September 10, 1911, 2752 AD, Guangzhou Shipbuilding Design Bureau.
"Hahaha" Xu Wei looked at the newspaper and suddenly laughed.
The colleague next to him asked: "Worker Xu, what is so funny?"
"Look, this article says that our Fuxi class can destroy dozens of miles with one shot, hahahahahahahahaha" Xu Wei burst out laughing.
Several designers came around to take a look, and they all said, "Holy shit," and they all laughed.
Because on the 1st of this month, the outfitting of the two Fuxi-class ships was completed.
Small-caliber guns such as secondary guns and anti-aircraft guns, as well as new fire control systems, radars, computers and other confidential equipment were installed.
The formal sea trials and Final debugging of each system.
After the news came out, the naval fever, which had just subsided a little, began to heat up again, and major newspapers and periodicals wrote numerous follow-up reports.
In addition, the outfitting of two Qinling-class ships and two Qingcheng-class ships was completed last month, and formal sea trials and system debugging have been carried out for more than half a month.
One of them suppressed a laugh and said: "Oh my god, it's so fantastical to be able to spread dozens of miles in one shot.
These acid writers really can imagine it.
They must be writing novels, hahahaha."
Everyone laughed for a while, and Xu Wei continued: "Look at the next news.
France and Italy both announced that they will build new super-dreadnoughts.
Britain and Germany also urgently revised their designs and construction plans.
Germany announced a new level of super-dreadnoughts.
The König-class battleship also uses a 360mm main gun."
"Isn't the 360mm-class main gun the same as our Fuxi-class?"
"Our Fuxi-class main gun uses the technology of the Skoda Company of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
The Germans and Austria-Hungary are allies.
If they want it, Austria-Hungary will not refuse.
I heard that they used Skoda in their previous Nassau class.
The company’s 310mm gun” Xu Wei smiled and said: "It's not just that.
I heard that the Kaiser-class built by Germany already uses a 360mm main gun, so their start date was delayed for a few months just to modify the design.
It was originally scheduled to start at the end of 2009.
The results are better than ours The Fuxi class started construction a year late.
In addition, the Americans are also contacting us and preparing to purchase a complete set of drawings and calculations for the Fuxi class.
Now all countries are building super-dreadnoughts.
It seems that our Fuxi class has pushed the current fearless competition back to the next level. reached a climax” Everyone was an expert, so they started talking.
After all, they are senior technical personnel, and some relevant foreign confidential information will also be open to them.
Much of the information they are talking about now is not accessible to ordinary people outside.
Not long after the Fuxi class returned home, this fearless competition began to reach its climax.
The trigger is actually the Americans, because with China's naval strength, even if a few more super-dreadnought ships are added, it will not be a big stimulus to various countries.
But after the Yankees joined, things changed.
When the Fuxi-class began sea trials in January 1911, the U.S.
Navy was shocked by the performance of the Fuxi-class bunker.
After several months of discussions, they decided to cancel the subsequent New York-class battleship design and directly adopt the Fuxi-class. design.
So as soon as Fu Xi returned to China, the United States sent people to contact him about purchasing designs and related patents.
Some people may ask, the Fuxi class was built in the United States, and the Americans have the drawings, so why would they buy it?
Yes, the Americans have the drawings, but they are only construction drawings, not a complete set of drawings, especially without calculation books.
In other words, it is not impossible for them to continue to build the Fuxi class, but they can only build it as it is without making any major changes.
Besides, the two countries are in the honeymoon period now, and the Americans are not short of money.
It is stupid to affect the friendship between the two countries for this matter.
After the Americans came to ask for help, Wen Desi readily agreed, and the two parties closed the deal at a price of US$4.5 million.
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China has provided the United States with a complete set of drawings and calculations for three warships: the Fuxi-class, Qinling-class and Qingcheng-class warships.
In the United States, there is no need to pay cash, it will be directly deducted from the final payment of the boat purchase.
Therefore, as soon as the Americans turned around, they immediately announced that they would start building a new battleship this year, which is the Fuxi class.
Of course, they also changed the name and just used the original canceled design of the New York class.
However, the Americans also made some changes, replacing the Fuxi-class 130mm secondary gun with their own 127mm secondary gun.
This time the Yankees directly announced the real data of the new New York class.
The Fuxi class has been built, and there is no need to fool people. 3. 20,000-ton standard platoon, 4 triple-mounted 360mm 45-caliber guns, arranged on the back of the head and tail, and 8 twin-mounted 12,750-caliber secondary guns.
When the great powers looked at it, they thought, oh shit, the Yankees have already embarked on a 30,000-ton super-dreadnought ship with a 14-inch main gun.
We can't fall behind, so they followed suit one after another.
Especially Niu Niu, who is the best brother in the world, he can't bear this.
If just a few more battleships in China cannot change the world structure, Niu Niu knows very well that although China has been desperately building ships in recent years, their main focus is still on land.
For China, the navy is more defensive, and it will not pose much of a threat to the British Empire.
Besides, there is a vicious dog called Japan on the border of China.
If you want to challenge the British Empire, you must get rid of this vicious dog first.
But the United States is different.
This is a formidable potential opponent, a competitor that is fully capable of knocking Niu Niu off its throne.
You must not be careless.
Therefore, British Admiralty Minister Churchill strongly requested that the development of a 15-inch caliber main gun be immediately started to replace the existing 13.5-inch caliber main gun.
And immediately make major changes to the drawings of the Iron Duke-class battleship scheduled to start construction next year so that it can be equipped with a 15-inch caliber main gun.
In order to catch up with the schedule, Fatty Qiu ordered the trial production and manufacturing of the 15-inch main gun to be carried out at the same time.
For reasons of confidentiality, the new naval gun was called the "14-inch gun."
Of course, this kind of secrecy is meaningless to China, which has eyes and ears all over the world.
All the great powers have taken action, and Japan, which is next door to China, is no exception.
They announced the construction plan for the next-level battleship Fuso class in August.
Although the specific parameters are kept secret from the outside world, this kind of confidentiality is completely meaningless for China's intelligence capabilities.
Within a few days of their announcement, China has obtained Very detailed information.
Wuhan, Presidential Palace.
"It's really funny.
Tell me, why are the Japanese so obsessed with the six-turret layout?
The last time they bought the Orion-class drawings from the British, they ended up abruptly changing it to a six-turret.
Now this Fuso-class has a six-turret.
They How much do you like the six-turret?"
Wen Desi looked at the information in his hand and couldn't laugh or cry.
The Japanese's fascination with the six-turret made him feel embarrassed.
"Mr.
Wen, it turns out that the Fuso-class has not just six turrets, but seven turrets."
Wang Qi, the Minister of National Security, said with some humor: "As far as we know, the Japanese Navy originally proposed a seven-turret plan, but the Japanese warship design department of the Naval Administration Headquarters said The existing technology could not meet the requirements of the navy, so it settled for six turrets."
Wen Desi shook his head: "I have to say that six turrets, or even five turrets, are very stupid layouts, let alone seven turrets.
Facts have proved that it is best not to have more than four main turrets on a battleship, otherwise it will affect the armor.
The negative impact is too great” Gu Xiaolu replied: "Of course, although for us, this is common sense.
But people in this time and space have not been taught a lesson, especially the Japanese.
They have the tradition of stacking weapons on warships."
"This is not surprising.
Japan's national strength is insufficient, but their ambitions are too great, so they always like to engage in some crooked ways, hoping to win by surprise.
But history has told us that even if a surprise victory is successful, it can only be proud for a while.
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In the end, strength must speak for itself.
What's more, more so-called surprising examples all ended in failure."
Military Secretary Gu Xiaoyuan also despises Japan's strategy.
She continued: "By the way, Mr.
Wen, according to our information, the two Hanoi-class ships launched by Japan last month are already being outfitted.
They have organized five times the number of workers to work in three shifts.
According to our information Experts expect it to be completed by the end of this year.”
Wen Desi smiled disapprovingly: "It's so fast, haha, Japan is also very hardworking after being stimulated by us."
Of course he didn't care much.
Because Japan's so-called "New Kawachi Class" is an emergency product.
The original Hanoi-class main guns were arranged in a diamond shape, that is, one at the front and rear, and two on the left and right sides.
Of course, this is not wrong.
This was the mainstream arrangement at the time, but it is very speechless.
Although the caliber of the 12 main guns of the Hanoi class is the same 305 mm, the magnifications are different.
The four main guns at the front and tail are 50 times the caliber, while the eight main guns on the side are 45 times the caliber.
In other words, it is not a real dreadnought at all, and can only be regarded as a "quasi-dreadnought" at best.
After receiving the news that China had commissioned the United States to build battleships, the Japanese jumped anxiously, because even according to the shrinkage data deliberately leaked by China and the United States at the time, it was not comparable to the Hanoi class.
The most important thing is that the main guns of the Chinese battleships adopt a full central axis layout, which can exert all the main gun firepower when firing on the side.
However, the Hanoi class with a diamond layout can only exert two-thirds of the firepower when firing on the side.
Main gun firepower.
Now the Japanese Navy has quit.
According to their thinking, their warships can be reluctantly accepted to be worse than those of Britain and America, but they must not be worse than China.
So, their chuuniangqi broke out.
The original Hanoi-class design was simply thrown away, and even the Settsu, whose keel was almost laid, was urgently stopped.
The Military Command requested the Ship Administration Headquarters to immediately modify it, and also require a full central axis layout that can exert all the firepower.
This will cause great harm to the ship administration headquarters.
Changing the diamond layout to a full central axis layout is called a change.
Change your sister.
This is a redesign, right?
The Ship Administration Headquarters stated that major changes would be acceptable, but in any case it would be impossible to come up with a new design before 1909.
Now the United Fleet is quitting again, I can't afford to wait.
So, they had to ask Niu Niu to buy the drawings.
At that time, the British happened to design their first all-central axis layout battleship, which was the "Orion class".
Out of consideration for the Anglo-Japanese alliance and to contain China and the United States, the United Kingdom also generously sold the Orion blueprints to Japan.
However, the Orion-class only had five turrets, which was unacceptable to Japan, so they asked the British to add another turret, and they also required that the modification be completed within 2 months.
Since it was the customer's request, the British designers had no choice but to do it with an embarrassed face.
They lengthened the length of the Orion class, forced a turret between the two chimneys, and increased the standard displacement from 22,000 tons to 26,000 tons.
But you can imagine how good this rushed design can be.
The Fuso-class shipbuilding plan announced by Japan now is modified based on the Hanoi-class.
Oh, this time there is more time, at least the loopholes of the Hanoi class have been fixed, but the layout of six turrets is not much better no matter how good it is.
While countries are going crazy about battleships, two large shipyards in China are building two inconspicuous things: