"But based on the experience of this war, we also need some ships of equal speed with the British fleet to ensure tactical superiority, at least they are more suitable as avant-garde. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info" Tirpitz thought about it and said, Tirpitz's idea is still the idea of balancing the fleet, that is, how the other side gets it, we also get it, as followers there will never be a big mistake, in the case that Admiral Ball and Ruprecht **** both decided to speed up the main fleet, he did not want to object, but at the same time, he insisted on having a battleship with the same speed as the British battlecruisers.

"This can be had, but the quantity is debatable." Ruprecht **** pondered for a moment and nodded and said. The acceleration of the main fleet was a major change, and the prince was still hesitant on the question of whether the pure-blooded battlecruisers would be retained. And the reason is as mentioned earlier, the cost is certain, if a 28,000-ton warship runs at a speed of more than 25 knots, as long as the ship type is passable, 70,000 horsepower is about the same, you know, the historical Bavarian output power has more than 50,000 horsepower. Don't talk about the queen, the ship's design of this thing is a pit cargo, look at the queen. More than 70,000 horsepower does not even have 25 knots, the Japanese Nagato-class battleship is much heavier than it, and the horsepower output gap is not large, and it runs faster than the queen!

In the prince's opinion, as long as the ship type is okay, the power output is the same 4-axis propulsion as the battle cruiser, and then the distance between the propellers is larger to reduce interference, then even if the battleship equipped with 15-inch heavy guns in the later period can use a power pack with a maximum output of 70,000 horsepower, and more than 25 knots are appropriate. But if you want to jump from 25 knots to 28 knots, it's not a small price. This is not only because of the increase in the weight and space of the power system, but also the weight of the armor, after all, the power compartment is lengthened, and you also have to increase protection, right? A 180-meter-long battleship and a 210-meter-long battleship are also 60% of the core area, which can be 18 meters different from the defensive length! Look at Bavaria, the total weight of the armor is only more than 1,000 tons more than that of Lütsov, but the defense is generally one or two grades stronger!

Don't just think that Bavaria is stronger than Lütsov in the 350mm vs. 300mm main loadout, the rest of Bavaria is also much stronger than Lütsov as a battle patrolman, and the upper armor belt is 250mm vs. 230mm. The armor at the gun gallery was 170mm versus 150mm. As well as the turret 350mm against 270mm. The most important thing is the gap between the bow and tail armor belts, the Bavarian bow armor belt, except for a short section in front is 150mm, the thickness of the armor belt from the bow to the stern of the non-critical protection zone is 200mm! What does this thickness mean? Even the British 13.5-inch guns were not easy to penetrate the Bavarian nose and tail armor!

If it is possible that Lyutsov and his ilk will be forced to give up because of the penetration of the nose and tail armor belts, then in the case of artillery battles, without taking into account underwater bullets, more than 8% of the waterline part of the Bavarian hull is immune to the British's artillery under 13.5 inches! If the 13.5-inch gun wants to penetrate the 8-inch armor, it also depends on the angle. And the thickness of the armor of the non-key protection zone at the end of Lyutsov is only 4 inches! Almost half of the Bavarian class. Let's not talk about whether the design of Bavaria is suitable, purely from the point of view of the area and strength of the defense, it is so high that it is not known where to go!

Therefore, the current prince has been torn between speed, defense, and firepower...... The defense of German battleships in World War 1 is indeed NB, but you say that it must be enough, this is not possible, after all, the shells not only hit the main armor belt, but also may penetrate the horizontal armor, and there may also be a bullet in the water, and it will also hit the head and tail and then cause the battleship to enter too much water and give up. In history, the main PK of the British and German navies fought once, and the problem was not exposed much, but it does not mean that it does not exist, this plane, the main fleet of the German Navy must not shrink, and the problem is too much, and it will naturally expose ....... How can I walk by the river without getting my shoes wet!

The prince's original plan was that if there were 15 dreadnoughts at the beginning of the war, the number of battle cruisers would be 7, but after calculations by the relevant departments, it was found that this number was still too much, or in terms of budget and tonnage, the cost of battle cruisers was somewhat large. Take the most balanced and practical German battlecruiser Mackensen during World War I in history as an example, this battleship has a displacement of 30,000 tons, and its power and speed are almost the same as that of Hindenburg. It's a fairly well-designed battleship, but that doesn't mean it's without problems.

First of all, horizontal armor needs to be strengthened. Unlike other German battlecruisers, this one did not have a layer of armor and was not so thick ...... the main horizontal armor. Then there was the need for a major overhaul of the underwater protection system of all German warships, from a simple empty tank-liquid tank mode to an empty-tank-empty tank-empty mode, and the last layer of lightning protection bulkheads should be thickened in order to protect against anyone who was shot as much as possible. And after some strengthening, the displacement will definitely increase. This put a lot of pressure on the funds and the construction period, and to be honest, the prince was not optimistic about the ...... of Mackensen's 350mm guns. Whether it can deal with the British capital ship with iron underpants is really ....... And if you plan to change to a 15-inch gun, the tonnage will increase even more.

Of course, there will be problems if you completely abandon the pure-blooded battle cruisers, not to mention anything else, what about those light cruisers? Want to use Germany's own light cruiser? Don't dream, if the capital ships of the British are a big advantage over Germany, then the light cruiser formation of the British in history is an absolute advantage over Germany, both in terms of quantity and quality, look at the 105mm small tubes and dome armor of Emden, Königsberg and the like in history, and then look at the 6-inch large tubes and armor belts of Sydney and Linxian, you don't have too much hope for the quality of German light cruisers, and then look at the 4 complete light cruiser detachments of the British in the Battle of Jutland, and the only 2 light cruiser detachments of Germany. It can be seen that the German light cruiser formation is stretched. (There are also some light cruisers that serve as the lead ships of the destroyer, this one is counted separately)

Light cruisers are also an important role in reconnaissance and anti-lightning strikes, especially the former, the Halich fleet is composed of light cruisers, and these extremely fast guys are reconnaissance, which is about the same as the German fleet at the door. When your light cruiser comes out, they fight with you, and when you come out of the fast battleship, they immediately turn to .......

Every now and then, Betty's battlecruiser formation might come over and hang around. These things can be described as quite annoying. The light cruisers must be strengthened, but the funds that Germany can allocate to the light cruisers are really limited, and the light cruisers need to be better balanced in terms of quantity and quality. So in the case of a huge gap between the power of the light cruiser and the British, sometimes the battle cruiser had to be touched to make up for it, and this era was still an era when the battle cruiser could be compared with the light cruiser, and the fastest fast BB in the 2nd World War was not as good as the fastest CA. But in the first battle, the speed of the two sides was really .......

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