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People in the Navy placed the order directly after watching the test firing of the machine gun.

Not only prepare to equip the Marine Corps, but more importantly, equip the battleship!

Because the people in the navy have carefully calculated that in close combat, it is much cheaper to use a machine gun than a small-caliber rapid-fire gun, let alone a medium-to-large-caliber naval gun.

A random round of medium and large caliber shells costs dozens or hundreds of Tang Yuan, and even a 75mm shell costs more than ten Tang Yuan per round. Moreover, the barrels of these artillery pieces have a lifespan. It is very expensive, and it is easy to use against close-range targets of one thousand and several hundred meters. Although bullets are also expensive, they are still cheaper than artillery shells!

Another very important point is that although there are many warships in the Datang Navy today, they are not many in the world. For example, those who have been stationed in the Thames for a long time are actually just a small-tonnage inland river gunboat. Although this gunboat is equipped with a 75mm gun and a 30mm small-caliber rapid-fire gun, the firepower is relatively insufficient. If the natives rush over in a swarm, relying only on the firepower of a gunboat will be enough.

If it can be equipped with a machine gun, then at close range, the firepower can be greatly enhanced, and when necessary, it can be directly moved off the ship for the marines to use.

The Marine Corps of the Navy is also scattered and stationed. There are only dozens or hundreds of people in many places. When necessary, it also needs the support of this kind of intensive firepower. Therefore, the Navy intends to equip the warships with this kind of machine guns, as well as the Marine Corps equipment. Some.

As for the problem of high ammunition consumption, the navy thinks it can be tolerated. No matter how expensive bullets are, they are no more expensive than shells!

Moreover, there are actually very few combat missions in the navy. Needless to say, there are basically no warships who dare to attack Datang's warships. The opponent's ship sank.

As for the Marine Corps, although the Marine Corps is stationed all over the world, they generally guard the naval bases and the embassy area. In fact, they rarely fight on weekdays, but the guys in the army are causing trouble all over the world.

After the navy ordered the machine gun, it was officially announced that the Datang Army, Navy and Guards began to equip machine guns on a large scale.

But whether it will be used after it is equipped depends on the specific situation. Anyway, the Army does not intend to use machine guns on a large scale.

The successful development of the two weapons, the machine gun and the mortar, as well as the subsequent equipment, are both an embarrassing situation faced by the Datang military at present.

Weapons are getting more and more advanced, but they are also getting more and more expensive and consume more and more.

But the problem is that the military does not have much urgent demand for these advanced weapons. Now Datang is still using the current old-fashioned rifled weapons to smash the world.

Machine guns and mortars can still be equipped on a large scale, like some other advanced weapons, and now the military does not even have the mind to purchase...

The new generation of battleships proposed by the Navy has been shouted for many years, and construction has not yet started.

Almost three years have passed since the battleship Ceylon with a standard displacement of 14,000 tons served in Xuanping for 40 years, but Datang has not commissioned a second new battleship.

Although there is still a battleship under construction, it is only a slightly modified and upgraded version of the battleship Ceylon, not a brand new design.

However, Datang is not saying that more advanced battleships cannot be built, but the navy does not want it.

What is currently under construction is the second ship of the Ceylon-class battleship, the South Africa.

But how much will the new battleship proposed by the Ministry of Warships last year cost?

Four million, Tang Yuan!

After seeing the design of this new type of warship, the high-level navy scolded the insanity. With the money, I might as well build a few more offshore gunboats.

What is the new type of warship that claims to cost 4 million Tang Yuan?

The tonnage is more than 17,000 tons, equipped with four 300mm forty times naval guns, four 230mm naval guns, twelve 150mm naval guns, and sixteen 75mm naval guns , Sixteen fifty-mm rapid-fire guns.

In addition, there is an incomparably thick advanced carburized armor, powerful enough to run at a speed of nineteen knots.

This data is powerful on paper, but does it work?

Useless!

For the Datang Navy, there is no essential difference between this thing and the Ceylon-class battleship, that is, the tonnage is larger, the firepower is stronger, the armor is thicker, and it runs faster, but there is still no essential difference.

But it is so much more expensive!

In this case, the Navy might as well continue to build Ceylon-class battleships. Don't worry, this second ship is estimated to be built for five or six years. After five or six years, the second ship will be commissioned, and then consider the issue of new battleships.

Not to mention battleships, not even armored cruisers are of much interest to the Navy.

The earliest Australian-class armored cruiser, when it first appeared, the Navy thought it was very good, able to fight and cheap, but later found out that it still can only stay at the dock as a museum...

Therefore, after only two were built, the third armored cruiser began. The navy asked to save money and strengthen the seaworthiness of the ocean. Therefore, the third armored cruiser was also the Egyptian-class armored cruiser, although there were more than 7,000 empty. Tons of displacement, but the firepower is not as good as the Australian class, and the protection is also very slag. The only thing worth mentioning is that with the advancement of the power system, the speed is faster, reaching a speed of 18 knots at atmospheric pressure.

In addition, the habitability is quite good, and the ocean endurance is also very good. At an economical cruising speed of ten knots, it can run 10,000 kilometers.

The most important thing is, is this thing cheap? It doesn't cost one million.

The cost of this battleship is generally concentrated in three major aspects: power, firepower and armor. The two key systems of firepower and armor have been weakened, can it be cheap!

At present, two Egyptian-class armored cruisers have been built, and one is under construction. The Navy is very satisfied with this thing, and plans to toss and toss in the future to see if it can reduce the cost and build two more ships.

Now the Navy has no interest in capital ships, but it is very concerned about cruisers and frigates, as well as offshore patrol ships, inland gunboats, and many have been built over the years.

But basically there is a standard, that is performance, especially the three major items of speed, firepower, and armor. It is enough to use the vacated tonnage to improve living life, improve airworthiness, improve endurance, and improve sustainability. combat capability.

The Navy is like this~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The Army is no exception. Haven’t you seen people still using the first-generation rear-loaded rifled guns? As for the advanced second-generation rear-loaded guns, the range is longer, and the Army is also Take a look, at most, it’s a little interesting to buy casually, but if you want to buy clothes on a large scale, don’t count on it.

Now the huge number of first-generation rear-mounted artillery are seriously over-capacity, change the fart!

Judging from the current status of the Datang military, there are only two possibilities for them to change to the latest weapons on a large scale.

One is the outbreak of a civil war, the other is an alien invasion!

No matter how you look at it, it is more likely that a civil war will break out, so the Army and Navy don't care about advanced equipment, but the Guards can't.

The founding philosophy of the Guards is to suppress the army and navy!

Therefore, many of the latest and expensive weapons and equipment are actually equipped in the Guards, not in the army or navy!

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