The design concept of the Unification armored ship is to give full play to the firepower of large-caliber breech-loading rifled guns!

Other people's warships are designed with an artillery gun to match the battleship, but what the Daheng Navy is doing now is to design a battleship to match the artillery!

It's the other way around!

Therefore, in the specific design, many designs completely subvert the contemporary mainstream warship design concept.

For example, in order to give better play to the power of the large main gun, the designer chose a firepower layout with a rotating turret in the front and rear of the central axis, and this turret layout has never been used on ocean-going capital warships before.

As for the inland coastal gunboats, there must have been attempts by the state, and now the gunboats of various countries are in a mess, with all kinds of inexplicable designs, and there are more gunboats of various experimental natures, and it is not surprising that gunboats with the design of the main turrets before and after the central axis appeared.

However, in the design of ocean-going warships, the design of the navies of various countries is very cautious and even conservative.

Otherwise, the ship's gun layout would not have lasted for many years, and only a few naval powers began to adopt designs with front-loading rifled guns and rotating turrets.

When the battleship was designed, it also encountered troubles, for example, when the turret rotated, the gun barrel would also rotate, and at the same time, it was difficult to arrange a dense sail system in order to better fire the range.

The sails and the main turret are incompatible!

In the end, the designers simply canceled the sails and used pure steam engine power.

This has to be said to be an extremely bold attempt, before this, warships of various countries have often done this on inland river and coastal warships, and even very common behavior, but at present, no one dares to do this on ocean-going warships.

Even the Luo Hai and Pingbo in the Daheng Navy still retain complex sail systems.

This is due to the ship's endurance and the failure of the steam engine, which can still rely on the sails for maneuvering.

Unfortunately, the steam engine technology of Daheng people is actually not good, and it is not as good as the steam engine technology of those first-class maritime powers.

Many of the current technologies of the Great Heng Empire are actually not very good, not very top-notch.

Whether it is pure steam engine power, composite armor, or hydraulically enclosed turret, these are the top new technologies in Daheng, but in the whole world, these are actually mature technologies.

The contemporary rotating turret is not a new thing, and many of the river gunboats in Daheng Domain, although they were equipped with smoothbore guns, but in order to make these large-caliber smoothbore guns rotate, they have long begun to use rotating turrets, both manpower or steam power.

As for foreign countries, since about ten years ago, the navies of various countries have basically had rotating turrets, which were steam propelled or simply propelled by manpower in the early days, and now they are gradually using hydraulic drives, and the attached artillery has also changed from front-loading smoothbore guns to front-loading rifled guns.

The ironclad ship Andrei of the Krull Kingdom, which was commissioned only last year, can be regarded as the technological pinnacle of the advanced warships of various countries on the Blue Star.

With a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, the naval guns were equipped with four 400 mm front-loading rifled guns with a hydraulically driven rotating turret.

A large area of waterline armor, conning tower armor, and turret armor were used, and the armor was ironwood composite armor.

Equipped with a powerful steam engine, this 10,000-ton ironclad ship can run at a maximum speed of more than 14.5 knots!

You know, they didn't just let the 10,000-ton ship run at a speed of 14.5 knots, but let a ship with a lot of space occupied by armor belts and fire systems, and let it run at 14.5 knots when the power system space was limited.

The current steam engine factory under the Daheng Empire can also produce six or seven thousand horsepower steam engines, but it will definitely not fit into the Andre ironclad ship, because the power system made by the Daheng Empire will seriously exceed the volume and weight and cannot be stuffed in......

The various technologies of the Andre ironclad ship, that is to make the admirals in the Daheng Empire drool when they see it, if such a battleship is given to the Daheng Imperial Navy, and then the navy replaces the front-loading rifled guns on the top with rear-loading rifled guns, then it is definitely the top warship on the contemporary Blue Star!

Able to sweep through all other types of warships!

It's a pity that such an Andrei ironclad is not from the Daheng Empire, and even the current Daheng Empire does not have enough technical strength to build such an ironclad ship, and the gap in armor, power, and hull design is too large.

The only thing that is stronger than others is the breech-loading rifled gun.

However, this breech-loading rifled gun is no secret now, the northern feudal towns in Daheng all know about imitating breech-loading rifled guns, and other Arab countries are naturally no exception, especially those first-class powers with strong technology, imitating breech-loading rifled guns is a matter of minutes.

It is estimated that it will not be long before the Krull Kingdom can be seen moving 300 mm or even 400 mm breech-loading rifled naval guns to 10,000 tons of warships!

Although the kingdom of Krull is a little smaller in size and less populous, it is the first country in the world to set off a wave of industrialization, and the technology is powerful.

And they used their strong strength after industrialization in the early days to beat the surrounding countries, and almost controlled the entire Ocean Island, although they did not directly annex it, but the countries on the Ocean Island are basically their puppet kingdoms, serving as their industrial product markets and raw material suppliers.

At the same time, they also frequently set foot on the western coast of the western continent.

How to say it, don't look at the local small, but the people are powerful, and they are already the role of the overlord of the Endless Sea.

belongs to the kind of character who is not the boss of the world, but the boss of the world does not dare to mess with!

Compared with the industrial and technological capabilities of the Krull Kingdom, the industrial and technological capabilities of the Great Heng Empire are much worse.

However, it is important to note that there is no generational difference between them!

This is also an obvious feature of the first-echelon countries on the contemporary blue star, that is, although there are strong and weak countries, there is no obvious generation difference.

You have a 10,000-ton ironclad ship, and I also have a 10,000-ton ironclad ship.

Your ironclad is faster, better protected, and more powerful, but don't expect to be able to sling my ironclad!

Now that Daheng people have come up with rear-loading rifled guns, those first-class powers with stronger industrial strength than Daheng can imitate them at any glance.

The Daheng Navy never expected that its warships would be able to fight the world after being equipped with rear-loading guns!

Because you know with your toes that there must be a large number of warships equipped with breech-loading guns under construction on the slipways of the navies of various countries, and a large number of old ships are also estimated to be upgrading and refitting to replace them with breech-loading rifled guns.

In short, what the Daheng Navy can do now, they can do, and they will do it better!

In this case, what should the Daheng Imperial Navy do to gain strategic superiority?