Romanian Eagle

But when the Prime Minister arrived at the palace, there was someone faster than him.

"Your Majesty, this matter has a great impact on our navy."

The one who was talking was Lieutenant General Lomodan, and it must be very important for him to come to Edel quickly. This is indeed the case. The reason for Lieutenant General Lomodan to come is that the Italian side withdrew their aid personnel, and the answer was that the Italian side needed to use these people.

Originally, Lieutenant General Lomodan did not have any doubts about this. After all, these Italian technicians have been in Romania for several years, and they have also made great contributions to the construction of the Romanian battleship Mircea. However, when entertaining these technicians who were going to return to China, something happened that made Lieutenant General Lomodan feel that he should pay attention. That is, someone was drunk and said that this time they returned to China to design a new type of battleship to achieve the purpose of defending the Italian transport line.

Lieutenant General Lomodan felt that this matter needed to be reported to Eder to know that, no matter how important it was to Romania, at least it would have a profound impact on the balance of the Mediterranean. ,

So when Edel heard Lomodan's words, he finally sighed in his heart. "The impact of developing Libyan oil is finally here."

In fact, the development of Libyan oil, the impact is far more than that.

In recent years, because of the development of Libyan oil, Italy's domestic economy has recovered rapidly. Its dependence on oil extraction and refining and the related chemical industry has made the Italian economy grow gratifying in recent years. The refinery it built in Genoa and the chemical plants in Milan and Turin have allowed Italian-related industries to flourish.

As the most direct evidence, Italy used to have an annual outflow of about 200,000 people. After Libya's oil development, the annual outflow dropped sharply to 10,000 or 20,000 people. If the economy is not good, people have to go abroad to make a living. If the economic conditions are good, who would be willing to leave the familiar environment and go to a strange place to fight.

And not only does Libyan oil cost Italy a lot of money (Romania suffers), but the excess oil is exported to other countries in exchange for profit.

So even the arrival of the economic crisis has made Italy a lot better at present. Therefore, the Italian government, which has spare cash in its hands, urgently needs to defend its vital Libyan oil.

At present, the navy owned by Italy obviously does not have an advantage over the French. The Italian government is naturally dissatisfied with the performance of its opponent, which is lagging behind the imaginary enemy France. (As an aside, the two battleships don't feel very different, and both are pre-war dreadnoughts.)

Since you are not satisfied,

Then you need to build new battleships to compete with France. Therefore, in order to adapt to the new situation of Italy's demand for the Mediterranean Sea, the task of building a new class of battleships was born under such a situation. This has both military and political interests. Mussolini, who is currently in charge of the Italian government, also needs to build new battleships to satisfy the people's self-confidence in the country and to demonstrate his ability to govern.

Therefore, this shipbuilding plan is completely built to meet the needs of the whole country. Of course, according to the Washington Naval Treaty, Italy also has enough tonnage of the main battleship to use. It should be known that the current Italian four-year-old battleship is less than 100,000 tons, and there are enough The tonnage is used by Italy, and the only factor that affects its construction is the issue of funding. The development of Libyan oil has made up for this shortcoming.

So this time Italy plans to build a first-class battleship that crushes its opponents, and this requires the return of technicians who are currently helping Romania build ships. Because these technicians are too helpful to Italian shipbuilding. No matter what aspect it is, it is a huge help to Italy's shipbuilding career.

Since it is an Italian ambition, the battleship built this time must also be very outstanding.

This is where Italy needs to thank Edel.

Because of its participation in the development and construction of the battleship Mircia, Italy has full confidence in building a super battleship equipped with 380MM naval guns. Many of the plans designed by the Italian side of this class of battleships refer to the design on the Mircia. Such as the long forecastle, the underwater protection of the cylindrical structure, etc., but the most important thing is that the 380MM50-caliber naval gun will also serve as the main gun of the Italian battleship of this class.

As a 380mm50-caliber naval gun jointly developed by the three countries, its gun body is a movable barrel structure. From the inside to the outside, it is an integral inner bore tube, which is divided into two partial liner reinforcement layers, that is, two local reinforcement layers covering the medicine chamber and the rear half of the orientation part and a reinforcement layer in the front of the inner bore. The outermost layer is a movable quilt covering about 72% of the total length of the gun body.

There is a tight hoop structure with an outer diameter of 610 mm at the muzzle. The breech is attached to the barrel with a connecting ring. The tail of the gun is threaded, with 6 air-tight partition threads. The latch body is driven by a hydraulic-pneumatic mechanism to open and close semi-automatically, and the action cycle is 3.5 seconds. Among them, the breech of the left gun of the turret is opened to the left, and the other two guns are switched in the opposite direction. There are 4 cylinder-type liquid-gas recuperators evenly arranged around the gun tail, and the normal recoil distance is 1 meter. Each turret is equipped with 222 rounds of ammunition, including 195 rounds of armor-piercing rounds and 57 rounds of grenades.

The main artillery body has a total weight of 102.4 tons, a total length of 19581 mm, a barrel length of 19000 mm/L50.0, a length of 15850 mm for the rifled part, a length of 3071 mm for the medicine chamber, and a volume of 456.216 liters. The surface of the inner bore is engraved with 96 equal right-handed rifling, the depth of the negative line is 3.1 mm, the width of 8.458 mm, and the width of the positive line is 4.0 mm; .

There are hooded armor-piercing bullets and grenades. The armor-piercing bullet is 1.699 meters long and weighs 885 kilograms. The bottom charge is 88 kilograms of TNT. The propellant is packed in 6 packs with a total weight of 271.7 kg. The normal use of the artillery chamber pressure is 320 MPa, and the initial velocity of the armor-piercing projectile is 830-850 m/s. Its inner bore has a service life of 210-230 rounds and a maximum range of 41,800 meters.

This is also the reason why Italy needs to choose this gun. The main gun developed in combination with the strength of the three countries is so powerful that Italy is reluctant to re-develop it after idle.

Since this class of battleships uses 380 caliber main guns, it will not be bad in other aspects. The current tentatively called Class B battleship has a design on paper of 35,000 tons and is equipped with nine 380-caliber main guns (the first two and the last layout).

The maximum horsepower reaches 12,500 horsepower. The maximum speed is 29 knots, and it is expected to carry 1,978 officers and soldiers.

And in order to show the importance Italy attaches to the navy, the class will be built with two barrels.