Chapter 700: The Foreign Hardened Armor That Goes Astray
In order to produce more advanced nickel chromium hardening armor, now Luohai Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. is burning the manufacturing production problem of nickel chromium alloy steel.
And the other large armored steel supplier of the empire, Jingzhou Iron and Steel Company, the carburizing process they first engaged in the gaseous carburizing process. Although this process can make the steel plate carburizing more and more uniform, but the technology, but the technology, but the technology The difficulty is also higher. The Jingzhou Factory did not complete the research and development of the gaseous carburizing process in November eight years in the eighth year of the saints, and began to massive hardcorrhea armored steel.
Their gaseous armor performance is better, but because of the higher processing costs, the price is more expensive.
After the Jingzhou Iron and Steel Company has done the gaseous carburizing process, it has not stagnated, but continues to develop more advanced armor. It is also aimed at the nickel chromium alloy. From the end of last year to the present, it has always been. It is the mass production of nickel -chromium alloy steel in buried.
In the process of developing nickel -chromium alloy steel hardening armor, in order to find accurate proportion of nickel -chromium alloy steel in the process of developing nickel -chromium alloy steel hardening armor, it repeatedly conducted countless experiments.
At the same time, in order to seek better and cost -effective carburizing and hardening technology, they rack their brains and try to repeatedly try all the carburizing processes that they can think of.
In order to repeat the attempts to make continuous adjustments to find the best proportional formula and the best processing method!
At the same time, it is necessary to ensure the supply of supply.
It can only be produced in the laboratory and the unable to mass -produce. For hardening armored steel, it is not worth it for the current empire.
What the empire needs is to be able to be matched on the warship, and it is necessary to need thousands of tons of armored steel instead of a laboratory product with a small point.
And this kind of continuous attempt requires a large number of scientific researchers to work on the night and night, which is time -consuming and extremely expensive!
The most important thing is that in the field of hardening armor, the empire has already taken the lead, and there are no similar products abroad for their reference, not to mention the introduction of technology. Find the best solution.
Especially in the manufacturing difficulties of nickel -chromium alloy steel, they have deeply felt the difficulty!
Only when I personally developed this high -performance alloy steel, I knew why my foreign colleagues shouted what nickel -chromium alloy steel many years ago, but why can't I get it now.
It's too difficult for this break!
Foreign abroad, especially several armored suppliers in the kingdom of Krus, found that nickel -chromium alloy steel has higher potential a few years ago, but why is it difficult to make large -scale manufacturing with the current technical means.
And foreign manufacturers have found that nickel chromium alloys have higher potential, and they are also crooked!
They discovered the benefits of surface hardening many years ago, but the problem is that they have not found the quenching process for the surface hardening for large -scale ships for the time being!
What, the surface hardening and not yet fresh things, the ancient swords, and now the armor -piercing bombs generally adopted by warships in various countries are all used by the quenching process, and what is the quenching process for it? strength.
However, the warship's armor is huge, and the traditional impregnation hair is difficult to handle large -area ship's armor for quenching process.
At the same time, in the thinking of armored development, they still tend to compound armor.
In the research and development of hardening armor, the road is crooked!
When Lin Ziran asked the industrial sector to engage in hardening armor seven or eight years ago, the technical staff of the empire also took a detour. Silly tried to use traditional crafts on the surface hardening.
Instead to improve the quenching process, after the Li's craftsmanship, he has the ability to quench large -scale single steel.
Only then did it get a hardening armor!
Foreign manufacturers have been tossing compound armored and traditional quenching technology.
I have to say that this is also a coincidence!
Although they have not even found surface hardening processing on large -scale armored steel, the large -scale manufacturing of nickel -chromium alloy steel is difficult to solve.
But in fact, the performance of nickel -chromium alloy steel has better performance after hardening. This is actually the consensus of scientists in the major powers of the blue star. The difference between countries is whether it can be done!
Whether it can be done depends on the basic materials of various countries and the level of processing technology.
These two do not meet the standards, let alone the nickel chromium alloy steel hardening armor cannot be made, even ordinary soft steel hardening armor cannot be made!
Otherwise, why did the Daheng Empire list the Li's craftsmanship as a top secret? It is because this thing is important!
The empire has been studying on hardening armor for many years. Although it has not been able to solve the problem of nickel -chromium alloy steel, nickel steel hardening armor is also very useful, and even ordinary soft steel hardening armor is very good.
This is already a revolutionary progress that has set off the protection of warship protection.
The Great Empire Navy will not include hardening armor in key application technologies in the third navy development plan. The early ships are mainly nickel -steel hardening armor, supplemented by ordinary steel hardening armor.
The nickel steel manufacturing process introduced from the Kingdom of Cruch has matured. Nickel -steel hardening armor with nickel steel as raw materials can be used for large -scale equipment, but this nickel steel is still a bit expensive.
The hardening armor with nickel steel as the raw material is not cheap.
Relatively speaking, the soft steel is much cheaper. This stuff is not technically difficult, and the cost is low.
Therefore, on some non -main ships, the Navy is a little stingy. They use nickel steel hardcore armor, but use only ordinary soft steel hardening armor.
So there are several types of harden armor used in the Empire Navy!
The nickel -steel harden armor of the Luohai Factory, ordinary steel hardening armor, all use solid carburizing hardening technology. The performance is slightly poor, the technology is mature, and the price is cheap. It is also called Luo Hai armor.
The nickel steel harden armor of the Jingzhou plant, ordinary steel hardening armor, uses the gaseous carburizing and hardening process, has a slightly high performance, has been mass -produced, and the price is slightly more expensive. This is called Jingzhou armored by the empire.
Both navy is used!
After all, the empire's policies have always supported more than two suppliers at the same time to promote their benign competition. Of course, although they are all used, the order volume is very different.
In the seven years of Qian Sheng, the construction of the battleships determined by the eight years of the Shengsheng is the armored products of the Luohai factory.
Since the nine years of Gan Sheng, the navy's armored procurement is already more inclined to the Beijing -state plant, because their product performance is better. Although the price is slightly higher, it is not too high.
But the armored orders in Luohai Factory still have still, but there are relatively few.
In the nine years of Gan Sheng, in the navy's armored orders, the Jingzhou plant had eighty percent, and only 20 % of the orders were left for Luohai Factory!
Luohai Factory has only been brilliant in the armored market for less than two years. It was beaten by the Jingzhou factory. They could only pick up some corner orders to maintain food and clothing. They were naturally unwilling.
Recently, they are also overcome the gaseous carburizing process, but the gaseous carburizing process is not enough. The most important thing is the nickel chromium alloy.
Today, the two major steel companies of the Empire have concentrated a large number of power to study the mass production of nickel -chromium alloy. Whoever can do it first can get the navy's armored steel market, so that the mouth is full of oily.
The development of the Empire's hardening armor also gave the empire a large number of small and medium -sized ships more powerful!
Although in order to control costs, the Imperial Navy is not willing to use nickel steel hardening armor on small and medium -sized ships, but uses ordinary steel hardening armor, but this is also a hardening armor. Performance is also quite good.
For those second -class cruisers, destroyers and other ships, it can greatly improve the protection performance of these vessels.
Even if their armor is very thin, according to tradition, it belongs to the steel shell without protective vessels!
But this thin ordinary steel hardening armor still brings great protection performance to the cruiser, and the destroyer brings great protection!
It is not reliable to fight large -caliber cannonballs, but the shells of small and medium -caliber, especially high -explosive bombs, are easy to use.
This also led to a group of cruisers newly built by the Daheng Navy. The destroyer looks like a steel shell without protective ships, and the protective power is scum!
But in fact, the protection performance is not bad. Just tens of millimeters of hardening armor can block more than 100 millimeters.
According to this situation, the Great Empire Navy launched the protection performance of small and medium -sized ships for in -depth discussion!
As for the main force, it is natural to use more expensive nickel steel hardening armor, and this year's newly identified main force ships are already clearly adopted by Jingzhou armor with better performance.
Jingzhou Nickel Steel Hardromatics Armor has increased by about 15 % than the protection of nickel -steel hardening armor. Although the price is slightly more expensive, after improving the protection performance, it can be able to have greater protection performance. For this reason, the Navy is also willing to spend this this. Money.
In order to support these two factories separately, the Navy is also equally equally. At the same time, the armored products of the two factories are ordered to match different warships.
Therefore, there are two categories of hardening armor in the Battleships of the Great Empire today, not a single Luo Hai armor or a Jingzhou armor.
The new types of warships that have been used for hardening armor have already been served in multiple ships. Among them, the most noticeable is the Jingzhou battleship.
The ship had completed the preliminary hull construction in October last year, and then entered the state of loading.
But the progress of the loading is not as expected as expected.
There is a problem with the 300 millimeters, thirty -five times caliber guns produced by Jingzhou Machinery Company, because the gun uses a fire -free fluid medicine as a launch medicine. At that time, Jingzhou Machinery Company was officially delivered.