136 dreadnoughts were introduced
Today, half of Britain's industrial population and more than half of the country's steel production are invested in shipbuilding and the industrial system associated with shipbuilding. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Not to mention anything else, the financial pressure is huge, and the annual expenditure on building warships, repairing warships, and military spending has exceeded 100 million pounds.
If Britain hadn't been able to loot some from the colonies, the change of countries would have been untenable.
In view of the fact that the 10,000-ton ironclad ships were beaten by the Japanese and German ironclad ships, the British built ironclad battleships with larger tonnage and thicker armor. This ironclad battleship, which is almost 20,000 tons, is regarded by the British as the last decisive weapon of the Royal Navy, and is also called a good name, dreadnought.
The data obtained by Lin Haiyang through the Japanese ninja spies in Britain were: 10 305 main guns, with a design speed of 20 knots and a displacement of 18,800 tons. 24 76 mm secondary guns, 4 underwater torpedo launchers, two-string main armor, conning tower armor, and main gun armor are all 320 mm.
Lin Haiyang looked at the information in the computer, and it was similar to the data of dreadnoughts in the early 20th century, which showed that the British could ****** when they needed it. Lin Haiyang said: "It's only 1872. It seems that war is indeed the first driving force for the development of science. ”
At this time, except for Japan's dumpling shipbuilding technology (three-dimensional printing), warships were all large steel plates forged and formed by a hydraulic press, and then riveted together one by one with rivets. The scene of tens of thousands of people working together in the dock is quite grand.
After Lin Haiyang looked at it, he said to himself: "It's strange not to bully the British." ”
Subsequently, Lin Haiyang also designed the next generation of capital ships of Japan and even the Chinese Federation for the design of dreadnoughts, with a displacement of 20,000 tons, a thickness of more than one foot of armor belts, and eight twin main guns of a one-foot caliber, with a design speed of 24 knots and a maximum pressurized speed of 29 knots. Twenty 40-mm twin secondary guns.
It seems that there are two fewer main guns than the British dreadnoughts, but the power of the 333 mm main gun is greater than that of the British 305 mm main gun. And the armor has also been thickened, not to mention that the steel technology of the British and Lin Haiyang is like the gap between elementary school students and high school students. The special steel used in Lin Haiyang shipbuilding is tougher, corrosion-resistant, high-pressure and low-temperature.
Although this type of capital ship is still not designed with underwater torpedo launchers, it has also become a tradition for the capital ships of Japan and even the Chinese Federation. Cruisers, destroyers and even frigates in general have torpedo launchers, but only the capital ships do not. If such an expensive capital ship is killed by its own torpedo explosion, it will be a big loss.
The British ship designers were not unaware that in several naval battles there were examples of British warships being hit by enemy ship guns with torpedo launchers, resulting in explosions, serious injuries and even sanking. However, the British were very rigid in their minds, and left the torpedo launcher only to refill the opponent's unpowered ironclad ship after the battle.
In the Japanese naval sequence, in fact, this is just a matter for torpedo boats, light cruisers, and destroyers. But the British don't think so. Therefore, the British dreadnoughts even retained ramming angles, so that the British warships could die with the enemy after losing their main guns.
In these actual naval battles, the first thing the British navy's capital ships did was to shoot the torpedoes indiscriminately, so as not to be hit by the enemy's main guns.
Moreover, in the artillery battle, because the Japanese fleet was more advanced in various sights, even at this time, the level of optical telescopes of the Germans was also higher than that of the British, so the British did not have much chance to gain the upper hand in naval battles, and they often ran away when they were wounded. Because ironclad ships are rough and thick-skinned, if you want to sink an ironclad ship, you have no luck if you run out of shells, and people may still be alive at sea.
In the past, the Japanese Navy liked to use particularly dangerous oxygen torpedoes -- oxygen torpedoes have the advantages of small track and long range, but they are also particularly dangerous, and the end result is that their own fleet will have an explosion and self-sinking accident every once in a while. and the Indian Air Force in the 21st century. Although the Japanese navy at that time claimed to have white rice to eat at a meal, as everyone knows, the white rice will become a severed head rice when they get on the wrong ship. After all, every ship has the luck of the Yukikaze and others, not to mention, the luck of the Yukikaze seems to have been absorbed from friendly ships.
Although the Japanese dreadnoughts were designed and built later than the British, they were the first to be secretly launched for sea trials and acclimatization training. After designing the Chinese Federation's own dreadnoughts, Lin Haiyang packaged the British dreadnoughts and his own dreadnought drawings to the quasi-allies of the Germans.
Let the Germans build their own dreadnoughts as needed. The Italians got the news and bought from the Germans another copy of the British dreadnought blueprints, ready to build their own dreadnoughts - the name was all in mind, it was called the Roma. As for the merger of Austria-Hungary due to the Qing army's westward expedition, the middle and lower classes of Austria were of the same clan as Germany, and the two countries became closer and closer. As for Hungary, the decrepit Habsburgs were barely trying to maintain their rule.
At this time, there was no European country that did not want to industrialize as long as it had the opportunity, but most countries, like Sweden, did not have the opportunity. There is no chance because there are no colonies, and without colonies there is no place for cheap raw materials and dumping of industrial goods, and industrialization cannot be developed to the maximum - as for those countries that have colonies, they do not allow the industrial products of other countries to enter their colonies.
This is also the fundamental cause of World War I and World War II, the emerging industrial Germany and the United States urgently need to change the pattern of the world's colonies and overthrow the situation of Britain and France.
In the end, under the premise that Britain, Japan, Germany, and Italy built dreadnoughts, the Americans felt that they should also mix them. Bought drawings from Japan and began to burst ships.