readx; So the designers of the Naval Design Bureau, who didn't know what they were thinking at all, finally completed the improved design of the latest King Arthur class in January 1942, and after 8 years, I don't know if these designers remembered to feed the dogs, and the performance of the next two battleships was as follows:

King Arthur Type 2, performance data/1942

Standard displacement: 182550 tons

Full load displacement: 207650 tons

Waterline Length: 475.48 m (1,560 ft)

Waterline Width: 98.78 m (324 ft)

Draft: 4.575 m (15.004 ft)

Armament: 4 triple 510 mm (20 in) L52 multi-caliber guns

16 twin 133 mm (5.25 in) 50x diameter secondary guns

24 twin 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns

The thickness of the main armor belt is increased to 748 mm (29.42 in) / ammunition bay and 698 mm (27.46 in) / nacelle

Horizontal armor thickness increased to 296 mm (11.76 in) per ammunition bay and 248 mm (9.80 in) per nacelle

Shaft horsepower: 480000/normal; 520000/overload

Maximum speed: average speed 35 knots / ultimate speed 44 knots

Battleship endurance: 16,500 nautical miles / 20 knots

Maximum fuel load of the battleship: 19600 tons. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

If you compare the performance data with the 34-year design, the most obvious difference is the increased width and reduced broadside armor. The sinking of the Prince of Wales proved the serious inadequacy of the George V class's underwater defenses, especially the overly narrow hull (the designers of the design bureau knew about the flaws in their own design of the ship), resulting in a flaw in the rear of the hull.

Increasing the width to 324 feet alleviated this problem due to the twin hull. But in order to avoid excessive changes in the weight as a whole, the designers were able to reduce the thickness of armor protection on the sides of the cabin. Another notable change is the increase in design range from 14,000 nautical miles to 16,500 nautical miles.

However, in the battle to encircle and suppress the enhanced version of the Bismarck, the slightly inferior Rodney and George V almost let the Bismarck escape due to lack of fuel. In view of the increasing threat from the air, the number of Bofors anti-aircraft guns in the new design was also increased from 48 to 76. To make way for space and weight, the carrier facilities were removed.

After witnessing the performance of the George V class in 1941-1942, the arrogant British finally abandoned the outdated idea that the "A" turret needed to fire forward at a zero angle. The King Arthur class was designed to be a lion class with an increased height of its bow freeboard from 56.50 feet to 74.0 feet.

The new additions to the design are second-hand models of radar equipment from Red China (in fact, Zhao Heng took out the radar in the early 50s of the 20th century and sold it, while he used all the high-end goods from the 90s) and shrapnel protection, but the biggest improvement is still in the power generation system. Better contact systems are also available in the power generation sector. All of this is to prevent a recurrence of the Prince of Wales-style tragedy.

A total of 3 models of main guns were developed for the King Arthur-class catamaran superbattleship Britain. The two different models of 20-inch/45-diameter guns developed for the King Arthur-class were equipped with heavier shells compared to the Marki 16-inch guns equipped with the capital ship Nelson-class battleships.

The first two were Mark II and Mark III. The two 20-inch 45-diameter guns were basically the same in some respects, except for structural differences in breech.

The Navy ordered a total of 28 20-inch/45-gauge guns. As a result, 5 doors (3-door Mark II and 2-door Mark III) were produced. These guns were mainly used for muzzle velocity testing. Ballistic firing tests were not carried out. The projectile it was equipped with weighed 4750 pounds, and due to the limitations of the gun mount, the overall length of the shell was less than 146 inches. The design of the turret was developed from the 14-inch turret extension of the KGV.

In the process of redesigning the Lion class before the end of the war, a new 20-inch/45-diameter gun was designed for the Markiv type. The gun is capable of using smokeless gunpowder and has a minimum discharge velocity of 2450 ft/s. The design of the new turret is capable of firing shells up to 156 inches long. The new shell was estimated to weigh 5,080 pounds. However, all of the above is only in the design stage, and production has never started.

The King Arthur's 16-seat twin 5.25 ft./50 x diameter dual-purpose secondary guns were structurally identical to those of the George V class.

Short-range anti-aircraft artillery was armed with only 38 Bofors anti-aircraft guns in the 48-year program. In the design of 42 years, the aircraft and related equipment were canceled. So 14 additional Bofors anti-aircraft guns were added. The 0.5-inch machine gun, which appeared in earlier design schemes, was also canceled. In addition, the UP rocket artillery did not perform well in real combat with Bismarck. From then on removed from the scheme of the British active warships and designs. Of course, judging by the situation of the battleship Avantgarde, the King Arthurian class, if completed, will eventually be fully equipped with Bofors anti-aircraft guns with better performance.

In the early design stages, the King Arthur class faced the same problems as the Lion, and the brain-dead designers planned to equip the deck with two 21-inch quadruple torpedo tubes. The military believed that torpedoes were very effective in close-range night battles - and this idea did make sense before the gun-sighting radar was put into real combat.

After the sinking of the Hood, the British realized that the torpedoes exposed to the deck were a danger to the explosion, unless protection was applied with additional armor. This was unacceptable in the case of the later Lion-class design due to weight control problems, so it was only natural that the torpedo tubes that were later cancelled were also taken for granted.

From the very beginning of the design, there was also controversy over the issue of equipping the aircraft with reconnaissance aircraft, with some arguing that the battleship's aerial reconnaissance tasks should be carried out by coordinated battleships, and that considerable weight savings could be achieved by removing aviation facilities. In the 34-year program, the King Arthurian class was armed with only 2 seaplanes. As the air defense situation becomes more and more severe, the removal of aviation facilities in the center can provide a better position for anti-aircraft artillery. After the tragedy of the Prince of Wales, the British decided that the battleship would not go alone from the aircraft carrier. So in the design of 42 years, the aircraft facilities were removed.

The design performance of the protection system must meet the following three requirements: it can withstand the attack of 20-inch shells; Withstands underwater explosions of 3,000 pounds of TNT; Withstands the onslaught of 3,000-pound armor-piercing shells dropped from 15,000 feet.

The broadside main armor of the King Arthurian class still continues the vertical arrangement of the KGV. It was 29.42 inches thick outside the ammunition compartment and 27.46 inches outside the cabin. The entire main armor belt is 866 feet long and runs from the front of the "A" turret base to the back of the "Y" turret base. The broadside main armor was 30 feet wide, of which it extended 12 feet below the waterline. The thickness also gradually decreases to 2.59 inches.

However, the lack of raw materials and workers in England limited the reconstruction of the James I and Charles I, which had been almost built, and no one cared where they were left like that.

Due to the imminent threat posed by the imminent German warships swaying around the English Channel, the factories that built the main guns had to spend a lot of time producing coastal protection artillery and tank armor; The shipyard workers were busy building aircraft carriers and merchant ships, and there was little time left to build these two sea behemoths of the British Empire, which had been left on the slipway.

Although the Royal Naval Staff was eagerly awaiting the subsequent improvement of the King Arthur class, the two battleships that stayed on the slipway could be re-launched. But none of this can be compared with those more urgent war materials, the British Empire was overwhelmed by the Germans' unlimited submarine warfare, and the lack of some supplies needed at home hit the morale of the British, of course, the supplies supported by the American cousin were a shot in the arm, so good steel should be used on a good blade.

Especially after the madness of the U.S. imperialists in the Battle of Midway, people who are very sensitive to the development of things are aware that this naval battle will be the end of the era of traditional battleships and the era of emerging aircraft carriers, or the era of super-giant aircraft carriers dominating the seas.

By the time of the commissioning of the Anson and Howe in 1943, the number of British battleships in the army reached 15. Although there was no way to compare with the German-class catamaran super-battleships in terms of performance, the Admiralty once again shelved the reconstruction plan of the two cash-burning battleships, and instead went all out to build aircraft carriers (compared to the original history, the British planned to build as many as 124 ships at this time).

The indefinite postponement actually means that this new type of catamaran project has never been done before, and it will remain in the construction plan, but it is only a few days after taking office, and some generals and their staff who have grown up in the era of cannon giants led by Prime Minister Churchill, nicknamed the cannon barrel, have talked about it.