Chapter 55: Ships and Cannons
After breakfast the next morning, Zhu Lei came to the dock by the sea of the weapons test site and waited for the arrival of the battleship, after all, there were no battleships in China in the previous life, and after the 21st century, battleships are even more difficult to see. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Battleship as the most powerful weapon in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century, but also one of the largest and most complex weapons created by mankind, from the nineteenth century to the second century before the Second World War, the battleship has always been the main combat ship of the military powers on the seas, but also the largest combat ship of the navies of various countries, it has always been the standard of the naval strength of all countries at that time, if that country does not have a battleship, then the country's navy has no status in the international community.
The battleship has a huge caliber of artillery and heavy armor, with strong attack and protection, and when the tonnage of the battleship exceeds 25,000 tons, it is called a super battleship, in Zhu Lei's previous life, the famous countries are the British Orion-class battleship, Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, Germany's Bavaria-class battleship, the United States' Nevada-class battleship, and Japan's Yamato-class battleship.
After World War II, countries sold these battleships to private companies for scrap iron to dismantle, or destroyed these battleships as target ships and weapons test platforms, and in Zhu Lei's previous life, these battleships were also put into the war during the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and then they were mothballed, and then they were also seen in the war in Iraq, but they were no longer seen in the naval sequence of various countries.
In this world, the Ming Dynasty had the world's largest battleship force in World War II, although it was knocked out a lot during the war, but most of them were built before the war, until the post-war Ming still had nearly a hundred battleships of various kinds, including nearly 20 super battleships, and after the war, all countries have built aircraft carriers, and the Ming Dynasty is no exception, but it has not withdrawn the battleships from the naval sequence, but greatly reduced the number of battleships in the army. And the rest are super battleships, all the others have been decommissioned, and now there are up to 7 super battleships in service in the Ming Navy, and these battleships are all built after the war except for the one bought by Zhu Lei, and these battleships are all nuclear-powered missile battleships, and the attack and defense power of these battleships are not comparable to aircraft carriers, especially when a single ship performs a mission, it leaves all the battleships in the world far behind, All the Ming still have always regarded these battleships as the backbone of every fleet. In the previous life, whenever the interests of the United States were damaged, the president of the United States would say that the aircraft carrier closest to the accident site was there, and in this world, the Ming Dynasty was replaced by the battleship closest to the accident site, which shows that the Ming Empire in this world attaches great importance to battleships.
Zhu Lei waited for more than two hours and finally saw a behemoth on the sea when it was almost noon, and after a while he was able to see the whole picture of this super battleship, this is a very large battleship, although he doesn't know its specific length from a distance, but according to his estimates, it is at least two hundred meters long, and the width is at least more than thirty meters, and there are a total of nine giant cannons on the door. Some of the other guns are all gone except for a few secondary guns, and the others are now standing on the ground because Zhu Lei is standing on the ground, so he can't see how many weapons there are on the ship, but Zhu Lei is sure that the weapons on this battleship will definitely not be less, after all, this is a super battleship, and it is a super battleship that has been modernized and refitted.
Ten minutes later, the super battleship finally listened to the dock on Zhu Lei's fiefdom.
After the battleship stopped and lowered the ladder, Zhu Lei didn't wait for the people above to come down, and couldn't wait to walk up the ladder and walk towards the battleship.
When he stepped on this super battleship, he found that this battleship was so huge, this feeling could not be felt on the aircraft carrier and other battleships, looking at the triple cannon in front, Zhu Lei's heart was really shocked, the size of each gun barrel was completely more than enough to accommodate a person like Zhu Lei, and there were all kinds of weapons on it, just the various anti-aircraft missiles exposed outside Zhu Lei saw six or seven kinds on this battleship, In addition, the 32-cell missile vertical launch system not far from the bow of the ship was introduced by the officers and men of the Navy who followed the battleship, and he learned that it was a behemoth with a displacement of more than 68,000 tons, 305 meters long and 42.2 meters wide, and a maximum speed of 28 knots. In addition to the nine 410-millimeter super giant guns, there are two 32-cell missile vertical launch systems, dozens of exposed anti-aircraft missile launchers, and dozens of ship-borne close defense phalanx systems.
The officers and men of the Gu Navy said that if this warship was sailing on the sea, no fleet of that country would dare to approach within 50 kilometers of this warship. Because the range of this battleship has reached 50 kilometers even if it uses ordinary shells, if you use rocket extended-range shells, the main guns of the battleship alone can shoot at targets more than 70 kilometers away, you must know that the power of battleship guns is not comparable to the power of ordinary missiles, and the price of battleship shells and missiles are also incomparable, and the price of launching a missile is enough for the battleship's main gun to fire dozens of salvos, Not to mention that the shells of the Ming Empire's giant cannons are all capable of terminal correction. Therefore, it is normal for the fleets of other countries not to dare to approach, you must know that if such a battleship launches a threat, it is fully capable of annihilating a fleet within ten minutes, and it is not necessarily okay for itself, especially within 50 kilometers of the battleship, even the largest aircraft carrier in the world cannot stand several salvos of the main guns of this kind of battleship.
And the armor of this battleship is also very thick, and it can carry the enemy's huge cannon of the same caliber as this battleship at a distance of more than 20 kilometers, so this battleship cannot be sunk under normal circumstances, you must know that even now when Zhu Lei and their external armor are not installed, ordinary anti-ship missiles and so on cannot penetrate the armor of this battleship at all, so if you want to penetrate the armor of this battleship, you must use super-large super-heavy missiles specially designed to attack battleships, However, such a missile is too large because of its size, so it is easy to be destroyed by the anti-aircraft missiles and close defense systems carried on the battleship, and even if it hits one or two shots for a battleship of a large size, there is no problem if it is not hit in a fatal place, so now other big and powerful countries in the world are thinking about how to deal with the super battleships of the Ming Dynasty, of course, they may have thought of a lot of ways, but so far none of them can cause fatal damage to the battleship, after all, the armor of the battleship is simply too shameless. Therefore, when the new battleships of the Ming Dynasty entered service a few years ago, the United States in this world had many meetings to discuss the plan to rebuild battleships, but due to the funds required to build a super battleship now, it is completely possible to build three or more aircraft carriers. What's more, the manufacturing technology of the battleships of the United States has been broken for fifty or sixty years, and the supporting facilities of many battleships are gone, so they have not yet discussed a result.