Chapter 1169

"Emperor, this is the first warship equipped with steam turbine in the Empire, Jingtao. According to the warships launched by the Empire in the near future, this warship should be listed as a battleship. "

at the foot of Beisha City, Zhang Liang is introducing to Xiao Ming a huge ship parked in the military harbor. Different from the ordinary armored ship built by the empire a few years ago, this warship has a displacement of 35000 tons and is equipped with three three main guns of 4006 mm.

According to the imperial standard that the main gun caliber of the battleship is greater than 203 mm and less than 406 mm, this battleship is the biggest battleship.

Looking at the 216 meter long Jingtao, Xiao Ming looks satisfied.

As time goes by, after the war in Europe came to an end and the perfect establishment of the Vienna Convention organization, two years passed in a hurry.

In the past two years, Xiao Ming has focused on the construction of the Empire's ocean combat capability.

As Tang Wenjie said, half a year after the establishment of the Vienna Treaty Organization, Spain, Portugal, Prussia, France, Britain and Russia announced the establishment of the St. Petersburg Treaty Organization in St. Petersburg, which was strategically opposed to the Empire.

Facing the six great powers in Europe, the St. Petersburg treaty organization with a population of over 100 million, Xiao Ming had no choice for a moment. After all, the last war in Europe was already challenging the ocean transportation capacity of the Empire.

Therefore, if a world war really breaks out, even if the Empire has the advantage of weapons, it may not be able to make up for its disadvantage in number.

It is in view of this factor that he asked the members of the treaty countries to step up their business ties and promote economic development in the past two years.

The Empire, on the other hand, made use of peacetime to step up the innovation of weapons. According to his requirements, if the Empire wanted to cross the sea and fight in Europe, its military level would at least be close to the early stage of World War II.

This battleship "Jingtao" is the proof that the Imperial military industry is advancing towards this goal.

"Only in this way can we have the smell of a big gun ship. Let's go up and have a look. "

Xiao Ming told Zhang Liang that he was followed by many naval generals who were waiting for such battleships to be loaded into the fleet as soon as possible.

After boarding the warship, Xiao Ming visited the internal structure of the battleship one by one under the introduction of Zhang Liang. In addition to the steam turbine, the gun of the battleship also adopts the technology of automatic filling. In the ammunition room, there is a special transmission machine that can directly send the shells from the ammunition room to the bolt position.

The reason why this transmission mode is adopted is that the main gun caliber of the battleship is large, which means that the weight of the shell will also be large, and if manual loading is adopted, the efficiency will be very low.

So in the design drawing he gave, there was this transmission structure, so that the main gun of the battleship could fire twice in a short time.

"This battleship is really big." Liu Chen's saliva almost stayed, he said: "emperor, as long as the Pacific Fleet has such a battleship, it will be enough to destroy a European Fleet. "

other generals echoed the words one after another. Compared with the armored ship with a length of about 90 meters, the monster with double length, armor thickness and firepower can be called the sea overlord.

With a smile, Xiao Ming said, "you are not promising enough. This frigate is nothing. The Imperial Navy has more grand plans. "

Liu Chen was surprised and said," I hope the emperor will make it clear. "

Up to now, Xiao Ming doesn't care. He said, "if you want to defeat the St. Petersburg allies, you can't do it by fighting on land. So I've been planning the imperial air force all these years. Now many excellent bombers have been produced in the major aircraft manufacturing centers of the Empire, but there is a lack of a platform to send bombers to Europe. This platform is better than others Battleships need something important, aircraft carriers. "

" aircraft carrier? " Liu Chen showed a look of yearning, he has been able to imagine a huge warship carrying bombers sailing on the sea.

Xiao Ming nodded. He turned and looked at the generals of the Empire. Except for some old faces, most of them were young generals.

These young naval generals all graduated from the regular Naval Academy and were very proficient in the construction of the modern navy. They would be the future of the Imperial Navy.

"Yes, it's an aircraft carrier. It's a large surface ship. The main way of fighting is to use the air force to destroy the enemy's warships. Of course, this kind of fighting method is overqualified against the European Navy. At present, these warships mainly play the role of transporting fighters. "Xiao Ming explained to the public.

Liu Chen nodded. In the past two years, the Empire suddenly put away its fists and let the Allies keep a low profile. The purpose is to fight out the fists so that it can have enough strength to destroy the St. Petersburg allies.

After all, the confrontation between the two major allies will lead to conflicts sooner or later. According to the common defense characteristics of the allies, no matter who fired the first shot, other countries will be involved in the war.

Therefore, in his view, an all-out war in Europe is almost inevitable. St. Petersburg will not sit idly by and watch the Empire control the voice of Europe step by step, and the Empire will not tolerate the St. Petersburg allies to become strong and compete with the Empire for colonies all over the world.In the blueprint described by Xiao Ming, the generals had endless expectations. Beisha city was just a point for the Empire to build warships.

The Empire now controls large shipyards all over the country. In their opinion, the Jingtao has been launched, which means that other shipyards will also launch battleships similar to the Jingtao.

As the generals thought, over the years, the Empire had 36 shipyards capable of building large surface ships.

The beishacheng shipyard is only one of them, responsible for the construction of only one battleship, but this does not mean that the beishacheng shipyard has only such a little capacity.

In fact, in addition to battleships, beishacheng shipyard is also building ocean going transport ships, large supply ships, and marine maintenance ships, both commercial and civil.

According to Zhang Liang, after the launch of the Jingtao, the Empire will launch 47 warships one after another.

The 47 warships include nine battleships and 38 cruisers. As for the aircraft carrier plan he talked about, Zhang Liang is planning.

Relatively speaking, the technology of the aircraft carrier carrying the monoplane aircraft is not much higher than that of the battleship fleet, and it can be tried to build when the main industrial capacity is reached.

During World War II, the United States produced 26 large aircraft carriers, 9 light aircraft carriers, 115 escort aircraft carriers, 10 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 498 frigates, 203 submarines, tens of thousands of landing ships, and tens of millions of tons of civilian ships in wartime Yes, and that's more than enough for the current world.

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