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Facing the young master's smiling eyes, Huo Feng was not embarrassed, after all, within the entire Huo family's army, he, the Minister of the Navy, was obsessed with battleships, but he was famous!

"The Nasaki-class light cruiser has a standard displacement of 5,260 tons and a full load displacement of 6,500 tons! The ship is 81.35 meters long, 17 meters wide, and has a draft of 6.78 meters! It carries 1,250 tons of coal, and the power compartment is composed of 10 coal-fired boilers with bent tubes, and 4 three-rise five-cylinder steam engines, with a cruising range of 10 knots of 10,000 nautical miles and 12 knots of 6,500 nautical miles!"

Hearing this, Huo Shan couldn't help but nodded, now that the Huo family army has almost full control of the world's largest ocean, the Pacific Ocean, in order to maintain the sovereignty and dominance of the Huo family army here, large range and high endurance are the primary factors in the design of warships!

"The maximum power provided by the battleship is 22,000 horsepower, the maximum speed under normal conditions is 24 knots, and after ventilation and pressurization, the maximum speed is 27,000 horsepower, 25.3 knots!

"The Mingxiang-class light cruiser is a fully armored protective steel warship, in which the conning tower, the front of the main gun and the waterline armor are 182mm surface carburized nickel alloy armor steel, and the thickness of the armor deck is 76.3mm surface carburized armor steel, the protective power of this new steel has been tested by our Admiralty, and it has reached twice the wrought iron armor, 1.5 times the composite armor, and 1.2 times that of ordinary nickel steel!"

Listening to Huo Feng's excited voice, Huo Shan was happy in his heart at the same time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 This nickel alloy armor steel with carburized surface is a new type of marine steel developed by the Academy of Military Sciences according to the formula of Krupp steel in later generations. Although the degree of surface treatment is only 5%, far from the more than 30% of the surface hardening degree of Krupp steel during the Dreadnought-class battleship competition in later generations, it is enough to increase the protection level of the ship by several levels!

It is believed that with the development of science and technology and the continuous improvement of processing technology, the degree of protection of this new type of steel will continue to make progress.

"The main guns of the Mingxiang-class light cruisers are 152mmL45 triple turrets, two in the front and one in the rear, of which the front main guns adopt a new knapsack layout, which increases the firepower when firing from the front! The secondary guns are 10 76mmL45 guns. Nine twin 37mm rapid-fire guns and 12 12.7mm heavy machine guns!"

Speaking of this, Huo Feng's tone involuntarily revealed a hint of regret. Because the Academy of Military Sciences has been developing a water-pressure gas artillery retraction machine for nearly four years, it has been successfully developed, and it has been successfully used in the new 75mm caliber field gun, which is not only one-third lighter than the original old 70mm caliber infantry gun, but also has a revolutionary improvement in design speed and accuracy. It's a pity, though. Because the time is too short, and the recoil of the 152mmL45 naval gun is several times that of the new 75 field gun, the navy will have to wait a while longer if it wants to replace the main gun of the navy with a new gun with a regression machine!

"In addition, there are eight twin 456mm medium torpedo tubes in the Mingxiang class, with 120 rounds of ammunition! Four minelaying rails, 300 rounds of ammunition!"

After years of development, coupled with Huoshan's emphasis on submarines and torpedoes. Huo Jiajun's torpedo research has been at the forefront of the world, and gyroscopes that can greatly improve the hit rate of torpedoes have been installed on new torpedoes. In addition, the 456mm heavy torpedo has reached 30 km/h and has a range of nearly 800 meters, although it is still not as good as the steam gas torpedo, but at this time it has far surpassed other European countries!

Of course, when choosing torpedoes for the famous phase class and even the famous general class, Huo Shan did not consider the 533mm caliber heavy torpedo, but although it was thrown into the sea because of the full charge of the warhead and the powerful power, but when thrown into the sea, the speed was too slow, and the range was too short, and if he didn't wait to hit, I was afraid that the enemy would have run away long ago!

Therefore, the Ministry of Armament used the 456 medium torpedo as the main battle torpedo of the Huo Jiajun Navy, and the armor of the battleship at this time was not as perverted as it was later, and it was a surface carburized alloy steel of several hundred millimeters or more at every turn, so at this time the medium torpedo was completely enough!

"In addition, in terms of the design of the battleship, the Mingxiang-class light cruiser has also made many improvements compared with the previous destroyers and Seahawk-class frigates, such as; the dry suspension has been further improved, and the waves of the ship have been reduced; the use of small watertight compartment technology has increased buoyancy to improve the survivability of the battleship; the area of the stabilizer fin has been increased, and the stability of the battleship has been increased!" As for the design of canceling the sail lock and ramming angle, Huo Feng did not mention it at all, because that has become the normal design method of the Huo family warship!

"In the end, the crew of the Mingxiang-class light cruisers is 432 people! Twenty-six warships of this class will be built in four batches, and eight warships will be built in the first batch, including four ships at the Keelung Shipyard and two ships each at the Kaohsiung Shipyard and the Mogang Shipyard! The last three batches of six ships at each time will be delivered within the next five years! The report is complete!"

After listening, Huo Shan nodded with satisfaction, in this era when the former dreadnought ship had not yet been born, the firepower, speed and protection of the Mingxiang-class light cruiser were enough to ensure the safety of Huo Jiajun's sea area!

"Ji Zhu (Wei Hanzi), how did you do with the other warships I told you about the Ship Design Institute?" Huo Shan turned his head and asked.

In recent years, with the launch of a large number of new destroyers and frigates of the Huo Jiajun, although the Navy's warships are still not enough, they are no longer as urgent as they were at the beginning, so the naval construction of the Huo Jiajun has also begun to develop from the original surface combat ships, and gradually developed in depth, and offshore patrol ships, torpedo boats, river gunboats, transport ships dedicated to military transportation, and naval landing craft designed by Huo Shan have begun to appear on the desk of the Naval Ship Design Institute!

"Young master, the design of these ships you explained is not complicated, so our ship design institute has come up with a mature design plan and submitted it to major shipyards for production!"

"Well, I see, you tell me about the design of the river gunboat and the military transport ship!" The reason why Huo Shan specifically asked about these two types of ships was because the past wars really exposed the urgency of these two types of warships for the Huo family army itself!

After the end of the Pittsburgh War, China and the United States began a long confrontation along the Ohio River and the Mississippi River, while the river gunboats converted from offshore fishing boats and passenger and cargo ships exposed too many problems, such as slow speed and deep draft, especially in the relatively shallow waters of the Ohio River! In addition, the excessively large hulls of these modified ships also caused the situation of inflexible steering and affected the combat effectiveness of the ships, so since last year, the Admiralty has issued a plan to design a special ship for inland river warfare, but at that time it was a critical period in the design of the Mingxiang-class light cruisers, and it was really impossible to spare manpower, so it was taken off! Fortunately, it has been completed now!

"Young master, according to the needs of the troops, we have mainly designed three types of large, medium and small river gunboats, and at the same time meet the operational needs of different waters! Among them, the large boat is named the 'River God' class, with a standard displacement of 750 tons and a full load of 860 tons, the main size: 69.1 meters (full length) / 9 meters (width) / 2.3 meters (draft), power: 2 reciprocating steam engines, 2 small water tube boilers, 1700 horsepower, speed 16 knots! Endurance: 2500 nautical miles / 12 knots; The firepower is one single 130mm L40 naval gun, two 76mm secondary guns, and four twin 12.7mm Scorpion II heavy machine guns! Twelve ships are planned to be built to serve as the flagships of the sub-fleets of the River Fleet of the Americas!"

"The medium-sized river gunboat is named the 'Hewei' class, with a standard displacement of 350 tons and a full load displacement of 412 tons; main dimensions: 56.3 meters (full length)/0.9 meters (width)/1.3 meters (draft); power: 2 reciprocating steam engines, 2 small water tube boilers; 1400 horsepower, speed 17 knots; endurance: 1400 nautical miles/14 knots; firepower is two single-mounted 76mm guns and four 12.7mm heavy machine guns! It is planned to build 88 ships, and in addition to the 24 ships that will be handed over to the American River Fleet for combat duty, the other 64 Hewei-class ships will be modified to a certain extent, and then undertake the tasks of coastal patrol and anti-smuggling in various coastal provinces!"

"The small river gunboat is named the 'River Soldier' class, with a standard displacement of 120 tons, a full load displacement of 165 tons, a main size: 46.2 meters (full length) / 7.82 meters (width) / 0.71 meters (draft), power: 2 reciprocating steam engines, 2 coal-fired boilers, 750 horsepower, speed: 16 knots, firepower single 76mm guns, two 12.7mm light machine guns! It is planned to build 144 ships, and in addition to the 96 ships assigned to the American River Fleet, the remaining 48 ships will be dropped to the river guards of other provinces to undertake the task of vigilance!"

After listening, Huo Shan nodded, "These small-tonnage inland river gunboats are simple to manufacture, and there are no brilliant new technologies, so let's hand over their construction to other shipyards! The three major shipyards should not compete for these orders! This can be regarded as supporting the development of the shipbuilding industry in the territory of the Huo Jiajun!"

Since Huo Jiajun occupied Nanyang, the rapid development of the economy, coupled with the water on all sides, the shipping industry has developed rapidly, and the original Nanyang Chinese plantation owners who were bound by Huo Jiajun's land policy have many put money into the shipbuilding industry, after more than four years of development, the shipyards under the jurisdiction of Huo Jiajun have been added together, there are already fifty or sixty, but most of them are mainly producing offshore passenger and cargo ships and fishing boats of less than 1,000 tons, and only 12 can produce ships of more than 1,000 tons, of which four belong to the Huo family!

I believe that the construction of more than 200 river gunboats, and even torpedo boats, was handed over to these small and medium-sized shipyards, which was enough to give them a significant improvement in technology and scale!

"Yes, young master!" Huo Jianliang agreed with some pain. Although the cost of these small ships is not high, and the profits are not as good as those of large cruisers and destroyers, the advantage is that there are many of them, and more than 200 warships of several hundred tons together are also big fat meat that makes all parties covet! However, now that the young master has spoken, it is natural that there is no share of the three major shipyards! )