Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 505 505 New Battleship
The clanging sound echoed in the dock. This is a large shipyard in Cyric, which originally produced steel paddle ships.

Now, this place has been taken over by Sophia. She mobilized more than half of the elite workers in the consortium to build a super battleship belonging to the Cyric consortium here.

Sophia, who has obtained the propeller propulsion technology, naturally cannot watch the Datang Group dominate the ocean.So Sophia wants to be a challenger, or a sharer of ocean interests!
The huge hull has been redesigned and modified. This battleship adopts a brand new design, which can definitely be said to be an unprecedented test for Cyric's designers.

In the end, the designers with rich technical experience completed their design, and then started to build this behemoth!
The super battleship belonging to Cyric refers to the design idea of ​​Datang Group's dreadnought ship.After all, the Yucheng-class battleship has been to Mirage and Bunas, and many people have already seen its appearance.

The huge hull and the mighty artillery on it left a deep impression on many people.Many painters have painted the dreadnoughts docked in the port, and one of them has been collected by Tang Mo.

Nowadays, many technologies have spread, so in many cases, only a pair of Sharingan can easily copy the opponent's design.

At least taking pictures of cats and tigers can save a lot of trouble.This is how Cyric's new battleship was copied.

It's a pity that taking pictures of cats and drawing tigers is after all a picture of cats and pictures of tigers. After copying a shape, Cyric's designers still encountered unprecedented difficulties in many key links.

For example: Cyric copied the dreadnought's turret layout and turret shape design, but could not copy the dreadnought's internal structure design.

Especially Datang Group's unique long-distance optical sighting equipment, which pays attention to precision processing, and plagiarism cannot be copied.

In order to make up for the gap in equipment performance caused by similar problems, Cyric thought of ways to increase the tonnage, install more armor, and expand the caliber of the artillery...

This set is almost the improvement of the paper data in the game: thicker armor and larger artillery caliber can naturally create more powerful warships.

But in fact, in reality, it is not that the larger the caliber, the stronger the firepower, nor is it that the thicker the armor, the higher the defense.

Defense not only depends on the thickness of the armor, but also depends on the technology of splicing these armors, the quality of the armor, and the location of the installation...

Firepower does not only depend on the caliber of the cannon, but also on the density of firepower, the type of ammunition selected, as well as the bore pressure, double diameter, and rate of fire.

Moreover, sometimes, technology is not something that can be surpassed if you want to surpass it.

A craftsman leader who supervised the manufacture of this Cyric dreadnought battleship in front of him was talking to his boss about the "ultra" dreadnought ship in front of him: "My lord, the barrel life of the 320mm caliber artillery we made... actually……"

"You don't need to worry about this! Although the life data is not very good, its performance on paper is stronger than the 305mm caliber of Datang Group!" The person in charge said very proudly.

Although the metallurgical technology is insufficient, and at the same time, the technology of casting artillery is also comprehensively backward, but Cyric still relies on his profound background to forcefully produce a 320mm cannon.

With the advent of this cannon, Cyric's new battleship, which uses the same layout as the Yucheng-class battleship, has seemingly stronger firepower.

For Cyric, as long as the paper data looks better, there will be satisfied customers and someone will pay for it, which is enough for them!
The workers in the distance are perfecting the huge hull little by little. In order to carry more armor, Cyric's battleship has a displacement of more than [-] tons!
The complex and outdated internal design of the hull wastes a lot of displacement, which leads to the overall defense. The larger and heavier Cyric's new battleships are actually not much stronger than the Yucheng-class battleships.

What is even more dumbfounding is that because there is no new power system similar to the Yucheng class, Cyric has to use the old-fashioned steam boiler as power.

This makes the speed of the Cyric version of the battleship a joke: in theory, it can barely catch up with the Liberty Wheel at full speed.

"It was ordered by the Mirage people. I heard that even their kings are stingy and only eat one meal a day." The leader said proudly: "In any case, they all hope that we can build a more powerful warship for them. .”

In the past, in order to frighten the people of Mirage, so that Mirage no longer dare to covet Qi and other areas favored by the Tang Kingdom, two Yucheng-class battleships sailed to Mirage and made a threatening visit.

During the visit, the two warships even pointed their main guns at Mirage's port, scaring the Mirage King from even daring to say a word.

Afterwards, after the battleships of the Tang Kingdom left the Phantom Kingdom, everyone in the Phantom Kingdom regarded this threat as a great shame.

The unwilling mirage people approached Cyric, hoping that Cyric could create a more powerful warship and help them overwhelm the Tang Kingdom.

It happened that Cyric was also building a dreadnought, so he took the mirage mission to visit the dock where the warship was built.

The Mirage procurement group was quite satisfied with Cyric's new battleship and immediately placed an order.And this money almost emptied the treasury reserves of Mirage Kingdom.

In order to be able to get rid of the shame, the monarch of Mirage Kingdom only eats one meal a day to motivate his subjects to cut down on food and clothing, expand the army and prepare for war.

Under the leadership of His Majesty the King, Mirage Kingdom tightened their belts up and down, donated money and goods, and raised money to buy warships like a madman.

How crazy is it?The children who went crazy to Mirage even developed a game called "Sinking the Yucheng"...

Now Mirage's navy can be said to have been completely reborn, and its combat power even surpassed that of other countries' navies by a large margin.

At least on paper, the Phantom Navy purchased a Bunas-class ironclad ship from the Datang Group, and spent money to purchase 1 new destroyers launched by the Datang Group.

This is actually just a fraction of the procurement of the Mirage Navy. The focus of the Mirage Navy's procurement is the various types of warships built by the Cyric Consortium.

In order to make up for the loss of the last naval battle with the Datang Group, Mirage purchased 30 new Cyric battleships in one go, and at the same time bought three Cyric battleships under construction at a loss.

If you simply look at the number of warships, the data of the Mirage Navy can be said to be quite scary: they have 36 new warships, and 3 battleships, and there are more than a dozen paddle steamers left over from the last war...

Although Datang Kingdom's naval fleet is obviously larger in number and quality seems to be better, but Datang's navy is scattered in Bunas, Dragon Island, Eternal Winter City, Neverwinter City, Linshui and Dongwan Port.

Therefore, the Datang Navy, which has been in control of the sea from the moment of its birth, seems to have encountered a challenger this time, a challenger who does not know how to live or die.

It's a pity that the commanders of the Phantom Navy don't know that all the warships they bought are actually big toys with worse targeting system, garbage power system, weak tonnage but poor protection, and backward artillery technology.

"As far as I know, we're not the only ones building similar warships, are we?" the head craftsman of Cyric asked in a low voice.

"Indeed, as far as I know, many countries are building their own new warships, some larger and some smaller." The executive of the Cyric Consortium said with his hands behind his back.

In the past, Cyric occupied the workshops of many countries and almost monopolized the construction of sailing warships.

Because at that time, whoever built warships needed to buy naval guns from Cyric to arm those sailing warships.

But now, with the spread of technology, some countries have gradually completed their own industrialization, or completed partial industrialization, and more or less have a certain production capacity.

These countries have taken arms production back into their own hands while industrializing, which has actually broken the previous marketing model of the Cyric Consortium.

For Cyric, the loss caused by the gradual loss of control of many countries has actually made them miserable.

Countries no longer use the manufacturer to name their warships. They prefer to use the Datang Group's naming method to divide their warships into destroyers, ironclad ships, cruisers, and battleships.It's just that none of the countries are actually equipped with battleships, and most of them don't even have cruisers.

In order to catch up with the gap, every country is trying to improve the strength of its navy. If you can't buy it, you can build it yourself.

As a result, many new warships have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, and many countries have also carried out so-called improvements to the warships they built, creating a lot of strange things.

Some countries mainly imitate the destroyers of the Datang Group or the destroyers of the Cyric Consortium.

Another part of the country focuses on improvement. They install larger-caliber artillery on destroyers at every turn, or create monsters whose tonnage is between cruisers and destroyers.

In short, the development of naval ships is still in a wild state. Everyone is wild and has many immature design ideas.

Just like tanks.

"Wait next year, we will see an interesting picture of those maritime nations with more warships rising together and starting to threaten the Datang Group." The person in charge of Cyric sneered, as if he had seen Datang Group is average.

"That's really great!" The head craftsman hurriedly offered his compliments flatteringly: "Master Sophia, with your assistance, will definitely be able to win the final victory!"

"Hehe, hahaha!" The person in charge of Cyric, who felt good about himself, became even more proud after hearing the compliment, and laughed out loud.

(End of this chapter)