"First of all, we are very grateful for the technical support provided to us by the Bavarian Ship Design Bureau, which has been redesigned according to the characteristics of your design and in accordance with the needs of the Imperial Navy, with a layout similar to yours, and has accepted the suggestion of Count Vittorio Kuniberti to arrange the five turrets on the central axis in order to obtain a better firing range. After www.biquge.info saying that, Wigner smiled and saluted the prince and earl slightly to show his respect. On the other side, the prince and earl also smiled and nodded, which was considered a return of the courtesy.

If it weren't for the fact that everyone else present knew that the two sides were enemies in a competitive relationship, they would still think that the two were partners and had been dating for many years! Both the Kaiser and the senior officials of the German Admiralty feel that the current scene is too discordant! What's going on with this?

"We have also considered using the triple turret you use, but after careful comparison, we think that there are still advantages over the five twin turrets and the four triple turrets, first of all, this advantage is reflected in the design and construction difficulty, the triple turret is about 7 percent heavier than the twin turret, and the structure is more complex and the risk is greater."

"Of course, the biggest problem is the walk and the accuracy. The muzzle spacing of the triple turret is relatively small, and it is easy to cause the muzzle storm to interfere with each other when firing a salvo, which makes the walk larger and the hit rate will be greatly affected. So, we finally decided on a 5-seat twin-mounted main gun layout. ”

Wigner concluded. After speaking, he first signaled to the Kaiser, who was sitting in the first seat, and the Kaiser nodded with a smile, and looked at the prince who was also smiling with a slight smugness. It seems that he is very satisfied with this result, and a big stone in Wigner's heart has also been put down, and the Kaiser has expressed his position, so it shouldn't be a big problem, right?

There was a hint of curiosity hidden in the Kaiser's smug expression, and he really couldn't understand why this prince was so calm! "Brother, these people copied your design. Where did you get the momentum to fight Krupp in the first place? I didn't make any statement, this is too talkative, right? There are also plans for the construction of 5 battleships, according to the agreement in advance, the planned construction of the battleships behind will be handed over to the Prussian shipyard headed by the Royal William Shipyard, which is a big contract of hundreds of millions of marks, aren't you in a hurry? ”

"It's your turn." After Wigner left the stage, the prince motioned to his attendants, and a few minutes later, with the help of several staff members, two large-scale models of 1:100 were placed on a huge table. The appearance of the two battleships is very similar, and the person on the left has seen it, which is the battleship plan submitted by the Bavarian Design Bureau, equipped with 4 3-pack main guns and a displacement of 25,000 tons.

But the model on the right is a little strange, it looks similar to the one on the left, but it seems that the turret has changed? The 4 triple turrets were replaced with 4 twin turrets, which were about the same in size, but the tubes of the guns were thicker? What's going on?

"We replaced the artillery!" The Count pointed to the model on his right with the putter in his hand. "We are well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the triple turret, which allows the ship to have a greater density of firepower and shorten the length of the armor belt, but at the same time it is difficult to design, which Mr. Wegener can see, and we can see it."

"But we still decided to use the triple turret, there are two important reasons, the first reason is that the walking problem can be solved by half a salvo, and firing from the No. 1, 3 or 2 guns in each main gun turret can minimize the problem of muzzle storm interference, or even similar to that of a twin main gun."

"And the second and most important reason is that the volume of the triple turret and the required gun ring are large enough to be retrofitted with larger caliber guns in the future! For example, the twin 14-inch turret of the future! ”

"If at the moment, 4 triple turrets do not have any advantage over 5 twin turrets, then the advantage of 8 14-inch guns over 10 12-inch guns is probably obvious, right? If the rate of fire of both turrets were the same, the shells of the 14-inch gun we envisaged would be around 650kg. And the weight of the 12-inch basic shell is about 400kg, and the former has a huge advantage in terms of projection volume alone, and if you calculate the armor-piercing ability, then the former has a greater advantage, after all, the caliber of the gun is 2 inches larger! ”

"Guys, that's obvious enough, isn't it?" Looking at the Kaiser and the senior naval officer with a shocked face in front of him, Vittorio was happy in his heart, of course, at this time, he did not forget to sarcastically mock the opponent with a bad style: "Mr. Wigner, please tell your boss that you will copy the whole set in the future, and don't throw away the most critical parts!" ”

There are not many such things in history, but there are some such things, and in World War 1, the British replaced the 13.5-inch guns of the last Sovereign-class battleship in service with 12-inch guns, and used them as shallow water heavy gunboats. After World War 1, there were more plans to replace guns, for example, when Japan was manufacturing the Super Armor Patrol, it considered replacing 3 3-pack 310mm guns with 2 twin-mounted 410mm guns during the war.

Scharnhorst, on the other hand, of Nazi Germany, is said to have considered replacing three 11-inch turrets with twin 15-inch guns from Bismarck. Of course, this kind of thing did not happen in history, and the prince was not optimistic about this plan, after all, Scharnhorst was already seriously overloaded, and the freeboard was relatively low, and after the change of guns, the freeboard was not more of a problem? As for the Italians' Gafort-class battleships, they were actually replaced, after all, the original 12-inch guns were expanded and turned into 320mm guns.

Of course, the real change of guns depends on the Japanese 2 wars of the highest class cruisers, originally this guy was equipped with 5 triple 6-inch guns, and when the war started, it was replaced with 5 twin 8-inch guns! Directly from light patrol to heavy patrol! And these triple 6-inch guns were later used on the Yamato....... I have to say. The Japanese are still very good at exploiting the loopholes of the treaty!

"Dreadnoughts become super dreadnoughts! What do you think? Enough level, right? Didn't you copy it? Now give me a double-mounted 12-inch gun and turn it into a 14-inch gun! "The prince was proud in his heart. Now the situation is clear, Bavaria's plan may not be better than that of Wilhelm Royal Shipyard, but when it comes to upgrade potential, the former is several streets behind the latter! You can fight lions and tigers before changing guns, and you can PK with the queen after changing guns, which is a big progress! In the future, 10 12-inch guns and 8 14-inch guns, even if you use your knees, you will know which one to choose!

"By the way, our battlecruisers are actually ready to change guns with triple turrets, although 6 guns are a little less, but we believe that the gains in armor-piercing capabilities can fully compensate for the losses caused by the reduction in the number of guns." The prince finally made up for it!

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