"Count Spee's telegram referred to the problem of the high performance of the Japanese battleships, and feared that the proliferation of technology would further reduce our advantage, and what we feared finally happened, and His Majesty the Kaiser expressed serious concern about it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info I hope that Your Highness you can reverse this unfavorable situation. On the prince's train to Bohasia, Tirpitz, who was accompanying him, said to the prince with a worried face.

"It is an inevitable process, and any great power that is at war will learn from the war, as well as improve itself. It is nothing more than an earlier or later time, and the era of vainly relying on a certain kind of equipment before the start of the war to get through the entire war is over, and we must keep pace with the times, and the only result of resting on our laurels is to be beaten. The prince probably glanced at the contents of the telegram and said calmly.

"You should be prepared for the current situation, right?" Tirpitz's eyes lit up when he heard this, like a drowning man who had found a lifesaver.

"Samples have already come out, and this time, you can see our new weapons when you go to Skoda." The prince said with a smile.

"If it's a new artillery, it may be of limited significance, because the turrets and guns used by the Bavaria-class battleships currently under construction have already been produced, and if they are to be replaced, it will not be very cost-effective in terms of time and economy." Tirpitz said.

"No, the existing stuff can be matched with the new equipment, for the simple reason that I just changed the shell."

"Can you solve the Japanese Fuso-class battleships by changing the shells?" Tirpitz said he didn't understand. BECAUSE, ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION OBTAINED BY TIRPITZ, THE THICKNESS OF THE SIDE CHORD ARMOR OF THE FUSO-CLASS BATTLESHIPS WAS 350 MM AND INCLINATION OF 15 DEGREES, AND THIS DEFENSIVE STRENGTH WAS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR BAVARIAN ARTILLERY TO PENETRATE EVEN AT THE FIRING RANGE WITHIN 10 KM. Even if you change the shell and want to penetrate the opponent at a normal distance of about 14KM, it is estimated that it is not very likely!

"First of all, I can be sure that the Fuso-class battleships are almost insolvable in terms of sidestring defense from the current data, unless you can get the British 18-inch guns on the battleship...... Otherwise, it is almost impossible to break down, no matter how you change it. So why do we have to focus on the almost impenetrable sidestring armor? Why don't we focus on horizontal armor? The prince said with a smile.

As a traverser, especially a person who has some research on war, I still have some understanding of the British Royal Navy's practice of making up for the dead in history, although the Royal Navy has some twilight during World War I, but the efficiency is still very high when it comes to things, especially after being bitten!

Although after the Battle of Dogle Sandbank, the Royal Navy ignored the problem of fire doors, but after three battle cruisers were killed in the Battle of Jutland, the Royal Navy not only changed the fire doors, but also strengthened the armor defense, the outer main armor belt could not be changed, but a considerable part of the inner layer of the capital ships were thickened by 1 to 1.5 inches. Counting the original thickness of the dome armor, with this layer of iron pants, it is finally not afraid of the 12-inch naval guns of the Germans.

In addition to the tinkering of the existing battleships, on the newly built battleships, the Hood also strengthened its armor defense, from the original 9-inch armor with a 12-degree inclination to a 12-inch inclination of 12 degrees. This is also quite good at the level of World War I. Of course, it just didn't catch the ...... of the last war.

Now that it is known that the British will choose to make amends after a defeat once, they will change the design of future warships. So how could Prince Ruprecht, who was a traverser, not prepare in advance? Whatever is pre-prepared is established, and if it is not pre-prepared, it will be wasted! Long before the Japanese Fuso service, the prince had already begun to prepare some follow-up moves! The underwater bullet is just one of them, and the underwater bullet is not very stable in the first place, as for the other preparations? It's finally ready for use now!

"IF OUR INTELLIGENCE IS CORRECT, THE JAPANESE BATTLESHIP ONLY HAS ONE LAYER OF HORIZONTAL ARMOR, THAT IS, THE LAYER OF HOMOGENEOUS STEEL ARMOR WITH A THICKNESS OF 50MM+25MM THAT IS CONNECTED TO THE UPPER PART OF THE SIDE CHORD ARMOR BELT, OF WHICH 50MM IS THE REAL ARMOR STEEL, AND THE BACK 25MM IS THE BACK PLATE WHICH IS CALLED THE DEFENSIVE SUBSTRATE BY THE JAPANESE, AND THE DEFENSIVE EFFECT IS BETWEEN ARMOR AND SHIPBUILDING STEEL."

"IF IT'S FAIR, THIS LEVEL OF DEFENSE IS VERY GOOD AND, COMPARED TO THE BRITISH'S THREE-LAYER 25MM THIN STEEL PLATE OR SINGLE-LAYER HORIZONTAL ARMOR WITH A MAXIMUM THICKNESS OF NO MORE THAN 50MM, THE DEFENSE EFFECT IS VERY GOOD, BECAUSE THE LATTER IS EASIER TO PENETRATE, AND EVEN IF IT CAN'T BE PENETRATED, TOO THIN ARMOR CAN BE BLOWN THROUGH. However, it is still a little thinner, and it is the horizontal armor that is worth considering compared to the desperate sidestring armor belt. The prince said very methodically.

In fact, the horizontal armor of the battleships of the First World War in history is generally fragile, and the layout is not reasonable, it may be a single layer of armor with insufficient thickness, or it may be the superposition of several layers of shipbuilding steel, in general, because the prediction of the engagement distance before the war is generally close, so the horizontal hit rate is low, and because the trajectory is relatively straight, and the reason for more shell problems, so the horizontal penetration depth is more rubbish, which is nothing, in fact, even if you look at the current horizontal armor of Fuso, Bavarian's honest 15-inch shells may not be able to penetrate at normal engagement distances.

Unlike the lateral chord armor, the horizontal armor is the longer the distance, the greater the penetration, and the current situation is like this, if the Bavaria-class battleships use honest shells to hit the horizontal armor of the Fuso, I am afraid that 18 kilometers away will have a chance to .......

In fact, 18 kilometers is close to the hit limit of the 1st battleship, so the significance of this so-called breakdown is very limited, and if you want to pierce the core area, it is better to count on the reliability of underwater bullets. A 15-inch underwater bullet is currently unreliable in any mode of defense, except for the Bavaria-class battleship, which extends from the main armor belt to the bottom of the ship, as in the case of the Hyuga's piercing of the St. Istvan's defense.

In the case that the artillery cannot be replaced, is there a way to increase the level of penetration? Naturally, there is, that is, to change the shells, why can the British 15-inch L42 be directly used in the 2nd war? In addition to the excellent hardware performance of artillery and the lack of money in the British Empire, another important reason is that the ammunition types of artillery are constantly updated. The power of the same cannon after reloading is absolutely extraordinary, and this time, what the prince did was to improve the cannonball to increase the horizontal penetration power!

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