Valley Emperor

"Cruisers? Relying on cruisers alone may not improve these negative public opinions!"

"That's right, if it's just a small-tonnage cruiser, I'm afraid it won't work. Now the people's eyes have become higher. Twenty years ago, we randomly set up a steam and steel battleship for the opening day, and the people participated enthusiastically. Now, do a public tour of a cruiser or a frigate, and not many people come."

"Yeah, these people are not easy to serve. Now we have to have a battleship for the public day, and at worst it has to be an armored cruiser, otherwise no one will come to see it!"

"People still like to see battleships with big hulls and thick pipes!"

"Some time ago, there was a shameless army **** who said that they could kill our cruisers with just a heavy artillery company. Although they were bragging about this, they can also see that ordinary cruisers and the like. Small and medium tonnage warships are already more difficult to suppress the arrogance of those natives!"

Shao Shun looked around the group and said, "Today's topic is cruisers, not battleships!"

"Of course, if any of you can solve the three major technical problems faced by the new battleships, I will go to the palace tomorrow to apply for shipbuilding funds!"

As soon as these words came out, those who spoke before also shut up.

The technical standards for the new battleships of the Datang Navy have actually been proposed for a long time.

The technical indicators of the new battleship are very clear: a speed of more than 20 knots must be maintained under atmospheric pressure ventilation, at least eight main guns with a caliber of 300 mm or more with forty times the barrel, and an advanced armor belt that can resist its own artillery. .

It is a pity that none of these three indicators can be achieved now!

At this time, Shao Shun continued: "Among the many subsystems developed for the new battleship, power, firepower and armor are difficult to achieve for a while. The only hope that can be seen in the near future is the unified firing commander."

"The person at the bottom suggested to build a technical verification ship, and first test this unified firing commander on small and medium tonnage ships!"

"At the same time, it is also to verify the new mode of naval warfare in the future, so for the time being, we will use the existing tactics to simulate the future new warships as much as possible!"

"The shipbuilders have also demonstrated that with our current level of steam engine technology, as long as we are willing to spend money and use more tonnage for the power system, the speed can still be increased to more than 20 knots!"

"In terms of firepower, it is scheduled to deploy four double-mounted 150mm and 40x main guns."

"For armor, dome armor is used to free up tonnage for the power system."

"In this case, in addition to the protection capability, we can simulate the future main battleship to the greatest extent in terms of speed and firepower, and explore the changes in the combat mode brought about by the unified main gun!"

Hearing what Shao Shun said, everyone basically knows that this technology verification ship is probably designed to unify the firing commander and the eight main guns with a unified caliber and barrel multiple. As for the protection and speed, etc. , it doesn't really matter.

But to engage in such a thing, although the admirals who are knowledgeable know the importance, the people do not understand.

Ordinary people only like to see large tonnage and thick barrels.

If you tell him that technology is not technical or something, people simply cannot understand it and don't care.

You said that the technology is advanced and the combat power is more powerful. It is estimated that most people in the Tang Dynasty can directly haha!

They don't care about advanced technology, anyway, it's already awesome enough.

Even without the navy, so many civilian steel steam ships in the Tang Dynasty could knock all the indigenous sailboats and sink them.

If the navy makes a move and pulls a few frigates at random to ensure logistical supply and maintenance, it can reach the Atlantic Ocean from the Pacific Ocean, circle the earth, and sink all the indigenous sailboats that can be seen.

So more often, people pay attention to the navy not to pay attention to the advantages the navy has over the indigenous fleet, but to simply pay attention to the shock that the large-tonnage ships of the navy bring to themselves.

The shocking feeling brought by standing on the dock and seeing tens of thousands of tons of behemoths is far more shocking than any technical details.

However, to build a cruiser of several thousand tons, now the people are too lazy to take a look.

However, the same sentence, the new 20,000-ton battleship continues to be difficult to produce.

The tens of thousands of tons of battleships are temporarily unavailable, and the old battleships of 10,000 tons are not supported by the Son of Heaven. The Navy wants more, but the Son of Heaven does not give more shipbuilding funds, and the existing funds of the Navy are not enough. To use, it can only be squeezed out a little every year like toothpaste.

As a result, the navy has placed orders for several battleships in the past few years. It has basically maintained the construction technology of one battleship before starting a new one. However, the construction period of a battleship is long, and it takes three or four years for one battleship. It means that it takes three or four years for the Navy to launch a battleship.

In doing so, in fact, the biggest purpose is not to maintain the scale of naval battleships, but to maintain the R&D and production capabilities of relevant manufacturers.

After all, they will continue to develop and produce if they have an order. If there is no order, no one will be engaged in many technologies related to battleships.

If no one does it, then it will be troublesome to pick it up again in the future, more cost, longer time, and most importantly, the Navy can't immediately place an order to build it when it needs it. It needs to be redesigned and developed.

This is why almost the entire empire knows that the naval battleship is a big toy, not only a naval toy, but also a toy for the public to watch, and the reason why it continues to allocate funds to maintain the research and development and construction of battleships.

As for the actual role of the battleship, it is basically useless in the current foreign war of the empire.

Because the navy does not need these battleships at all, a single vote of frigates and cruisers is enough for the empire to control the global seas, and even these cruisers and frigates are actually severely overpowered.

If you have to say it has a role, it is probably used to prevent various internal rebellions such as overseas territories in the future.

But this kind of thing, at least when the Son of Heaven was still alive, could not be seen.

The prestige of the Son of Heaven is too high~www.wuxiaspot.com~ so high that no careerist dares to give birth to the slightest rebellion.

The Navy itself knows that battleships have no practical role, but for the Navy, the significance of battleships is not in actual combat, but in increasing the influence of the Navy within the Empire.

Especially in the folk influence.

To put it bluntly, it is a matter of face!

That's why the navy insists on building large-tonnage battleships, because it looks mighty and shocking!

The current technical verification ship is for technical verification of future battleships. Of course, since it has been done, the navy also intends to increase the speed by the way, at least to step on it again than the civilian ship Nova.

The Navy does not allow the appearance of such embarrassing incidents that even a capital ship cannot catch up with the Nova among many naval battleships!

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