Chapter 768: National Innovation
Now the Daheng Imperial Navy is still struggling to figure out how to hit the enemy ship at a distance of about 10,000 meters, and as for the farther 15,000 kilometers is 18,000 kilometers, it can only wait until the unified fire control system is figured out.
The unified fire control system is complex and expensive, which is why it is only used in the main guns of capital ships of more than 10,000 tons, and all kinds of light cruisers and destroyers should not be counted on, and even the secondary gun fire of capital ships should not be expected to be able to use unified fire control.
The above-mentioned series of battleships, battle cruisers, and heavy cruisers, the three capital ships, are all designed according to the premise of long-distance warfare in the future, so more large-caliber naval guns are used, and integrated closed turrets are adopted, mechanical omnidirectional loading, front and rear plus side twin layouts, and a unified fire control system is planned.
At the same time, in terms of protection, it is also more important to pay more attention to the protection of the horizontal deck and the protection of important parts, such as the Qiping-class battle cruiser, the armor thickness of the command tower of its upper building reaches 225 mm at the thickest point, which obviously exceeds the maximum thickness of the main armor belt of 155 mm, and the same is true for the Pingxi-class heavy cruiser, its main armor belt is very weak, and the thickest part is only 75 mm, but the protective thickness of the turret and the conning tower is not weak.
And pay attention to torpedo protection in a unified way.
In addition, the tonnage of ships continues to increase, the speed requirements continue to increase, and in order to be more suitable for fighting in areas with complex sea conditions in the depths of the endless sea, these warships have begun to use flying shear bulbous bows.
At the same time, in order to better adapt to long-distance battles in the future, its masts are built relatively high, so that lookouts can stand higher for observation, and deploy optical rangefinders.
And these combine to form a 'unified all-heavy artillery battleship'.
The unified all-heavy artillery warships of the Great Heng Empire are not just pursuing to equip more main guns of the same caliber, but to achieve the purpose of long-distance engagement.
Even light warships that cannot be equipped with unified fire control and are difficult to engage in long-distance battles in the future, that is, light cruisers and destroyers in the shipbuilding plan, are designed to assist the main warships in long-distance engagements.
According to the strategic needs of the Daheng Imperial Navy, coupled with the experience of the Battle of Bova, there was a light armored cruiser such as the Pingxi-class light cruiser with a mere 75 mm armor belt, and as for the eight 150 mm 45 times caliber rapid-fire guns that came to the door, although it was said that there were as many as eight of them of uniform caliber, it was not for long-distance engagement, because there was no intention to install expensive unified fire control for these auxiliary ships of several thousand tons.
The mission of the Pingxi-class light cruisers is to cooperate with the new battleships and battle cruisers to provide avant-garde and peripheral reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance for the capital ships, and to intercept the opponent's light mine-strike ships.
The task of the destroyer is simpler, providing high-speed avant-garde reconnaissance, perimeter alert, and launching high-speed lightning operations, and lightning operations are the core tasks of the new generation of Guanglin-class destroyers, of course, this is based on the smooth development of thermodynamic torpedoes, and in the case of smooth installation in recent years, before this, the Guanglin-class destroyers will not be much better than the existing Yuanlin-class destroyers.
Based on the experience of the two naval battles of Beauva, coupled with the technological development of recent years, the Daheng Navy has gone in the direction of long-distance engagement, and has developed a complete fourth phase of the naval development plan, planning to build a large number of new warships.
However, it is not only the Daheng Imperial Navy that builds a new generation of warships based on the experience of the Bova Naval Battle, and the other naval powers basically count one by one, all of which have innovated their own naval tactics and changed the design ideas of the warships based on the experience of the Bova Naval Battle.
However, their thinking is not the same as that of the Daheng Empire, and the technical route is also different, which leads to the fact that the design ideas of the new warships they choose are different from those of the Daheng Empire's navy.
The most typical navy of the Krull Kingdom, after the experience of the Battle of Bova, they firmly believe that the mixed main gun battleship is the future, the large-caliber main gun is a slow rate of fire, but it can be a final word, and a large number of rapid-fire secondary guns of more than 200 mm can supplement the defects of the slow rate of fire of the main gun above 300 mm caliber, not only can hit the enemy's battleships, but also this level of rapid-fire main gun is very effective against the enemy's mounted cruisers or other first-class and second-class cruisers.
In the two naval battles of Bova, although the Jingzhou-class battleships also performed well, in fact, the two Fengyang-class armored cruisers and the six Klan-class armored cruisers were even more dazzling!
The high-speed patrol formation composed of these eight armored cruisers relied on high-speed, large-caliber rapid-fire artillery fire to suppress the Imperial Navy of Gafia throughout the Second Battle of Beauvois.
Of course, everyone knows that this kind of patrol must also be a new generation of patrol, using hardened armor for comprehensive protection, and must be able to effectively resist rapid-fire guns with a caliber of less than 1 million and 50 mm, and at the same time must be equipped with a large-caliber rapid-fire gun with a caliber of more than 200 mm, preferably a caliber of more than 250 mm, and the speed must also be ahead of the battleship.
In this way, it will be able to occupy a huge strategic advantage in the decisive battle of the fleet.
The outstanding performance of the patrol formation in the second Battle of Bova of the Daheng Imperial Navy made the navies of all countries around the world see the potential of this new generation of patrolling, which can not only serve as the original patrol tasks such as avant-garde reconnaissance, breaking diplomatic relations, and counter-breaking diplomatic relations, but also directly participate in the decisive battle of the fleet, and the performance is no worse than that of battleships.
In this case, a large number of national navies have put the development of a new generation of patrol on the most important plan, especially some countries that are shy in their pockets and want to maintain their naval strength have invariably aimed at the new generation of patrol of the Daheng Empire.
Hardened armor, comprehensive protection, large-caliber rapid-fire guns, and a speed of more than 20 knots have become essential design elements for the new generation of patrols.
However, for many countries, it is still difficult to design and build, whether it is hardened armor or large-caliber rapid-fire guns, which are very technically difficult technologies.
Especially for large-caliber rapid-fire guns, except for the Daheng Empire, which developed rapid-fire guns many years in advance, the rapid-fire guns of other countries are currently in their infancy, and they are not so easy to come up with.