1238 TWO Chapter 1238-Strategic level weapons and equipmen (1/2)

Chapter 1238 – Strategic Level Weapons and Equipment

Gaia 7th year, 4th month, apart from building the Martial Management Division, Ouyang Shuo also placed a lot of attention on the latest technological developments of the military works industry.

After a year of industrialization, the Emperor dynasty military works industry welcomed a huge breakthrough. The most eye catching one was the weapons and equipment field.

In the navy region, Great Xia's first iron armored warship finally went into water in Beihai Bay.

The early stage iron armored warship was a wooden warship wrapped with thick iron to defend against attacks. The ship was equipped with many cannons and was 23 meters long and 13 meters wide.

Great Xia had developed the early stage warship in the middle of the 5th year, but its practical use was not high, and they could not equip the navy with it on a large scale.

The second generation iron armored warship was built of steel. There were warships with cannon turrets and patrol ships, getting close to the standard of 20th century warships.

Gaia 7th year, 4th month, the Great Xia's first iron armored warship was born.

The birth of this warship was due to the development and research of large-sized cannons, a slightly advanced steam engine as well as Great Xia's metallurgy standards.

Apart from the cannons, the iron armored warship was equipped with battering rams and torpedoes, becoming a crucial weapon of the navy war period.

Due to the iron armored warship technology maturing by the day and the improvements and increased openness of industry technologies, in the next few years, iron armored warships would surely replace the man o' war.

To protect their authority on the ocean, the Imperial Court had to create a great quantity of iron armored warships.

The problem was that the costs of the warships were not low. Just a single ship cost close to a million gold and took almost half a year to make.

The Qing Dynasty of history gritted their teeth and only managed to buy two Grade 1 iron armored warships. Of course, the current ones that Great Xia designed could not be compared to a Grade 1 warship like the USS Dingyuan.

It was simply because they did not have the support of electricity.

Of course, the cannons also could not compare to their cannons, which could spin 360 degrees.

To produce iron armored warships on a large scale meant that they would need many factories working on it at the same time.

From the 1st year of Gaia, Great Xia had been building shipbuilding factories at all the ports and owned 16 shipyards. Only then could they equip the navy with large amounts of turreted warships and Z1 Type Warships.

However, the problem was that these shipyards were used to build wood warships.

Only the Beihai Shipyard, which was the first shipyard in the territory, had the ability to build iron armored warships. For this matter, the Imperial Court needed to upgrade the remaining 15 shipyards.

Since Gaia had removed the speed up function, just this alone would use up close to half a year and modifying costs of the shipyard would take up to three million gold.

Along with the costs of building an iron armored warship, the costs would break the sky.

Even then, Ouyang Shuo had to grit his teeth. He decided to equip the Indian Ocean Squadron and the Pacific Ocean Squadron first with two each as the main warships.

In the future, they would make adjustments based on the situation.

Apart from navy equipment, the air force also had a major breakthrough.

Of course, strictly speaking, Great Xia did not truly have an air force. It only had an air force platoon and squadrons, and the squadrons and legion corps relied on the mimicry flying devices.

Although the mimicry flying devices were good, their weaknesses were really apparent.

First, it relied too heavily on magnetic ohlite, which restricted the number of mimicry flying devices.

Secondly, the energy loop made use of the Atlantic carving technology, and its industrialization standards were really low. The technology was not suitable for building fighter jets.