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At present, the new generation of warships of the Datang Navy is already fully equipped with rear-mounted rifled guns.

Compared with the previous smoothbore guns or front-loaded rifled guns, the rear-loaded rifled guns have the characteristics of high rate of fire, long range and high precision.

At the same time, because the barrel is longer, it requires more deck space, and because of the fast rate of fire, it also requires more space for loading and feeding bombs.

As a result, the rear-mounted rifled gun on the ship is very heavy, occupies a relatively large space, and is extremely expensive.

These all lead to the number of rear-loading rifled guns, especially the number of medium and large-caliber rear-loading rifled guns is relatively small.

When the number of artillery pieces is small, and all directions are taken care of, the requirements for the firing field are very high, and messy masts, ropes and other things are not allowed on the deck.

As a result, the sails were inevitably sacrificed.

The role of the sail is getting smaller and smaller, and when the warship is told to sail, it is often affected by the high-temperature airflow emanating from the chimney.

What's more, operating sails requires a large number of sailors, and every sailor on a battleship is precious.

Even the sail system on the West India-class cruiser has been specially improved and designed, a lot of ropes have been reduced, and the mast has been changed.

But in this way, the power that the sail can provide is very limited.

When relying on pure sails, the power is very limited, and there is some conflict between the chimney and the sail.

Therefore, even when cruising daily, the West India-class cruisers use the steam engine to operate at a low speed, rather than using sails.

When the sails were almost reduced to decoration, or something like emergency power, the Datang Navy also planned to cancel the sails on the main battleships.

First battleships, then armored cruisers, and now even cruisers have to cancel their sails.

The elimination of sails is a big trend, and this is very evident on the improved West Indies class cruisers.

When the firepower, armor, and even the sails were canceled, the tonnage of the West India-class improved cruiser did not change, but the cost was much lower, and the most important thing was that the subsequent use cost was cheaper.

Otherwise, the Navy wouldn't have spent a lot of time trying to come up with such an incompetent thing.

Cruisers are all moving towards focusing on quantity, seaworthiness and the living space of soldiers, not to mention frigates.

After the Datang Navy equipped the new Antarctic frigate, it also improved the design of the ship, weakened the firepower and protection, and cancelled the sails to reduce the cost of use and construction.

These two improved warships have the conditions of low construction cost, low use cost and maintenance cost.

These characteristics are also the main factors for the large-scale construction of these two warships by the Datang Navy.

At the same time, these two warships will become the key warships for the Datang Navy to control sea power in the next ten years or even longer.

As for the battleships and armored cruisers that people often talk about, there are only a few of them, just stay on the coast of the mainland as mascots.

In fact, even though the two types of battleships, cruisers and frigates, can allow the Datang Navy to control the sea, they still cannot completely control the global seas.

In the plan of the Datang Navy, there will be about 30 cruisers, about 70 frigates, and a total of 100 cruiser **** fleets.

Plus the main fleet of about twenty battleships and armored cruisers.

These main battleships and cruise **** fleets will become the core force for the empire to control the global sea domination.

But these warships are still not enough to give the Imperial Navy complete control over the global waters, major rivers, and lakes.

This has nothing to do with the combat effectiveness of the battleship, but with the number.

No matter how strong the main fleet's combat effectiveness is, the number is limited. In fact, only about two-thirds of the more than 100 warships can remain on duty, and the remaining one-third are either in maintenance or supply.

In fact, quite a few of the warships that remain on duty are on their way to the waters on duty, or stay in the port.

Therefore, even if there are more than 100 main ocean-going warships, in fact, it is not enough.

To this end, the strategy of the Datang Navy is to build a very large number of offshore patrol ships and shallow water gunboats.

The number of these offshore patrol ships and shallow water gunships is enormous!

How should I put it, it is only a 350-ton Guangjiang-class patrol ship. The Imperial Navy has already served more than 40 ships in recent years, and there are more than 100 ships on order!

The Navy intends to build its 200 ships in one go, and then send them to the global waters to serve on duty.

The 76th Squadron, that is, the European Fleet has more than ten Guangjiang-class offshore patrol ships.

In addition, there is a 550-ton Guanghai-class patrol ship with a larger tonnage. This thing is a bit bigger, and the number is not so many, but it has already served more than ten ships, and it is estimated that there will be dozens of orders in the future. Woolen cloth.

Just these two offshore patrol ships, now the total number has reached more than 60, plus many previous types of offshore patrol ships, shallow water gunboats, etc., which constitute a very large inland river offshore fleet in the Datang Navy.

The total number has reached more than 300 ships!

The footprints are all over the world, whether it is the islands of the South China Sea or the Ganges River Basin on the Indian mainland, or the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea and even the Don and Danube River Basins.

Or the North Sea, the Baltic Sea all the way out of London!

There are all of Datang's offshore and inland warships~www.wuxiaspot.com~ These small warships have always been the strategic support force for Datang's diplomatic and military operations.

For example, when the diplomats of the Empire are in London and need support, they need to wait until the source of the main fleet is still unknown. At this time, if there is a small warship stationed in London, it will be different. Can bombard the city of London directly.

This is also why the term gunboat diplomacy appeared in the Tang Empire rather than the term warship diplomacy.

Because most of those who perform diplomatic missions are inconspicuous offshore patrol ships and inland gunboats.

In some areas, the deterrent power of a shallow water gunship exceeds that of a battleship.

Because the battleships stayed in the mainland, not a year and a half could not pass, and in the past, they could not enter many rivers and go deep into the inland.

Many kinds of things have led to the current relatively special development strategy of the Datang Navy, which has also led to the fact that the Datang Navy is not too sensitive to cutting military spending.

Anyway, they themselves plan to reduce the large tonnage warships and build a large number of small tonnage warships instead.

The difference between the army and the navy also led to their different attitudes towards the reduction of military spending in Xuanping's thirty-seven years.

But even if there are different attitudes, regardless of whether it is dissatisfaction or satisfaction, it is already impossible to change the reality of budget allocation.

To this end, a campaign of hard work, self-reliance, and saving is king has been launched within the army.

As for the navy, the construction plan of the new 20,000-ton battleship was postponed, and the funds were used to build more auxiliary ships such as cruisers, frigates and offshore patrol ships.

What's interesting is that when the military suspended the construction plan of the 20,000-ton battleship, the private shipping company was ambitious and proposed the plan of the super tonnage luxury passenger ship!