Datang's technical capabilities have improved rapidly, because many technical Datang scientists and engineers know the direction, and they actually do more restoration work, restoring the technology that understands the principle and the pattern little by little. www.biquge.info Of course, even the restoration work is not easy, and there are many technical fields, and there are so many people engaged in scientific research in Datang, so it is impossible to advance for decades overnight. But even so, the speed of Datang's technological progress is extremely terrifying.

As far as the military field is concerned, Datang has now mastered a series of advanced Cold War military technologies, but due to the problems of practicability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness ratio, they have not been applied to actual weapons and equipment. As far as the navy's radar is concerned, Datang's electronics industry has developed integrated circuits, but the level of radar that the navy is now equipping ships with is still not high, and it is mainly for the role of sweeping the sea. The navy is interested in installing fire control radars on naval guns, but it will not install radars on all naval guns, because this money cannot be spent, and Datang's enemies cannot reach the point where Datang Navy can spend so much effort.

The Navy Command under the leadership of Deng Xiyi has set up such an upgrade plan for the Datang Navy, updating a ship class every three to five years, and determining the specific number according to demand. At this stage, Datang does not expect to have a relatively large-scale naval decisive battle with any naval power at sea, so there is no shortage of capital ships, even if the British have come up with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons and a main gun caliber of 10 inches, but it will take a year for this type of battleship to be launched, and it will be in service for at least two years, such an expensive battleship. Britain can't afford to afford a lot of one. Britain is just beginning with the Industrial Revolution. Due to the ripening of Datang technology. And the ability to build such warships has been mastered, but in fact its economic ability is still relatively poor. If you think about it, you will know that the monarch class is equivalent to the level of British warships in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century, and on the other hand, Britain in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century is already the undoubted world hegemon, with many maritime colonies and considerable financial revenues. And now Britain only has Canadian colonies and Indian colonies, and the rest are scattered small places, such as Jamaica and the Gold Coast. Britain's trade revenues are now a fraction of Datang's. The fiscal revenue is also a fraction of Datang's fiscal revenue, and such a level of national strength is not enough to support the construction of more than a dozen expensive new warships every year like Datang.

Originally, a third class battleship cost the British government about 100,000 pounds of military spending, and Britain basically built six or seven such warships every year, plus a larger number of frigates. In order to build these ships, Britain took most of its annual revenue in order to better expand its own interests. However, under the current technical conditions, a sail battleship is equal to a target given for nothing, and the price of a new type of battleship is high, originally the price of building six or seven. It was only enough for the British to buy one cruiser, and previously in order to build four Warrior-class ironclads. The British almost tightened their belts to hold the four ships out.

But when the British thought that with four Warrior-class ships, they would be able to dominate Europe, and the Tang people made the British honestly put away their pride again through a Tangxi War. Datang's 8,000-ton heavy cruiser performed eye-catching in the war, and in terms of speed and firepower, it was not comparable to her heavier Warrior class. Moreover, the Datang Navy has more combat experience and a higher overall technical level, so that the British Royal Navy still has no confidence in defeating the Datang Navy.

Under such circumstances, the British Admiralty Secretary proposed to build new ships that were faster, more powerful, and more protected, and the Sovereign class came into being. The British placed special emphasis on the defense capability of the monarch class, because they felt that they might not be able to compare with the Tang in terms of firepower and speed, but as long as their warships could last, they still had a chance to defeat the heavy cruisers of the Tang Navy.

Deng Xiyi paid twelve points of attention to the main opponent of the Tang Navy, and he did not feel that there was anything wrong with such attention, and he explained to Bai Nan: "The British may have learned about our torpedoes through open channels, and it is not clear whether they obtained samples through what means, but our intelligence shows that the British are very interested in this underwater attack weapon." They are working with all their might on this weapon, and it is also a steam gas torpedo. The British Admiralty is designing a new mode of operation, they are preparing to build small mine-strike ships with a tonnage of 500-1500 tons, allowing them to run at extremely high speeds, and then accompany the fleet in dense torpedo scatter attacks. This is a typical strategy of fighting big with a small one, and it is a solution that Britain came up with in the absence of large main battle ships. ”

Bai Nan nodded and said: "This is very noteworthy, it is similar to the development of our country's 'flying dive fast' to carry out asymmetric operations before the crossing, but our intelligence is in place, and we will also be confident in how to prevent this lightning strike tactic." ”

Deng Xiyi said: "That's right, the British's lightning formation tactics can be said to be out of place. In the past two years, we have been building light cruisers and frigates on a large scale, and although the artillery firepower is not enough, we have good cruising power and can carry out more combat missions. In particular, when accompanying the fleet in a decisive battle, it is possible to clear the threat for the capital ship, such as the British lightning ship, we can use small tonnage warships to expel it. ”

Bai Nan smiled and said, "Isn't this the origin of the destroyer back then?" ”

"The roles of destroyers and frigates in our navy overlap, they are all fleet vigilance and escort, reconnaissance, lightning strikes and rescue, and for the time being, we will not add another type of ship because frigates and light cruisers have the ability to expel enemy mine-striking ships."

Bai Nan shook his head: "The name doesn't matter what it is, it mainly depends on the combat use." ”

Deng Xiyi said: "On the one hand, the British Royal Navy has built capital ships such as the Warrior class and the Sovereign class, and on the other hand, it has begun to build small lightning strike ships. We have a small number of battleships, and although the construction of battleships of the new class is already under construction, in the overall strategy, we still have heavy cruisers as the core of the operation. However, the scale of the fleet of eight capital ships of the Dingyuan class is still slightly smaller, and it is not even comparable to the determination of the Japanese in the other face to develop the 88th Fleet. Although our Pinghai class has only been in service for more than ten years, it is becoming more and more unable to keep up with the pace, and we plan to start gradually decommissioning these ships within three years, so the navy also needs to build a new batch of heavy cruisers. ”

(To be continued.) )