Valley Emperor

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Datang's ordnance price composition is more complicated.

R&D costs, manufacturing costs, factory profits, etc. are generally added up. Among them, R&D costs are not low, and they often occupy a very important position in new weapons.

This is mainly because the treatment of scientific researchers in the Datang Empire is very high in all aspects, and the treatment of scientific researchers in enterprises is not low, which also leads to relatively high research and development costs.

At the same time, to produce new weapons, it is often necessary to upgrade the production line, buy more machinery and equipment, train skilled workers, etc. These costs are not small.

This has also led to the fact that in the Datang Empire, if the sales volume of a product is too low to dilute the R&D and production costs, its price will be relatively high.

Although ordnance weapons are special, they are still industrial products, and their prices follow this system.

In this way, the Guangdong ship has only 7,000 tons, and its cost has reached more than two million. The cost of the Luzon ship has reached more than three million monsters.

In fact, more than half of the above prices are pure research and development costs, and then there are the costs of upgrading and refitting the production line, which also leads to very high prices.

What is interesting is that the cost of the third battleship of the Navy, the battleship Banten, has dropped significantly, and it is estimated that it will be able to be won with only about 2.5 million.

You must know that the Bandan is even larger and more advanced, but the price has dropped significantly. The most important reason is that the Banten seems to be larger and more advanced, but many technologies used above are actually all mature technology.

For example, its power system, after the Guangdong and Luzon, the Navy steam engine factory perfected the technology of the three-expansion reciprocating steam engine, and no need to invest a lot of money to develop it from scratch.

There is also a naval gun. Although the 300mm naval gun with a caliber of thirty times the caliber is being used, this thing is a mature technology to put it bluntly.

The same is true of turret technology. From the beginning, we are ready to use a mature and stable hydraulic rotating turret, rather than tossing and tossing on steam and electric turrets.

The same is true for the armor. The steel-surfaced iron armor used was previously developed for the Luzon. It was not only used on the Luzon, but also began to be used on other warships built by the Datang Navy.

A more important point is that, with the gradual development of the industrialization of the Datang Empire, the output of steel has increased year by year. In order to compete for the market, domestic steel companies have started price wars, resulting in the continuous price of steel in the domestic market. The decline has resulted in a substantial drop in the prices of many steel products.

And battleships are a large demand for steel, and the decline in the value of steel naturally makes the price of battleships lower.

Not only the cost of warships has dropped, but also the cost per kilometer of railways, another big consumer of steel.

The combination of many factors has also led to the return to rationality of the construction cost of the Bandan battleship. Of course, although the Bandan battleship has adopted a large number of mature technologies, as a battleship, it must have applied many new technologies, and these aspects have also increased. certain expenses.

However, being able to win this 12,000-ton battleship at a price of about 2.5 million yuan also satisfied the Navy.

The cost of the Banten battleship can also be reflected in the cost of the Navy's new generation of armored cruisers to a certain extent.

The Navy's new generation of armored cruisers, the first ship has been named Australia, according to the principle of the first ship is the class name, this class of armored cruisers is called the Australia-class armored cruiser.

The design of this class of ships strictly controls the cost, otherwise too little is built and not enough.

Therefore, the technologies used above are almost all mature technologies. The steam engine power system they use is ready to purchase the three-expansion steam engine of the Navy Steam Engine Factory. Their large ship-based steam engine technology is already very mature. The steam engines of the three naval battleships The systems are all powered by their steam engines.

The same goes for naval guns. The 150mm and 35 times naval guns above are actually the secondary guns on many previous battleships. As for the frightening 250mm 30-fold gun, although this is the first time the Navy has installed it, it doesn't actually use any new technology, and the Navy intends to equip it on a large scale. It is also preparing to purchase a batch of heavy artillery for coastal defense.

The armor, of course, continues to use steel-surfaced iron armor. Now the Datang Navy has a good impression of this steel composite armor. Its high-hardness steel surface can resist the shelling of various grenades, and the wrought iron armor under the steel surface can also be used. Block those large caliber solid shells.

The construction techniques used on the hull are also mature techniques, and there is nothing that takes too long and funds to re-develop.

When the four major categories of hull, naval gun, power, and armor all adopt mature technologies, the cost of construction is naturally relatively low.

At the same time, the Navy has placed a lot of orders. For this new generation of Australia-class armored cruisers and subsequent minor improvements, the Navy's first order is four ships, but they are not as petty as battleships, building one by one.

This is considering that the Navy does not plan to build too many battleships, after all, that thing is too expensive, and without the threat of external powerful enemies, building too many battleships is flashy.

Therefore, a second-class battleship is needed to perform most of the strategic tasks, which is also the fundamental reason for Datang to develop Australia-class armored cruisers.

For this reason, the navy believes that in the future, there must be six armored cruisers in the coastal areas of the mainland, so that they can cooperate with the battleships to carry out strategic decisive missions!

After all, it’s a local country, and the six ships are considered too few.

In addition, there is a huge Pacific Ocean, except for the local coast, the central Pacific, the eastern Pacific, and the South Pacific, etc., it is not too much to build one.

It is also necessary to scare the West Asians and Indians when necessary to send a ship stationed in Ceylon on the other side of the Indian Ocean.

Then the Atlantic Ocean is surrounded by strong enemies. No matter what, there must be one in South Africa, and one in Europe must be in Ceuta to carry out naval artillery diplomatic missions, and more importantly, to prevent the Tatars from entering the Atlantic Ocean.

In this way, on a global scale, the Datang Navy needs at least ten armored cruisers to be on duty.

Then, this battleship needs to be maintained. Routine maintenance plus mid-term overhauls, etc., means that there will be battleships staying in the shipyard and unable to play. In addition, it will take time for battleships to go to various sea areas.

The addition of the two, coupled with the fact that the Navy has always expected the enemy to be lenient, to put it bluntly, is to brag about the threat of the enemy in order to defraud funds, so a few more ships are added as sweetness.

Then the navy felt that no matter what, they had to have twelve armored cruisers or similar second-class battleships to be able to arrange it.

But this is just the Navy's statement. In order to defraud the Navy for military expenses, they can say anything.

Not to mention a dozen or so armored cruisers, even the dozens of cheap frigates of the thousand-ton class today are enough to smash the navies of various countries around the world...

But how to put it, sometimes maintaining armaments has nothing to do with the strength of the enemy's military strength, but more of a political and economic issue.

Datang is now vying for global domination, and it will rule the world in the future. How can it be done without a desperate military force!

Just like the Americans of later generations, their navy can smash the sum of other countries, and it is not one after another to build various new warships.

As the leader on earth, their enemies are no longer other human countries, but aliens...

The internal planning of the navy, the outside world does not care, they only saw the order for twelve armored cruisers!

This is not a small warship of one or two thousand tons. Although it is not a giant ship of tens of thousands of tons, it is also a large warship of seven thousand tons. This thing is not cheap, and the benefits it brings are a huge number.

And the navy is not stupid~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They put an order for 12 ships at one time to lower the price.

After all this talk, the Navy finally signed contracts with Hong Kong Dingsheng Shipyard, Qinghai Naval Shipyard, and Jiangnan Shipyard, three domestic shipyards capable of constructing such large-scale warships.

In the next few years, the Navy will continue to purchase a total of twelve new-generation armored cruisers, the Australia-class and its improved versions.

On average, the purchase amount is about 1.1 million for a single ship.

This price is already quite satisfactory to the Navy. You must know that the first 7,000-ton battleship, the Guangdong battleship, cost more than 2 million. Although the cost of Guangdong is abnormal and cannot be used as a normal reference, it is also To a certain extent, it can explain the expensive price of large-tonnage warships.

The cost of the Australian-class armored cruiser is only 1.1 million, which can be regarded as the price of cabbage.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Australia-class armored cruisers are not equipped with too many large-caliber naval guns. They are not equipped with 300mm cannons. Even the 250mm main gun is only one. The small and medium-caliber naval guns are much cheaper than the large-caliber naval guns, which also reduces a lot of costs.

There is also a crucial impact that the Australian-class armored cruisers will use a lot of cheap steel materials for civilian ships, rather than high-standard steel materials specially used for warships.

The Navy believes that cheap and sufficient is king, and a slight reduction in performance has little effect.

As long as the ship doesn't sink, it's fine. As for being sunk by the enemy, don't be kidding, just use the native smoothbore guns and park the Australian-class armored cruiser in place for them to fight.

All these add up to the lower cost of the Australian-class armored cruiser of over one million!