"The 10-inch gun has a certain advantage in long distance, but it still can't penetrate the opponent's armor, and it is very difficult to suffocate the opponent with high-explosive shells in battleship, so we must enhance the armor-piercing ability of the shells, whether it is to improve the armor-piercing shells or use larger caliber guns!"

However, the same view leads to a different conclusion. Pen & Fun & Ge www.biquge.info Scheer strongly demanded that the future fast warships of the High Seas Fleet be directly equipped with the same guns as battleships! And it was required that the protection aspect must also be able to withstand the opponent's artillery. However, the requirements for speed are not very high. And the reason why he made such an inference was also based on the current situation and future situation of the German Navy.

"It can be expected that in the future, the main operational direction of the German High Seas Fleet will be the North Sea. Fighting in the narrow North Sea, we don't need too high a range, and the range at which we can maneuver is not very large. The more likely scenario would be a battle with the main forces of the Royal Navy, in which case it is clear that we would be at a numerical disadvantage. Every capital ship is precious and must play its due role! All ships must be able to fight the opposing main fleet on the battle line. The artillery you have can destroy the opponent, and the defense you have must be able to withstand the blows of the opponent's main artillery, of course, I admit, this is a bit demanding. So in terms of speed, we can lower the standard accordingly. ”

"The speed of the fleet depends on the slowest ship in the entire fleet, so it doesn't really make much sense for individual ships to be too fast. In order to ensure the uniformity of the fleet's movements, we must set the speed of most of the warships in the future to a reasonable range, not too slow, not too fast! ”

The German Navy did not have as many issues to consider as the British Navy. The British needed to balance the forces of the decisive battle of the fleet and the forces of counter-destruction. It is necessary to consider both the assault on all potential adversaries and the handling of all kinds of ubiquitous assault ships. And the German Navy only needs to think about one point, that is, how to PK with the main fleet of the Royal Navy in this pond in the North Sea! If the Royal Navy could not be defeated, the German surface fleet would not be qualified to talk about other issues.

Therefore, Scheer only had to think about how the fleet could fight. And for such a simple purpose, the fleet is naturally as fierce as possible and the thicker the armor. As for speed? It would have been possible to be faster than the British battleships, and anyway, no matter how fierce the British were, a simple fast fleet would definitely not be able to defeat the main German fleet.

"In the future, if our fleet can unify its speed to about 25 knots, and no longer build battleships with a speed of 21 knots or battlecruisers with a speed of about 27 knots, I am afraid it will be more suitable for the future North Sea battlefield. A speed of 25 knots would allow us to throw off the British Grand Fleet, and at the same time it would not be much fuller than the ships of the same class as the British. I think that the Von der Tann-class battlecruisers designed by His Royal Highness the Prince are quite correct for having a speed of 25 knots. Because this speed is moderate, the power of the battleship is moderate, and it is possible to leave enough margin for armor and artillery. In the report, Sher praised Prince Ruprecht's suggestion. I think his thinking is just right to grasp the pulse of the times.

"In order to gain a greater tactical advantage, we need to be equipped with more powerful artillery and have a longer effective firing range. We should vigorously develop long-range artillery skills, and the engagement distance of the battleship Nassau should be about 15 kilometers, and the maximum range should be 20 kilometers. The elevation angle of our battleship artillery should have been raised to about 35 degrees, which shows that the elevation angle of the turret of the Krupp company is somewhat smaller, and the elevation angle of the Bavarian triple gun is just right! ”

"The British already have a 12-inch gun, and there is no need for our next-generation artillery to continue to study the 12-inch L50 gun, which is not significantly more powerful than the 12-inch L45 gun. We should study 350mm guns directly! Prince Ruprecht's foresight in reserving room for artillery improvements is worth learning from and emulating. Since it is impossible for our fleet to have more naval guns than the British, then our naval guns will have to be at least a little thicker! ”

Scheer also commented on his allies, and to be honest, Turkey is far inferior to Italy in terms of navy, and even in the eyes of some people, Turkey's navy is inferior to the small country called Greece next door. "Turkey cannot rely on its own strength to protect its long coastline. If we want to hold the vital Dardanelles, then at least one detachment needs to be deployed, or the Germans need to take control of the Turkish fleet. Otherwise, Turkey simply could not defend itself against the Black Sea Fleet of the Russians. If we want to take full advantage of Turkey's geographical advantages, then in addition to selling warships to the Turks, we need to build two relatively complete military ports in Istanbul and the Persian Gulf. And help the Turks to establish a relatively complete naval personnel system. ”

"It should also be noted that the construction of auxiliary warships played an important role in this engagement, and although the cruiser was very vulnerable to battleship-class firepower, it still shared considerable pressure on the Agile. In the course of future battles with the Grand Fleet, there may not be a situation where small cruisers strafe capital ships with high-explosive shells at close range (because eighty percent are killed before they can get close), but light cruisers can still play a huge role in avant-garde reconnaissance and anti-lightning strikes. ”

The speed of all the capital ships of Germany will not be very high, and the speed is one of the key attributes of the reconnaissance ability of the battleship, since this is the case, then this reconnaissance task can only fall on the cruiser, and in the reconnaissance, the light cruisers of both sides will easily meet, and at this time, the battle between the light cruisers will be inevitable, and who can successfully defeat or expel the opponent will become a very important issue! Therefore, Scheer suggested that the light cruiser should also be moderately large and heavily equipped, of course, this time the speed cannot be reduced, only the armament and defense can be reduced, the defense standard does not need to be too high, it can resist the 6-inch gun to wash the deck, and the firepower is to be determined.

On the whole, Scheer's ideas are largely the same as those of Prince Ruprecht. In the construction of the main fleet in the future, the principle of preferring shortage to abundance, as well as the principle of moderate mobility, will be adhered to. And these two principles have always run through the future German high seas fleet 1 battle shipbuilding strategy!

Jericho's report was first sent back to England. The new Lord of the Admiralty must have been unhappy with this report, which meant that the perfect cat he had hoped for would drag on for a while. But at the same time, he had to admit that this report was well-founded and indeed suitable for the current British Royal Navy, so the final result of the discussion was that the old armored cruisers needed to be built with turret-based 9.2-inch and 10-inch naval guns, according to Jericho's opinion. Construction of the new battle cruiser was first carried out in 1905.

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