"Huh?! What did you say? Next-generation battleships? Do you have a new expansion plan? Ferdinand's eyes lit up, as a supporter of the Navy, his interest in the Navy could be described as fanatical! You know, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was two parliaments, and a resolution needed to be passed by both the Austrian and Hungarian parliaments to be effective. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire actually did not attach much importance to the navy, the Kingdom of Hungary had no interest in the navy, and the Emperor Fritz had the same attitude towards the navy!

Before 1901, the entire Austro-Hungarian Navy did not even have a single battleship of more than 7,000 tons! Compared to the Italian next door, that's just **silk! But in this extremely unfavorable political situation, our Crown Prince Ferdinand was able to unite with other forces to start the construction of 3 Radetz-class battleships in 1907, and then start construction of 4 combined-force class battleships! If it weren't for the reason of the 1st World War, the construction of the other 4 Lord Loudon-class battleships could have begun, and this perseverance and persistence are ..... admirable.

Of course, the prince still has this opinion, there is no need for Austria-Hungary to start large-scale construction so early, on the one hand, it is a waste of money, and on the other hand, the funds are estimated to be ...... Without the stimulus of the launch of the dreadnought, it is estimated that the Austro-Hungarian government would not have been able to make up its mind to build a large number of people for a while.

The prince still revealed the fundamental purpose of this news to Crown Prince Ferdinand is to prepare for the next wave of naval gun tenders for the German Navy, although the 12-inch L40 naval gun has made the prince a lot of money, but Krupp will not sit still, and the Prussian military-industrial complex led by Krupp will not sit still. In Caesar. After the construction of the battleship Frederick the Great was completed, when the prince was preparing for the German, or rather the world's first dreadnought, the hateful capitalists thought they had found an opportunity .......

Under the tremendous pressure of Bavaria's Southern Industrial Group, and under the temptation of huge interests in the naval artillery business, Krupp finally decided to climb the science and technology tree, according to internal information, they have begun to set up a project and prepare to develop a new 12-inch L45 naval gun! In order to regain the lost market in the new dreadnought competition.

To be honest, the last time the prince took the order, it was a bit tricky, and the whole process can be described as plagiarism, basically taking the Russian naval guns, and then changing the Skoda factory and it will be over....... But this time is different, although Krupp has a 12-inch naval gun in history, I have to admit that Krupp's 12-inch L50 gun is really good, and it can hit a 405kg shell with a muzzle velocity of 855 meters!

Judging by the data on paper, this gun was at least not weaker than the British and American 12-inch guns of the same period. And to really stabilize the 12-inch gun of this artillery, I am afraid that only the K10-inch 12-inch L45 gun produced by Skoda is the only one. If you talk about the basics, Bavaria's Southern Industrial Group is definitely not as good as those old fritters in the north.

So he could only give this artillery design task to the Austrians, hoping that they would get this gun out quickly! Historically, the transition of firepower from dreadnought to ultra-dreadnought has been relatively long. The first dreadnought was commissioned in 06, and the first super-dreadnought was commissioned ......in 12 years. And the firepower has been upgraded from the 14-inch level to the 15-inch level in less than 3 years!

After taking into account the dreadnought era, which began ahead of schedule, the construction of the German Navy is about to begin! The Kaiser and the German Navy have endured for many years, and it is not easy for the prince to reduce the number of German dreadnoughts in history from 2 to 6! You must know that in history, the Germans started from Brandenburg and built a total of 24 dreadnoughts of the 5th class! When the last of the former Dreadnoughts was in service, the Nassau-class was launched .......

Let's take the former Dreadnought at 1.1 million pounds, but the prince saved the German government more than 20 million pounds. (including maintenance expenses) you must know that the sale of naval armor in Bavaria is a huge income, and in order to save Germany some money, the prince's contribution can be described as huge.......

"Skoda is responsible for the artillery design, and then Bavaria and Austria have half of the production capacity, and we share the profits equally, what do you think?" The conditions offered by the prince cannot be said to be unfavorable, basically Austria is responsible for research and development, Bavaria is responsible for the market, and everyone takes advantage of each other's strengths and cooperates with each other. Of course, this is only the artillery profit, and the design and construction of the turret is still dominated by Bavaria, after all, this difficulty is less than that of artillery.

"You're going to design new warships? How many are there? Crown Prince Ferdinand did not answer immediately, but asked rhetorically, now, he has quickly transformed from a prince to a businessman, and has begun to calculate his gains and losses. If the deal is relatively small and it is difficult to share the R&D expenses, then he will have to reconsider the sharing of benefits. At least part of the R&D costs should be paid by the Bavarian side.

"Our future battleships and large cruisers will use 12-inch naval guns, the number of the former may be 2 or 3, and the latter is estimated to be the same number." The prince thought for a moment and said.

"So when will the construction of these warships start and when will they be completed?" Ferdinand asked again.

"It should have started in 1902, the construction period was probably 2 to 3 years, and the completion should be 1905 to 06! Of course, this is just my personal plan for now. The prince replied.

For the number and duration of the construction of the first batch of warships, the prince was well thought out, this is not a pat on the head to come up with, although the prince knows the value of dreadnoughts, the appearance of dreadnoughts has sharply depreciated the value of the former dreadnoughts, but the construction difficulty is also not small, the historical British dreadnought displacement reached 18,000 tons.

But in fact, this tonnage is not enough for a battleship with good defense and good protection of naval guns and torpedoes, according to the prince's estimates, the tonnage of a dreadnought equipped with about 10 12-inch L45 guns should be about 22,000 tons. 12-inch level side chord armor, 3-inch level horizontal armor, plus better TDS, these all need tonnage support,

Now the largest warship built by the German Navy has a displacement of 15,000 tons, and then it jumps directly to ...... 22,000 tons. The prince also felt a little hanging!

This is still the construction of battleships, technical and engineering things have already put some pressure on German industry, and the battle cruisers are more difficult, because the battle cruisers have higher requirements for speed, if the battleships can make do with kerosene mixed boilers and steam engines, then the battle cruisers must use steam turbines, otherwise it is really difficult to reach a speed of 25 knots....... It can even be described as slim.

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