Iron Dynasty

Your Majesty, this is the Empire's first battleship equipped with a steam turbine, the Jingtao. According to the division of battleships that the Empire launched soon, this battleship should be classified as a battleship.

At the foot of Beisha City, Zhang Liang was introducing Xiao Ming to a behemoth parked in the naval port. Unlike the ordinary ironclad ships built by the empire in previous years, this battleship has a displacement of 35,000 tons and is equipped with three triple 406mm main gun.

According to the caliber of the battleship's main guns specified by the Empire, the caliber should be larger than 203 mm and no more than 406 mm. This battleship can be described as a giant among battleships.

Looking at the 216-meter-long Jingtao, Xiao Ming showed a satisfied look.

Time flies, two years have passed in a hurry after the war in Europe came to an end and the Vienna Convention was perfectly established.

In the past two years, Xiao Ming has focused his energy on building the empire's ocean-going combat capabilities.

As Tang Wenjie said, half a year after the establishment of the Vienna Entente, Spain, Portugal, Prussia, France, the United Kingdom, and Tsarist Russia announced the establishment of the St. Petersburg Entente in St. Petersburg, strategically opposing the empire.

In the face of the six major European powers and the St. Petersburg Accord with a population of hundreds of millions, Xiao Ming had nothing to do for a while. After all, the last war in Europe had already challenged the empire's ocean transportation capabilities.

Therefore, if a world war does break out, even if the empire has an advantage in weapons, it may not be able to make up for the disadvantage in numbers.

It is with this factor in mind that he asked the Allied members to reduce their edge in the past two years, mainly to strengthen commercial exchanges and promote economic development.

The empire used peacetime to step up innovation in weapons. According to his requirements, if the empire wanted to cross the ocean and fight in Europe in an all-round way, the military level of the empire should be at least close to the beginning of World War II.

The battleship Stormtrooper is proof that the Imperial military industry is advancing towards this goal.

This will give you the smell of a cannon and a giant ship. Go, go up and have a look.

Xiao Ming said to Zhang Liang that there were many admirals behind him, and they were all waiting for such battleships to be installed in the fleet as soon as possible.

On board the battleship, Xiao Ming visited the internal structure of the battleship one by one after Zhang Liang's introduction. In addition to the steam turbine, the artillery also adopted the automatic reloading technology. A dedicated conveyor from the ammunition chamber to the breech position.

The reason for this transmission method is that the main gun of the battleship has a large caliber, which means that the weight of the shell will also be large, and the efficiency of manual loading will be very low.

So there is this transmission structure in the design drawing he gave, so that the main gun of the battleship can be fired twice in a short period of time.

This battleship is really big. Liu Chen's saliva almost stayed, he said: Your Majesty, as long as the Pacific Fleet has such a battleship, it is enough to wipe out a European fleet.

The other generals echoed what they said. Compared with the ironclad ships with a length of only about 90 meters, this monster with double the length, armor thickness and firepower is enough to be called a sea overlord.

Xiao Ming showed a smile, and he said, You guys are also worthless. This battleship Jingtao is nothing, and the Imperial Navy has more grand plans.

Liu Chen was pleasantly surprised when he heard the words: I hope the emperor will make it clear.

Now, Xiao Ming doesn't give a shit anymore, he said: If you want to defeat the St. Petersburg Allies, you can't just rely on the battle on land, so I have been planning the Imperial Air Force all these years, and now the major aircraft manufacturing centers of the Empire have already A lot of good bombers were produced, but there was a lack of a platform to send bombers to Europe, something more important than a battleship, an aircraft carrier.

Aircraft carrier? Liu Chen showed a longing look. He could already imagine a huge warship carrying bombers sailing over the ocean.

Xiao Ming nodded. He turned to look at the empire's admirals. Except for some old faces, most of these admirals were young admirals.

These young admirals have all graduated from formal naval academies and are very proficient in the construction of modern navies. They will be the future of the imperial navy.

Yes, it is an aircraft carrier. This is a large surface ship. The main method of combat is to use aviation to destroy enemy warships. Of course, this method of combat is somewhat overkill for the European navy. For now, these warships are mainly used. The role of transport fighters. Xiao Ming explained to everyone.

Liu Chen nodded. In the past two years, the empire suddenly closed its fists and kept the Allied organization in a low-key manner. The purpose was to punch the closed fists out, so that they could have enough power to destroy the St. Petersburg Allied Powers.

After all, the confrontation between the two major Entente countries will lead to conflict sooner or later, and according to the characteristics of the common defense of the Entente countries, no matter who fired the first shot, other countries will be involved in the war.

Therefore, in his view, a full-scale war in Europe is almost unavoidable. St. Petersburg will not sit idly by and watch the empire take control of Europe's discourse power step by step, nor will the empire allow the St. Petersburg Entente to become stronger and compete with the empire for colonies all over the world.

In the blueprint described by Xiao Ming, endless expectations rose in the hearts of the generals, and the city of Beisha was just a point for the empire to build warships.

The current empire controls the country's large shipyards. In their opinion, the Jingtao has been launched, which means that other shipyards will also launch battleships similar to the Jingtao.

Just as the generals thought, through these years of construction, the Empire already has thirty-six shipyards capable of building large surface ships.

This Beishacheng Shipyard is only one of them, and it is responsible for the construction of only one battleship, but this does not mean that the Beishacheng Shipyard has only such a little capacity.

In fact, in addition to battleships, Beisha City Shipyard is also building ocean-going transport ships, large supply ships, and offshore repair ships, including commercial and civilian use.

The situation in the remaining shipyards is similar. According to Zhang Liang, after the Jingtao was launched, forty-seven warships will be launched in the empire one after another.

The forty-seven battleships include nine battleships and thirty-eight cruisers. As for the aircraft carrier plan he said, Zhang Liang is planning.

Relatively speaking, the aircraft carrier carrying monoplanes is not much more technical than the battleship row, and it can be tried to build if the main industrial capacity is reached.

During World War II, the United States produced 26 large aircraft carriers, 9 light aircraft carriers, 115 escort aircraft carriers, 10 battleships, 48 ​​cruisers, 349 destroyers, 498 frigates, 203 submarines, and tens of thousands of various landings ships, as well as tens of millions of tons of civilian ships

The current industrial capacity of the empire is not as good, but the level of 20 to 30% is still there, which is more than enough for the current world.