And although the ship is expensive, only half of the hull is still there, but the results of the development process of the ship are already obvious.

That is the omnidirectional loading integrated turret, which is already almost done and can be used on new warships.

And all the warships before the all-heavy gunboats came out, in Lin Ziran's opinion, were all products of the transitional period, and they were built to ensure the combat effectiveness of the imperial navy, as for the details, there was no need to delve too deeply, anyway, the warships of the pre-dreadnought era were carried out like this.

In particular, the dispute between the 300-mm main gun and the 250-mm main gun discussed by the two sides today is nothing to fight for in Lin Ziran's opinion, although it is said that these two types of goods will be completely eliminated when they reach the era of all-heavy battleships.

But it's not there yet.

So both options are actually fine.

So Lin Ziran has a supportive attitude towards the argument between the two sides!

After all, in the argument between the two sides, there are a number of points that have been unanimously agreed by both sides and Lin Ziran himself.

The first is that the rapid-fire of large-caliber naval guns is the future, regardless of whether it is a two-stage main gun program or a first-class main gun plus a second-stage main gun program, its second-stage main gun is extremely important.

The second point is that the main gun of the battleship must be turretized, otherwise after the popularization of rapid-fire guns, the battleship will not have much survivability, which is the case for both battleships and armored cruisers, and it is best to carry out turretization of second-class cruisers of several thousand tons to strengthen their protection capabilities.

Combining these concepts, some people want to build a turret-like warship equipped with multiple 250 mm rapid-fire guns for full protection.

Others, on the other hand, want to continue to use four and a half rapid-fire main guns, and at the same time match a number of 250 mm or 200 mm rapid-fire guns, so as to maintain the ability of the main gun to be the final word, and also have the powerful firepower projection capability of the large-caliber rapid-fire secondary gun.

In the end, who failed to convince anyone, in the end, Lin Ziran decided: It's useless to argue verbally, let's come up with a specific design first!

Take out both designs, and then compare them, it's really not good, then both are built to see the effect.

Anyway, there are many warships with a strong experimental nature in the Daheng Imperial Navy, in addition to the typical test ships such as the cruiser Hetai for the research and development of subsystems, there are also a lot of messy test ship plans in the navy, and these messy test ships are mainly small and medium-sized tonnage, pure test products, and will not produce equipment on a large scale, even if they are to be put into service, they generally need to be upgraded and modified before they can be put into active service.

In order to develop various technologies, the Daheng Imperial Navy has always had a tradition of engaging in various test ships, although it is a bit exaggerated to say that it is an exaggeration to test a capital ship of more than 10,000 tons, but if there is no problem with the design, in fact, these two designs can be used after they are built, and they will even be very useful, at least there should be no problem with the large number of warships that overwhelm the Krulls.

As for saying that these battleships will become obsolete in the future, this is nonsense, with the development of technology, any battleship will become obsolete!

Even if a super battleship comes out now, when an aircraft carrier appears in the future, it will become a pile of scrap metal!

Therefore, even if it is thinking about the future, it is impossible for the Imperial Navy to really think about the threat in ten or eight years, and the Imperial Navy is thinking about the threat in three or five years.

As for how to deal with the threat in five years' time, that will be next year and the year after.

After all, the enemy's technology is developing, and the empire's technology is also continuing to develop, and in two years more advanced warships can be built.

The construction of ships in the navy is a process of continuous confrontation, and it is more than who has built more warships at this stage.

You said that in order to avoid waste, in order to adapt to the needs of naval warfare in the future, you have to wait, and wait until the unified fire control comes out before directly engaging in all-heavy battleships.

Now if the fleet size is not maintained, and new warships are not built, the empire will not be mixed up on the blue star, and the bastards of the Orissa Empire will dare to block the Endless Strait, and the Gafia Empire will dare to block the Empire's maritime trade.

The international competition in these years is very naked, a little bit of your strength is weaker, immediately bully the door, see that you are so bullying, immediately start fighting.

Other countries are like this, and the Great Heng Empire is no exception, otherwise why toss so many warships, it's not to find an opportunity to kill enemies such as the Olisa Empire.

If the Krull Kingdom is still unable to follow up with the development of warship technology in the next few years, and the empire's new generation of warships has formed a scale, I am afraid that Lin Ziran will not be able to help but directly pull the fleet out and send the warships of the Krull Kingdom Navy to the bottom of the sea.

This is why Lin Ziran knows that many warships built now will fall behind in a few years, but he still supports the Navy's large-scale construction of ships.

It's hard to say what will happen in the future, but without a single Endless Sea-class battleship and a Chongke-class armored cruiser, as well as a number of cutting-edge warships, the Empire's international trade will definitely be finished......

Besides, building ships, isn't this just the number of military expansion competitions!

And in terms of quantity, the dignified Daheng Empire has never been afraid of anyone!

Therefore, whether these two plans can be adapted to the needs of future naval warfare that many people in the navy are arguing about is not important at all in Lin Ziran's view.

As long as it works now, then it's right.

When Lin Ziran had this attitude, then the opinions within the navy were clear.

The navy is also divided into two parts, that is, each does its own thing.

As for the many Jingzhou-class battleships and Fengyang-class improved armored cruisers that are still under construction, they are also designed in an improved version according to these changes......

The battleship Jingzhou, which created history, only shocked the Imperial Navy for two years, and now, two years later, the battleship of the Navy is now a bunch of problems!

Because the battleship Jingzhou has too many defects, especially the exposed fort, the current imperial admiral is looking at how this exposed fort looks at how it is an eyesore.

Because of this exposed battery, if you use rapid-fire guns to wash the deck in the face of the enemy, it is mainly not unlucky to be hit by the ammunition, this main gun will definitely be fine, but the crew members are afraid that they will die......

Moreover, when the Jingzhou and Nanhaizhou were conducting sea trials, although the navy reported that everything was going well, and the speed could even reach 17 knots, many problems were exposed.

That is, the roll is very serious!

The Navy's internal designers have already begun to add keels to the last few ships of the Jingzhou class that are still under construction to alleviate this disgusting roll.

And it was prepared to add thicker top armor to the semi-enclosed open gun emplacements of the follow-up ships.

The Jingzhou-class battleships and a series of exposed batteries of other warships of the Daheng Navy did not have only a lone artillery mount armor, in fact, there were armor plates on the front and sides, but they were all relatively thin.

In the test, these armor plates of only a few tens of millimeters, even hardened armor are useless, at least a hundred millimeters of armor plates must be made to resist the size of the 150 mm and 120 mm rapid-fire guns in the future to protect the gunner.

Otherwise, the gunner will die in the blow of the rapid-fire gun, and it will be useless to have a lone main gun left!

It's just that the top armor of the gun mount is very sensitive to weight, and if you want to strengthen the protection, you can control the weight, so you can only use the best Jingzhou nickel steel hardened armor, which is about 20 percent more protective than the Luohai nickel steel hardened armor, that is, the price is more than 20 percent more expensive......

The generals of the Imperial Navy have already begun to revise the many problems of the Jingzhou-class battleships that have just been put into service, and the plans for the secondary ships of the Jingzhou-class battleships have changed even more.

Among them, the mixed plan of the first-level and second-level main guns, these 300-millimeter main guns, don't count on the 300-millimeter main guns with 40 times the caliber for a short time, and don't count on rapid-fire, you can only continue to use 300-millimeter and 35-caliber half-rapid-fire guns.

As for the secondary artillery, it has already been determined to use a large-caliber rapid-fire gun, and as for whether it is a 200-mm or 250-mm rapid-fire gun, it will have to be studied and tested in more detail.

Although the difference between the two seems to be a big caliber, in fact there is not much difference in power, because the current 250 mm rapid-fire gun is still 35 times the caliber, but the 200 mm rapid-fire gun is 40 times the caliber, and this cannon is still a drug cannon......

This 200-millimeter 40-caliber rapid-fire gun developed by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau is a really good thing.

The quality of the barrel is excellent, and more propellant can be used, which is equivalent to the strong charge of other people's houses, and this naval gun is an obvious cannon, which is very violent.

Because of the large number of propellants and the long barrel, the muzzle velocity of this shell is very high, which brings greater kinetic energy of armor-piercing bullets.

As for rapid-fire, that's not to mention, with a rate of fire of four to five rounds per minute, that's pretty fast.

The most important thing is that even if you take drugs, even if the rate of fire is high, you can still maintain extremely high accuracy, and at the same time, the life of the body tube is still very good.

It has to be said that the technical strength of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau has been fully demonstrated in this two-hundred-mm rapid-fire gun.

Technically, this gun is significantly more advanced than the 250 mm and 35 times caliber guns.

However, the caliber is a little smaller, and although the 250 mm and 35 times caliber naval guns of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau are old in technology, they have a large caliber, and the rate of fire after rapid-fire is also three to four rounds per minute, and the firepower is also very fierce.

Therefore, the Navy has a bit of difficulty in choosing the second-level main gun of the new warship, both of which have their own advantages and are not easy to choose.

As for the penetrating power, in fact, whether it is the 200-millimeter 40-fold rapid-fire gun of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau or the 250-millimeter 35-fold rapid-fire gun of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, when equipped with smokeless gunpowder and armored shells, it is accurate to hit all kinds of cruisers and even armored cruisers of various countries, well, even those battleships in their early 10,000s cannot withstand the ferocious firepower of these two guns.

This is still based on the premise that the enemy ships also use hardened armor, if the opponent uses nickel steel or steel-faced iron armor, then not to mention, even the three or four hundred millimeter old armor of many old battleships cannot withstand these two naval guns!

The Navy is hesitating in the second-level main gun, but there is not much hesitation in the small and medium-caliber secondary guns.

Mature and stable, the price has also been reduced, the performance is still very good, and the two years have also been continuously improved in the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau's seven-year 150 mm 40 times rapid-fire gun can be loaded, no matter how much.

If you combine it with some seven-year 75-mm 40-fold rapid-fire guns from the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau and the eight-year 40-mm machine guns produced by the Chongke First Machinery Bureau, it will be about the same.

As for the armor, it is naturally the best nickel steel hardened armor of the Jingzhou factory in the empire at present, and the main armor belt is almost 200 millimeters, and the area can be as big as it can be, after all, what is now focused on comprehensive protection.

As for the turret, it's the 'integrated enclosed turret' on the cruiser Hetai, and the mere mere concept of that thing is enough to make people's mouths water.

The Navy even plans to use this kind of turret on ordinary cruisers, the tonnage of this cruiser is not enough, and it is not easy to engage in an integrated turret with omnidirectional ammunition supply, but you can do without mechanical omnidirectional ammunition supply, and it is the same with manual handling, so that you can save tonnage and save costs.

In the nine years of Qiansheng, according to the experience of the previous Orr War and the Battle of Ian, but more often based on the Daheng Imperial Navy's own multiple live-fire tests, the direction of the development of the next generation of warships of the Daheng Imperial Navy was gradually clarified!

Soon, the navy submitted two completely different warship design proposals.

The first is the design scheme of the first-level main gun and the second-stage main gun, which is expected to use two twin-mounted 300 mm 35 times the caliber main gun, with four single 250 mm 35 times the caliber main gun; In addition, there is the option of the first main gun being the same, but the second main gun is replaced by eight single-mounted 200 mm secondary guns, and the 150 mm secondary guns are reduced.

Lin Ziran is not surprised by this design, how to say it, it is decent, there are no big features, but there are no obvious flaws, simple and practical.

For the sake of safety, this plan must be carried out.

However, the plan submitted by the Navy for all two main guns is very interesting, which uses a 250-mm rapid-fire gun as the main gun, and the gun layout is the front and rear, and the four corners of the amidships, each equipped with a twin turret, a total of 12 250 mm rapid-fire guns gun layout.

The design of this battleship In Lin Ziran's opinion, this thing belongs to a seriously weakened version of a dreadnought battleship.

Except that there is no unified fire control, the caliber of the main gun is a little smaller, the speed is a little slower, and the protection is a little weaker, the whole design concept is basically no different from the dreadnought battleships on the earth......

But then again, unified fire control is the core element of the dreadnought battleship, and a simple unified main gun is useless, and each artillery group fights its own way.

So don't look at it, it seems to be similar to a dreadnought, but in fact, the gap is very big!

However, Lin Ziran thinks that it can be installed in the future after unified fire control, but if you don't get more naval guns now, it will be difficult to get it in the future.

As for now, this battleship doesn't need any unified fire control, just relying on these twelve 250mm rapid-fire guns, plus a bunch of 150mm rapid-fire guns, it's not bad!

In the words of Xie Chunde: "The firepower of this ship is absolutely fierce!" ”

Therefore, don't look at the captain of this ship is similar to the dreadnought, but now that there is no unified fire control, the core concept of the designers of the Daheng Navy Ship Administration Department to design the ship is very simple, that is, it is used to wash the deck......

Getting a battleship of 10,000 tons to play deck washing tactics, it is estimated that only the designers of the Daheng Navy's Ship Administration Department would do such a strange thing.