Germanic Empire: please call me William III

In 1711, the construction plan of the new capital ship of the Germanic Imperial Navy was demonstrated and construction began.

It was the second battlecruiser built by the Germanic Empire and was named the ‘Deflinger class’ battlecruiser.

Compared with the first germanic battlecruiser, the “Moltke class” battlecruiser, the “Deflinger class” battlecruiser is larger, more fierce, and the armor and defense have also been significantly improved.

Compared to the other time and space ‘Deflinger class’ battlecruiser, it is much more ferocious.

‘Deflinger class’ battlecruiser, ‘Deflinger class’ battlecruiser, standard displacement of 35,000 tons, full load displacement of 39,000 tons, equipped with 24 large fuel boilers and four large steam turbines, four-axis propulsion, maximum speed of 28 knots. It is equipped with three triple 50 times caliber 380 mm main guns and six twin 150 mm secondary guns. 4 twin 105 mm rapid-fire guns. 12 x 88 mm single-mounted rapid-fire guns. 16 x 40 mm single-mounted rapid-fire guns. The side port waterline armor, the main turret frontal armor and the commander tower armor thickness were 380 mm new armor steel, and the deck armor was 65 mm.

This class of battlecruisers is definitely the most powerful battlecruiser in the world. In terms of main armor thickness, it is almost the same as the Caesar-class battleships and the King-class battleships. However, the Deflinger class battlecruisers remained the focus of defense, reinforcing the defense of key parts such as turrets, command towers, power compartments, and ammunition silos. Waterline defenses have also been reinforced. However, compared to the armor of other parts before, it is very weak.

Fortunately, as long as the defense of the key parts is strong enough, it can withstand the fierce attack of the enemy in the naval battle. Then, even if the battleship is hit, it can continue to survive, and even if it does not have too much impact on the performance of the battleship.

Germanic battleships and battlecruisers were designed with the concept in mind. Battlecruisers, in particular, attach great importance to this concept.

The ‘Deflinger-class’ battlecruisers will also be built with four, namely the first ship ‘Deflinger’ battlecruiser, the second ship ‘Rutsov’ battlecruiser, the third ship ‘Tirpitz’ battlecruiser and the fourth ship ‘Saidlitz’ battlecruiser.

The start of construction of the Deflinger class of battlecruisers brought the number of battleships and battlecruisers already in service and under construction in the Germanic Empire to 17 and 8. Such strength is already quite strong.

Even in terms of numbers, there is no advantage over the Imperial Royal Navy that never sets.

However, in terms of single-ship performance, the capital ships of the Germanic Imperial Navy are far above the Imperial Royal Navy. In the future, if war breaks out. Then, the advantages of the Germanic imperial navy would be greater and more pronounced.

At the same time, the Germanic Imperial Navy is actively accumulating technology to ensure that next year it can successfully start construction of the fifth class of battleships, that is, the “Bavarian class” battleships that have long been planned. This class of battleships will have a larger tonnage and thicker defenses. On top of that, the main gun will be 410 mm.

This is definitely the largest caliber of the main gun of this era, and it is also the most powerful main gun.

Once the Germanic Empire served four or even eight battleships of this rank, it would give the Germanic Empire a huge advantage in future wars.

Even if the sun does not set on the Imperial Royal Navy, it is no match for the Germanic Imperial Navy.

Once the war began, the Germanic Imperial Navy would make the Imperial Navy pay a terrible price.

As for the other countries, whether they were lighthouse countries or eastern empires, or Gaul or Caesar kingdoms, they could not compare with the Germanic empire at all.

If the Lighthouse Nation and the Eastern Empire are still slightly threatening. Then the Kingdom of Gaul and Caesar would be almost completely without threat.

The naval arms race is not affordable for any country, and the kingdoms of Gaul and Caesar have fallen behind.

Even the Eastern Empire was very laborious, almost raising the strength of the whole country to tighten the belt of the pants and develop the navy.

In contrast, only the Empire of the Rising Sun and the Lighthouse Nation are at ease.

Therefore, if the Germanic Imperial Navy wanted to maintain its superiority and win the naval battles in the future, it had to improve its strength as much as possible, which was the most important thing.

For future naval battles, Auguste attaches great importance to it, which is not only related to whether the Germanic Empire can break the sea blockade of the Sunless Empire, but also whether the Germanic Empire can win future wars.

It can be said that the army was the cornerstone of the Germanic Empire’s domination of Europe. The navy was the main force of the Germanic Empire to seize world hegemony.

In another time and space, the Germanic Empire could not afford to vigorously develop the navy and army at the same time.

However, in this space-time, thanks to the huge wealth excavated from the Glasberg gold mine, the military strength of the Germanic Empire has been in a soaring stage.