In Zhu Jingyuan's mind, there is the development of modern naval ships in his previous life, as well as a large number of lessons and lessons summed up by later generations.

On the basis of these theories, how to plan the naval ship system of the Ming Empire in the next thirty years?

Purely considering the total cost of construction and use, it is possible to build enough battlecruisers in batches as the main force of the current era.

After the aircraft carrier's tactics are mature, these old combat cruisers will be comprehensively upgraded with new technologies, and the aircraft carriers will be fully equipped with anti-aircraft guns to serve as air defense protection platforms.

Until the guided weapons are fully mature, and the capital ships with large artillery are completely eliminated.

No other new dreadnought battleships could be built during the process.

In the original history, the life cycle of dreadnought battleships and battleship cruisers from birth to elimination was more than fifty years in total.

In this world, with its own guidance and acceleration, this cycle will be shortened again, maybe only thirty to forty years.

The lifespan of a capital ship is almost that many years.

Purely from the perspective of construction and use costs, it is indeed possible to formulate such a plan.

However, if we consider the need to maintain sea supremacy, to maintain the hegemony of the world's oceans, and to maintain strategic deterrence, we cannot do so.

The current situation in the world is very close to the situation before and after the First World War in my last life.

It was a period when the second industrial revolution was in full swing and weapons and equipment technology was developing at a rapid pace.

With the current level of industrial technology of the Taixi people, it is estimated that forty or fifty thousand tons of dreadnought battleships will be built in more than ten years.

More than 20 years later, if Britain were to learn from Zhu Jingyuan's world-class Japan, it would not be impossible to build 60,000 or 70,000 tons of warships.

At that time, if the Ming Dynasty still only had battlecruisers of similar prestige, it was obviously impossible to stop their impulse to use battleships for a decisive battle.

Therefore, before the aircraft carrier forms combat effectiveness, the Ming Dynasty cannot only have a combat patrol with similar prestige as the main force, but also has a cutting-edge battleship similar to Iowa and even Yamato.

Considering the international status of the Ming Dynasty, even if the aircraft carrier has initially formed combat effectiveness, it still cannot directly give up the super battleship.

An aircraft carrier born as a cruiser also needs to prove itself in real combat, sending a number of battleships to the bottom of the sea to raise coral.

Let all naval countries understand exactly that aircraft carriers have absolute superiority over battleships, and aircraft carriers can become the absolute main force in naval warfare, until a strategic deterrent is effectively formed.

Before that, Daming still needs to continue to keep multiple super battleships.

If there is no war like World War II and the aircraft carrier cannot prove itself quickly, the process will be relatively long.

In this case, super-capital ships, like super-nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in the new century, are an important fulcrum supporting the Empire's strategic deterrence capability.

Their very existence is their meaning, and there is no such thing as a waste if you can't fight.

Unless, like Japan in the previous life, keep Yamato's secrecy until it is eliminated......

The current international status of the Ming Dynasty is completely different from the book before World War II, and is more similar to the United States in the new century.

Therefore, the super battleship of the Ming Dynasty will be publicly publicized and displayed.

Just like Zhu Jingyuan said to the old emperor before, they will be the glory and symbol of the empire and the navy.

After thinking about it in this way, how do you plan the future warship design?

Build a batch of similarly prestigious battle cruisers first, and then build a batch of super battleships in more than ten years?

Or is it the same as in the historical context of the previous life, the battle cruiser and the traditional warship are built together?

After waiting for the relevant technology to mature, merge the technology of the two lines to form a complete "cutting-edge high-speed battleship"?

However, since as a traverser, he already knows that a high-speed battleship is a complete body of a dreadnought, and he also knows what their cutting-edge place is.

Can you skip the battle cruiser and traditional battleships and now go straight to the design and construction of high-speed battleships?

It's definitely impossible to do it in one step, but it shouldn't be a big problem to get a semi-finished product out.

On the last generation of cutting-edge high-speed battleships, many designs do not have much to do with the technical level, and many are formed by new ideas and ideas, as well as the accumulation of lessons and lessons.

For example, key protection design, horizontal armor and core armor box, inclined main armor, multi-layer convex lightning protection structure, application and defense of underwater bullets, armor stripping cap design, hood quilt cap armor-piercing bullet and so on.

Most of these technologies can be quickly replicated and can be applied directly to radical dreadnought designs alongside small-tube oil-fired boiler and steam turbine technology.

As for well-developed damage control programmes, well-developed anti-aircraft weapons and command systems, better observation and firing command systems, radars and ballistic computers, and so on.

These are not mature enough, or the technology has not yet been formed, so it is possible to leave room margin in the hull design in advance.

Then take the initiative to promote the development of the corresponding technology, and wait until it is basically mature, and install it through upgrading.

When the time comes, this half-finished high-speed battleship will be able to turn into a complete body.

In such a framework, after the high-speed battleship becomes a complete body, there is definitely no need to worry about combat effectiveness.

The key is combat effectiveness in the period of semi-finished products......

It doesn't seem like there's too much to worry about.

The defense of this design of the battleship must exceed that of the traditional battle cruiser, and the sinking resistance should not be weaker than that of the traditional slow battleship, which is what military fans jokingly call the Iron King Eight.

But since it is a high-speed battleship, the most important thing is speed.

If the speed can't go up, then she's an Iron King Eight with a new wave of defense design.

If you need to stretch the power bay too long, weaken defenses, or have firepower to reach speeds that aren't too low, it's just a better designed cruiser.

Of course, even if they could only do this, they would be better than traditional battleships and battlecruisers.

As for the specific level that can be achieved, it is still necessary to confirm the details with the relevant manufacturers of the power system at the time of formal design.

At the same time, these warships will not be clearly designed and built in one or two batches.

Because in the process of designing and building warships, it is necessary not to put too much pressure on the imperial finances, but also to allow shipbuilders to always have orders and maintain the production and construction technology of large warships.

Therefore, it is necessary to continue to build evenly, and at the same time, continue to optimize the design.

The mature design is then gradually differentiated into two or three optimal designs for different sizes and uses.

Small battleships led the activities of the Screen Guard Cruiser fleet, large and medium-sized battleships were built in large numbers as the main body of the decisive battle fleet, and large battleships existed in small quantities as a strategic deterrent.

Although, due to the existence of the cost trap of medium-sized ships, small capital ships are not cost-effective for large countries.

However, the small battleships that Zhu Jingyuan believes are at least 30,000 tons or more, similar to the scale of the French Dunkirk-class battleships, and they are the absolute main force at the current stage.

After all, even now, including Daming himself, the world's largest capital ship tonnage is less than 20,000 tons.

When the 30,000-ton battleship becomes a "small" battleship, Daming should not build a new capital ship of a similar size.

These early battleships, like the historical battle cruisers, were upgraded again in an era similar to World War II and used as "small" capital ships.

In general, Zhu Jingyuan now only needs to complete the design of "small" battleships, and medium and large battleships are gradually upgraded with technological development.

As for the design of aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, the same logic can be adopted, going straight to the optimal design of the World War II era.

Now if you can't make a complete body, you can make a semi-finished product first, and even a semi-finished product is much better than a conservative first version.

Under this model, the cost of convocation design and construction of a single ship will definitely be relatively high.

After all, the tonnage of capital ships has soared by 70%, and a large number of new technologies have to be launched at the same time.

However, after the peace talks, there will be a relatively long period of peace and development, and the new warships do not need to immediately burst production capacity and quantity.

It will take the initiative to catalyze the acceleration of the maturity of related technologies, maintain continuous construction, and continuously reduce the actual cost of a single ship, and finally make it fall within an acceptable range.