In the assault formation, in addition to the 6 "South Zhuhai" class, there are 12 10,000-ton cruisers and at least 20 large destroyers.

These are all new warships built after the outbreak of the war.

Although out of habit, the term "heavy cruiser" was severely called, in fact, these warships built after the outbreak of the war were no longer heavy cruisers.

The reason is also very simple.

The concept of "heavy cruiser" comes from two naval arms treaties, specifically referring to cruisers equipped with 8-inch main guns. The light cruiser opposite is equipped with 6-inch main guns. As for other indicators such as tonnage, the two cruisers do not specifically distinguish them.

After the treaty was abolished, the concept of heavy cruisers no longer existed.

This is why it is built after the treaty is abolished and is generally called a post-treaty type.

The most important difference is tonnage. All post-treatment warships solve the problems of treaty warships by increasing their displacement.

When the technical level is almost the same, the only way to make up for the performance defects of warships is to increase the tonnage.

If you want to say it, the latter treaty heavy cruiser was a big circle.

Of course, there are clear distinctions in terms of use.

Although Liang Xia's Navy has always been short of air defense warships and has specially built a batch of ocean-going cruisers mainly based on air defense, all large warships have emphasized air defense combat capabilities and have strengthened air defense firepower without exception, and have all become real air defense warships.

On heavy cruisers, this is particularly prominent.

Even though the standard displacement was increased to 15,000 tons, the main gun equipped by Liang Xia Navy heavy cruiser was still a 200mm naval gun developed and put into production before the war. It did not use a larger caliber main gun, nor a longer barrel, and even did not improve to increase the rate of fire.

The biggest function of the nine 200mm naval guns is actually to provide artillery support to the Marine Corps.

Obviously, the Newland Navy is not so dedicated.

For example, on the 17,000-ton cruiser that is being designed, the Newland Navy proposed to be equipped with a main gun that is stronger than the Mk15 55-diameter 8-inch naval gun, and tends to expand the caliber of the main gun instead of using a general public long tube, and improve the launch mechanism to increase the range and rate of fire.

There is no doubt that using a large caliber main gun will inevitably pay a greater price.

The key is quantity.

There are only 3 special mixed fleets, and there are a total of 12 new heavy cruisers, while the new Navy's new type heavy cruisers are not so many!

The design was completed at the "Oregon" level, while the "Des Moines" level only has one technical framework.

Even at the "Baltimore" class, there are only a few ships!

What's more, in addition to heavy cruisers, Liang Xia's Navy also has more powerful large cruisers, and 12 have been delivered to.

As for the large cruisers of the Newland Navy, not only were they not built, but there were only 4 ships in total.

In fact, the number gap is also reflected in other warships, such as large destroyers that are more suitable for ocean-going operations.

In the last war, the destroyer was a small ship, and it was called a "lightning strike ship". It was a fast battleship that regarded torpedoes as its main weapon.

In nature, it is similar to the current torpedo speedboats.

For a long and short period of time, torpedoes were used by many second-rate navies as a weapon to challenge and defeat first-rate navies.

The most representative one is Rock Navy.

Unfortunately, cruel facts have proved that it is definitely not one or several advanced weapons that decide to control the sea power, nor can it be possible to change the rules of the game at sea with a few advanced weapons.

It was not until the late stage of the last war that the destroyer took on the anti-submarine task and received the attention of the navy.

However, due to the limitations of anti-submarine technology and submarine tactics, destroyers have always been regarded as auxiliary warships and have not become the main force of the fleet in the last war.

The most obvious thing is the tonnage.

Most destroyers are around 1,000 tons, and it is amazing to reach 1,500 tons.

Even after the war, the development of destroyers was very slow. In addition to the impact of the naval holiday, it was mainly related to its purpose.

Simply put, there is no need to be large-scale.

It was not until the outbreak of this war that destroyers embarked on the road to large-scale.

Liang Xia Navy was the first to make the destroyer larger.

Interestingly, the Liang Xia Navy has continuously increased the tonnage of destroyers, or built large destroyers, not to give them stronger air defense or anti-submarine combat capabilities, but to keep up with the special mixed fleet and not become a shortcoming in the special mixed fleet.

Among them, the most important thing is cruise speed and endurance.

The destroyer was built larger just to load more fuel and to install a propulsion system with more power after the tonnage was increased.

Of course, the indirect benefit brought by this is that the destroyer has obtained relatively comprehensive combat capabilities.

This lays the foundation for becoming a maritime versatile player in the future.

The latest destroyer of Liang Xia Navy has a standard displacement of more than 3,000 tons, almost twice that of those destroyed by the war.

With a larger tonnage, in addition to being equipped with more high-level dual-purpose guns, more anti-aircraft guns can also be placed.

Interestingly, these large destroyers did not enhance their torpedo combat capabilities, nor did they strengthen their anti-submarine combat capabilities because they wanted to cover the aircraft carrier.

Of course, this is related to Liang Xia's navy's tactical tradition.

The one in the world who ignores torpedoes the least, probably Liang Xia Navy.

Not to mention the pre-war war, the war has entered its fourth year. Most of the warships of Liang Xia's Navy still use heavy torpedoes developed before the war.

The torpedo used by Liang Xia's submarine was actually produced with technology introduced from the Tyman Empire.

When emotions can solve problems with giant cannons or bombs, Liang Xia's fleet commander will not consider using torpedoes.

As for anti-submarine warfare, as long as there are enough escort warships, it is not a problem.

However, no one dared to underestimate the anti-submarine combat effectiveness of Liang Xia's destroyer.

So far, in terms of anti-submarine combat efficiency, Liang Xia's Navy's destroyers far surpassed other naval destroyers.

The key is that Liang Xia Navy took the lead in equipping active sonar!

How valuable is this submarine exploration equipment? The captains of the Newland submarine who never returned after going to sea and the officers and soldiers on the submarine have the most say.

But in the first few months of this year, the loss rate of Newland submarines increased by nearly ten times year-on-year!

Of course, the biggest gap is the quantity.

Although in terms of absolute number, Liang Xia's Navy did not have many destroyers and was not built at all, according to the relative number calculated by tonnage, the destroyers built by Liang Xia Navy during the war were almost 15 times that of the Newland Navy, almost equivalent to the sum of the Newland Navy and the Royal Bran Navy!

It is precisely this that the Liang Xia Navy can equip all special mixed fleets with enough large destroyers.

Of course, the number of large destroyers was not reduced due to the need to build escort destroyers.

All these reflect the huge gap between the two sides in industrial strength, especially the heavy industry that directly affects the scale of the navy.

The key point is that the Liangxia Empire has not yet mobilized a full-scale war.

If the Liangxia Empire mobilized a total war, even according to the standards of the Newland Federation, the scale of industrial production could be increased by 30%.

If you are enemies like this, there is still hope of winning?

Spear was very moved. It was not until a staff officer rushed to the open-air corridor that he returned to reality.
Chapter completed!