Chapter 100： Alternatives of the German Navy (1/2)

What is a friend? Friends are able to seek common ground while reserving differences, and can turn the differences between each other into small things. What is an enemy, big things can ferment, and then make it impossible to clean up. From the current point of view, Ruprecht and His Royal Highness clearly belong to the former. Ruprecht said so awe-inspiring that Prince William could never say that he refused the tender? And as far as the current situation is concerned, it is possible for the Kaiser to take a stake in the Bavarian-Austrian arms complex, after all, the other party has not blocked it.

Therefore, His Royal Highness decisively chose to put aside the dispute and talk about other topics first. ”You just said that there are 2 plans for the new cruiser, so what is the other plan? Can you talk about it now?”

”Another scheme is currently under design. It is similar to the first scheme in terms of tonnage, defense and artillery. The biggest difference lies in the way the artillery is deployed. The eight 260MM heavy artillery in the second scheme are divided into four twin turrets. Two are arranged at the end, and the other two are arranged on the diagonal of the hull. In this way, under a certain angle, the second plan can exert the firepower of eight 260MM artillery.” Ruprecht said that people will be different A model was brought in.

”This is really extraordinary!” When the armored cruiser No. 2 model of almost the same scale was delivered to Prince William, His Royal Highness immediately felt a shock! Although I don't understand, I feel very powerful! This kind of strong visual impact cannot be described by simple words!

This warship is really beautiful, and the simple and bright layout of the ship surface made His Royal Highness Prince William very comfortable. Although the diagonal arrangement has some influence on the aesthetics, in the overall vision, this battleship still makes Prince William feel bright!

”In order to allow the artillery to have a better reverse shooting range, we deliberately reduced the number of chimneys and integrated the chimneys and snorkels. To make the ship surface cleaner, while optimizing the hull layout as much as possible, our artillery The firing range reached about 90 degrees. The power of the main gun was fully utilized! This layout is more advanced and more scientific than the No. 1 plan.” Ruprecht said.

Of course, the true layout of the central axis, compared with the fundamentalist BB, this quadrilateral layout is definitely not advanced, but in the current technological environment, this layout still has its advantages, the pre-fearless era The power system of the battleship's unit weight is extremely low, and the battleship must install a large number of boilers if it wants to be high-speed, and the proportion of the power cabin is very large.

Although there is hardened armor, the cost of defending heavy artillery under the same circumstances has come down, but in close-range high-explosive projectile battles, a huge protective area is also required, so the overall weight of the armor is not much less... In the era of slow artillery and black powder cannonballs, it was not easy to burn a battleship by the amount of projection, so the defense area of ​​the battleship at that time was usually relatively small.

In the end, the contradiction between the length of the hull and the armor defense has not been completely resolved. Therefore, limiting the length of the core area and keeping important equipment as small as possible has become the designer's need to do. The layout of the bottom bracket is indeed beneficial, but the length cost is a bit large. Not only the length of the core area, but also a lot of pressure on the surface equipment area.

And there is a hidden danger in the central axis arrangement of the turret, that is, if the two turrets are too close, it is very likely that one shell will destroy the two main guns.... This is absolutely not the case with the layout of the battlecruiser Vonde Tahn!

So after some hesitation, Ruprecht still adopted a gun layout similar to Vonde Tahn, while optimizing the ship surface equipment and pipelines, and completing the fusion design of the chimney and vent pipe ahead of time. The chimneys of the battleship were reduced to two. And adopts a durable triangular mast design. The arming mast was cancelled. In any case, this design is really trendy and beautiful!

”This is the design!” His Royal Highness made a final decision.