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Although the naval staff is eagerly awaiting the return of the Lion class. But it is no longer comparable to the more urgent war materiel. Especially after the Battle of Midway, keen people were aware of the end of the battleship era and the advent of the era of aircraft carriers dominating the seas.

With the commissioning of the Anson and Howe in 1943, the number of British battleships reached 15. The Admiralty once again shelved the reconstruction program of two warships, in favor of building aircraft carriers in full force (the number of which is planned to be built is up to 62 units).

The end result was an indefinite postponement, which meant that the project was left unfinished, and that it was just a matter of self-inflicted conversation between some of the generals and their staffs who had grown up in the era of cannons led by Churchill.

The above Zhao Heng's original time and space happened like this, but due to Zhao Heng's intervention, some battleships of less than 100,000 tons and 406 mm designs immediately turned towards super battleships ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of tons.

Sir Stanley, the director of the Naval Construction Bureau, who was the executor of the King Arthur-class super battleship plan, took the new King Arthur-class battleship plan and immediately found Sir Stanley Baldwin, the then Prime Minister of the British Empire, and also had a secret conversation with Sir Bolton Ellis Munsell, the first secretary of the Navy who happened to be with the Prime Minister to discuss the Navy's recent construction plan.

"Mr. Prime Minister, Sir Stanley, Director of the Naval Construction Bureau, has arrived." The secretary, Ms. Rowanna Balhiman, knocked on the office where the Prime Minister was talking to the First Admiralty.

"Oh, he's coming." The Prime Minister took off his final pipe and said to the Lord of the Navy.

"Yes, after the Red Evildoers in the Far East got that monster thing, the British Empire no longer has the title of the world's first and strongest warship, and it is the first time that our power has been challenged in this way, and it seems that Sir Stanley, the Director of the Naval Works, is also urgent." Sir Bolton Ellis Munsell said, touching his well-trimmed chin.

"Oh, let the knight tell us." The Prime Minister, who was smoking his pipe again, closed his eyes and meditated for a moment, then opened his eyes and spoke.

"Miss Rowanna, please let the chief of the naval construction in." The Prime Minister picked up the phone on the desk and dialed the phone number of the front desk secretary.

"Yes, Mr. Prime Minister."

However, the 27-year-old young Prime Minister's secretary, Miss Rowanna Balchman, put down the phone, looked at the bespectacled and polite Director of the Navy Construction Bureau in front of her, and then said: "Sir Stanley, the Prime Minister and the First Admiralty have let you in." ”

"Thank you, Miss Rowanna." As a gentlemanly tradition in the British Empire, English men were generally courteous to women.

After a few turns, the director of the naval construction bureau knocked on the office where the two bigwigs were.

"Good morning, Sir Prime Minister, Sir First Lord of the Navy."

"Good morning, Sir Chief of Naval Construction."

After an unnutritious conversation, the three of them get to the point.

"Mr. Director of the Naval Construction Bureau, the two of us are waiting for your new plan, you see that most of the current warships of the British Empire are already old, if it weren't for the fact that they were just built and put into service, they would have become obsolete not long ago, and the troubles of the world economic crisis have caused the empire to shrink a little financially, I think the budget they gave you is probably not so abundant." The first to open the conversation was the Prime Minister.

"Our navy is in dire need of a super warship that can deal with the red forces in the Far East, but it seems that the minister of the Ministry of Finance is not willing to easily open his mouth again with his tightly watched money bag." The First Minister of the Navy stared at the Director of the Naval Construction Bureau and said.

Although "......" although he expected that the situation he knew might be bad, he did not expect that it would be such a situation, which caused the director of the Navy Construction Bureau to be a little cold.

"Well, let's not talk about the Minister of Finance first, let's talk about how your Naval Construction Bureau designed this super battleship." It was the sophistication of the prime minister who broke the deadlock.

"Well, that's right." The director of the Navy Construction Bureau immediately opened his full briefcase.

"In view of the fact that the early and later modified Lion-class plans have been unable to adapt to the current and future situation, and the world's major powers are stepping up the construction of super-battleships, the new reference to the Red Chinese Navy's super-warship plan is named the 'King Arthur' class program."

In addition, in view of the fact that the London Naval Treaty signed in 1930 no longer played any role, first of all, the rigid requirement that the treaty battleship should be less than 35,000 tons and the caliber of the main gun should be less than 16.1 (410 mm) inches can no longer bind the navies of the great powers of the world, especially Germany, which is re-emerging, the United States, whose industrial power has surpassed that of the empire, Japan, which is expanding its ambitions, and the Soviet Union, which is trans-Eurasia. According to reliable intelligence from the intelligence services, they are designing and building new super-warships, and although the specific data is not known, it can be expected that the British Empire will face a new and powerful challenger to challenge the British Empire's hegemony in the ocean. ”

The Director of the Naval Construction Bureau spoke eloquently to the Prime Minister, who was in charge of the future policy of the British Empire, and the First Admiralty, who was in charge of the overall strength of the Royal Navy of the British Empire.

"Yes, please continue." The Prime Minister motioned to the Director General of the Navy Construction to continue.

"According to the opinion of the internal designers of the design bureau, we intend to increase the tonnage of the super-battleship to about 170,000 tons and carry an 18-inch battleship. However, the Naval Staff put forward a different opinion.

Their requirements are:

First, the firepower of the main guns of the new battleship was 9 20-inch (510 mm).

Second, the secondary guns had to be 32 5.25-inch (133 mm) twin high-level guns.

Thirdly, anti-aircraft artillery could not use a 40-mm "bang" gun, but it must be an anti-aircraft gun of the same caliber, preferably Bofors.

Fourth, the maximum speed must exceed 35 knots!

Fifth, 1. Protection requirements, in terms of horizontal protection: the battleship can withstand 14,000 yards (12,802 meters) of 20-inch shells fired from a distance.

2. Vertical protection: can withstand 3,000 pounds (1,352kg) armor-piercing bullets dropped from a height of 15,000 feet (4,573 meters); 30,000-inch shells fired from 27,432 yards (20 m).

3. The protection outside the furnace compartment can be lower than the standard of the ammunition compartment.

4. Underwater protection: They specifically required to be able to withstand 3,000 pounds (1,352kg) TNT equivalent explosions.

Among the development requirements put forward above, the defense standard was set to be able to withstand 20-inch guns (the weight of shells was not specified).

But there is no provision to limit the standard displacement of new ships.

This gives our designers a lot of leeway to achieve the design standards, which of course is the initial intention. "The director of the Naval Construction Bureau introduced.

"In the next two months that the General Staff made this request, I personally presided over the preliminary design work.

In April this year, four schemes were introduced, including 20d-20g with a standard displacement of more than 170,000 tons. The 20D standard displacement is 172500 tons, which fully meets the requirements put forward by the Navy Staff.

The 20e has 4 turrets and 12 main guns. The standard displacement is 178500 tons. However, the main engine output is only 480,000 shaft horsepower like other solutions. So the speed is only 34 knots.

If it is to meet the 40-knot requirement, its standard displacement must exceed 180,000 tons.

Although the Admiralty preferred the scheme. However, its biggest drawback was that its size exceeded the limits of the Roses and Portsmouth shipyards, making it difficult to build on the imperial mainland.

And equipping 4 turrets is difficult to design. A width of 300 feet (exceeding the Panama Canal limit) and a draft of 35.17 feet (exceeding the Suez Canal limit) would also not allow for rapid global deployment.

The 179,500-ton 20F was specifically formulated in response to the government's overturning of the 35,000-ton displacement limit in the rider. As a result, it has only 12 secondary guns. 20g is a scheme equipped with torpedo tubes. The standard displacement is 173000 tons. The main armor thickness and arrangement of these 4 schemes were higher than or even more than those of the K-G-V (King George V).

The design requirements for resisting 20-inch shells were achieved primarily by adding additional anti-shrapnel armor to important areas. The above designs all reflected the trend of increasing protection, firepower and speed of new battleships at that time by controlling the displacement by technical means. In addition, the Admiralty proposed in the design requirements the equipping of the radar. After speaking, the director of the Navy Construction Bureau glanced at the Prime Minister and the First Minister of the Navy.