Everyone: Are mechanics weak? I wake up and rectify the natural disaster

In the interstellar era, a warship needs to be built.

Compared with the pre-interstellar era, it should be said that the ideas are relatively unified.

Of course, this is because there are many technical issues here, making the details much more complicated.

But looking at the overall process, it's basically the same.

It all starts with laying the keel.

Although it is different from the naval battleships of the pre-interstellar era, the keel of the interstellar battleship is not a single structure, nor is it laid on the bottom of the ship.

But in essence, the functionality of both parties is quite different, and they both play the role of "backbone".

——Although compared to the former, the environment in which starships operate is usually not in the planet's gravity well, the gravitational factor is more or less a disturbance, which will affect the stability of the hull structure.

Furthermore, although there is no air resistance in space,

However, in various situations such as "when the naval gun fires", "when the armor is hit", or even "when a collision occurs", the ship may still be affected by huge forces, so the emphasis on structural stability is still the top priority. Heavy.

The keel of a starship is to ensure the structural stability of the entire ship.

Connect all the modules so that they will not break or fall apart when touched.

Compared with the keel of old naval ships, the keel of a starship is not at the bottom of the ship, but in the middle of the ship, the central axis of the entire ship.

In addition, it is not formed in one piece and is made up of multiple segments, but it also emphasizes completeness and unity and cannot be split twice.

In this case, the length of the keel basically determines the overall length of the battleship.

The reason why large shipyards have to leave so much free space is simply to lay the keel as a whole.

A redundant length of five hundred meters, let alone battleships and dreadnoughts.

A Titan ship with a smaller ship width and height can be accommodated - the real restriction of the shipyard is space. In a gravity-free environment, the tonnage does not actually have a big impact.

It's just a habit to use it as a standard.

But as far as the current specifications of these shipyards are five hundred Yes...it's really not impossible.

"...In short, based on our current needs, these ten large shipyards dedicated to building capital ships are completely sufficient in terms of specifications,"

Finally, Akashi, who is in charge of the Ministry of Industrial Production, made a concluding speech.

"From light battle cruisers to pocket Titans, in addition to the giant ships that must be built separately by professional space stations, large and extra-large capital ships of all types, tonnage, and levels are all covered, and are expected to meet the needs of the next few years. All design metrics.”

"...Of course, this is based on the design indicators of a single ship.

Considering the need to increase the speed of mass production, a new batch of large shipyards with smaller specifications and larger quantities should be built.

However, as for mass-produced battleships... the current technical indicators are not very high.

In my personal opinion, a large shipyard of 100,000 tons is sufficient for mass production of ships.

The specific number can be determined separately. In addition, it is best to delineate a separate area and deploy it centrally. "

Su Wen listened to her report silently and nodded slightly with great satisfaction.

"That's enough, that's enough."

He nodded and said.

In fact, this was quite a bit more than he needed.

'Large hull' includes all types of battleships, fleet carriers,

The 'extra large hull' is already at the level of super battleships, super aircraft carriers, dreadnoughts, and the 'pocket titan' just mentioned.

...But to be honest, the latter has always been used when deriving design theory.

Very few civilizations actually build such things.

The reason is also very simple: there is no demand for this!

Don't look at the Fire Reef Star Territory, a group of 'pirates' took out fourteen Titan ships in one go.

But that thing wasn't actually 'built' in the conventional way;

And those people are not bullshit 'pirates' at all, but a real disaster that is about to lead to the destruction of the entire star field...

...Although at the moment, the local civilization is not aware of this.

In short, they, like Su Wen, are anomalies outside the normal situation.

Putting aside this anomaly...

In the Fire Reef Star Territory, no local civilization has the ability to build a 'Titan' level ship.

Not to mention Titans, they don't even have a few dreadnoughts.

There is a 'Saint Protector Knights', but the problem is that they are not locals either, they are also outsiders.

To be fair.

The industrial capabilities that Su Wen currently possesses are almost the same as those of several medium-level civilization first-line forces in the Fire Reef Star Territory.

He has advanced scientific and technological levels, strong racial capabilities, and strong national institutional advantages.

However, the development time is extremely short and the starting capital is small.

And many of them rely on "gifts from fellow villagers" and other adventurous things.

...In other words, it means making a fortune.

Although the technological level of the latter is much lower, the accumulation of thousands of years of experience is enough to close this gap.

Therefore, both sides are evenly matched.

In this case, the naval forces of both sides have different needs for ship types.

I can’t say they are exactly the same, I can only say they are basically the same:

——Conventional battleships are enough.

The current overall technological level of the empire is already on the verge of advanced civilization.

If you are a little more crazy, have high standards, and are more exaggerated,

Measured by the standard of 'the most advanced technology mastered'.

Boss Su, who has the ultimate T9-level technology at his disposal, is a proper 'Super Civilization Leader'.

...Although it's funny, it's also true.

But then again, technological level cannot be measured separately from actual production capacity.

In terms of industrial level, it is still just an ordinary middle-level civilization, and even its production capacity is slightly lower.

In this case, maintaining a 'Dreadnought' or even 'Titan' level fleet is extremely exaggerated:

Who are you going to show to such a big boat?

The maintenance fee is enough to put Su Wen into poverty.

Building one million-ton hull would be enough to consume all the empire's alloy production capacity for several months.

The subsequent maintenance supplies are astronomical.

Several divisions of production capacity for parts, alloys and other industrial products had to be allocated to serve only one ship.

This was unacceptable to Su Wen.

therefore.

After comprehensively considering all aspects of data, and of course the most important thing is to carefully measure the cost-effectiveness.

The finalized 'next generation capital ship' is also the basic data indicator of the empire's first generation capital ship.

It was delineated in the range of '35000-80000 tons'.

..

This aspect has already been discussed during previous cabinet briefings.

Thirty-five thousand tons to eighty thousand tons is a very general range in itself.

It is equivalent to including the two levels of 'quasi-capital ship' and 'capital ship', all included.

The reason why we considered adding a 'quasi-capital ship' was because Su Wen felt it was necessary.

With the current technological level of the empire, the navy can indeed develop by leaps and bounds.

The problem is that doing it this way is equivalent to skipping class.

If something goes wrong later, wouldn't it just become a temporary fix?

The largest tonnage ship type used by the Imperial Navy before was only the 10,000-ton 'Monitor-class'.

Although that thing is a heavy cruiser, it is still a standard command ship and cannot be widely used at all.

And if we exclude this case again.

It dropped directly to the light cruiser level.

...The navy, which was only equipped with light cruisers of a few thousand tons at most, jumped to heavy battleships of 50,000 or even 80,000 tons in one breath?

Not to mention whether it is technically difficult or not, we still don’t know.

Just such a big gap in the middle made Su Wen feel guilty!

Therefore, it was finally determined that such a hole must be left.

We cannot set the target to 50,000 tons in one go.

Large heavy cruisers, super cruisers, escort aircraft carriers, light aircraft carriers and the like,

Not to mention whether it will be manufactured or not, whether it will be listed or installed.

You have to leave such a hole for it first.

It's true that it won't necessarily be mass-produced.

However, it is still necessary to design corresponding plans and figure out how to build ships of the corresponding level.

You can’t become fat by eating in one go!

In particular, at the previous meeting, a matching plan of "mental humanoid elite leader ship" + "large-scale mass production ship" has been determined.

So...

The former corresponds to large-tonnage battleships;

The latter includes all kinds,

For example, a 10,000-ton heavy cruiser, or a tens of thousands-ton quasi-capital ship.

Isn't this just right?