Chapter 414 Huaxia Yanhuang
For these two super battleships, the entire shipyard is indeed almost worshiped as gods, in this era when the cannons of giant ships are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, tonnage and artillery caliber are signs of strength, close to 40,000 tons of standard displacement, eight 52 times the diameter of 380 mm rapid-fire main guns, these two figures against the current battleships, can only be described in one word, crushing.
And that perfect protection ability, the whole battleship is simply an iron lump welded with the latest high-performance alloy armor, not to mention the main 280 and 305 mm main guns on those battleships now, even its own 380 main guns may not be able to penetrate its main armor.
The armor of the Kunlun-class battleships has been described as indestructible, the thickness of the main armor of these two battleships is almost half thicker than that of the Kunlun-class, even Zheng Qinglian, the engineers in charge of construction, think that such thick armor is completely unnecessary, in fact, they don't know that this is still Emperor Yang for his thirty-two knots speed, slightly reduced in terms of armor, but even so, the total armor of this super battleship is more than 15,000 tons, and the tonnage of the armor alone has reached the standard displacement of the Kunlun class.
The power system is the same as the original, three steam turbines, three-shaft propulsion, and the situation on the aircraft carrier also appears here, because of the advantages of the processing technology of the beauty head, the power of the imitation of the original steam turbine greatly exceeds the original, a single is close to 60,000 horsepower, and the total power of the three is 170,000, plus the weight reduction in armor and anti-aircraft artillery, this super battleship standard platoon is 3,000 tons lower than the Bismarck class, and it is estimated that the speed of 32 knots can be fully guaranteed, which can ensure that their speed is not lower than that of the current perfect battleship.
As for the observation and sighting system, Yang Feng has nothing to hide on these two battleships, and he goes directly to the radar, in fact, he is ready to wait for the time to really participate in the war, install radar on all his large warships, and then run out at night to bully people. One can imagine how sad and angry the ghosts who stared at the sea with searchlights when the Chinese battleships fired at the British battleships from 20 kilometers away in the dark of night.
Although the Bismarck-class battleships have the defect of insufficient horizontal armor, this point can be completely ignored in Yang Feng's opinion, first of all, he does not need to worry about air attacks, and it will take another twenty years for the European powers to build planes that can carry heavy bombs into the sky.
Second, the current observation and sighting systems of European countries are not enough to support their warships to shoot at targets more than 15 kilometers away, even if the farthest attack record in World War I was only 17 kilometers, and the target that they are trying to pursue now is not 15 kilometers, which is already very good. Originally, it was not until the Russo-Japanese War that the war began at a distance of 10 kilometers.
There is also the problem of the elevation angle of the artillery, now only the main guns of the battleships used by China have an elevation angle of 45 degrees, and there are no others with such a large angle, although the elevation angle greatly increases the firing range, but the problem is that the observation and sighting system is useless if it is not reached, and even the elevation angle of the main guns of the French Guba-class battleships is only less than 20 degrees, and it is impossible for such naval guns to shoot large-angle attack shells.
Moreover, with the performance of the armor produced in China now, the alloy armor with a thickness of 120 mm is enough to withstand the direct attack of the 305 main guns on the French Charle-Martel-class battleships at a distance of seven kilometers. This was tested last time with captured French battleships, because at this distance the main guns of the French simply could not penetrate a one hundred and twenty mm thick armor plate riveted on a merchant ship.
Even if the distance was reduced to an exaggerated kilometer, the Charlie Martel's 305mm guns could not penetrate the main armor of the Kunlun-class battleships. The thickness of the main armor of the Kunlun class was only two hundred millimeters, while these two ships were three hundred, so Yang Feng could almost pat his chest and assure, at least within the time frame he needed. These two super battleships are completely the survival of the desperate survival of European countries.
The only thing that could threaten them was torpedoes, the best steam gas torpedoes right now. The firing range is only ten kilometers, and it has to be made by Bofors, but neither torpedo boats nor destroyers can get close to them, and even if there are no small warships to intercept them, it is impossible to break through the fire network composed of their six twin 150 and eight twin 105 auxiliary guns, let alone daytime, even at night.
As for submarines, in front of their high-performance sonars it is a complete joke.
Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if you are caught by one or two torpedoes, just with the actual combat record of the Bismarck-class, there is nothing to worry about, and the underwater explosion of the British's eight tons of ZHA medicine did not kill Tirpitz, which is enough for Emperor Yang to directly disdain the torpedoes he produced, the two hundred kilograms of antimony and antimony.
And in three years, these two sea overlords will be able to gallop across the field, and when he thinks of this, Emperor Yang can't help but be fascinated.
"Your Majesty, you haven't given names to these two battleships yet!" Zheng Qinglian said on the side.
"Name-giving? What else is the name given, one is called Huaxia, and the other is called Yanhuang. Yang Feng said very simply while stroking his super battleship.
"Then the follow-up is not easy to name, right?" Yuan Shikai reminded him carefully.
"Follow-up? No, there is no follow-up, this kind of battleship only builds these two, and after they are launched, these two docks are the same as those two, all of them are changed to build aircraft carriers, you must understand that the era of battleships is about to pass, aircraft carriers are the future of naval warfare, as for these two super battleships, the biggest use in the future is just deterrence, to put it bluntly, it is used to scare people, used to show our strength, it is aircraft carriers that really win thousands of miles away for us, or those small battleships can also be, this is the treasure of the town, It's not just something you can go out with, you have to do more. Yang Feng said.
He was embarrassed to say that these two sea overlords, which cost nearly 1.5 billion yuan, were to satisfy his personal hobbies.
However, his decision made the entourages around him stunned, they really didn't expect that Emperor Yang would actually build these two.
"But with only these two ships, our battlefleet will be a little insufficient." Ding Ruchang said that the number of eight battleships and eight battlecruisers is indeed a bit tight, especially now that China needs to protect too much territory, from the Americas to Asia, the entire vast Pacific Ocean, and even the Indian Ocean and Europe need to be mixed, sixteen capital ships are not enough in any case.
"Continue to build Hongwu-class battle cruises, and now that the orders of the Swedish shipyard are completed, and the European countries are fighting, we will definitely not be able to sell warships again, so what are you doing in the idle dock, even Sweden will take the country to build together, and now this thing has been built, basically it will not take two years to build one, add up to sixteen docks, and start construction of sixteen ships at the same time, and the size of the fleet will double in two years." Yang Feng said with a smile.
In fact, there is no more suitable way to escort an aircraft carrier formation than this kind of warship, which is fast and has powerful firepower, even if it does not rely on aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft, it is not inferior to any enemy in a decisive battle with naval guns, and more importantly, the cost is low, two million pounds is the export price, in fact, the shipyard sells only 35 million Chinese dollars to the navy, which is equivalent to about 1.5 million pounds.
But this price is the purchase price of the Admiralty, for the Congress, for Yang Feng there is no concept of price at all, there is 500,000 yuan in which is his engine domestic quotation, as for the remaining gearbox and artillery, the transmission shaft is produced by his own enterprise, it is nothing more than a little raw materials and workers' wages, to be honest, let alone build another 16 ships, that is, he will not frown.
Since he is ready to continue to build Hongwu-class battle cruisers, then Ding Ruchang has nothing to say, in fact, he also feels that these two super battleships are completely wasteful, as for Yang Feng's aircraft carriers to dominate naval warfare in the future, he can't express any opinion on this, so far his impression of the aircraft is just a pile of wood and canvas, at most a few steel pipes and steel cables. Then the only thing that could be used in battle, that is, after the last naval battle with the French, according to the experience of the pilots of both sides with pistols and submachine guns to shoot at each other, experimented with an air-cooled heavy machine gun, which was still too much for him to say that this kind of thing could sink a battleship.
However, he didn't need to wait long, because at the Yanliang base, the fighters and torpedo bombers that Yang Feng wanted were almost completed, and compared to the construction of battleships, with drawings and materials, it was a very simple matter to develop small aircraft like Hawker and Swordfish.
But now Yang Feng also has a problem in front of him, where is he trying these things? Especially the trial voyage of aircraft carriers and super battleships, including future training, which requires a large area of sea area, at least before the European powers bleed each other, he is not ready to make these things public, aircraft carriers are better, even if this thing is exposed, it will not scare the European powers to pee their pants, after all, aircraft attacking battleships still looks a bit fantastical at this time, but super battleships must be kept secret.
He didn't want to scare the warring European countries into a truce as soon as possible, and then carefully prepare to meet his aggression one by one, but it is conceivable that once these two sea overlords appear in public, their ambition to dominate the world will be obvious.
So far, he has done a very good job in this regard, and the outside world, even in China, still does not know that such a huge project is being carried out here, but this is in the case of the construction of the dock, and it will be different when the dock is released later, especially if the battleship has to test artillery, the aircraft carrier has to test the take-off and landing of aircraft and even the sea attack, and it is difficult to keep it secret. (To be continued......)