stonecrandall Chapter 356
Chapter 356
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: 0.072s Scan: 0.072sDönitz did not wait too long. On July 25, 1925, after more than a year of construction, Hans’s four Scharnhorst-class battlecruisers were collectively launched!
The names of the four Scharnhorst battleships are: the first ship Scharnhorst, the second ship Gneisenau, the third ship Sachsen, and the fourth ship Lingen.
The appearance of this battleship is very elegant, and the ship width ratio is very large, so it looks extremely slender. The high freeboard allows this battleship to have a very high speed, and it can even travel through the waves!
The performance of the Scharnhorst-class battleship itself is not so outstanding, but this battleship is already the best choice after comprehensive consideration under the conditions of this era!
After all, the restrictions of the Fog City Naval Treaty have limited the tonnage of warships of various countries to less than 35,000 tons. With this tonnage, it is almost impossible to fully develop the various attributes of warships.
If you want to increase the speed, you need to install a larger and heavier power system, which will increase the tonnage of the warship.
If you want the warship to have more fierce and powerful firepower, you need to install a larger caliber main gun, and the larger caliber main gun includes equipment such as turrets and shell hoists, and their weight will also be greatly increased, which will also increase the tonnage of the warship!
If you want to get better and more comprehensive protection performance, you need to increase the thickness of the warship armor, and the thicker the armor, the greater the tonnage of the warship! The reason why the Fog City Naval Treaty rigidly stipulates the tonnage limit of warships of various countries is to block the road of comprehensive development of various countries and prevent them from going too far on the road of no return of the arms race!
Therefore, the construction of the main battleships of various countries basically stopped after the signing of the Fog City Naval Treaty.
After all, everyone knows that it is almost impossible to build a perfect battleship within 350 million.
Even if it is really built, it must give up one or even more key performances, and such a sacrifice is unacceptable to all countries!
However, the concerns of various countries are not a big problem for Hans, because Mainz’s requirements for main battleships are completely different from those of various countries.
The purpose of building battleships in various countries is to make them the main force of naval warfare and use them as the main force, so they are naturally picky about their performance and have extremely high requirements.
And Mainz just hopes that these battleships can take on the fleet’s air defense and alert tasks. It is not their main business to fight a decisive battle with the enemy fleet. Their main business is to stay by the side of the aircraft carrier and provide protection for the aircraft carrier!
Therefore, under such a combat concept, the German warships do not need such a large and comprehensive performance. Mainz abandoned the main gun firepower, sacrificed part of the armor protection performance, improved the anti-aircraft firepower and the maximum speed, and made these battleships become high-speed escort battleships with powerful anti-aircraft firepower and extremely fast speed!
Because this kind of battleship is not designed for naval warfare, the concerns of various countries are not a problem for Hans at all. Their production restrictions only depend on Hans’ own aircraft carriers!
“The new aircraft carrier is already being designed. It is expected to be completed tomorrow. If all goes well, construction will begin in 1927, it will be launched in 1928, and we will have our own mother battle group in 1929!”
Mainz bought a full set of design drawings and production technology for the Chinese aircraft carrier from the system. He has now handed these design drawings to Hans’ shipyard, asking them to study them and help them learn from them so as to train Hans’ own aircraft carrier designers!
These messages are top secret, but Mainz still revealed them to Navy Minister Dönitz.
“Great! Once the aircraft carrier is launched, we can conduct ocean-going combat training!”
Hans has no overseas colonies, so it rarely conducts ocean-going combat training. The reason is very simple. If they run too far, the logistics supply will not keep up, so the fleet can’t sail far at all!
After all, when going out to sea for training, you can’t always stop at other countries’ ports for supplies, right?
This is not a diplomatic visit. Others may not be willing to let your warships dock. After all, Hans’s warships are still quite deterrent!
“Your words reminded me that if we are going to fight in the ocean, it is better to be equipped with some special supply ships!”
There is no such concept as comprehensive supply ships in this era.
When warships of various countries go to sea, they will indeed be accompanied by some support ships, such as the coal supply ships in the past, the oil supply ships now, as well as ammunition ships that transport weapons and ammunition, and food supply ships that transport daily necessities and food.
When a fleet sets sail, if the sailing distance is too far, then they will be accompanied by a large group of supply ships for various purposes, which are dedicated to providing supplies for the fleet.
Most of these supply ships do not have combat capabilities and their own speed is relatively slow, so they will cause a lot of drag on the entire fleet, and there are too many types of supply ships, resulting in inefficient supply. The efficiency is very low, and a lot of time is wasted, which will greatly reduce the combat efficiency of the fleet, and will also waste too much time during replenishment, thus giving the enemy an opportunity to take advantage!
In order to solve this problem, the navies of various countries in later generations began to design multi-purpose comprehensive supply ships.
This type of supply ship is specially designed and has large supply gantries, cantilever cranes, cranes, and special hoses for oil replenishment, etc., which are convenient for rapid replenishment.
With these equipment, the comprehensive supply ship can replenish fuel, weapons and ammunition, daily necessities, food, vegetables and other living supplies to the warship at one time!
Moreover, the space on the comprehensive supply ship is large, and a part of the cabin can be reserved for modification. It is equipped as a field hospital to facilitate the treatment of injured soldiers and provide them with timely rescue.
In addition, there are refrigerators on the supply ship to store meat, ammunition, poultry products and some vegetable products, so that soldiers can enjoy better diet at sea. This is very helpful for improving the morale of sailors and maintaining high combat effectiveness!
In general, although the comprehensive supply ship cannot directly participate in the battle, it is a necessary force to ensure the logistics of the fleet. In the future, if the fleets of various countries have a little more warships or are going on a long journey, they basically have to bring one or even more comprehensive supply ships!
Speaking of which, the world’s first truly comprehensive supply ship The comprehensive supply ship was what the mustache had made before World War II. This thing didn’t help Hans’ navy much during the war, but it was borrowed by the navy of the British Empire and the Eagle Sauce, and then developed by them, and gradually became the standard configuration of the navies of various countries in the future!
Dönitz was stunned for a moment. He didn’t expect Mainz to attach so much importance to the logistics supply of the navy.
However, this kind of attention is a good thing for them. After all, generals with actual combat experience know the truth that food and grass must be sent before the three armies move.
Before obtaining enough overseas colonies or military bases, if Hans’s navy wants to sail far, it must rely on these comprehensive supply ships!
“Mr. President, how big a supply ship do you plan to build?”
Mainz thought about it. To meet the combat needs of Bismarck-class battleships and Midway-class aircraft carriers, plus there are seven or eight other warships in an aircraft carrier battle group, once these warships start moving, the fuel consumption alone is very alarming. A Bismarck will consume more than 600 tons of fuel at a time when it is fully fueled, and two Bismarcks will consume more than 1,000 tons of fuel in total!
Considering the consumption of weapons, ammunition, daily necessities and food, the capacity of the supply ship must be at least 30,000 tons. In this way, the tonnage of a comprehensive supply ship cannot be less than 4 tons, which belongs to the category of large supply ships.
Mainz likes to leave a little redundancy when doing things, so he directly raised the standard a bit:”Just build a 55,000-ton supply ship. In this way, a supply ship can meet the combat needs of an aircraft carrier battle group!”