Since Lin Ziran said the concept of unifying the all-heavy artillery, he naturally will not hide it, but say everything that should be said!

"With the further improvement of technology, it is very likely that the combat distance in the future will be increased from the current four or five thousand meters to more than 10,000 meters!"

"At such a distance, small and medium-caliber naval guns will lose their due role, and if you want to sink enemy ships, you must use large-caliber main guns!"

"At the same time, the further increase in the engagement distance will offset the shortcomings of the insufficient rate of fire of the large-caliber main gun!"

"In order to ensure the hit rate, in order to observe and sight, the shooting of the naval guns must be unified, and the unified fire control system will observe, calculate the firing elements, and issue an order to open fire, and implement a salvo!"

"Unify all-heavy artillery warships, this is the future of the Imperial Navy!" Lin Ziran made this concept clear for the first time.

The people present were not stupid people, they soon thought of a series of new technologies that the empire was researching, especially the 150 mm full-caliber rapid-fire gun battleship, which specified that it was required to be equipped with a unified fire control system, and it was precisely because this unified fire control system was delayed that the ship was under construction for more than three years, but it still failed to be completed, becoming the first unfinished project of the navy......

Could it be that a series of naval equipment technologies developed by the empire before were all paved for this unified all-heavy artillery battleship?

In this case, wouldn't His Majesty have made the layout many years in advance?

And Lin Ziran didn't stop, he still continued: "As the distance of naval battles is further lengthened, the trajectory of artillery shells will be further expanded, and the navy should pay attention to the protection of horizontal armor!" ”

"And smooth information exchange in war is the first priority, because the research and development of shipborne radios must be further accelerated, regardless of cost or other factors, the key is to be able to use, to use first!"

"Battleships equipped with multiple large-caliber naval guns will inevitably have a larger tonnage, which will pose a greater challenge to our power system, the existing coal-fired boiler and reciprocating steam engine are still slightly insufficient, and there is intelligence that the Krull Kingdom has begun to study oil-fired boilers, which will provide greater power for warships!"

"Our research in this area should also be accelerated, after all, we are a big oil country, and we don't have to worry about the lack of oil available."

"And the reciprocating steam engine also has a limit, and the steam turbine I ordered before is a good future development direction, and the navy must increase research in this field in the future!"

"Oil-fired boilers with steam turbines, this is the future of warship power!"

At the Navy's top-secret meeting, Lin Ziran proposed the concept of a unified all-heavy artillery warship, which made several high-ranking generals of the Navy excited.

They couldn't help but imagine that once their own warships were all such large-caliber naval guns, it was estimated that they would be able to sink the enemy battleships in a few salvos.

Lin Ziran also nodded secretly when he saw that the admirals were very interested in this kind of warship concept, and at the same time discussed on the spot how to develop and build this kind of warship, what type of auxiliary warships should be built and used together, and how the corresponding strategy and tactics should be carried out.

This is the effect he wants: to clarify the idea of naval development, pave the way for the development of unified all-heavy artillery warships, and prepare for the Hengke War, which is very likely to break out in the future!

After the conclusion of the naval conference, the Navy also launched a number of secret programs one after another, and at the same time increased investment in a number of original research programs.

In the naval artillery project, the naval side naturally continued to focus on the 300-mm 40-fold caliber naval gun!

At the internal high-level meeting of the Navy, a special meeting was held on the selection of future naval guns.

Professor Wen Milin, director of the Naval Artillery Research Institute, said: "We have accumulated a lot of experience in the research and development and production of 300-millimeter naval guns, from 25 times the caliber to 30 times the caliber and 35 times the caliber, and we are moving forward step by step in a down-to-earth manner.

"The nine-year-old 300 mm 40 times caliber naval gun was officially approved in the sixth year of Qiansheng, and after more than four years of research and development work, it has entered the final stage of sample gun testing, and is currently integrating the research work of the integrated turret and ammunition supply system, and is expected to complete the main research and development next year, and begin to work on the ship!"

"Once the research and development of this naval gun is completed, then in the field of main guns, our large-caliber naval guns will become the second in the world!"

Professor Wen Milin's words, with a strong self-confidence, the research of the Daheng Empire in the field of large-caliber naval artillery, through the foreshadowing of the unification war, after the reunification of many years of leapfrog development, the current technical level in all aspects is closely following the mainstream level of the three major powers, and there are still leading advantages in some fields!

After all, the Daheng Empire is also the first country in the world to apply breeched rifled naval guns on a large scale, and it has a first-mover advantage in the field of rear-loading rifled naval guns.

After about ten years of development of large-caliber breech-loading rifled naval guns, only the Navy of the Krull Kingdom can overpower the Daheng Empire in large-caliber naval artillery technology, and the 350 mm 35 times caliber naval guns they are equipped with for the latest warships are huge, even if they are fired with black powder, but their power is also huge.

If they had also acquired smokeless gunpowder technology, the ship's guns would have been even more powerful

In the field of 350 mm caliber naval artillery, the Krull Kingdom is currently dominant, regardless of whether it is the Daheng Empire, the Valia Empire, or the Kekel Empire, they can only bow to the upper hand!

In fact, the Daheng Empire has also been working the 350 mm caliber naval gun, but the research and development progress has not been too fast, coupled with the relatively smooth development of the 300 mm naval gun, and smokeless gunpowder as a help, so that in the main artillery competition in the seventh year of Qiansheng, the 350 mm 30 times the naval gun was defeated by the 300 mm 35 times the caliber naval gun.

In addition, in recent years, the research and development of 300 mm and 40 times the caliber of naval guns has also been relatively smooth, relatively speaking, the research and development of 350 mm and 35 times the caliber of naval guns has lagged far behind, and the design of the sample gun has not yet been completed.

In this case, it is logical that the Daheng Empire will continue to use 300 mm caliber naval guns.

Professor Wen Milin also said in a very confident tone at the main gun selection meeting: "We will continue to dig with the advantages of technology and experience accumulated in the field of 300-millimeter naval guns, and we are confident that we will increase the diameter of 300-millimeter naval guns by five times every two or three years." ”

"Next year, we will be able to complete the research and development and installation of ships with a caliber of 300 mm and 40 times the caliber in the nine-year model, the R&D and installation of naval guns of 300 mm and 45 times the caliber in the 14th year of Qiansheng, and the development and installation of naval guns of 300 mm and 50 times the caliber in the 17th year of Qiansheng."

"By the 20th year or so of Qiansheng, the 350 mm and 45 times caliber naval guns should have almost been made, just replacing the 300 mm and 50 times the caliber naval guns and becoming the new generation of the navy's main naval guns."

Although the 300 mm caliber naval gun seems to be a small caliber, it is not as good as the 350 mm naval gun used by the Navy of the Krull Kingdom, but the 300 mm naval gun will not be small in depth on the premise of ensuring a long barrel, and at the same time, after all, it is a smaller caliber and lighter in weight, so it can be equipped with more on the battleship.

This is particularly important for the Daheng Imperial Navy, which plans to launch a unified all-heavy artillery warship program, which needs at least eight or more large-caliber naval guns on a single warship in the future, rather than only four main guns as it does now.

At the same time, the power technology of the Daheng Empire is still slightly lacking, and there are still some technical gaps in the construction of large-tonnage warships.

At present, there is no problem in building battleships of more than 15,000 tons, but if the tonnage is further expanded to 17,800 tons, or even more than 20,000 tons, it will provide more stringent requirements for the empire's shipbuilding industry, and at the same time, it will also put forward higher requirements for the empire's power system and other aspects every year.

The dock is all good to say, and now the empire is also carrying out large-scale expansion of the three major shipbuilding shipyards, among which the core shipyard Quping Naval Shipyard has upgraded the original multiple 10,000-ton docks to 20,000 tons of docks, and even designed a 30,000-ton super large dock in advance, this super large dock is expected to be completed next year, and then it can be used to build huge ships below 30,000 tons.

But power and other things are not just throwing money, many things need to be constantly overcome by technicians to be able to get out, and you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.

Under these circumstances, the Imperial Navy initially decided to use the 300-millimeter caliber naval gun as the main gun in the next ten years, which was the best choice due to the unified all-heavy artillery concept and technical limitations.

However, considering the development of the Navy ten years later, the Reich naturally did not give up the development of 350 mm or even 400 mm caliber naval guns.

The more advanced, even epoch-making 350-millimeter and 45-fold caliber naval guns have been formally approved this year, and the hardware equipment has been prepared in advance, the research and development of basic materials has been carried out in advance, and more time has been spent to complete the layout ahead of schedule, and finally the gun will be used to replace the 300-millimeter 45-fold or 50-fold caliber naval guns.

In addition, the pre-research of 400-mm caliber naval guns has never stopped, and there has always been research on 400-mm naval guns in the Naval Naval Artillery Research Institute.

However, at present, if this super-large caliber naval gun wants to be practical, it will be too difficult for the Daheng Empire, although the Daheng Empire is now theoretically able to build this large-caliber long-barreled naval gun in terms of hardware conditions, but it is only limited to theory, if you really want to do it, you can't even set up the project without a long time of technical accumulation......

The research and development of the main guns of the empire with a caliber of more than 300 mm, from 300 mm to 350 mm and 400 mm, there is a complete sequence of pre-research, project approval, research and development, production, and equipment.

It's not like a swarm of everything.

Naval artillery is the top priority, but the navy is more interested in unified fire control technology.