Three of them have already started construction, and one is expected to start construction in November next month, and the two additional ships will wait for the two large docks at the Luohai Shipyard to become vacant next year, which is expected to start in January and March of the eighth year of Qiansheng.

Six Gyoju-class battleships, plus two additional Toyoyo-class armored cruisers that have already started construction and have been added

The Daheng Imperial Navy is already planning to build nine new generation capital ships!

At the same time, the fleet expansion plan in the third phase of the naval development plan has also expanded from the main fleet composed of eight cutting-edge capital ships and two cutting-edge armored cruisers to ten battleships and four armored cruisers, a total of 14 new fleet of capital ships.

However, the next five new warships will be redesigned next year according to the world situation and domestic technological changes, because they will be the secondary ship plan of the Jingzhou-class battleship and the secondary ship plan of the Fengyang-class armored cruiser.

According to the shipbuilding plan of the Daheng Imperial Navy, the first Jingzhou-class battleship, that is, the Jingzhou, will be urgently completed and put into active service as early as December next year.

By the ninth year of the Dry Saint, there will be at least six capital ships in service one after another!

Ten years after Qiansheng, the first phase of shipbuilding was basically completed, and by the 11th year of Qiansheng, the plan of 10 battleships and four armored cruisers would be fully completed.

Thus, the fleet expansion plan of the third phase of the naval development plan is completed!

The Navy is about to be replaced by technological innovation, and this situation actually exists in the Army, otherwise how could the Army sell a large number of ammunition reserves and rifles and artillery.

This is because the army has already begun to replace a new generation of weapons and equipment.

The new generation of weapons and equipment will have a very typical feature, that is, the use of smokeless gunpowder as a propellant!

Since the invention of smokeless gunpowder last year in the Daheng Empire, the navy was the first to carry out relevant research and apply it to naval guns, but the army did not lag behind for long, and the army soon began to apply smokeless gunpowder.

And according to the characteristics of smokeless gunpowder, a new generation of new light weapons was designed, that is, new rifles and machine guns!

Because smokeless gunpowder has a better boosting ability, this also makes it possible to use smaller calibers for greater range and power in both guns and artillery.

Using smokeless gunpowder, the small-caliber rifle developed by the Daheng Empire for many years has finally solved the final problem of propellant and has been officially finalized.

Lin Ziran saw the army's new generation rifle in the garden square in the Mirror Palace.

"This Fuyuan seven-year rifle is developed by Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, using a new generation of eight-millimeter standard rifle cartridges newly developed by us, this small-caliber non-flanged bullet because of the smaller caliber, so it can smoothly design the magazine magazine, the magazine of the gun can be loaded with five bullets at one time, and can be directly single-shot pressed and loaded, or it can be directly loaded with five bullets at one time through the magazine!"

Maybe he was afraid that Lin Ziran would wonder why the new gun only had five bullets, which was not as good as the eight rounds of the previous Luo An Type 4 tube magazine.

Yu Weishangqing, director of the Army's Ordnance Department, explained in advance: "Although there are only five bullets, if you reload through the magazines prepared in advance, it is very convenient to reload and can continue to maintain firepower, unlike the tubular magazine, which is very troublesome to reload after firing the bullets in the magazine." ”

Lin Ziran naturally has no doubts, this gun was still developed by himself many years ago, and the technology of using magazine loading and rotating rear pulling machine was still made by him, and he actually knew the advantages and disadvantages of the new gun better than Yu Wei, the minister of ordnance in front of him.

Many years ago, he wanted to engage in an eight-millimeter small-caliber rifle, so the eight-millimeter rifle project of the Daheng Empire was established, which was all in place before the unification, and basically there was a project team for the gun before the Luo'an IV was finalized.

However, because the propellant is still maroon gunpowder, it is difficult to achieve a small caliber in order to ensure the power, so the research and development of the eight-millimeter caliber rifle has been in a state of stagnation, and the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory can only continue to carry out the design of the bolt machine, magazine, etc. and bullets of various small-caliber rifles.

In the past few years, the researchers of the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory have conducted far more in-depth research than other countries by using advanced disciplines such as aerodynamics, and finally obtained a large number of experimental data, and finally completed the design of many new eight-millimeter rifles, including the design of bolts, magazines, magazines, etc.

Even the design of the new bullet was completed ahead of schedule, the shape of the bottle-shaped bullet without flange was determined, and the design of the warhead of the new bullet was very special, which is a warhead that imitates the structure of a ship, with a pointed head in front and a concave tail similar to the stern design of a torpedo boat, which is to reduce air resistance and increase stability.

Later, it was found that this design performed better at the end of the trajectory, and could effectively improve the accuracy of hitting machine guns with a very long range.

It is precisely because of such a profound technical accumulation that after the Royal Gunpowder Laboratory got out the smokeless fire control, the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory was able to complete the design of the eight-millimeter standard rifle cartridge and the eight-millimeter caliber rifle as soon as possible.

Because a lot of things have already been studied, they are waiting for a propellant with better performance.

Now years of research work has become the Fuyuan rifle that Lin Ziran sees now, and the army has been preliminarily finalized as a five-type rifle, and the prefix of the R&D manufacturer is added in front of it, which is called the Fuyuan five-type rifle.

Lin Ziran personally watched it repeatedly for a long time, and finally tried to shoot a few shots himself, and it felt good, the recoil was much smaller than that of the Type 4 rifle, and it felt very stable and accurate.

"This gun is good, what is the procurement cost, will it cause pressure to change clothes?" Lin Ziran cares about performance, but he also cares about cost, after all, rifles are consumables, and the impact of cost is still relatively large.

Yu Weishangqing, Minister of Ordnance, said: "If you don't consider the early stage of research and development and production line equipment investment, the follow-up simple production cost is not very high, we have already considered the cost and mass production when designing, and did not deliberately pursue higher processing accuracy, this ordinary version of the five-type rifle, the initial purchase price will be more expensive, but it can also be controlled at 30 Hengyuan, and the price will be cheaper when the purchase volume comes up next year, and it is expected to be reduced to 25 Hengyuan, and then later, The price will be further reduced, and the bullet is slightly more expensive, costing 35 constant yuan for 1,000 rounds. ”

Lin Ziran nodded slightly when he listened, he didn't think it was expensive at this price!

Even if it has been produced for many years, the technology is very mature, and the manufacturing cost has been very low, it will now cost 18 Hengyuan, and after the large-scale mass production of these 5 rifles, the price can be more than 20 Hengyuan, after all, this gun uses a lot of new technology, and it is normal for the price to be slightly more expensive now.

When this Fuyuan Type 5 rifle was sent to the Mirror Palace, after Lin Ziran's personal test firing and approval, the army immediately launched a comprehensive rearmament plan to gradually replace the current Luoan Type 4 rifle.