Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

That's right, it's an aircraft carrier.

Since the John Empire suffered bomber losses from the Hans Empire in May, it has come up with countermeasures.

That is to build a large ship, and then lay a bottom layer of steel plate on the surface of the ship and an upper hardwood deck for aircraft to take off.

In this way, no matter where their ships travel, they will have the protection of aircraft.

This way the threat from Hans Imperial bombers can be avoided.

For this reason, John Winston, the Imperial Navy Minister, even proposed the design of a new type of warship with a more reasonable structure.

However, it takes time to design and build new ships, but war waits for no one.

Therefore, Winster proposed to use large merchant ships to urgently transform a batch of such warships.

Of course, at that time, Winston didn't know that Daxia also had such an aircraft carrier.

Moreover, the aircraft carriers of Daxia are better than those of the John Empire, and the number of aircraft is also greater than that of the John Empire.

Only later, with the outbreak of the war between Daxia and Sakura Kingdom, did the John Empire and Millician learn that Daxia also had such a warship.

And the Daxia people named this kind of warship aircraft carrier, or aircraft carrier for short.

Winston felt that this name fit the characteristics of this kind of battleship very well, so he decided to follow the naming method of the Daxia people and call such a battleship an aircraft carrier.

At the same time, through the news they received from Sakura Country, Winster and the others discovered that Daxia's aircraft carrier seemed to be more advanced than what they had in their drawings.

Therefore, Winster directly asked the designer to design according to the standards of Daxia people. The only help Winster could give them was a few photos taken from a long distance.

This kind of photo is very blurry, and only an outline can be roughly seen.

Using such photos as a reference for John Empire designers to design, this made the designers very bald.

Of course, what they did was not useless at all. At least in appearance, the aircraft carrier they designed was 70% or 80% similar to Daxia's aircraft carrier.

It is also worth mentioning that the industrial strength of the John Empire and Millican cannot be underestimated.

From the establishment of the project to the beginning of the design, to learning that the Daxia people had more advanced aircraft carriers midway, then revising the drawings, and finally transforming a batch of temporary aircraft carriers, the people of the John Empire only spent 6 months in total.

Even, this group of crazy designers and engineers, during the transformation, because some of the hulls were modified from battleship hulls.

Considering that the hull structure of a battleship is stronger than that of an ordinary merchant ship, it would be a waste not to have two cannons on such a strong hull.

Therefore, this group of engineers and designers retained two turrets to serve as the guard weapons of this aircraft carrier.

Of course, due to the changed position of the fort, the fort is not on the central axis of the hull. In order to maintain the stability of the hull, the fort is installed on the command tower.

One in tandem and one in the rear, a twin-mounted 280mm gun is installed on each side.

Don't think that the caliber of this 280mm gun is small. This is the largest caliber that engineers can think of and install.

And in order not to hinder the take-off and landing of aircraft above the deck, this kind of turret was installed below the deck.

This leads to the fact that the firing range of this kind of fort is not very large, only about 120 degrees.

Logically speaking, such a design structure limits the power of the artillery and cannot exert the effect of this artillery.

Therefore, during the design process, Daxia's engineers also proposed a similar plan, but it was ultimately rejected.

The reason is also very simple, that is, the effect is not great.

First of all, on the Daxia side, the aircraft carrier is set to fight in the rear. It will not enter the front line.

At the same time, aircraft carriers must have a large fleet of frigates and destroyers.

It is even possible that the battleships do not even need to engage in firefights, and the two sides fight directly outside the visual range, which is the kind of battle mode that only uses aircraft.

If this is such a battle mode, then there will definitely be battleships next to the aircraft carrier.

Therefore, there will be no enemy ships approaching the aircraft carrier. If there is really an enemy ship that can get close to the aircraft carrier within 20 nautical miles, there is only one possibility, and that is that all the other warships are sunk.

If this is really the case, what use can the two artillery pieces on the aircraft carrier alone do?

If there is room for a turret, it is better to add one or two more aircraft or install more bombs.

Therefore, the design of the aircraft carrier in Daxia is actually very similar to the general aircraft carrier of later generations. It is the kind of integrated closed deck, rather than the kind of deck that needs to be supported by steel brackets.

At the same time, there are no forts or naval guns on Daxia's aircraft carrier, but there are a large number of small-caliber anti-aircraft weapons.

For example, 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 20mm ammunition-fed cannons, 37mm and 47mm anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns, etc.

In the opinion of Daxia's engineers, the possibility of an aircraft carrier encountering an enemy aircraft during combat is much greater than the possibility of encountering an enemy warship.

Instead of making room for naval guns, it is better to install more anti-aircraft weapons.

And this is the biggest difference between Daxia and the John Empire aircraft carrier. As for the two design ideas, it is still unclear who is right and who is wrong.

After all, Daxia's aircraft carrier has not yet encountered the John Empire or Millican.

Therefore, it is not yet clear which of the two options is better, but sooner or later they will encounter each other.

Let’s continue with the battle on the Mediterranean side.

Since the combined fleets of the John Empire and the Milician Empire were equipped with new aircraft carriers, the fleet of the Kingdom of Italy was no match for the John Empire and the others.

So the Kingdom of Italy recruited the Mediterranean Fleet back. Directly giving up half of the sea control in the Mediterranean.

Why do you say only half?

That's because the John Empire is afraid that if it gets too close to the mainland of the Kingdom of Italy, it will be attacked by the Hans Empire Air Force.

They are just a fleet, with only two to three hundred aircraft at full strength. How can they be the opponent of the Hans Empire's thousands of land-based aircraft?

Therefore, since the defeat of the Italian navy that wanted to block the Strait of Gibraltar, the combined fleets of the John Empire and Millenia have been moving close to the coast of Africa.

And when Adolf learned that Lao Mo did not listen to the advice, he directly sent the fleet of the Kingdom of Italy to block the Strait of Gibraltar.

After being taught a lesson, they actually gave up half of their sea control, so that the Allied Powers could sail in the Mediterranean and transport imperial aid to the Republic of Budapest.

After knowing all this, Adolf once again started to spray in the Wolfsburg in Munich, performing his famous scene on the spot.

"I'm so angry!"

After getting angry, Adolf quickly asked people to contact the Gallic Empire. They wanted to find a way to take back half of the control from the Johns!