~.-~     The eighth day of October of the 35th year of Guanghua (November 3, 1935), the first nuclear-powered battleship in human history, and the largest tonnage and most powerful battleship in the history of the world's navy. The Guanghua Emperor, known as the ultimate battleship of the Imperial Navy, is known as the ultimate battleship of the Imperial Navy.

The battleship held a huge groundbreaking ceremony at the Shanghai Shipbuilding Industry Dock No. 10.

Thousands of mainstream media from all over the world gathered here. General Lin Jianzhang, Minister of the Navy of the Imperial Empire, and Wei Guangping, Director of the Navy General Administration, held a live press conference, and broadcast it to the world through Imperial TV and Radio Station.

The reason why it is so grand is that the Chinese Empire wants to show off its military power to the navies of various powerful people all over the world, shock the ambitions of the navies such as Germany, and defend the absolute world hegemony of the Chinese Empire's navies.

"According to the will of His Majesty the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, it is specially allowed to disclose the basic parameters of the battleship of the Guanghua Emperor. The battleship of the Guanghua Emperor has a standard displacement of 132,860 tons, a full load displacement of 152,300 tons, equipped with 12 main guns of 21-inch 50-caliber diameters, four triple turrets, equipped with the most powerful air defense dense array system, radar system and fire control system, with an average armor protection of 530 mm, and can withstand the attack of artillery shells below 21-inch caliber diameters. The ship is designed with a maximum speed of 35 knots, a cruising speed of 27 knots, a cruising speed of 1 million nautical miles, and a fuel self-sustaining capacity of more than ten years..."

As Wei Guangping announced some basic parameters of the ultimate battleship of the Chinese Empire, the scene suddenly became an uproar. Media workers from all over the world were shocked. People all over the world who were sitting in front of the TV and in front of the radio were breathing a sigh of shock.

"Let's start answering reporters' questions! The time is two hours, please pay attention to the order of speech!"

As the press conference host announced his answers to reporters' questions, thousands of journalists from all over the world raised the number plates they received, which was even more anxious than the buyers who were eager to get their favorite items at the auction. They all wanted to know the real purpose of the Chinese Empire's construction of the Guanghua Emperor battleship as soon as possible.

Lin Jianzhang and Wei Guangping looked at each other and gave in to each other, the former randomly pointed a number in the seat.

"The first question! Reporter friend No. 35!"

"Hello! I am Reuters reporter Martina! I would like to ask General Lin Jianzhang whether the battleship Guanghua Emperor that your country is going to build is your country's ultimate battleship, what is its level? How many ships are built and what are the combat missions after they are completed and put into service?"

"Your question brings a lot of question marks!"

Lin Jianzhang smiled slightly, but replied: "That's right! The battleship of the Guanghua Emperor belongs to the latest Chinese Empire and the ultimate battleship of the Chinese Empire. The Chinese Empire pursues the basic national policy of loving world peace and will not change. Therefore, only one battleship of this class will be built, and after completion, it will only be used as a local fleet flagship."

"The second question! 7th reporter friend!"

"Hello! I am Angret, AFP reporter! I would like to ask Wei Guangping, the Director of the General Administration of Shipbuilding Administration. As we all know, the three indicators of speed, firepower and armor protection of naval battleships cannot be taken into account at the same time. May I ask Master Wei, among the basic parameters of your country's Guanghua Emperor battleship, the three indicators have achieved an amazing perfect combination, and the endurance is as long as one million nautical miles. This is really incredible. How did your country do this?"

Wei Guangping was brought out by Wei Han, the former director of the Ship Administration, and inherited Wei Han's skills and experience. Since he took office, he has been praised by the Imperial Navy as a new star of the Ship Administration. The design plan for the Chinese Empire-level battleship was designed by him personally, so he was dissatisfied with the French's doubts about his works.

"There are only things in the world that cannot be imagined and not impossible!" Wei Guangping said: "When our ancestors crossed the river with a sheepskin raft, they never thought that the iron ship could float on the water, but we achieved it. Human beings said that they could not fly into the sky without wings, but we still have planes? What I want to make is that the Chinese Empire has more than ten years of global scientific and technological strength and industrial manufacturing capabilities, and the naval industry is the most capable of measuring a country's overall industrial strength. Our ultimate battleship can achieve firepower and mount

The perfect combination of A and speed is a reflection of the industrial strength of the Chinese Empire's naval industry. There is nothing to doubt. In addition, the main reason why the fuel endurance of Guanghua Emperor has reached ten years is that we installed a new fuel facility on it that does not rely on conventional fuels such as fuel and coal. We call it a nuclear reactor. This nuclear reactor can provide a ten-year endurance to a giant ship worth less than 100,000 tons. Therefore, our ultimate battleship can achieve a perfect combination of various indicators."

Wei Guangping revealed that the real secret of the battleship Guanghua Emperor is that it uses nuclear reactor technology. But everyone doesn’t know what the nuclear reactor means. Just listening to Wei Guangping’s words is enough to arouse everyone’s appetite.

"I am Landers, an Associated Press reporter. Can you please tell me how the nuclear reactor technology is on board and how it is different from the current way that oil and coal are used as fuel by ships from all over the world."

Wei Guangping replied: "I'm sorry! It involves military secrets, so it's inconvenient to disclose them! The next question!"

"Is the nuclear reactor the nuclear physics engineering technology that your country has been committed to researching for more than 20 years?"

Wei Guangping secretly asked in his heart that these reporters were not all novice. It was really surprising that some people could immediately connect with nuclear engineering.

"Nuclear Physics Engineering is a scientific research department established by our Chinese Empire to benefit all mankind. Please go to the relevant departments to inquire and verify the relevant progress and technical achievements! Next question!"

No matter when officials of the Chinese Empire attended any press conference or faced with reporters’ questions, if they did not have a plan to respond, they would in unison ask the reporter to contact the "relevant departments" and "relevant departments" to collect evidence. This method of ruling that was equivalent to no answer quickly became a special trick in the industry to deal with reporters.

Many reporters are asking questions about nuclear reactors. However, whether it is Lin Jianzhang or Wei Guangping, they all refuse to answer in detail in various words, which disappoints journalists from all countries. Although journalists from all countries do not know what a nuclear reactor is, they all think it is the most important news to be recorded, and since then, a large number of intelligence reconnaissances about nuclear reactors have been carried out.

"I am a reporter from Frankfurt. As far as I know, the world's major naval powers are currently expanding their naval armaments on a large scale. Germany, Britain, France, Italy, the Soviet Union and other countries are all building the so-called ultimate battleship. May I ask General Lin Jianzhang, your country will publicly announce the construction of the ultimate battleship of the Chinese Empire at this time. Is there any targeting?"

Lin Jianzhang replied: "I know what you said, too! The Chinese Empire pursues a peaceful military and foreign policy, and the ultimate battleships of the Empire-level Chinese Empire do not point to any country. Germany, Britain, France, Italy and the Soviet Union are all building the ultimate battleships. We only hope that they can use these ultimate battleships to protect their own peace, rather than becoming tools of aggression."

"I am Li Pingping, a reporter from China News Agency. May I ask Lord Lin, the Imperial Navy spent up to 1.5 billion dragon coins to build this ultimate battleship. Personally, I feel extremely proud. However, the Imperial Navy has unblocked 27 super battleships. As a world super naval power, I don't think whether to build this ultimate battleship or not will affect the Imperial Navy's military status in the world. From an economic perspective, if you spend such a huge amount of money to build a super battleship, don't you think you are wasting the money of the Imperial taxpayers?"

Before Lin Jianzhang came, the secretary's office had already considered various questions that reporters could ask. Therefore, Lin Jianzhang had a long mind about Li Pingping's problem.

"Miss Li! I'm glad you can take this into consideration!" Lin Jianzhang paused and continued: "Although it seems like a waste of money to spend 1.5 billion dragon coins to build an ultimate battleship. But you should know that building a behemoth of more than 100,000 tons can provide 45,000 direct jobs to the imperial citizens, indirectly benefiting tens of thousands of related companies and enterprises in the empire and increasing salaries for tens of millions of employees. From this point of view, it will contribute 1% to the empire's GDP every year. If you don't believe it, you can see how countries such as Germany and the United States solve millions of unemployed people in a short time. I think you will find the answer."

"I am Zhang Haibing, a reporter from the Empire Times. I heard that the Imperial Navy has been arguing about whether to build the ultimate battleship. A considerable number of people believe that the battleships should be abandoned and the aircraft carrier should be built instead. What does Lord Lin think about this?"

"I don't know where you got the news from!" Lin Jianzhang naturally would not admit it, and continued: "As far as I know, the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Navy have always worked together to contribute to the future development of the Imperial Navy. In the issue of building the ultimate battleship, the Imperial Navy has a highly consistent supportive attitude. Why do we need to build an aircraft carrier? Can the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier destroy the battleship? The answer is obviously no. All the main battleships of our Imperial Navy have completed modern modifications, and the advanced air defense dense array system plus the powerful fleet air defense firepower of the Chinese ASUSTAIN Air Defense Cruiser, no aircraft can pose a threat to the battleship."

"I am Lan Li, a reporter from Berlin World. Your country's navy has nine aircraft carrier combat groups. Isn't this a priority for aircraft carriers?"

Lin Jianzhang explained: "That's right! We have many aircraft carrier battle groups, but at best they can only deal with the threats brought to the Chinese Empire by small and medium-sized countries. When facing the threat of a large country naval force, they cannot sink powerful battleships. Those who can sink battleships can only be battleships. We thank Ma Han for his theory of giant ships and cannonism. It is his theory that has always made the Chinese Empire navy so powerful that we will continue like this."

Lin Jianzhang pursued the winning theory of giant ships and cannonism without blushing, exaggerating the dominant position of battleships and belittled the role of aircraft carriers as much as possible, so as to publicly mislead the development direction of navies around the world.

Finally, Lin Jianzhang added: "Only our Chinese Navy is still developing aircraft carriers, and the navies of other countries have basically not developed such useless naval weapons. The facts prove that they are right because we seem to have found ourselves hitting the south wall in the development of aircraft carriers."

Lin Jianzhang's humorous answer immediately made all media reporters laugh. The atmosphere was very pleasant. Most people thought that the Chinese Empire's navy would no longer develop aircraft carriers after it hit the south wall. The winning theory of giant ship artillery was hyped by the news media for a time and further misled the development direction of navies in various countries around the world.

"I am James, a reporter from Wall Street Journal. General Lin, your country now has 27 super battleships, and this almost invincible ultimate battleship, your country's navy is the world's number one, which will further intensify the naval arms race between European and American countries and is a huge threat to world peace. What do you think about this?"

Lin Jianzhang explained: "The Chinese Empire has always pursued a peaceful military and foreign policy! Fifteen years ago, the "Five-Country Convention on the Restriction of Arms Development" led by the Chinese Empire was proof. Under the leadership of the Chinese Empire, a series of arms restriction treaties signed with the five world powers, Germany, Britain, France and Italy, avoiding the recurrence of the world war. From the last Five-Country Convention to the present, fifteen years have passed, the Chinese Empire has proved our peaceful military policy to the world with practical actions. However, the Five-Country Convention has not been renewed, and we expressed our disappointment. We unblocked 27 super battleships and built invincible ultimate battleships. Our purpose is to deter those countries that want to provoke war, and hope that they will stop and not develop some military forces that are not conducive to regional peace. We are doing this to defend peace."

"May I ask, are you saying that the Chinese Empire wants to act as a world policeman?"

"This name is very creative!" Lin Jianzhang smiled and said: "If a country does not have a policeman to maintain public order, there will be riots and social unrest. Similarly, the world is a big country composed of various countries. If there is no policeman to maintain public order, conflicts and wars will break out. The Chinese Empire will fulfill the responsibilities of a big country within the framework of the League of Nations!"

Obviously, Lin Jianzhang was very interested in the role of the Chinese Empire as a world policeman, but he did not dare to publicly admit it because it would cause dissatisfaction among governments. When Tsarist Russia acted as a European military policeman, it was conceivable that the ending of being isolated from the entire Western world.

Lin Jianzhang did not give a positive answer, but all countries around the world also understood in their hearts that in today's world, isn't the Chinese Empire the world police?

Since then, Lin Jianzhang and Wei Guangping have answered hundreds of questions one after another, which basically satisfy the curiosity of the reporters. At the same time, they have achieved the real purpose of this press conference.

The entire press conference lasted for two and a half hours, more than half an hour, because there were too many people asking questions. Lin Jianzhang and Wei Guangping also felt that using the media to intimidate European and American countries, mislead the development direction of the naval development of various countries, and using the Chinese Empire-level battleships to stimulate the large-scale naval arms races in disguise would be very effective. Therefore, they would endure for half an hour.

After the press conference, Shanghai Shipbuilding Industry Corporation officially started construction of the Ultimate Battleship of the Guanghua Emperor.

As the ultimate embodiment of the world's giant ship cannonism, the Guanghua Great became a mythical work of fanatical admirers of the Imperial Navy, and it was also a concentrated reflection of the glorious achievements of the imperial naval industry in the past four decades. The use of nuclear reactors as the energy for battleships is a major event for mankind to create the world, thus covering the Guanghua Great battleship with endless mythology, becoming the pinnacle of the world's giant ship cannonism era, and it was also the last roar of the battleship era.

Although Wei Guangping disclosed some basic parameters about the battleship of the Guanghua Emperor, the data is half true and half false to confuse the navies of various countries for the principle of security and confidentiality. For example, the real main gun of the battleship of the Guanghua Emperor Emperor is 20-inch caliber, not 21-inch caliber.

The ship's design is 351.6 meters long, 44.2 meters wide, and its draft is 14.8 meters. The standard displacement is actually 119,246 tons, and the maximum full load displacement is only 142,500 tons, which is not the claimed 150,000 tons. The maximum speed is actually only 32 knots, but the cruise speed is 30 knots per 1 million nautical miles. The cruise speed is an important basis for judging the possible location of the other party during wartime, so the Chinese Navy concealed this issue.

Judging from the overall appearance of the battleship of the Guanghua Emperor, this is undoubtedly a behemoth. In order to conform to the hydraulics and reduce resistance, the bow of the ship must be a fly-scissors bow. A giant 20,000-ton hydraulic press is used to stamp a huge 320 mm thick steel plate into a thickness of 120 mm at a time, which once again set a world record set by the Chinese Empire in 10 years. The above part of the waterline is obviously forward in outward. The front end of the bow is semi-elliptical. The two sides of the side are greatly outward to reduce the problem of waves on the bow when driving at high speed. The part below the bow waterline adopts a further optimized bulbous bow, which is located about 6 meters below the waterline. Compared with the sharp bow, this new configuration can reduce the wave resistance by 11%, and at the same time reduce the waterline of about 5 meters, thus saving about 450 tons of water displacement.

Of course, in addition to reducing underwater resistance, this bulbous bow is mainly used to install underwater listeners and sonar arrays. Because the powerful armor of the Guanghua Emperor battleship can block attacks on the water surface and in the air, but underwater is a weak link. The threat of submarines must be taken into account. Installing the most advanced sonar array can detect the activities of enemy submarines and be targeted.

The bridge of the Guanghua Emperor battleship was greatly optimized compared with the Ming-class battleship, although it is still a landmark layout of regular hexagons. However, the height of the ship island has been greatly reduced, only 12 floors high. This has been greatly reduced than the 20-storey island of the Ming-class battleship, mainly to reduce the probability of being hit by the enemy. At the same time, due to the significant improvement of the radar system, it is no longer necessary to install optical observation instruments at a height. However, the main gun observation station (built-in Guanghua 33-year navigation azimuth) and a 28-meter-degree rangefinder are still installed on the top of the ship island, including the air defense command post, the visual line bridge (day battleship bridge), the combat room, the captain's lounge. The Luojing Bridge (night battleship bridge), the second chart room, the commander's tower, etc. There are four straight-through elevators in the bridge, east-west, north-south, etc., which are equipped with four straight-through elevators in the east-west, north-south, to facilitate the emergency evacuation of bridge personnel.

The biggest difference between the battleship of the Guanghua Emperor and the Ming-class battleships, and even all the warships of the Chinese Empire is that it no longer needs a huge chimney. Since it uses a nuclear reactor, it does not need to use oil or coal-fired boilers, so naturally there is no need to arrange flue for each boiler. Traditional warship chimney smoke exhaust affects the bridge work. In order to ensure the safety of the opening of the hull chimney, a honeycomb protective steel plate has to be installed at the opening. Protective decks are installed on the inclined parts and sides of the chimney. Once the chimney is attacked, it will cause serious obstacles to realization and toxic smoke threaten the safety of personnel. After the nuclear reactor is installed, the battleship of the Guanghua Emperor does not need such chimney. This not only solves the safety hazards of the chimney, but also makes the bridge structure more compact.

Overall, the battleship of the Guanghua Emperor is less than a huge chimney, which is more beautiful and practical.

The main gun of the Guanghua Emperor battleship adopts 12 triple turrets with 508 mm and 50 diameters. The front 2 is 2 and the rear 2 is symmetrically arranged along the central axis.

The light weapon system accounts for 25% of the tonnage of the total displacement. The four triple turrets are arranged on the bow and stern, all on the central axis. The front and back are arranged symmetrically in the island. The total weight of the three cannons in one turret reaches 2,450 tons, plus 1,090 tons of armor) and the weight of ammunition. The total weight of the spiral part of a single turret is nearly 4,000 tons, which is equivalent to the tonnage of a light cruiser. The huge 20-inch gun barrel is equivalent to the sleeper width of the naval officers and soldiers of the Chinese Empire. It is no problem to lay a quilt and rest in it.

The armor of the turret shield is very thick. The Imperial Navy does not allow the ultimate battleship to be beaten by the enemy and lose its combat effectiveness, so the protection is strengthened. The front of the turret is as high as 800 mm, and it can be said that even the 20-inch shells fired by the Emperor Guanghua itself cannot be destroyed. The rear of the turret is equipped with a Guanghua 33-year-old 35-meter baseline rangefinder, an electric prayer instrument, and a gyro horizontal wave-resistant and stable instrument, so that the Guanghua Emperor battleship can maintain a stable design angle when sailing. The front of both sides of the turret and the front of the top are homogeneous armor of more than 500 mm, and are equipped with periscopic optical scopes and semi-mechanical and semi-electronic radar fire-controlled aiming and command instruments.

The 20-inch main gun barrel itself is already very large. With the length of the barrel of fifty times the diameter, the entire main gun will move to a row of thick telephone poles, relying on huge power motors and strong hydraulic engines. If it were not for the stable and powerful power supply of nuclear reactors, ordinary motors would not be able to do it.

The nuclear reactor is timely supplied with electricity. The final elevation angle of the main gun is only 65 degrees and the horizontal rotation is only 240 degrees. When the gun loads the shells, it is strictly fixed at a 3-degree position. It takes 2.5 minutes for the turret to rotate back one week.

The firing speed of the 20-inch main gun of the Guanghua Emperor battleship was greatly reduced compared with that of the Ming-class battleship, and only one shell could be fired every 3 minutes. Because the weight of the shells had reached 2 tons, although the automatic mechanical loading method was used, the dosage of the loading and launching medicine packages remained unchanged. The number increased significantly, so it took more time. The final preparation speed for the main gun was naturally slow. In order to cooperate with the strong endurance, the number of shells of the super giant cannon also increased significantly, and each cannon was equipped with 200 rounds.

Originally, the 18-inch main gun of the Ming-class battleship was too high, and a large amount of rifle would be worn off when it was fired. Therefore, after the main gun of the Ming-class battleship was fired about 100 rounds, it had to return to the factory to repair and replace the gun barrel. However, considering that the main gun barrel replacement project of the Guanghua Emperor battleship was too complicated, it would take at least three months to replace the gun barrel, which was not allowed in a state of war. Therefore, in order to enhance the life of the gun barrel, the Imperial Navy Navy Weapon Engineering Agency of the Imperial China used the most advanced materials and stamping technology on the main gun barrel for the first time.

By the 35th year of Guanghua, the Chinese Empire had already been quite advanced in the manufacturing process of gun steel pipes, and for the first time realized the ckp-502 medium-carbon nickel-chromium platinum alloy steel. This steel pipe uses the traditional Chinese special steel technology. It also needs to be added. Strictly speaking, it is not just plating, but also the "seepage" step. It is mainly to increase the internal hardness, smoothness, plating, and chromium seepage of the gun barrel, and then undergo the most advanced conical inner wall extrusion technology and sulfur seepage technology, etc. In short, it is all to increase the smoothness, wear resistance and corrosion resistance of the tube. In addition, it is also to give the Guanghua Emperor main gun.

The gun barrel also has a confidential element, and a small amount of vanadium metal is added to improve the overall performance. It can also adapt to the launch of high and low-speed armor-piercing shells, high and low-speed armor-piercing incendiary shells~~-update the first launch~~ etc. After using this advanced gun barrel manufacturing process, the life of the gun barrel reached 400 rounds. Among the main guns of the same level of battleships, the gun barrel used by the Hindenburg-class battleships in Germany has the longest life span, but only 120 rounds. The Chinese Empire has been ahead of Germany in special alloy steel for more than 30 years. This huge achievement is exciting and highlights the great creative ability of the Chinese nation.

The recoil of the main gun when firing has always been one of the biggest problems that plague super battleships. When the 12 18-inch main guns of the Ming-class battleship of the Chinese Empire pointed to one side and fired saliently, the recoil reached 10,000 tons, and the shock wave was also very strong when firing. This caused the battleship roll period to be superimposed to 12 seconds, and the warship tilt angle greatly affected the comprehensive combat capability.

For this reason, the designers of the Imperial Ship Administration took great pains to study the latter four Ming-class battleships and the main guns of the Soviet-class battleships built for the Soviet Union, and finally the anti-recoil system installed by Rosenberg and others on the z29 anti-tank combat vehicle was successfully experimented with the help of its principles and experience. The Naval Engineering Agency developed the zp12 anti-recoil system and installed it on the Guanghua Emperor battleship. The recoil force was greatly reduced when the 12 20-inch main guns were fired on one side, and only 2,200 tons of recoil was only solved. At the same time, the problem of air wave shock wave after the main gun fire that the Ming-class battleship did not solve was also solved. The recoil system actually used 80% of the air wave shock wave to offset the recoil, and the two problems were solved at the same time.

As the ultimate battleship, the firepower strike capability of the Guanghua Emperor battleship is placed first. After the caliber, diameter and number of main guns are determined, improving the power and accuracy of the shell armor-piercing power and accuracy becomes the focus.

The mk-37 main gun (installed on the ship in 1937) still uses a heavy armor-piercing warhead with low initial velocity and high energy storage. The purpose is to be able to penetrate the armor of the ultimate battleship of the same level from a long distance. The initial velocity of the muzzle is 805 meters per second, the maximum range reaches 65 kilometers (45 degrees elevation angle), and the shell needs to fly 96 seconds. Due to the significant improvement of the performance of the central fire-controlled radar command system, the effective radar range measurement and command distance reaches 50 kilometers, so the effective strike distance of the main gun has also been expanded to 50 kilometers, which is basically close to the minimum standard for exceeding the visual range of combat, which is also the ultimate strike distance of the carrier-based artillery.

The main artillery shells of the Guanghua Emperor battleship use the most advanced mk6 high-intensity armor-piercing warhead, combined with the Hessorkin high-explosion**, can penetrate the main armor belt of any ultimate battleship in the world at a distance of 20,000-30,000 meters. The armor of the Soviet-class battleship can be penetrated at a distance of 12 kilometers, and the Soviets have been kept in the dark. On the other hand, whether it is the Hindenburg-class, the British-class battleship of the British, or the mysterious Italian Kingdom-class battleship that was blown by Italy, their 20-inch main gun cannot penetrate the main armor belt of the Guanghua Emperor 10 kilometers away.

Of course, for super battleships, it is impossible to fight in close combat at this distance. Especially the warships of the Chinese Empire are equipped with fire control radar systems and advanced optical rangefinders. Long-distance combat is where the advantages are played.

In terms of secondary guns, the Guanghua Emperor is equipped with 12 dual-mounted 152mm 60-diameter high-level dual-use rapid-fire guns, 30 quad-mounted 40mm 65-diameter high-level dual-use rapid-fire guns, 48 ​​dual-mounted seven-bar Gatlin-type MK-36 Vulcan dense array system, and 8 64-unit Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft rocket systems.

The 12 secondary gun turrets are all arranged on the secondary deck around the Central Ship Island, with a symmetrical layout on the left and right, among which the four turrets of 3, 6, 9, and 12 are raised turret bases. Overall, the 12 secondary guns are divided into four groups, distributed in four symmetric directions. Each unit group has three turrets and 6 secondary guns, which are arranged in a triangle. This configuration can ensure that the 12 152mm secondary guns of the warship can point to one side at the same time, greatly increasing the attack power of the enemy ships at close range.

The 48 dual-mounted seven-tube Gatlin-type MK-36 Vulcan dense array system and the 8 64-unit Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft rocket system blocked the entire Guanghua Emperor battleship's airspace of 5 kilometers from all directions. When fired at the same time, even a fly could not get close. Its powerful air defense firepower, combined with the specially strengthened super-thick armor to prevent attacks from airborne bombs, protected the Guanghua Emperor from threats from the air.

In terms of protection systems, the Imperial Navy did not allow the Guanghua Emperor to be sunk, which is related to the face of the Imperial Navy and does not allow any neglect. As a reflection of the Chinese nation's unyielding will, the Navy attaches great importance to the protection of the Guanghua Emperor battleship. According to the design requirements, the side armor of the ship should be able to withstand the strikes of its 508mm main gun at a distance of 20,000-30,000 meters, and the horizontal deck can also resist 1-ton heavy aviation bombs dropped from below 2,000 meters (the 1-ton aviation bomb dropped by the H-5 bomber in 1935 was used as the resistance standard, but it could not prevent 2-5-ton equivalent aviation bombs dropped by the H-6 bomber from a height of more than 6,000 meters). In fact, bombs dropped from a height of 5 kilometers basically cannot blow up the target.

In order to achieve the above requirements, the battleship of Guanghua Great Emperor installed more than 40,000 tons of Chinese special steel armor and defense steel plates, accounting for 33% of the normal displacement of the ship. The ship's ammunition chamber, steam turbine chamber, nuclear reactor chamber, nuclear fuel chamber, motor room and other key parts are concentrated in the defense zone protected by a multi-layer thick armor belt in the middle and rear part of the battleship (from the front end of the front main gun to the rear end of the rear main gun). The side armor in the defense zone extends from the waterline of the battleship to the bottom of the battleship. The thickness of the main armor belt at the upper end of the waterline is 550 mm, and the thickness of the side plate below the main armor belt is 275-400 mm (decreased from top to bottom). The armor at the top of the defense zone is

Located on the midline deck of the battleship, the thickness is 200-430 mm (using homogeneous nickel-cadmium alloy steel with molybdenum added). The front and rear ends of the defense zone are protected by 270-350 mm thick armored cross-district walls. Especially the nuclear reactor is located at the center of the battleship. In addition to the armored protection of about 500 mm on the periphery, a 450 mm layer of armored protection is added to the inner wall. There is a 0.5-meter-wide steel mixed cement wall between the inner wall and the outer wall. It plays a buffering role (actually the predecessor of the reaction armor). There is also a 1.5-meter-thick cement isolation area to the inner wall, which makes the reactor in an absolutely safe state. No explosion will affect the normal operation of the nuclear reactor.

The nuclear reactor of the battleship Guanghua Great uses a pressurized water reactor, which uses light water (normal water h2o) and graphite as coolant and neutron slower. Its cooling system consists of two circulation loops. The first circuit connects the core and the steam generator in the second circuit, and the pressure in the loop is maintained at about 15,000 atmospheres. Under this pressure, the cooling water can be heated to about 3430c without boiling. The cooling water will have a pressure of about 7 in the heat transfer pipe of the steam generator in the second circuit.

The second circuit water with a pressure of about 000 atmospheres is heated to boiling (temperature is about 2600c), and the formed water vapor (after filtering out mixed liquid water) is then sent to the turbine through the second circuit. The turbine engine is driven to operate. The first circuit water that releases heat energy in the heat transfer pipe is reflowed back to the core at a temperature of about 2900c, completing the first circuit cycle. The second circuit water flowing out of the turbine is condensed into liquid water through the condenser and then flows back to the steam generator to complete the second circuit cycle.

The reactor core is located in the pressure shell and consists of square fuel components. The fuel is generally sintered uranium dioxide with a concentration of 2% to 4.4%. Compared with the heavy water reactor and boiling water reactor previously studied by the Imperial Nuclear Physics Laboratory, the pressurized water reactor core is smaller in size, the core has a relatively large power density and low cost, and the power generation efficiency is about 33%.

The power system of the battleship Guanghua Great is provided by eight light water reactors, usually only four are used, and the other four are used as backup. The ultra-high temperature steam output from the four reactors drives four sets of Parsons KWP8000 steam turbine systems with an output power of up to 320 million horsepower, driving four-axis and four-pads at a constant speed of 32 knots. In fact, it can travel 500,000 nautical miles by one replacement of nuclear fuel, which is half the difference from the publicly claimed 1 million nautical miles.

However, this is also because the light water reactor developed by the Chinese Empire is only a primary product, with a nuclear fuel utilization rate of less than 35%. In order to allow the ship to be approved by Congress, the Admiralty Department lied that it would take ten years to refuel fuel. In fact, if calculated according to the combat duty requirements, the fuel would have to be replaced in five years. But there must be a road before the car arrives at the mountain. At that time, Congress knows about this matter, and it cannot be said that the battleship was dismantled and replaced with 1.5 billion dragon coins. It can only be a default choice.

In terms of other electronic communication equipment, radio systems, telephone systems, sonar arrays, optical rangefinders, fire control commanders, azimuth navigation instruments and other equipment have been greatly improved and upgraded, with further reduced volume and weight, and greatly increased accuracy and speed. It has played a huge auxiliary role in enhancing the comprehensive combat effectiveness of the Guanghua Emperor battleship.

Of course, the most important thing is the radar system.

When the radar system of the Guanghua Emperor battleship was installed, the Chinese Empire had already achieved remarkable results in electronic industry manufacturing, and a large number of scientists led by Tesla were able to basically imitate the electronic equipment on the Jiaolong. Although the performance gap was still a big difference, it was more than enough for the Guanghua Emperor battleship.

After more than ten years of radar development and development, the rd-93x radar system installed on the Guanghua Emperor has finally improved the high-frequency detection mode, and its air search capability can detect high-speed targets the size of an aircraft 300 kilometers away. The sea search radar has been increased from 40 kilometers in 1916 to 500 kilometers of medium and large warships in 1939 that can detect, high-speed light cruisers and destroyers can be detected within 300 kilometers, and torpedo boats can be detected within 80 kilometers.

The huge detection capability of course requires a huge radar array antenna. Fortunately, the battleship of the Guanghua Emperor is large enough, and the position of the chimney should have been given to the radar array antenna. Moreover, the rd-93x radar consumes a huge amount of power, and if it is replaced by other battleships, it will not be able to bear it at all, but it is different on the Guanghua Emperor. The huge electrical energy provided by the nuclear reactor is more than enough to drive the radar array.

With a powerful radar system, the Guanghua Emperor can first discover the enemy outside the visual range and make tactical adjustments according to the enemy's strength. Whether it is attacking or retreating, you can easily do it.

Overall, the battleship of the Guanghua Emperor, as the ultimate battleship of the Chinese Empire and the most powerful ultimate battleship in the world, are well deserved.

No matter what purpose the Chinese Empire built this nuclear-powered ultimate battleship, such a powerful warship will surely shock the world and become a huge spiritual wealth for generations of the descendants of the Chinese Empire.

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