Chapter 537： Italy's shipbuilding plan

But when the prime minister rushed to the palace, there was someone who was faster than him.

"Your Majesty, this matter has a great influence on our navy."

It was Lieutenant General Lomodan who was talking, and it must be very important for him to come to Edel quickly. This is indeed the case. The reason why Lieutenant General Lomodan came is that the Italian side withdrew their aid workers, and the answer given was that the Italian side needed these people.

Originally, Lieutenant General Lomodan did not and did not question this. After all, these Italian technicians have been in Romania for several years, and they have made great contributions to the construction of the Romanian battleship Mircea. However, when banqueting these technicians who were going to return to China, something happened that made Lieutenant General Lomodan feel that he should be taken seriously. That is, when someone was drunk, they said that they would design a new battleship when they returned to China to achieve the purpose of defending the Italian transportation line.

Lieutenant General Lomodan feels that this matter needs to be reported to Edel to know that, regardless of the relationship with Romania, at least this will have a profound impact on the balance of the Mediterranean. ,

So when Edel heard Romodan's words, he finally sighed in his heart. "The impact of developing Libyan oil is finally here."

In fact, the development of Libyan oil has far more influence than this.

Over the years, Italy's development of Libyan oil has allowed the domestic economy to recover quickly. Its reliance on oil extraction and refining and related chemical industries has allowed the Italian economy to grow gratifyingly in recent years. Its oil refinery in Genoa and its chemical plants in Milan and Turin have enabled Italian related industries to flourish.

As the most direct evidence, Italy's annual outflow population reached about 200,000 before, after the development of Libyan oil, the annual outflow population dropped sharply to 10,000 or 20,000. Only when the economy is not good will people have to go abroad to make a living. When the economic conditions are good, who is willing to leave the familiar environment and go to unfamiliar places to fight.

Moreover, Libyan oil not only reduced Italy a large amount of expenditure (the damage was Romania), but also exported excess oil to other countries in exchange for profits.

So even the arrival of the economic crisis has made Italy a lot better. Therefore, the Italian government, which has two spare cash in its hands, urgently needs to defend its vital Libyan oil.

The current navy owned by Italy is obviously not superior to the French list. The battleship composed of two Count Cavour-class and two Andrea Doria-class battleships is obviously not the three Provence-class battleships of the French Navy. The Italian government is naturally dissatisfied with the performance of its opponents, lagging behind the imaginary enemy France. (One more thing, these two battleships don't feel much different, and they are both dreadnoughts built before the war.)

Since it is not satisfied, then it is necessary to build a new battleship to fight against France. Therefore, in order to adapt to the new situation of Italy's demand for the Mediterranean, a new level of battleship construction task was born under this situation. This has both military needs and political benefits. Mussolini, who is currently in charge of the Italian government, also needs to build a new battleship to satisfy the citizens' self-confidence in the country, and at the same time demonstrate his own ability to govern.

Therefore, this shipbuilding plan was built entirely to meet the needs of the whole country. Of course, according to the Washington Naval Treaty, Italy also has enough capital ship tonnage to use. It is important to know that the current four Italian battleships are less than 100,000 tons, and there are enough For the tonnage to be used by Italy, the only factor that affects its construction is the funding issue. The development of Libyan oil has made up for this shortcoming.

Therefore, this time Italy intends to build a battleship to crush its opponents, and this requires the use of technicians who are currently helping Romania to build ships to return home. Because these technicians are too helpful to Italy's shipbuilding. No matter what it is, it is a great help to Italy's shipbuilding industry.

Since it is a work of Italian ambition, the battleship built this time must also be very outstanding.

Here we need to make Italy thank Edel.

Because of participating in the development and construction of the battleship Mircea, Italy has sufficient confidence in building a super battleship equipped with a 380MM naval gun. Many of the plans designed by the Italian side of this class of battleship are based on the design on the Mircea. Such as the long bow, the underwater protection of the cylindrical structure, etc., but the most important thing is that the 380mm50-caliber naval gun will also be the main gun of the Italian battleship of this class.

As a 380mm 50-caliber naval gun jointly developed by the three countries, its body has a movable barrel structure. From the inside to the outside, it is an integral inner bore tube, which is divided into two partial liner reinforcement layers, that is, two partial reinforcement layers covering the back half of the medicine chamber and the orientation part and a reinforcement layer at the front of the inner bore. The outermost layer is a movable quilt covering about 72% of the total length of the gun body.

At the muzzle, there is a tight-mouth hoop structure with an outer diameter of 610 mm. The gun tail is attached to the barrel with a connecting ring. The breech tail is threaded, with 6 air-tight partition threads, and the latch body is semi-automatically opened and closed driven by a liquid-air mechanism. The action cycle is 3.5 seconds. The turret's left gun breech opened to the left, and the other two guns switched in opposite directions. Four cylinder-type liquid-gas recovery machines are evenly arranged around the rear of the gun, with a normal rear seat distance of 1 meter. Each turret has 222 rounds of ammunition, including 195 rounds of armor-piercing rounds and 57 rounds of grenades.

The gun body of the main gun has a total weight of 102.4 tons, a total length of 19581 mm, a barrel length of 19000 mm/L50.0, a rifled part of 15850 mm, a chamber length of 3071 mm, and a volume of 456.216 liters. The surface of the inner bore is engraved with 96 equal right-handed rifling, the depth of the Yin line is 3.1 mm, the width of 8.458 mm ~ www.novelhall.com ~ The width of the Yang line is 4.0 mm; The length of the movement in the direction).

The types of ammunition include capped armor-piercing projectiles and grenades. The armor-piercing projectile is 1.699 meters long, weighs 885 kilograms, and has a bottom charge of 88 kilograms of TNT; the grenade has the same length as the armor-piercing projectile and weighs 774 kilograms. The propellant is divided into 6 packs with a total weight of 271.7 kg. The artillery normally uses a chamber pressure of 320 MPa, and an armor-piercing projectile has a muzzle velocity of 830-850 m/s. The service life of the inner chamber is 210-230 rounds and the maximum range is 41,800 meters.

This is also the reason why Italy needs to choose this gun. The main gun developed in combination with the strength of the three countries is so powerful that Italy is reluctant to re-develop it after being idle.

Since the battleship of this class uses a 380-caliber main gun, it is not bad in other respects. The battleship currently tentatively called the B-class has a paper design of 35,000 tons and is equipped with 9 380-caliber main guns (two fronts and one rear layout).

The maximum horsepower reaches 12,500 horsepower. The maximum speed is 29 knots, and it is expected to carry 1978 soldiers.

In order to show the importance Italy attaches to the navy, this class will be constructed in two different ways.