Chapter 19 Division of Warships
"Of course, general, but my shipyard has not been renovated yet, so it has not been proposed." Wesley said openly.
William Benson was choked by Wesley's words. How shameless you are. You are a soldier.
Wesley didn't care about the other party's eyes at all, and continued as if nothing had happened: "The development of the navy's ships is still in the exploratory stage. This is my opinion. The warships have not reached their peak yet. They are mainly technical issues, but there is no problem with me."
"I have divided the warships specifically. First of all, the first type is naturally a battleship, and the development of a battleship must be an increase in the caliber of the main gun, which is inevitable. The increase in the caliber must be accompanied by the increase in tonnage, so the battleships are getting bigger and bigger."
"The second type is cruiser. I divide cruisers into heavy cruisers and light cruisers, while the third type is called destroyers." Wesley said this, which is actually divided into four types of warships.
"Can you tell me in detail?" William Benson asked anxiously.
Wesley thought for a while and said, "General, I hope you won't spread it after hearing it. Although other shipyards do not have my skills, the design concept is still very important."
"Don't worry about this, I will never spread it, but do you want to take all the orders of the Navy?"
"Of course not, because the number of ships the Navy needs is a huge number, and my shipyard cannot afford it, but I need to be sure that my shipyard is the number one shipyard in the United States."
"Okay, I get it."
"I won't talk about the battleships. What everyone knows about is nothing more than technology and design. If the Navy needs the latest battleships, our shipyard can participate in the bidding. I think those bids have no problem."
"As the name suggests, it is a ship that sails at sea for a long time. Just like the current armored cruisers, it requires separate combat capabilities, while heavy cruisers are designed for this purpose. Light cruisers follow the fleet and undertake the role of fleet alert tasks."
"Destroyers are divided into offshore destroyers and long-sea destroyers. Offshore mainly defends coastlines and naval bases, while oceans move with fleets. These ships do not need to be equipped with excessive naval guns. Their function is only to prevent local lightning strikes and patrol the coast. After fighting, they can also rely on them to strike lightning against enemy warships."
"The idea is very good, the division is very carefully. Can you produce these warships?"
"Of course, my shipyard has only completed a 20,000-ton dock now, and is now building a 30,000-ton one, which will take several months."
"Hiss, do you need to be that big?" Benson asked in surprise.
"If it weren't for the technical problems of the workers, I would have built a 500 million ton dock directly. They now need to start production from small ships, which is not something my technology can do."
"Okay, then the Navy can place an order for you first, the orders of four destroyers, what do you think?" William Benson directly threw the bait. The bait was very small, but it also means that if the Navy is satisfied, then subsequent orders will come continuously.
"No problem, construction will be started soon."
Everything was done, Wesley went back to New York directly. The number of freighters and tankers he wanted was very large, all of which were 10,000 tons. In this era, the freighters and tankers of 10,000 tons were not too large, but it was a good choice for workers to practice.
Wesley directly found John Rist, "I have orders for four destroyers here, and I only built them with 5,000-ton ships, and gathered all the skilled welding workers here."
"What destroyer? We don't have a designer for the army!" John Rist shouted in surprise.
"That's right, you go and arrange the workers. I've been drawing drawings in the office these days, and then building them according to my drawings. Weapons are directly thrown into the arsenal production. They have equipment and technology, so I've put them there."
"You've wanted to produce warships long ago?"
"Of course, what else would I do with a big shipyard?" Wesley asked John Rist to do the preliminary preparations, and he began to draw the design drawings of the destroyer.
John Benson did not organize personnel to conduct argumentation at all, and there was a reason for directly letting Wesley build it. First of all, the price of the four destroyers is not high, which is very cheap for the Navy. You can see new warships. At the same time, if the Navy is not satisfied, you can not accept it. This is a test for John Benson to give Wesley.
Wesley also understood the Navy's plan, and he was full of confidence. The current warships are very long due to boilers and power systems, and the warships are worth three to four chimneys alone. Wesley's design will be epoch-making.
Wesley was designing this, while William Benson, on the other hand, temporarily stopped orders for other naval warships, and they were about to be completed, while the others were all stopped. Many shipyards were at a loss and hurried to the navy to ask.
"Don't worry, we stop not to cancel the order, but to change some changes. I hope everyone will have more specific things, and I will give you news at most three months." This is the Navy's explanation.
Three months was the time when Wesley produced warships, which were produced entirely according to the wartime system. The three shifts were used to work, and a large number of skilled workers were used. For this reason, the cargo ships and oil tankers were suspended. Anyway, it was Wesley's own order. The same was true for the arsenal. However, the four destroyers did not have much equipment this time, so there was no need to rush to work. It was time to produce step by step, and the power company's marine power system needed to speed up.
There are naturally people in each shipyard in the navy. They quickly found out the initiator of the incident, but they did not react violently because these people saw huge benefits.
The Navy is going to develop a big pace, and is not satisfied with the ships they are now making. If Wesley Gibson can come up with better ships, they can share them too.
Although Wesley is expanding the shipyard, a country's navy is not something that can be eaten by a shipyard. Moreover, Wesley will have new designs and technologies. Even if they cannot get the core aspects, some of the edges are good.
Chapter completed!