After all, the Great Heng Empire is not a purely maritime power country like the Kruel Kingdom. It has invested a huge amount of investment in the navy. Any battleships can be built casually, and there will be more than a dozen ships.

Due to the stimulation of the Orr War, the Kingdom of Kruel began large-scale ship construction in the second half of last year and began the construction of their high-freeboard battleships. According to reliable information, they started construction of four ships in one go in the second half of last year.

Eight more ships have started this year!

In just one year, they had already started construction of twelve battleships in one go, all of which were 14,500 tons of high freeboards, equipped with 350 mm and 30 times caliber main guns!

In addition, they also built several second-class battleships. Although their second-class battleships are similar to the Fengyang-class armored cruiser of the Daheng Empire Navy, they have huge differences in tactical positioning. Their second-class battleships are mainly sent overseas to perform missions. After all, not all places require them to send expensive first-class battleships.

The positioning of the Fengyang-class armored cruiser of the Great Heng Empire is already towards high-speed battleships, using high-speed formations of guerrilla wings to cooperate with the battleships to carry out line-based decisive battles.

The Kruel Kingdom was able to open more than a dozen battleships of the same level in one breath, and the Great Heng Empire could not do this. Lin Ziran hoped that the Navy could improve and design based on the Jingzhou-class battleships, and then build a newer generation of battleships.

Although the Great Heng Empire has always claimed to be a force to suppress people, it is a battle to promote war!

However, the number of warships compared with the Kruhrs in the navy is still a bit more difficult for the time being.

To get it again, you have to rely on performance advantages!

Especially when our side has the secrets and advantages of hardened armor and rapid-fire cannons, further expand the performance distance.

A rapid-fire gun of 150 mm is not enough. It requires a rapid-fire gun of 200 mm and a rapid-fire gun of 250 mm, and finally achieves rapid-fire transformation of the 300 mm main gun.

Only in this way can we use continuous and better technical advantages to make up for the number of disadvantages!

When the financial pressure of the Great Heng Empire is relieved one day and more funds can be invested to expand the navy, it will become a dual advantage of quality and quantity. Then it will be time to pull the Navy of the Kingdom of Kruel.

Therefore, after coming to Quping Naval Base, although Lin Ziran said a lot of good things in the early stage of watching, he never heard of the Navy's funding requirements.

When the navy introduced him to the sea test of the Jingzhou-class battleship and had a super high speed of up to 17.5 knots, he responded to these requests from the navy.

"This new ship must be built, but we still need to consider in detail how to build a navy. We cannot be self-consistent, and we must constantly improve requirements and improve!"

"I heard that the Kruhrers have started construction of more than a dozen battleships, and each of them will not be smaller than that of the Jingzhou-class battleships. Moreover, they are also studying various new technologies. It may take a few years to create hardened armor and rapid-fire guns. Once this happens, we will lose our existing advantages!"

"So, we must keep maintaining and even improving our advantages, especially the large-scale rapid-fire gun must be taken seriously!"

After Lin Ziran made a big statement, he did not interfere in the navy's warship design work in detail, otherwise he would have given a big reminder to the navy that if he still wanted to make old things to fool people, His Majesty the Emperor would be furious.

But the navy is actually very difficult, so technological progress is not so easy!

The more advanced 300mm forty times the caliber main gun has been launched for several years. Two years ago, the Imperial large-caliber main gun research and development power was basically based on this new artillery, but the difficulty was not unusual!

The same is true for the large-scale rapid-fire guns. The Navy has actually always promoted this work, but the basic technologies such as materials and processing are not up to standard, especially the hydraulic cylinders used for large-caliber naval guns, which have extremely high technical requirements.

However, after being hinted by Lin Ziran this time, the senior navy leaders also lowered the pressure and finally passed it to the research project team responsible for the hydraulic device of the large-caliber main gun.

For this reason, a group of researchers in the project team were also helpless. At this time, a single scientific research dog just graduated from Imperial University listened to a group of bigwigs saying that the hydraulic device had poor pressure bearing capacity and its lifespan was not up to standard. After using it for a period of time, it would leak oil. The service life required by the superiors was too strict and it could not be achieved at all.

Listening to the big guys discussing these problems, the young unnamed single scientific research dog passing by the door interrupted: If it breaks, change it...

As soon as this came out, a group of big men in the conference room glared at each other. The last bearded man said, "Yes, if it is broken, replace it. Why didn't I think we have to increase the service life of the hydraulic cylinder? If it is broken, replace it directly!"

"We have a hydraulic cylinder set that can be easily replaced. The design is simpler and allows ordinary soldiers to replace it directly after training. If a set of hydraulic tubes does not meet the life requirements, we will use two sets and three sets!"

"I think the Navy should not lack the money to replace the hydraulic cylinder!"

After these words were said, a group of bigwigs were shocked!

They used to think about improving the pressure bearing capacity and service life of the hydraulic cylinder, and improving various processes, but why did they never think of using the hydraulic cylinder as a consumable and replacing it if it breaks...

So, in less than a few days, the hydraulic project team sent a notice to the large-caliber rapid-fire naval gun project team: this project team has successfully solved the problem of hydraulic service life.

But when they looked at their solutions, many experts from the large-caliber rapid-fire gun project team were speechless...

The people in the hydraulic project team did not make any revolutionary changes to the hydraulic device, especially the crucial hydraulic cylinder material, and the core design did not change. The only change is to design the hydraulic device into a more easily replaced assembly.

If it breaks, replace it!

This is the solution of the hydraulic project team to the large-caliber rapid-fire gun project team!

this……

At first, many people thought this was ridiculous, but when you think about it carefully, it was true!

I used to think that the hydraulic device could not be up to standard and its service life was short. As a core component of the warship, naval guns were accompanied by the service career of the entire warship, and the turret was the top priority and would not be replaced easily.

But now, they say that the barrel is often replaced, so why can’t the hydraulic cylinder work?

The barrel of a naval gun also has a service life, generally speaking, there are hundreds of rounds, depending on the different technologies of each country, the length of the barrel and the loading strength.

This will cause large fluctuations in the service life of the naval gun.

For example, the service life of a 300 mm thirty-five-caliber naval gun reaches 300 rounds. With a long tube and a smokeless gunpowder as the launching medicine, the chamber pressure can also be higher, and it can also achieve a service life of 300 rounds. This is already good for the Great Heng Empire.

Since the barrel can be replaced, the hydraulic cylinder can naturally be replaced, and it is easier to replace the hydraulic cylinder. As long as the design is slightly changed, the soldiers can be replaced on the spot under the guidance of the ship-to-ship technicians, and they don’t even have to drive back to the shipyard for maintenance.

Although this solution is very rustic and cannot show the technical content at all, it undoubtedly has become a major problem in solving the rapid-fire cannon of the Great Heng Empire.

This kind of problem does not only exist in large-caliber rapid-fire cannons, but in fact, other small-caliber rapid-fire cannons also have this problem, that is, hydraulic cylinders are prone to failure, and oil leakage is even more common.

However, the small and medium-caliber rapid-fire guns are under less pressure, so they can be used barely. They can be replaced when the ship is maintained.

However, now, there is no need to be such a problem in the future. Just replace the hydraulic kit on site.

More importantly, this will clear the last major obstacle to the large-caliber rapid-fire gun project, that is, the hydraulic cylinder problem!

This also declares that the rapid-fire gun of the Great Heng Empire has made breakthrough progress in the large-scale rapid-fire cannon.

After two or three years of research, the Naval Artillery Research Institute quickly improved the 200 mm rapid-fire gun plan based on the hydraulic cylinder replacement plan, and used the mature 200 mm forty-times caliber naval gun to directly form a complete design and put into trial production. The sample gun plan has been launched. As long as the gun is not equipped with any problems, it can basically be finalized.

At the same time, their 250mm rapid-fire gun is also very fast, and it is expected that all research and development will be completed within three months. The turret can be matched with the existing 250mm thirty-five-caliber naval gun.

This means that rapid-fire guns with a caliber of 200 mm and 250 mm can be officially installed in a few months, which also means that many warships under construction can modify the design and directly use the rapid-fire gun mount.

As for the rapid-firing study of the 300 mm main gun, this is even more difficult. Even if it is not reliable to replace the hydraulic cylinder, it has to be chewed slowly. Moreover, the people from the rapid-firing gun project team said that even if this large-caliber main gun uses a rapid-firing gun mount, the rate of fire will still be relatively limited. It is impossible to achieve the level of three or four shots of the 250 mm main gun in one minute, and four or five shots of the 200 mm main gun.

According to the results of the rapid-fire gun project of the Naval Artillery Research Institute, the Great Heng Empire Navy decisively corrected the main gun design of the Crane-class armored cruiser under construction.

This achievement also increased the Navy's confidence in the Crane-class armored cruisers. They even had no interest in the follow-up ships of the Fengyang-class armored cruisers with a larger tonnage. Instead, they were preparing to build several more Crane-class armored cruisers, and their orders had increased from two to four.
Chapter completed!