Chapter 1194: From the Handsomeness of a Lion to the Angry Simplicity 1
"Well, ladies and gentlemen, I don't want to discuss the responsibility for this campaign, nor do I want to talk about politics or personnel matters, but we will talk about the topics that you most want to change. www.biquge.info"Sir Fisher said calmly as he looked at the Royal Navy senior and the engineers of the Naval Design Bureau sitting in front of him.
"This time, everyone can talk freely! You don't have to worry about my face, because soon what I say will no longer matter. You could have angrily denounced me as a man who ruined the future of the Royal Navy, and then nailed me to the pillar of shame in history. But this time, I want you to open your hearts and minds, for the sake of the future of the Royal Navy, and for the sake of the Empire, let's have a good conversation. After Sir Fisher said this, it was as if he had suddenly aged ten years, and although he was still in good spirits, the unwillingness and despair hidden in his eyes could not be concealed in any way.
"Is the result finally coming down?" Jericho looked at Sir Fisher, who was a little decadent in front of him, and then at Churchill, who was silent next to him. How could something so big be something that one Thomas could have carried down? The resentment accumulated by the naval fleet finally exploded. The questioning of the strategy of the Admiralty, the dissatisfaction with the warships provided by the Admiralty, and the fear and resentment of not being able to kill the opponent and being shot by oneself finally set off a political storm!
"If some of the guys sitting in their offices accusing us of incompetence really feel that they are not at fault, then come to the Royal Navy's Swift Battleship Detachment, where I think you will soon find your home! In a certain battle, you will be cleanly killed by the enemy! My three brothers and I all served under General Betty, and now I'm the only one still alive, and there is not one friend I once knew! Most of them have become ghosts in the North Sea, and a few are in German prisoner-of-war camps. And if the rest of us sit on a big bomb, God knows when it will blow us up into the sky! ”
The article, published in The Times by a man signed by a Navy Warrior, eventually caused an uproar. Then more details were revealed, and the British battlecruiser was pulled out like paper-paste armor and criticized it! And Sir Fisher, an admirer of the "perfect cat" at the time, is naturally to blame. The best outcome that awaits him, then, is to resign, or at worst, to be court-martialed. And this time, it was basically the last time Sir Fisher presided over the meeting.
"I think it's clear to everyone that the last Queen Elizabeth-class battleship has been launched and outfitted. And after that, we will start work on new ships. I know that you have a lot of complaints about our battleships, so after analyzing your opinions, and after the discussion of the technical staff of the Royal Navy Design Institute, we finally formulated the design indicators of our next-generation battleship. Churchill said.
If the prince heard the name Fury at this moment, then the first thing that came to mind was another nickname for it, the Shh This Dongdong can be regarded as an extreme representative of Fisher's brain pumping, the pinnacle of high speed and strong firepower! A guy with a displacement of less than 20,000 tons can run at a high speed of more than 30 knots, and has 4 15-inch heavy guns, and the draft is only more than 7 meters! It's a complete freak! What the? Protection, you ask? Well, the side-chord armor belt of this cargo is only 3 inches! That's right, you read that right! Half thinner than the likes of Invincible!
And this guy's combat mission is actually to go to the Baltic Sea to cooperate with the Russian Navy to launch a landing operation on German soil....... Lying down, I don't want to think about it, in the Baltic, with the Russian Navy to launch a landing operation? Really when the High Seas Fleet doesn't exist? Even in the North Sea, you can easily reach the Baltic Sea through the Kiel Canal. It can only be said that it is fortunate that Fisher's plan did not succeed, otherwise it would have been even more tragic than the Battle ......of the Dardanelles.
And what's even more tragic is that three more such warships were built! The most expensive one cost almost £2.5 million! Although we should consider wartime inflation, consider the price of the Lion is only a little over 2 million, and the price of the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship in history is only 3 million....... It's not too much to say that it's a cheat.......
This is also a record in terms of design, which was historically designed in late January 1915 and then started on March 28, 1915! In other words, it took 2 months from the beginning of the design of the battleship to the completion of preparations before the start ......of construction.
And the reason why the British gave this battleship a name called the Fury is that they want to make the other side feel the wrath of the Royal Navy! The arrogant Black Eagle on the other side has made the Empire feel unprecedented shame! And now! It's time for them to shower in the flames of destruction! It can be seen from this that the British still had high expectations for this battleship!
"First of all, let me talk about the armor defense that you are most concerned about." Scott came to the stage and cleared his throat, then motioned for his subordinates to hang a huge planing of the battleship's sideways on the wall.
"Damn, this thing looks familiar!" Jericho glanced at the line diagram on the wall and rolled his eyes, isn't this the Japanese Fuso's side chord diagram changed? The thickness of the armor on it was changed from the millimeters used by the Japanese to the inches used by the British....... This doctrine is easy to use!
"According to our experiments, inclined armor has better ballistic resistance in the face of armor-piercing shells, and the fuse of the shell can almost certainly fail when the fall angle of the shell is greater than a certain amount, which is about 25 degrees. THEREFORE, IF OUR ARMOR IS TILTED 15 DEGREES, THEN EVEN IF THE THICKNESS IS SMALLER, IT CAN STILL ENSURE SUFFICIENT DEFENSE, SO THE ARMOR THICKNESS OF OUR NEW GENERATION BATTLESHIP IS 320MM INCLINED 15 DEGREES! This was enough to face the attack of the Germans with 15-inch naval guns. ”
"In order to ensure sufficient defensive thickness, we positioned the armor belt at a height of 4.5 meters vertically. THE HEIGHT OF THE 320MM ARMOR BELT IS 3 METERS, AND THE LOWER PART OF THE WATERLINE IS GRADUALLY REDUCED TO 6 INCHES. IN THE UPPER PART OF THE HORIZONTAL BELT, WE ARRANGED A MAIN HORIZONTAL ARMOR BELT WITH A THICKNESS OF 75MM, COVERING THE AREA FROM TURRET 1 TO TURRET 4. The design of this armor was simple and efficient, and it was enough to defend us against any caliber of artillery of the German fleet. ”
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