Chapter 852: Panic among the Krulls
Since entering the era of rear-loading guns, the navy of the Krull Kingdom has maintained a large number of shipbuilding programs almost every year, and its local shipyards have been expanded many times.
From the earliest various messy rear-loading artillery ironclad ships, to the central artillery room ironclad ships.
and then to the low-freeboard battleships with typical significance, represented by steel-faced iron armor, low freeboard, and large-caliber long-barreled main guns.
And then to the high dry broadside open battery battleship.
to high-freeboard battleships with hardened armor and rapid-fire guns.
Then to the battleships with mixed main guns with closed turrets and secondary guns.
In each of these technological changes, the Krull Kingdom has set off a large-scale shipbuilding.
So in addition to a mixed main gun battleship and some battleships with a traditional gun layout with hardened armor, they also have a group of traditional ship gun layouts, and there are no high-freeboard and low-freeboard battleships with hardened armor and rapid-fire guns.
These warships, which did not use hardened armor and did not have a comprehensive protection concept, also adopted a high-dryboard open battery layout, which was a product of the Orr War of that year.
And there were only eighteen such high-dryboard battleships without hardened armor, and then there were more than a dozen high-dryboard battery-armored cruisers, in addition to a large number of first-class protective cruisers.
Although these battleships do not have hardened armor, in the past few years, they have successively replaced the original old secondary guns with new rapid-fire guns, in fact, they can also be pulled up to fight, even if they can't beat the latest hybrid main gun battleships, but it is no problem to use them against contemporaries or older warships.
After all, in almost all countries, those traditional warships are still capital ships, even in the Daheng Imperial Navy, there are still a few Endless Sea-class low-freeboard battleships, which are also reequipped with rapid-fire guns and continue to serve, even if they are already relegated to the second line, but they are still in active service.
The same is true for other countries, so don't think that these old warships are useless, in fact, they are still an important part of the naval strength of various countries.
How can it be possible to maintain the huge scale of the navies of various countries with only so many new warships!
Relying on the belongings accumulated in the past ten years, even after entering the era of hybrid main guns, the navy of the Krull Kingdom can still dominate the world.
However, in order to continue to maintain the title of the world's No. 1 navy over the years, the navy of the Krull Kingdom has also paid a huge price, and the naval military expenditure, which has been seriously overspent every year, is the best proof of this!
Now that Daheng people have set off a new round of naval technology revolution, how can they not worry!
Although at present, the navy of the Krull Kingdom does not know why the Great Heng people want to build multiple main gun battleships, and they can't figure out how the Great Heng people carry out ultra-long-distance shelling.
But as long as it is confirmed that the Daheng people are indeed fighting multiple main gun battleships, then whether it is for competition or even just from a defensive point of view, they must follow up.
Therefore, although there is no conclusion on the side of the navy of the Krull Kingdom, in fact, their battleship designers have already begun to design multi-gun battleships.
It's a design, but it's more like plagiarism, just copy the Dahengren's multi-main gun battleship, and even the naval gun layout is the same as the ten-gun layout.
Although I don't understand it, but let's talk about it after building it first, anyway, the construction period of the battleship will take two or three years, to say the least, build it first, and then study it slowly.
And on the side of the Krull Kingdom, there are still talents, they analyzed through a lot of information of the Great Heng people, and they took a batch of cleaning photos of the new warships of the Great Heng people.
After analyzing the photos, they found a suspicious point, that is, in addition to the rangefinders deployed on the main gun turrets in the new battleship of the Great Hengren, they also found that the Great Hengren had a larger rangefinder on the bridge.
After guessing the size and accuracy of this rangefinder, it is quite certain that this large rangefinder is definitely prepared for ultra-long-range shelling of more than 15,000 kilometers, otherwise it would not be necessary at all.
At the same time, the role of this independent rangefinder on the bridge is most likely to provide ranging data for all the main guns of the ship.
After these analyses, combined with other intelligence, the technical department of the Navy of the Krull Kingdom finally got what they thought was a more reliable guess: those damn Great Heng people are playing centralized fire control!
"Although we don't yet know how they implemented centralized fire control, there is no doubt that from a series of their technical characteristics, their new warships use a centralized fire control system, and this also confirms our suspicion that they do use ultra-long-distance artillery training, and use centralized fire control!"
"Our temporary emergency test proved that if the problem of misjudgment of the impact point can be effectively solved through observation, and at the same time, multiple main guns can be combined together for observation and judgment, and the salvo of multiple main guns, as long as it is a straddle fire on the target, then we can consider that the target has entered the normal dispersion range of the naval guns, and then we only need to continue to shell, then we can get a hit!"
"At the same time, this can also explain why the Daheng people want to build a multi-main gun battleship, because this kind of centralized fire control requires the data of multiple main guns, if the number of main guns is too small, it is impossible to get effective data, according to the analysis of our technical personnel, at least six guns are needed to get more accurate shooting metadata, if it is ten or more, then the shooting elements obtained are more accurate!"
"The Great Heng people built these multi-main gun battleships to carry out long-range artillery bombardment tactics!"
"At the same time, this also lets us know why the people of Daheng wanted to build a series of Luohe-class six-main gun battleships, they may have discovered the secret of centralized fire control at that time, and carried out relevant research, but because the technology is not mature and cannot be applied, and at the same time, they want to make the newly built battleship have the potential for subsequent modifications, so they will build this seemingly unique six-gun battleship, because this is a very typical transitional battleship!"
"And now the batch of battleships with ten main guns and multiple main guns built by the people of Daheng is their real goal!"
"And after our simulation test, all our existing warships, whether they are mixed main gun battleships or other warships, will become vulnerable in front of the new generation of multi-main gun battleships of the Daheng people, this is not the new battleship of the Daheng people The protection is better, bigger, and faster, in fact, our new battleship protection is good, the speed is also fast, and even our battleship is the largest tonnage!"
"However, there is a huge gap in the effective range of the warships of the two sides that cannot be bridged!"
"It's going to be fatal!"