Main gun, four 152mm (6-inch) dual secondary guns, 4 120mm anti-aircraft guns, and 8 88mm anti-aircraft guns.

Because the main gun seriously violated the restrictions of the Washington Navy Treaty, the Luoyang-class armored cruiser will eventually start construction in the second half of 1935 and start service in the second half of 1936.

Luoyang-class cruisers represent the other extreme direction of the Imperial Armored Cruiser, that is, as the central force of a small fleet, they assume the tasks of battleships on a larger scale, and are equipped with high-level and high-power large carrier-based radars, and have commanded surrounding aircraft.

The ability of submarines and ships to cooperate in combat can also make up for the shortcomings of early battleships in radar and air defense systems.

According to the Empire's current secret plan, starting from 1936, the Luoyang-class cruiser will suddenly expand to more than 10 construction scale. In addition to equipping the country's navy, it will also be used as the main flagships of other small and medium-sized allies to share the Imperial Navy in the entire Asian League.

naval combat pressure.

After 1928, the Imperial Navy gradually showed a completely different direction from the development of the world's navy. This method is based on the naval aircraft carrier-centered theory. In the long-term naval planning of the Imperial Navy, the aircraft carrier formation will become the core main force of the Imperial Navy.

Battleships must also be included in aircraft carrier operations. In large-scale naval operations, armored cruisers are mainly dispatched to replace battleship operations, or armored cruisers cooperate with battleship operations. A complete aircraft carrier formation will be composed of aircraft carriers, escort aircraft carriers, battleships, armored cruisers, and escort cruisers.

, The destroyer is composed of escort aircraft carriers, escort cruisers and destroyers to build the core formation of the aircraft carrier fleet, and battleships and armored cruisers are used as detachment detachments to fight on the periphery.

At this point, the Imperial Navy's formation has gone directly towards the goal of surpassing Britain and the United States and becoming the new overlord of the world's ocean in the wave of the world's navy.

For this majestic goal, the Empire and the Navy have made a full thirty years of hard work, making progress every year and accumulating strength and capital step by step.

It is precisely because of this that the Imperial Navy does not want to have direct war with any enemy navy at this stage. At most, it is just a small-scale naval conflict, so that the Imperial Navy's overall change ideas will not be exposed, so that the Imperial Navy can completely complete this greatness.

historical changes.

There is a possibility of failure in the reform, but in order to become the real world maritime overlord, the Empire and the Imperial Navy must take risks for this, and the Empire does have this capital adventure. If the Imperial Navy takes the wrong path, the future will be the era of battleships.

With the Empire's level of battleship manufacturing, experience, and overall strength of the huge imperial finance, shipbuilding and heavy industry, even if it goes the wrong path, it will only take four or five years to complete a comprehensive transformation.

Therefore, a real big country is just "winning and losing". (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to Piaotian Literature Registered Members to recommend this work. Your support is my greatest motivation.
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