Chapter 479: Full Update
Instead of using steam turbines, the battleship used twelve diesel engines with a power of 165,000 horsepower, which not only allowed it to reach a speed of 30 knots, but also increased its endurance to 19,000 nautical miles.
In terms of weapons, its main gun uses the latest technology of the Chinese Empire's 406 mm 55 times the diameter of the triple turret four, in order not to affect the accuracy of shooting, the turret is also installed with a firing delay system, the secondary gun is a 127 mm high-level dual-purpose gun that increases the elevation angle to 75 degrees, a total of 12 twin-mounted guns, in addition to 8 40-mm quadruple anti-aircraft machine guns, 4 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns 24, the entire warship has simply become an air defense fortress.
In addition, the warship is also equipped with two guide rails, equipped with four seaplanes, in order to facilitate take-off on the guide rails, increase air buoyancy, the warship will be equipped with the old three-winged Golden Eagle 1 type fighter improved from the Golden Eagle 1 type of water reconnaissance aircraft, its improvement is not big, only the landing gear is replaced with a pontoon, in addition to the more powerful 300 horsepower engine, and the machine gun caliber is expanded to 12.7 mm.
This kind of battleship has such a huge displacement, according to the treaty, the Chinese Navy can only build four, which still has to retire the original sixteen Zhonghua-class battleships and eight Shannan-class battleships, but this type of battleship is just a cover for Fang Xiaoyu to mislead countries, in fact, they are not prepared for the Chinese Empire's own navy, but designed for the allies, of course, the design of this kind of battleship is not completely misleading countries, at a critical moment, they can still integrate the allied navies and deploy them in a unified manner.
Fang Xiaoyu's original intention was that the future fleet would serve aircraft carriers, so what all warships other than aircraft carriers needed was not firepower, but air defense and anti-submarine, and the best way to increase air defense capability was to increase the density of air defense firepower.
After experiments, it has been proved that the anti-aircraft firepower efficiency on a large-tonnage warship is better than the same anti-aircraft firepower on many small-tonnage warships, so Fang Xiaoyu built such a huge battleship, which is also in NATO's military integration mode, which completely unifies the navies of the allies with the fleet of the Chinese Empire, and can be grouped at will at any time.
Although the Zhili-class battleships were very powerful in terms of firepower and air defense capabilities, Fang Xiaoyu knew that these warships designed for the allies could not quench their thirst, and once a war broke out suddenly, the aircraft carrier fleet of the Chinese Empire could not wait for the warships of the allies to escort it, so he decided to start from the warships that did not care about the treaty to supplement the lack of anti-aircraft firepower.
The Wanghai-class cruiser has been in use for ten years, and the original advanced design can no longer meet the needs of the current war, so Fang Xiaoyu is ready to build a new cruiser to replace the Wanghai-class cruiser.
The new Hongyuan-class cruisers have a standard displacement of 9,947 tons, a full load displacement of 10,515 tons, a diesel engine power of 100,070 horsepower, a speed of 33 knots, and a cruising range of 10,000 nautical miles. This kind of warship is Fang Xiaoyu is prepared to use to defend his own waters, for fleet air defense and patrol, since there is no limit, Fang Xiaoyu plans to build a hundred.
The destroyer Fang Xiaoyu is ready to build two kinds, one is a general-purpose destroyer that can patrol independently, and the other is an anti-submarine destroyer specially designed for fleet anti-submarine purposes. The general-purpose Qingjiang-class destroyers have a relatively large tonnage, a full load displacement of 3,480 tons, a speed of 32 knots, and three twin-mounted 127-mm high-level dual-purpose guns, two four-pack 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, two twin-mounted 40-mm antiaircraft guns, 11 20-mm single-mounted antiaircraft guns, two 533-mm quadruple torpedo launchers, four depth charge droppers, and two depth charge throwing slots.
In order to circumvent the restrictions of the treaty, Fang Xiaoyu renamed it a frigate, and the Hunhe-class frigate is a special anti-submarine frigate, with a standard displacement of more than 1,400 tons, a full load displacement of only 1,660 tons, and a speed of 37 knots.
In terms of weapons, it has two single-barreled 127-mm high-level dual-purpose guns, two 533-mm triple-mounted torpedo launchers, three twin-mounted 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, four single-barreled 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, three twin-barreled 20-mm cannons, and 10 single-barreled 20-mm guns. The Qingjiang-class destroyers are fully prepared to build 110 units in full accordance with the treaty limit, and the Hunhe-class frigates will be built with 300 units.
With these new warships, the slow speed of the 24 knots of the county-class aircraft carrier, which is the main force of the fleet, is a little out of touch with the fleet, so Fang Xiaoyu plans to rebuild the first-class aircraft carrier.
In order to increase the speed, Fang Xiaoyu was a little hesitant about the new aircraft carrier he wanted to build before, because it did not have a huge hull like the county guard, and the standard displacement of the new governor-class aircraft carrier was only 27,500 tons, and the full load displacement was only 36,380 tons, which was a whole circle smaller than the county guard.
However, due to the more rational design, the carrying capacity of the county guard class was not reduced much, and there were still 92 combat aircraft and three lifting platforms, and its four steam turbines and eight heavy oil boilers could provide 150,000 horsepower, increasing its top speed to 33 knots, and the cruising range also reached 20,000 nautical miles.
There were not many weapons on this warship, only four 127-mm single-barreled high-level guns, eight quadruple 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, and forty-six 20-mm cannons, in addition to the large amount of armor, especially reinforced horizontal armor to enhance sinking resistance, and a primary steam catapult.
According to the treaty, the Chinese Empire can only build seven such aircraft carriers to replace the current four county guard-class and one Eagle's Nest class, Fang Xiaoyu is more hesitant about this, he prefers to design a large-tonnage aircraft carrier.
Even if he was hesitant about this, he was still ready to build a few Governor-Generals, and if he didn't use them, it would be good to equip the allies, who themselves did not have the strength to build new warships, and domestic shipyards and design offices could also use this to increase their experience in building and designing aircraft carriers.