Among the historical dreadnoughts, only the American Wyoming-class battleships and the Frenchman's Lone-class battleships adopted a six-turret layout, while the former reached a tonnage of 26,000 tons. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info the thickest armor on the side of the board is only 11 inches. And the displacement of the king is 25,000 tons, although there is one less turret, but the side defense has reached 350mm, which is 2 notches higher, and it is clear who is strong and who is weak. Of course, if you want to talk about the famous 7-gun turret and 14-gun relic, this guy is even more of a big and indecent thing. In general, World War I battleships had 8 to 12 main guns and 3 to 5 turrets. Like some six-turret god or something, forget it! This thing can't hurt!

On the whole, the prince considered the battleship program of the Royal William Shipyard to be decent, if not the best. In terms of basic design, it is much higher than the historical Dreadnought, Nassau, and South Carolina, and is almost equal to a Caesar-class battleship or a King-class battleship with slightly reduced defense. Dreadnoughts as first-class practitioners are not unacceptable.

But when Tirpitz sent his chosen battle cruiser plan to the prince, the prince fell directly into confusion and rage, yes, confusion and rage, because he really couldn't understand what Tirpitz's head circuit was thinking, 11 inches! The prince originally thought that he could get rid of the nightmare of 8 German dreadnoughts using 11-inch small water pipes in history! I didn't expect this thing to still be ghostly!

"We have 12-inch naval guns, why install 11-inch guns on battle cruisers! What can these little pipes wear?! The prince did not suppress his anger. Almost everyone present put down what they were doing and looked at the angry prince and the minister who also had a bad face.

Historically, after completing the design of von der Tann, the Germans began to design the next class of battlecruisers, which is the well-known Moltke-class battlecruisers, at the beginning of the design, there were people in the German Navy who proposed the use of 8 12-inch L50 guns, but Tirpitz rejected this suggestion and asked to continue to use 11-inch guns. And he also put forward a strange reason: "In the future, the German High Seas Fleet will be numerically inferior, so it will be necessary to equip the battleship with more main guns, so that one battleship can fight multiple targets ......." (The author saw it from a German BC book, this is the real thing!) , a moment of silence for Tirpitz's brain)" Moltke's initial plan was renamed 12 11-inch guns, and in the end, this plan became 10 11-inch guns.

The prince, both before and after the crossing, could not understand why Tirpitz had come up with a reason to be so funny, and that reason passed the ....... The 12-gun program was abolished, and Moltke, who was armed with 10 11-inch guns in history, had to pick up two, and there was almost no need to look forward to the results.

The diagonal arrangement of the central turret makes a turret in a potentially unusable state, and the available artillery is between 8 and 10 guns, how to distribute the firepower? A goal of 6 doors, a goal of 4 doors? How can the latter be effectively calibrated? Moreover, if you engage two targets at the same time, as long as you are not particularly lucky, it is estimated that you will not achieve any decent results, one reason is that the density of fire is not enough, and the other reason is that the power of the shells is too small...... At most, it will deal with the first generation of crispy war patrols such as invincible and tireless.

"But our previous generation of large cruisers used 10-inch guns, in the battle, the Mainz-class armored cruisers equipped with 8 10-inch guns easily defeated the opponent, and we have now increased the caliber and number of guns, and fully considered the fraud factor to develop this plan, I don't know why you are dissatisfied!" Tirpitz said with a grim face.

"The original design of the Mainz class was in 1895, and we are now designing a new warship in 5 years, in these 5 years, we have built 18,000 tons of battleships, Mainz is just a product of the limitation of the triple expansion steam engine and the old fire control system, since we have defined the potential opponent as Britain, then we should consider improving the performance of our warships as much as possible, I am not comparing myself with progress, but with the other party."

"We can now build warships of more than 20,000 tons, Your Excellency doesn't think that the British can't, right? If they install 12-inch guns on their large cruisers, how can your 11-inch guns offset the quality advantage of the other side? As you said, we do not have a quantitative advantage, but the qualitative superiority is not determined by the number of barrels of the battleship, but by the competition for the amount of projection and armor-piercing effect! The prince retorted.

The weight of a new 11-inch shell is about 300kg, and the weight of a new 12-inch shell is about 400kg. If the rate of fire is comparable, the projection of 10 11-inch shells is only 3000kg in one round, while the projection of 8 12-inch guns is really 3200kg, and the projection is still a slight advantage of the latter, and in terms of armor-piercing ability, the latter is even more crushing.

According to the historical performance of the Germans, the 11-inch L50 gun could penetrate 8-inch armor at a distance of 10,800 meters at a combined angle of incidence of 30 degrees, while the 12-inch L50 could penetrate 10-inch armor in the same situation! The difference is huge, which means that the likes of Hindenburg can fight against almost all the battle cruisers of the British, while Moltke and his ilk can only fight against the original battle cruisers, and it is very difficult to fight the main armor belt of the lion and tiger!

"But what about the cost? Our budget is simply not enough to support your plan, which is the perfect vision of the designer, without taking into account the circumstances of the empire. Tirpitz was still unconvinced.

"How much worse can the cost be? Then reduce the quantity and increase the quality! I'd rather have 4 25,000-ton warships than 5 20,000-ton warships! Within a certain tonnage range, it is already a consensus that larger tonnage warships have better cost performance! This is evidenced by both Munich-class armored cruisers and Mainz-class armored cruisers. And I know the details of this plan in your hand very well, I will never agree to this plan! The prince left his seat and walked to the crowd!

"A battleship with a displacement of 20,000 tons and armed with 8 11-inch guns is a fragile warship, and the limited funds and tonnage are simply not enough for it to have sufficient combat power and defense! Count Vittorio and I have carefully discussed the relevant data, and I think that there are major hidden dangers in this battleship! Therefore, I suggest that this scheme be abolished directly! ”

"You're so arbitrary, I don't think anyone here will agree!" Admiral Liao Le said with a gloomy face.

"We reason! I will prove my point of view with facts, the designer of the Kaiser Wilhelm shipyard can be present, he can refute my arguments. Then we'll discuss whether this plan should be scrapped! The prince said without flinching.

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