Chapter 148: Global Naval Race (3/10)

"Commander, the British's new first-class battleship Orion, which was successfully launched three days ago, the Orion-class battleship, the British plan to start building four, and at the same time design and build the next class of new battleships, for which the British allocated funds for the construction of a total of twelve super-senseless-class battleships."

"In order to maintain its superior position in terms of firepower, the Orion class installed a new 45 times diameter 14-inch caliber main gun to replace the original Dreadnought-class battleship's unified caliber main gun. For the first time, the main gun turrets were arranged along the longitudinal central axis of the hull, with five twin-mounted main turrets, two of the bow and stern of the hull, and one of the amidships behind the chimney, so that all the main guns could carry forward the fire of the same side. ”

"For the first time, a central fire control system was installed on the ship, and the firing command azimuth disc, invented by Rear Admiral Percy Scott, an officer of the Royal Navy, was installed under the firing command post in the foremast. The fire control center controls the firing and aiming of each gun on the ship, and when the main gun is fired in a salvo, it can concentrate on observing and correcting the impact point and unifying the firing elements, and it becomes relatively easy for the artillery to adjust the direction and aim at the target according to the instructions, and according to the evaluation and calculation of a large number of experts in the intelligence center, the Orion has a hit rate of six times that of a conventional dreadnought-class warship with a firing command azimuth plate installed. ”

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In Tokyo, Japan, in the same manor, in Fan Yize's personal office, a young man in a suit and leather shoes, with a big back and sunglasses, stands straight, introducing the main international information he has recently obtained.

Countries have begun to build their own dreadnought-class warships, and even the four countries of Britain, France, the United States, and Germany have begun to design super-dreadnought battleships that can rival the dreadnought first-class battleships.

The displacement is all more than 25,000 tons, the caliber is generally about 355 mm, and the minimum speed is 23 knots, or even higher.

Unified armor protection, improved old naval warfare technology, and the development speed of warships of various countries due to the relationship between the Red Guard Corps and the Navy are all one or two years ahead of the original history.

In this regard, Fan Yize has no way, it will rain and the mother will get married, and the only thing he can do is to understand the shipbuilding situation of various countries as much as possible.

Even Russia has built and launched the battleship Gangut, but it is only this dreadnought-class battleship.

Compared with the desperate posture of several countries building several ships together, although Russia also has quite standard technology, but the financial situation is really unaffordable, and the domestic regime is full of contradictions, and the Duma even wants to kill all of Russia's shipbuilding plans.

This was Russia's last effort to save the Far East, although a lot of technology was borrowed from foreign countries, and even with the help of the British, it was finally possible to build a warship of this class.

However, compared with the super dreadnought of all countries building 13.5-inch guns or 14-inch guns, the main guns of these four Russian warships are still 12 inches, which is too much worse.

As a result, at the strong insistence of Nicholas II, Russia recently began construction of three more battleships of this class, which were officially named Sevastopol-class battleships.

As the leader of the global navy, although Britain has been pressed by the Red Alert Navy over the years, after all these years of catching up, it was finally able to come up with a main battle ship that was enough to compete with the dreadnought first-class battleships.

The Orion-class battleships, which were recently launched by the British, and the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, which have already begun to lay keels, will be deployed in the Far Eastern Fleet in the future.

This kind of crazy shipbuilding plan is obviously aimed at Fan Yize, and the British do not shy away from Fan Yize's feelings at all, and when announcing the new Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, they also announced that this will be the strongest battleship that comprehensively surpasses the naval battleships under Fan Yize.

However, Germany, as a European power, has to face Russia on the one hand, and Britain on the other, and while the British are frantically building ships, the Germans are not far behind.

As a country that targets Britain and Russia at the same time, Germany has purchased a lot of advanced technology from Fan Yize in terms of shipbuilding.

This is also the reason why Britain began to openly lash out at Fan Yize, and even as long as Germany wanted, the dreadnought first-class battleship Fan Yize would be sold to Germany.

At present, there are thousands of engineers helping in shipyards in Germany, and these engineers helped design the new German warships.

The strength of the German navy was not weak in the first place, and although the British rose up, as if the accumulation of technology allowed them to accumulate thick and thin, the Germans did not lag behind.

With the help of Fan Yize, the design of German battleships directly got rid of the situation that the main gun caliber of warships of all classes in the German naval fleet was always smaller than that of ships of the same class in the British Royal Navy, from light cruisers to battleships.

At this time, the British had completed the launch of the Orion-class battleships with 355 mm guns, and began to build the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships with 381 caliber guns.

The construction of the new Bavaria-class battleships began directly, and the advanced 355mm battleship main guns were purchased directly from Fan Yize, and with the help of Red Alert engineers, the battleships of this class were redesigned, and four power systems were also directly purchased.

As a result, the Bavaria-class battleships, equipped with five twin installations, not only had great firepower, but also had a speed of up to 25 knots.

In order to compete with Britain, Germany spared no expense, built six Bavaria-class battleships in one go, and was also designing the next class of new battleships, and also spent a lot of money, planning to independently design 381 mm guns.

The Germans' shipbuilding plans were all kept secret, so it was difficult for the outside world to discover them in time, and the outside world only knew that Germany had received a lot of advanced shipbuilding technology from Fan Yize, and the tonnage of the new class of battleships was very likely to exceed 30,000 tons.

However, the British are just as confident, after all, the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships are not weak.

France and the United States are not far behind, and various warships have also been launched one after another.

Only Fan Yize, who seems to have disappeared from the world all at once, has not broken the news of any new warships, but the outside world does not dare to underestimate it, and even most people think that Fan Yize must be secretly building new warships.

However, Fan Yize himself knows very well that there are no new warship units at the Red Alert base now, and what is built is still a dreadnought first-class battleship.

Fortunately, the Red Guard Navy is still not weak, and even after the barracks were fully upgraded to the second level, the comprehensive strength of the Red Guard Corps has been well improved.