Chapter 853: A New Era Has Arrived
"When our warships can only attack the enemy at a distance of seven or eight thousand meters, they can calmly attack the enemy at 10,000 meters or even 15,000 kilometers, which means that once we and Heng Manzi sedan chair, their new warships can name our warships one by one from afar, and then destroy our warships one by one!"
"If such a scenario happens, it will be a disaster for the kingdom!"
"Gentlemen, we are already lagging behind in the field of multi-main gun warships, and at least four years or more behind, according to our intelligence, they have at least six or more of these multi-main gun capital ships in service, and many more are under construction!"
"We can't wait any longer, we must immediately start the study of unified fire control, and at the same time we must immediately start the construction of our multi-main gun battleships, and at the same time stop the construction of existing mixed main gun battleships, and select the ones with the potential for modification into multi-main gun battleships!"
"If we can't follow up in time, then it won't take as little as three years, but no more than five years, and once things change, the great kingdom will lose the endless sea forever!"
What is this change, it is naturally said that there is a war.
The ambition of the Heng Barbarian is known to all the people of Blue Star, which is known from the fact that the Heng Barbarian has spared no effort to expand the navy over the years, coupled with the traditional warlike history of the Heng Barbarian, everyone can guess that the Heng Barbarian has a big plan.
Especially the Olisa Empire in the south, looking at the continuous expansion of the military strength of the Great Heng Empire, it is a worry every day, and it has spared no effort to expand the navy over the years to meet the challenge of the Heng Barbarians, but the national strength of the Olisa Empire is only second-rate, even if it takes all effort, it is difficult to keep up with the huge expansion of the Great Heng Empire.
And their Krull Kingdom, their continuous large-scale expansion of the navy over the years was actually influenced by the Great Heng Empire.
If it weren't for the massive expansion of the navy by the Constant Barbarians, their Krull Kingdom would not have been able to build so many new warships every year.
Because just the large number of warships that exist is enough for them to maintain supremacy at sea.
The continuous expansion of the navy of the Great Heng Empire has made the navy of the Krull Kingdom feel a great threat, so it has also continued to expand the navy over the years.
Under this kind of big background, the Great Heng Empire has come up with a new round of naval technological changes, which makes the Krull Kingdom even more worried.
Therefore, when the navy of the Krull Kingdom discovered the mystery of the unified all-heavy artillery warships of the Great Heng Empire, they did not hesitate at all, and directly formulated the corresponding construction plan for a new generation of warships.
The previous mixed main gun warships were completely thrown into the dustbin of history, and then the new generation of warships following the example of the Daheng people began to design and build their new generation of unified all-heavy gun warships.
In order to rush to work, their new warships directly imitated the new warships of the Daheng Imperial Navy, adopting a five-seat double-mounted naval gun layout, adopting a layout of one in the front and two in the back, and one on each of the two strings.
In terms of secondary artillery firepower, there is a slight difference, the secondary guns of the Ningyu-class battleships of the Daheng people are the more advanced and top-secret East Taishan battleships, all of which use 120 mm rapid-fire guns.
And the Krull people believe that since they have fought ultra-long-distance artillery battles, then the mission of the secondary artillery in the future is only to fight against those torpedo boats, and there is no need for 12 mm naval guns, and the 75 mm secondary guns are slightly less powerful, so they chose 100 mm secondary guns, but the number of equipment is more.
The choice of this kind of secondary artillery, it is not said who is good and who is bad, Daheng people choose 120 mm rapid-fire guns, that is because Daheng people have been using this caliber of secondary guns for many years, so the development of 120 mm rapid-fire guns is very good, with a very good level of artillery, and at the same time, larger calibers, it also has the ability to strike at torpedo boats, that is, destroyers, which are getting larger and larger tonnage.
As for the Krulls, in the early days, they paid more attention to the development of 100-mm secondary guns, and they themselves also had relatively good 100-mm secondary guns, and at the same time, this caliber was smaller, and it could also be equipped with more, and the rate of fire could be faster.
Therefore, their choice of secondary artillery is to give priority to the secondary artillery in which their own side has more advantages, one caliber is a little larger, the number is slightly less, and the other caliber is a little smaller, and the number is more.
In addition to these, many other technologies are ready-made technologies, what surface hardened armor, 300 mm 50 times the caliber of the main gun, they have it, this is directly used.
The first ship of this new generation was named Maitland by the Kingdom of Krull, so this class of ships is also called the Maitland-class battleship, and this name is the greatest admiral in the naval history of the Krull Kingdom.
Well, it was Marshal Maitland, who led the Kingdom Navy to defeat the Imperial Navy of Kekel and the Valya Imperial Navy in succession a few decades ago, and completely established the naval supremacy of Krull.
From the naming of this class of ships, it can be seen that the Navy of the Krull Kingdom attaches great importance to this class of ships!
At the same time, the first batch of orders for Maitland-class battleships reached six, of course, these orders were actually originally orders for those mixed main gun battleships, and now they are directly converted to orders for Maitland-class battleships.
In addition, they also planned to take advantage of the opportunity to save a wave of the three battleships that had already started construction, and directly changed the design and forcibly converted them into multi-main gun battleships with eight main guns.
Although the tonnage of more than 20,000 tons is only equipped with eight main guns, and the modification needs to add additional costs halfway, which seems to be very cost-effective, but these three battleships cannot be dismantled, and if they are not changed, they can only cause mixed main gun battleships.
And now the top brass of the Krull Kingdom Navy has decided that the future is the world of unified all-heavy artillery battleships, and mixed main gun battleships are useless at all.
So even if it costs a lot of money, it's a change!
There were also two mixed main gun battleships that had just been constructed, which were directly stopped and dismantled.
The other three are mixed main gun battleships with a relatively high degree of construction, these three have basically completed the main project, and they are about to carry out outfitting sea trials, and now it is too late to refit, so they can only pinch their noses and continue to build.
In addition to the battleships, they were also preparing to build a new generation of large-tonnage cruisers equipped with a unified fire control system, because they discovered that the Daheng people had a multi-main gun cruiser of about 10,000 tons.
According to the principle that we must also have what the enemy has, they have no tactical positioning of this kind of warship, and they directly launched similar projects.
The arms race, whether it is useful or not, no matter how it is used, we will talk about it after it is built.
And the large-scale operation of the navy of the Krull Kingdom directly caused a violent reaction from the navies of the Blue Star countries!