"In any case, we must succeed this time! Even if we lose money, we can't throw away this huge market! "The majority shareholder of the Royal Wilhelmine Shipyard and the backstage boss of Wegener. Krupp fell into a long silence after hearing about this, and for half an hour, he weighed the pros and cons and considered what to do with this business!

After all, Krupp is not playing with ships, and the major German shipyards have also built ships according to the drawings of the Bavarian Ship Design Bureau over the years. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info But can Krupp give up? Apparently impossible! The construction of the German Navy began, which became a well-known secret among the German upper echelons. This big construction is not the original kind of petty fight! The displacement of a battleship is directly more than 20,000 tons! Over £2 million! One can top three! What about low profit margins? That's a lot!

According to high-level sources within the Navy, in the recent 5-year plan of the German Navy, 7 super warships will be commissioned in the High Seas Fleet! Even if only 3 battleships can be built in their own hands, it will be 130 million marks! Even 20% of the profits are more than 26 million! And also without counting the cost of auxiliary warships such as light cruisers. With such a big business, how could the military-industrial complex headed by Krupp give up? Even if you can't make any money this time, you have to occupy the market first!

"But our large cruiser design has been excluded, and the battleship program has to be overhauled. We need time, and construction margins are going to be very low. Wigner said with some embarrassment.

"Have you seen the scheme of the Bavarian Design Bureau?" Krupp thought for a moment and asked.

"With the help of people inside the Admiralty, we looked at some of their designs. I have to say that they have done a very good job in armor defense, the hull defense volume is not very large, but the core area can ensure absolute security, and the turret, gun mount and command tower and other parts are even more tightly defended! Although he is a competitor, his discipline as a designer still allows him to evaluate the opponent's design fairly.

"That's good, our battleship defense standards will be changed according to theirs!" Krupp said.

"But that will lead to an increase in tonnage, their sidestring defense weight is not much more than ours, because their armor belt will be shorter, and the layout of our 5 guns in the center of Plan B will lead to a longer armor belt, and the most important thing is that their horizontal armor is very thick, after improvement, the total tonnage of our warships will be similar to theirs, the cost will also rise, and the economic advantage will no longer exist." Wegener said hurriedly.

"We can not make money this time." Krupp said after a moment of thought. "Even if our price is comparable to that of the other side, but we use a twin turret, the structure is simpler, the technical difficulty is lower, and it is better to walk, the actual situation of our 10 guns is no worse than that of the other side, and the Admiralty still has a greater chance of choosing us."

Now that the boss has decided, then Wigner can only carry it out. The Royal William Shipyard finally abandoned Scheme A in the battleship program in favor of improving Scheme B. This battleship can be seen as a replica of the historical King-class battleships. Five turrets are arranged in full central axle. The thickness of the armor belt was appropriately weakened.

Wegener learned it thoroughly, and he designed almost the entire battleship according to the Bavarian defense system, with a height of 4.8 meters on the main armor belt of the side chord. Thickness 270mm, inclination 15 degrees. The height of the armor with a thickness of 270mm is 3.5 meters. 170mm weakened below the waterline. The horizontal armor and the upper part of the main armor belt were connected with a thickness of 75mm. The upper armor belt 150 to 200mm. The head and tail armor belts were weakened to 80mm. The turret front and gun mount are 350mm.

The underwater defense system has also added an empty compartment, adopting a three-layer air-liquid-air compartment layout, and the defense depth has reached about 3.5 meters. As a whole, the vertical defense of the battleship was close to that of the historical kings. Horizontal defense and underwater defense go beyond the latter. Under the influence of the traverser, the level of German designers has increased "essentially"!

And after such a design, the total tonnage of the battleship rose to 24,000 tons! The cost is almost the same as that of the Bavarian scenario. It reached around £2.18 million. This time Wegener learned his lesson, and the design of the William Royal Shipyard was written in great detail, especially in terms of defense. After reporting to the Kaiser through Tirpitz's channels, the emperor smiled helplessly at the "Bavarian" style of defense. However, he still said that he was very satisfied with the plan.

The same plan was also given to the prince, and the prince was not angry when he looked at this almost complete "plagiarism" of his own design concept. Cleanly signed his name on the primary selection review, the battlecruiser plan, and the Kaiser had promised to adopt the Bavarian plan. And the first battleship, if nothing else, should be this plan. And the construction work has nothing to do with itself.

But it doesn't matter, because the expansion plan in the past 5 years will build a total of 7 battleships, the first battleship and the first battlecruiser are just testing the waters, and there are 5 more to come! And after the primary, Bavaria and the other side competed for the contract for the next 5 warships!

Both the Royal Wilhelm Dockyard, the Kingdom of Bavaria, and the Kaiser were very satisfied with the current situation, and they were confident that the matter would go according to their wishes. There are still many details of the order plan for the next five battleships that have not been finalized, such as the ratio of battleships to battlecruisers, such as the lack of funds for building ships.

The former is that the strategy within the German Navy has not yet been finalized, and the details are the question of whether to build 2 battlecruisers or 1! As for the latter, it is because the original plan for 7 warships was set according to the quotation of the William Royal Shipyard, and now, as everyone's offer has been raised, there is a certain loophole in the funding. It's not too big, it's hundreds of thousands of pounds.......

"Okay, let's leave these things alone, the final plan for the next 5 warships is about to be finalized, and I have clearly told Rupresit that if their plan is not overwhelming, we will choose Wegener's plan. For now, our choice will be the latter. ”

"Think about it, with the plan of 7 battleships, Bavaria can only get 1 or 2 this time (the battlecruisers have already been assigned to the Bavarian side) I think the mood of this prince will be very good now! Ha ha! The Kaiser smiled triumphantly. But he seems to have forgotten one thing, which is that anything is possible until the moment when the matter is really over!

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