After arriving at the dock, seeing the battleship Ning Yu quietly moored at the berth, Lin Ziran couldn't help but feel proud.

This is the largest warship ever built by the Great Heng Empire, well, although it is not the largest tonnage warship on the Blue Star, the Krull Kingdom next door is a bit neurotic, and last year it commissioned a battleship with a standard displacement of more than 20,000 tons of mixed main guns, which was full of first-class and second-class main guns.

Firmly occupy the throne of the largest warship in the tonnage of Blue Star!

However, although the displacement of the battleship Ningyu is not the first, it is also the second, and its combat effectiveness is definitely far more than the one-vote mixed main gun battleships of today's countries.

You don't need to look at anything else, just look at the ten 300 mm 45 times caliber main guns on the battleship Ning Yu.

Under the guidance of the unified fire control system, it can carry out long-distance artillery bombardment of targets of more than 15,000 kilometers or even longer, and the maximum effective range of the warship's naval guns has reached 18,000 kilometers.

And this ability, which other mixed main gun battleships do not have.

At present, the effective firing range of battleships with mixed main guns of various countries is still limited to about six or seven thousand meters, and the actual combat distance will be even closer.

However, the battle distance of this unified all-heavy artillery warship of the Great Heng Empire was already 15,000 kilometers.

This means that before the enemy battleship enters the effective range, there is a high probability that it has been sunk by the battleship Ning Yu.

With a standard displacement of 18,500 tons and a full load displacement of more than 21,500 tons, it adopts the most advanced Luojing nickel steel surface hardened armor, a coal-fired water-tube boiler with fuel injection and combustion, a four-cylinder three-expansion steam engine, and a flying shear bow, and the maximum speed can reach 20 knots.

Equipped with five twin guns with a total of 10 300 mm 45 times the caliber of naval guns, the rate of fire can reach 1.5 rounds per minute, and the integrated tower mast is used to deploy a unified fire control system to obtain a better viewing height, so that the effective range of the main gun can reach more than 15,000 kilometers.

The shells were fired with smokeless gunpowder and were used to pierce the main armor belt of any contemporary battleship at long distances.

The appearance of such a battleship in the contemporary era is almost epoch-making, and its combat effectiveness is almost crushing the strength of mixed main gun battleships and older battleships.

Looking at this battleship, Lin Ziran knew that the time was coming when the Great Heng Empire's navy would take off completely.

And this time, the Daheng Imperial Navy has an advantage that is even greater than the previous use of hardened armor and rapid-fire guns.

Although the first use of hardened armor and rapid-fire guns also brought huge strategic and tactical advantages to the Daheng Imperial Navy, this advantage was still limited and could not completely establish the absolute superiority of the Daheng Navy.

But this time is different, the appearance of unified all-heavy artillery warships is enough to make the Daheng Imperial Navy completely open a generation gap with the navies of other major powers.

Even if other major powers reacted quickly, they also began to develop and build unified all-heavy artillery warships, but it is estimated that they will not be able to do it in three or five years, and these three or five years are enough for the Daheng Empire to build and serve at least ten years of cutting-edge battleships, and then form a large number of cutting-edge warships.

And this kind of cutting-edge battleship costs more hugely, now the cost of a battleship has exceeded 10 million Hengyuan, and with the progress of technology, the battleship is getting bigger and more advanced, and the price of the main battleship continues to rise.

Sophisticated and advanced technology can make it impossible for a weaker power to keep up, and economic factors can make several major powers weak.

Even the two traditional industrial powers, the Keel Empire and the Walia Empire, are estimated to be difficult to continue to maintain the scale of large-scale shipbuilding after the arrival of the era of unified all-heavy artillery warships.

In the future, the naval competition on the Blue Star can only appear between the navy of the Great Heng Empire and the navy of the Krull Kingdom.

Not because only these two countries could build such a large warship, but because only these two countries had the industrial scale and economic power to maintain an expensive and large fleet.

And in the future shipbuilding competition, Lin Ziran is confident enough to keep the Daheng Empire ahead!

His strength came from the huge native population, industrial scale, and abundant resources of the Great Heng Empire, and the huge economic power that came with these things.

In the 15th year of the reign of Qiansheng, the industrial output value of the Daheng Empire continued to maintain a leading position, and it is expected that this year's industrial output value will exceed 20 billion Hengyuan for the first time, reaching a scale of 21 billion Hengyuan.

Coupled with the already very large agricultural economic system of the Great Heng Empire, the sum of the two has made the total economic volume of the Great Heng Empire already surpass that of the Krull Kingdom and become the veritable largest economic system of the Blue Star.

Although most of the current industrial output value of the Daheng Empire is dominated by low-end industries, rich is rich, and it doesn't matter what you rely on to make money.

The large economic aggregate, coupled with the relatively special oval income structure of the mainland, makes the financial revenue of the Daheng Empire also very high, so that the imperial treasury has sufficient funds to maintain the continuous expansion of the fleet.

Without such a huge economy and sufficient financial revenue, how could the Great Heng Empire build a huge fleet with a total tonnage of the second largest in the world in less than fifteen years.

And the smooth commissioning of the battleship Ning Yu also announced that the Daheng Imperial Navy once again took the initiative to set off a new round of naval competition!

After holding the commissioning ceremony of the battleship Ningyu, Lin Ziran also visited and inspected several other main warships that were also under construction at the Quping Naval Shipyard.

Including the Ningyu-class No. 2 ship Quyang, which was successfully launched at the beginning of this year and is currently being outfitted, it is expected to be able to complete the outfitting for sea trials next month.

Ningyu-class improved: The first ship of the Zhongluozhou-class battleships, the Zhongluo, and the second ship, the Ningwu, started much later, so they will not be able to complete outfitting until the middle of next year.

In addition, there are two battle cruisers of the Qiping class, the Qiping and the Nanping, although the design of the class of ships is also early, and the construction is also early, but later the design has changed, resulting in the delay of the construction time, and the follow-up outfitting has encountered some troubles, so the outfitting time will be delayed until January next year.

The service time of many of the capital ships in the fourth phase of the Navy's construction plan is concentrated in next year and the year after.

As for this year, for the time being, there are only Ning Yu and Quyang.

The construction of so many capital warships here at the same time also fully proves the importance of this place, Quping Naval Shipyard has become a major shipyard in the Daheng Empire, and it can start building six capital warships at the same time, and its construction capacity is no less than the Needham Shipyard, which has the most powerful shipbuilding ability in the Krull Kingdom.