Since the establishment of the Datang Navy, it has never encountered an evenly matched opponent at sea, so the Datang Navy has paid more attention to functional attributes in the allocation since its establishment, that is, to enable the fleet to perform a variety of tasks and develop in a balanced manner, and has not paid special attention to the development of capital ships. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This is mainly because even the frigates of the Datang Navy are terrible for the capital ships of the navies of other powers.

The development of the British Royal Navy and the navies of other countries has gradually made the frigates of the Datang Navy still have a certain advantage in firepower and speed, but they cannot safely guarantee the destruction of the other party. But the level of battleship is obviously very cost-effective, although it has strong firepower and excellent defense, but it is a bit of a fuss to crush the capital ships of other countries. Therefore, the navy is still inclined to develop the main battle ships dominated by heavy cruisers, and the heavy cruisers are the real capital ships of the Tang Dynasty, while the role of battleships is more deterrent and symbolic, appearing on the battlefield to guide firepower and command.

The Dingyuan-class is undoubtedly an excellent ship in the Datang Navy, with balanced firepower, strong endurance and self-sustaining power, considerable speed, and good protection, which makes the Dingyuan-class able to fight against their shells when facing the enemy's capital ships of similar tonnage or even slightly larger.

The British used more than 8-inch naval guns on their capital ships, and the new generation of capital ships will even use 9-inch or even 10-inch naval guns, but these naval guns have relatively low muzzle velocity and are not particularly powerful due to the casting process and technical level, so the armor-piercing ability is relatively limited. Even if the main armor belt of the Dingyuan class was only 150 mm thick carburized steel armor, it was enough to withstand the bombardment of the British 8-9 inch guns.

So the Dons were ready to build further stronger heavy cruisers. The Navy's goal was to acquire a type of heavy cruiser with a full displacement of more than 10,000 tons, better armor, faster sailing, and more guns. In addition, the Navy plans to deploy four heavy cruisers in the Indian Ocean Fleet and eight heavy cruisers in the Western Pacific Fleet, the Home Fleet, and the Atlantic Fleet. In order to ensure the strong combat effectiveness of the Datang Navy. This resulted in a total of 28 heavy cruisers, and the number of capital ships of the Navy at this time was far less than that.

This does not mean that the Navy will explode 20 heavy cruisers in the next class, and the most likely is to build 4 heavy cruisers into a ship class in a three-year cycle, and then replace them. It is also possible that after the Navy receives the first ship of a ship class, it will be highly evaluated, so that it will increase the order to more than 8 ships or more. If so, then the more likely scenario is: In the first two years, only 1-2 heavy cruisers per year were put into service, but after that, about four heavy cruisers per year were put into active service.

This model is also better than the previous method of the Navy, which had no choice before, blindly placing large orders, and it was difficult to make any adjustments if there were any problems with the use of the ship. Therefore, the designers of naval ships tend to use some more conservative designs, such as the Dare Battle-class light cruisers and Thunder-class frigates that have received 20 orders and 26 orders, and they can actually find some traces of prototypes in history. In fact, they are all ships that have been verified, so the Navy also dares to place large orders. Because these reinventions based on the original model cannot be outrageous. However, this kind of path cannot be too long-lasting, obviously the navy is looking at these ships from a more futuristic perspective, and some of the original designers think that they meet the requirements, but in the eyes of the Datang Navy, they may be unsuitable or backward. By adopting the method of ship class replacement, the Navy can also continuously test some new technologies. Maintain the freshness of the ships in service.

Bai Nan asked Deng Xiyi again: "Some domestic aviation companies such as Boeing and Xiangzhan have made a lot of progress in recent years, and Boeing has made their Boeing 146 not much different from C-47, and the domestic civil aviation industry has already started." The army has also equipped its air force with a number of transport aircraft, and has even invested in the development of dive bombers. ”

Deng Xiyi said: "That cottage Stuka." I saw that thing the other day, and I can only say that it looks like it. ”

Bai Nan smiled, "The Army Air Force's demand for aircraft is relatively limited, and now no country has aircraft except us, so the Army does not have the need to configure fighter jets, in addition to transportation and long-range bombing missions, the Army attaches more importance to the development of reconnaissance and air fire support at the front of the battlefield, so the Army has ordered nearly 100 reconnaissance-2 reconnaissance aircraft, the copycat Stuka in your mouth, that is, after the advent of our Qiang-1, The Army ambitiously intended to have a regiment of dive bombers in each division. ”

The Army now has 16 brigades and more than 100,000 combat soldiers, and there has always been a call to enhance the Army's combat capability at the campaign level, so the Army Command intends to weave two brigades plus some auxiliary units into army divisions, with a total of about 15,000-22,000 personnel, and a total of 7 divisions plus two independent brigades (10 brigades and 16 brigades mainly in the Philippines and Japan). Among them, the 1st Division, composed of the 2nd Brigade and the 3rd Brigade of the Oil Brigade in the West Coast Theater of Operations, and the 2nd Division, composed of the 1st Brigade and the 4th Brigade stationed in Qingguo, are fully mechanized divisions with the largest number of personnel and the strongest combat effectiveness.

Once the division is formed, it is equivalent to a campaign cluster, capable of completing more complex and difficult tasks. The division not only has an artillery regiment, a transport truck team, an engineer battalion, a reconnaissance brigade, and so on, but also plans to deploy a regiment of 24 attack planes to engage in forward fire support after the cottage Stuka is formed. However, the Ministry of National Defense has now only put on a plan for the construction of four regiments of assault aviation regiments, and in addition to being deployed to the first and second divisions respectively, the other two aviation regiments will be directly under the army aviation unit and will be deployed in a mobile manner according to needs.

On the contrary, the reconnaissance-2 aircraft, which are mainly used for reconnaissance, each division has received a flying group, that is, eight planes, which belong to the divisional units and provide more battlefield reconnaissance information. Transport aircraft are not subordinate to the army unit and are deployed under unified command by the army command.

Deng Xiyi also admitted: "In terms of the development of the air force, our navy is indeed taking a smaller step than the army, and this really needs to be reviewed, and our navy also has relevant development plans, and it will definitely keep up." ”

(To be continued.) )