Chapter 1169: Military Power Rise – IRON DYNASTY – Light Novel
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Chapter 1169: Military Power Rise
“Your Majesty, this is the first battleship equipped with steam turbines in the empire, the Shockwave. According to the battleships launched by the empire soon, this battleship should be included in the ranks of battleships.”
At the foot of Shacheng, Zhang Liang is introducing to Xiao Ming a behemoth parked in a military port. Unlike the ordinary iron-clad ships built in the empire a few years ago, this warship has a displacement of 35,000 tons and is equipped with three triple fours. One hundred and six mm main gun.
According to the battleship’s main gun caliber designated by the Empire to be greater than 203 and no more than 406 mm, this battleship can be described as a giant among the battleships.
Looking at the 216-meter-long Storm, Xiao Ming showed a satisfied expression.
Time flies. After the war in Europe came to an end and the Vienna Convention was perfectly established, two years passed quickly.
In the past two years, Xiao Ming focused his main energy on the construction of the empire’s ocean-going combat capabilities.
And as Tang Wenjie said, half a year after the establishment of the Vienna Entente, Spain, Portugal, Prussia, France, Britain, and Tsarist Russia announced the establishment of the St. Petersburg Entente in St. Petersburg, which is strategically opposed to the empire.
Faced with the six powers of Europe and the St. Petersburg Agreement with a population of over 100 million, Xiao Ming had nothing to do for a while. After all, the last European war had already challenged the empire’s ocean-going transportation capabilities.
So, if a world war really breaks out, even if the empire has an advantage in weapons, it may not be able to make up for its disadvantage in numbers.
It is precisely this factor in mind that he asked the members of the Allied Powers to converge in the past two years, mainly to strengthen business exchanges and promote economic development.
The empire uses peacetime to step up its reform of weapons. According to his request, if the empire wants to cross the sea and fight in Europe, the military level of the empire must be at least close to the beginning of World War II.
This battleship Stormtrooper is a testament to the imperial military industry’s advance toward this goal.
“Only then can you smell like a giant cannon ship. Go up and take a look.”
Xiao Ming said to Zhang Liang. He was followed by many admirals and they were all waiting Battleships can be loaded into the fleet early.
On board the battleship, Xiao Ming visited the internal structure of the battleship under Zhang Liang’s introduction. In addition to the steam turbine, the artillery was also equipped with automatic filling technology in the ammunition room. There is a special conveyor that delivers shells directly from the ammunition room to the position of the breech block.
The reason why this transmission method is adopted is because the main guns of battleships have a large caliber, which means that the weight of the shells will also be large, and the efficiency of manual loading will be very low.
So there is this transmission structure in the design drawing he gave, so that the battleship’s main gun can fire twice in a short time.
“This battleship is really big.” Liu Chen’s saliva almost stayed. He said: “The emperor, as long as the Pacific Fleet has such a battleship is enough to destroy a European fleet.”
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Other generals heard that they agreed. Compared with the iron armored ship with a length of about ninety meters, this monster that has doubled its length, armor thickness or firepower is enough to be called a maritime overlord.
Xiao Ming showed a slight smile, and he said: “You guys are worthless. This battleship “Torrent” is nothing. The Imperial Navy has even more ambitious plans.”
Liu Chenwen Yan was pleasantly surprised: “I hope the emperor will make it clear.”
At this point, Xiao Ming is not going to sell it. He said: “It is impossible to defeat the St. Petersburg Entente by fighting on land. In Nian I have been planning the Imperial Air Force. Now the major aircraft manufacturing centers of the Empire have produced many excellent bombers, but they lack a platform to send bombers to Europe. This platform is more important than battleships. Things, aircraft carriers.”
“Aircraft carriers?” Liu Chen showed a look of yearning. He could already imagine a huge battleship carrying a bomber sailing on the ocean.
Xiao Ming nodded. He turned to look at the empire’s admirals. Except for some old faces, most of these admirals were young admirals.
These young admirals have graduated from regular naval academies and are very proficient in modern naval construction. They will be the future of the Imperial Navy.
“Yes, it is an aircraft carrier. This is a large surface ship. The main method of combat is to use aviation to destroy enemy warships. Of course, this method of combat is somewhat overkill against the European Navy. At present, These warships mainly played the role of transporting fighters.” Xiao Ming explained to everyone.
Liu Chen nodded. In the past two years, the empire suddenly put away his fists, allowing the Allies to organize their behavior low-key. The purpose was to beat the put away fists, so that they could have enough power to destroy the St. Petersburg Allies.
After all, the confrontation between the two major Allies will sooner or later lead to conflict, and according to the characteristics of the common defense of the Allies, no matter who fires the first shot, other countries will be involved in the war.
Therefore, in his opinion, a full-scale war in Europe is almost inevitable. St. Petersburg will not sit back and watch the empire take control of Europe step by step, and the empire will not tolerate the strength of the St. Petersburg Entente and share the empire all over the world. Fight for colonies.
In the blueprint described by Xiao Ming, endless expectations rose in the hearts of the generals. This city of Beisha was just a point for the Empire to build warships.
The current empire controls the large shipyards across the country. In their view, the Stormtrooper has been launched, which means that other shipyards will also launch battleships similar to the Stormtrooper.
As the generals thought, through these years of construction, the empire has thirty-six shipyards capable of building large surface ships.
This Pesha City Shipyard is only one of them. It is responsible for the construction of only one battleship, but this does not mean that Pesha City Shipyard has only this capability.
In fact, in addition to battleships, Pesha City Shipyard is also building ocean-going transport ships, large-scale supply ships, and marine maintenance ships. Among them, there are commercial and civilian ones.
The situation in the remaining shipyards is similar. According to Zhang Liang, after the launch of the Twister, the Empire will successively launch 47 warships.
These forty-seven battleships include nine battleships and thirty-eight cruisers. As for the aircraft carrier plan in his mouth, Zhang Liang is planning.
The technology of the aircraft carrier carrying the monoplane is relatively not much higher than that of the battleship, and the main industrial capability can be tried to build.
During World War II, the United States produced 26 large aircraft carriers, 9 light aircraft carriers, 115 escort aircraft carriers, 10 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 498 frigates, and 203 submarines. Tens of thousands of various landing ships, and tens of millions of tons of civilian ships
The empire’s current industrial capacity is not as good as that, but there is still a level of 20 to 30%, which is more than enough for the current world. Up.
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