But when the prime minister arrived at the palace, one of them was already faster than him.

"Your Majesty, this matter has a great impact on our navy."

It was Lieutenant General Lomodan who was talking, and it must have been important for him to hurry up to Eder. Indeed, the reason for the arrival of Lieutenant General Lomodan was that the Italian side had withdrawn their aid workers, and the reply given was that the Italian side needed them.

Originally, Vice Admiral Lomodan did not and did not question this, after all, these Italian technicians had been in Romania for several years, and they had also made great contributions to the construction of the Romanian battleship Mircia. However, during the banquet of these technicians who were about to return to China, an incident happened that made Lieutenant General Lomodan feel that he should be taken seriously. That is, someone who, drunk, said that this time they would return home to design a new type of battleship to achieve the purpose of defending the Italian transport line.

Lieutenant General Lomodan felt that the matter needed to be reported to Eder knowing that it would have a profound impact on the balance of the Mediterranean, whether it had anything to do with Romania or not. 、

So when Edel heard Lomodan's words, he finally sighed in his heart. "The impact of developing Libyan oil is finally here."

In fact, the impact of Libya's oil development is far more than that.

Italy's development of Libyan oil in recent years has allowed the domestic economy to recover rapidly. Its dependence on oil extraction and refining and the associated chemical industry has allowed the Italian economy to grow well in recent years. The construction of an oil refinery in Genoa and chemical plants in Milan and Turin have allowed the Italian industry to flourish.

As the most direct evidence, Italy's annual outflow of about 200,000 people has plummeted to 10,000 or 20,000 after the development of Libyan oil. If the economy is bad, people will have to go abroad to make a living, and if the economic conditions are good, who will be willing to leave the familiar environment and go to a strange place to fight.

And Libyan oil not only saved Italy a lot of money (it was Romania that suffered), but also exported the excess oil to other countries for profit.

So even the arrival of the economic crisis has made the current Italy much better. So the Italian government, which has two spare dollars in hand, urgently needs to defend Libya's oil, which is vital to it.

At present, Italy's navy is obviously not superior to the French details, and the battleships composed of two Count Faure and two Andrea Doria-class battleships are obviously no match for the three Provence-class battleships of the French Navy, and the Italian government is naturally not satisfied with the performance of lagging behind the imaginary enemy France. (By the way, the two battleships don't feel much different, and both are dreadnoughts built before the war.) ）

Since they were not satisfied, then they needed to build new battleships to counter France. Therefore, in order to adapt to the needs of Italy in the Mediterranean Sea in the new situation, the task of building a new class of battleships was born in this situation. This is both a military necessity and a political one. Mussolini, who is currently at the helm of the Italian government, also needs to build new battleships to meet the self-confidence of the people in the country and at the same time show his own ability to govern.

Of course, according to the Washington Naval Treaty, Italy also has enough tonnage of capital ships to use, you must know that the current Italian four-ship battleship is less than 100,000 tons, and there is enough tonnage for Italy to use, and the only factor affecting its construction is the problem of funding. The development of Libyan oil has made up for this shortcoming.

So this time Italy intends to build a first class of battleships to crush its opponents, and this will require the return of technicians who are currently helping Romania build ships. Because these technicians helped too much in the construction of Italian ships. In every way, it is a great help to Italy's shipbuilding industry.

Since it is the work of Italian ambition, the battleship built this time must also be very outstanding.

Here it is up to Italy to thank Eder.

BECAUSE OF ITS PARTICIPATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE BATTLESHIP MILCIA, ITALY HAS FULL CONFIDENCE IN BUILDING A SUPER BATTLESHIP EQUIPPED WITH 380MM NAVAL GUNS. And many of the plans designed by the Italian side of this class of battleships refer to the design on the Mircea. SUCH AS THE LONG BOW, THE UNDERWATER PROTECTION OF THE CYLINDRICAL STRUCTURE, ETC., BUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT THE 380MM 50 TIMES CALIBER NAVAL GUN WILL ALSO BE USED AS THE MAIN GUN OF THE ITALIAN BATTLESHIPS OF THIS CLASS.

As a 380mm 50 times caliber naval gun jointly developed by the three countries, its gun body is a movable body tube structure. From the inside to the outside, it is a monolithic bore tube, which is divided into two parts of the liner reinforcement layer, that is, two layers of local reinforcement layers and a reinforcement layer in the front of the chamber and the orientation part of the medicine chamber and the orientation part, and the outermost layer is a movable duke that accounts for about 72% of the total length of the gun body.

At the muzzle there was a tight clamp structure with an outer diameter of 610 mm. The tail of the gun is attached to the body barrel with a connecting ring. The tail of the gun is a threaded type, with 6 closed gas partition threads, and the latch body is driven by a liquid gas mechanism to semi-automatically open and close, with an action cycle of 3.5 seconds. The left turret bolt is open to the left, and the other two guns are switched in opposite directions. Four barrel-type liquid-gas stand-up machines are evenly arranged around the gun tail, and the normal backseat distance is 1 meter. Each turret has 222 rounds of ammunition, including 195 armor-piercing rounds and 57 grenades.

The main gun has a total weight of 102.4 tons, a total length of 19,581 mm, a barrel length of 19,000 mm/L50.0, a rifled part of 15,850 mm, a chamber length of 3,071 mm, and a volume of 456.216 liters. The surface of the bore is engraved with 96 equal-rate right-handed rifling lines, the female line is 3.1 mm deep, 8.458 mm wide, and the male line is 4.0 mm wide, and the rifling distance is 30 times the diameter (refers to the length of the rifling that rotates around the axis of the gun bore and moves in the axial direction).

The armor-piercing projectile is 1.699 meters long, weighs 885 kilograms, and has a bottom charge of 88 kilograms, while the grenade has the same length as the armor-piercing projectile and weighs 774 kilograms. The propellant was packed in six kits with a total weight of 271.7 kg. The normal chamber pressure of the gun is 320 MPa, and the muzzle velocity of the armor-piercing projectile is 830-850 m / s. Its chamber has a service life of 210-230 rounds and a maximum firing range of 41800 meters.

This is also the reason why Italy needs to choose this cannon, which is developed in combination with the strength of the three countries, and the main cannon is so powerful that Italy is reluctant to re-develop it after it is idle.

And since the battleships of this class choose 380 caliber main guns, they will not be bad in other aspects. The battleship, which is currently tentatively called Class B, is designed to be 35,000 tons on paper and is armed with nine 380-caliber guns (one in the front and one in the back).

The maximum horsepower reaches 12500 horsepower. The maximum speed is 29 knots, and it is expected to carry 1978 officers and soldiers.

And to show the importance that Italy attaches to the navy, the class will be built in two parts.