Chapter 505: 505 new battleship
Chapter 505 505 New Battleship
The sound of clanking echoed in the dock. This is a large shipyard in Cyric, which originally produced steel paddle steamers.
Now, this place has been taken over by Sophia. She has mobilized more than half of the elite workers in the consortium to build a super battleship belonging to the Cyric Consortium here.
Sofia, who has obtained propeller propulsion technology, will naturally not be able to watch Datang Group dominate the ocean. So Sophia wants to be a challenger, or a sharer of ocean benefits!
The huge hull has been redesigned and renovated. This battleship adopts a brand-new design, which can definitely be said to be an unprecedented test for Cyric's designers.
Finally, the technically experienced designers completed their designs, and then began to build this behemoth!
A super battleship belonging to Cyric, based on the design ideas of the Datang Group's dreadnoughts. After all, the Tamaki-class battleship has been to Mirage and Bunas, and its appearance has been seen by many people.
The huge hull and the powerful artillery on it left a deep impression on many people. Many painters have painted dreadnoughts docked in the port, and one of them was even collected by Tang Mo.
Nowadays, many technologies have spread, so in many cases, one can easily copy the opponent's design with just a pair of Sharingan.
At least imitating the cat and imitating the tiger can save you a lot of trouble. This is how Cyric's new battleship was copied.
It’s a pity that copying a cat and painting a tiger will ultimately result in copying a tiger from a cat. After plagiarizing an appearance, Cyric’s designers still encountered unprecedented difficulties in many key aspects.
For example: Cyric copied the turret layout and turret appearance design of the Dreadnought, but could not copy the internal structure design of the Dreadnought.
Especially the long-distance optical sighting equipment unique to Datang Group, which requires precision processing and cannot be copied.
In order to make up for the gap in equipment performance caused by similar problems, Cyric's idea was to increase the tonnage, install more armor, and expand the caliber of the artillery...
This set is almost an improvement in the on-paper data in the game: thicker armor and larger gun caliber can naturally create more powerful warships.
But in fact, in reality, the larger the caliber, the stronger the firepower, nor the thicker the armor, the higher the defense.
Defensive power not only depends on the thickness of the armor, but also on the technology of splicing these armors, the quality of the armor, and the location of installation...
Firepower also depends not only on the caliber of the cannon, but also on the density of firepower, the type of ammunition selected, the bore pressure, caliber, and rate of fire.
Furthermore, sometimes, technology cannot be surpassed even if you want to.
The head craftsman who supervised the manufacture of Cyric's dreadnought battleship was talking to his boss about the "super" dreadnought in front of him: "Sir, the barrel life of the 320mm caliber gun we made... Actually …”
“You don’t have to worry about this! Although the lifespan data is not very good, its paper performance is stronger than the 305mm caliber of Datang Group!” the person in charge said proudly.
Although the metallurgical technology is insufficient and the technology of casting artillery is also completely backward, Cyric still relied on his profound knowledge to forcibly produce a 320 mm caliber cannon.
The advent of this kind of cannon gives Cyric's new battleship, which uses the same layout as the Tamaki-class battleship, seemingly more firepower.
For Cyric, as long as the data on paper looks better, customers will be satisfied and people will spend money. This is enough for them!
Workers in the distance are perfecting the huge hull bit by bit. In order to carry more armor, Cyric's battleship has a displacement of more than 25,000 tons!
The complex and backward internal design of the hull wastes a lot of displacement, which leads to the fact that in terms of overall defense, the larger and heavier Cyric's new battleship is not much better than the Tamaki-class battleship.
What is even more ridiculous is that because there is no new power system similar to the Tamaki class, Cyric has to use old-fashioned steam boilers as power.
This makes the speed of Cyric's version of the battleship a joke: in theory, it can only barely catch up with the free wheel at full speed.
"The people from the Mirage Kingdom made a reservation. I heard that even their king is frugal and only eats one meal a day." The person in charge said proudly: "No matter what, they all hope that we can build a more powerful warship for them. "
Last time, in order to frighten the people of Mirage and prevent Mirage from coveting Qi State and other areas that the Tang Kingdom was interested in, two Yucheng-class battleships arrived at Mirage and made a threatening visit.
During the visit, the two warships even pointed their main guns at the port of the Mirage Kingdom, which frightened the King of the Mirage Kingdom into not even daring to say a harsh word.
Subsequently, after the battleships of the Tang Kingdom left the Mirage Kingdom, everyone in the Mirage Kingdom regarded this threat as a great shame and humiliation.
The unwilling people of Mirage approached Cyric, hoping that Cyric could build a more powerful warship to help them overwhelm the Kingdom of Tang Dynasty.
It happened that Cyric was also building a dreadnought, so he took the Mirage delegation to visit the dock where the warship was being built.
The Mirage Purchasing Group was quite satisfied with Cyric's new battleship and immediately placed an order. And this money has almost emptied the treasury reserves of the Mirage Kingdom.
In order to avenge his shame, the king of the mirage country only ate one meal a day to motivate his subjects, save food and clothing, and expand the army to prepare for war. Under the leadership of His Majesty the King, everyone in the Mirage Kingdom tightened their belts, donated money and materials, and went crazy to raise money to buy warships.
How crazy is he? Children who are so crazy that they have developed a game called "Sink the Tamaki"...
Now the navy of the Mirage Kingdom can be said to be completely reborn, and its combat power even exceeds that of other navies by a large margin.
At least on paper, the Chinese navy purchased one Bunas-class ironclad ship from the Datang Group and spent money to purchase five new destroyers launched by the Datang Group.
This is actually just a fraction of the Mirage Navy's procurement. The focus of the Mirage Navy's procurement is various types of warships built by the Cyric Consortium.
In order to make up for the losses in the last naval battle with the Datang Group, Mirage purchased 30 new Cyric battleships in one fell swoop. At the same time, it also spent all its money to buy three Cyric battleships that were under construction.
If you simply look at the number of battleships, the statistics of the Mirage Navy can be said to be quite scary: they have 36 new battleships, 3 battleships, and more than a dozen paddle steamers left over from the last war...
Although the Tang Kingdom's naval fleet is obviously larger in quantity and seems to be of better quality, the Tang navy is scattered in Bunas, Dragon Island, Everwinter City, Neverwinter City, Linshui and Dongwan Port.
Therefore, the Tang Navy, which has been controlling the sea since the moment of its birth, seems to have encountered a challenger this time, a challenger who does not know whether to live or die.
It's a pity that the commanders of the Mirage Navy don't know that the warship they spent all their money to buy is actually a big toy with a worse aiming system, a garbage power system, poor protection despite its tonnage, and backward artillery technology.
"As far as I know, we are not the only ones building similar warships, right?" the leader of Cyric's craftsmen asked in a low voice.
"Indeed, as far as I know, many countries are building their own new warships, some larger and some smaller." The executive of the Cyric Consortium said with emotion behind his hands.
In the past, Cyric dominated the workshops of several countries and almost monopolized the construction of sailing battleships.
Because whoever built warships at that time needed to purchase naval guns from Cyric to arm those sailing warships.
But now, with the spread of technology, some countries have gradually completed their own industrialization, or completed partial industrialization, and have more or less certain production capabilities.
These countries have taken weapons production back into their own hands while industrializing, which has actually broken the previous marketing model of the Cyric Consortium.
For Cyric, the losses caused by many countries gradually falling out of control have actually made them miserable.
Countries no longer name their warships after the manufacturer. They prefer to use the naming method of the Datang Group to divide the warships in their hands into destroyers, ironclads, cruisers and battleships. It's just that none of the countries are actually equipped with battleships, and most of them don't even have cruisers.
In order to catch up with the gap, every country is trying every means to improve the strength of its navy. If you can't buy one, then build it yourself.
Since then, many new types of warships have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Many countries have also made so-called improvements to the warships they built, creating a lot of weird things.
Some countries mainly imitate, imitating the destroyers of the Datang Group or the destroyers of the Cyric Consortium.
Other countries focus on improvement. They often install larger-caliber artillery on their destroyers, or create monsters whose tonnage is between cruisers and destroyers.
In short, the development of naval ships is still in a barbaric state. Everyone is wild and has many immature design ideas.
Just like a tank.
"Next year, we can see the interesting picture of those maritime countries with more warships joining together to threaten the Datang Group." The person in charge of Cyric sneered, as if he saw the anxious people. Datang Group is average.
“That’s really great!” The leader of the craftsmen quickly expressed his compliments: “With your help, Master Sophia, we will definitely win the final victory!”
“Haha, hahaha!” The person in charge of Cyric, who felt good about himself, became even more proud after hearing the compliment, and looked up to the sky and laughed.
(End of this chapter)