() But this gorilla aircraft carries torpedoes. When thinking of torpedoes, Count David Beatty will have a sense of powerlessness. Among the enemies of battleships, the opponent's battleships are not ranked first. Almost all the water surface
Ships all have the same natural enemy, which are torpedoes and mines.
These two weapons that can cause damage to ships from below the water surface will make the ships defenseless. Although these warships are more or less equipped with mine protection armor, the heavy armor can only protect the sides of the ship.
In part, after all, if the entire ship is equipped with such armor that can tow very fast speeds, then the battleship will not be able to run.
"Boom...boom..." Two loud noises interrupted Count David Betty's mood of admiring the enemy's weapons. The "Malaya" battleship located at the rear of the fleet could not help but use its aft deck master
The cannon fired a salvo at the group of aircraft flying close to the sea. I don't know if it was the captain's order or the gunner who was too nervous.
"Order, you open fire, all ships release smoke." Seeing the shells fired by the Malaya's rear main gun causing high waves far away from the fleet, Count David Betty finally returned to normal.
, he felt that it would be too unreal to command the fleet to fight without the sound of artillery. Although these artillery fire may not cause any real damage to the gorilla machine, even if it is beaten, it should symbolically fight back.
, even if you can't hit the opponent.
"Boom...boom...boom...boom...boom..." As David Betty gave the order to open fire, the entire fleet fell into a trap within ten seconds.
Amidst the deafening noise, the different sounds of artillery of various calibers could be heard. However, the main guns and main secondary guns of several battleships did not fire. It was not that they did not want to fire, but these large-caliber artillery
They are all used to deal with longer-distance targets. From design to installation, no one thought that they would have the opportunity to shoot targets just 2 kilometers away from their own hulls. Therefore, the muzzle of this Syrian gun cannot be lowered at all.
to that low.
Although the firing speed of many secondary guns and small-caliber guns in the fleet is considered very high, there are no unified firing parameters for reference, and the angle adjustment of each gun is too narrow and slow, and most of the ammunition is high-speed.
Explosive bombs and armor-piercing shells only exert their power when they hit the enemy. Therefore, these shellings basically did not cause any substantial obstruction to the hundreds of aircraft flying from the side of the fleet. Some gunners clearly saw that their shells hit the opponent's side.
The wings or fuselage were not detonated, but holes were directly punched through them. These damn planes shivered for a moment at most, and then continued to fly steadily towards their respective targets.
It is late, but it is fast. For a Skua carrier-based torpedo attack aircraft flying at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour, the distance of a few kilometers is only 1 minute. For many secondary battery gunners in the fleet,
That is the time of 2 to 3 shots, plus the need to constantly adjust the position of the muzzle. Many gunners have just fired one shot and have not yet loaded the second shell. These little guys who are as light as seagulls clinging to the sea are
A long object had been thrown down from his belly. Then he suddenly screamed and accelerated, passing through the masts of several battleships. Most of the sailors on the battleships below had two reactions:
A relatively calm one, they stared closely at the thing dropped from the plane, quickly moved the muzzle of the gun, and fired at that thing, because they understood that the thing dropped from the plane looked very, very much like a torpedo;
The more excited ones would watch the plane pass over their heads, and then turn their heads involuntarily to follow the plane. It wasn't until a few seconds later that they suddenly realized: Those beautiful planes were also dropped.
Something like a torpedo!
After the federal aircraft drops torpedoes at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, these torpedoes will use their powerful inertia and their own powerful engines to increase the original speed of more than 30 knots to nearly 60 knots. Although this acceleration will only occur when there is a powerful
It lasted for a few seconds in the resisting sea water, but the distance when the torpedo was dropped was only about 1,000 meters away from the battleship's hull. Some more ruthless pilots even dropped the torpedo when they were about 600 meters away from their target. If they did not rely on the power of their aircraft
With its powerful performance and excellent control skills, there is a very high possibility that this orangutan will hit the target it wants to attack before the torpedo.
More than 10 seconds later, no matter how hot the boilers in these huge battleships burned, how high the air pressure was, and how beautifully the battleships twisted, these big guys who were born without agility attributes were still hit by torpedoes one after another.
Since most of the South China Sea Federation currently uses magnetic detonation torpedoes, after these torpedoes leave the body for a period of time, the insurance will automatically open. In the remaining time, as long as the magnetic sensor on the torpedo head senses a certain degree of
The magnetic field strength, then it will detonate the torpedo warhead.
Therefore, this kind of torpedo basically does not wait until it touches the hull before exploding. Instead, it has a deeper fixed depth than the contact torpedo. It basically explodes below the hull. Although this kind of explosion cannot be directed toward the contact
Like the conventional torpedo, it causes penetrating local damage to the hull, but it is more damaging and thorough than the contact torpedo.
Because this kind of explosion is a non-contact explosion, especially the explosion under the keel of the ship, it will rapidly pressurize the surrounding seawater, and the compression of water is very poor. The strong pressure will hold up the hull of the battleship, and then the pressure will be
Released, the ship body falls into the sea water under its own weight. In this action, if the explosion is in the right position, a torpedo can cause the keel of a warship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons to deform or simply break, even if the ship is
If it does not sink, then it is just a pile of scrap metal and cannot be repaired even if it is placed in a shipyard.
In addition, this explosion method is more reliable. There is no collision angle or miss. Even if the torpedo passes through the bottom of the ship along the ship, as long as the magnetic field reaches the threshold, the torpedo will still explode.
There is also the fact that ordinary battleships do not have mine protection armor on the bottom part of the ship, or even ordinary armor. This is why in naval battles, sometimes a near miss is more terrifying than a direct hit to the hull, because a near miss is on the side of the ship.
It explodes after entering the water very deep, which is similar to the non-contact explosion of a magnetically detonated torpedo, which will cause great damage to the hull.
Regardless of the detonation method, faced with a planned attack by nearly a hundred torpedo attack aircraft, each battleship of the British support fleet was basically assigned 20 torpedoes, and almost none of them could escape, and very few did not explode.
Less, even if half of the torpedoes are ineffective, then if they are hit by 10 torpedoes at the same side at the same time, even the unsinkable battleship Bismarck in World War II does not have such a great anti-strike capability. b ren crew injuries; still
It will loosen and damage various equipment, causing equipment damage; it will also crack the seams of the hull, shake it out of shape, and cause water leakage.
During the explosion, Earl David Betty and his adjutant who were located on the outer bridge took temporary protective measures, but the explosion was too violent and continuous. His adjutant was thrown directly under the bridge and his life or death was uncertain, and he himself,
He also hit the railing hard. Not only did he suffer multiple fractures all over his body, but he also hit his head and fell unconscious on the outer bridge.
It was not just the people on the ship who were severely damaged. From the "Iron Duke" at the head to the "Malaya" at the end, they were all directly severely disabled by this round of torpedo attacks.
The second and third-placed "His Majesty the Emperor of India" and the "King George V" were the heaviest. Not only did the two battleships leak water in many places on the hull, but their keels were obviously broken, and the entire hull made a shrill noise.
"Creak... creak..." sound, and accompanied by this sound, a serious roll occurred. No matter how the damage control crews who were still stuck in the cabin poured water on the other side, they could not save the two battleships.
Destiny. (To be continued. You are welcome to come to Qidian to vote for recommendations and monthly votes.
