Chapter 42: Airships and Torpedoes
Not all people with mental power can become battleship builders, mental power is only a prerequisite for becoming battleship builders, so there is such a profession as a battleship builder.
The battleships created by the battleship builders are not difficult for ordinary people to operate, but they are the products of mental power created from the construction platform after all.
Therefore, using mental power to control them is undoubtedly the best way to use all combat power, and the compatibility of a battleship manager with a battleship can make their first time on the ship work no less than a three-year elite naval soldier.
The high-intensity, high-frequency, and high-casualty wars in the world of war have made the death rate of grassroots soldiers reach 50%, so if you can survive on the front line for one year, you can be considered a veteran, three years of elite, five years is also the captain of a small warship, ten years... Retire and go home to retire, there can only be one fleet commander!
Therefore, as soon as the battleship manager enters the fleet, he is at least a three-year elite captain, and the battleship manager who has experienced three battles and has a sinking record in his hand can easily sit in the position of captain of a small battleship.
This is why the spirit shark was only less than twenty years old to be favored by the blood shark and made him his second leader, the battleship builder is not allowed to provide privately, but the battleship manager is not among them, and he can be qualified to hang the Seven Snake Flag, whether he has a battleship manager is actually an important evaluation criterion.
This profession is divided into ten levels, with 100 points and below spiritual power being the first order, and the highest being 1000 points, which is the standard spiritual power of a newly promoted senior warship builder, and further up, it seems that there has been some kind of very solid bottleneck, and no one has been able to break through it for thousands of years.
So he deepened his understanding of the world, Tang Ling was shocked and more excited at the same time, dangerous, wonderful, interesting, Tang Ling likes it here!
Different from the development direction of the previous life, there is no missile technology in the world of war, but the size of the warship has appeared in the 5,000-meter-level Glory-class giant warship, and it seems that there is not much gap except for the shortcomings in range. Especially in the defense of warships, battleships that rely on durability to support the game's setting, even if they are hit by the ammunition depot, more advanced battleships can still rely on ultra-high defense and durability to support for a short period of time.
If the fire on the ship can be controlled during this time, the chances of survival are far higher than that of a battleship with an exploding ammunition depot on Earth!
After clearly realizing the gap between himself and the world, Tang Ling has been committed to making up for it from other aspects. In this regard, Tang Ling has a total of two plans, one is to continue to develop in the sky, and the other is to develop under the sea.
Missiles, submarines, fighter planes or anything else Tang Ling doesn't expect at the moment, and in some kind of consideration, Tang Ling will not tell Tang Lingyun these things in his head, the reason is very simple, the other party is the master of the Great Qin Empire, not his Tang Ling's master.
Therefore, Tang Ling first came up with the flying machine, and then the airship and torpedo became the target of his key research.
Creation is different from manufacturing, and the law of creation can make the most intuitive and effective response to the imagination of the battleship builder, so that Tang Ling does not have to crawl around for decades like his ancestors.
Interestingly, why haven't so many powerful warship builders in the warsea world thought about other systems for so many years? Tang Ling didn't feel that their imagination was weaker than that of earthlings, and now, their arrival was undoubtedly a variable, if there really was a co-owner in this world... Forehead! No, if it is a high-level life form called the "Co-Master" with independent consciousness, then Tang Ling seems to have a lot more eyes on his inducements for coming to this world!
Treasure Ship Island is now on the right track, and the demand for talents is very large, while actively negotiating with his future mother-in-law, who is the executive dean of the Imperial Academy, Tang Ling also wants to cultivate the talents in his current hands as much as possible.
And the spirit shark is undoubtedly the person Tang Ling values the most at present, the second-order battleship manager, he is already a rare talent among the people, not to mention that the other party is still so young, full of potential and stamina, it is worth excavating.
So, taking the Spirit Shark to the high platform built on the top of the mountain on the Caribbean Island, Tang Ling was ready to let the Spirit Shark be the first test pilot of the glorious airship.
"Buzz"
With the creation of the magic circle, the airboat No. 1 appeared on the high platform, in order to avoid it no longer being called "flying eggs" by Lily and other women, Tang Ling deliberately decorated the appearance of the airship No. 1, with blue as the main color, the head is pointed, and there is a pair of ailerons in front of the tail propeller, and the main part of the airship has also become very hierarchical, and the manned cabin hanging below is rectangular, with an area of about 10 square meters.
Nowadays, in terms of appearance alone, the Airship One has done well enough.
In terms of weapons, due to the constraints of conditions, there are only depth charges at present, but because Tang Ling created a glider aircraft in advance, the airship can be used as an air carrier, and it is not a problem for an airboat to carry a team of people.
You must know that the world of war is still almost blank in terms of anti-air weapons, so once the test of the air ship is successful, then even if it does not have attack power itself, it will be almost invincible in a short period of time!
"Go up, don't be busy taking off first, I'll give you ten minutes to familiarize, ten minutes to prepare, and the first low-altitude flight test will be carried out half an hour later, and try to control the flight time within five minutes!" Because it is a debut, Tang Ling is not greedy, as long as he can fly intact for five minutes, it is very good.
"Yes, young master!" With excitement and apprehension, Spirit Shark boarded the No. 1 Airship, as a battleship manager, he had completed the training task of the aircraft, the pleasant feeling of soaring above the blue sea under the blue sky made him obsessed, and at the same time, it also made the Spirit Shark, like many pilots, worship Tang Ling, the new young master, reach its peak.
"Manage!" After getting on the airship No. 1, the spirit shark put his hands on the metal wall of the airship's manned cabin, and his spiritual power was slowly injected.
"Powertrain warm-up begins!"
"Steady!"
"The powertrain is in 1st gear!"
"The engine is running steadily!"
"There is no anomaly in the hull!"
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In the next ten minutes, the spirit shark accurately and loudly reported the various operations of the airboat No. 1 to Tang Ling in real time.
"Okay, the power system stops, ten minutes of rest!" Immediately, Tang Ling ordered.
Everything has to have a familiar process, especially something that has never been seen or touched, so after ten minutes of trial operation, Tang Ling ordered the spirit shark to stop the output of mental power, one is to take a short rest, and the other is to summarize immediately, in order to avoid the loss of feelings, so the rest time is only ten minutes.
This is also the battleship manager, if it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that Tang Ling would have to let them rest on the airship No. 1 for one night before he dared to let them start the airship.
Ten minutes passed quickly, and after the Spirit Shark told Tang Ling that he was ready, Tang Ling nodded and signaled that the Spirit Shark could start the official test flight.
"The generator is turned on, heat the nine-hole stone!"
"Yes! The generator is turned on to heat the nine-hole stone! ”
The nine-hole stone, a specialty of the war sea world, has the same magical function as the Xinghai stone, and its characteristic is that there will be nine holes of different sizes and unfixed positions on the surface, and once it is heated, it will produce a very light gas similar to hydrogen from the nine holes. In the sealed airbag of the empty boat No. 1, Tang Ling installed two low-power Xinghaishi generators, which were connected to a simple induction cooker made of an iron plate with iron wires to heat the nine-hole stone.
Slowly, the sealed airbag was already filled with the gas produced by the nine-hole stone, and the airboat No. 1 began to be slowly lifted into the air.
"Increase the gear of the engine, control the height, not higher than 200 meters, pay attention to safety!"
"Understood!"
Although Tang Ling was very nervous in his heart, his skills were fully affirmed in the next ten minutes, if it wasn't for Tang Ling to stop, the spirit shark would definitely ask for overtime for the fourth time, as the actual controller of the airship No. 1, he knew that he could still fly!
"Okay, today is a test flight, not an extreme test, come down!"
Under Tang Ling's order, the Spirit Shark had to reluctantly control the hydrogen discharge, and slowly lowered the empty boat No. 1 to the high platform.
The successful test flight of Airship 1 made Tang Ling excited, and the unexpected stable state also made the test speed up a lot, and the spirit shark didn't say anything after coming down, but the adoring eyes made Tang Ling very useful.
Unlike airships, torpedo launchers are completely in line with the existence of warship weapon systems, so they are much simpler to create, but the mental power consumed when creating them is relatively large.
And in order to install torpedo tubes, Tang Ling also had to rebuild the warship, so that the torpedo launcher of the earth battleship series appeared in the world of war, in terms of size, the torpedo boat is about the same as a small power warship, but the speed torpedo boat is much faster, and in terms of weapon system, under the four-tube configuration, it can carry 16 torpedoes, of course, if there is a battleship builder, the ammunition may have to be doubled several times, by the way, the small-caliber machine gun Tang Ling also got two up, in order to strengthen the attack power of the torpedo boat.
The torpedo experiment is much simpler than that of an airboat, firing a few times, not blowing up, not self-detonating, and being able to hit the target and then blow up, there should be no problem.
This is the first time Tang Ling has created an all-metal battleship, fortunately, his spiritual power has exceeded 1,000 now, and he can barely support the consumption of a torpedo boat the size of a small power warship, this is a qualitative leap, it is Tang Ling's practice of the battleship in his memory, the success of the torpedo boat marks that Tang Ling's earth battleship system has been recognized in the other world, and next, the difference is the test of actual combat!