Chapter 643 Testing and Changing Faces

With Arthur's support, Tesla burst out with great enthusiasm. As soon as the battleship docked at the shipyard, Tesla had already started the installation of the radar.

By the time the radar installation and debugging was completed, it was already a week later on February 26.

Arthur took the current Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Lieutenant General Andrew Reid, and the Secretary of Defense, Lieutenant General Thomas Johnson, as well as many staff from the Ministry of Defense, to the Sydney port to participate in the actual test of the radar.

After boarding the battleship, Arthur once again saw Tesla who was directing the men to debug the radar.

Tesla also saw Arthur, quickly stepped forward to salute, and said with excitement: "Your Majesty, the radar is ready!"

Arthur nodded, looked at the generals behind him, and said with a smile: "Let's introduce these guys to how to conduct the radar experiment this time."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Tesla nodded, looked at the generals, and explained: "Everyone, the principle of radar is to learn the enemy's position through the reflection of radio waves. The measured distance, the effectiveness of the measurement These have become two major factors for testing the role of radar.

In order to better test the performance of our first-generation radar, please command the fleet to approach this battleship from a distance. My team will record the number and time of your fleet's warships appearing on the radar, as well as the radar test. maximum distance to verify the true performance of this radar. "

The current role of radar is to detect enemies from long distances, and the direction of Tesla's experiment is probably the same.

Several generals nodded after hearing this. They didn't make any sense to Tesla's proposal. After all, it was a simple matter to command the fleet to approach the battleship.

With Arthur's order, several generals did not dare to underestimate the radar developed by Tesla. Even Defense Secretary Thomas had expectations for the actual role of the radar.

If it is really possible to detect enemies at long distances, it goes without saying that this will have an impact on war.

It will take some time for the fleet to be prepared. Arthur took several generals and Tesla to take the Monarch-class battleship to the high seas, where better tests could be conducted.

Because almost half of the Australasian fleet was dispatched, there was no need for additional troops to protect Arthur's safety.

Apart from a small group of royal guards, Arthur did not need other protection in Australasia, which was already the safest place for Arthur.

About two hours later, somewhere in the ocean dozens of kilometers away from Sydney Port.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Tesla, everything is ready and can start testing at any time." After getting in touch with the navy dozens of kilometers away, Navy Commander-in-Chief Andrew nodded to Arthur respectfully and said.

Seeing Arthur looking at him, Tesla nodded to his men. After getting the reply that everything was ready, he reported to Arthur: "Your Majesty, the radar is ready and can start testing at any time."

"Then let's get started and take a good look at how the world's first practical radar works." Arthur smiled and announced that the radar experiment had officially begun.

Following Arthur's order, the radars on the distant fleet and battleships began to work at the same time.

The radar concentrated on sending radio waves to find enemies in the distance, while the fleet in the distance approached Arthur's battleship at different places and speeds according to the original plan, testing whether the radar could fully detect enemies at different speeds. record it.

Time passed by minute by minute, and Arthur and several generals also looked at the working radar with interest.

"Your Majesty, is this thing really that magical? It can find enemies dozens of kilometers away." Navy Commander Andrew asked curiously.

Not only the navy, but also the navy, land and air force, being able to find the enemy dozens of kilometers away means that they have the first advantage in the war.

Encounters are often caught unprepared, but if you can understand the enemy's position and direction before the encounter, you can prepare in advance before the encounter, and even carefully plan a siege.

One side was well prepared, the other was caught off guard, and the outcome of the war was basically decided.

Arthur smiled, looked at Tesla who was busy, and said: "Whether we can do it or not depends on the actual performance of the radar."

Under the expectant gaze of everyone, less than 20 minutes passed before Tesla's assistant shouted excitedly: "Your Majesty, Mr. Tesla, a warship has been spotted and is heading towards us quickly."

Arthur and several generals were overjoyed when they heard this, and quickly came to the radar screen. Sure enough, they saw a green dot in the distance moving quickly towards the center.

The green dots represent warships that have been detected, while the center dot is the battleship where the radar is located.

The Navy Commander-in-Chief had no questions now. He nodded in surprise, as if he had thought of something, and quickly asked: "Mr. Tesla, can your radar detect the actual distance between the warship and us and the speed of the warship?" "

General Andrew was not satisfied with knowing the approximate location of the enemy. He also wanted to rely on radar to obtain the actual distance between the enemy and himself and the enemy's speed.

If you can know these two data, you will know when the enemy will meet you, so you can make more complete and handy preparations.

"It is possible to roughly measure distance and time, but it is not yet known whether it is accurate or not," Tesla said.

Andrew nodded and looked at Tesla, who was already measuring the distance and speed of the warship.

More than a minute later, Tesla completed the calculation, looked at Arthur and Andrew, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, according to the results displayed by the radar, this warship is currently about 13 nautical miles away from us and is moving at 1 Come."

A speed of 1 knot is equivalent to traveling 1 nautical mile per hour, which is also equivalent to traveling 1.85 kilometers per hour.

A distance of 13 nautical miles is approximately equivalent to 24 kilometers, which means that the actual test distance of the radar has reached more than 24 kilometers.

Although 24 kilometers is not far away for the navy, after all, it is the first-generation radar that has just been developed, so it is not bad to have such a test distance.

More importantly, it is still unclear what the effective range of the radar is. 24 kilometers is only the current result.

This made many generals, including Navy Commander Andrew and Defense Secretary Thomas, extremely excited.

If such radars can be widely equipped in the navy, land and air forces, there is no doubt that the combat effectiveness of the Australasian army will be improved.

In particular, Navy Commander Andrew was ready to shamelessly ask for more radars from Arthur.

Even if he was the one who refused Tesla to conduct experiments with battleships before, he still could not prevent Andrew, who now knows the actual performance of the radar, from shamelessly requesting more radars to equip the navy.

Of course, the actual distance and speed of the warship measured by the radar have yet to be tested. How to verify this data? Of course, we want to see when this warship meets everyone.

For a distance of 13 nautical miles, it only takes about 41 minutes to reach the current position of the battleship.

As long as the error is within one or two minutes, General Andrew feels that he can accept it. After all, radar has just been developed not long ago. It is unrealistic to expect the accuracy of radar to be accurate to within seconds, that is, within a hundred meters.

After learning the distance of the warship, these generals not only looked at the working radar, but also kept looking at the customized watches on their wrists.

This is actually the tradition of senior military officers. Carrying a watch is not to show off, but to better determine the time and conduct unified military operations.

After all, if you don't even know the time, how can you launch military operations at the same time?

The watches of these officers are basically from the royal watchmakers. They are specially customized watches, and the time errors are very small.

Although ordinary people cannot get customized watches from royal watchmakers, the watches handmade by these watchmakers will also be used as gifts and prizes, given or awarded to those who have meritorious service, as well as distinguished guests of the royal family and the country, etc.

Arthur is also very good at managing brand concepts and specially established the watch brand Saxe-Coburg Gotha.

The purpose of using your own surname as a brand for a watch is also very simple. First, it is to quickly increase the brand awareness of the watch.

The Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty is well-known. After all, the current British royal family Windsor is also a member of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty, but the British king changed his surname.

Such watches named after aristocratic surnames have a noble temperament from birth. The price of any watch is more than 500 Australian dollars, and they are all priceless.

There are even capitalists who want to buy a watch for 2,000 euros but still to no avail, because such a watch not only represents the superficial value in Australasia, but also represents the importance that the royal family and Arthur attach to the person who obtains the watch.

Everyone stared at the time nervously. About twenty minutes later, a warship on the sea in the distance could be seen with binoculars.

General Andrew ordered the warship to continue moving forward at its original speed. At a little more than 41 minutes, it happened to cross the battleship 100 meters away and missed it.

General Andrew breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately turned his head to look at Tesla with astonishing eyes, and praised very shamelessly: "What an amazing invention, Mr. Tesla. I can't imagine knowing the enemy's position and speed." Under the premise, how powerful can the combat effectiveness of our navy be?"

Hearing General Andrew's praise, Tesla nodded with an unchanged expression and said very plainly: "Your Majesty, General, is overly complimentary. This is all due to His Majesty's support."

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