The British, for their part, were determined to equip their battleships with secondary guns, and the French were likewise analyzing what they had seen during the exercise. Lanesan was once again convinced that the battleships he insisted on were the only core strength of the Navy.

As a result of the current dispute of interest with the British on African soil, and in response to the German Navy's Naval Act, Ranesan also decided to develop a larger naval construction plan, and the original draft plan for the construction of six battleships and five armored cruisers over seven years was overturned, and the plan was shortened to five years with the same number of builds.

The French Navy is much better than the Germans, with 15 battleships in service and 4 under construction, of course, a small part of the 15 battleships in service are not old dreadnoughts, but in any case, at least they are still a lot better than the current Germans.

But for the French, whose economic situation is far inferior to that of Germany, such an urgent shipbuilding plan is still quite hard.

In contrast, the Americans who are far away on the other side of the ocean seem to be much more leisurely, anyway, they already have 2 battleships already launched, 3 battleships have been put on the slipway, and the Congress that picks the door is generous, and last year approved the budget of 3 battleships, and the budget of 5 battleships is under review, it is estimated that it will be able to pass next year, and we can start building again, and it is so capricious to have money.

While Britain, France, and the United States were all contributing to their own navy, the Germans were not idle, the British wanted to equip their battleships with second-class guns, and the Germans wanted to equip their battleships with first-class guns.

The whole workshop was filled with the sound of clanging and stabbing scriptures, and the chief of the naval staff who was walking in the workshop looked very interested, pointing and asking the technicians next to him as he walked.

This is the largest naval gun turret production workshop of the Krupp company in Essen, and the turret is not a barrel. This thing can take up a large part of the workshop space in one piece, so it's not like the barrel production workshop, which is densely packed with thick and long.

However, this does not affect the interest of Kester, and although it is a turret production workshop, it does not mean that it is not thick and long.

Although it does not include the part placed in the turret enclosure well, one has been assembled, and the two turrets with the barrel are still surprisingly large. Of course, it is impossible to ship things out of this way. The assembly is only a more extensive inspection, and when the time comes, it will have to be dismantled and transported to the shipyard.

This is precisely the turret of the DRH.L.C/283 type with twin naval guns for the new battleships under construction.

A complete turret is obviously more impressive than the sheer number of parts, and the Chief of the Naval Staff, accompanied by technicians, has been asking questions about the technical details of this big thing.

Vice Admiral Alfred, Chief of Staff of the Navy, and Vice Admiral Joachim, Chief of Personnel of the Navy, were talking quietly behind the Chief of the General Staff.

"Lord Koester looks pleased, but Alfred, you look like you're almost constipated." Jochen teased quietly.

"Your Excellency Koster is here to see the naval guns, and now the finished product is in front of me, of course I am happy, I, the director of the Naval Office, is in charge of equipment, in order to see the progress, I don't know how many times I have come here. There's nothing to see, and to be honest, it's so tinkling here, you can feel the power and enthusiasm of industry when you first come, and if you come too much, you'll be annoyed to death. Tirpitz complained equally quietly.

"I guess it's not just annoyed by this voice, but I know that your naval office has recently been constantly picking on the problem of budget use by His Excellency Mundz's naval alliance, right?" Jochen gloated.

His Excellency Muntz, after stepping down from his position as Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, went to become the chairman of the Naval League. Then Tirpitz had a hard time, with such an old boss who knew the Navy well. As soon as the role changed, turning the gun to find fault with the Navy, Tirpitz had a headache.

It is not as good as the "Navy Law" after the enactment of the "Navy", the Navy's large-scale investment in ship construction has been closely watched by Muntz to see whether the budget is carefully calculated by every mark, and whether there is more money that should not be spent because of bureaucracy, corruption, or coping with the situation.

His Excellency the Old Chief of Staff is familiar with this set of procedures of the German Navy. Even if he knew that this was a duet singing together, Tirpitz had to really pay attention to the link pointed out, and then improve and strengthen the management, so he was indeed busy with his feet on the ground and had a headache.

"Who's to say it's not, this new battleship is more tonnage than Caesar? The Frederick III class was only 3000 tons larger. But the cost is 30% more expensive, and how can those civilians know that a 283-mm naval gun alone is more than 1 times more expensive than the original 260-mm naval gun! The Public Relations Division of the Navy Office had to figure out how to explain. Tirpitz looked depressed.

"Don't be like this, didn't Your Excellency Muntz also praise you for your generosity, and ordered 30 twin 283mm naval gun turrets from Krupp in one go, so that the price was lowered and the navy was saved?" Jochen smiled and persuaded.

"Don't mention, 30 turrets need to build 10 battleships, and the 4 battleships we have started to start are estimated to be launched in 1901 at the earliest, and we are not ready to start new battleships next year, so the second batch will be launched at the end of 03 at the earliest, and these turrets will have to be piled up in Krupp's warehouses for a lot of time, and Krupp is also very opinionated." Tirpitz smiled wryly.

"If Krupp has an opinion, you can mention Skoda, you can't all the artillery in Germany be theirs, and then our military will not even have room to choose." Jochen said nonchalantly.

Listening to Jochen's words, Tirpitz nodded with a smile: "I think so too, Skoda still has some very good products, for example, their 120mm naval guns have very good performance, I think we can indeed have some new options......"

Unlike Tirpitz who had already exhausted his interest by coming here too much, Jochen was even more familiar with the situation of the ship's gun and turret, after all, Popper had a lot of opinions when Jochen was designing it.

The turret was shaped in the same shape as the DRH.L.C/1906 of the historic Nassau-class battleships, with 280 mm frontal armor with a 25-degree slope sufficient to withstand the shells of all naval guns of the various countries at this time, although the large angle of the top slope was only 90 mm thick. It is quite in the style of insufficient protection of the turret of the German battleship, but in the current era when the artillery distance of various countries is 5,000 meters, the angle of entry of shells at this distance will not exceed 5 degrees, and the 90 mm skylight is already considered invincible.

Since the new battleships are still adopted and Caesar? The Frederick III class has the same front, middle and rear central axis layout, so each turret is equipped with the latest 3-meter baseline stereo rangefinder from ZEISS.

Jochen was still happy with the turret itself, but with the cannon mounted on it. Jochen could only say, reluctantly, just make do with it first.

Who called Krupp's original 283 mm MRKL/40 guns were cut by Jochen's words, Germany has not developed 283 mm SKL/40 as a technology accumulation, although Johen set the standard for Krupp in accordance with 283 mm SKL/45, Krupp also did a good job, Su Anran can not fully meet the standard proposed by Jochen, but it is not a star and a half stronger than the 283 mm SKL/40 in history.

It is also difficult for the German Navy to have very high expectations for this naval gun, but the current gun can only be regarded as a living use in Jochen's eyes, and we have no better choice of transitional products.

First of all, it uses a horizontal sliding wedge bolt. Rather than a partition threaded type, this can only be said to be a helpless move.

In order to meet the rate of fire requirements, Krupp adopted a more conservative, clumsy but very effective method, that is, the horizontal sliding wedge gun latch design on small and medium-caliber was directly copied to the large-caliber naval gun, after all, the German Navy's 260 mm and 210 mm naval guns now use this design.

The partition threaded gun bolt has a complex structure, a high level of manufacturing technology, and is difficult to operate and has a slow rate of fire. Although Krupp is an artillery giant, there is still a certain gap between it and the British Empire in the field of naval artillery. Even the British have not been able to achieve a rate of fire of 1 round per minute for their 12-inch naval guns with their own partition threaded gun latches. If you want to make the rate of fire of the 283-mm naval gun meet the standard, it is obvious that there is a price to pay.

Moreover, because of the bolt, the airtightness of the chamber is poor, and small and medium-caliber naval guns can use fixed metal cartridges to solve this problem, and large-caliber naval guns have no way, because the propellant is all made of silk medicine packs. Therefore, the design of the 210 mm and 260 mm naval guns could only be used. Stuffing a silk pouch into the chamber with a short metal cartridge does not affect the use of the pouch, and it is still possible to shoot with reduced and strong charges, but the extra thing still brings some trouble to the reloading work, and it also takes up a lot of space and adds weight.

So that's it. The rate of fire of the new cannon using the horizontal slide wedge bolt was able to reach 2 rounds per minute, which basically met Jochen's requirements, but at the cost of the heavy tail section of the new gun due to the use of a metal cartridge to act as an airtight and the need to withstand the backward thrust of the shot.

But now Jochen has no better choice, Jochen knows that the British are now developing a 1.5-minute 1.5-speed MarkIX 12-inch naval gun, which makes him feel a sense of urgency, but even if he proposes to Krupp to develop the next-generation battleship main gun with a partition thread bolt, it will not be fruitful in a short time.

In a hurry, take your time, settle the problem first, and then think about anything else, Jochen can only comfort himself with this.

However, it seemed that God did not intend to make Jochen feel better, and a staff member of the city government of Essen hurried over: "Your Highness, Your Excellency the Chief of the General Staff, there is an urgent telegram from Berlin, asking you to return to Berlin immediately. ”

"What's going on?" Jochen asked.

"It didn't say in the telegram, but it said that the two of them must return immediately without delay."

"Your Excellency, it looks like we're in big trouble." Jochen looked at the telegram, then turned to Kerth. (To be continued......)