The sound of clanking echoed in the dock. This is a large shipyard in Cyric, which originally produced steel paddle steamers.
Now, this place has been taken over by Sophia. She has 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 acquired the propeller propulsion technology, cannot just watch 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 renovated. 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 technically experienced designers completed their designs and then started building this behemoth!
The super battleship belonging to Cyric refers to the design ideas of the Datang Group's dreadnoughts. After all, the Tamaki-class battleship has been to Mirage and Bunas, and its appearance has been seen by many people.
The huge hull and the powerful artillery on it left a deep impression on many people. Many painters have painted dreadnoughts docked in the port, and one of them was even collected by Tang Mo.
Nowadays, many technologies have spread, so many times, one can easily copy the opponent's design with just a pair of Sharingan.
At least imitating a cat and imitating a tiger can save you a lot of trouble. This is how Cyric's new battleship was copied.
It's a pity that copying a cat and painting a tiger will ultimately mean copying a tiger from a cat. After plagiarizing a shape, Cyric's designers still encountered unprecedented difficulties in many key aspects.
For example: Cyric copied the turret layout and turret appearance design of the Dreadnought, but could not copy the internal structure design of the Dreadnought.
Especially the long-distance optical sighting equipment unique to Datang Group. That thing is about precision processing and cannot be copied.
In order to make up for the gap in equipment performance caused by similar problems, Cyric's idea was to increase the tonnage, install more armor, and expand the caliber of the artillery...
This set is almost an improvement in the on-paper data in the game: thicker armor and larger artillery caliber can naturally create more powerful warships.
But in fact, in reality, the larger the caliber, the stronger the firepower, nor the thicker the armor, the higher the defense.
The defensive power not only depends on the thickness of the armor, but also on the technology of splicing these armors, the quality of the armor, and the location of installation...
Firepower depends not only on the caliber of the cannon, but also on the density of firepower, the type of ammunition selected, the bore pressure, caliber, and rate of fire.
Moreover, sometimes, technology cannot be surpassed even if you want to.
The head craftsman who supervised the manufacture of Cyric's dreadnought battleship was talking to his boss about the "super" dreadnought in front of him: "Sir, the barrel life of the 320mm caliber gun we made... actually……"
"Don't worry about this! Although the lifespan data is not very good, its paper performance is stronger than the 305mm caliber of Datang Group!" The person in charge said proudly.
Although the metallurgical technology was insufficient and the artillery casting technology was also lagging behind, Cyric still relied on his profound knowledge to create a 320 mm caliber cannon.
The advent of this kind of cannon gives Cyric's new battleship, which uses the same layout as the Tamaki-class battleship, seemingly stronger firepower.
For Sirik, as long as the data on paper looks better, customers will be satisfied and people will spend money. This is enough for them!
Workers in the distance are perfecting the huge hull bit by bit. In order to carry more armor, Cyric's battleship has a displacement of more than 25,000 tons!
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The complex and backward internal design of the hull wastes a lot of displacement, which results in the overall defense. In terms of overall defense, the larger and heavier Cyric's new battleship is actually not much stronger than the Tamaki-class battleship.
What's even more ridiculous is that because there is no new power system similar to the Tamaki class, Cyric has to use an old-fashioned steam boiler as power.
This makes the speed of Cyric's version of the battleship a joke: in theory, it can only barely catch up with the free wheel at full speed.
"The people from the Mirage Kingdom made a reservation. I heard that even their king is frugal and only eats one meal a day." The person in charge said proudly: "No matter what, they all hope that we can build a more powerful warship for them. .”
Last time, in order to frighten the people of Mirage Kingdom and prevent Mirage Kingdom from coveting Qi Kingdom and other areas that the Tang Kingdom was interested in, two Yucheng-class battleships sailed to Mirage Kingdom and made a threatening visit in a show of force.
During the visit, the two warships even pointed their main guns at Mirage's port, scaring the King of Mirage into not even daring to say a harsh word.
Later, after the battleships of the Tang Dynasty left the Mirage Kingdom, everyone in the Mirage Kingdom regarded this threat as a great shame.
The unwilling people of the Mirage Kingdom approached Cyric, hoping that Cyric could build a more powerful warship to help them overpower the Tang Kingdom.
It happened that Cyric was also building a dreadnought, so he took the Mirage delegation to visit the dock where the warship was being built.
The Mirage purchasing group was quite satisfied with Cyric's new battleship and immediately placed an order. And this money has almost emptied the treasury reserves of the Mirage Kingdom.
In order to avenge his shame, the king of the Mirage Kingdom only ate one meal a day to motivate his subjects, save food and clothing, and expand the army to prepare for war.
Under the leadership of His Majesty the King, everyone in the Mirage Kingdom tightened their belts, donated money and materials, and went crazy to raise money to buy warships.
How crazy is it? Children who are so crazy that they have developed a game called "Sink the Tamaki"...
Now the Mirage's navy can be said to be completely reborn, and its combat power even exceeds that of other navies by a large margin.
At least on paper, the Mirage Navy purchased one Bunas-class ironclad ship from the Datang Group and spent money to purchase five new destroyers launched by the Datang Group.
This is actually just a fraction of the Mirage Navy's procurement. The focus of the Mirage Navy's procurement is various types of warships built by the Cyric Consortium.
In order to make up for the losses in the last naval battle with the Datang Group, Mirage purchased 30 new Cyric battleships in one fell swoop. At the same time, it also spent all its money to buy three Cyric battleships that were under construction.
If you simply look at the number of battleships, the statistics of the Mirage Navy can be said to be quite scary: they have 36 new battleships, 3 battleships, and more than a dozen paddle steamers left over from the last war...
Although the Tang Kingdom's naval fleet is obviously more numerous and seems to be of better quality, the Tang navy is scattered in Bunas, Longdao, Everwinter City, Neverwinter City, Linshui and Dongwan Port.
Therefore, the Tang Navy, which has been controlling the sea since the moment of its birth, seems to have encountered a challenger this time, a challenger who does not know whether to live or die.
It's a pity that the commanders of the Mirage Navy don't know that the warship they spent all their money to buy is actually a big toy with a worse aiming system, a garbage power system, poor protection despite its tonnage, and backward artillery technology.
"As far as I know, we are not the only ones building similar warships, right?" the leader of Cyric's craftsmen asked in a low voice.
"Indeed, as far as I know, many countries are building their own new warships, some are larger and some are smaller." The executive of the Cyric Consortium said with emotion behind his hands.
In the past, Cyric dominated workshops in several countries and almost monopolized the construction of sailing battleships.
Because whoever built warships at that time needed to purchase naval guns from Cyric to arm those sailing warships.
But now, with the spread of technology, some countries have gradually completed industrialization on their own, or completed partial industrialization, and have more or less certain production capabilities.
These countries have taken weapons production back into their own hands while industrializing, which has actually broken the previous marketing model of the Cyric Consortium.
For Cyric, the losses caused by the gradual loss of control of many countries have actually made them miserable.
Countries no longer name their warships after the manufacturer. They prefer to use the Datang Group's naming method to divide the warships in their hands into destroyers, ironclads, 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 every means to improve the strength of its navy. If you can't buy one, then build it yourself.
As a result, many new warships have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. Many countries have also made so-called improvements to the warships they built, creating a lot of weird things.
Some countries mainly imitate, and they imitate the destroyers of the Datang Group or the destroyers of the Cyric Consortium.
Other countries focus on improvement. They often install larger-caliber artillery on their destroyers, or create monsters whose tonnage is between cruisers and destroyers.
In short, the development of naval ships is still in a barbaric state. Everyone is unscrupulous and has many immature design ideas.
Just like a tank.
"Next year, we can see the interesting picture of those maritime countries with more warships joining together to threaten the Datang Group." The person in charge of Cyric sneered, as if he saw the anxious people. Datang Group is average.
"That's really great!" The leader of the craftsmen quickly offered his compliments: "With your help, Lady Sophia, we will definitely win the final victory!"
"Haha, hahaha!" The person in charge of Cyric, who felt good about himself, became even more proud after hearing the compliment, and looked up to the sky and laughed.
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