[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-rise-of-the-empire-spain":3,"chapter-rise-of-the-empire-spain-rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-478":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Rise of the Empire: Spain",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2365406,4632,"Chapter 478: The Development of Submarines","rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-478",478,"\u003Cp>The signing of the Neutral Nations Treaty effectively slowed the wooing of Britain by Germany and the Franco-Russian alliance, as the British government now had sufficient reason to refuse premature interference in the confrontation between the two major military blocs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this was acceptable to both military blocs; after all, Britain and Spain had signed the Neutral Nations Treaty simultaneously, which also meant that there would be no unexpected factors in the future confrontation between the two major military blocs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The German government could focus on researching how to quickly crush France or Russia, and France and Russia would not have to worry about Germany becoming even more unstoppable with British help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this did not mean they had completely given up on wooing Spain and Britain; they simply shifted their overt wooing to covert channels and changed their priority from wooing to improving relations, ensuring they would not face the worst-case scenario.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon learning that Britain had agreed to sign the Neutral Nations Treaty, Yu Kaluo also breathed a sigh of relief. As long as Spain was given more time to develop, even if the course of the First World War turned out completely different from history, Spain would have the ability to pull the war back on track.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Relying on what? Naturally, relying on Spain's efforts in all aspects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On June 12, 1910, Yu Kaluo secretly traveled to Gibraltar with a group of high-ranking naval generals to watch the commissioning of Spain's new batch of warships.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Spain recovered Gibraltar, it incorporated it into the Andalusia Province and made Gibraltar the main naval base for the Spanish Mediterranean Fleet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the battleship commissioning ceremonies watched previously, what was being commissioned this time were not capital ships, but the latest type of submarine that Spain had already updated through several generations, codenamed the T-6 submarine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason for using \"T\" to codename the submarines brings to mind the naming of the Spanish submarine series: Tiburon, meaning shark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spain's history of developing submarines has spanned more than a decade, and the main submarines currently serving in the Spanish fleet are the T-5 and T-6 types.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The current latest T-6 submarine has an astonishing length of 71.52 meters, a width of 7.76 meters, a surface displacement of 1,278 tons, and a submerged displacement of 1,586 tons, making it the submarine with the largest tonnage and volume in Spain at present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To ensure this submarine possessed excellent power, the shipyard designers equipped it with two 800-horsepower diesel engines plus two 700-horsepower electric motors, allowing the new submarine's speed to meet the needs of the naval department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to tests, the T-6 submarine's maximum surface speed can reach 15 knots, and its maximum submerged speed can reach 10 knots, which is already a quite excellent level among submarines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its maximum surface range is 5,500 nautical miles (at 10 knots), and its maximum submerged range is 1,250 nautical miles (at 6.5 knots), which is also at a relatively excellent level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The maximum diving depth of the T-6 submarine is 67 meters, which also broke a new record for the Spanish submarine series.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of firepower, the T-6 submarine is equipped with five 457mm torpedo tubes, possessing the ability to sink an enemy capital ship in a single strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In addition to these five torpedo tubes, the T-6 submarine is also additionally equipped with one 76mm deck gun, giving the submarine a certain degree of combat capability on the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, such surface combat capability is destined to be unable to contend with enemy surface warships, and what it is meant to deal with is not enemy warships, but enemy commercial vessels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of its high tonnage of over a thousand tons, the T-6 submarine can carry a total of 15 torpedoes, with an average of three torpedoes per torpedo tube, which significantly increases the submarine's firepower output.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as all 15 of these torpedoes are fired, the achieved results would be at least in the tens of thousands of tons, which basically fulfills the value of building this submarine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The T-6 submarine is the crystallization of Spain's current technology in submarines, and it can also be said to be the most advanced submarine at present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Spain's requirement for the T-6 submarine is actually quite clear and explicit: it is a main ocean-going submarine with long-range strike capabilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It is worth mentioning that the T-5 submarine is not the predecessor of the T-6 submarine, but another type of submarine developed at almost the same time as the T-6.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the T-6 submarine values ocean-going combat capability, then the T-5 submarine values rapid movement and defense at close range.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The T-5 submarine is only 42 meters long and 6.03 meters wide, making it a small submarine in the true sense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of its smaller volume, the T-5 submarine's surface displacement is only 678 tons, and its submerged displacement is only 942 tons, almost half that of the T-6 submarine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it is not inferior to the T-6 submarine in terms of power, because the supplies and fuel it can carry are limited, the T-5 submarine's maximum range at sea is only 2,500 nautical miles, and its maximum submerged range is only 420 nautical miles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the cost of sacrificing range, the T-5 submarine's surface and submerged speeds have seen a great improvement. The T-5 submarine's surface speed reached 18 knots, and its submerged speed reached 12.5 knots, leading the T-6 submarine by a wide margin in terms of speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although its speed is extremely excellent, because of the reduced tonnage, the number of torpedo tubes carried by the T-5 submarine has also been reduced to four, though it is still equipped with a 76mm deck gun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the vastly different data of the T-5 and T-6 submarines, it can be seen that these two types of submarines will undertake completely different tasks in future wars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The T-6 submarine will carry out ocean-going operations and will likely participate in decisive naval battles, conducting large-scale destruction of enemy civilian and military vessels.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The T-5 submarine focuses mainly on coastal defense; with its faster speed, it can support every sea area of Spain in less time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With T-5 submarines defending Spain's coastline, the risk of Spain's coast being landed upon can also be greatly reduced. As long as the enemy dares to send transport ships to the Spanish coast, they would not even need to wait for the Spanish army to counterattack; these coastal defense submarines would be enough to sink the enemy's transport ships and even leave all the warships escorting the transport ships along the coast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Spain has focused most of its attention on the construction of capital ships in recent years, Spain has also invested a large amount of funds to build the submarines it has been developing for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the retirement of earlier submarines, the Spanish Navy currently has a total of 42 submarines in service, among which 12 are the latest T-5 submarines, 6 are T-6 submarines, and the remaining 24 are T-3 and T-4 submarines from a few years ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next few years, Spain will continue to build more new submarines. According to the submarine construction plan submitted by the naval department, Spain will build at least 12 more T-5 submarines and 8 T-6 submarines in the future, allowing the Spanish Navy to have at least 62 submarines before 1915.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Kaluo and the group of naval generals watched the launching ceremony of the latest T-6 submarine in the Strait of Gibraltar, and Yu Kaluo was quite satisfied with the large submarine newly built by Spain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Judging from the paper data of the T-6 submarine, there is currently no submarine in any European country that can match this submarine's design, which also means that the T-6 submarine is almost invincible underwater.\u003C\u002Fp>",1308,"2026-06-25T09:27:15.200Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","853053b845355e246c613bd82766a3998c908b72208932e29746c8040993306e","rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-479","rise-of-the-empire-spain-chapter-477",493,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Frise-of-the-empire-spain-cover.jpg"]