Chapter 480: Naval Competition
These warships were already very powerful on the surface, and Fang Xiaoyu's plan was so large that he would completely renew the warships of the entire Chinese Navy, such a decision showed the wealth of the Chinese Empire, but the internal facilities of these warships were more complex and powerful than they appeared.
The first is that all new warships have a sonar system installed in the bows of the bulbous nose under water to search for possible enemy submarines in the future, in addition to the aircraft carriers are equipped with anti-aircraft alert radars, which are specially designed to search for enemy aircraft.
In addition to sonar and anti-aircraft warning radars, the cruisers were also equipped with sea search radars and ranging radars, and the most secret thing was that each of these three large warships also had a large computer for calculating ballistics.
Due to the development of the electronics industry in the past few years, the supercomputer that had been calculated millions of times at the beginning was finally reduced to a size of two cubic meters, and became a large-scale computer that could be loaded into a warship, but because this kind of computer consumes a lot of power, it can only be turned on briefly in artillery battles to calculate the trajectory, and if it is turned on all the time during normal sailing, I am afraid that the endurance of the warship will be reduced to one-third.
In addition to these combat ships, Fang Xiaoyu also customized 10 20,000-ton oil supply ships, 30 30,000-ton comprehensive supply ships, 15 10,000-ton troop transport ships, eight 20,000-ton dock landing ships, and a large number of landing craft of various types.
As for those Zhonghua-class and Shannan-class battleships that must be decommissioned, all Zhonghua-class are directly sealed, and it is a pity that the Shannan-class is a new warship that has been sealed, so Fang Xiaoyu simply sent them to the Naval Academy to be training ships.
However, now that the Chinese Empire has taken over the former Lanfang Empire Naval School, there are already five schools for cultivating naval talents: Vladivostok, Liugongdao, Lushun, Quanzhou, and Ryukyu, and these eight warships are not easy to divide, so Fang Xiaoyu, who has a lot of money, took out a large sum of money from his private treasury with a stroke of his pen, and ordered three new 'Zhili' class battleships from the shipyard and assigned them to the naval school as training ships.
In the Chinese Navy's huge shipbuilding plan, all warships were started simultaneously in major shipyards, and at the same time, the construction of the 'Zhili' battleship was prominently advertised, and the news that it was built for the allies was deliberately concealed.
The news of the start of the construction of 50,000-ton battleships in the Chinese Empire frightened the Boston Empire. In the world war, the Chinese Empire made a lot of money, and the Boston Empire was the same, so they also began to build new warships, but after they began to design, they found that the largest dock in the country was only 30,000 tons, and it was impossible to build a 50,000-ton battleship like others, and the Boston Empire began to issue notices to shipyards across the country to upgrade their docks.
When everyone knew that the Boston Empire had begun to upgrade the docks on a large scale, the people in charge of the shipyards of the Chinese Empire knew how far-sighted Fang Xiaoyu was at the beginning, and he actually prepared a large enough dock early, otherwise the Chinese Empire would have temporarily expanded the dockyard like the Boston Empire, and delayed precious time.
It took half a year for the Boston Empire to complete the expansion project, and by this time the keels of the new warships of the Chinese Empire had been laid. Since the Boston Empire looted some scientists from the Western Continent, its scientific and technological strength has soared, and with the scientific and technological research results of the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire, they quickly developed a 300-horsepower diesel engine and a 356-millimeter gun, and it was only at this time that Fang Xiaoyu realized that he had made a mistake in the search for talents for the defeated countries after the war.
Originally, Fang Xiaoyu thought that his scientific research and development institutions were much more advanced than those of the Western Continent, and there was no need to invite those Western Continent scientists back at all, but he found that he had taken it for granted.
Not to mention that these scientists are all talented, each of them has their own specialties, just after they were collected by the Boston Empire, their scientific research ability has been greatly improved, which makes Fang Xiaoyu very worried.
I knew that the situation would develop to such a point, even if Fang Xiaoyu raised these people for nothing, he would not be able to let the Boston Empire improve its scientific research capabilities, but fortunately, Wu Qiong forced most of the scientists to return to the Western Continent in order to retaliate against Widman.
Knowing his mistake, Fang Xiaoyu began to think of a way to remedy it, he immediately sent people in the Western Continent to hire those scientists to come to the Chinese Empire on favorable terms, the Chinese Empire is now a famous scientific and technological holy land, naturally there are a large number of scientists willing to come, not to mention that the domestic economic situation of the Chinese Empire is much better than those countries in the Western Continent that are still in the period of economic recovery.
Seeing that the Chinese Empire began to compete for talents, the Boston Empire was also anxious, and they immediately began to recruit scientists from the Western Continent, and put forward more favorable conditions, but their previous policy of forced abduction caused many scientists to be very disgusted with them, and there were few people who responded to the Boston Empire's recruitment.
Even so, the technological level of the Boston Empire has risen considerably, so they soon began to introduce new equipment and products to engage the Chinese Empire in a technological and economic confrontation.
First of all, in terms of military industry, the Boston Empire saw the excellent performance of the aircraft carriers of the Chinese Empire in the war, and immediately began to develop its own aircraft carriers. Their first aircraft carrier was converted from a 5,000-ton coal carrier, named the Langley, and carried eleven seaplanes, making it the first seaplane carrier of the Boston Empire.
In addition, after seeing the Chinese Empire's large-scale construction of battleships, they were not far behind, and the construction of new 40,000-ton North Carolina-class battleships and 8,000-ton Los Angeles-class cruisers also began one after another, and in order to counter the submarines of the Chinese Empire, the 3,600-ton Flynn-class destroyers were ready to build more than 50 units, in addition, they also began the development of submarines using submarines captured from the Saar Empire.
Seeing that the Chinese Empire and the Boston Empire began to build new warships in full swing, the three Allied countries, which were very nervous economically, only had a hot eye, and the Yaman Empire was better, they gritted their teeth and began to build new Bavaria-class battleships with a displacement of 35,000 tons to replace the gradually backward King-class battleships, while the Habfsburg Kingdom and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia had to pick and choose among the captured ships and find relatively advanced and intact warships to use.
Although they could not afford to build new warships, the three countries did not stop the development of their navies because of the poor economy, and in addition to conducting pre-research on new battleships, they also began to study submarines, which are warships with few investments and quick results. In particular, the Yaman Empire, which tasted the sweetness of submarines in the world war, spared no effort to develop submarines, relying on the seizure from the Entente countries during the war, they soon began their own diesel engine development and submarine construction program.
Countries have seen the performance of the Chinese army in the war, and have transformed their own armies with the establishment model of the Chinese army, but imitation can never become the strongest, because when these countries imitate the Chinese empire, the Chinese empire has begun new research, and imitation will always be one step slower.
"Ying'er, are you tired?" Fang Xiaoyu wiped the sweat of his six-year-old daughter Fang Ruiying, who was teaching Fang Ruiying and Fang Ruihua to play Bajiquan in the garden at the moment.
"I'm not tired, Father, let's play for a while." Fang Ruiying shook off the hair that had been stuck to her face with sweat and replied.
"Father, why don't you ask me if I'm tired?" Fang Ruihua pouted and stood aside and said.
Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "My sister is a girl, I should naturally ask him first, you are a man, you can't be too squeamish." "In fact, Fang Ruihua was only born half an hour earlier than Fang Ruiying, and they are the same age.
"Okay, you guys can rest for a while, and then practice later." Seeing a pair of tired little children with red faces and wheezing, Fang Xiaoyu lovingly asked them to rest first.
At this moment, a teenager came over and said, "Father, Uncle Wu is asking to see you outside." ”
Fang Xiaoyu said: "Oh? I'm going to see him, and you play with your younger siblings here for a while, and take care of them. Fang Xiaoyu wanted to let his eldest son and younger siblings enhance their relationship, anyway, there were many female guards next to him, and they would not be in any danger.
"It's my father, I will definitely take care of my younger brothers and sisters." Fang Ruijun saluted uprightly, his daily study tasks were very heavy, and now he was able to play with his younger brothers and sisters for a while, Fang Ruijun was also very happy.
Fang Xiaoyu walked out of the imperial garden and saw Wu Feng waiting outside, he walked over with a smile and said, "Brother Wu, is there something wrong?" ”
Wu Feng said with a smile: "I'm here to say hello to the young master, two hours ago, our first synchronous communication satellite has entered the predetermined orbit, and now it is broadcasting news, as long as our radio is on the right frequency, you can hear it, and in the future, we will no longer have to use those bulky big towers for broadcasting." Because the news was too exciting, this time he didn't give the news to his daughter Wu Yunna, but came over himself.
"Really? That's great. Fang Xiaoyu said excitedly: "Let's go to the imperial study and listen to the radio from the satellite." ”
Fang Xiaoyu squinted his eyes in the study, listening to the delicate voice of the female announcer on the radio, Wu Feng leaned over and said, "Young master, recently the Boston Empire has made its own electron tubes, and they will no longer import them from us, it is said that they are trying to make radios and want to steal our business." ”
Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "What are you afraid of, even if they want to sell, they will give us patent fees." ”
Wu Feng said: "It's not a matter of money, young master, we can't let them occupy the market share of electrical products, is it to take out some of our hidden technology products for sale?" ”
Fang Xiaoyu opened his eyes and said, "Do you have any bad ideas, let's hear what you plan to sell?" ”