The battleship Guangzhou, which has not been in service for a long time, undoubtedly represents the highest achievement of China's heavy industry in this era, but although the battleship Guangzhou was completed in the Jiangnan Shipyard, in fact, in the entire battleship design, construction and later sea trials, the most outstanding designers and engineers of the four major heavy industries were concentrated, and as the second test ship, all the technology and experience will be shared. ∈ ♀ Top Novel, www.

The normal displacement of 28,000 tons, the maximum displacement of 30,000 tons, 10 305mm, 45 times the diameter of the main gun and the outstanding achievements of the Mawei real yàn room Tenglong mechanical fire control platform, so that this battleship has the combat power to make the strongest naval battleship of any country in this era high mountain, and at the same time, the Guangzhou battleship is also the first time to build a mine protection capsule, and the horizontal armor belt is raised to a high protection of 120mm, This was enough to effectively protect a battleship of the same type from damage to the deck with a salvo at a firing range of 15,000 meters.

As a result, in the eyes of the Chinese Navy and naval designers, the Guangzhou battleship has completely led the various types of dreadnoughts built in Europe and North America at this moment, and is regarded as the "super dreadnought" of the core and main force of the Chinese Navy.

However, in view of the fact that the four major heavy industries currently have only one 40,000-ton dry dock, although the designers are thinking about further enlarging the tonnage, however, each has more than 2 30,000-ton dry docks must also come in handy, so in the design scheme displayed this time, a total of 7 models of ultra-dreadnought design schemes were taken out, including a super-dreadnought battlecruiser scheme.

The feasibility of each scenario is carefully verified. Overall, though. There wasn't much to surprise Qin Kai. The various design teams, including Qingying, were aware of an obvious shortcoming of the battleship Canton...... The 305mm and 45xD main guns are a little weaker for a superdreadnought that is suppressed globally, and the 45xD has almost squeezed the full power of this caliber main gun.

The cost and result of building a 50 times the diameter and 305mm main gun obviously did not have much cost performance, so this time, except for the only battle patrol design scheme, all of them slightly enlarged the design of the battleship tonnage, raising the conventional displacement to the limit of 30,000 tons of dock, and the extra 2,000 tons of displacement was used to improve the caliber of the main gun. The TKII series of 343mm and 45 times diameter main guns developed by Mawei Heavy Industry are adopted, which is already a mature technology for China's heavy industry artillery.

The 343mm gun undoubtedly represents the highest heavy industry achievement of this era, after the Royal Navy launched the tenth dreadnought Neptune, although it is now also seeking a solution to replace the 305mm naval gun, however, the current scheme is still hovering between long diameter and large caliber, the British naval gun design company Vickers is making every effort to develop a 50 times diameter 305mm gun, However, Armstrong suffered some R&D troubles in the technology of the 13.5-inch main gun, mainly because it could not break through the limits of the process in terms of the double diameter.

However, Qin Kai naturally understood. The 13.5-inch gun is not the end, and it is the goal proposed by the artillery factories under the four major heavy industries. It is to raise the caliber of artillery to at least 15 inches (380mm) and 50 times the diameter within 5 years, but this damn special steel technology, without exception, requires high-quality technicians and strong large-scale industrial machines to complete, even if the northern real yàn room has provided some key special steel and processing concepts to several artillery research and development research groups, but from theory to operation of large-scale machines, it still takes daunting countless tests and protracted time.

Although the smoke of the world war has not been ignited, the pattern of the whole world has undergone changes that Qin Kai did not expect, especially after his intervention in the war between Italy and the Ottoman Empire, although the Ottoman Empire has not yet seen the decisive victory of the Ottoman Empire, but compared with the one-sided suppressive invasion of Italy in the original history, the changes in the situation of the entire Eurasian continent can be described as earth-shaking.

Sometimes, Qin Kai even considered whether the situation in the Balkans would calm down after the military rise of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the Keel, in that case, perhaps the expected variables of World War I would be a future that was difficult to judge!

However, the choices in front of us are obviously not too many, the most glorious era of the era of giant ships and cannons will eventually come, and the only way to maintain China's national rights and interests is to comprehensively enhance its strength step by step......

In the current plan, Qin Kai preferred the 30,000-ton "Jin"-class high-speed battleship proposed by the Northern Shipyard, which won Qin Kai's affirmation...... Although high-speed battleships do not have too absolute superiority in the decisive battle of the battle line with a mixture of old and new battleships, when the high-speed battleships in a cluster are fighting, only a leading speed of 4 knots, combined with the shooting advantage of the dragon fire control, is enough to lay the victory!

The 32 BH110 oil-fired boilers and the DL08 steam turbine with 4 shafts and 4 propellers driven by the high-speed battleships have increased their output by 12% compared with the Canton to 108,000 horsepower, and the designed maximum speed will reach an unprecedented 26.5 knots, while according to the British battleship Giant, which has just begun to be built by the British, the maximum speed will not exceed 21 knots.

Based on Qin Kai's point of view and the performance of the battleship mentioned in the design plan of the Northern Shipyard, the promotion of high-speed battleships is enough to complete the first strike against the enemy at a distance of 15,000 meters, and if the airship or its own two water reconnaissance aircraft are used for high-altitude calibration, with the simulation calculation of the Tamron II series integrated fire control, the distance of the first strike against the enemy will reach a distance of 20,000 meters unprecedented in this era......

You must know that even on the clearest and calmest sea, the limit of visual ranging of the main observation platform at the top of the bridge of a normal battleship is about 18 kilometers, and at a distance, what you see may be a wisp of black smoke or indistinguishable reflected light from the sea, and it is based on this key element that the command towers of the navies of various countries are constantly refreshing their heights, and the fire control room of the battleship is nearly 25 meters from the deck, and the auxiliary observation deck is on the 35-meter main mast.

After two days of consultations. The first batch of high-speed battleships funded by the government all adopted the design scheme of the promoted battleship. As a need for the accumulation of construction experience. The four major heavy industries were each assigned a battleship construction plan, but Qin Kai did not accept the shooting plan of the remaining 35,000-ton battleships!

In these schemes, the triple 343mm main gun became the mainstream configuration, the hull was unprecedentedly expanded to nearly 220 meters, the conventional displacement also reached 35,000 tons, the use of slightly ahead of the configuration of 356mm (14 inches) main gun, 45 times the diameter of the main gun, and four triple 343mm main gun turrets, the main gun reached 12, with the maximum range dù to increase the firepower projection capacity of the battleship. After all, the current construction technology of the 13.5-inch main gun is relatively mature, and this half-inch increase is obviously very feasible.

However, compared with the cost of 9 million yuan for the promotion battleship, the cost of this type of battleship reached a staggering 18 million yuan...... In fact, Qin Kai originally had the urge to try, however, considering that the 30,000-ton threshold was directly crossed from the Guangzhou, the risk was really not small, and more importantly, the 35,000-ton battleship had already reached the tonnage of super dreadnoughts after World War I in history. But with a 14-inch gun, there is obviously a problem!

After the investment in the first batch of high-speed battleships to be built. Qin Kai also additionally approved the only super battle patrol scheme proposed by the Beihai Shipyard, which pushed the sea hunter with firepower, speed, and protection to an unprecedented height, and the lengthened hull length made the hull reach an unprecedented 199 meters, and under the key protection, this type of battle patrol has a 300mm main armor belt comparable to that of a promoted battleship, but the entire armor tonnage has been saved by nearly 800 tons.

Thanks to the surplus of armor and the expansion of the tonnage of the battleship, in the power compartment of the heavily guarded bottom, an unprecedented 40 BH110 oil-fired boilers and 4 huge DL08 40-page axial flow steam turbine drives, coupled with the new design of water walls, superheaters, and mechanized fuel nozzles, the output power is as high as an unprecedented 118,000 horsepower, plus 3,000 tons of heavy fuel oil reserves, the battleship has a cruising range of an astonishing 12,000 kilometers at 18 knots.

Driven by this epoch-making power, the main gun has been increased from 10 305mm and 45 times the diameter to 10 343mm and 45 times the diameter of the main gun, which makes the projection ability of this battleship comparable to that of the promoted fast battleship, and 22% higher than that of the Guangzhou battleship, which is almost equivalent to the effect of one more twin main guns, not to mention the huge increase in power after the bullet weight increases by 150 kg.

The design team led by Liao Dechang, chief engineer of the Northern Shipyard, is sure that this new type of battleship, tentatively named the "Lion"-class super battlecruiser, will be able to run at an ultra-high speed of more than 31 knots.

Eventually, the Northern Shipyard was granted permission to build an additional Lion-class battlecruiser, and as for the bidding for a large number of light and heavy weapons for the Army, armored artillery vehicles, and 200 Tissot II biplanes for the Air Force, the four major heavy industries each won the prize, which obviously brought huge profits considering the huge purchase volume and the subsequent continued production.

Relying on the huge technical reserves of Mawei Real Yàn and Mawei Artillery Bureau, they are the only heavy industry that carries out mass production of 13.5-inch main guns, although the three major heavy industries in the north, Beihai and Jiangnan are struggling to catch up and get the technical output of Mawei Heavy Industry, but they have not been able to surpass the advanced research and development status of Mawei Artillery Bureau.

On July 14, the "Beijing Times", "Guangzhou Times", "Fujian New News" and other mainstream media published important reports, the cabinet agreed and approved the commendation order from the State Science and Technology Development Committee, the Mawei Heavy Industry artillery research and development team to give a national notice of commendation and collective first-class merit, at the same time, from the national industrial development fund to give a huge reward of 10 million yuan to the team, and announced that a series of technological innovation awards.

The sustained development of the domestic economy in the past 20 years, and the prosperity of the people far exceeded that at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, however, this is an era when 2,000 national dollars can buy a single-family property in Fuzhou, and the huge reward of 10 million yuan has completely set off a protracted discussion, and Qin Kai is obviously happy to see this discussion of the value of knowledge, and the progress of the country is completely based on openness, fairness and respect for knowledge.

On the 20th, Qin Kai boarded the train to Qinhuangdao, and a large number of military on-site observers set off together...... In the afternoon of the same day, Qin Kai had just arrived in Qinhuangdao and was about to take the battleship Chang'an to Yingkou Port, when he suddenly received an urgent telegram from Beijing. (To be continued......) R527