But even with all the flaws, this battleship is still a rare success among the various types of Japanese battleships before and after World War II, and its biggest advantage is the outstanding high speed and endurance, the former is only slightly inferior to the design idea but the tonnage is larger, and the Jishu level is higher (Germany's national strength and technology are too superior to Japan's, and the Bismarck was built much later than the Haruna, and the craftsmanship and Jishu level at that time were naturally much higher.) Bismarck-class battleships and the Iowa-class battleships of the United States, which appeared even later, are even more difficult to find opponents among the battleships of various countries before and after World War II

Therefore, the four Kongo-class battleships such as the "Haruna" had in most cases "enemy ships that can beat it cannot catch up with it, and battleships that can catch up with it cannot beat it." If it weren't for the unfortunate fact that it coincided with the rise of aircraft carriers (Note 1), history would have been able to achieve even better results

The only heavy cruiser "Tone" captured was the Zuihou-1 heavy cruiser built by Japan in history -- the Tone-class heavy cruiser, which also had amazing speed and endurance, and would not hold back the "Haruna" at all. The heavy cruiser "Tone" had just joined active duty not long ago, and the Japanese headquarters headquarters had sent it here, apparently thinking that it was safer to bully the squadron that had no power to fight back, and it was just for the new recruits on the ship to train their hands, and the battleship "Haruna", which had just completed its second refit less than a month earlier, was probably sent for the same motive, and even the eight destroyers were all new ships that had only been launched in the past two years

After realizing this, Hu Weidong couldn't help laughing at himself, "It seems to be underestimated!" However, if you are underestimated every time, you can capture a brand new warship. I'd rather be underestimated by devils every day."

The more he thought about it, the happier Hu Weidong rarely put aside his business, and boarded the Haruna battleship accompanied by Shiraishi Tomohisa and other senior cadres of the Japanese column, just seeing the thick barrel of the 356mm main gun, he felt an indescribable pleasure in his heart, but when he looked around, he was suddenly surprised to find that the caliber of the anti-aircraft gun was not the 127mm that had been used in history until the sinking of the ship, and immediately asked the captain of the devil navy who had surrendered to one of the accompanying people in Japanese. But now he has been able to subconsciously hide his traverser characteristics. So the question that blurted out was "I remember that the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns of the Japanese Navy have always been 127mm, why did this one suddenly change?" ”

Seeing that Hu Weidong actually knew Japan better than Shiraishi Tomohisa said, that devil captain couldn't help but be secretly frightened. Although his position is not high, he "knows himself and knows his opponent, and he will not be defeated in a hundred battles." I still understand the truth. The high-ranking generals of the squadron actually knew Japan better than many Japanese, and it was no wonder that the "Imperial Army" suffered heavy losses again and again at his hands

According to this Japanese naval captain, the bomber squadron of the 15 th Army Flying Regiment pretended to be Japanese planes and severely damaged the Japanese task force with two light aircraft carriers, which deeply shocked the Japanese navy top brass; after a series of investigations and studies, they came to the conclusion that although the sneak attack by the Chinese was the main reason, the poor performance of several types of antiaircraft guns used by the navy ships could not be avoided. [~] Unlike the unrepentant people who suffered countless losses in the Pacific War in history, being planted in the hands of the Chinese, who have always looked down on them, undoubtedly stimulated the Japanese navy even more. In particular, the army also took the opportunity to ridicule and ridicule the poor performance of the navy's antiaircraft guns on many occasions, which made the senior officers of the Japanese navy even more unbearable. In addition, with the rise of the "aircraft carrier faction," the issue of fleet air defense has received increasing attention from the top level of the Japanese Navy, so the research and development of various types of new antiaircraft guns has received unprecedented attention.

Among them, the small-caliber anti-aircraft guns are still slow to progress because of the fallacy of the Navy's anti-aircraft gun research and development ideas, but the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns are inspired by the new tactics used by the North China Air Corps. Begin to move towards the correct course (Note 2) that prioritizes the pursuit of maximum shooting height. In addition, the Japanese Navy's jishuliliang is much stronger than the army, so it quickly produced two finished products, caliber 75mm and 120mm, respectively, in other words, this is also the first time that the navy has selected the same caliber as the army in independent research and development (corresponding to the army's 88-type 75mm anti-aircraft gun and the Canadian 120mm high-level dual-purpose heavy cannon), in order to prove to those high-ranking army officials that "the weapons designed by the navy are better than the army." Every performance is! (Well, I admit that this setting is just a new type of shell that is convenient for the use of proximity fuses_)...,

"The butterfly effect is really everywhere!" , Hu Weidong sighed secretly after hearing the performance of these two anti-aircraft guns, "It is slightly stronger than the anti-aircraft guns of the same caliber made by the Japanese Army in the late stage of World War II, it seems that the Japanese Navy anti-aircraft guns in history are not good purely because of the pitfalls of the fucking design ideas, but I didn't expect my crossing to help them solve this problem, anyway, during the Anti-Japanese War, our air force did not have a big chance of fighting the devil's large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, and the real headache should be the beauty demon in the future, so you should sell weapons to Japan, you deserve it!" ”

The performance parameters of these two large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, named "Type 98 120mm anti-aircraft guns" and "Type 98 75mm anti-aircraft guns", are as follows:

Type 98 120mm anti-aircraft gun

Caliber: 120mm

Barrel Length: 6710mm (L56)

Pitch angle: 8-90 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees

Projectile weight: 23.4kg

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 872m/sec

Full gun weight: 19808kg

Ground range: 23800m

Anti-air range: 19000m

Anti-air launch height: 14200m

and

Type 98 75mm anti-aircraft gun

Caliber: 75mm

Barrel length: 4200mm (L56)

Pitch angle: 0-90 degrees

Azimuth firing range: 360 degrees

Projectile weight: 6.3kg

Muzzle velocity of projectile: 894m/sec

Full gun weight: 5800kg

Ground range: 18200m

Anti-air range: 15800m

Anti-air launch height: 11500m

Note 1: Since the middle of World War II, aircraft carriers have become faster and faster, and in the later period, they have surpassed all large ships, and the strike range of carrier-based aircraft has been far above the naval guns from the beginning, and the so-called "attack ships" such as battle cruisers and high-speed battleships have been restrained to death

Note 2: In fact, this design was problematic, but the United States has successively built several strategic bombers that bully people by virtue of the height of the ceiling, especially the B29 that can bomb at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters. As for the 15 th Army, which captured these anti-aircraft guns, because there happened to be close-range shells of the corresponding caliber, and there were extremely excellent small-caliber close-in antiaircraft guns to complement each other, this devil's new large-caliber antiaircraft gun was also very comfortable to use. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )