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The most secret part of SPN's huge office center is still underground. After everyone came to the battleship design area located more than 30 meters underground, they finally felt that their eyes suddenly opened up. Several office areas surrounded a huge exhibition hall in the center.

When many staff members saw Zhang Shusheng coming, they saluted and left quickly. The staff here include senior scientific and technological talents, robots, and of course the tribesmen brought by Hatton.

Everyone came to the middle of the hall and saw two huge covered objects.

"Open model No. 1 first."

With a beeping sound, the protective cover on the model opened, and a battleship model made with a scale of 200:1 appeared in front of us.[

This model is 15 meters long, 5 meters wide and 4 meters high.

Because the battleship model is a real model, every part is scaled down. The pure black battleship model even has a golden dragon flag pattern on it.

Although it is just a model, it can still be seen that this is a ferocious giant ship.

The ferocious muzzle, the wild and unruly appearance, the domineering weapon ports, and even some space fighter models are displayed on the side.

"This Shenlong-class battleship was developed based on a secret drawing provided by His Majesty. Its strategic positioning is to serve as the main battleship of our army for a long period of time in the future.

This model is built in 200:1 scale.

The Shenlong-class battleship named by His Majesty himself is actually 3,000 meters long, 1,000 meters wide, and 800 meters high. If we look at the battleship size alone, our battleship has exceeded the universal 2,000-2,500-meter level and is an entry-level super battleship. .”

When Hatton said this, he paused slightly.

Jiang Baili praised, "The 3,000-meter-long battleship is almost 500 to 1,000 meters longer than our current G-type standard battleship. It is really an amazing improvement."

Everyone also nodded. They all knew that it was very difficult to build a larger battleship. For example, a 200-ton ship and a 2,000-ton ship were completely different.

Zhang Shusheng said, "Now in the entire southwest star field, the common battleships are all G-type standard models. This kind of battleship can bully low-level battleships. If you meet an equal opponent, you can only say who has more battleships. It's purely War of attrition.

Our foundation is weak and we cannot afford the expenditure, so we can only take the route of elite troops and combine them with a certain number."

Hatton: "Yes, in the field of battleship command, there is a relatively recognized theory. In an encounter between two fleets with the same equipment level, generally speaking, if the level of victory, defeat and battle damage is 50 to 50, the quality of the commander and officers and soldiers must be taken into consideration. , which can be increased to the highest battle loss ratio of 3 to 7.

When we design this kind of battleship, while also improving the training and actual combat level of battleship officers and soldiers, our goal is this 3:7 battle loss ratio."

Zhang Shusheng walked to the battleship and stroked the battleship, which was full of power and visual impact.

The blueprint prototype of this battleship is actually a super battleship of a third-level civilization.

Different from the second-level civilization, some countries in the late third-level civilization can build this kind of entry-level super battleship. The hull exceeds 3,000 meters, has extremely powerful firepower and high speed. The biggest disadvantage is that it consumes a lot of energy.

Like the second-level civilization, the third-level civilization also has its own universal battleship standard, the F-level battleship.

F-class battleships generally maintain a length of about 2,500 to 3,000 meters in terms of captain length. Their firepower and armor, speed and flexibility have been enhanced, but they can only be regarded as conventional battleships.[

Between level three civilizations, a war often consumes hundreds of battleships. As the battle damage ratio becomes higher and higher, one type has stronger firepower, stronger armor, faster speed and stronger energy shield.

Battleships have become the favorite of many powerful countries.

The super battleship was born out of this consideration.

However, this kind of battleship is a big consumer of energy blocks, and the cost is also very high. Many third-level civilizations are also miserable to manufacture, and they are often just used as the country's most elite fleet to retain a strategic deterrent.

However, this is not a concern for the Chinese Empire.

The main thing is to take the route of elite soldiers, and the energy ore production is very rich, so there is no pressure on the prodigal.

"However, the most powerful thing about this battleship is its firepower, protection capabilities and speed."

Hatton continued, "As a high-end main battleship, it is actually an entry-level super battleship. Each battleship is equipped with two main guns, 20 secondary guns, and 55 small guns.

The two main guns provide it with the firepower equivalent to two conventional battleships, while the 20 secondary guns are very effective in dealing with cruisers and other ships.

Its 55 small cannons are equipped with a small intelligent brain, which allows it to defend against fighters and missiles when faced with a saturated attack by space fighters, and its self-defense capabilities are significantly improved."

Generally, G-type battleships are only equipped with one main gun. The main reason is that the main gun's firepower is very fierce and the supporting components are huge. In addition, the requirements for the overall energy system of the battleship are particularly high. A battleship equipped with one main gun is enough.

Tried my best.

You must know that the main gun is very powerful. A G-type battleship with a 100-degree energy shield turned on can only resist 3 to 4 guns at most. If the energy shield is not fully opened, it may be possible to destroy a battleship with 2 guns.

The contradictory relationship is vividly reflected here. The battleship does everything possible to increase the sharpness of the Mao, but the development of energy cover and hull strength is relatively lagging behind. For a long time, low-level civilizations have had this consumption pattern.

A battleship cannot withstand a fight, but it should make every effort to develop its own strengths and destroy the opponent.

"Offense is indeed the best defense, but it often means that wars can easily turn into wars of attrition, dragging down the progress of one's own civilization."

Zhang Shusheng lamented that he didn’t know who caused this pattern. Maybe it was one or more third-level civilization countries that deliberately created this pattern in order to restrict the development of civilization below.

For example, advanced civilizations strictly control the technologies related to energy shields and battleship armors, but they sell the technologies related to main guns generously.

As a result, a large number of secondary civilizations were created, and even powerful countries like the Longshan Empire were dragged into the quagmire of a war of attrition.

Zhang Shusheng didn't want to take such a path at all. He didn't need to go to other civilizations to obtain technology, buy materials and blueprints. Everything was trapped by others.

If you want to leapfrog a level and challenge civilization, it is impossible to succeed without a little bit of special care.

Therefore, under this situation, the design of the Shenlong-class battleship was introduced. It was based on a very successful entry-level super battleship. Based on the need to fight against second-level civilization, some requirements were lowered and some were raised. It is considered that

Under the auspices of Hatton, using the powerful brain and more and more advanced scientific talents in the empire to develop the brain domain, the entire design took more than a year, but was completed relatively successfully.

During this period, Zhang Shusheng also personally participated in several major research points.

"Currently, although the secondary civilizations in the Southwest Star Region have access to some newer main gun technologies, their overall warship technology is very backward.[

This Shenlong-class battleship, in addition to adopting advanced main gun technology, also draws on the energy shield technology of the third-level civilization. Compared with the G-type battleship, the charging efficiency is increased by 30%, and the armor value is increased by 15

%.The overall defense capability is increased by nearly 50%.

Due to the improvement of the energy supply system, its combat speed has reached 05 times the speed of light, and its maximum speed has reached 13 times the speed of light. This is a very remarkable progress."

As Hatton explained, everyone couldn't help but gasp in secret.

The combat speed of 05 light years is equivalent to 15 times the combat speed of a G-type battleship. The maximum speed of 13 times the speed of light is comparable to the speed of a cruiser. At this speed, once the battle is unfavorable, it is very difficult to escape at full speed.

Advantageous.

Zhang Shusheng: "Such a Shenlong-class battleship is equivalent to about 25 G-class battleships. Once our Shenlong-class battleships form a fleet for combat, the increase in combat effectiveness will be even more amazing."

After everyone listened, they were silent for a moment. Zhou Guolai finally asked a very crucial question.

"Your Majesty, the cost of building such a battleship must be very expensive, right?"

Zhou Guolai said with some worry that the stuff was good, and he believed that Your Majesty would be able to produce such a warship. However, if the cost was too high, and His Majesty asked for too much production, it would probably affect the economic development of the empire.

When it came to the cost, everyone present stared at Zhang Shusheng.

This is the biggest problem. No matter how good the battleship is, even if it can be produced by building and selling at the same time, it will still take a long time.

Zhang Shusheng stretched out two fingers and shook them.

2 billion?

Several people couldn't help but think that 200 million yuan should be impossible. According to the current prices in the empire, building a 500-meter-class spaceship would cost 2 billion new yuan. If it is such a 3000-meter-class entry-level super battleship, 20 billion yuan is estimated to be too much.

It may not be enough. Is it 200 billion?

Zhang Shusheng said with a smile: "The cost of building this kind of super battleship, excluding medicine, we estimate that the entire battleship system is about 5 million cosmic coins per unit."

As soon as these words were spoken, the senior officials present couldn't help but take a breath of air. A battleship costing 5 million cosmic coins is expensive, right? Compared to its performance, it is already very cheap.

But if we say it's not expensive, just building 20 ships will cost 100 million cosmic coins, which is a sky-high price.

Jiang Baili said excitedly and worriedly, "Your Majesty, based on this price, the cost of building a ship is 5 million cosmic coins. If a super battleship fleet is configured according to 20 Shenlong battleships, it will be 100 million cosmic coins, including other

The additional equipment and configuration will probably require an investment of more than 1.5 billion universe coins."

Zhang Shusheng nodded, this is true, "There is nothing we can do about it. The cost of building the Shenlong-class battleship is still high. For this 5 million-level cost, we have greatly simplified the internal facilities. For example, some parts of the internal facilities are even made of stainless steel.

Manufacturing, dormitory areas, and living areas also reduce costs as much as possible, and use good steel on the blade."

In order to control costs, during the design, we tried to save as much money as possible without affecting the performance of the battleship, such as ladders, doors, floors, tables and chairs, materials in non-core internal parts, etc.

Be as cheap as possible and reduce unnecessary costs to a minimum.
Chapter completed!