Incheon has a special status in the northeast, although the governors of the three provinces concurrently serve as the unified supervision of North Korea, although the mainstream of North Korea has tended to "North Korea should be a province of China", but North Korea is still not a province of China after all, and in North Korea, Incheon's status is also special Until now, it still enjoys the status of a "special zone". Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the past, the Incheon Special Zone was a testing ground for the unified government to implement new policies, and even the birthplace of the Northeast industry, but now, as the industry in the Northeast is becoming more and more developed, the importance of the Incheon Special Zone is being replaced little by little. However, among the many factories in Incheon, there is one that is irreplaceable - the Incheon factory of Beiyang Shipbuilding, which was once the largest shipbuilding company in East Asia, and is still as large as the Dalian factory.

Over the years, the Incheon shipyard, which has developed rapidly under the stimulus of Beiyang shipping, Beiyang fishing merchant ships, distant-water fishing vessels and even fishing mother ships, has never struggled with orders, and there is a figure that may tell the story - in the past ten years, it has built 1.45 million tons of ships, of which 90% are civilian merchant ships, and the remaining 10%, although the proportion is not large, has been promoting the technological development of the shipyard and promoting the upgrading of the shipyard's equipment.

This is the construction of warships!

The Incheon shipyard has too many firsts, the first armored cruiser made in East Asia, the first combat ship, the first torpedo boat, the first destroyer, the first submarine, and it is all these things that make this shipyard the most trusted shipyard in the navy, and even more important to the navy than Dalian.

It is precisely for this reason that, with the preference of the navy, many important naval projects often start with Incheon. For example, the construction of the "Jinghai". Now after six years of service on the "Jinghai". Once again, it entered the dock, where it was rebuilt for mid-term service.

Dazzling arc light flickered on the hull of the ship, and thousands of workers were busy on the deck of the warship like industrious mosquitoes, its turret with endless power stored in the middle of nowhere, under the base of the turret made of heavy armor, the workers were working hard to install the new type of loaf, once the new loaf was installed. Its rate of fire will increase exponentially.

“…… The pitch and pan rotation of the gun were driven by an electric motor, and during pitch operation the motor power was transmitted to an arc gear combined with the hydraulic parts of the gun mount. When rotated horizontally, the rotation of the turret base of the outer ring is controlled by means of an annular ring gear. One of the main technical features of the new turret was the application of an automatic governor, which used a hydraulic transmission gear unit, which acted as an elastic transmission and allowed instantaneous braking at high speeds without affecting the direction of rotation of the output shaft. The automatic governor used on the turret effectively reduced the gunner's workload for horizontal and pitch maneuvers, requiring only the shaking of the handwheel connected to the cam, while the self-designed chain loader and the corresponding gun carriage. Its prototype passed 5,000 fail-free runs in the test......"

In the dock, Shi Si looked quite excited. It was at his initiative that the new turret was first proposed after the entry into service of the "Jinghai". Subsequently, the efforts of Zhongxin technicians succeeded in increasing the speed of the loading process in just 3 years, so that the rate of fire of the gun reached 2 rounds per minute. The new generation of improved turrets is expected to have a rate of fire of up to 3 rounds per minute, which was the rate of fire of the old 10-inch naval guns six years ago, when the Jinghai class first entered service. Even Britain has no better turret, as for the Russians...... You don't even have to think about it.

And more importantly!

"A single twelve-inch naval gun!"

Looking at the mechanical platform of the gyratory machine that was being hoisted, Shi Si couldn't help but whisper on his lips, the biggest improvement of the "Jinghai" this time is here, the ten-inch second-stage main gun used by the "Jinghai" has been modified into a twelve-inch naval gun with the same main gun this time. As a product of the Navy's dispute over the 8-inch and 10-inch guns of the armored cruisers, the twin 8-inch guns of the "Jinghai" were modified to a single-mounted 10-inch turret, and because of this, it ushered in the era of the second-class main gun.

In the actual use in the following years, the navy unexpectedly found that there were also problems in the use of the second-level main guns that the Jinghai-class battleships were proud of, that is: it was difficult to use the first and second main guns together, because the impact points were different, and the fire control system was difficult to coordinate and command, and could only be operated in turns, which objectively negated the original intention of the Jinghai-class battleships to adopt the second-class main guns, and even the reason why the rangefinder was installed on each turret last year was also to solve this problem. While retrofitting each gun with an optical sight, the shipyard also started working with the arsenal to work on other solutions, and the lessons learned from the Sea told the shipyard to either return to the traditional design or use a uniform caliber of main guns.

Although Shi Si, Shi Tengge and others have begun to study the full-armed heavy firepower warship, on the other hand, how to upgrade the "Jinghai class" has also become a fact in front of everyone, after all, this is the main force of the navy, just as the twin 8-inch became a single 10-inch evolutionary road, and evolved into a double-mounted 10-inch after appropriate modifications, the shipyard proposed a simplest transformation method - the use of a single-mounted 12-inch turret to replace the second-stage main gun. This is completely realistic, after all, the "Jinghai class" is capable of withstanding a salvo of eight twelve-inch naval guns, both in terms of tonnage and structure.

After the shipyard put forward this plan, after repeated hesitation, the navy chose the two warships with the worst combat effectiveness, the "Jinghai" and the "Jihai" for transformation, compared with the "Zhihai" type, its upgrade requires a large-scale transformation of the gun mount and other parts, which also delayed the transformation time, after seven and a half months of transformation, now the two warships are finally about to be completed.

"What, do you think of this guy again?"

Standing beside Shi Si, Shi Tenge said with a smile, his eyes were also looking at this somewhat "old" battleship, after this transformation, it will become the most powerful warship in the entire Northeast Navy and even the world, but on the other hand, this is also a test, testing whether the idea of unified artillery heavy battleships is realistic.

"I didn't think of it. It's ......"

There was a slight pause. Shi Si turned his head to look at Stengge and said.

"I think. We should overturn the old plan, as Jinghai did, using six twin turrets, which is not appropriate, after all, on the battle line its broadside only has a maximum of eight guns capable of firepower, which means that the other four turrets are completely useless during the battle, and one gun is worth 935,000 yuan. The four cannons are as high as 3.7 million yuan, and this kind of waste is a crime at all! ”

After all, the price of a 10-inch naval gun is only 289,000 yuan, and if a 12-inch main gun is installed on a unified firepower heavy ship that requires 11.22 million yuan, which is more than half of the estimated construction cost, this kind of "waste" is undoubtedly unacceptable to the navy, and more precisely, it does not meet the needs of the future naval confrontation in the Pacific Ocean.

"So, what do you think?"

Stengge was slightly stunned. Looking at Shi Si in some surprise, he didn't expect the other party to have such an idea.

"Thoughts? According to the current situation. It can be said unceremoniously that after defeating the Russians, the only challenge in the future Pacific Ocean comes from the Americans who have just announced the construction of sixteen battleships, and the Chinese Navy will inevitably go to confrontation with it, and even war, the four guns wasted 3.7 million yuan, equivalent to 18.5% of the cost of a 20,000-ton warship, which means that for every four warships built, a warship is wasted, and this waste is by no means something that China's economy can afford, after all, economically, even if the Northeast unifies China in the future, China still can't compete with the United States, and the United States can afford this kind of waste, but China can't, and China must save every penny of its budget, otherwise the arms race with the United States will bring China down......."

Although Shi Si, who has been naturalized as a naturalized Chinese citizen, is not a soldier, but as a ship designer, he knows very well that the imaginary enemy of the ******** is the United States or even the United Kingdom, and in this case, in addition to the need for more powerful warships, the Chinese Navy also needs to be as armed as possible without wasting financial resources.

"Then switch to four twin turrets!"

Stengge said in a calm tone, his thought level was jumping, the prototype of the front and rear superimposed turrets, he had already drawn a sketch.

"In this way, the firepower will never be wasted, whether it is on the port side or the starboard side, it can be guaranteed that it has the firepower of eight main guns on the side of the ship, but the firepower of the bow is relatively weak......"

For the Navy, which is "superstitious" in firepower, will they accept this "weakness"?

"Is it weak?"

Asking rhetorically, Shi Si said. ，

"I don't think so, you must know that the old battleships only had two twelve-inch naval guns, of course, if they find it a little unacceptable, we can change to a more powerful main gun, such as 320 mm or 330 mm, or even 14-inch naval guns......"

Since the breakthrough in the manufacture of 12-inch naval guns eight years ago, the Shenyang Arsenal can be said to have absorbed the strengths of Britain and Germany in the manufacturing technology of large-caliber artillery, and has continuously developed experimental large-caliber guns, although only one or two were manufactured, and then installed on the coastal defense fortress, but now the Shenyang Arsenal has the ability to manufacture naval guns of more than 13 inches.

8 thirteen-inch naval guns!

With just a little imagination, Stengge can imagine that after such a giant ship is born, the shock to the navies of all countries in the world may even lead to the advent of an era, just like the "Sovereign" of the British Royal Navy, creating an era.

"If that's the case, I'm afraid we still need to develop new artillery and turrets, and we may not be able to rush in time, the navy, well, I think maybe we can consider twelve inches, after all, its technology is more mature, after all, this has a certain experimental nature, not to mention, the mainstream of the navies of various countries is now twelve inches, eight ......"

Eight doors and twelve inches are already very powerful, just like the "Jinghai" after completing the transformation, staring at the battleship in the dock, Stengge said suddenly.

"If all goes well, and its performance satisfies the Navy, then after this war, the other four ships of the Navy may also be converted to unified artillery, and then ......."

"When the time comes, it will be the Americans who will have a real headache!"

The corners of Shi Si's lips suddenly lifted, and his gaze involuntarily looked towards the east.

"Under the shock of the Russian fleet, the US Congress agreed to Roosevelt's proposal to expand the navy, and the construction of 16 warships in the shipyards on the east and west coasts ...... start at the same time."

With a sneer, Shi Si's eyes were gloating.

"But they're all outdated! With the US Congress having just approved sixteen warships, do you think it is still possible for the US Congress to approve the construction of new warships? I estimate that we can win at least four to five years, and in these four or five years, if the navy can maintain a basic rate of expansion, then at least a new naval fleet can be built, the Americans ......."

After a slight pause, Shi Si said in an extremely confident tone.

"Unless Roosevelt can persuade Congress to expand accordingly, the U.S. Navy will be far from our opponent in terms of strength, and if we can maintain this advantage, then we can maintain our lead over the U.S. Navy, and if we add Hawaii, then there is no one in the Pacific who can shake us!"

Ensuring the interests of the Pacific Ocean is the direction of the future development of the Navy, after all, going south will challenge the hegemony of Britain and France, and for China, now is not the time to make too many enemies, and what it can do is to strive to ensure the current interests, and to ensure the interests of Japan, Hawaii, the Philippines, Guam, and other places, and it will undoubtedly further intensify the contradictions with the United States.

But on the other hand, this is also what Britain needs, Britain needs China to solve the Russian threat, but in the same way, Britain also needs other countries to balance China, and the confrontation between China and the United States is undoubtedly in the interests of Britain, and it is also the fundamental reason for Britain to relax its vigilance against China.

"...... of Interests"

Sighing at the strength and pride contained in these two words, Stengge realized that the current Northeast or the future China has undergone fundamental changes, and this change may be brought about by this war.

"It seems that this is not what we need, and to be honest, I am more worried about the present than in the future! My friend! (To be continued.) )