Before the 1960s, navies from all over the world had already changed from the active position of battleships to the direction of aircraft carrier-dominated naval warfare. The US Navy had the fastest transformation. Because of its relatively abundant funds, the US Navy had always followed the pace of the Tang Empire Navy and made every effort to develop aircraft carrier combat groups.

By 1964, the US Navy had built 22 large aircraft carriers, including 12 conventional-powered aircraft carriers, 10 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and 4 super-nuclear-powered aircraft carriers with a displacement of 100,000 tons. The Tang Empire Navy had 18 aircraft carriers at this time, 6 of which were new nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and the other 8 Chiyou-class and 4 Changan-class conventional-powered aircraft carriers are about to reach their retirement years.

The Soviet Navy was too far away, started late and developed slowly. Due to insufficient funds and technical lameness, the Soviet Navy did not own four helicopter aircraft carriers until 1964, four Kiev-class helicopter aircraft carriers with a displacement of 40,000 tons. It looked like they were not donkeys or horses. The only thing worth mentioning was that the powerful missile weapon system was installed on it, making it a battle-ready battle.

But in the jet era, these helicopter aircraft carriers were still too fragile. The Soviet Navy built them just to save face. They were a useless warship. Tang and the United States looked down on them at all and did not take them seriously.

As for the navies of Tang and the United States, the gap between quantity and tonnage between the two sides was narrowing at this time. The Tang Navy continued to eliminate various warships captured from Britain, France and Germany during World War II, and the total tonnage had dropped to 2.03 million tons. Although the US Navy was eliminating old-fashioned warships, the total tonnage did not change much, reaching 1.8 million tons, which was about to surpass the Tang Empire.

In the fiscal year budget of 1964, the Tang Empire suddenly announced that it would stop allocating funds to build the next-class super aircraft carrier, and at the same time it would retire twelve conventional-powered large aircraft carriers. In this way, the Tang Empire's navy had only 6 nuclear-powered super aircraft carriers left, and even if the US military retired all conventional aircraft carriers, there were 10 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and another 4 100,000-ton aircraft carriers under construction.

The US Navy was happy. They had been chasing the Tang Empire for 30 years in the field of aircraft carriers, and now they are finally going to catch up with their opponents. The US media even cheered excitedly, thinking that in the battle for hegemony between the Tang, the United States and the Soviet Union, the US Navy was about to gain the world dominance of the Tang Empire. Celebrate the arrival of this day.

However, the Americans were not happy for a few days, and the Tang Empire once again launched a sensational press conference around the world.

On April 1, 1964, it was April Fool's Day in the West. The first nuclear-powered battleship in human history was also the largest tonnage and most powerful battleship in the history of the world's navy. The Sea God battleship, known as the ultimate battleship of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire, held a huge foundation laying ceremony at the Yanjing Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Dock No. 1.

Thousands of mainstream media from all over the world gathered here. After the groundbreaking ceremony, officials such as Emperor Zhang Meng of the Tang Empire, General Yang Ganglie, Minister of Defense of the State Council, and other officials of the Navy and Shipbuilding Administration held a press conference and broadcast it to the world through satellites.

Zhang Meng personally attended the press conference, which for countries around the world, it has been a long time since they saw this legendary figure answering questions from reporters in public.

At this time, the legendary founding emperor of the Tang Empire was mentioned in books all over the world. Almost every word he said turned into reality, and he was called the greatest prophet of mankind by the world. Therefore, Zhang Meng personally answered reporters' questions, which must be sensational. Countless media had to participate, even if they were allowed to enter the venue, they were willing to do so.

Of course, Zhang Meng attended the press conference this time to ensure that other countries such as the United States and the Soviet Union followed the pace of the Tang Empire and launched a new round of large-scale arms race for super battleships. Zhang Meng wanted to ensure that the United States and the Soviet Union were eventually dragged down by the Tang Empire. The Soviet Union is actually exhausted now. The clues can be seen from their inaction on large surface ships such as aircraft carriers. The United States is actually just holding on, building so many large nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and withdrawing from the stage of history overnight. This blow is not small.

When Britain announced the news of the dreadnought, it caused a sensation in the world. Now the Tang Empire announced the ultimate battleship plan. It will also shock the whole world and will produce a huge domino effect.

"The following is an announcement from the Ministry of National Defense of the Tang Empire on the construction of the ultimate battleship!" General Yang Ganglie bowed to Zhang Meng, and then continued: "According to the will of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Empire, it is specially allowed to disclose the basic data parameters of the newly built ultimate battleship of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire. The Sea God battleship. The standard displacement is designed with a capacity of 126,060 tons, a full load displacement of 150,000 tons, and is equipped with 16 orbital kinetic cannons as the main guns, four turrets, and four orbital caliber 300 mm.

The standard range is 600 kilometers, and it can intercept aircraft, missiles, attack various types of warships against sea, and carry out precise strike missions on offshore land targets. It is also equipped with a powerful electromagnetic gun air defense dense array system, radar system and fire control system. The average armor protection reaches 430 mm, and can withstand saturation attacks of twenty-four large-power anti-ship missiles. The ship uses nuclear power, designed a large speed of 35 knots, 27 knots of standard cruise speed, a cruising endurance of 2 million nautical miles, and fuel self-sustaining power of more than ten years..."

As General Yang Ganglie announced some basic parameters of the ultimate battleship of the Tang Empire, the scene suddenly became an uproar. Media workers from all over the world were shocked. People all over the world who were sitting in front of the TV and in front of the radio were also shocked.

"There is a time to answer reporters' questions! The time is one hour, and His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Empire will answer directly. Please pay attention to the order of speech and hurry up!"

As the press conference host announced his answers to reporters' questions, thousands of journalists from all over the world raised the number plates they received, which was even more anxious than the buyers who were eager to get their favorite items at the auction. They all wanted to know the real purpose of the Tang Empire's construction of the ultimate battleship of the Sea God.

At this time, Zhang Meng had already delegated all political and economic rights to officials of the three provinces and six ministries for their own treatment. As the highest honorary leader of the Tang Empire and actually the highest commander of the three armies, his military answer undoubtedly represents the development direction and attitude of the Tang Empire's military.

"The first question! Reporter friend No. 3!" Zhang Meng's personality is still beautiful, so he casually chose a blonde beauty from the front row.

Of course, media from all over the world already knew Zhang Meng's little personality, so this time they almost all sent the most beautiful female reporters from their respective units to participate, hoping to win the first prize.

"Hello! I am Fini, a reporter from AFP. I am very excited to be the first reporter to answer your questions at this moment! I would like to ask your Majesty. Your country attaches importance to the development of aircraft carriers and has always been the leader of global aircraft carriers. Why did you suddenly stop building all aircraft carriers and announce the construction of battleships? Previously, your country has been promoting the foreign countries that battleships will withdraw from the stage of history. Why is it restarting the battleship project now?"

"You are very good at seizing the opportunity and asked a lot of questions at once!" Zhang Meng smiled slightly and said, "The Tang Empire will not waste taxpayers' money casually developing useless projects! The battleship project was restarted because of the advancement of technology. I believe you already know that the new battleships of the Tang Empire will be equipped with advanced weapons such as orbital kinetic cannons. Its effective range has reached 600 kilometers and has the ability to fight beyond the visual range. The reason why the battleships withdrew from dominance in the past was that their range was only 30 kilometers and they had not found the opponent's flight yet

The mother was sank by the plane. But now it is different. Our new battleship has powerful radars to discover the position of the aircraft carrier first. Without waiting for the opponent's plane to take off or arrive, our orbital kinetic cannons can destroy it. Moreover, our battleships are equipped with a new Vulcan dense array air defense system, and electromagnetic guns replace traditional reaction weapons, with a rate of fire of 500 new projectiles per minute, which can completely shoot down any invading missiles, aircraft and other targets. Therefore, the Tang Empire will restore the core position of the battleships to dominate the future naval battles from now on."

In addition to explaining the power of the main gun equipped by the ultimate battleship of the Sea God, Zhang Meng also revealed the combat performance of the new Vulcan air defense dense array system equipped on the Sea God, which surprised the audience.

"The second question! Reporter friend No. 5!"

"Hello! I am Mira, an Associated Press reporter! I would like to ask His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, why is your country's Royal Navy so confident? I know the power of the new orbital kinetic cannon. All countries have researched it, but whether it can completely replace traditional reaction weapons still needs to be verified. Your country once announced the construction of super battleships that year, and the results showed that it was a cover for your country. At that time, your country was building a super aircraft carrier, which misled world public opinion, causing great manpower, material and financial resources to build their respective super battleships one after another. It was proved that they were misled by the Tang Empire and became a bunch of useless scrap iron. This lost the opportunity to confront the Tang Empire. This was known as a shocking conspiracy in the 1930s. Is Your Majesty a replica of the battleships this time?"

"Your name reminds me of a good friend of mine!" Zhang Meng was surprised in the face of sharp accusations. The question of this beautiful female reporter was very sharp. But he was extremely dark and still replied with a smile: "At that time, we just yearned for the might and domineering of battleships, and wanted to enhance the international status of the Tang Empire Navy, but soon we found that the country did not have the super main gun technology to build battleships, so it was changed to an aircraft carrier halfway. You can't blame normal people for their stupidity, all actions are conspiracies."

Zhang Meng also had a sharp word and did not suffer any loss at all. Then the other party's question not only defended the misleading behavior of the Tang Empire back then, but also criticized the European and American countries for being too stupid and killing two birds with one stone, which is amazing.

"I am Karina, a reporter from Moscow. As far as I know, the core technology of orbital kinetic energy guns is constantly connected in parallel to generate a huge magnetic field in an instant to push the projectile out. Your country's orbital kinetic energy gun range has reached a distance of 600 kilometers in actual combat. How does your country solve the material strength brought by huge current and voltage, as well as the life of instantaneous switching power supply."

Karina looked like a military expert and asked the key technical level in one sentence. Zhang Meng secretly praised it in his heart, so he replied: "Our battleship is equipped with a 300mm caliber orbital kinetic cannon, which requires huge instantaneous power support. Fortunately, we use nuclear power to supply power, so there is no need to worry about power supply. As for the life of instantaneous switching power supply, this involves a new material technology of ours. This is confidential and inconvenient to disclose! The next question!"

"My Majesty, your country's new battleship, Sea God, is extremely domineering just by hearing the name, and has a kind of power to dominate the ocean. If the Sea God battleship is really like the data released by your country, it can discover targets and destroy them 600 kilometers away and intercept aircraft and missiles. Does this mean that it will gain an innate advantage in the battle for hegemony between the Tang, the United States and the Soviet Union. The three countries have always maintained world peace for twenty years by using nuclear balance without a nuclear war. Now the Tang Empire has the ability to intercept any aircraft and missiles. Your country's national missile defense plan will become seamless. Will this break the balance? It means that the Tang Empire can carry out nuclear strikes on any country at any time without worrying about being subjected to nuclear counterattacks?"

The audience was immediately excited and in an uproar.

Zhang Meng was even more surprised. The reporter's question revealed the key point. After the Tang Empire fully deployed the land-based and sea-based electromagnetic weapon system, it was indeed possible to rest assured that the United States and the Soviet Union would no longer worry about the nuclear counterattack of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Zhang Meng thought in his heart and quickly responded: "All the military development and new equipment deployment of the Tang Empire are to ensure the safety of the lives and property of the people of the Tang Empire. Faced with the global nuclear threat, I believe that every country is working hard to avoid being hit by nuclear attacks and developing various defense means. The Tang Empire is peace-loving and will not easily use nuclear weapons unless it is subject to serious national security threats!"

Next, reporters from various countries asked questions in succession, and Zhang Meng answered directly if he could answer them. If he was inconvenient to answer, he would play word games and asked the other party to inquire about "relevant departments" and "relevant departments".

After the press conference, Yanjing Shipbuilding Industry officially started construction of the ultimate battleship of the Sea God.

As the ultimate embodiment of the world's giant ship cannonism, the Sea God has become a mythical work of fanatical admirers of the Tang Empire's naval industry, and is also a concentrated reflection of the glorious achievements of the Tang Empire's naval industry for nearly 30 years. The battleship adopts nuclear reactors as energy and orbital kinetic cannons as main guns. This is a major event in the history of human naval forces, thus covering the Sea God battleship with endless mythology, and becoming the pinnacle of the world's giant ship cannonism era. It is also a roar when the battleship reappears on the stage of history after thirty years.

This is a cross-age symbol. In addition to starting the construction of the Sea God battleship, the Tang Empire replaced all the main guns of all active battleships, replaced the orbital kinetic energy cannons with traditional reaction weapons, and also changed them to nuclear reactor energy supply systems. Various heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers installed orbital kinetic energy cannons of different calibers according to their own power supply capacity.

With the Tang Empire announcing the official construction of the Sea God battleship, a new round of battleship arms race has set off in the world, of course, with electromagnetic rail guns as new weapons, especially the United States and the Soviet Union. Although they are not sure that orbital kinetic cannons can intercept missiles and aircraft, they have taken every word Zhang Meng very seriously over the years and knew that despising him would bring serious consequences. Therefore, the United States and the Soviet Union are nervous. Once the Tang Empire completes the country's new generation of national defense system and is not afraid of nuclear strikes, then it will be the end of the United States and the Soviet Union. The Tang Empire will unify the whole world with nuclear weapons.
Chapter completed!