In fact, it is not to blame that Tirpitz does not trust aircraft, and Tirpitz is not the kind of person who is unwilling to accept new technology, but it is true that the current aircraft does not seem to meet the needs of the Navy. %

After nearly four years of development, Lilinthal and his team have continued to improve the performance of the aircraft, and the 100 hp inline 6-cylinder engine from BMW has also given Lilinthal and his team more leeway to add some extra weight to the design.

In response to Jochen's request to improve the Navy's search capabilities, a research request was made for an aircraft that could be carried on a warship and could take off on the water, and the development of a seaplane was launched. Unlike ordinary land-taking aircraft, this seaplane has a large hard-shell center pontoon mounted under the fuselage and small steady dìng pontoons under the wings on both sides.

The aircraft adopts a two-wing structure, wooden frame, canvas skin, tandem two-seat design, the front part is the pilot, the rear part is the scout and radio officer, the empty weight of the aircraft is 880 kg, and the maximum take-off weight is 1150 kg.

The 100 hp engine allows the gadget to fly 400 kilometers at a speed of 115 km/h, and the performance and appearance are quite similar to the historical American Almarin 39A seaplane. After the successful development, Jochen gave the aircraft a name, "Kingfisher".

It stands to reason that an aircraft whose technical indicators are already close to the standards of 1916 in history will not provoke such strong opposition from Tirpitz, and the problem lies in the ability to communicate.

Although at this time, Germany has led the world in radio technology because of the leading research of such a genius and madman as Tesla, at this time, the communication distance of Marconi's latest and most powerful radio station has reached 700 nautical miles, and the same type of products sold by Siemens are only slightly better.

However, in fact, the German Navy has already begun to use radio stations with a communication distance of up to 1,200 nautical miles, and the Eagle "radio transceiver station" has installed a radio station with a communication distance of 1,500 nautical miles for trial.

Such a powerful radio communication capability gave the German Navy a taste of sweetness and appetite was also nourished, and the kingfisher was limited by the carrying weight. Although an airborne radio is installed, the power is not large, and the communication distance is barely 50 nautical miles, which is often not reached in actual use, which Tirpitz naturally cannot accept.

Jochen's claim that the detection area had been expanded by hundreds of nautical miles was actually bragging, and it was not wrong that the plane could fly that far. But the radio communication distance is not enough to make a big. But the problem of radio communication distance will certainly be solved slowly with the advancement of technology, and the first task now is to make the navy accept the novelty of the aircraft first, so it is reasonable for Jochen to open his eyes and tell nonsense.

However, none of these reasons could convince the stubborn Tirpitz, so the attitude of Jochen, who was also stubborn and unwilling to back down, was close to rebuke.

Such a fierce statement suddenly made the situation awkward, and Tirpitz suddenly came to his senses, and it was not a colleague in the navy who was arguing with him, but the crown prince of the empire, and he obviously overstepped such a dispute, so he immediately apologized. Then close your mouth and make a bowing gesture to your ears.

Seeing Tirpitz like this, he was obviously angry, but Jochen, who didn't dare to quarrel with himself, also had a headache. If he used the imperial power to enforce the execution, Tirpitz would not disobey the law, and would faithfully fulfill his orders. After all, Wilhelm II in another time and space is also a guy who likes to point fingers at the technical problems of the navy, doesn't Tirpitz also choose to make concessions many times, and his own business level is much higher than that of Wilhelm II.

But that's not what Yochen wants to see, and once the two disagree, it becomes the norm to use their power to oppress others, which is not a good sign for the long-term relationship between the two in the future. But in the face of Tirpitz, who is sometimes stubborn like a donkey, he really has no better way than to use his power to oppress others.

Both men were there silent for a while. Eventually, considering that the Navy's attempt to introduce aircraft could not be delayed any longer, Jochen finally decided to use his power over the people: "This matter is decided, the new light cruisers of the Navy must be equipped with Kingfishers and related operational equipment, this is an order." ”

Since it was an order, Tirpitz could only obey: "Yes, Your Highness." Obey your will. But the reluctance was palpable.

Seeing Tirpitz's attitude, Jochen couldn't help but say a few words in an explanatory tone to ease the-for-tat atmosphere between the two: "Alfred, regarding the distance of the airborne radio communication, I will urge Siemens to develop a model with greater power and longer communication distance. The optimization and improvement of the kingfisher will also be carried out simultaneously, and the technical problems you are worried about will be slowly solved. ”

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has gone down the steps, and it would be too shameless for him to be on the top of the bull, Tirpitz nodded again and responded: "Yes, Your Highness, I believe that this day will come soon." ”

Seeing that Tirpitz's attitude had softened, Jochen continued: "You and I agree on the question of improving the Navy's reconnaissance capabilities, and the design and construction of the new light cruiser also serves this purpose, so we do not disagree on this fundamental goal.

If the performance of the auxiliary equipment such as the aircraft is really difficult to meet the needs of the navy, it will be easy to remove it at that time. Compared to the problem of the artillery layout of the new cruiser, the aircraft on the ship is simply a minor problem, and in the end on the issue of the artillery layout, did I finally give in to you? ”

Hearing this, Tirpitz finally had a little smile on his face: "I don't object to the design you proposed, Your Highness, but it's a bit overburdened compared to the new light cruiser, if the tonnage can be relaxed by another 1,000 tons, then I also agree with that design." ”

"If that's the case, the budget will be tight." Jochen shook his head.

"So it's not that you're giving in, Your Highness, it's that you're giving in to budget pressure." Tirpitz said it solemnly, but he could already see a smile in the corner of his eye, and the dispute between the two was gone.

After the construction of two batches of 5,000-ton light cruisers similar to the Emden of World War II using different power systems, the German Navy finally put the plan of building newer light cruisers on the agenda, on the one hand, to replace the old protective cruisers that were gradually being retired one after another, and on the other hand, the German Navy also wanted to have better light cruisers.

The design of the new ship required that the firepower be maintained above the same level as the first two class light cruisers. Therefore, Jochen was originally going to try a triple turret on her, two or three triple turrets in the front and back, equipped with a total of nine 150 mm naval guns, and this firepower could be proud of the light cruisers of various countries even in the First World War.

In order to save weight, Jochen once again sacrificed the stern piggyback trick, so the design of the Royal German Technical Shipyard at the beginning resembled the Königsberg-class light cruisers of World War II. However, instead of using the staggered arrangement of the stern turrets, a design that proved to be a tricky design has been obtained with a larger lateral firing angle.

However, Tirpitz was shot as soon as he took this design plan, because the tonnage of the plan exceeded 6,500 tons, which Tirpitz considered too big and too expensive. Due to budget and quantity considerations, Tirpitz decided that it would be better not to increase the tonnage of the new ships, which would still be 5,000 tons

Jochen then proposed to reduce the number of triple turrets to a layout similar to that of a World War II German-class armored ship, with a triple turret in the front and rear, and was shot by Tirpitz again.

The reason is that only two triple turrets are unreliable. The triple turret has a larger diameter of the turret seat, which requires a higher width of the hull, and the turret rotation torque is greater, so this scheme is not optimistic.

Jochen didn't have a hard time arguing with Tirpitz about this, as he did with the plane, because the design of the two triple main turrets was not very reliable in his own opinion.

The reason is that the problem of the dispersion of the triple main turret is difficult to solve, and the statement that the author used a shooting delay device to open a golden finger in the novels that Yochen read in his previous life to delay the launch of the main gun in the middle by a few tenths of a second to avoid the mutual interference of the muzzle storm is pure nonsense.

First of all, there is no solution to the problem of dispersion of the saddle gun mount. When the high curvature ballistics are not level, there is no way to solve the problem that the left and right guns that deviate from the center line of the gun carriage will deviate from the original landing point in the direction. This greatly affects the dispersion of the main gun.

Only a non-saddle design with independent pitching for each main gun could be used to solve this problem with minor adjustments before firing. But this design is more technically and costly, and it is too late to develop it now.

However, even with the use of a non-saddle design and the installation of firing delay equipment, the dispersion problem of the triple main gun still cannot be completely solved, but due to the progress of technology, the dispersion problem of zài is only a sacrificial part compared to shortening the length of the armor belt and saving weight.

Now, Jochen's saddle gun mount has a triple turret design that doesn't have that condition. Nine 150-mm guns with a firing delay could barely cover up this problem by increasing the rate of fire, but when it was reduced to six, forget it.

And the main guns of the battleships wanted to meet the dispersal requirements of the triple assembly at the level of the First World War, at least 12 main guns had to be guaranteed, so either the tonnage allowed. Either there is a technological breakthrough, otherwise Jochen will not consider a battleship with triple main guns.

So the design of the new light cruiser of the Royal Ship Technical Shipyard could only be overturned.

However, because the shipyard had prepared a backup plan, the new design was quickly brought up and subsequently adopted by Tirpitz.

The cost-saving single-plate armor plate mounts used on two-stage light cruisers with only front-hemisphere protection were replaced by a more expensive, heavier, but more effective, twin-mounted rotating turret with a bow knapsack layout.

The design of the front two and rear one or three twin main turrets, and the six 150 mm naval guns, although not significantly improved in firepower, provided better protection and higher efficiency. Moreover, the tonnage of the battleship was well controlled on the standard of a design displacement of 5,200 tons.

According to the expected start of construction, the new light cruiser will be earlier than the modified design of the Scharnhorst-class armored cruisers, the first German warship to use a bow knapsack rotating turret.

Due to the use of the bow knapsack turret, the rear bridge also had to be raised in height to appear taller, which in turn gave the bridge more space to concentrate more departments.

The simple and compact superstructure made the deck look crisp and had more space, so Jochen decided to add a seaplane between the two chimneys. (To be continued......)

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By the way, I haven't caught Zuihe yet, and I'm almost driving R527 crazy