Another World: Naval Storm

"Armstrong Shipyard assured me that our battleship Afrika will be able to be in service within a year!" Art ignored the Republic of Intelligence. During the world war, a weak country like theirs had no human rights, and with the strength of the people of Intelligence, it was impossible for them to cause serious damage to Tarun like the Ottomans.

"In that case, I agree to modify the two Queen Elizabeth-class battleships." Admiral Jefferson was persuaded by Art and agreed to the plan, but he was originally a technical officer, so he quickly put forward his request.

"After the Battle of the North Sea, I read many of Leo's papers, and many of his theories are worth learning from! The concept of standard battleship he proposed has been confirmed in several naval battles. If one of the main turrets of the Queen Elizabeth class is removed, at least four fuel boilers can be added accordingly. Then the Queen Elizabeth class is expected to be able to reach a maximum speed of 4 knots after the modification. I think we should build new battle cruisers according to this standard in the future!" Jefferson said seriously.

The total construction cost of the three Wu Wu cruisers was 450 million gold pounds, and the modification cost of the two Queen Elizabeth-class battleships totaled 200 million gold pounds. Within a day, one-third of the million gold pounds of shipbuilding military expenditure had been consumed.

The addition of two Queen-class battlecruisers cannot completely reverse the disadvantages of the Talen Empire. From a long-term strategic perspective, the Talen Empire must have a group of cutting-edge battleships that can confront German battleships head-on. Therefore, under the discussion of senior management in the conference room, the design standards for new battlecruisers and battleships were gradually determined.

The new battlecruiser has a lower cost and no longer pursues extremely large-caliber main guns. In terms of cost-effectiveness, it has to adopt technologically mature triple-mounted 381mm main guns. In order to improve the space inside the ship, the new battlecruiser has abandoned the traditional armored fort design. Two of the three 381mm main turrets are placed on the bow in a back-mounted position, and one main turret is placed between the bridge and the No. chimney.

More importantly, the new battlecruiser's protection level has also been improved. It no longer focuses on speed and ignores the armor protection of battleships. Therefore, the main armor belt of this new battlecruiser has a thickness of 305mm. Unfortunately, in order to save tonnage, the Royal Navy's generals still castrated some functions, such as the main armor belt adopts a built-in structure, which directly loses the protection function of the main armor belt on the watertightness of the hull. The battleship's horizontal armor is 127mm, the turret's front armor is 330mm, and the commander's tower's front armor is 356mm. The speed reaches 28 knots, and the cost is about 330 million gold pounds. Three ships were built.

This also shows that the Royal Navy has been used to a good life, and the more money they save, the more money they have lost, and nearly 10 million pounds has been lost.

If the top-secret new battlecruiser could be built as soon as possible, then the new fast battleship was the product of the Royal Navy's fear of the Drakes. The standard displacement of the new fast battleship they envisioned was as high as tons, horsepower, equipped with three triple-mounted 457mm main guns, eight twin-mounted 152mm secondary guns, main armor thickness of 381mm, and horizontal armor of 203mm.

Fortunately, the Royal Navy's recklessness remained in words and on paper. They only asked the Navy's design department to complete the warship design drawings as soon as possible according to this standard. Whether it will be built depends on Talen's future situation. If this is leaked, it will be a big deal, and outsiders will definitely scold the Royal Navy as being controlled by a bunch of lunatics.

"Everyone, I suddenly remembered our ally in the Far East, the Wa Nuxian Kingdom. The four Kongo-class battlecruisers they have are quite good. Should we ask them to send warships to Europe to participate in the war? They are doing nothing in the Far East anyway, and it's time to let them fulfill their obligations as an ally!" In the history of the Taren people, allies are meant to be sold, and based on the principle that the son should help the father in trouble, John Cassope suddenly thought of the four battlecruisers of the little Japanese in the Far East.

"Sir Art, Sir John, this is almost impossible! Those four battlecruisers are now the lifeblood of the Japanese!" Jefferson, commander-in-chief of the Grand Fleet, also considered borrowing one or two battlecruisers from the Japanese for emergency use. Unfortunately, the Kongo battlecruisers ordered by the Japanese had already been driven back by them with joy, and there was no chance to detain them directly. The remaining three Kongo-class battlecruisers were all under construction in the Japanese mainland, and Tarun did not even have the opportunity to intervene.

"After the outbreak of the war, the Leo fleet wreaked havoc in the Far East and the Pacific. Our diplomats and the Far East Fleet once asked the Japanese to dispatch their Kongo-class battlecruisers to jointly encircle and suppress them, but the Japanese refused. They only sent the Second Fleet composed of old-fashioned battleships. Even though Leo had slapped them in the face and humiliated them many times, the Japanese were unwilling to take this opportunity to take revenge. The Japanese will not take their capital ships at risk unless we offer them enough benefits. The Japanese are very greedy and ordinary benefits will not move them. What the Japanese want most now is Xunyang... Are we going to give up Xunyang?"

"Commander Jefferson, don't jump to conclusions. You are not a businessman who can negotiate business. Let our diplomats do the talking. Since we need their strength, let's put aside our pride and talk to those yellow-skinned dwarfs. Except for Xunyang's most fertile coastal areas and the Yangtze River Basin, other areas can be discussed. We can also exchange some technologies that they are interested in. Aren't there some less important islands in the Pacific? They can also be exchanged. They are very eager for land. If all else fails, there is still golden gold to exchange."

Art's eyes were full of ferocity, his old face was ferocious, and he sneered, "When we win the war, we will make them spit out as much as they ate from us! No, we will pay them back double!"

"You are right. In fact, as long as we exert enough pressure, the Japanese will agree. Although Taren is in trouble now, once we get out of the trouble, we have countless ways to make the Japanese economy collapse; and if the Allies are defeated, based on the Japanese's bad behavior of occupying the Drake Empire's colonies in Xunyang, Qingzhou and the Pacific Islands, the vengeful Drake people will never let those yellow-skinned dwarfs go!" Jefferson agreed.

The two people's words made the conference room quiet for a moment. Even though the people sitting in the conference room or their ancestors had committed heinous atrocities in the Felix continent, even though the Talen people, who were in the name of civilization and freedom, had openly bombarded Humen and interfered with the anti-drug campaign of the Xunyang government, and the concentration camp, a terrible evil, was also created by the Talen Empire. But in the Onebaroa continent, they were still willing to hide their fangs and claws and disguise themselves as Talen gentlemen.