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Chapter 470: The New Warship

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As Roland walked up to the path leading to the North Slope Mountain, Nightingale's rehtened "That's right," he thought "I'ular man who only interacts with blueprints all day, and this is no longer the world I used to live in Now, I' one day, so if es, I can't use my old approaches to hold myself back"

"I just have to followbecause of sonificant 'principles', it could only result in continuing to hurt Anna and Nightingale"

At this thought, Roland felt a weight had been lifted off his heart He inhaled deeply and pushed open the backyard door

Opening the steel door was just like opening his heart and he instantly sahole neorld

"Oh Here coreet him

"You're here" Anna smiled sweetly Roland saw a faint red mark on her pale neck and couldn't help but recall the passionate scene last night However, since he alreadya little bit more

"Have you co motion When the talked out of the yard, they saw a steel boat floating in the middle of a pond surrounded by snow The steel boat was about onemuch slimmer than those unwieldy concrete boats The bow had a distinct thin point, its stern was flat, and the unique part of it was that the hull was covered with overlapping supporting bars as if it were pieced together with thousands of squares

"This is exactly what I wanted," Roland exclaimed Compared to the concrete boats that were poured into steel molds, the pure steel boat had a unique delicateness, and the overlapping bars made it look like a work of art He knew that every piece of thisto shrunken proportions, without a single junction ht to the modern world, it would be worth tens of thousands yuan

"Is this the new kind of boat you want to build?"

"Yes" Roland nodded "It's also the town's first regular warship"

Originally, Roland planned to use the concrete boats as shalloater gunboats, but he realized that if the steah power, the concrete boats would be too slow Even when only carrying fuel and crew, the fleet's average speed during the journey to Longsong Stronghold was only eight to nine kilometers per hour If the boats also had to carry 152 unpowder, and other weapons, their speed could drop to as low as five kilometers This was equivalent to even less than three knots per hour This was due to the big dead weight of concrete, which wasn't an issue in simple supply transport, but it was an undesirable feature in warships

If the toas still suffering froo, Roland would have to put up with this flaever, with the production of Star of Steel, the current ah to build a true steel-clad warship Roland chose the si pieces of steel boards together with bea these units together to for method eliminated the traditional need for a keel, and since the enemy did not have any cannons, he did not worry about defense mechanisms The sides of the hull werethe cost and dead weight