The Guanglin-class destroyer and its improved version are the main destroyers mass-produced by the Daheng Empire in the last four or five years, and they are currently more than 20 destroyers in service, while the total number of orders has reached more than 60.

There are a number of sub-models involved, and their firepower configurations have been tried several successively, from the beginning of the focus on rapid-fire naval gun firepower, to the focus on lightning capabilities.

Therefore, there is nothing special about the Guanglin class and its improved destroyers, even ordinary people abroad know about this cutting-edge destroyer of the Daheng Empire, and even know a lot of details.

However, this Anxiao, which is very similar to the Guanglin-class destroyer in other aspects, is different on the inside.

Because the ship is equipped with a steam turbine!

Of course, the pure oil-fired boilers that are already used in all new warships are indispensable.

The power configuration of the Anxiao is a steam turbine with a pure oil-fired boiler.

This kind of power configuration is definitely the top on the Blue Star, not to mention the navies of other countries are under construction, and they don't even have relevant research plans.

The Daheng Empire had already begun to secretly develop steam turbines under the auspices of Lin Ziran many years ago, and the project was always in top secret for the sake of secrecy.

A few years ago, the steam turbine project was actually tested on the ship, but unfortunately the test on the ship failed, and the steam turbine did not achieve the intended effect.

The follow-up steam turbine project team continued to tackle key problems.

In the research and development process of steam turbines, the industrial community of the empire has also solved a lot of technical difficulties, especially in the field of processing and manufacturing, in order to be able to successfully produce steam turbines with good quality, several related enterprises have solved a lot of technical problems.

For example, in order to manufacture the cylinder of the steam turbine, the core component, Jingzhou Machinery Company, which undertakes the production of the cylinder, has developed a large number of high-precision equipment in targeted procurement, which is to meet the high-precision needs of the casting cylinder.

The development and manufacture of steam turbines is a great challenge for the basic industry of the Daheng Empire.

Compared with the previous steam engine, the working environment of the steam turbine is more demanding, the performance of the material is higher, and the processing accuracy is higher.

And that's not like you can draw a drawing and then make it.

In fact, the core design drawings of the steam turbine were made seven or eight years ago, and the core of the work of the steam turbine project team over the years is not to design the steam turbine, but to think about how to make the steam turbine.

In this process, if you encounter some technical problems that cannot be solved, you need to find a way to change the design to reduce the difficulty of manufacturing.

Therefore, the steam turbine that is formed now is very different from the steam turbine seven or eight years ago, which is not to say that the current steam turbine is better, in fact, the performance indicators of the current design are worse than the initial design.

No way, in the process of continuous research and development, in order to manufacture it, the project team has actually been constantly lowering the requirements.

Otherwise, if you force high requirements, it is useless to not be able to build it.

However, even if the performance indicators and technical requirements have been continuously reduced, it is still a major challenge for the industry of the Daheng Empire.

Although the outside world does not know, even some of the manufacturers responsible for the R&D and production of parts do not know, the person in charge of the project team does. In order to get the steam turbine out, at least two or three hundred thousand researchers were directly or indirectly involved in the entire empire.

It's just that these people, except for a few people in charge of the project team, don't know that they are working or helping with the steam turbine project.

Even in most cases, these technology research and development are not required by the project team, but are carried out by the company for other projects, and the steam turbine project team is just a nationwide search for top technology, and then see if they can produce the parts they need.

For example, a machine tool production machinery may be a high-precision machining machine tool developed for other industrial markets, but this thing can not only be used in the field of gasoline engine manufacturing, for the field of steam engine manufacturing, but also for the production of some parts of the steam turbine.

The same cylinder sealing material may have been developed by the manufacturer for use in steam engines at the beginning, but it can also be used in steam turbines.

There are also special screws, etc., which have a wide range of applications, and steam turbines are only one application direction of these products or technologies.

Therefore, the steam turbine project team is actually not large, only about 100 people, and they themselves are not to solve the technical problems required in the manufacturing process.

After all, it would be nonsense for you to ask a group of experts who study steam turbines to study new materials, precision machining, sealing materials, etc., and it is not right at all.

The main work of the steam turbine project team is actually to search for and integrate the industrial power of the empire to manufacture the steam turbine, as for the equipment and materials needed to manufacture the steam turbine, that is the business of other enterprises.

It can also be seen from this that in fact, the production and manufacturing of steam turbines is definitely not completed by the steam turbine project team independently, but the joint efforts of the industrial community of the entire Daheng Empire, so that the steam turbine, the industrial flower of the new era, can be manufactured.

It's just that the companies and experts involved in it don't know about their research results, and the products and equipment are used in the top-secret project of steam turbines.

In fact, there are only a hundred people in the entire empire who know about the steam turbine project, and most of these hundred or so people only know the clues, and only a dozen people know the whole picture.

Even within the navy of the Daheng Empire, few people know the whole picture of the project, and many people at the level of Shangqing and Zhongqing only know that the empire is developing a new power system.

As for what this powertrain is, they don't know.

And this kind of secrecy is what makes the steam turbine project have been leaked over the years, and some foreign intelligence departments also know that the Daheng Empire is secretly developing a new type of warship power system, but they don't know what the specific power system is.

And this kind of secrecy also keeps things like steam turbines out of the sight of foreign scientific research circles.

At least, Lin Ziran has not learned anything from the scientific community or the intelligence community that foreign countries have similar projects, and they don't even have the corresponding concepts.

However, now, the Daheng Empire has already built a steam turbine and moved it to the test piece An Xiao.

The prototype Guanglin-class destroyer of the An Xiao had a maximum speed of no more than 30 knots, and it paid a huge price to achieve this speed.

However, during the secret test, An Xiao easily ran at an ultra-high speed of 34 knots.

This is also the official announcement of the arrival of the era of new power for the Navy!

And the most important thing is that the other countries on the Blue Star, including the Krull Kingdom, still don't know anything about it!