Is it expensive to have a battleship of more than eight million?

It must be expensive, more than 8 million Hengyuan, this is not a small amount, and the military investment of many medium-sized countries is only tens of millions of Hengyuan a year.

However, in terms of the Daheng Imperial Navy, this price is not too expensive, because the Ningyu-class battleships with a standard displacement of 18,500 tons used by the Daheng Imperial Navy have already gone straight to more than 9 million yuan for their own use.

The purchase price of the 17,500-ton battle cruiser Qiping also reached 8.5 million.

The purchase price of the new generation of warships for the Daheng Imperial Navy's own use is even more expensive!

This is an internal purchase price, which is very different from the price of foreign trade warships.

If Ning Yu's level is exported, it will cost more than 12 million, otherwise where will the profits of shipyards and arsenals and other major manufacturers come from?

In fact, because the Ningyu-class battleships and Qiping-class battlecruisers are expensive, it is also the reason why the Daheng Empire intends to build several more heavy cruisers of about 10,000 tons, for no other reason, the main battleships are getting bigger and bigger, more advanced and more expensive!

Now the price of the main warship is close to 10 million at every turn, and even the Daheng Imperial Navy can't start the construction of four or six ships after finalizing the construction plan as before.

The first batch of Ningyu-class battleships planned to be built this year is only two, and it will not be possible to enter a larger large-scale construction stage until next year's financial situation is slightly relaxed.

The Great Heng Empire is feeling struggling here, let alone the Orr Kingdom.

Although the Orr Kingdom has always boasted of being rich, it is only a medium-sized country after all, that is, it has more gold and oil.

They can ignore ordinary small money, but this kind of purchase to millions and tens of millions, and it is not one or two, they need to maintain a large fleet, in this case, Rao is also very difficult for them.

I think back then, when their Orr Kingdom asked the Daheng Empire to purchase warships, whether it was one or two million, two or three million warships were also ordered from a few ships, and they never blinked.

But now, with the addition of spare barrels and ammunition for battleships, they also feel struggling when they want to make a battleship combat effective without tens of millions of them.

But Crown Prince Holibat was also a determined and ambitious man, and he knew the importance of a navy to the Orr Kingdom, and it was indispensable to have a navy of decent strength if he wanted to avoid foreign invasion, especially the Krull Kingdom or other powers.

If the Navy had been strong enough, the last Orr War would not have happened at all!

For this reason, as soon as he gritted his teeth, he still finalized the procurement plan of the No. 4 ship, and asked for the top-of-the-line mixed main gun battleship, which was expensive and sold it.

In this way, after the ship is completed and put into service, their Orr Kingdom will have four high-freeboard battleships, as well as two 12,000-ton armored cruisers and four Klan-class armored cruisers, in addition to continuing to negotiate with the Daheng Empire for the purchase of two armored cruisers.

After all the above warships are completed and put into service, the main fleet that the Orr Kingdom has been striving for after the Orr War will be able to take shape, although there are new and old, the old two are still battleships with steel faces and iron armor and open batteries, but the new ones are battleships with mixed main guns to fully protect them.

And there are also large-tonnage cutting-edge armored cruisers to work with.

As long as the normal renewal is maintained in the future, then it will be enough to make the strength of the navy of the Orr Kingdom once again enter the top ten in the world.

It is even possible to squeeze out the bottom few of the eight powers, ranking seventh or eighth.

The eight great powers are: the Krull Kingdom, the Great Heng Empire, the Kor Empire, the Walya Empire, the Gafia Empire, the Orissa Empire, the Orlan Kingdom, and the Iberian Empire.

There are strong and weak among the eight powers, but without exception they are all industrial countries in the first echelon.

As for the Mongol Khanate, the East Coast Four-Nation Alliance, the Orr Kingdom, the Northern Six Nations Alliance, and the Ondus Kingdom, they are all countries that belong to the second echelon, either large agricultural countries or small countries with a bit of industry, while the Kingdom of Danna, the Kingdom of Kasi, and the Kingdom of Liej are naturally third-rate countries.

Not every one of the eight great powers has a strong focus on the navy or has the strength to maintain a large navy.

For example, the Iberian Empire, they seem to be hostile to the Gafia Empire, but in fact, people have never expected to rely on their own navy, they rely on the navy of the Krull Kingdom, and its naval strength is actually relatively limited.

In addition, because the Orlan Kingdom has a good relationship with several major powers, and the hostile countries are all second-rate countries preferred by the Mongol Khanate, so their naval scale is not large.

If the Orr Kingdom really completes the 48 Plan and maintains a normal update, so that the performance of the warship is always at the first-class level, then there is no problem at all in ranking seventh in the world.

As for the top six, there's basically no hope!

The top six are all first-class industrial powers, and they are all countries that pay great attention to the development of the navy!

Needless to say, the Krull Kingdom is the world boss, and the navy of the kingdom that has a global attack on the world is strong.

The Great Heng Empire has developed rapidly in the past ten years, and its industrial scale and economic strength have surpassed that of the Kekel Empire, becoming the second in the world.

But the Kyle Empire and the Walia Empire are one of the three traditional industrial powers, ranking second or third in the world for a long time, and now they have been pulled down by the Great Heng Empire, but they are still the third and fourth.

The above-mentioned four countries, both in terms of industrial scale and war potential, belong to the top of the Blue Star countries, far surpassing the few so-called powers behind.

The Olisa Empire and the Gafia Empire are slightly inferior in industrial scale and strength, but they both have a large population, and they are both facing major maritime threats, so they attach great importance to naval development.

The four great powers plus these two unscrupulous powers, the position of the world's six major navies is basically impossible to be shaken by other countries, even if the Orr Kingdom controls more than 40% of the world's gold production.

Four new-generation battleships and eight new-generation armored cruisers can only rank seventh in the world if they survive.

If the Orlan Kingdom and the Ibean Empire also attach importance to the navy, it is estimated that they can only rank ninth.

From this, it can also be seen how fierce the naval competition of the Blue Star countries is.

Blue Star has traditionally attached great importance to the development of the navy, the maritime trade around the endless sea has lasted for thousands of years, and the prosperity of maritime trade has brought about the development of the navy, otherwise it would not have pulled out a big country casually, and there are a bunch of battleships.

This naval tradition on the Blue Star also forces major powers, and even some medium-sized countries, to vigorously develop their navies.

The Orr Kingdom is a very typical example, Crown Prince Holibat personally in the Daheng Empire, after finalizing the order plan for the fourth battleship, and then finalizing the order for two armored cruisers.

These two armored cruisers were designed on the basis of the Fengyang-class armored cruisers on the basis of the requirements of the Great Heng Empire according to the requirements of the Orr Kingdom, and were equipped for the purpose of fleet decisive battles.

With a displacement of more than 14,000 tons, it is equipped with a total of four 300 mm and 45 times the caliber naval guns in the front and rear.

It is a typical small boat with a cannon, and the purpose is very simple, that is, to be able to enhance the strength of the fleet in a decisive battle as much as possible under the condition of limited funds.

As a result, the design of ships of this class differed from other armored cruisers.