Chapter 390: Isn't it just copying? I will too!

"In any case, we must succeed this time! Even if we lose money, we can't throw away this huge market!" Gustav Krupp, the major shareholder of the Royal William Shipyard and the back office owner of Wigena, was hearing this. After this incident, he fell into a long silence. For half an hour, he was weighing the pros and cons and thinking about how to do this business!

  Krupp is not playing boats after all. The major shipyards in Germany have built ships according to the drawings of the Bavarian Ship Design Bureau. But can Krupp give up? Obviously impossible! The construction of the German navy has begun, which has become a well-known secret among the top German leaders. The big construction this time is not the original kind of small trouble! The displacement of a battleship is directly more than 20,000 tons! The cost is over 2 million pounds! One can top three ships! What if the profit margin is low? The total amount is huge!

  According to the information disclosed by senior insiders of the navy, in the recent 5-year plan of the German navy, the high seas fleet will serve 7 super warships! Even if the construction of only three battleships can fall into their own hands, that would be 130 million marks! Even 20% of the profits are more than 26 million! And the cost of auxiliary battleships such as light cruisers has not been calculated. How can the military industry group headed by Krupp give up on such a large business? Even if you can't make any money this time, you must first take the market!

   "But our large cruiser design plan has been excluded, and the battleship plan has to be greatly changed. We need time, and the construction profit will be suppressed very low." Wegener said with some embarrassment.

  "Have you seen the plan of the Bavarian Design Bureau?" Krupp thought for a while and asked.

"Through the help of the internal personnel of the Navy Department, we have seen some of their designs. I have to say that they have done very well in armor defense. The hull defense volume is not very large, but the core area can ensure absolute safety. The turret, gun mount and The commanding tower and other parts are even more tightly defensive!" Although he is a competitor, his integrity as a designer still allows him to evaluate his opponent's design fairly.

   "That's good, our battleship defense standards are changed according to theirs!" Krupp said.

"But that will cause the tonnage to rise. Their side-string defense weight is not much higher than ours, because their armor belts will be shorter, and the layout of the five artillery in our plan B will result in longer armor belts. The most important thing is that their level armor is very thick. After improvement, the gross tonnage of our warship will be similar to them, the cost will rise, and the economic advantage will no longer exist." Wigener said hurriedly.

   "We can not make money this time." Krupp said after thinking for a moment. "Even if our price is comparable to that of the other party, we use a twin turret, which is simpler in structure, less technically difficult, and better for walking. The actual situation of our 10 guns is not worse than that of the other side. Great opportunity to choose us."

  Since the boss has decided, Wigener can only execute it. The Royal William Shipyard finally abandoned Plan A in the battleship plan, and made every effort to improve Plan B. This battleship can be seen as a replica of the King-class battleship in history. The five turrets are arranged on the center axis. The thickness of the armor belt is appropriately weakened.

   Wigner learned very thoroughly. He almost designed the entire battleship in accordance with the Bavarian defense system. The main armor belt of the sidestring is 4.8 meters high. The thickness of 270MM is inclined 15 degrees. The armor height of 270mm thickness is 3.5 meters. 170MM weakened below the waterline. The horizontal armor is connected to the upper part of the main armor belt, with a thickness of 75mm. The upper armor belt is 150 to 200 mm. The armor belt at the beginning and end is weakened to 80MM. Both the front of the turret and the mount are 350MM.

  The underwater defense system also adds an empty warehouse, adopting an air-liquid-air three-layer cabin layout, and the defense depth reaches about 3.5 meters. On the whole, the vertical defense of this warship is close to that of the king in history. The horizontal defense and underwater defense go beyond the latter. Under the influence of the traveler, the level of German designers has "essentially" improved!

  After such a design, the total tonnage of the warship has risen to 24,000 tons! The cost is almost the same as the Bavarian plan. It reached around 2.18 million pounds. This time Wigener learned the lessons, and the design of the Royal William Shipyard was written in great detail, especially in terms of defense. After reporting it to the Kaiser through Tirpitz's channel, the emperor smiled helplessly at the "Bavarian" defense. But still expressed satisfaction with this plan.

  The same plan was also given to the prince. Seeing this Dongdong who almost completely "plagiarized" his own design ideas, the prince was not angry. Cleanly signed his name in the preliminary review, the battlecruiser plan, the Kaiser has promised to adopt the Bavarian plan. And if the first battleship is not unexpected, it should be this plan. And the construction work has nothing to do with me.

  But it doesn’t matter, because the army expansion plan in the past five years will build a total of 7 battleships. The first battleship and the first battlecruiser are just testing the water~www.wuxiaspot.com~ there are 5 more! After the primaries, Bavaria competed with each other for the contracts of the next five warships!

  Whether it is the Royal Shipyard of Wilhelm, the Kingdom of Bavaria or the Kaiser, they are very satisfied with the current situation. They are all confident and believe that this matter will proceed according to their wishes. There are still many details on the order plan for the next five battleships that have not been finalized, such as the ratio of battleships to battlecruisers, and the issue of insufficient shipbuilding funding.

  The former is that the German Navy’s internal strategy has not yet been finalized. The detailed point is the question of whether to build two battlecruisers or build one! As for the latter, it was because the original plan for the seven warships was based on the quotation of the Royal William Shipyard. Now, as everyone’s quotations have increased, a certain loophole has appeared in funding. Not too big, hundreds of thousands of pounds...

"Okay, don't worry about these things for now. The final plan for the next five warships is about to be finalized. I have clearly told Rupresit that if their plan does not have an overwhelming advantage, we will choose Wei Genna’s plan. From the current point of view, our choice must be the latter."

   "Think about it, the plan of 7 warships, Bavaria can only get 1 or 2 this time. I think the prince must be in a very good mood now! Haha!" The Kaiser smiled triumphantly. But he seems to have forgotten a word, that is, before the moment when things really end, everything is possible!

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