Eight hundred and forty-ninth chapter Ningyu leaked
With the success of the first round of shipboard testing of the steam turbine, the project team quickly modified a number of ships to test the steam turbine.
After several months of intensive testing, in the 17th year of Qian Sheng, with the approval of Lin Ziran, the Daheng Empire Navy finally made up its mind to use new steam turbines on new warships.
Considering that the current production capacity of steam turbines is still relatively low and the cost is high, this new power system can only be used on capital ships for the time being.
The first major battleship to use steam turbines was the battleship Higashi Taishan.
The ship actually started construction in the 16th year of Qian Sheng's reign. It was originally planned to use a steam engine and a pure oil-fired boiler for its power system. However, considering that the construction progress was not high, it was too late to change the design, so it was decided to change the design. The ship's power system is configured to use steam turbines.
Compared with the original series of Ningyu-class and its improved Zhongluo-class battleships, the biggest change of the improved design of the Dongtaishan battleship is that the speed and endurance are further improved. In addition, after the use of steam turbines, it is expected that its When sailing at high speed, it can also completely solve a serious problem of the previous series of battleships, that is, jitter!
In order to achieve a high speed of twenty knots, the Ningyu-class battleship actually paid a huge price. One of the costs was only discovered during sea trials after construction was completed, that is, the battleship vibrated when sailing at high speed. It is so powerful that it affects the hit rate of the battleship's main gun when it is sailing at high speed.
There is no way, in order to achieve greater power in a limited space, the steam engines mounted on it are basically squeezed to the limit of performance, and the jitter problem is quite serious.
However, by using a steam turbine with smaller size and weight and greater power, this jitter problem can basically be solved.
And because of the use of steam turbines and pure oil-fired boilers, more weight can be saved for deploying artillery and armor.
In addition, it was originally planned to adopt a series of new technologies on this class of battleships, such as a new generation of 300 mm 50-caliber naval guns, an improved main gun layout, and a more advanced 120 mm 50-caliber gun. Double-caliber secondary guns, a new generation of optical rangefinders, unified fire control systems, wireless telegraph systems? In-ship telephone communication systems? In-ship lighting systems, etc.
Therefore, the new generation of Dongtaishan battleship is actually quite different from the Ningyu class.
The ship's standard displacement reaches 20,000 tons. The full-load displacement can reach more than two to three thousand tons. It is equipped with five twin mounts and a total of ten 300 mm and 50 times caliber naval guns.
This artillery is the top product of the Daheng Empire industry. Jingzhou Machinery Company is responsible for producing the barrel of the main gun? And the Jingzhou Weapon Company integrates loading, gun mounts, etc.? It almost represents the top level of the Daheng Empire at present. industrial manufacturing capabilities.
Same thing? This is actually Blue Star's top product in the field of naval guns.
Even the new main gun from the Kingdom of Krul is only of this level.
Of course, the Krul Kingdom's naval guns of the same level were put into service two years earlier than the Daheng Empire. Although you are not willing to do so, you have to admit that the Krul Kingdom still leads the way in the field of large-caliber naval guns.
However, the Daheng Empire, which was able to follow up in time and produce a 300 mm and 50 times caliber naval gun, is proud enough.
Because so far? Only the Daheng Empire has followed up in time and produced artillery of this level, but other countries cannot.
The Varia Empire and the Kell Empire are still competing with the rapid-fire systems of large-caliber naval guns? Their large-caliber rapid-fire main guns are still at the 280 mm level, and even the 300 mm
Haven't seen him yet.
As for the Orissa Empire, the Garfiya Empire, and other major countries? They can't even produce large-caliber rapid-fire cannons of more than 200 mm.
After all, it has only been three or four years since Blue Star started the wave of rapid-fire cannons? Is it not easy for them to produce ordinary manual-loaded rapid-fire cannons in such a short period of time? As for larger-caliber rapid-fire cannons? That requires mechanical loading.
, represents a whole set of systems, and it won’t be possible for a while.
Looking at it this way, in fact, in the field of naval guns, the Krul Kingdom and the Daheng Empire are the highest level, but Kyle and Valia are the second level, Orissa, Garfia, Oran Kingdom,
Countries such as the Iboan Empire that can build their own 170mm caliber rapid-fire cannons are considered the third tier.
As for other countries, it goes without saying.
The Dongtaishan is not only equipped with the top-notch 300mm fifty-fold rapid-fire large-caliber naval gun, but also has greatly improved the naval gun layout, adopting a piggy-back layout of two in the front and three in the rear.
Adopt a central axis layout.
This is completely different from the previous series of battleships that used side layout.
In fact, if the triple-mounted turret technology was not mature enough, the Daheng Empire Navy would have planned to adopt a triple-mounted layout with two in the front and two in the back, and directly put twelve artillery pieces on it.
However, the triple-mounted technology was still a bit inferior, and there were too many problems if it was forced to be used. In the end, the Navy gave up this plan and continued to use the more mature double-mounted technology.
In terms of power, after adopting a power system of steam turbine and pure oil boiler, it is expected that its maximum speed can reach 21 knots.
There is no doubt that this battleship adopts many bold new designs in its design, which will bring about a great improvement in combat effectiveness.
In the summer of the seventeenth year of Qian Sheng's reign, when the Daheng Empire decided to build a number of new battleships and battlecruisers, the top naval officials of the neighboring Kingdom of Krul also held a meeting.
At the meeting, the head of the Krul Kingdom's Naval Intelligence Agency brought a huge piece of information to a group of senior generals of the Kingdom's Navy and the Kingdom's Prime Minister who came to attend the meeting!
To be precise, it is a set of photos!
A set of photos of Quping Naval Base Harbor!
The person in charge said: "We spent a lot of money to develop a staff member at Quping Naval Base in Hengguo and gave him a specially developed, state-of-the-art small camera. He hid this small camera in a transport carriage.
I brought it inside the chassis and took this set of photos!”
As he spoke, he also showed everyone this so-called small camera. This camera was only as big as a palm, and it did not have the magnesium powder exposure facilities of today's cameras.
"Although our advanced camera technology is not perfect yet and the photos taken are not very clear, it is still enough to let us know a major piece of information!"
"That is, those new battleships of Hengmanzi are not at all the hybrid main gun battleships we expected before, nor are they the six main gun battleships they had before, but an unprecedented ten main gun battleships!"
"To be honest, although I don't understand or even understand why they equipped the battleship with so many main guns and directly abandoned the large-caliber secondary guns, gentlemen, this is Hengmanzi's new battleship, not a two-person battleship.
There are not many ships, but many. Just from the photos, we found at least three warships with this kind of multi-main gun layout. According to comparative calculations, two of them are about 10,000 tons, and one is about 20,000 tons!