"The thickness of the sidechord armor of the Bavarian design of the battlecruiser was 250mm of armor with an inclination of 15 degrees. If you count www.biquge.info the underwater extension, the vertical height is 4.8 meters if I remember correctly, of which the 250mm thick armor is 3.2 meters. The underwater part is gradually weakened to 180mm, right? Kaiser Wilhelm II said.

"That's right, Your Majesty the Emperor." The prince nodded.

"Well, Wigner, the height of the main armor of your battleship must meet this standard, I don't care how much tonnage you use, the navy's budget for this battleship is only 44 million marks! If it's not enough, then make it up for yourselves. "The Kaiser said it calmly, but for some it was like a bolt from the blue!

If the prince participated in the bidding, half because of the strength of the German High Seas Fleet, and half because of the money. Then the Kaiser Wilhelm Shipyard, as a pure merchant, was purely about making money! Think about it, in order to make money, the French battleships can be equipped with German optics, what moral discipline do these businessmen have to speak of? What's the point of this bid if it can't make money?

Now the price of a ton of hardened armor is 100 pounds. Even if the weight of the defensive armor increased by only 100 tons, then it would be 10,000 pounds, which is 200,000 marks! Wegener didn't calculate how much extra weight would have been needed by Bavarian standards, which would have been uncomfortable anyway. Although 44 million marks may seem like a lot, in reality, the profit is only about 20%, that is, 8 million marks. The weight of the armor of the battleship is not only increased by adding armor, but also by other tonnage.

(Look at the Deflinger and Moltke, the difference in weight between the two sides is 4,000 tons, in terms of power, the former is inferior to the latter, the weight of the weapons is about the same, and the main weight is worse in defense.) Compared to Moltke, chocolate is the true conscience. ）

The corners of the prince's mouth showed a slight smile, the Kaiser's statement showed that he was already a little dissatisfied with Wegener's plan, but this was not enough, because increasing the weight of the armor would indeed increase a lot of expenses, but there was still a profit aspect, and if you want to save some weight, it is not rare for a designer, there are too many places where the armor can be cut, such as the armor of the gallery to cut a little, and the head and tail armor to cut a little. Although it is estimated that it is difficult to accept the key protection now, it does not prevent Wegener from doing some tricks in the secondary protection part!

So the prince needs to make persistent efforts to defeat this plan in a more intuitive and thorough way, and then step on 10,000 feet, so that he will never be able to turn over! And in order to realize this plan, then the prince still has to find problems from performance, and from the warships of this era, it is not too easy!

This time, the prince's entry point is still the sidestring defense! Although this plane prince has not yet moved out of the ultimate theory of battleship defense in history - key defense, it has been considered when doing it, for example, in the Bavarian plan, the thickness of the main horizontal armor is 3 inches, and the upper edge is connected to the upper part of the main armor!

The 75mm main horizontal armor and the 250mm side chord, inclined 15 degrees, formed an armor box that perfectly kept the shells out of the core compartment, although the total height of the armor belt was only 4.8 meters. However, because there is no dome armor, there is no limit to the height of the boiler room, which is sufficient. The prince has not dared to cancel the upper armor yet, but it has also been weakened to 6 inches, which can block the secondary artillery shells, but the main gun armor-piercing shells are difficult to block.

But it doesn't matter if you can't stop it, anyway, after penetrating the 6-inch upper armor, there is also 75mm horizontal armor responsible for filling the leak, and it is absolutely impossible for a shell from this plane to penetrate the 6-inch side-chord armor and then penetrate the 75mm horizontal armor. Although the focus is advanced, the 6-inch top is still very useful for reducing damage when facing the semi-armor-piercing bullets that the British love to use. Moreover, the cancellation of upper armor in this era may not be acceptable to the German Navy!

But what about the armor defense designed by Wignado? The sidestring defense is almost dominated by 200mm armor, supplemented by 270mm armor. The horizontal defense is divided into three layers, the top deck is 35mm thick, there is a 15mm steel plate in the middle, and the bottom layer is a 25mm horizontal dome! In fact, steel plates below 20mm are almost defenseless against large-caliber artillery, and even fragments from shells can penetrate this layer of thick armor. In other words, if the rear ice of the 200mm armor on the side can be pierced to ensure that it does not explode in advance, then the role of the dome armor in the back is extremely limited!

"Even after strengthening the side-chord armor, there will still be problems, and Mr. Wegener's defensive design has serious problems and will not be suitable for future battles unless major modifications are made." The prince said with a smile.

"But I want to make it clear that even if there is only 8 inches of armor, it is enough to resist the attack of 12 inch naval guns, at least from the current point of view, there is no case of being able to penetrate 7 inches of hardened armor in actual combat." Wigner retorted.

"Sir, you're talking too much, it's not necessarily! Just yesterday, I just received the data from the range of the new 12-inch L45 gun from Skoda, you can take a look! "The prince has finally come up with a killer plan that he has been preparing for a long time!

"At a simulated distance of 10km, the new 12-inch gun can easily penetrate more than 9 inches of hardened armor with the new cap-piercing projectile! We are now only about 8 km away, and at this distance, Mr. Wegener's design simply cannot resist! Even the dome armor behind it can't stop it! Because the horizontal armor is only 25mm, the fragments of the shell can be penetrated after exploding, and if the shell does not explode early, the remaining projectile body may also blow through the 50mm dome armor behind! ”

The prince has finally come up with his killer idea! Without a cap, the 8-inch armor is enough to withstand all damage. It doesn't really matter if you add it or not! But in fact, during World War I, the Germans' 12-inch guns could already penetrate 10-inch armor at a distance of 11 kilometers, and in this plane, although the prince used a hard cap armor-piercing projectile to elongate the projectile body, and at the same time reduce the charge to enhance the strength of the projectile, but because of some basic technology and no reliable fuse, the depth of shells in this era was worse than that of the German 12-inch guns in World War 1 in history.

However, this is enough to challenge the 8-inch armor in the current environment! Although the depth of penetration is a little worse, the engagement distance is also close, compared with the engagement distance of about 15 kilometers in the Jutland period, the current engagement distance is only half! At the current combat distance of 8 kilometers, Skoda's new 12-inch gun really has no problem stabbing through Wigner's 8-inch armor!

"This ......" Whether it is Wigner or Liao Le, they are wilted this time, there is no way, no one will tolerate their battleship being as brittle as paper in front of the opponent's main gun! What is the most important thing in this era? Knowledge and information! Wigner's design was carried out entirely in accordance with the defense against attacks with existing weapons. And after the prince came up with a weapon that was somewhat ahead of his time, Wigner's design was naturally impossible to defend against! Needless to say, the bid still failed!

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