Chapter 1022： The Prince's Response

Slide 1022

"Earl Spey mentioned the high performance of Japanese battleships in the telegram, and was worried that the proliferation of technology would further reduce our advantages. What we were worried about finally happened. His Majesty the Kaiser expressed serious concern about this. I hope you can do so. Reverse this unfavorable situation." On the prince's train to Bomia, Tirpitz, who was accompanying him, said to the prince with worry.

"This is an inevitable process. Any major country at war will learn from the war and improve itself. It is nothing more than a little earlier or later, and the era of deliberately relying on a certain kind of equipment before the war to open the entire war has already It's over, we must keep pace with the times, and the only result of standing still is getting beaten." The prince probably glanced at the content of the telegram and said calmly.

"You should be prepared for the current situation?" Tirpitz's eyes lit up after hearing it, as if a drowning man found a life-saving straw.

"The sample has come out. This time, you can see our new weapon when you go to Skoda." The prince smiled and said.

"If it is a new type of artillery, it may have limited meaning, because the turrets and artillery used by the Bavarian-class battleships under construction have been produced. If it is to be replaced, it is not cost-effective in time and economy." Tirpitz said.

"No, the existing things can be completely matched with the new equipment, the reason is very simple, I just changed a shell."

"Can the Japanese Fuso-class battleship be solved by changing the shells?" Tirpitz said he didn't understand. Because according to the information obtained by Tirpitz, the thickness of the sidestring armor of the Fuso-class battleship is 350mm inclined at 15 degrees, and this defensive strength is almost impossible for Bavarian artillery to penetrate within 10 kilometers. Even if you change a shell, it is unlikely that you want to penetrate the opponent at a normal distance of about 14KM!

"First of all, I can be sure that the Fuso-class battleship is almost unsolvable from the current data. Unless you can get the British 18-inch naval gun on the battleship... otherwise you want to attack. Wearing is almost impossible, no matter how you change it. So why do we have to focus on the side-string armor that is almost impossible to penetrate? Why don't we focus on the horizontal armor?" The prince smiled Said.

As a traverser, especially a person who has some research on war, he still has some understanding of the British Royal Navy's methods of remedying the situation in history. Although the Royal Navy was already a little turbulent during the First World War, it really encountered things. The efficiency is still very high, especially after being bitten!

Although the Royal Navy did not pay attention to the issue of fire doors after the Battle of Dogel Sandbanks, after three battlecruisers were killed in the Battle of Jutland, the Royal Navy not only changed the fire doors, but also strengthened them. For armor defense, the outer main armor belt cannot be changed, but a considerable part of the battleship's inner dome armor is thickened by 1 to 1.5 inches. Counting the thickness of the original dome armor, with this layer of iron pants, you are finally not afraid of the German 12-inch naval gun.

In addition to the repairs and repairs of the active battleships, on the newly built battleship, the Hood also strengthened the armor defense, from the original 9-inch armor tilted 12 degrees to 12 inches tilted 12 degrees. This is pretty good at the level of World War I. Of course, I just missed World War I...

Now that it is known that the British will choose to remedy the situation after a defeat, and will change the design of future warships. So how could Prince Ruprecht, who is a traverser, not prepare in advance? Whatever is planned is to stand, and what is not planned is to waste! As early as before the Japanese Fuso served, the prince had already begun to prepare some afterthoughts! Water bomb is just one of them, and the thing like water bomb is not very stable. As for other preparations? It is finally available now!

"If our information is correct, the Japanese battleship has only one layer of horizontal armor, that is, the layer of uniform steel armor with a thickness of 50MM+25MM that is connected to the upper part of the sidestring armor belt, of which 50MM is real armored steel, and The back 25mm is the backplane, which is called the defensive base material by the Japanese, and the defensive effect is between armor and shipbuilding steel."

"To be fair, this level of defense is very good. Compared with the British three-layer 25MM thin steel plate or a single-layer horizontal armor with a maximum thickness of 50MM, the defense effect is very good, because the latter is more likely to be hit. Even if it cannot be penetrated, armor that is too thin may be blown through. But it is still slightly thinner. Compared with the desperate sidestring armor belt, horizontal armor is worth considering." The prince is very organized. Said.

In fact, the horizontal armor of battleships of World War I in history is generally weak, and the layout is not reasonable. It may be a single layer of armor with insufficient thickness, or it may be a stack of several layers of shipbuilding steel grass. The previous predictions for the combat distance are generally close, so the horizontal hit rate is low, and because the ballistic trajectory is relatively straight and there are more shell problems, the horizontal penetration is relatively rubbish, which is nothing. In fact, even with Judging from the level of Fuso's armor, the Bavarian 15-inch shells may not be able to penetrate within normal combat distance.

Unlike the side-string armor, the horizontal armor is penetrated the greater the distance, and the current situation is like this, if the Bavarian-class battleship uses honest shells to hit the Fuso horizontal armor, I’m afraid There is a chance only 18 kilometers away...

In fact, 18 kilometers is close to the hit limit of battleship 1 battleship, so this so-called breakdown has very limited meaning. If you want to penetrate the core area, it is better to count on the water bomb to be reliable. In the current situation, 15-inch water bombs extend from the main armor belt to the bottom of the ship like the Bavarian-class battleship, and any other defense mode is unreliable. For example, this time the Hyuga penetrated St. Esteban. Same defense.

When the artillery cannot be replaced, is there a way to increase the level of penetration? Naturally there is, that is to change the artillery shells. Why can the British 15-inch L42 be directly used in the second battle? In addition to the excellent hardware performance of the artillery and the lack of money in the British Empire, another important reason is that the ammunition of the artillery is constantly updated. The power of the same artillery is absolutely extraordinary after the change, and this time, what the prince did is to improve the level of penetration power by improving the shells!

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