Chapter 641 Naval Aviation
"I have some new ideas on the improvement of the Navy's reconnaissance capabilities, I think that the seaplanes that accompany the fleet's operations can provide better reconnaissance for the fleet, although they do not have the same long endurance as airships, but they are more flexible and numerous, and if I can, I hope to develop a seaplane carrier specifically to provide reconnaissance for the fleet. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć At the same time, when the Bavarian Corps was studying artillery, we found that the use of aircraft to correct the shelling would bring unexpected benefits, they could effectively reduce the interference of weather and smoke screens, and further increase the hit rate of the shelling, so the Navy should pay more attention to aviation. ā
Seaplane aircraft carriers are not a new thing, not to mention the British Royal Navy, even the Russians have done a lot of it, the effect is not bad, and this kind of thing is also cheap, it can be described as good quality and low price, as for aircraft shooting? With the help of naval aircraft, British shallow-water heavy gunboats successfully sank a German light cruiser hiding in an African inland river. As for how much of a role it can play in the North Sea, this needs to be questioned, but it does not prevent Ruprecht from making this proposal, after all, the development of naval aviation is the general trend.
As for equipping torpedo planes, dive bombers or something, this is better to wash and sleep first, the prince can't say that he can't get it for the future, but at least from the current point of view, it's not mature, Bavaria's improved version of the Gotha bomber hasn't been made yet, even if it is at most low-altitude horizontal bombing, 500kg of bombs seems to be very powerful and domineering, but if you have to take into account the range, you can understand, if you want to fly in the North Sea, it is impossible to carry so many bombs, And low-altitude horizontal bombing in this era should not be expected to have high accuracy. In general, before the dive bombers came out, the accuracy of attacking moving targets at sea was generally relatively poor.
As for the torpedo machine seems to be so reliable, in fact, the British have already developed a torpedo machine in World War I, but in fact, there is such a thing as a torpedo, not to mention anything else, a simple fuse is sometimes very unreliable. Well, it's unreliable. If you consider the shock and possible damage caused by the torpedo thrown from the plane and falling into the sea, then the problem is even greater, and even in the history of the two wars, torpedo planes are very particular about throwing torpedoes, the height of torpedo throwing, the speed of the aircraft are limited, a little worse may lead to torpedo failure .......
"At the same time, we need to strengthen our mine warfare and mine clearance capabilities. In the North Sea region, offshore minefields are an important pillar of the security of the fleet and ports. And the ocean-fringing of submarines and camouflaged assault ships has the potential to bring unexpected benefits. (Historically, for example, a mine laid by a German merchant ship sank the British Intrepid Daring...... We want to turn the entire coastal waters of Britain and their colonies into a sea that devours their lives and resources at every moment. ā
"And in the Baltic direction, the Russians will certainly use mines and submarines to deter our attack in the Baltic direction, and even the British may come to join in the fun, and the thought that our battleship, which is simply 3 million pounds, will be severely damaged by a mine or a torpedo worth a few hundred pounds by a moment of negligence. I am very uneasy, so in addition to dealing with the Russians by means of surface ship suppression, offensive mine-laying, and submarine warfare, we must also strengthen our mine-sweeping capabilities and anti-submarine capabilities. This is of great significance for us to take control of the Baltic Sea, and even determines to some extent when we can hold a military parade in St. Petersburg. ā
The prince wrote this, and nodded with great satisfaction. Isn't it just a report? For the Kaiser, who was so overjoyed, the more exaggerated the victory, the more he paid attention to it, well, that's how it was written!
It is definitely not alarmist for the prince to write this, there are many German warships that have been hit by Russian mines in history, such as the Bavaria, for example, Goeben, it is precisely because of the test of Russian mines that the prestige of the underwater defense system of German warships has .......
However, the prince naturally doesn't want to get out of the line such a thing, and a mine may have to go back to repair it for half a year, which may be a bad thing, as for the submarine? This also needs to be guarded against, because in history the British did have submarines sneaking into the Baltic Sea and then working with the Russian submarine forces to make trouble for the German merchant ships and fleets, and they also caused large losses. As for how these submarines slipped through the mine nets, it's simple, just follow a merchant ship and drive slowly behind him....... The navies of all countries did this in World War I...... It's easy in theory, but it's actually risky .......
In the end, it took the prince three days to finally complete the submission to the Kaiser, theoretically, from a general point of view, the prince has said everything that should be said, this condensed countless historical data of later generations, expert research and online mouth cannon of the submission was sent to the Kaiser 5 days later, and for this document, the Kaiser still likes it very much, not that the content behind can be understood, the key is that the prince's layout is very .......
At the beginning of the article, the plan of the German battleship was reasonable, very detailed, very feasible, better and more complete than the original plan, and the Kaiser, who liked the navy, was naturally overjoyed, and this first impression was very good. As for the rest of the content, even if you don't understand it, or if you have objections, it's just a matter of subsections, how could the Kaiser, who has a lot of chances, compare it with the prince of Bavaria in these places half of Germany? Anyway, it is the people below who carry out, so let the troika of the navy go and get it themselves, and if they don't understand, let them communicate with Rupresit if they don't understand.
In fact, this document eventually became the outline of the development of the German Navy in the next 6 years, in the last period of time before the outbreak of World War I, the construction of capital ships of the German Navy, the construction of submarines and coastal defense warfare and so on were carried out in accordance with this plan, this document compiled by the traverser made it very predictable for the German Navy to describe the problem of how to fight the naval battle of the First World War, and its comprehensiveness and accuracy amazed later generations of historians and military scientists.
So much so that in the 21st century, when Rupresit was already dead and his grandsons were on the throne of the German Empire, a group of civilian military enthusiasts on the Internet even thought that this was a plan made up by a time-traveler, although it sounds very absurd, but I have to say that this is the closest guess ...... to the truth of history. Sometimes history is so funny!
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