Taking into account the improvement of armor performance, the protection of the main armor belt and turret and other sides of the waterline is generally similar to that of the historical battlecruiser Hood (slightly stronger, but not to the equivalent thickness of 350mm, which is still the same grade). Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info), because such a thickness is actually sufficient. What really needs to be strengthened is the pitifully thin horizontal armor of the original, due to the appropriate thinning of the waterline armor and the optimization of the design of the internal structure, Li Hui has increased the thickness of the horizontal armor of this new combat patrol to a maximum of 105mm, which is almost twice as long as the original, not to mention the large-caliber shells that come from a long distance, even if it is an armor-piercing aerial bomb dropped by an aircraft, it cannot constitute a deadly threat.

Well, now no country in the world has thought of attacking warships with aircraft, and even if it did, the current very primitive model is not capable of undertaking such a complex task.

Don't think that attacking ships is a very simple matter, the anti-aircraft firepower of warships, especially large warships, is super strong (except for the tragic prime minister, 37 hand-pulled machines, which are not similar to garbage, can actually be on ships, and the designer is a British spy!). No matter how good the performance of the aircraft is and how good the quality of the pilots is, it is difficult to achieve many great results without exploring specialized tactics (or receiving guidance from aircraft carrier powers that have mastered this ability) and targeted and rigorous training.

Historically, Britain's Grand Fleet has passed through the narrow English Channel more than once, but the Luftwaffe, which at that time claimed to be the largest in Europe, has hardly managed to sink its capital ships (three capital ships were sunk during the entire Second World War, and not all of them were British). That's enough to illustrate.

But even so, Li Hui still installed a lot of anti-aircraft weapons on this super battle cruiser, but unlike the original Hood before the modification of large-caliber anti-aircraft guns (Gaoping dual-purpose guns), Li Hui installed a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns, nearly 100 on a warship, mainly quadruple, and some are double. After two years and the final stage of system technology has been developed, these anti-aircraft machine guns will be replaced by the 20mm and 37mm small-caliber anti-aircraft guns with longer range and greater power in the shipyard, but the idea is still the same.

The reason for this choice is that Li Hui mainly considers that the dive bomber has very high requirements for structural strength, and Western countries should not want to develop it even after ten years, and if horizontal bombing wants to be dropped on a warship, it is completely hopeless at high altitude, and the bomb can only be dropped by a large margin to improve accuracy, so anti-aircraft machine guns or small-caliber anti-aircraft guns are undoubtedly far better than large-caliber ones; As for the torpedo bomber, which poses a greater threat, even if it can be successfully developed in the next few years, it will not be able to avoid the embarrassment of the descendants of World War II in history; before launching a torpedo, it is necessary to greatly reduce the flight speed and altitude, and then fly flat at a constant speed and approach the target in a positive direction, so as to ensure the accuracy of the torpedo, and the firing distance is still short, as long as the enemy ship is equipped with a sufficient number of small-caliber machine guns with satisfactory performance, it is basically no different from sending them to death.

In comparison, large-caliber anti-aircraft guns were not very useful before the invention of radio proximity fuzes, and historically, proximity fuzes did not appear until the middle and late stages of World War II......

The threat of the bomber is not great, and the speed still has great value, especially this super battle patrol is also equipped with a water reconnaissance aircraft for the first time, and the reconnaissance radius is almost an order of magnitude larger than that of the legendary battle cruiser, which can find prey and danger at a longer distance, whether it is hunting efficiency or its own safety, it has gone to a higher level.

It is precisely because of this realization that Li Hui even sacrificed a certain endurance in order to ensure the maximum speed of the Super Battle Cruise. There is no way, the steam turbine engine with a maximum output of more than 160,000 horsepower and the 24 oil-fired boilers supporting it are too much space, and the armor and firepower cannot be cut, so they can only be slashed on the endurance. Anyway, at a speed of 18 knots, it can sail continuously for more than 6,000 nautical miles, as long as you don't want to rely on them to hit Europe, this endurance is actually completely enough.

But then again, as the design of Western naval ships matures, the improvements that can be brought by system optimization functions are indeed getting smaller and smaller. Fortunately, the gap between China's industrial power and the West is shrinking at a faster pace, so time is still on our side.

In fact, Li Hui's launch of this super battle patrol is actually mainly to deter the West, and he is not ready to actually engage in war with it. Even if it does, the odds are almost 100 percent.

After all, it is only 1913, and even in this time and space, the progress of scientific research in the West is slightly faster than in history (thanks to China's excellent work in technological secrecy, otherwise the West would have been able to reach the level of the late World War I by now). The subsystem will have to wait at least another two or three years to catch up, and the Westerners have no system to help, so they have to have a subsystem before they can design stronger warships, so the main gun advantage of China's super battlecruisers can at least maintain two more generations of capital ship construction cycles, that is, at least 5 years, with the rapid development of China's industry in recent years, five or six years is already a long time.

Moreover, the shipbuilding race over the years has also had the consequence that the Western powers' advantage in the total number of warships has been greatly weakened, because all but the latest batch of warships are outdated. For example, after the oil-fired boiler is put into use, it is smaller in size and N times faster in fire (it often takes 2-3 hours for a warship to fire coal, while it only takes a quarter of an hour to burn heavy oil). Immediately compared a coal-fired boiler to waste......

Although theoretically it is possible to replace the boiler and carry out modernization and modification, the replacement of core equipment such as the boiler requires the warship to be "disemboweled", and the cost is quite high, and because the original overall design is for coal-fired power, even if the oil-fired boiler is replaced, the performance of the warship is still not as good as the new model designed completely from scratch.

Auxiliary ships are just that, after all, the main task is not frontal combat, such as escort patrols and other tasks, and it doesn't matter if the performance is almost there.

The situation with the capital ship is different, once it becomes obsolete, it will become a complete waste, after all, the goal of the capital ship is to deal with the enemy's capital ship, and if the performance is not up to standard, then it can only be killed by the enemy......