Magic Underachiever

The benefits of a hovercraft are obvious. It can float on the sea surface, and by reducing fluid resistance, it can reach a speed far exceeding that of ordinary surface ships.

Also because there is no need to consider the impact of fluid resistance too much, the hovercraft can be designed in a flat direction, making it more stable than traditional ships in wind and waves.

The design difficulty is reduced. When traditional warships need to reasonably match the weight to maintain the balance of the hull due to the width of the hull, and need to carefully calculate every space, the cushion-type warship is much more tolerant to the designer.

Its high fault tolerance rate is very suitable for ship designers of Daliang's level.

In addition, the cushion-type warship is fast and suspended above the sea surface. Torpedoes and most mines are not dangerous to the cushion-type warship. The cushion-type warship makes little noise when sailing, and the low hull is easy to hide. It is difficult for submarines to find it, and even if they find it... Submarines with torpedoes as their main weapon can only stare at this type of warship.

Therefore, the cushion-type warship can be competent for multiple tasks such as anti-submarine, mine clearance, reconnaissance, sneak attacks, etc., which are exactly the functions of light frigates.

Finally, the cushion-type warship has an advantage that no other warship has, which is that it can carry out landing operations. After adding pure water, the cushion-type warship can directly drive onto the flat land. A thousand-ton warship, whether as a firepower platform or to transport combat units, is enough to reverse the local situation.

At this tonnage, the indicators of the cushion-type warship are superior to those of traditional warships of the same level. The only shortcoming is that its deck area is larger than that of traditional light frigates, which is easy to be hit by straddle fire. But light frigates mainly rely on speed to make a living, and the many advantages of the cushion-type warship are enough to make people ignore its disadvantages.

After determining the power of the new light frigate he was going to design, Da Liang began to draw the design of the warship on the drawing.

Keel laying.

Next is the watertight compartment... It does not touch the water surface during navigation and combat, so the complex design of the watertight compartment can be omitted.

Add a rubber skirt to seal the steam around the bottom of the ship...

The forward power system uses...the propeller on the airship, and you can directly place an order with the corresponding airship manufacturer.

Then there are various functional cabins, and then seal the deck.

The weapon module on the deck?

At this time, Daliang suddenly realized that he didn't know what weapons the Empire had that were suitable for carrying on this light frigate. So...the deck will be empty, anyway, there is enough space on the upper floor, and when the time comes, you can install whatever you want according to the needs of the Empire.

Pipeline layout?

There is no weapon system, so of course there is no need to lay the corresponding pipelines. Anyway, there is enough internal space, so first get the power system done and get the ship moving. The rest...wait until you are sure that the equipment on the deck and in the hull is needed, then do it.

So Daliang, with limited skills, really designed a "battleship" with an engine and a hull, just as Marquis Whitehead and Anne expected.

Fortunately, Daliang's design level can still be relied on for a simple hull, at least there is no need to worry about water ingress.

It took Daliang an entire afternoon to design this thousand-ton light frigate. This is probably the warship with the shortest design time in the history of warship design in this world.

The remaining thing is how to build it. The Black Fire Company shipyard has not built it yet.

This is not difficult for Daliang.

Without a shipyard, it can be built in the steel plant. Anyway, there are not many things, and the hull is simple and does not have much technical content. After the steel is produced in the blast furnace, it is directly forged according to the corresponding hull component size, and then the keel is assembled and welded to the hull.

It is simple and crude, and no ship workers are needed, but steel workers can complete it. After the construction is completed on land, it can be launched into the water.

Someone was sent to send the design drawings of the light frigate to the steel plant for people to manufacture it as soon as possible. Daliang looked through the information of the world's ironclad ships.

Light frigates can adopt air cushion power design, but no matter how large the warship is, this kind of unconventional idea can no longer be adopted. Not only because the current air cushion engine cannot lift large warships of thousands of tons or tens of thousands of tons, but also because large warships begin to pay attention to defense and firepower.

The air cushion boat floats on the water surface. While reducing water resistance, it also cannot use water to absorb the reaction force generated by heavy artillery firing. The decisive battle at sea still relies on strong ships and powerful guns.

The light frigate is just a stepping stone for Daliang to get involved in the shipbuilding industry. If there is a good warship design, it can attract the attention of excellent ship designers, and thus invite excellent ship designers to their own shipyard.

If you can get the order from the Flemish Empire Navy, you can establish the credibility of the Black Fire Shipyard, and the warships designed by the Black Fire Shipyard will attract more attention in the future.

The more ships are built, the greater the ship design capabilities will be.

The Great Tomb wants to build a combat platform for space operations, and first understand the functions and designs of surface ships.

At this time, the Great Tomb has collected a lot of ship design information, most of which were stolen from some well-known shipyards. There are many battleships in service, and some are still on the drawing board.

Each battleship drawing is much more complicated than the light frigate that Daliang just designed. In addition to the main drawing, there are also detailed drawings of every cabin and module. These are all precious treasures, and throwing out any one of them may trigger a war.

What Daliang is doing now is to supplement his knowledge of ship design, and then complete the design concept of a space combat platform based on the magic alchemy technology that is currently available in the Great Tomb and will appear in the future.

This is a weapon for his own use, and Daliang dare not play it as if he were designing a light frigate.

Every detail must be handled with extreme caution.

When Daliang was in seclusion to study warship design. The Lux Steel Plant completed the transformation of steelmaking equipment based on the steelmaking technology provided by the Scarab Company, and the special materials required for special steel alloys were also secretly purchased.

In the steelmaking blast furnace workshop specially built for the production of special steel, magic detection devices monitor every corner of the workshop. All the workers working here are personally selected by Mr. Lux, and at least three generations have been workers at the Lux Steel Plant and have no criminal record.

The outside of the workshop is also heavily guarded, and any personnel and goods entering and leaving must be subject to the most stringent inspection. After get off work, workers must wash their entire body and cannot take any powder out of the workshop.

The secret here is a wealth that cannot be measured by money. Lux cannot let anyone know the smelting process and raw material formula of special steel.

The molten steel flowing out of the blast furnace turned the entire workshop red.

Lux endured the high temperature in the blast furnace workshop, and waited nervously for the engineer to test the performance data of the special steel just made.

Elisa stood beside Lux, looking at the primitive steelmaking plant, thinking that she had tried her best to find the smelting process of special steel that could be made by this low-level blast furnace. Black Fire Company could not make better steel with the same equipment.