Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 121 Who Is the Number One Navy in the World

On the morning of July 3012th, [-] in the Tang calendar, in a large hall of the royal palace in the capital of the British Empire, Meseca, Emperor Penello said in a deep voice to Brady, the Minister of the Navy of the British Empire: "The intelligence department It has been confirmed that the Sharad Navy dispatched more than fifteen submarines to launch an attack on the independent fleet in the port of Liuyun Empire's Newport City, sinking two former dreadnought battleships and five ironclad battleships of the independent fleet, and wounding four A pre-dreadnought battleship and two ironclad battleships."

After a pause, Emperor Penello continued: "In this way, the Sharad Empire has become the first country in the world to have a submarine force. I really want to know when our Royal Navy of England will have a new type of submarine. warship?"

Secretary of the Navy Brady hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, our Admiralty has actually invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the research and development of a new type of warship, the submarine. At present, an experimental submarine has been produced. After various tests, The data of this experimental submarine has met the actual combat requirements, and our Admiralty is preparing to build it in batches, and soon our Royal Navy of England will be able to have its own submarine force."

The expression on Emperor Penello's face relaxed a little and said: "The Ministry of the Navy has done a very good job. Judging from the record of the Sharad Navy's submarine force attacking the port of Newport City, this new type of warship has very strong concealment. As well as its aggressiveness, it can even change the current mode of naval warfare. Our Royal Navy must invest more resources in the development and construction of submarines in the future. By the way, what is the performance of that experimental submarine?"

"Your Majesty, this experimental submarine has a surface displacement of 530 tons, an underwater displacement of 588 tons, a maximum surface speed of 12 knots, a surface endurance of 5000 nautical miles, a maximum underwater speed of 4 knots, an underwater endurance of 70 nautical miles, and a maximum dive depth of 90. It is equipped with three 533mm torpedo tubes, which can carry six torpedoes in total. Although I don’t know the specific data of the submarine of the Sharad Navy, I believe that our experimental submarine of the Royal Inaba Royal Navy must definitely It is the most advanced submarine in the world."

Emperor Penello smiled and said: "Then the Admiralty will raise funds as soon as possible to build more submarines of this level."

Secretary of the Navy Brady said immediately: "Your Majesty, according to the budget, if 13 submarines are built at one time, the cost of each submarine can be reduced to about 400 British dollars. At present, our Admiralty has raised [-] million British dollars. Using that experimental submarine as a prototype, build thirty more submarines to form the first submarine force of our Royal Inabad Navy."

Emperor Penello asked, "Has the experimental submarine been named?"

"Your Majesty, we haven't named it yet. Our Admiralty hopes that you, Your Majesty, will personally name the first submarine of our Royal Navy."

Emperor Penello nodded slightly and said: "Let's call it the Ghost! Submarines of this level are called the Ghost class. I hope that the submarine force of our Royal Inaba Navy will be like a ghost, so that the enemy will always be in the same place." Fear! But thirty ghost-class submarines are too few, I will allocate another 500 million U.S. dollars to the Admiralty alone, part of which will be used to build one hundred ghost-class submarines, and the rest will be used for the development of new submarines Research and development, remember, the 500 million pounds must be earmarked for this purpose!"

Secretary of the Navy Brady said excitedly: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, the Admiralty will definitely spend 500 million pounds on the construction and development of submarines, so that our Royal Navy has the most powerful submarine force in the world."

Emperor Penello then asked: "Then, does the Admiralty have any measures for anti-submarine? I don't want the naval port of our Royal Navy of Inaba to be attacked by enemy submarine forces in the future."

"Your Majesty, when our Admiralty was building the Ghost submarine, we designed an anti-submarine net for the submarine to protect the port. This anti-submarine net is made of steel cables. The mesh is square. There is a floating body at the upper end and an anchor at the lower end, so that the net surface can maintain a vertical state and fix its position. A special blasting tube is hung on the net surface. would be pulled off and damage the submarine."

"In addition, our Admiralty has also developed a depth charge for actively attacking submarines. This depth charge will detonate after being dropped into the water and sink to a certain depth. After the independent fleet is attacked by the submarine force of the Sharad Navy, it should be Depth charges sank most of the Sharad Navy submarines."

Emperor Penello frowned suddenly and said: "What kind of forces did that man named Su Yi get the support of? The independent fleet under his command alone has even posed a certain threat to our Royal Navy of Inaba. , and due to the existence of an independent fleet, the difficulty for our Royal Navy of Inaba to maintain the 'standard of the top four' has simply increased exponentially."

According to the standard of the top four of the Royal Navy of England, the overall strength of the Royal Navy of England should not be lower than the combined naval power of any four naval powers. That is to say, the strength of the Royal Navy of England must be equivalent to that of the world The sum of the strength of No.2, No.3, No.4 and No.5 of the Navy.

Secretary of the Navy Brady smiled bitterly and said: "That person Su Yi is indeed too mysterious. It has been confirmed that the Independent Fleet sank a super dreadnought battleship when it attacked the Port of Leon of the Orenza Empire not long ago, but the Independent Fleet We still have 27 super dreadnought battleships, but now we have only 24 super dreadnought battleships in service in the British Royal Navy."

"In addition, the Independent Fleet also has [-] battlecruisers. The fastest fast-class battlecruisers built by the British Royal Navy will also enter service in January next year. Don't talk about maintaining the top four standards now. Inside, our Royal Navy's goal is to surpass Su Yi's independent fleet in terms of the number of super dreadnought battleships and battlecruisers."

Emperor Penello frowned, "Do you know the number of dreadnoughts, former dreadnoughts, and armored battleships in the Independent Fleet?"

Secretary of the Navy Brady nodded and said: "After gathering information from various sources, the Independent Fleet now has more than fifty dreadnought battleships, and the number of dreadnought battleships in the Independent Fleet is about fifty. The number of iron-clad battleships is not large, after the loss of five iron-clad battleships, the independent fleet should only have fourteen or five iron-clad battleships left."

(End of this chapter)