Chapter 55 406 mm naval guns
Although Russia participated in World War I, the Russian navy did not do much at all, the navy was originally a money-burning project, and Russia in the tsarist era was originally a country with a weak industrial foundation and economy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info many of them, except for the territory, are not enough to meet the standards of a great power. Queen Maria was lost in the Civil War. The Soviet Navy inherited only the Gangut class. And the Izmail-class battlecruisers in the shipyard. At that time, the hull completion rate of several ships was more than half. It can be completed with a resumption of work. At that time, it was estimated that one Izmail would be as good as two or three Ganguts. However, the last few Izmails were sold for scrap.
And in recent years, it has also been an era of great development of naval technology in the world! The USSR has just completed industrialization, and there is still a long way to go in terms of the construction of the Navy.
At present, the USSR did not have the technology of full-fledged battleships, including naval guns, including hulls, including steel, in short, the USSR could say that there were no technical reserves.
Although in the Tsarist era, the caliber of naval guns exceeded 300 mm, but the design of more than ten years ago has been far behind, and the West can already exert greater power with the same caliber of naval guns!
The USSR did not have any technology for the construction of battleships now! Everything, almost from scratch!
In later generations, the Soviet Union only built 190 mm naval guns, and the product of the Great Leap Forward of the Soviet Union, the Soviet battleship, the planned 406 mm naval guns, was not created at all.
As a researcher of World War II, Ciric knows the story of the Soviet battleship very well.
The Soviet Union also wanted its own powerful navy, and the warships built during the Tsarist period were far from meeting the needs of the Soviets themselves, so the Soviet Navy began to pursue it continuously.
Because the Soviet Union did not have any technology, the Soviet Union had to seek technical support from the outside world.
Originally, it started in Italy.
In 1933, Soviet naval experts visited Italy, and cooperation began.
Italy received contracts from the USSR for the construction of warships and merchant ships, which in turn sold fuel oil, iron ore and grain to Italy.
The Dezezinsky-class frigates of the USSR Navy, the Tashkent-class destroyers, as well as part of the armament of the heavy cruiser Kirov, built on the territory of the USSR, came from Italy!
When Ciric came this time, he naturally aimed at this matter, and instead of cheapening Italy, it was better to hand it over to German shipbuilders!
Because of the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, over the years, German shipbuilding enterprises have not built large warships! This time a large number of construction contracts were signed with the Soviet Union!
The USSR did not have foreign exchange, but the USSR had ample resources! Ciric valued not only iron ore, but also rare metal deposits in the Soviet Union! Now in such a name, it is possible to import from the USSR in large quantities!
This is a multi-win plan that will allow shipyards and steel mills in Germany to receive a large number of orders and create more jobs.
At the same time, it can also make strategic reserves, and train its own shipbuilding team, and with the help of the opportunity to build ships for the Soviet Union, Germany's technology of building warships will also make great strides!
The Treaty of Versailles did not allow Germany to equip heavy warships, but it did not restrict Germany from building warships for other countries! And Germany, after developing these technologies, will be able to make its own at any time!
Historically, Germany lost World War II for many reasons, for example, the German navy is an absolute weakness!
When Germany lost the submarine war, Britain received a constant supply from the sea! If the German navy had a strong force, it might be able to force Britain down!
Ciric was bent on supporting Hitler in building a strong navy, and his current visit is to accumulate technology for the future!
Kill more than one stone!
The 283 mm naval gun, which was the main naval gun of the German battle cruisers of World War I, was developed by the Krupp company.
For example, in the history of global naval warfare, the only use of naval guns to destroy enemy aircraft carriers is the masterpiece of this 283-mm naval gun of Germany!
The Soviets, at all, were not capable of producing advanced naval guns! If Germany had exported such naval guns to the USSR, it would have greatly improved the level of Soviet warships!
Sure enough, Ciric's words shocked the other party, and his eyes were full of surprise, it seems that the cooperation between the two sides in naval technology can be successfully reached!
All the warships that were handed over to Italy for construction in history were given to Germany! Germany needs those orders!
"Mr. Shirek, the caliber of the 283-mm naval gun is very special, moreover, it is no longer in line with the development of the times, we want a larger caliber, can you make a ship with a 406 mm caliber******* Khachevsky did not speak, at this time it was the personnel in the naval uniform behind Tukhachevsky, the commander of the Soviet Navy Orlov!
Hearing this, Ciric immediately frowned, obediently, the Soviets were already thinking about building more advanced warships at this time?
406 mm! Maozi really values firepower the most!
If there is not enough mobility, you have to take care of firepower first, and if you are not protective enough, you also have to take care of firepower, and in the minds of the Soviets, it is firepower, firepower, firepower!
Although the German Navy did not perform particularly well in World War II, the German Navy was the initiator of the naval arms race in Europe before World War II, and the construction of cutting-edge warships at all levels in Europe was almost all related to the re-emergence of the German Navy.
In particular, the appearance of the "German" class stimulated the high-ranking naval officers of the European countries, because almost overnight, almost all the warships in their hands were outdated, and the cruisers that could outrun could not be defeated, and the battleships that could be beaten could not outrun.
Therefore, other countries began to develop all-round battleships.
The French produced the Dunkirk-class battlecruisers, with two quadruple 330-mm guns that overwhelmed the German-class firepower and had an overwhelming advantage in almost all performance.
The Italians came up with four "Veneto" class. The German Navy also secretly built the "Bismarck" class, the largest battleship in the world at that time.
At the same time, the British, although constrained by the poor economic situation at home, did not want the power of the empire to decline, and they built the "King George V" class with a displacement of 35,000 tons and a 356-mm gun for the main gun.
At the same time, the British World War I leftover, and then improved "Hood", equipped with 381 mm naval guns, firepower is the most ferocious, at the same time, the number of artillery equipment, is also the "King George V" class victory.
And now, just in the 30s, the navies of most countries have not yet exceeded 400-mm giant guns.
Throughout the 30s, there were already battleships with a main gun caliber of more than 400 mm, only the Nagato-class (410 mm) of the island nation, the Nelson class of the United Kingdom (406 mm) and the South Dakota class of the United States (406 mm). A total of 7 of these warships were built, known as 7 gibbosses.
And now the Soviets actually want 406 mm naval guns!