impossible to say that too much money is invested in the military. At the same time, the navy is undergoing large-scale expansion, so the navy's military expenditure is actually very tight.
The construction cost of the Jingzhou-class battleship reached more than 7 million yuan, not counting the previous research and development expenses. Such an expensive price made the Daheng Empire feel overwhelmed!
In order to save costs and take into account other tactical considerations, the Daheng Empire Navy increased the number of armored cruisers built twice.
The number of Fengyang-class armored cruisers has increased from the previous two-ship construction plan to the current four, and there is also a sub-ship plan.
The Daheng Empire’s navy is like this, not to mention the navies of other countries!
In order to maintain fleet size within limited funds, more and more countries choose to build armored cruisers. Some are to break diplomatic relations, and some are to replace capital ships in fleet decisive battles. The purposes are different, but the results are similar.
However, as the tonnage of armored cruisers becomes larger and larger, and the price becomes more and more expensive, navies of various countries have to start looking for other solutions to reduce costs. The standard displacement of Fengyang-class armored cruisers has reached more than 12,000 tons.
, when the cost exceeded 6 million constant yuan.
Armored cruisers are no longer cheap substitutes for battleships!
The standard displacement of this thing is comparable to the Harold Battleship, the largest first-class battleship in the Kingdom of Krul.
For this reason, the Daheng Empire Navy began to increase the size of its second-class cruisers...
In the past, a two- to three-thousand-ton second-class cruiser was considered a very good second-class cruiser, but now the Xia Lin-class second-class cruiser under construction by the Imperial Navy is more than four thousand tons...
When second-class cruisers become more and more expensive, third-class cruisers will inevitably become more and more expensive.
At this time, the Daheng Navy simply cut off the increasingly expensive third-class cruisers and began to replace the third-class cruisers with first-class destroyers.
The enlargement of battleships is a significant change brought about by technological changes in the past ten years. This is not only the case for the Daheng Empire Navy, but also the navies of other countries are almost experiencing the same process.
But this time, the Daheng Empire Navy is ahead of all countries!
While other countries are still debating what kind of warships to build in the future and what kind of naval strategy to adopt because of the Battle of Yi'an, most of the hull construction of the Daheng Empire Navy's Jingzhou cruiser has been completed. In addition, There are also three Jingzhou-class battleships under construction and two more planned.
There are two Fengyang-class armored cruisers under construction and two planned.
However, the above-mentioned capital ships will not be completed and put into service soon. The first ship expected to be put into service is the Xia Lin, the second-class cruiser of the Xia Lin class.
The ship was constructed earlier than the Jingzhou-class battleship. At the same time, the construction work of the ship was more experimental in nature, so the construction was given priority, so the construction progress was very fast.
It only took one year to complete and launch the ship, and it only took two months to outfit it!
In July of the eighth year of Qian Sheng, when the Orr War was still going on, and navies around the world were still shocked by the Battle of Ian, and were still a little confused about the development of future naval battles, the second-class cruiser Xialin had quietly completed all construction. And conducted a sea trial!
After a simple sea trial, the ship is ready to officially join the Navy and launch a series of trials and tests!
Although this is just a cruiser, it is the Daheng Empire Navy and even the first warship in the world that is completely built in accordance with the strategic requirements of long-distance blockade in the new era, and adopts many world-leading technologies that are not available in other countries. technology.
Including a series of new technologies such as nickel-chromium hardened armor, small and medium-caliber tube retractable rapid-fire guns, smokeless gunpowder, nickel-chromium alloy armor-piercing bullets, impersonated armor-piercing bullets, forced ventilation and water tube boiler technology, etc.
In the past, although the Daheng Empire had secretly tested the above-mentioned technologies on different test ships, it had never concentrated all the above-mentioned new technologies on the same battleship.
The Xia Lin cruiser is the first battleship to integrate many of the above-mentioned new technologies, and it is also the first ship of Blue Star!
It is of great significance!
When the ship was officially commissioned in August of the eighth year of Qian Sheng, Lin Ziran also hosted a naval meeting in the Mirror Palace. This time, based on the situation and experience of the Ian naval battle, the meeting once again emphasized the importance of the third naval meeting. The core naval strategic development content in the development plan is to emphasize ocean warfare and long-distance blockade.
At the same time, in order to counter other countries' long-distance blockade of the empire, plans are being made to build a large naval base in the East China Sea Islands in the eastern waters of the empire, which will serve as the forward base for the fleet and the first line of maritime defense.
The East China Sea Islands, located in the northeastern waters of the empire, consists of a total of fifteen larger islands and more than a hundred small islands, and belongs to the territory of the empire.
Hundreds of nautical miles away to the east of the East China Sea Islands is Dongji Island.
The Dongji Island is very large in area, covering hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, but it is very barren. The inland is a rare island desert terrain, and only a small amount of it is suitable for human survival along the coast.
Because of this, there were not many settled settlements on Dongji Island in ancient times. There were only a few small ports that provided supplies for passing merchant ships. Later, the Kingdom of Krul established colonies on it and immigrated on a large scale. Now it is The Kingdom of Krul controls the territory directly under the Kingdom of Krul.
In the early years, the Daheng Empire had been expanding inland and had no time to pay attention to these deserted islands in the sea. When the Daheng Empire reacted and successively occupied large areas of the East China Sea Islands, Dongji Island had already been conquered.
The Kingdom of Ruhr is completely under control.
In addition, the relationship between the Daheng Empire and the Kingdom of Krul has traditionally been good, and there has never been a war between the two countries, so the Dongji Island has always been under the control of the Kingdom of Krul.
But now, this Dongji Island has become a direct threat to the eastern part of the Daheng Empire. For this reason, the Daheng Navy is also preparing to build a naval base and set up a patrol fleet in the East China Sea Islands Forest.
After the naval meeting, Lin Ziran also had a little free time and returned to the harem for a rare lunch to have lunch with Queen Meng Yuling and her daughters.