readx; As mentioned earlier, the world's great powers were stimulated by the black technology mastered by the workers, peasants, and armies of the red forces in China from the far east, and finally broke out again and again to break through the sky, and the so-called naval treaties for world peace in the early years became a piece of waste paper, which directly led to the world's different powers investing in the naval arms race more intensely than in World War I. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The first country to go crazy to build a catamaran super-giant battleship is the John Bull of the British Empire, which is known as the empire on which the sun never sets, but for Niu Niu, a big guy who is about to be built in the making, it was named a legendary name by the enthusiastic people of the British Empire and their empress: "King Arthur-class" catamaran super battleship, but this battleship has not even had a single drawing so far, let alone a dozen design data drawings.

Seeing the continuous rise of Red China and the unlucky Dutch being cleared out of Nanyang, what should I do if my son Nanyang is alone?

An idea, rather than an idea, was a project called the Lion-Class Battleship, which appeared several years earlier than before World War II, and was sent directly to the House of Lords of the House of Lords, the Director of the Naval Authority, because the citizens of the British Empire passed it out of patriotism.

Therefore, this is the latest type of battleship that the British Empire finally failed to complete during the Second World War, but by the end of World War II, the ship had not completed even one of the battleships that could compete with Nazi Germany.

However, due to the fierce blow of the giant battleship of the Chinese Red Navy in the "Shanghai Impact" naval battle off the coast, the Lion-class plan proposed by the Naval Design Bureau, which was originally in control, plummeted as soon as it was passed, becoming obsolete and a big laughing stock in the eyes of the world.

If you really go straight down like the historical process in another parallel time and space, then the construction in 1937 before World War II will be the strangely designed King George V-class battleship, of course, this guy is designed in accordance with the historical trend of the "London Naval Treaty" agreed between Britain, the United States and France in 1936, the problem is that the unscrupulous guy of this time and space Zhao Heng made up the Shenwei and the eight Yuan-class super battleships, which led to the so-called "The three major naval powers" are still brewing. The London Naval Treaty "was immediately stillborn, and there was no such treaty in the future, and what was now the most urgent thing for the British Empire, which was in crisis?" Of course, to maintain hegemony on the seas of the world and the security of the homeland and colonies, there is no room for loss!

If, in accordance with the provisions of the Second "London Naval Treaty" in parallel time and space, the United States, Britain and France, which signed this treaty, could build battleships with a standard displacement of no more than 45,000 tons and equipped with 16-inch guns without Japan signing the treaty, then the current international situation has changed abruptly due to the intervention of a certain bastard, and the British Empire, as the world's largest naval power, has really made a serious mistake. Because the sudden rise of the Red Chinese Navy is causing the British Empire's status as the world's largest naval power to be in jeopardy.

Even without the sudden rise of the Red Chinese Navy, the British, who had followed the course of history, would still have realized that if Japan, which had already grown up, did not agree to the treaty, their new battleships would have the smallest main guns of the new generation of capital ships of the great powers, which was a very embarrassing situation for the British Empire.

According to the history of Zhao Heng's existence, if you look at the environment at that time... And the Japanese, whose wings have hardened, are likely not to sign a treaty, but may instead stand up and become pretenders challenging the British Empire's position as the world's number one naval supremacy.

Therefore, it is natural to follow the historical context, and then in 1937, Britain will begin to pre-develop the next generation of battleships, and of course, Sir Stanley, the director of naval construction of the British Empire, will be responsible for all this.

According to the intelligence of overseas intelligence officers planted by the British MI6, the United States on the other side of the ocean and the new battleships next to Chinese mainland Japan will be equipped with 16-inch guns (Japan's Yamato-class is 18 inches, and at that time, in order to keep secrets, it was claimed that it was 16-inch guns to hide people's eyes and ears, for fear of being known by John Bull), so according to the above information, Sir Stanley and his colleagues made a miscalculation, and they believed that the main research direction should be the installation of 16-inch guns of future main battleships, but there was no prescience about whether to replace it with a larger caliber main gun.

To do this, they made many different design proposals in the design. After the continuous research of this group, it was finally shown that the scheme of installing 9 main guns in the triple turret can achieve the best balance between the number of main guns and the control of weight and funds, which is very scientific and cost-effective.

In addition, they developed and studied the feasibility of carrying 9 16-inch guns on a 35,000-ton battleship. The end result turned out to be a complete failure or failure, as the displacement had to be larger than that of the earlier George V class (KGV). The possibility of refitting or increasing the main guns of the George V class, which had already begun, was technically ruled out.

In January 1938, Britain determined that Japan, which had already become ambitious, would not participate in the signing of the London Naval Treaty.

The Admiralty was determined to build ships in accordance with the additional terms of the London Naval Treaty of 1936. Then, on March 31, the latter naval powers made a public statement that they would build capital ships under the additional terms.

Britain has also expressed with the United States the desire to reduce the 45,000 tons in the additional clause to a displacement of 40,000 tons. This is the result of many considerations by the calculating British: first, in previous pre-studies, it was shown that the class with a standard displacement of 40,000 could design a 16-inch warship with a better balance of firepower, protection, and speed.

Secondly, limiting the displacement to 40,000 tons can prevent other countries that have not signed treaties such as Germany and Italy from building warships that exceed the performance of KGV. Finally, this is also due to political and fiscal considerations.

It was not until February 1938 that the Naval Staff of the British Royal Navy issued a general technical requirement for the new ship to the design department.

The performance requirements are as follows:

First of all, the main guns had to be 9 16-inch (406 mm) guns, which was not negotiable. Although the British also had a 40-fold barreled 18-inch MKI (actual caliber of 457 mm) naval guns for shallow water heavy gunboats, and they were single-mounted, they were not as good as the 18-inch MKII with a 45-barrel that was later developed with a longer range.

The secondary guns are still 16 5.25-inch (133 mm) twin-mounted high-level dual-purpose guns, which are completely different from other 127, 128, 140 and other 127, 128, 140 and other millimeter caliber guns in various countries around the world.

The strange thing is that its anti-aircraft artillery actually uses a 40 mm "bang bang" gun, dating back to the history As early as the Second Boer War, the British Vickers company developed a Minudenfeldt-Maxim 37 mm machine gun, in fact, it is a large Maxim heavy machine gun, with a caliber ratio of 25 times, using a pound of high-explosive shells to fire continuously. The cannon had a water-cooled mechanism and a maximum range of 2,730 meters, and because of its large ammunition and greater lethality against fortifications, the soldiers affectionately called it the Bang Bang Cannon, a name derived from the sound it made when firing, but the British did not purchase these guns in large quantities on the grounds that their power was still not enough to meet the needs.

The early 37mm Bah guns can be seen to have a very great kinship with the Maxim water-cooled heavy machine gun. In World War I, in 1915, the Royal Navy asked Vickers to design a reliable anti-aircraft gun, considering that the rapid development of aircraft would pose a certain threat to sea and ground targets. First of all, the Vickers Company increased the ammunition weight on the basis of the 37 mm caliber 1-pounder gun, and lengthened the caliber ratio by a factor of 43, developed the 37 mm 1.5-pounder gun, and began experiments on the famous Linxian-class light cruisers. The military was still not satisfied with the results of the experiment, and hoped to increase the power of the ammunition by adding a larger caliber. So Vickers increased the caliber to 40 mm, with 12 rifling wires, and provided 2 pounds of ammunition, with a caliber ratio of 39 times and a rate of fire of 200 rounds per minute. However, the initial velocity of the ammunition is slow, only 585 meters per second, and the only drawback is that the firing range is only about 1000 meters. Not enough to achieve the effect of anti-aircraft artillery air defense.