Tsarist Empire: Please call me His Majesty the Tsar chapter 049

In Mikhail’s memory, in another time and space, when the Russian Empire and the Eastern Empire went to war, the main forces of the Eastern Imperial Navy were six battleships and eight armored cruisers.

If the Imperial Russian Navy wants to win future wars, it must gain superiority in this area.

The strength of the ‘Mosk-class’ heavy cruisers is definitely stronger than that of the armored cruisers of the Toyo.

Moreover, there was a numerical advantage on the side of the Tsarist Empire.

Twelve ships fight eight, no matter how you can win. If this could not be fought, then the admirals of the Russian Empire would be too wasted.

“Your Majesty, the ‘Mosk-class’ cruisers are definitely one of the most powerful cruisers in the world. “General Alexander was also full of praise for the Mosk-class cruisers.

Mikhail nodded, A-class destroyers, plus ‘Rostov-class’ light cruisers, ‘Mosk-class’ heavy cruisers. Once all these warships were in service, the Northern Fleet and Black Sea Fleet of the Imperial Navy would each have 18 destroyers, 12 light cruisers, and 6 heavy cruisers.

In this way, the Northern Fleet and the Black Sea Fleet will be able to barely build a shelf.

However, in the absence of battleships, the strength of the two fleets still has great room for improvement.

“Your Majesty, we also need to build battleships. If the Imperial Navy wants to catch up with the sun never sets, the Imperial Royal Navy and even the Gallic Navy need to build a number of battleships with advanced performance and strong combat effectiveness!” said General Alexander.

Originally, under Nicholas II, he established a huge naval development program.

Nicholas II was ambitious and wanted to develop the Russian Imperial Navy into a powerful navy second only to the Royal Navy and the Gallic Navy. Even, want to challenge the supremacy of the Royal Navy of the Empire.

Although the Russian Empire was a continental country, the army was the main force.

But this does not mean that the admirals of the Navy are not ambitious.

In fact, everyone also hopes that the strength of the navy can be further strengthened.

Mikhail nodded: “For the capital ship to be built next by the Imperial Navy, I have long considered it. However, in terms of the current technical conditions, there are still no small difficulties. Therefore, the major shipyards of the empire must first find a way to upgrade their technology and then build battleships!”

General Alexander couldn’t help but frown, the shipbuilding strength of the Tsarist Russian Empire may have a certain gap with the Empire. However, battleships can also be built. After all, there are now ten battleships in service in the Imperial Russian Navy.

However, in Mikhail’s eyes, these old former dreadnoughts will soon become obsolete after all.

Immediately, Mikhail took out another design drawing from the drawer of his desk.

“This is the blueprint of the battleship I designed, which I named the ‘Mikhail I-class’ battleship!”

General Alexander immediately began to carefully observe the design drawings.

The ‘Mikhail I-class’ battleship is a new type of battleship designed by Mikhail based on another dreadnought in time and space. This battleship had a full load displacement of 22,000 tons and a maximum speed of 22 knots. Armament is three triple 50 caliber 305 mm main guns, 12 50 caliber 150 mm secondary guns, 16 45 caliber 75 mm rapid-fire guns, 20 40 mm rapid-fire guns. The waterline, turret frontal and commander’s tower armor are 280 mm of new armored steel!

In Mikhail’s plan, six battleships of the Mikhail I class will be built, namely the battleship “Mikhail I”, the battleship “Alexei I”, the battleship “Fyodor III”, the battleship “Ivan V”, the battleship “Peter I” and the battleship “Princess Sophia”.

This is a dreadnought, and the performance in all aspects is not a little more advanced than the previous dreadnought.

If nothing else, those former dreadnoughts that will face the Oriental people in the future will definitely have an overwhelming advantage.

General Alexander was also very satisfied with the Mikhail I class battleships.

“Your Majesty, is it more appropriate to adopt the full heavy artillery mode than the secondary main guns currently used by mainstream battleships?” asked General Alexander.

As the caliber of the battleship’s main guns continued to increase, the power became more and more powerful, and the range became longer and longer. Full-heavy artillery battleships, in terms of firepower and combat power, comprehensively surpassed those current battleships. Also, the defense is stronger and faster. It’s just that with our existing technology, it is still very difficult to build these warships. Therefore, on the shipyard side, we need to try to get more advanced technology from the Germanic Empire and the Empire that never sets. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have been able to build this battleship!” Mikhail looked serious.

“Yes, Your Majesty, I will urge the shipyard to upgrade its technology!” replied General Alexander quickly.

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