Chapter Seventy-Three: Encounter (Part II)

Since almost half of the combat personnel on the Bismarck were sent to the Tirpitz by Lütjans to compensate for the low combat efficiency of the Tirpitz, which was still in the training phase.

Bismarck took on almost all the attack tasks, but fortunately, the target of "Anton" that suddenly turned on the foredeck was so large that even an officer on duty at the former main artillery command post noticed the anomaly at the first time, and after quickly asking his superiors, he quickly reported the news to Harald, the chief of the General Staff as the commander of Lütjans. Netzband, after many reports, the news soon reached Ruetjens.

Everyone present understood that in the current situation, Bismarck's huge main artillery could be mobilized so easily, and Bismarck was the only one who could mobilize it.

And this situation can only show that they have been attacked!

"Did you find anything on the radar?" Lütjans hurriedly asked Netzband, the chief of staff on the side, as the former captain of the Gneisenau, he also followed Lütjans to participate in this operation this time.

Netzbander turned his gaze to a panting officer, who quickly replied, "No targets were found on the radar, at least not on the sea." ”

The radar used on the Bismarck is a FUMG40G radar, operating in the band of 71~81.5 (368-390MHZ), in theory, the detection area of this radar can reach 220 kilometers, but considering the influence of weather conditions, sea surface conditions and the curvature of the earth, the detection range will be much smaller.

In practice, its detection range is 20~26 kilometers, that is, between 10.8~13.5 nautical miles. But for larger targets, the detection range can be increased to 30 km (16.5 nautical miles), and even then, the performance of such radars is unstable and does not catch up with British shipborne radars in performance.

FUNG40G RADAR LOOKS LIKE AN UNFOLDED BED, MEASURING 4×2 METERS, AND IT USES 80 CENTIMETERS, A WAVELENGTH OF 380 MHZ, AND A PULSE REPETITION RATE OF 500 HZ.

But the frequency can be changed slightly, and there is a way to prevent the three radars from interfering with each other. It has an output of 8 kilowatts and an accuracy of 50 meters.

Such accuracy was sufficient to guide artillery fire, as well as surface search, but it did not have the ability to search in the air, and for this, Bismarck had to rely on his own lookouts.

And this is fatal for Bismarck's current condition......

"Since the enemy is not attacking from the sea, then ...... There's no new news coming from Prien's side, and it seems that the last thing I want to happen has happened......" Ruttyans said lightly, but his hands were already clenched.

"It's an enemy air raid, immediately issue an air raid alert!"

[Half of it is left, I'll make it up tomorrow morning, I'm on the night shift now, I don't have much time, and the next break is two o'clock, I'm really sorry]