"You're going to copy Iowa?!" Cato grew his mouth in surprise and his jaw dropped. Then he shook his head: "No! Iowa also did not have such a strong defense, is this Yamato with a 406-mm gun? ”

Of course not.

What Xu Zhonglin wants to copy is only the Soviet class. The Soviet-class battleships were only an unfinished battleship in his original world, and the four ships that had been built one after another: the USS Soviet, the USS Ukraine, the USS Belarus, and the USS Russia were abandoned due to the German invasion after less than 20% of the work was completed.

Similar battleships were four German Hindenburg-class battleships. It was a more powerful battleship than the Soviet-class, with a displacement of 69,000 tons, and was available in two versions, the first H39 with four twin 406 mm guns, and later the H41 with four twin 420 mm guns. The armor can ensure that he is immune to the 406 mm naval guns of the Iowa-class battleships at a distance of 20,000 meters, and the speed has reached the standard 27 knots, which is quite powerful.

In this world, these unfinished battleships will also be summoned as ship mothers, but the summoned battleship ship mothers have no sanity like the ship mothers of cargo ships, and they can't be used in battle. However, the hulls of these ships have a very high research reference value.

Both Germany and Russia had summoned several of these battleships before, but the reverse mapping of the drawings was enormous, and there was no obvious sign of the completion of such drawings in either country. Maybe the mapping has not yet been completed, or maybe it is intended to be used as a secret weapon, which is unknown to the outside world.

The reason why Xu Zhonglin dared to take out the blueprints of the Soviet-class battleships openly was after careful consideration.

The drawings of the Soviet-class battleships themselves can be seen as an enlarged version of the Vittorio Veneto-class battleships, in the original world, when the USSR planned to build a large wave of capital ships, but the national designers were very weak and used the method of international bidding. In the end, only the design team came up with a design plan that they were satisfied with, and increased the caliber of the gun and armor protection on the basis of the Veneto-class battleships. Soviet-grade is Veneto's big fat cousin, and the two are in the same vein.

At that time, the reason why Yidu was willing to take out this kind of heavy equipment to help the Soviets was not simple, at that time, Yidu's national strength was not strong, and it was impossible to immediately start such a tonnage of giant ships, and they had never started such a huge ship, I didn't know what technical bottlenecks would be encountered, so they wanted to use the Soviets as an experiment, if the design was successful, the cost of building it in their own country would be reduced a lot, so they did their best in the design of this class of battleships, and did not cut corners.

This is the same reason that Russia designed the MiG-29K carrier-based aircraft for India in later generations, and took the money of the brother next door to go on the road, and if the things were good, they would save a lot of money if they used them again. If there are any defects, you can also optimize them when you build them yourself.

On the other hand, the two new mothers of Xu Zhonglin's fleet, Ekaterina and Alexandrovna, had a survey paper of a Soviet-class battleship in their hands. Seventy percent of the drawings are complete. The two shipwives were originally the core of the Baltic Fleet and the backbone of the entire Russian Navy, so they naturally had access to drawings of this level.

With this half-finished drawing, Xu Zhonglin can say to the outside world that he has successfully reproduced a new battleship drawing by referring to the hull of the Veneto-class battleship that Elena and Margaret are now using, plus the half-finished drawings.

"I'll tell you quietly, I got a half-finished product of an unpublished Russian battleship drawing, and found that this drawing is very similar to the Veneto-class battleship, and there are some recent research results."

Cato burst into a foul mouth: "it! So you're so powerful! I'll give my sister to you, how about borrowing it from me when the drawings are ready? ”

Are you such a cheating girl, Miss Kate de' Medici?

What is the concept of drawings of this level? At present, the battleship with the strongest comprehensive combat capability in the world is the Iowa class, with a full load displacement of only 57,000 tons, and the kind that Xu Zhonglin took out is 8,000 tons, even if the main gun, radar, and fire control are not as good as the Iowa class, but it is definitely stronger than the Veneto-class battleships used in Italy today.

If Italy had this kind of drawing, it would be able to compete with France again, and the quadruple Richelieu sixteen 380 mm main guns seemed to be powerful, but in fact the defense was not strong. Cato knew that such a strategically significant blueprint was not up to him, not even the Medici family.

He said this just as a joke between friends, but he didn't expect Xu Zhonglin to nod: "Your sister doesn't need it, I'll give you the drawings for free!" ”

"Eh~ What did you say?!" Cato was a little incredulous, according to his idea, Xu Zhonglin would be very interesting if he could use the drawings to help him rebuild a few battleships, just like Xu Zhonglin agreed with Lady Windsor and the ship's mother. As for the drawings, he never thought about it.

Xu Zhonglin stretched: "The drawings will be given to you for free!" How? Don't want it? ”

"Well, I'm talking nonsense about Kate, but it should be okay, I think you two are quite suitable." Cato stammered, the matter was too big, although Xu Zhonglin said it was free, but he knew that his family would never take it for nothing.

"I said, your sister won't need it."

Cato suddenly widened his eyes and opened his mouth wide: "My mother...... My mom can't get a divorce! She has a good relationship with my dad. ”

it! Dude, what are you thinking? Knowing that you are open, it is not a big deal for the old lady to remarry. But thinking about it this way, isn't there a bit of a lower limit?

Xu Zhonglin had the intention to tease him, and pretended to be disappointed: "Really? That's a shame. ”

"Wait, I'...... I asked my mom, it's not that I can't think about it. ”

"Poof!" Catherina, who was pouring tea for Xu Zhonglin on the side, couldn't help laughing: "Our admiral is joking with you." ”

Cato was a little confused, he was stunned by the sudden happiness: "I know, but what can our family come up with to compensate for such an important thing?" ”

"Resources, core, ship mother, I don't dislike anything."

"Nope! I can't fool you, buddy, you don't understand, that's not enough. At this level of trading, these ordinary things are far from sufficient. Only equivalent exchanges, marriages, political conditionalities, covenants, are worthy. You only have one town guard's mansion, and our family is just a family, the political conditions and covenants are not enough, we don't have equivalent items, and the only thing my family can take out is marriage. ”

It's like the United States sells F35, and the Saudi tyrants have money, but unfortunately, I'm sorry, you can't buy it. Because not a core ally.

Xu Zhonglin raised his head and leaned back on the chair: "Since our conditions can't be met, let's create conditions." You say, with this kind of drawing, can your father make a king to play? ”

'Dangchang! ’

The teacup in Cato's hand fell to the ground and shattered.