This 8,000-ton first-class cruiser is based on the full-speed-fire large cruiser scheme proposed by Dr. Hou Haihai, a very young but talented warship designer in the Ministry of Naval Administration.

The core idea of this large-scale cruiser with full-rapid-fire guns is to use the large tonnage of first-class cruisers with more 150-millimeter rapid-fire naval guns, so as to form an overwhelming firepower advantage over the cruisers of other countries.

Therefore, the ship's tonnage is more than 8,000 tons, but it is only equipped with a 150-millimeter main gun, which is completely different from the mainstream design of the contemporary cruiser with more than 200 mm main guns, which even has a 200-3,000-ton main gun.

However, the number of naval guns was extremely large, reaching as many as nine.

At the same time, it also adopts a rare, technically immature triple turret, and adopts a knapsack fully enclosed turret design that has never appeared before, resulting in the first two and one behind, a total of three triple turret firepower layout, which is added by the navy later, in order to test the triple enclosed turret and knapsack layout in advance, which has a strong experimental nature.

As a result, the firepower of the cruiser was also different from that of all other types of warships of the present time.

The core design idea of this cruiser is to flood the enemy ship with dense full-speed fire naval gun fire, especially now the cruisers of various countries are not well protected, there is no hardened armor, the protection is weak, and the dense rapid-fire naval guns can cause serious damage to it.

At the same time, the top of the Navy took the opportunity to test some new technologies such as the triple turret and the knapsack turret layout, which can also increase the turret protection and improve survivability, so it is ready to start building a try, the ship is determined to be built by the end of this year, and the scheduled ship is named Debin.

There are also ocean-going mine-strike ships under the cruiser, which is very simple, capable of sailing and fighting in the open ocean, equipped with rapid-fire guns, armor or something, just give a little meaning, and then equipped with ultra-high power, get a speed of 25 knots or even higher, and then equipped with torpedo tubes.

In the end, an ocean-going mine strike ship of about 1,000 tons was made, and it was officially classified as a destroyer, and it was finalized as a Yuanlin-class destroyer.

The Yuanlin-class destroyer looks small, with weak firepower and protection, but its tactical positioning in the fleet is not small at all, and its main tactical positioning is to launch a high-speed surprise attack on the enemy's main fleet to carry out lightning strike operations when fighting in the open ocean, and for this purpose it is equipped with two triple 550 mm torpedo tubes.

At the same time, it is also necessary to cooperate with the cruiser to intercept all kinds of enemy mine-striking ships and protect their battleships from the threat of lightning strikes, for which it is equipped with four 100-millimeter 28-fold single-mounted rapid-fire guns, the rate of fire of the gun is extremely fast, exaggerated to even form a barrage, and in order to reduce the rate of fire and reduce weight, the gun even adopts a short barrel design, the barrel length is only 28 times the caliber, not only light weight, but also low barrel cost, long barrel life.

The second major role is that when the main fleet of the enemy country arrives in the enemy's waters, it will be deployed on the periphery of the fleet to intercept torpedo boats equipped with a large number of countries by many countries.

In recent years, torpedo boats and mine-striking ships of various countries have developed very rapidly, and with the further improvement of the performance of torpedoes, torpedo boats or mine-striking ships are regarded as a sharp weapon for coastal defense, and the navies of various countries, regardless of whether they are large or small, are equipped with a large number of weapons.

The typical example of the western continent is the Walia Empire, which is armed with more than a hundred torpedo boats.

The Olisa Empire in the south is even more disgusting, they are even more frenzied to equip more than 200 torpedo boats of all kinds, this behavior is simply insane in the eyes of the Daheng Imperial Navy, the generals of the Daheng Imperial Navy, whenever they seize the opportunity, they will disgust the Orissa people and belittle their torpedo boats......

As a self-proclaimed global offensive navy, the Daheng Imperial Navy is very disgusted with torpedo boats, which are offshore defensive weapons, and they are also very fast and powerful!

Just like the navy of the Krull Kingdom on the island of the kingdom, it belittles the torpedo boats of the Valia Imperial Navy on the Western Continent in three days!

What's that, the navy of the Krull Kingdom and the navy of the Great Heng Empire especially hate the gadgets of torpedo boats, although they have also developed a lot of equipment, but the development route of these two countries is more towards anti-lightning warfare.

The Daheng Empire's navy had a bunch of so-called mine-striking ships to hunt down the large number of torpedo boats in the Orissa Empire, but unfortunately, in the era when rapid-fire guns did not come out, these mine-striking ships were useless.

But now that the rapid-fire guns have come out, the follow-up Imperial Navy is ready to upgrade the naval guns of other old warships, including these mine-strike ships, and replace them with rapid-fire guns one after another, but this refitting is mainly to replace the rapid-fire gun mount, and the barrel will continue to use the old barrel.

After all, there are too many old warships, there are more old naval guns, and there are more spare barrels in reserve, only 30 times that of 150 mm and 35 times the spare barrels of the two old naval guns, the total number of which is more than 200.

120 mm and 100 mm old naval guns have more reserve barrels!

These reserve gun barrels can not be thrown away directly, by modifying the gun carriage and continuing to use the gun barrel, these old naval guns can be upgraded to rapid-fire guns at a certain cost to save costs.

After all, the production capacity of the new 150-mm 40-fold rapid-fire gun and the 120-mm 40-fold rapid-fire gun is limited and expensive, and the Imperial Navy is reluctant to directly use the precious new rapid-fire gun on those old warships......

So I'm going to upgrade the gun carriage casually and continue to use the old barrel.

With the formulation of the third phase of the naval development plan, the large-scale application of various new technologies, especially many technologies that can be directly used on old warships, such as smokeless gunpowder, No. 2 nickel steel armor-piercing shells, No. 3 armor-piercing shells, and rapid-fire gun mounts for small and medium-caliber naval guns, which can be directly applied to old warships.

In addition, more advanced and mature steam engines can also be used to upgrade old warships, but the shipboard steam engine system is expensive, and even one of the three major costs of warships (armor, weapons, and power).

Therefore, it is not the case that all old warships have this treatment to be upgraded, and many times the navy would rather let the old warships take a back seat or even retire them, rather than upgrade them with newer steam engines.

Because the cost of replacing them with a new steam engine already exceeds the value of the ship!

When the Navy thoroughly finalized the third phase of the development plan, a series of shipbuilding began.

Although a series of new technological products, such as new large-caliber main guns, hardened armor, new armor-piercing shells, smokeless gunpowder, and small and medium-sized rapid-fire guns, have been researched and sampled, and some have entered the trial production stage, it is very difficult to mass-produce them and finally install them on ships.

I want to turn the ore into raw materials, then into parts, and finally collect them into various factories to form machinery and equipment, and finally process and produce the heavy parts of the battleship, which form the ship's guns, shells and hulls, and finally assemble them into a state-of-the-art Jingzhou-class battleship in the shipyard!

This involves thousands of majors, dozens of universities and state-affiliated research institutes of the Daheng Empire, more than 300 directly supporting national defense manufacturers and thousands of indirect supporting ordinary manufacturers, and countless scientists, engineers, technicians, and ordinary workers need to work day and night.

The construction of the Jingzhou-class battleship requires the efforts of the entire Daheng Empire!

It's definitely not something that Lin Ziran can do by moving his mouth and drawing a drawing from the navy!

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