The calculation of naval guns is not difficult, especially the complete data given by Yang Yuanzhao. From the surface strength, flexibility, pressure tolerance and curved variables, it can be said that the data required to make naval guns are already available. A mature artillery designer can slowly deduce some data indicators of the overall artillery based on this drawing.

Linus is of course a mature and excellent designer. The indicators of all aspects of artillery are almost like printing, integrated into his mind, and they are simply calculated in his mind almost instantly. After almost half an hour, he finally said with regret: "It's a bit reluctant, and it's a bit difficult to get a caliber of 47 times. If it is reduced to 40 times, it is feasible."

40 times the caliber sounds a pity, but for the former German naval gun, even 13 inches and 40 times the caliber cannot reach the 13-inch and 40 times the caliber. Yang Yuanzhao casually gave the material that can reach 15 inches and 40 times the caliber. If this is used on 14 inches, it may be 50 times the caliber. Although the power has been reduced a lot, it is very good in terms of performance and weight.

"Take it and see!" Fabian immediately stopped his research and turned to the naval guns, power and artillery, which are two of the three important aspects on the battleship. If these two aspects solve the problem, most of the design of a battleship can be completed.

Linus handed the calculation drawings in his hand to {Fabian, and by the way, he drew the drawings on the blank drawings next to him. The previous one was just the basic renderings. What he did was to design the real cannon based on the materials.

"Or why do you make a 14-inch first, and then a 15-inch!" Fabian took a rough look and knew that this thing was a bit reliable. As long as this material was available, 14-inch was almost a foregone conclusion. Seeing Linus drawing a 15-inch naval gun, he hurriedly said.

"That's it!" Linus hesitated for a moment, and finally looked back at Yang Yuanzhao. It was obvious that this drawing had recovered Harvey, and Linus began to be skeptical. Experts have unique levels and insights in the professional field. It is easy and not easy to impress them. As long as they can impress them in the professional field, they can impress them.

Obviously, the material that Yang Yuanzhao took out was originally derived from the British 14-inch naval gun. It was a standard 45-fold caliber and was processed by Yang Yuanzhao. The electroslag smelting technology can increase its own performance by 30%, which is reasonable and can be considered by the laboratory.

Yang Yuanzhao didn't expect that from 14 inches to 15 inches, it was barely enough to increase by 30%. He thought about some of the techniques in later generations. He asked with a little uncertainty: "So what if the surface is mixed with carbon and plating, how can it increase its surface strength by 70%?"

"Surface carbon doping. How much does carbon doping have to be? How to process this?" Linus asked.

Fabian is quite familiar with the surface carbon doping process, but he is also very clear that this thing is useful for external things like armor and easy to process. However, internal testing, especially the inside of the gun barrel, is really difficult to process. After all, no matter how much the barrel is formed, it is only about 15 inches, and people cannot enter, so it is difficult to process the surface.

"Don't worry about it or not. The surface carbon doping and plating increase by 70% should be enough, right? As for the thickness, 2 inches will be better!"

2 inches, Fabian took a breath of air conditioning. Now the surface of armored steel is only about 1 cm, and it is estimated that it is one centimeter. Yang Yuanzhao is indeed very angry, and he is only two inches at once. This is not something that technology or hardness can achieve.

"If it can reach 2 inches, the barrel can withstand the power of gunpowder explosion increases, which is completely withstandable. 15 inches can be 47 times, or even 50 times."

Yang Yuanzhao was very satisfied with the 50-times caliber, and he happily said to Linus: "So how about this design? According to this design, 15-inch cannon should be fine, right?"

"Of course there is no problem. I have done similar designs before, but they are useless. If there is no material, I will just take it out now!" After Linus said that, he turned around and left, and quickly took out a bunch of drawings, including not only gun barrels, but also turrets, and even 3-connected turrets.

The triple is not mainstream in England and Germany, but it is a direction to increase firepower. Linus, as one of Germany's strongest naval gun designers, has also studied it. Of course, this thing is not easy to solve. Linus made it an incomplete product. There are huge bugs under the scanning of the all-in-one machine. It is the main gun turret of Lianhe, with a high score, even higher than the fantasy drawing score of Fabian before.

Looking at the data of the fort, Fabian's eyes lit up. The designs of Linus and Harvey made his enthusiasm come. Compared with the drawings of Harvey and Linus, he began to modify them based on the drawings he made before. The two joined forces. Fabian was the main designer, and the other two people checked for the missing and shortly, a prototype came out.

Yang Yuanzhao looked at the gradually forming warship. He knew very well that such a warship would definitely be above the previous fantasy level, but it was not the final version. Thinking of the previous all-in-one machine, which integrated most of the latest technology achievements in the northwest, he felt a move and immediately said: "Everyone wait a moment!"

"Mr. Yang, aren't you designing it anymore?"

"No, of course I have to design it, but I have some things here, maybe I can use it on this warship, so why not design it together!"

"Okay!" Fabian replied. His simple contact before made Fabian dare not underestimate Yang Yuanzhao's materials and oil-fired boiler. I wonder if there is anything better in his hands.

"I have some armor material here?"

Sure enough, Harvey and Fabian's eyes lit up. Two of the three major elements of the battleship, speed, attack power and protection, had been solved before, but now Yang Yuanzhao finally took out the third one. In their eyes, Yang Yuanzhao seemed to be an omnipotent god and Buddha, and could take out any amazing things.

"I can't get the specific ones for the time being, but I have data here. If I have steel plates equivalent to about 170% of the VC steel plate, can the armor belt reduce the thickness?"

"Ah? VC steel plate?" Fabian was stunned for a moment. He knew that the name of VC was relatively strong, equivalent to about 170% of the steel plate of ordinary VC steel plate. This protective force was extremely large.

Perhaps a few people believed that Yang Yuanzhao could really take it out, but even the armor changed so much, it was almost impossible. They were more inclined to be fantasy. Although he was very rational, the initial material fantasy would be empty.

Of course, fantasy does not mean that the whole is meaningless. Maybe such a thing that concentrates everyone's creativity can really become the standard for a new generation of battleships in the future.

The three people gathered together and each had their own whims. Under the guidance of Yang Yuanzhao, many things, if they had too many dreams and exceeded the limit of the materials that the Northwest could give, would take the initiative to let them collect and never deviate from the main line. Perhaps because of their thoughts, Yang Yuanzhao was a bit beyond common sense and had greatly changed the overall structure and structure of the battleship, and passed smoothly.

For example, the bevel armor advocated by Yang Yuanzhao, such as no longer installing torpedoes on battleships, and for example, the focus on arrangement and integration of the turret technology, a battleship has many systems. Any slight change will bring about a huge overall change, and one detail must be used to snatch the details.

However, the final design can definitely be said to be amazing. Armor arranged with oblique angles is an innovation in this era. Although there are still big problems with the deck belt, such as how to calculate the combination of bevel angles and included angles, after a simple design, Fabian and the others did not realize that every drawing would be used to verify it in the all-in-one machine to find a better design method, and finally achieve a unified armor belt. In terms of data, the armor belt is about 70% higher than Orion, which is almost 85% of Orion's 7,000-ton armor belt, which reduces a lot of weight.

Originally, such armored belts were enough, but Yang Yuanzhao saw that there was still a lot of power and could not be piled on the warship itself. The left and right continued to increase, from the key armored belts to the full arrangement, the overall armored belt was increased by Yang Yuanzhao to 10,800 tons, and the increase of more than 5,000 tons of armor was simply terrible for a battleship. The entire battleship had no lower protection area at all. The weakest deck was equivalent to a homogeneous steel plate of about 7 inches. The protection ability of the entire ship was increased by 120% compared to Orion, which can be said to be absolutely protective.

There have been huge changes in protection, and the changes in attack have been quite different. Based on the huge power, Fabian slightly modified the structure of the hull, lengthened the length of the hull, and expanded the width of the hull a little. The huge hull is enough to accommodate 5 turrets, similar to the Orion's back-type structure, with three in front and two in the rear, and the individual turret weighing about 1,100 tons, which totals about 5,500 tons. With an additional double turret, the overall firepower is increased by about 25%.

Compared with protection and attack, there are not many changes in power. The main purpose is to reduce unnecessary consumption, speed up the reaction time and protection of power units and oil depots. When these modifications were finally completed, 10,800 tons of armor, 5,500 tons of artillery, plus 17,000 tons of hull and some other necessary weights, the empty load reached more than 41,000, a little more than before. The full load reached an astonishing 47,000 tons, a super giant. (To be continued...) r1292

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