Don't you see, Thomas's 4 queens successfully turned in front of the entire high seas fleet? If the four kings at the top of the row can be equipped with eight 14-inch guns, the queen may be able to keep two! Therefore, the poison of the 12-inch cannon must be removed, and it is politically correct to use the largest possible artillery! The caliber of artillery is the first, and the number is the second is the king of the BB era! (Of course, the premise is that the number of guns is sufficient for fire control.) Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info) prestige, the layout of 6 guns of the counter-attack stream already speaks of this!

At the same time, do not underestimate the British ultra-dreadnought armor protection, there is a saying that the British super-dreadnought armor is belt armor, the thickest 300mm only has a narrow one, but in fact, the height of the British super-dreadnought armor belt is not much lower than that of the Germans, the lower extension is worse than the German battleship, and the water part is about the same. The thickest part of 300mm is not too short, and the thickness of the entire main armor belt is about one and a half decks higher. Think it's 3.5 meters.

And historically, the British still learned a lesson after the Battle of Jutland, in addition to changing the deadly fire prevention, the British also increased the protection of the dome armor, if the prince is not mistaken, the side of the dome armor has increased by 2 inches, the level has increased by 1 inch, and the 12-inch shells will probably not be able to penetrate the core cabin even if they penetrate from the 6-inch upper armor!

And in history, the British were equipped with as many as 12 super dreadnoughts with 343mm heavy guns! It is a well-deserved main force in the early stage of the 1st World War! Not to mention the later Queen Elizabeth-class battleships and revenge-class battleships, although the British's shells are rotten, but if you want to penetrate the opponent's defenses in the later stage, it is absolutely not enough to rely on 12-inch guns!

So, to sum up, the prince's final decision to adopt the scheme of 12 12-inch guns was entirely to prepare for a later upgrade, which may be completed in front of the station or shortly after the start of the war, and it will definitely be done anyway!

And even putting this aside, in terms of internal design, the plan made by His Royal Highness Prince Ruprecht, who has experience in later generations, is much stronger than Krupp's!

First of all, the gap between the two sides in terms of underwater protection is huge, and the Germans still use the layout of empty silos - liquid bunkers for 10,000 years. Such a layout is not good, especially when facing underwater shells, if the shell explodes in the liquid tank after penetrating the empty tank, then this is completely a torpedo with a small charge! The intense pressure will directly shred the last line of protection under the battleship's water, causing the core compartment to flood.

And in order to make up for the small depth of TDS caused by the width of the hull at the ammunition depot, the prince also specially strengthened the underwater protection of the ammunition depot, the thickness of the side underwater part of the protection is 60mm high elastic steel, and the bottom is three layers of bottom.

As for vertical protection, the 280mm armor with an inclination of 12 degrees is higher than the vertical, although it may not be able to carry a 15-inch shell equipped with a green hat, but it is still no problem to block the attack of all the British capital naval guns of World War 1 at a distance of 12 kilometers! There is also an advantage in the height of the armor belt. And horizontal protection is a masterpiece beyond the times! The 90mm main horizontal armor asks you if you are afraid! This thickness is bragging when it is said to be used in 2 battles, but it is definitely not weak in the 20s!

In terms of ship type and power, Bavaria's plan was also well thought out, and this class of warships greatly optimized the ship type, making the ship more slender and more conducive to high speed. And the size of the space between the propeller shafts of the battleship was adjusted to avoid mutual interference, and at the same time the layout of the 3 axles of the German battleship was abandoned, (the latter would have reduced the strength of the tail section.) ) with a 4-axis layout. So although it is a little worse in power than that of the Royal William Shipyard, it has a slight advantage in speed.

Overall, the prince considered his battleship to be a masterpiece of an era ahead of the Royal William Shipyard! Aside from the fact that it will be relatively expensive, at around £2.2 million, this is simply a perfect original dreadnought (this is a 1900 offer, and it would have been higher if it had been replaced by the price quoted by the king when he started construction in history). The price quoted by William Royal Shipyards for the same period was around £2.1 million. The other party has a certain advantage!

The battleship scheme is like this, and the difference between the battlecruiser scheme is similar (historically, the Germans began to call it a large cruiser, and the two titles refer to the same type of battleship in the text) The plan adopted by the Royal William Shipyard was to almost maintain the original design, but the armor was weakened, the power was increased, and the firepower was said to still use a 5-turret layout, but the gun was replaced with a new 11-inch gun, which made the prince feel quite unhappy! For this plan, he could hardly accept it.

"If the battlecruiser scheme uses 11-inch guns, then it can be used as a breakthrough!" Without seeing the detailed data, the prince was not easy to decide, but subconsciously, he thought that this was an opportunity to break the current deadlock!

And Bavaria does just that. Removing the No. 3 turret at the back, lengthening the power compartment, and repairing the hull became the battle patrol plan of the Bavarian side, but the total length of the hull reached 195 meters. The rated maximum output is 54,000 horsepower. (Note that this is a rating, not an actual, the "overclocking" of the battlecruiser in World War I is still very fierce) It is estimated that the actual maximum output is about 70,000 horsepower, and the speed is not a big problem to more than 26 knots.

In terms of cost, the cost of battlecruisers and battleships on both sides is about the same, which is not like in the later stage of history, when both BCs rushed to 28 knots of speed, so the phenomenon of rising cost due to the sharp increase in power is not obvious.

The increase in power is not only the cost of boilers and engines, but also the large power compartment will lead to the elongation of the armor belt, which will increase the cost of defense, and eventually the cost of the entire battleship will increase significantly, at the beginning of history, the first German war cruisers, such as von der Tann and Moltke, were not more expensive than Nassau and Helgoland, and even cheaper.

In the later period, the cost of the Bavaria-class battleships, the pride of the German 1st battleship, was only about 2.5 million pounds, while the cost of the Hindenburg-class battleships of the same class in the same period was about 3 million pounds. The weight of the armor was not much less than that of the Bavaria, but because the length of the armor box was a bit large, the level of defense was not of a level....... And the weapon is 2 levels worse, 8 15-inch guns against 8 12-inch guns, this can't be endured!

In addition to the 3 options proposed by Bavaria and the Wilhelm Royal Shipyards, there were several options, one of which was a simple enlarged version of the Frederick class, with the addition of a twin turret. The displacement is about 18,000 tons, and the cost is only 1.8 million. Defense enhancement was also limited, so this option was too weak to be chosen.

And the other plan was lost because it was too "powerful", 6 twin-mounted main guns! There are two twin knapsack guns at the bow and tail, and the two turrets in the middle of the hull are arranged diagonally, which is too big for even the layman! There were too many gun emplacements in the hull, which greatly lengthened the length of the battleship's armor box.

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