Chapter 1023: The Prince's Response

Slide 1023

In addition to the material of the shell, there are two aspects to increase the horizontal penetration. One is to increase the speed of the shell when it falls, and the other is to increase the angle of the shell when it falls. The former is easy to understand, as for the latter, it can be understood that the more curved the trajectory, the greater the horizontal penetration under other conditions!

According to these two principles, after the Bavarian 15-inch artillery was put into service, Skoda’s technicians have been improving the artillery. After countless calculations and tests, how to improve the level of penetration, Skoda really came up with some solutions.

First of all, the old-style shells are not good in appearance. The 871KG shells are only 130cm in length, and the shell length is somewhat short. After changing to the new hood and increasing the shell length to 156CM, the storage speed of the shells is greatly improved. In addition to the length of the projectile, the shape of the hood has also been optimized to a certain extent, which can be understood as optimizing the "aerodynamic layout" of the projectile.

Secondly, although the 871KG shell is considered heavy, if you want to increase the level of penetration, the heavier the shell will have the better horizontal penetration. Therefore, after a slight improvement in the amount of propellant, the weight of the new-style projectile was increased to 890KG. In this way, the ballistic trajectory was more curved and the horizontal penetration was increased.

After these two improvements, the new artillery shell can penetrate 50MM uniform armor plus 25MM defensive backplane at 15 kilometers in the range simulation. To a certain extent, it can basically be used against Fuso. Of course, after replacing the shells, the monitors must be replaced and training must be repeated. Therefore, it will take a while to develop combat effectiveness. Do you really think that the German high seas fleet is now sleeping in the harbor? Naturally impossible. How could the fleet that the Empire spent billions of marks to build idle? In addition to preparing for the upcoming landing battle in the Gulf of Riga, the rest is to train the use of new artillery shells and strengthen the control of the Baltic Sea.

As for what happens when the British discover it again? This, the prince doesn’t need to worry too much. First of all, the horizontal defense is not the same as the sidestring defense. After all, the former has a larger area and is several times larger! Historically, the British method of adding dome armor to improve defense is indeed useful, but it also paid the price of weight. Take the Duke of Tie as an example. After the Battle of Jutland, the dome armor increased by 1 inch to 2 inches. Not all the core compartments have been upgraded, which adds 820 tons of weight! (It should be an increase of 1 inch for the horizontal part and about 2 inches for the inclined part) And if the thickness of the thickest layer of all core compartments is to be more than 3 inches, then the cost of weight and the time and resources required for improvement must be British What people don't want to see...

As for the Japanese Fuso, the defensive configuration is actually very good, with a large thickness of armor finished, but for the same reason, if it is changed after being beaten, it will also have to bear huge time and material loss. And after all, it’s a Japanese ship. Even if you change it, the British will have to wait until your ship is finished. And for the navy, as long as the German fleet can hit another kill similar to that in the Thunder-Surbrus battle, don’t lose too much. If more, then the dominance of the British fleet is really dangerous, and it is not always useful to make up for it!

"After there are underwater bombs and heavy bombs specifically designed to deal with horizontal armor, the problem of naval artillery warfare shouldn't be big, right?" The prince calculated in his heart. Regarding the matter of changing the shells, the prince would just hand it over to Tirpitz. It was not too difficult anyway. And what the prince really cares about is another matter, something that is closely related to the air force, and even quite groundbreaking, and this matter can only be caught by the prince himself. If it is replaced by someone else, he does not know how to make it. What kind of it! That is the naval aviation and air force's attack on ships! This difficulty is inherently great, and it is groundbreaking!

Technically, the two sides of the war have always been in a state of fighting each other. The two sides are doing everything in order to win the opponent. Some things are useless in historical wars, but it does not mean that there is no or no use. For example, such things as aircraft carriers did nothing in the history of World War I, but it does not mean that they were technically undesirable. At least from what the prince knew, the British Navy had already had aircraft carriers at the end of World War I. With the technical factors of the carrier-based aircraft facing the sea, if we fight for two more years, it is very likely that the aircraft will bomb the fleet from the aircraft carrier!

Because historically the first-generation aircraft carrier and the first-generation carrier-based aircraft have already taken shape, the only pity is that there is no opportunity to perform, and this plane now? Technology is about 5 years ahead of history. If the war is still fought for 4 years and ends in 1916 on this plane, then the level of technology is at least equivalent to about 1920 in history, and at this time, the world's first An aircraft carrier and first-class carrier-based aircraft are already in service! Who would dare to say that there would be no aircraft carriers attacking battleships in this Plan 1 battle?

It may not be enough if you want to line up a battle similar to hundreds of aircraft in the second battle, but don’t forget that fleet air defense is not working in this era. I want to fight with anti-lightning guns and single-digit antiaircraft guns. Getting off the plane was also a matter of luck! When the spear is not sharp enough and the shield is even worse~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Although aircraft carriers and naval aviation will not rule the battlefield like the Second World War, they are still very useful as an important weight to determine the outcome of the battle!

So, regardless of whether it can be used in this war, it will definitely be used in future wars! The prince has been working hard to build an aviation force that can face the sea and can preferably be on board after the air force has improved. The aircraft carrier plan is modified with large ships and is currently being outfitted at the Blom-Forth Shipyard. , And the carrier-based aircraft program was carried out in Bavaria and Bohemia at the same time.

This time, the prince came to Bohemia to pay attention to the production of new artillery shells. The carrier-based aircraft was also the top priority. The new DB1911 V12 250-horsepower engine has been in service, and the 300-horsepower improved version is also in service. In the test, this powerful engine directly made the service of high-performance carrier-based aircraft and attack aircraft a reality.

In Crimea, Daimler, who had become an earl, and his team personally went to the station to welcome the prince’s arrival. In this way, Ruprecht could not even go home to see his wife first, and was forced to Came to an aircraft factory on the outskirts of Prague!

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