Staring at the three views of the battleship on this drawing, Gao Hongsheng pulled his face as if he was constipated, how could the new technology give so much, and why did it still look the same on this battleship design drawing, still a small monster with multiple turrets.

A rough glance, Gao Hongsheng can see that this is a slightly modified and enlarged version of the Habsburg-class of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the design of the Habsburg-class was originally a double-mounted turret in the bow, and a single-mounted turret in the stern, which seems to be enlarged a little bit, so that the stern can also be equipped with a twin gun, two chimneys, also continuing the design of the monarch-class, the bloated middle of the hull along the upper and lower sides of the ship's side of the layout of 12 150 mm single-barreled guns, The damn bow in particular still maintains the Austro-Hungarian tradition of battleships, with blade-like ramming.

And the design in front of Gao Hongsheng can basically be seen as an enlarged version of the "monarch class", and there is no novelty at all, which makes him a little suspicious of Poper in his heart, is this really the guy who designed the United Force-class battleship?

Raising his head in disappointment, looking at the anxious Poper, Gao Hongsheng didn't save face for him at all, and said angrily: "I don't see a little new idea in the design of this battleship, if it's such a broken thing, don't waste the funds he managed to squeeze out to build the ship." ”

After saying that, he turned his head and looked at Ferdinand, whose face had darkened, with some pity.

Listening to Gao Hongsheng's comment on the battleship he designed, Pooper's face turned red with a brush, and the two beards on his nose and chin were really upturned now, and he said with a big red face: "Mr. Gao, I don't think there is anything wrong with the battleships I designed, aren't all the warships of various countries like this?" Although our tonnage is smaller, our slipway can only build warships of such a large tonnage. ”

Hearing Poper's argument, Gao Hongsheng was really a little angry, waved at Ferdinand, motioned for him to come over and look at the drawings with him, then turned his head, pointed to the table with a dark face, and pointed to the bow position of the battleship design with his index finger and said: "This has nothing to do with tonnage, Poper, let me ask you why the battleship has a ramming angle, is it because you used ramming tactics to win the Battle of Lisa?" Don't you know that the rate of fire of naval guns has increased by five or six times compared to that time, and you still have the opportunity to brave the fire of the enemy ships to ram the enemy? ”

Most of the bow of the former Dreadnought class had ramming angles, which was really influenced by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in the first battle between steam-powered ironclad ships "Battle of Lisa", the naval guns of both sides could not sink each other at all, and finally the Austro-Hungarian flagship "Ferdinand Maximilian" armored ship hit the side of the Italian "King of Italy" armored ship at full speed to tilt it to starboard, and then slowly retreated with the "Maximeland ", causing "Italy" The starboard side of the ship was broken and tilted to port under the influence of its own kinetic energy and the influx of seawater, and finally rolled over and sank, thus deciding the outcome of the naval battle.

After this war, most of the ironclad ships built by European and American countries under its influence had bow ramming angles, so in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, Deng Shichang commanded the "Zhiyuan" ship to ram the Japanese capital ship "Yoshino", which had a glorious naval tradition, and it was not a momentary act of anger, but at that time the ramming was also a very effective means of naval warfare, otherwise all countries would not be bored to install ramming angles on the capital of warships.

However, the main problem after the ship is equipped with ramming angles is to reduce the speed and seaworthiness of the ship, especially when the wind and waves are strong, the battleship is easy to bury its head, affecting the main gun fire on the foredeck.

"Mr. Gao, at present, most of the national battleships have ramming angles in the bows, should we give up the ramming angles of battleships?" Poper said with an innocent face.

"Okay, okay, I'm defeated by you. Let's talk a little bit about the shortcomings in your battleship design. Popper, what was the rate of fire of your ship's main guns during the Battle of Lisa? Five-minute or six-minute, what is the rate of fire per minute of your naval guns in twin turrets now? What is the current rate of fire if the new gun carriage is adopted? Three rounds in two minutes, or two rounds a minute. What was the effective range of the original battleship's main guns? 1,000 meters, or 2,700 meters in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle? Now with the adoption of the new sighting system, the effective range of the main guns can reach at least 7,500 meters. Ramming tactics are long outdated. Instead of bow angles, the simplest vertical bow is used, and the bathtub-like Adriatic Sea does not require too high seaworthiness. Gao Hongsheng was a little angry, he flapped his little wings vigorously, just hoping that Austria-Hungary would be stronger, but not to mention those rotten bureaucrats, how could the ship designers who should be at the forefront of the times be so conservative.

The best bow shape is actually the flying shear bow, the shape of this bow is based on the bow shape of the flying scissor sailing ship, the main table is that the bow waterline floats outward, and the lower vertical line is sleek and excessive, which is different from the simple bow tilt design in that arc.

Compared with the vertical bow and the inclined bow, the flying shear bow not only has a larger bow volume and a larger buoyancy reserve, but also because the angle of the bow floats with the rise of the freeboard, when the bow is submerged in the water, the buoyancy increases by geometric numbers, which can maximize the degree to avoid the problem of the ship's "burying its head", improve the ship's anti-sinking performance and longitudinal (pitching) stability in high sea conditions.

However, the flying shear bow also has its shortcomings, the first point is that the manufacturing process of this thing is more complex than other bows, and it requires large equipment such as 10,000 tons of hydraulic press to cold forge the bow, which is not suitable for mass production, and the price is high, and the deck length is increased, and the freeboard side area is increased, which means that the probability of being hit by the enemy has increased.

And at present, the forging capacity of Austria-Hungary has not yet reached that Cheng dù, at least there is no 10,000-ton hydraulic press, but this large-scale heavy industry equipment has been in the second phase of the expansion of the Skoda Arsenal, especially Gao Hongsheng also wants to use a 10,000-ton hydraulic press to forge an army cannon of more than 240 mm, without a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, it is not impossible to manufacture more than 200 mm artillery, but after forging, the multiple warp of the artillery can be higher, and the weight can also be lighter, especially the artillery carriage, If that thing is forged with a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, it can greatly reduce the weight of the artillery, but the 10,000-ton hydraulic press will have to wait for a while, and that thing will not be built for a year or two.

According to the current processing capacity of Austria-Hungary and the requirements for the seaworthiness of warships, the best bow is the vertical bow of the British, the vertical bow of the British is cheap to build, the process is simple, although there are factors of poor seaworthiness, but for the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the British warships that are basically squatting in the nest, the vertical bow is the best choice, which is also the main reason why Gao Hongsheng let him adopt the vertical bow.

(The British navy, due to its huge number of warships, allowed it to arrange warships all over the world, so it basically stayed in the harbor, while the Austro-Hungarian Empire, due to geographical reasons, its warships also basically stayed in the harbor.) And the German warships needed to break the engagement, and the whole world was rushing, so the flying scissors bow was used. ）

Now Boper is speechless, yes! Now the distance between battleships has long been increased from more than 1,000 meters to several thousand meters, and the caliber and rate of fire of naval guns are not comparable to the simple ironclad ships at that time, and there is really no need to keep the ramming angle.

Anyone who is not a battleship designer can see it so clearly, how could he, the chief battleship designer of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, not think of it? Is it really as Ferdinand said, the bystander is clear?

Ignoring Poper, who was deep in thought, Gao Hong raised his anger and whispered to Archduke Ferdinand: "Ferdinand, how far has the central fire control system of our battleship been carried out, didn't you tell Sù Popper about the role of the central fire control system of the battleship?" ”

Looking at Gao Hongsheng, who was a little angry, Ferdinand thought about it, leaned in to Gao Hongsheng, lowered his voice and said to him: "I have already told Poper about the central fire control system of the battleship, but, however, there are still many aspects of this thing that have not been perfected, especially the principle of the mechanical range calculation instrument so far, we still haven't understood it thoroughly. ”