To a certain extent, the Jinghe is actually the first battleship in the Daheng Empire designed according to the concept of all-heavy gun battleships, but when the ship was designed, the technology of the Daheng Empire was still limited, so the battleship seemed to have a huge tonnage and many main guns, but the caliber of the main guns was a little smaller, and the body tube was a little shorter, and the maximum range was only 12,000 kilometers due to the influence of caliber, body tube, and elevation angle.

And there is no unified fire control!

However, if it is said that after the installation of unified fire control, the ship can be transformed into a unified all-heavy artillery warship in minutes.

Even if the caliber of the main gun is a little smaller and the body barrel is shorter, if it is equipped with unified fire control, then there will be no problem at all for the ship to conduct long-distance operations of more than 10,000 meters in the future.

Once the unified fire control system has been tested well on the Jinghe, and after the feedback from the test results is improved, the Navy will produce multiple sets of unified fire control systems to be installed on the four Luohe-class ships and the next two Fengshan-class ships.

Let these warships become the first batch of capital warships of the Great Heng Empire with long-distance combat capabilities!

At the same time, according to the production and use experience of the first batch of unified fire control, the second batch of unified fire control systems will continue to be improved and upgraded, and the second batch of unified fire control systems will be finalized to be installed on the Ningyu-class battleships, Zhongluo-class battleships, Qiping-class battlecruisers, and Hechuan-class heavy cruisers under construction.

When the navy of the Great Heng Empire was engaged in long-distance warfare, the navies of other countries did not lag behind, and they were also striving to develop new technologies to innovate their own warships.

The Krull Kingdom successfully conquered the large-caliber rapid-fire gun technology, and based on the experience of the Second Battle of Beauva, completely abandoned the open turret and chose a closed turret, although the technical details are different from those used by the Daheng Empire, but the details are still similar.

For example, the omnidirectional loading technology is adopted, which is a key technology for improving large-caliber naval guns.

Improving the ability to relocate and reset, and increasing the reloading speed, these are the two key technologies to increase the rate of fire of naval guns.

If the reloading speed is increased, there is no problem for manually loaded naval guns of less than 170 mm caliber, and direct manual reloading is sufficient, but for naval guns exceeding this caliber, it is necessary to use mechanically assisted reloading.

And when these two major technologies are solved and integrated to design a complete set of naval artillery systems, then large-caliber rapid-fire guns will also appear.

The Krull Kingdom has a strong technical background, coupled with the fact that Qiansheng began to spare no manpower and material resources to overcome technical difficulties in the eleventh year, so it is natural to be able to solve the above problems, and the main warships that have been put into service recently have basically adopted large-caliber rapid-fire guns for their two hundred and thirty mm and two hundred and fifty mm secondary guns, and the rate of fire is not worse than that of the Great Hengren.

Countries with slightly less advanced technology are taking a different path.

However, the Kyle Empire and the Walia Empire, they use semi-omnidirectional manual reloading and other inferior technologies to deal with emergencies.

In this way, although the rate of fire will be slightly slower, it can barely be called a large-caliber rapid-fire gun, as a transitional one or two, and at the same time they continue to study mechanical omnidirectional loading technology, and it is estimated that the next generation of warships will be able to use.

And the countries with worse technology, they know that it is difficult for them to break through the technology of large-caliber rapid-fire guns in a short time, so they use 170 mm rapid-fire guns as the secondary main guns, such as the Olisa Empire, the Valia Empire, the Orlan Kingdom and other countries.

The main gun of this caliber is the limit caliber of artificial loading, and the Daheng Empire itself has also developed the main gun of this caliber, but it has not been equipped with it, but has adopted rapid-fire guns of this caliber on several warships exported.

In fact, the rapid-fire gun of this caliber is also very good, in addition to the physical consumption of soldiers, in fact, there are not too many defects, the rate of fire is very high, the power is greater than one hundred and fifty mm, and the number of installations will be more than two hundred mm or more large-caliber speed guns.

Of course, naval guns of this caliber are basically useless against battleships with full protection against the enemy.

In recent years, everyone's new generation of warships have basically adopted the design idea of comprehensive protection with hardened armor, and the tonnage is generally more than 15,000 tons, and 16,700 tons is very common.

Against such a battleship, the caliber of the second-stage main gun is smaller, and it is difficult to inflict any fatal damage on this new generation of warship.

Of course, it is not a problem to hit a dozen superstructures, secondary gun positions or something.

All countries are within the scope of their own technology and industrial scale, and try to improve the performance of their warships and the size of their fleets.

In this case, it is not one country or two countries, or even limited to the eight major powers, but the entire blue star range of large and medium-sized countries are involved.

This is a naval race on a global scale.

At present, the Daheng Imperial Navy is still in a leading position in this naval competition, and after the breakthrough of unified fire control technology, I am afraid it will be further expanded.

In the expectation of the navy and under the attention of Lin Ziran, in September of the 14th year of Qiansheng, the Navy's fire control office lived up to expectations and finally came up with the first unified fire control system that could be installed on ships on schedule and installed it on the battleship Jinghe.

After installation, the ship carried out several long-range shelling with live ammunition.

And the effect of the shelling greatly exhilarated the Navy!

With the assistance of unified fire control, the Jinghe carried out several rounds of shelling on the target ship.

The Mirror River was moving at a speed of sixteen knots, and the target ship was a decommissioned old cruiser at fourteen knots, and the two sides were heading in the same direction at an angle of 30 degrees.

The shelling began at 12,000 kilometers, and the distance between the two sides would be reduced until the target ship was sunk.

However, when the target ship was 11,000 meters, the fourth salvo of the Jinghe had already formed a straddle shot, and when the sixth salvo was fired, it hit the ship.

When the ship sank, the distance between the two sides was more than 10,000 meters, reaching 1,500 meters.

And the ship was sunk early, which also led to the originally expected 8,000-meter artillery bombardment test, and the 6,000-meter artillery bombardment test was not carried out at all!

However, at this time, the admirals of the navy are still concerned about the 8,000-meter and 6-meter tests, which can sink enemy ships in 11,000 meters, and the navy naturally focuses on long-distance artillery bombardment of more than 10,000 meters.

After the first target ship was sunk, the Navy used three more target ships to conduct the test, and in the course of the test, the focus was on the combat distance of 10,000 to 12,000 meters.

In the end, the Jinghe successfully sank all the three subsequent target ships.

The live-fire test of the unified fire control system was a complete success!