Germanic Empire: please call me William III

“According to the exact information obtained, the ‘Dreadnought’ battleship, which never sets, will be a battleship with a full load displacement of more than 21,000 tons, a maximum speed of 21 knots, equipped with five twin 45 times caliber 305 mm main guns, and a main armor thickness of 279 mm.” Liu Chuan introduced to everyone.

“All-heavy artillery battleship? Is it a battleship that wants to design a full-heavy gun without a secondary main gun? Count Tirpitz immediately returned to his senses.

Other admirals are equally aware of this.

“Yes, a full-gun battleship that can concentrate 8 main guns to fire to one side. Such firepower will be very powerful. Once the sun never sets, people build this type of battleship on a large scale. So, what is the use of the battleships we are now in service and building? Liu Chuan asked rhetorically.

The admirals were suddenly silent, and they understood it.

“Stop building the Brunswick-class and Germanic-class battleships, and even dismantle them and use these resources to build our new battleships.” In this way, we and the sun never set on the people in the race of the new battleships, not lagging behind them at all. Even stronger than them. Liu Chuan continued.

“Your Majesty, it is true that we can conserve a great deal of resources and devote ourselves to the new naval arms race of the Empire that will not set in the same day. Even, it can be said that the two sides have returned to a starting point. Our chances of catching up with the sun and not setting are even greater. Count Tirpitz’s previous anger had completely disappeared, and in its place was an incomparable exhilaration.

Other admirals knew this, if the Germanic Navy could be at the same starting point as the Imperial Navy in terms of battleships. Then, the possibility of them defeating the Royal Navy of the Sun never sets in future wars will be greater than it is now.

“Your Majesty, what about the battleships that have been commissioned?” Admiral Vonpol asked.

“Battleships that are already in service, just keep them in service.” At this stage, the Imperial Navy also needed a number of warships to decorate the façade and safeguard the interests of the Empire. Even, after we defeat the Imperial Navy of the Sun Never Set In the future, these warships can also be thrown into the shelling of the Sun Never Set Empire itself, covering our Army landing on the Sun Never Set Empire itself! Liu Chuan said with a smile.

“Hahaha!” The generals couldn’t help but laugh.

There is no doubt that the Germanic Empire has regarded the Empire of the Rising Sun as its greatest enemy. And the landing sun does not set on the empire itself, which is the dream of the imperial soldiers.

Of course, you know, it will be very difficult.

To achieve this goal, the Germanic Imperial Navy must first defeat the Imperial Navy of the Empire. Otherwise, everything is empty talk.

“This is a battleship I designed, and you can organize experts to demonstrate it.” If there is no problem, the Empire is ready to start construction! Liu Chuan took out a copy of the battleship design drawing from his briefcase and placed it on the table.

A group of admirals immediately gathered around, they were all experts in this area, but they were quickly shocked by the battleship.

It was a very beautiful, very powerful battleship.

“I named this battleship ‘Nassau-class’ battleship. The full load displacement is 22,000 tons, and the maximum speed is 22 knots. It is equipped with three triple 50 caliber 305 mm main guns, 12 50 times caliber 150 mm secondary guns, 16 45 times caliber 88 mm rapid-fire guns, and 20 40 mm rapid-fire guns. Waterline, turret front and commander tower armor for 305 mm Krupp armored steel! Liu Chuan introduced to everyone.

“Your Majesty, though not yet an argument has been made. But if these performance conditions can be met, this is definitely a very powerful battleship, more advanced than the battleship “Fearless” that never sets. Count Tirpitz exclaimed.

“Yes, Your Majesty. Once we take the lead in building new battleships in large quantities. Then we will be able to catch up with the sun in this regard! Admiral Vonpol also said excitedly.

The other admirals were even more full of smiles.

“However, there are still many problems to be overcome to build this battleship. First, the triple 50 caliber 305 mm main gun, we have no way to produce it now. Inform Krupp and ask them to speed up research and development in this area. If we can’t succeed in research and development within three years, then we will place orders from other companies. Rheinmetall has always wanted a piece of the artillery. Liu Chuan said.

Krupp almost monopolized the supply of artillery for the Germanic Army and Navy and made a lot of profits.

Now that the German empire needed more advanced artillery, Krupp naturally had to go all out.

“Yes, Your Majesty!” Count Tirpitz nodded.

“The other is power, to make a battleship with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons reach a speed of more than 22 knots, it takes very strong power.” At present, the Empire still has great difficulties in this regard. Liu Chuan said.