It was also a great pressure for the Orr Kingdom, and it was impossible to reserve a brand new one, so they adopted the strategy of purchasing a batch of reoutfits every year, replacing them and then sealing them.

So every once in a while, they will come to the Great Heng Empire to purchase weapons and ammunition.

In addition to army equipment, there is also naval equipment.

The Orr Kingdom has always attached great importance to the navy, and at present they have four battleships and eight armored cruisers, and their naval power is still very strong.

However, a strong navy also needs to be updated!

Although each of the twelve capital warships in the Orr Kingdom Navy is not very old, and the oldest one is only six years old, more than half of them belong to high-dryboard fort warships, and this thing is already backward.

In recent years, the development of the navy has been too fast, especially after the 12th year of Qiansheng, the world navy has set off a change, after the emergence of rapid-fire guns and hardened armor, mixed main gun battleships are the mainstream, and armored cruisers are also generally designed with high freeboard integrated turrets.

The main warships of this period emphasized large-caliber rapid-fire guns, so there was a hybrid main gun mode in firepower, or a rapid-fire main gun of more than 200 mm alone, emphasizing the integrated closed turret brought by hardened armor and the concept of comprehensive protection.

However, in the Orr Kingdom, there was only one battleship with mixed main guns, and there were only two armored cruisers with large-caliber rapid-fire guns and closed turrets.

Although it is said that a series of other high-dryboard fort battleships can also be used, after all, they are backward times, and if they really fight, the actual combat strength is sorry for their huge tonnage.

At the same time, considering that it will take three or four years for a new warship to go from design to service, the Orr Kingdom is also considering ordering several new generation of capital warships.

The only problem is that the current warships of the Navy are too expensive.

In recent years, the performance of warships of the navies of various countries has become more and more advanced, but the corresponding price has also become more and more expensive.

Before the Orr War, the Orr Kingdom purchased a top-of-the-line battleship from the Daheng Empire for only four or five million, but after the Lieji War, the price had soared to about 10 million Hengyuan, and now it has been a few years, and the price of today's top-level battleships is even more expensive.

It's not just battleships that are getting more expensive, in fact armored cruisers, ordinary light cruisers, even torpedo boats are getting more and more expensive.

For example, the Daheng Empire is now promoting to the world and widely exporting the Super Armor series of large torpedo boats, in order to better export, and at the same time, the concept of large-tonnage destroyers has become popular this year, so the Daheng Empire has changed the name of the Super Armor series to the Super Armor series of destroyers.

According to the different needs of customers, this thing has a displacement of more than 300 tons to more than 500 tons, and the cheap ones cost more than 100,000 yuan, and the expensive ones cost more than 300,000 yuan.

If you really follow the highest order, get a dozen ships and millions per minute.

Not to mention the battleship itself, even the price of ammunition is much more expensive.

The increasingly expensive price of warships has also made many countries, including the Orr Kingdom, have to rethink their naval strategies.

In the early years, the naval strategy formulated by the Orr Kingdom was the 4+8 fleet, that is, four battleships and eight armored cruisers, and the plan was also the foundation for the Orr Kingdom to become the eighth navy of the Blue Star.

At that time, in the naval strategic planning of the Orr people, the capital ships in the 4+8 fleet needed to be updated, not that the construction of twelve ships would be completed, but that several ships would be built every few years to ensure that the age of the main warships was within ten years.

However, now the Orr Kingdom finds that it is a bit unlikely that it wants to carry out a one-on-one replacement according to the plan at that time, and strictly guarantee the 4+8 plan.

Because last year, they consulted the Daheng Empire about the price of the new generation of warships, and the Daheng Empire did not cheat them, and even gave a preferential price.

But even so, if you want to order a cutting-edge battleship, you have to spend 11 million Hengyuan.

And don't think it's expensive, even the Orr people don't think the price of the Great Heng people is expensive.

Because the battleships quoted by the Daheng Empire at more than 11 million yuan were in accordance with the requirements of the Orers, they adopted comprehensive protection, the latest hardened armor, and comprehensive coverage, adopted integrated turrets, omnidirectional loading technology, and were equipped with four most advanced 300 mm 45 times caliber naval gun systems, with a rate of fire of 1.5 rounds per minute, and the second-class main guns were equipped with at least 10 or more rapid-fire main guns of more than 250 mm, and the speed should reach more than 20 knots.

According to their conditions, the standard displacement of Daheng people has reached 20,000 tons.

To be honest, such a warship can only be built by the Great Heng Empire and the Krull Kingdom at the moment.

Not to mention anything else, it's just the latest type of main gun above, at present, looking at the entire Blue Star, only the Great Heng Empire and the Krull Kingdom have them, even if it is the Kekel Empire and the Valia Empire, they haven't been able to break through the three-hundred-millimeter rapid-fire cannon for the time being, otherwise they wouldn't have built a bunch of battleships with two-hundred-eighty mm rapid-fire guns as the main gun.

Even many of the technologies used on this kind of battleship are actually many technologies on the Ningyu-class battleship, the latest top-secret battleship of the Great Heng Empire.

From a technical point of view, the two are practically on the same level, whether it is power, naval guns, or armor.

The only difference is that the Ningyu-class battleships are directly equipped with more main guns and adopt a unified fire control system.

In other words, this is actually the most advanced hybrid main gun battleship that the Great Heng Empire can currently build.

However, the result of this is that it is expensive.

The Orr Kingdom originally planned to order two new battleships, intending to directly replace the two old high-dryside fort battleships in a few years.

But in the face of such a high price, they are also a little worried.

If it was just two battleships, it would have been bought with gritted teeth, but the warships needed in the navy were not only battleships, but also armored cruisers of the same new generation to cooperate with the battle.

This new generation of armored cruisers is not cheap, today's armored cruisers are generally large in tonnage, basically rushing to 15,000 tons, and this kind of battleship costs more than 8 million for each battleship.

Then you have to get some cutting-edge cruisers with the same belt, destroyers to use with these capital ships, and these light warships are not cheap, a protection cruiser of three or four thousand tons will cost one or two million, and a thousand-ton destroyer will have to be hundreds of thousands.

In order for these warships to form combat effectiveness, there must be a complete set of supporting facilities.