Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

As for the John Empire, after learning that the Hans Empire had a powerful air force that could pose a huge threat to its own powerful fleet, the entire John Empire Parliament was in an uproar.

You must know that the Imperial Royal Fleet has always been the foundation for the John Empire to settle down.

The empire's security protection relies on the Imperial Royal Navy. This has become common sense to all citizens of the John Empire.

In their view, no country in the world can or should surpass itself in terms of navy.

Therefore, the people of John's Empire gradually developed the illusion that it was absolutely impossible for the Imperial Royal Navy to fail.

Now suddenly tell them that the empire's Royal Navy suffered a big loss in the battle with the Hans Empire?

This made the entire top management of John Empire feel incredible.

Immediately, the John Imperial Congress asked the Imperial Navy to come up with a response plan.

The request of Congress is very simple, that is, to find a way to counter the Hans Empire so that their air force cannot threaten the imperial navy.

Upon receiving the request from Congress, Winston, then Lord of the Admiralty, immediately convened a meeting with the senior admirals of John's empire for discussion.

During this meeting, some senior generals said that since the threat posed by the Hans Empire to the Imperial Royal Fleet now mainly comes from the air, the Imperial Navy should develop a ship mainly for air defense.

And deploy this kind of ship into the establishment of the Imperial Royal Navy.

For this new type of ship, the senior general said that the ship can be named an air defense ship.

Moreover, he also took out a rough design drawing.

It must be said that the navy of John's empire is very powerful.

It has only been a day or two since Johnson brought back the fighter planes owned by the Hans Empire that could pose a threat to the Imperial Royal Navy.

In just one or two days, the John Empire was able to design a new type of warship from scratch. It can be seen how strong the John Empire's ability to develop ships is.

Although this drawing is only a rough sketch, it is already very impressive.

This new type of anti-aircraft ship has canceled the traditional naval guns, and instead installed six quadruple 37mm rapid-fire guns on the front and rear decks.

At the same time, four 4mm rapid-fire cannons and 75 16mm anti-aircraft machine gun points were installed on the left and right sides of the ship.

The air defense capabilities of this kind of battleship are extremely good. One ship can match the air defense capabilities of three to four battleships.

Especially for the six four-mounted 37mm rapid-fire cannon, he canceled the original steering gear and instead used a lever bearing design.

This design allows the soldiers who control this rapid-fire cannon to rotate the turret faster, but they need to use the original rotating gear to change direction.

This design allows soldiers to better capture targets and allows the rotation of the turret to catch up with the flight speed of the aircraft.

At the same time, this rapid-fire gun uses a 360-degree firing range, and is fed by an automatic ammunition feeder under the turret, so it can fire for a long time.

When Winston saw the design of this anti-aircraft ship, he immediately took a fancy to this new warship.

But when he saw the construction time of this kind of battleship, he frowned again.

This new type of warship specially used for air defense, with the current construction capabilities of the John Empire, it would take 5 months to build just one.

This means that if this option is chosen, John's Empire will be at a disadvantage for at least half a year.

This result is unacceptable to the Imperial Royal Navy and the John Empire.

Therefore, Winster could only regard this plan as a tentative plan for the time being.

Another plan caught Winster's attention.

That plan said that the best way to deal with air fighters was airplanes. So his suggestion was to design a new combat platform.

This new combat platform can also be called a new type of battleship, but this type of battleship cancels all main and secondary guns, and moves the bridge from the middle of the battleship to one side of the battleship.

Hardwood boards were installed on the vacant deck, and an alloy steel protective layer was laid on the lower layer of the hardwood boards.

Then the conditions for fighter planes to take off are reached.

This means that from a modern perspective, this plan is the design drawing of an aircraft carrier. But at that time, the John Empire and Millican had not yet realized that this new type of warship could be built.

(Note: At this time, Daxia’s Fuyao Plan has not yet been exposed, so various countries do not know that Daxia already has aircraft carriers. The John Empire thought this new combat method was their original creation.)

Moreover, what attracts Winster most about this plan is the time it takes for him to transform.

The senior general who proposed the plan gave Winster two construction plans.

The first is to let professional designers redesign a hull according to the needs of this kind of warship.

But this redesign of the hull will take a long time, because according to the sketch design of this warship, the displacement of this warship is at least 20,000 tons.

Without a good hull layout, this new type of warship would have no way to conduct ocean voyages.

Even if it barely makes an ocean voyage, it is very likely to capsize in the face of fierce battles.

The second option is more like an emergency plan.

The senior general proposed that existing merchant ships or battleships under construction could be used for emergency modification. The buildings above the battleship deck were dismantled and the flight deck was re-paved. And then quickly modified a batch of aircraft carriers that can be used for aircraft to take off.

For such a plan, Winster said there are some luxuries.

He roughly calculated that after excluding the cost of new design and only calculating the construction cost, the cost of building a bow battleship would be enough to build three such new battleships.

Therefore, it is somewhat wasteful to use the hull of a battleship that is still under construction to modify such a battleship.

However, Winster thinks it is still feasible to use large commercial ships for modification.

After discussion, Minister Winston finally decided which plan he was going to adopt.

First, the Imperial Royal Navy Design Department was asked to redesign the hulls suitable for these two warships according to the required data of these two warships, and expedite their construction.

At the same time, he also decided to recruit some large merchant ships for transformation.

Although the service life of this modified warship is not long, it is completely an emergency product. But this is enough for the entire John Empire.

The John Empire doesn't care about that little loss. What they want is that the John Empire can come up with a way to deal with the powerful air force of the Hans Empire in a short time.

This will further strengthen public support for Congress.

In other words, they must create weapons that can deal with the Hans Empire's air force in the shortest possible time, lest the citizens lose confidence in Congress and start to resist the war.

As long as these temporarily modified warships can support them until they build new warships, that's fine.