Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 357 357 The Stacking of New Technologies
Although the retaliation is launched immediately, it takes time for the operators to go to the target area, so there is no rush for everything, and they can only wait patiently.

Tang Mo was patient, so in the next few days, he put his main energy on developing aircraft and manufacturing Yucheng-class battleships.

Regardless of the plane, the Yucheng-class battleship is the first battleship in the true sense of this era, and it is also an invincible giant ship in the true sense.

The Yucheng-class battleship, which is a complete copy of the Dreadnought battleship, is a super giant with a displacement of nearly 1 tons.

It is bigger than Liberty Wheel, and during the construction process, the workers who built it have been frightened - the side steel plate of this thing is more than 270 mm thick at its thickest point!

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a real steel sea fortress, and any battleship in front of it is just a toy.

The hull that has begun to take shape makes every worker amazed. The densely packed watertight cabins and the never-before-seen power plant all show the extraordinaryness of this warship.

Because the Datang Group does not have such weapons as torpedoes, the dreadnought's torpedo weapons were cancelled, and only artillery was installed on this battleship as an attack weapon.

In this way, this simplifies the design structure, allows the warship to carry more fresh water, and improves some support capabilities.

The reason why the Dreadnought is called an epoch-making product is because it boldly uses a series of advanced technologies.

First of all, it has a reasonable design of armor protection, and has comprehensively improved its armor protection, thereby strengthening its own defense, surpassing all previous designs.

As a decisive weapon, its armor thickness surpasses all previous warships, which also makes it more survivable.

Secondly, in terms of core power, the steam turbine has improved its performance, and it is far more advantageous than the ancient steam engine. Therefore, although the battleship Dreadnought has a displacement of more than 17000 tons, it still has a terrifying speed that surpasses that of an armored ship.

This allowed the battleship Intrepid to crush all other warships in service as soon as it came out, gaining the highest speed at sea, and gaining absolute dominance in avoiding battles and pursuing pursuits by virtue of its speed.

Then, in terms of firepower, the battleship Intrepid abandoned the secondary gun design, boldly unified the gun caliber, and also used the latest technology to stack unprecedented 305 mm caliber guns on the battleship!
Shells of this caliber can easily crush opponents and penetrate enemy armor with ease.The damage advantage brought by the huge shells makes it easier to attack.

There are a total of 10 artillery pieces, and at least 6 artillery pieces can be concentrated in any direction to attack, maximizing the firepower of one's own side.

And these cannons use a loader to feed ammunition inside, the rate of fire has been greatly increased, and the firepower density has even increased.

What's even more frightening is that the dreadnought's fire control system is more accurate and easier to command than other warships due to the bold unification of artillery calibers and consistent ballistic performance.

The benefits of unified ballistics are gratifying, because only two sets of backup artillery aiming command equipment are needed to make every main gun on the battleship hit the target, which was unimaginable before.

Datang Group has experimented with this design on the Wolf-class cruiser. All the artillery on the Wolf-class battleship are 150mm naval guns, and the effect of unifying the caliber of the artillery is very obvious.

Therefore, on the Yucheng-class battleship, Datang Group has no reason to give up such a good design idea, so the Yucheng battleship continued to use this design and carried it forward.

Because the tonnage of the warship is sufficient, the designers of Datang Group installed a more advanced and larger optical sighting system for this warship.

This system uses the principle of light reflection to increase the length of the aiming baseline, thereby improving the accuracy of long-distance artillery hits.

At the test site, relying on this set of targeting equipment, the 305mm naval gun can easily hit a target 10 kilometers away, and may even hit a fixed target 15 kilometers away.

You know, in this era, there has never been a cannon that can shoot 15 kilometers away, let alone hit a target 15 kilometers away.

Although it is more difficult to hit a moving warship on a swaying sea, everyone feels that even with a discount, this set of fire control should allow the 305mm caliber main gun to hit an enemy ship about 7-8 kilometers away, and there should be no problem.

However, there is still the worrying problem-the shells of the 305mm caliber artillery are almost more expensive than sailboats. This kind of artillery is used to bombard enemy ships, and it seems to be a money-losing business...

In the dock where the Yucheng-class battleship was being built, a worker looked at a deck that had been laid and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

This battleship is simply too magical, so magical that he feels unreal - standing on the bow of this battleship, he can't even see the stern of this ship!

Equipment and machines like mountains stood in front of him. They were steam turbines and boilers that were still kept secret.

Above these steam turbines and boilers, the chimneys to be connected have been brought in. This thing is as high as several floors, and it is erected next to the hull, and it is also extremely huge.

Because of the newer assembly method, the construction speed of this ship has also been greatly improved.

He swears that he has never seen such a huge ship in his life, and he doesn't even know what this thing is used for.

Even with a sharp bow, this battleship can directly cut off all types of sailboats of all sizes that are currently driving on the sea.Even without weapons, this big ship is the most powerful warship in the world!

However, as a worker who built this ship, he knew that this ship had weapons. In order to ensure the safety of this battleship, the ammunition depot was arranged below the waterline. The hull part he had just completed!
There are armored compartments filled with ammunition racks.He saw with his own eyes that there were exactly five of them.

The three front ammunition compartments are roughly distributed around the conning tower in a zigzag shape, one on the bow and one on each side of the conning tower.

There is also a boiler room sandwiched between the two ammunition compartments at the back, which are separated by thick steel and protected separately.

From today's point of view, the design of such an ammunition depot sandwiching a boiler room, although promoting firepower, has a certain degree of negative impact on defense.

This kind of arrangement is gradually being eliminated. The more optimized arrangement of battleships should be two turrets at the front and the back, or two turrets at the front and one at the back.

Both of these configurations can save the length of armor protection to the greatest extent, and then concentrate thicker armor to ensure the safety of ammunition depots and boiler power areas.

However, since the battleship Intrepid was born, there seemed to be no enemy ships capable of competing with it at sea, so these small details of defense were compromised in order to install an extra turret.

The main mast of the Yucheng battleship is more than 30 meters high, and there is a watchtower on it. Because of the design, the watchtower on it is very close to the chimney, and it is estimated that the smell will not be too good when performing tasks.

There was no other way. In order for them to breathe better air, the mast had been raised by at least five meters.

If you count the flagpole on the watchtower, this huge mast is more than 35 meters high, and it is definitely standing tall and looking far.

The reason why such a tall flagpole is used is because this battleship was intended to be used as the flagship of the fleet from the time it was built.

Tang Mo's dragon flag should be hung here to announce to the entire fleet that the owner of the Datang Group is here, and it can also deter the enemy.

The other mast is between the two turrets at the rear of the battleship, on which a spare watchtower is installed, as well as telephones and other equipment.

The crew of the entire battleship is close to 800 people, which is almost a strengthened battalion-level combat unit of the Datang Group.

It is not easy to control such a battleship, because there are 18 boilers and four steam turbines on the entire battleship, driving four thick and large shafts, allowing the huge propellers to rotate rapidly underwater to provide forward and backward movement. propulsion.

With one supplement, it can sail over 10000 kilometers at sea at an economical speed. Starting from the Datang Group's ports all over the endless sea, its combat radius can cover the entire endless sea.

If it keeps up with the supply ship, it can continue to fight at sea for a long time-this battleship is equipped with many cranes, both foldable and non-foldable. Relying on these cranes, it can simply carry out sea supply operations.

Because the Datang Group does not have torpedoes, and the enemy is unlikely to have such weapons, the Yucheng battleship canceled the conspicuous anti-torpedo net hangers on the side of the Intrepid battleship, which made the appearance of the Yucheng battleship look much simpler. .

It's a pity that the workers still can't see the whole picture of this battleship clearly. They can only see that this battleship has new changes every day, and every day becomes more complicated.

Layer after layer of decks were piled up, and complicated wiring and ventilation equipment were installed in corresponding positions.

This battleship is a master of new technology, using a lot of advanced technology, including telephones.

It is also equipped with real radio equipment, which can implement instant voice communication in short and medium distances.These are all new technologies that have never been used on the Burnas-class ironclad ship.

Don't underestimate these technologies. If it weren't for the development of fresh air-conditioning equipment, the huge vents on the Burnas-class ironclad ships could only be kept on the Yucheng-class battleships.

But now, the new ventilation system makes the Yucheng-class battleship look neater and have higher protection performance.

All this is very clear to the workers who make it.If it weren't for technological progress, this battleship would be unusable at all!Even, it can't be manufactured at all.

(End of this chapter)