Since the beginning of the seventh year of Qiansheng, the naval construction of the Great Heng Empire has been developing rapidly.

In terms of battleships, Qiansheng successively started the construction of six Jingzhou-class battleships in the seventh year, and all of these ships have been put into service, and four of them also participated in the Second Battle of Bova.

In addition, in the ninth year of Qiansheng, the construction of the mixed main gun battleship Gaoqing began, and the construction of the full-rapid-fire second-class main gun Jinghe battleship was started in the early tenth year of Qiansheng.

These two battleships are typical test products, and they can also be regarded as transitional products, and these two ships were also put into service in the first half of this year.

Subsequently, at the end of the tenth year of Qiansheng, the navy of the Daheng Empire officially started to build the Luohe-class battleship with six main guns, the reason why the battleship has a strange six main guns, it is because in the tenth year of Qiansheng, the Daheng Empire determined the future development direction: unified all-heavy artillery warships, but because the technology was not mature at that time, especially the unified fire control system is expected to take many years to get out, plus power, knapsack turret and many other technologies are also not mature.

In the end, the Daheng Imperial Navy chose the six-main gun scheme that was indecently considered by other countries.

The Luohe-class battleships have started to build four ships successively, and this year, after the outbreak of the Liji Incident, the Daheng Empire, in order to cope with the challenge, urgently finalized the construction plan of four subsequent upgraded warships of this class, which is the Fengshan-class battleship.

This class of ships is actually an upgraded and improved version of the Luohe-class battleships, not to mention the use of more advanced power systems, the most important change is the proposed use of 300 mm 45 times the caliber naval gun, which is still in the research and development stage.

However, the Fengshan-class battleships finally started construction of only two, namely Fengshan and Longshan, and the construction plan of the next two ships, with the advantages of the two naval battles of Bova, the naval pressure was not great, and at the same time, because of the experience of the naval battle of Bova, the Navy planned to build a unified all-heavy gun warship, so the construction plan of the latter two battleships was canceled.

That is to say, the Luohe-class battleship and its improved Fengshan-class, this unique six-gun battleship, the Daheng Imperial Navy has started construction of six ships, and these six are still under construction.

As mentioned above, the Great Heng Empire began to build a series of battleships equipped with hardened armor and rapid-fire guns, with comprehensive protection and high freeboard design seven years after the Qiansheng Dynasty, a total of 14 battleships of five types.

But now, according to the experience of the Bova naval battle, and more importantly, the Navy Fire Control Office has come to the clear news, the unified fire control technology has entered the final public relations stage, the relevant person in charge of the office has been to the Navy high-level, to Lin Ziran issued a military order, according to the current research and development progress and support, at the latest two years, the unified fire control system will be able to complete the research and development work, and begin to load, within three years will be completed and enter the practical stage.

Considering that if the new large-tonnage battleship is slowly constructed, it will take two years just for the hull construction, and it will take more than half a year or even a year for outfitting, according to the two-year research and development of the fire control office and the three-year practical time schedule, then it is now possible to start designing and building a unified all-heavy gun battleship.

In this context, in the fourth phase of the Navy's naval development plan, the construction and development of new battleships have been clearly defined as unified all-heavy artillery battleships.

As for the design, the Daheng Navy Ship Administration Department has already begun to think about it, and the person in charge is Hou Hai, the most talented warship designer of the younger generation in the navy.

Well, this person was also the designer of the cruiser Hetai!

It is worth noting that the cruiser Hetai has not yet been built.

The construction of the hull of this broken ship began in the seventh year of Qiansheng, and a total of five years have passed, and the hull construction has not been completed.

The ship's delay in childbirth is due to the adoption of a large number of new technologies, not to mention others, just unified fire control technology, triple knapsack turret, these two technologies, which directly led to the ship's difficult birth.

And with the progress of time, the design scheme of the Hetai has also changed again and again, such as the main gun, at the beginning it was still a triple nine main gun scheme, and later it has become a quadruple twelve main guns, and the 150 mm naval guns carried on it are also replaced with the progress of naval gun technology, and the armor scheduled to be used on it is also from Luohai armor to Jingzhou armor, and then to Luojing armor, and the power system is also constantly changing.

Fortunately, the construction progress of the ship was relatively fast in the first few months, and it was basically in a state of semi-shutdown later, otherwise, the design was constantly modified, and the construction was constantly dismantled and rebuilt, and I don't know how much money would be wasted.

Even so, in fact, the Navy has basically given up hope that the Hetai will be completed and put into service...... Instead, it is regarded as a combination of projects, and any advanced technology is closer to this project, and then the project is established, as for whether the Hetai can really be built, in fact, the navy doesn't care......

And even if it is built, the hull is all the materials and construction technology of five or six years ago, and if it is done for a few years, the time span will be more than ten years.

By the time the ship was built, the hull had deteriorated......

At that time, it is better to have a complete design, and directly build a new ship after the technology meets the standards.

The fate of the cruiser Hetai was bumpy, but many of the technologies developed by the cruiser project were successfully applied to other warships, such as coal-fired oil-injected boilers, small water-tube boiler technology, unified fire control, integrated turrets, mechanical loading and other technologies.

Hou Hai Shaoqing designed the Hetai that almost crossed the era, which led to a difficult birth, and it can be seen from this that he designed the battleship with a leading type, and even did not hesitate to adopt some fund design schemes.

The same is true of the design of a unified all-heavy gun battleship that he submitted.

The first plan he submitted was the first two and the last one, adopting a triple knapsack turret plan, but this plan was not submitted to Lin Ziran in the end, and it was killed by the navy.

The reason is very simple, the triple turret and the piggyback layout scheme, the empire has not yet solved the related technical problems, if you really want to design it like this, the devil knows what can be built.

Later, he submitted a second plan, and this time the technical aspects of the naval guns were solved, but in one go, he got six twin-mounted main turrets and came up with a battleship plan with twelve 300 mm main guns, which could reach a speed of more than 20 knots and an armor thickness of 300 mm.

It's not that the design is bad, but the reason why it was killed by the Navy Ship Administration Department was because the design was so good that the Great Heng Empire couldn't build it......

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