Rapid-fire guns below the caliber of one hundred and fifty millimeters are not bad, this thing technology has been relatively popular, as long as it is an industrial power, it can be produced by itself, in addition to the three traditional powers, Olisa, Gafia, Orlan and other powerful countries have been successfully copied.

Even some medium-sized countries, if they introduce relevant technology, they can barely get it, such as the Mongol Khanate, their arsenal has already introduced the technology of 120 mm rapid-fire guns from the side of the Great Heng Empire, combined with the naval guns they introduced a few years ago, and began to imitate and produce 120 mm rapid-fire guns, but the output of rapid-fire guns in these small and medium-sized countries is too low.

However, the technical difficulty of rapid-fire guns with a caliber of more than 150 mm began to rise sharply, especially after exceeding the limit caliber of 170 mm of manual loading, if you want to maintain the rate of fire of naval guns, you must use mechanical loading, so that whether naval guns can be rapid-fire is not only a problem of naval guns themselves, but a whole systemic problem.

At present, in addition to the Daheng Empire itself, in other countries, even the Krull Kingdom has not been able to produce a finished rapid-fire gun with a caliber of more than two hundred millimeters, but after all, the Krull Kingdom has a deep heritage, although the time is pressing, but the R&D personnel who developed the large-caliber rapid-fire gun can still pat their chests and say that the large-caliber rapid-fire gun will definitely be able to catch up with the construction period of the battleship, and it will definitely not delay the construction period of the new hybrid main gun battleship and the new type of cruise.

Yes, not long after the end of the Second Battle of Beauvois, the Kingdom of Krull officially finalized the construction plan for a new generation of capital ships, including a new generation of mixed main gun battleships and armored cruisers.

Its latest finalization, the Manning-class battleship with mixed main guns, which has been secretly built, is quite exaggerated!

Just by looking at the tonnage, this thing is a full 3,000 tons more than their previous generation of hybrid main guns Becky-class battleships, reaching a huge 19,000 tons, and the full load is estimated to be more than 22,000 tons.

There is no problem at all with calling it a 20,000-ton battleship.

And this standard displacement is 1,000 tons more than the unified all-heavy artillery battleship Ningyu-class battleship that has just been finalized by the Daheng Imperial Navy.

It is worth noting that this time they did not continue to use their signature main gun, that is, the 350 mm caliber naval gun, the Krull people have a soft spot for this kind of large-caliber main gun in the past, and then used 30 times, and then used 35 times, but the 40 times caliber main gun has not been successfully developed.

In addition, after the smokeless gunpowder came out, the 300 mm caliber main gun with a longer barrel could burst out more powerful than the large-caliber short-barreled gun, and the weight of the naval gun was also relatively small, so the Krull Kingdom has reversed course in the past two years and began to use the 300 mm caliber main gun on the mixed main gun.

The Becky-class battleships, which started construction last year, use 300-millimeter 40-caliber main guns, while the current Manning-class battleships use 300-millimeter and 45-caliber main guns.

On the second-level main gun, the four single-mounted 230-millimeter rapid-fire main guns of the Becky class were directly upgraded to six twin-mounted guns in one go, with a total of 12 250-millimeter and 45-caliber rapid-fire guns.

Its firepower is extremely strong!

And the protection is not bad, with a main armor belt of more than two hundred and thirty mm and a speed of twenty knots!

Twenty knots, 230 mm armor belt, full protection, and four 300 mm guns and 12 250 mm rapid-fire guns.

When the above performance data are combined, it also results in a standard displacement of 19,000 tons of the ship.

Since the secret construction of this ship, it has been the largest warship in the world of all warships under construction and even including design.

And the Krull people got another order for six ships of this class in one go!

The first generation of mixed main gun battleships, the Becky-class battleships, which they started construction last year, already had the first batch of four, and in the first half of this year, two more improved ones were started, making a total of six.

Starting in the second half of this year, they plan to build six ships in one go, all of which will start in three months.

In just two fiscal years, the Krull people started building twelve battleships with mixed main guns!

And that's not even counting armored cruisers!

The navy of the Krull Kingdom has always believed in the strategic concept of 'global presence and global attack', and it is the number one power in the Blue Star, with strong economic strength and strong industrial strength, so their naval development focus is also focused on battleships.

Since entering the Age of Steam Ironclad a few decades ago, the Navy of the Krull Kingdom has been proud of its large number and powerful battleship formations.

At the beginning of the first year of Qiansheng, after the navies of various countries entered the era of breech-loading rifled guns and steel-faced ironclads, various countries began to develop front and rear double-mounted main guns and low-freeboard battleships, which continued to develop until the outbreak of the Yi'an Naval Battle in the eighth year of Qiansheng.

During this period, the navy of the Krull Kingdom still stood out with more than 20 first-class battleships!

The outbreak of the Battle of Ian after the eighth year of Qiansheng and the outbreak of the Battle of Ian prompted another change in the navy, and the navy of the Krull Kingdom built 15 first-class battleships of high dry side in one fell swoop in the three years from the eighth year of Qiansheng to the eleventh year of Qiansheng.

This situation did not change until last year, when their own technological breakthroughs in hardened armor and rapid-fire guns, coupled with the outfitting of the Daheng Empire's hybrid main gun battleship Gaoqing, made its unique mixed main gun layout known to the Krull people.

As a result, the Krull began the construction of mixed main gun battleships, and in less than a year they started construction of six Betch-class battleships.

After the Battle of Beauva, after improving on the experience of the Battle of Beauva, the Manning-class battleships were designed and built that almost broke through the contemporary industrial technology of Blue Star.

From these, it can be seen that the navy of the Krull Kingdom attaches great importance to the construction and development of battleships of the first rank.

As for the second-class battleships and armored cruisers, the navy of the Krull Kingdom actually built a lot in the early years, but they were all used for cheap capital ships, mostly used to garrison overseas, and after entering the era of high broadside in the eighth year of Qiansheng, they successively built six second-class battleships and four armored cruisers.

And after the era of hardened armor and rapid-fire guns began last year, their Beck-class battleships were built along with two 12,000-ton Frank-class armored cruisers.

But only these few second-class battleships and armored cruisers are seriously insufficient in number, look at the Daheng Imperial Navy, in the second Battle of Bova, eight ships were directly loaded into patrol formations to fight.

Comparatively speaking, the navy of the Krull Kingdom was more inclined to build a large number of dome protection cruisers in the past, and they successively built more than two dozen first-class protection cruisers to patrol the world's seas and escort their merchant fleets all over the world.