Chapter 743: Beware of Accusing You of Slander
According to the analysis of the Krull navy, during the battle between the two sides in the Battle of Beauva, the Gaphians were at a great disadvantage in the artillery battle because of the lack of rapid-fire guns of the 150 mm caliber class and larger caliber.
The Daheng Imperial Navy was able to gain an absolute lead in this naval battle, in addition to the better protection brought by hardened armor, the advantage of its large-caliber rapid-fire guns was also very obvious, and even occupied a decisive influence.
And at the end of the report, the Krull people have come to the conclusion that even the 200-millimeter rapid-fire gun of the Great Hengren in this battle is still a little worse, although the gun has a high rate of fire and has more hits, but the power is too small, especially it cannot penetrate the main armor belt of the battleship at a long distance.
If it had been replaced by a large-caliber rapid-fire gun of the 230 or 250 mm class, so many shells would have sunk the enemy's battleship long ago.
The report concludes with a strong recommendation to develop rapid-fire guns of caliber of more than 230 millimeters, and the actual rate of fire must reach more than two rounds per minute.
Whether it is a secondary gun scheduled for a hybrid main gun or a main gun on an armored cruiser, it needs to be equipped with this large-caliber rapid-fire main gun.
And this report also affirms the previous plan for the construction of mixed main gun battleships of the Krull Kingdom Navy.
In the past, when the Krull Kingdom was engaged in mixed main guns, it was only because he got the mixed main gun battleship plan of the Great Heng Empire, and at the same time, he found defects such as the slow rate of fire of the main gun during the test, so he tried to build a mixed main gun battleship.
Last year, several battleships with mixed main guns had already started construction, but this report on the Battle of Boa confirmed the correct determination of the mixed main gun plan from actual combat.
The large-caliber main gun is used to obtain the final effect, and the large-caliber rapid-fire secondary gun is used to supplement the defect that the rate of fire of the primary gun is too slow.
The mixed main gun battleships of the Navy of the Krull Kingdom have already started construction, and they are also ready to be equipped with 230 mm caliber naval guns as the second class main guns, but the time is too short, so that the problem of rapid fire of 230 mm naval guns has not been completely solved.
After all, the rapid-fire of large-caliber naval guns is not only a problem of the naval guns themselves, but also related to loading, and it is basically impossible to achieve such a high rate of fire without omnidirectional loading.
When the omni-directional loading mechanism and the rapid-fire gun itself are combined, it is actually a complete version of the large-caliber rapid-fire gun, or it is a half-hanger.
This involves a systematic project, Daheng people engaged in these at the beginning, but after tossing for five or six years, and finally tossed out, Kruhrrao is technical ability is better, research and development progress is faster, but no matter how it takes two or three years.
Even if the Krull Kingdom industry made a package last year, it will definitely be able to rush out in time, and it will definitely not delay the construction and service of the battleship.
Therefore, the battleships of the Krull Kingdom with mixed main guns are no longer able to be launched in more than a year, outfitting in a few months, and being able to enter service in less than two years, according to their predetermined plan, I am afraid that the entire hull construction and outfitting time will take at least three years or so.
However, they can't build it quickly, but a large number of subsystems need to be developed, especially the 230 mm 45 times second stage main gun and the associated omnidirectional loading mechanism, which is not easy to do.
The Krull Kingdom itself has to toss for a while to get it out, not to mention other countries, they are even more unbearable than the Krull Kingdom.
At least the Krull Kingdom discovered the importance of large-caliber rapid-fire guns last year, and carried out research in time, and it should be able to get it out in a year or two and equip it on new warships in time.
But other countries!
They hadn't even mastered the 150mm rapid-fire gun before, otherwise, the warships of the Gafiya Imperial Navy would not have been equipped with only 120mm rapid-fire guns, not because they didn't want 150mm rapid-fire guns, but because they didn't have ......
As for rapid-fire guns of larger calibers, especially rapid-fire guns of the 200 mm or even 230 mm and 250 mm classes, they only have a verbal plan at best......
After all, rapid-fire guns only became popular around the world last year, and even if they are forward-looking, it will take time!
They are not like the Great Heng Empire, which started the research and development of rapid-fire guns five or six years in advance, nor is it like the Krull Kingdom has strong strength and industrial base, in this case, even the two traditional industrial powers, the Kekel Empire and the Valia Empire, don't expect to come up with large-caliber rapid-fire guns in two or three years.
As for wanting to wait for the ship to be put into service, it is estimated that it will be four or five years later.
Some small and medium-sized countries also began to come to the door and wanted to order large-caliber rapid-fire guns, but the Daheng Empire naturally refused.
Large-caliber rapid-fire guns are systematic projects, which involve integrated turrets, internal loading structures and other things, naturally they cannot be exported indiscriminately, otherwise let engineers from other countries take a few more looks, and people will give you a copycat in minutes.
Therefore, it is okay to export rapid-fire guns, but they can only be rapid-fire guns limited to a caliber of less than 150 mm and use manual loading, as for those large-caliber rapid-fire guns that require mechanically assisted loading, they will not be exported for the time being.
However, even so, the Daheng Imperial Navy has been researching and developing in the field of rapid-fire guns for many years, even if it does not add omnidirectional loading and other loading mechanisms, but only does a good job of the control and retreat mechanism of the artillery itself, then the rate of fire can also be increased a lot, for example, the naval guns of 300 mm caliber can be increased to one round in two minutes, and the rate of fire of naval guns of two hundred and fifty mm caliber can be increased to 1.5 rounds a minute.
Even so, the rate of fire is slightly faster than that of the current large-caliber main guns in service in other countries.
The new round of naval innovations brought about by the Battle of Beauvois is a concern of naval warship designers of various countries, but diplomats of various countries obviously do not pay much attention to these subsequent naval innovations, and they are more concerned about the direction of the Liej incident after the Battle of Beauvois.
After the Battle of Bova, Lieutenant General Ren Zhongping led the fleet back, but did not enter the Bova military base, because the local lack of facilities to repair ships, and could not provide the fleet with elixir supplies, so they provided some coal, fresh water and small-caliber ammunition supplies when they died.
But the most urgently needed ammunition of two hundred millimeters in the fleet could not be replenished.
In addition, there is another key problem, the Army's Southwest Mixed Brigade, which landed in advance at the coastal port of the Liej Kingdom yesterday, will not have time to go to Bowa City to garrison.
Ren Zhongping naturally wouldn't put his fleet in danger, so he turned around and turned westward directly, all the way back to the Orr Kingdom Lane Military Base!
It is worth noting that after receiving the relevant information, two cutting-edge battleships and two armored cruisers in its main fleet led several cruisers to conduct so-called ocean-going exercises.
Even fools can see that the navy of the Orr Kingdom is going to meet the southwest fleet of Daheng.
As for the Southern Fleet of the Great Heng Empire stationed in the Ryan fleet, its current strength is a bit scummy.
Since the Lieji Incident, the situation began to be tense, and the Daheng Imperial Navy also began to dispatch capital ships to the south to prepare for war.
The first batch was the Crane-class armored cruisers and several cruisers and destroyers, and then together with several capital ships belonging to the Southern Fleet at that time, they formed the capital ship formation of the Southwest Fleet, and after the capital ships were transferred, the Southern Fleet actually only had a few old cruisers left.
Although five days ago, the Great Heng Imperial Navy had once again decided to send its capital ships south to deal with the situation in Lieji.
Among them is the top battleship on the contemporary Blue Star, the Jingzhou-class battleship!
However, although the situation was tense at that time, the two sides had not yet started fighting, so the second batch of capital ships was still gathering in the military port on the southeast coast of the empire, that is, the Nanfeng military base, and had not yet set off......
Before the arrival of the second batch of capital ships, the Empire's Southern Fleet was actually not very strong!
In order to avoid trouble, the Daheng Empire found the side of the Orr Kingdom and asked them to answer one or two in the name of ocean-going exercises, not to let them help fight the war, but to help reconnoiter one or two, provide peripheral intelligence and the like, so as not to overturn the ship in the gutter on the way back to the fleet.
At the same time, the navy of the Great Heng Empire not only needs to consolidate the east and west coasts, but also needs to ensure the navigation safety of the Endless Strait, and also has to avoid that after the war expands, the Endless Strait will be blocked, and there are more scruples on weekdays.
Now it coincides with the Lieji Incident, and the capital ships, which were originally felt to be enough, suddenly feel insufficient.
Therefore, in addition, the Great Heng Empire is still coordinating with the Orr Kingdom to see if it can lease their warships.
Leasing a few of his cutting-edge warships to the Daheng people, to be honest, the Orrs are not very happy.
It's not a question of money or not, but if you do this, there is no difference between the Orns and directly joining the war, and everyone doesn't play any word games with you these days, you say that it is leased to the Daheng people, but in the eyes of the Gafia Empire, there is no difference between directly declaring war on them.
What's more, it would be fine if this kind of thing was proposed before the war, but now that both sides have already fought a big war and have entered a state of war, there is no difference between the Orrs intervening and directly declaring war.
To be honest, the Orr people don't want to fight again, the Fourth Croatian War has only ended a few years ago, and the Orr Kingdom also needs time to recuperate, and they are not willing to participate in the colonial conflict between the Great Heng and the Gafia Empire at this time.
However, there is still friendship between the two countries, and in the last Orr War, that is, the Fourth Croatian-Austrian War, the Daheng people urgently sold them several capital ships before the war, and sold them an Endless Sea-class battleship for emergency after the war.
At that time, it was of course the attempt of the Daheng Empire to take the opportunity to deal with outdated and backward warships, but even so, it was for the sake of the good relationship between the two sides, and the relationship was not good enough to a certain extent, and no one would sell the active battleships, even the outdated battleships, to you for emergencies.
This love, the Orr people can't help but remember!
Therefore, the Orr people pondered it, and directly changed the livery of an Endless Sea-class battleship that they had purchased on an emergency basis a few years ago, and then secretly took advantage of the night to drive to the Daheng military base in the Orr Kingdom.
If you ask him why it's just a human being, the boat stays.
People will be anxious with you: your eye sees that this ship is our Orn, this is obviously the Endless Sea-class battleship of the Great Heng people, you are blind!
Beware of me suing you for slander!