"Admiral Lieule is their man, Prince Heinrich is the Kaiser's, and his attitude is currently unclear, fishing in troubled waters. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoTirpitz and Bol are fairly neutral, but tend to be conservative. Scheer has no say! Ruprecht wrote in his diary.

"Careless." The prince sighed, he didn't expect that he would encounter such a fierce resistance in this most critical expansion plan when he had already led the German Navy expansion plan twice in a row! The Prussian capitalists joined forces with the Admiralty to carry out the prince's plan, which may have the intention of the Kaiser. It seems that the Prussian top was very dissatisfied with their actions.

But in all fairness, the plan that the Kaiser Wilhelm shipyard and the Krupp factory behind them came up with is really good, at least much stronger than in history. They had a total of two good plans on the battleship, namely Plan 3 with the layout of the Historic Mountain Caesar and Plan 4 with the layout of the King!

Scheme No. 3 has a total of 5 twin main guns, two of which are deployed diagonally in the middle of the hull, which can fire at opposite sides at a certain angle, and there are 2 twin turrets placed on the back at the stern of the hull. The thickness of the lateral chord armor is 280mm, and the height of the main armor belt is 4 meters. The upper turret is 150 mm armoured, the bow and tail armor is 100 mm, the turret frontal armor is 300 mm, and the sides are 150 mm. 200mm rear. Turret armor 300mm.

The horizontal armor of the hull consisted of two layers, a layer of upper armor plates with a thickness of 30 mm and the upper armor of the side chords, and a layer of dome armor below, 30 mm in the horizontal part and 50 mm in the side chord part. It adopts a steam turbine and a coal-fired boiler, with a maximum output of 30,000 horsepower, and a theoretical speed of about 21 knots. With a total displacement of about 23,000 tons, it can be seen as a weakly protected Caesar-class battleship. Option 4 is a central axis arrangement of 5 twin turrets, of which there are 2 twin turrets at the beginning and end, and a twin turret in the middle, and the other attributes are almost the same as those of Scheme 3.

And what about the prince's battleship scheme? The arrangement of the central shaft is a must, as is the triple turret, and 3 are incorrect, at least 4! It's almost an enhanced version of the Austro-Hungarian Combined Forces of the later generations! 4 3-pack 12-inch L45 guns. and 14 6-inch secondary guns. The maximum thickness of the lateral chord armor belt is 280mm, and the inclination is 12 degrees. Considering the British's tragic fuse technology and unstable charge, the 280mm inclined armor was immune to almost all British armor-piercing shells in history at normal engagement distances. The upper armor belt is also 150mm, 100mm at the end and 100mm at the end. This is to be immune to secondary artillery attacks.

In order to strengthen the horizontal armor, the prince's battleship completely abandoned the dome armor, saving weight to enhance the horizontal defense, and the 90mm horizontal armor connected to the upper part of the main armor belt was enough to resist the horizontal impact of 1 battle shells. At the same time, the underwater protection system has been enhanced, and the layout of empty silo - liquid tank - empty silo has been adopted, and the depth has reached 3.5 meters to 4 meters! There is also a 50mm high-strength steel plate at the back of the last empty warehouse. The fight against torpedoes and mines is not a big problem, as for the case with bullets in the water, it depends.

If you only look at the surface artillery layout, the Bavarian scheme is no better than the one of the Royal Wilhelm Dockyards, although the former has 2 more main guns than the latter, but considering the weakness of the 3-mounted turret is more complex, the gun spacing is smaller, and the salvo is larger, it may not be better than the 5-twin battleship in terms of firepower. And the coordination of the half-salvo is also a 5-seat twin, which is more convenient. Initially, Count Vittorio proposed this plan to the prince, but the prince refused.

"Every ship of the German High Seas Fleet is very valuable, and we must build it with the improvements and upgrades that may be needed in the future, and it is foreseeable that in the event of a war with a certain power in the future, the other side will have a huge numerical superiority, and we can only balance the numerical superiority of the other side by improving the quality as much as possible!"

"The turret of the triple 12-inch gun is large enough, so we can replace it with a twin 14-inch gun in the future, and after a short period of transformation, we can improve the combat effectiveness of this battleship to a higher level. And a battleship with 10 12-inch guns was absolutely impossible to carry out such improvements. The prince said at the time.

That's right, the prince didn't plan to let his battleship use the 12-inch main gun from beginning to end, and as a traverser, the prince was quite aware of the situation of the German High Seas Fleet 1 in wartime!

First of all, the high seas fleet was extremely short of warships in the face of the huge British fleet! Except for the war just started in 1914, when the British sent two battlecruisers to South America to rob Earl Spee, and at the same time there were several battleships in ship maintenance, which caused a vacuum, (even at that time, the Royal Navy still had a certain numerical advantage,) at other times the British Royal Navy was a stable high seas fleet in terms of fleet tonnage and quantity!

And in order to balance the huge numerical superiority of the British Royal Navy, so much so that Scheer was forced to bring with him as many as two teams of ex-dreadnoughts in the Battle of Jutland, which were already slow, and coupled with the longer service time, the speed was even slower! The 11-inch L40 gun can only be said to be a little stronger than the burning stick. But why did Scheer bring it? The reason is very simple, I am reluctant to run 40 doors and 11 inches! When the wind is downwind, it can be strong, and when it is against the wind, the gecko can break its tail .......

And these former dreadnoughts turned out to be too small and even somewhat dragged down the fleet movements. As for firepower? Hehe, the 11-inch L50 guns on the German battle cruisers could barely deal with the original war cruisers, which were the worst defended by the British. The 11-inch L40 gun is even more useless!

And on this plane, the Germans don't have so many dreadnoughts to deploy, before the First World War, the Germans had 20 dreadnoughts, and this plane only has 6! With the addition of Mainz-class armored cruisers, there are only 10 units. Taking into account the decommissioning and resale of these warships, this amount may be even lower.

Therefore, the meaning of the prince is very clear, the quantity is not enough, and the quality is supplemented! Every dreadnought must be designed for quality! Being able to suppress the original dreadnoughts of the British is only the most basic requirement, and when necessary, it is necessary to be able to go up to some super dreadnoughts! And if you are facing those super dreadnoughts, the first thing to be sure of is that the firepower must be sufficient! So now the question arises, was the artillery power of the Germans enough?

The answer is simple, obviously not enough! Needless to say, Nassau's 11-inch L45 and 11-inch L50 guns of the battle cruiser are at most the level of 6-inch armor against the original British battle cruisers, and they must not be well fireproof, and the Germans' 12-inch guns are also very average, although they showed their might in the Battle of Jutland, but they also fought with weaker defense of the battle cruisers, and the British also helped a lot with their poor fire protection! Throughout the 1st World War, the Germans' 12-inch guns did not achieve the record of penetrating more than 9 inches of armor!

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