To a certain extent, the Mirror River is actually the first warship in the Daheng Empire designed according to the concept of a full-heavy gun battleship. However, when the ship was designed, the technology of the Daheng Empire was still limited, so the warship seemed to be huge.
, there are many main guns, but the caliber of the main gun is a bit small, and the barrel is a bit short. Affected by the caliber, barrel, and elevation angle, the maximum range is only 12,000 meters.
And there is no unified fire control!
However, if unified fire control is installed, the ship can become a unified all-heavy artillery warship in minutes.
Even if the caliber of the main gun is a little smaller and the barrel is a little shorter, if it is equipped with unified fire control, then the ship will have no problem at all in conducting long-distance operations of more than 10,000 meters in the future.
Once the unified fire control system is tested well on Jinghe, and after improvements based on feedback from the test results, the Navy will produce multiple sets of unified fire control systems to be installed on the four Luohe class ships and the two subsequent Fengshan ships.
Level up.
Let these battleships become the first batch of main battleships capable of long-distance combat in the Daheng Empire!
At the same time, based on the production and use experience of the first batch of unified fire control, after continuing to improve and upgrade, the second batch of unified fire control systems will be finalized for installation on the Ningyu-class battleships, Zhongluo-class battleships, and Qiping-class battleships that are under construction.
Battlecruiser, Kawan-class heavy cruiser.
While the Daheng Empire's navy was focused on long-distance battles, the navies of other countries were not lagging behind. They were also working hard to develop new technologies to innovate their own warships.
The Kingdom of Krul even successfully conquered the technology of large-caliber rapid-fire artillery. Based on the experience of the Second Battle of Bova, it completely abandoned the exposed turret and chose a closed turret. Although the technical details were similar to those used by the Daheng Empire,
The details are different, but the details are still the same.
For example, the use of omnidirectional loading technology is a key technology for improving large-caliber naval guns.
Improving the retreat and reset capability and increasing the reloading speed are the two key technologies to increase the rate of fire of naval guns. As for the retreat and reset technology, as long as the hydraulic technology is passed, sooner or later we will be able to develop large-caliber tube retreats.
If the loading speed is increased, there is no problem for manually loaded naval guns with a caliber of less than 170 mm. Just manually load them directly. However, for naval guns exceeding this caliber, mechanical auxiliary loading is required.
And when these two major technologies were solved and integrated to design a complete naval gun system, large-caliber rapid-fire guns also appeared.
The Kingdom of Krul has a strong technical foundation, and since the eleventh year of Qian Sheng, it has spared no effort in overcoming technical difficulties. Naturally, it can solve the above problems. The main battleships recently in service are 230 mm and 250 mm.
The two secondary main guns of the 10mm basically use large-caliber rapid-fire cannons, and the rate of fire is no worse than that of the Daheng people.
Countries with slightly inferior technology have taken a different approach.
But the Kele Empire and the Varia Empire used inferior technologies such as semi-omnidirectional manual loading to deal with emergencies.
Although the rate of fire will be slightly slower, it can still be called a large-caliber rapid-fire gun. It can be used as a transitional weapon. At the same time, they are still continuing to research mechanical omnidirectional loading technology. It is estimated that the next generation of warships will be able to
Used it.
Countries with worse technology know that it is difficult for them to break through large-caliber rapid-fire cannon technology in a short time, so they use 170mm rapid-fire cannons as secondary main guns, such as the Orissa Empire and the Valia Empire.
, the Kingdom of Oran and other countries.
The main gun of this caliber is the limit caliber of manual loading. The Daheng Empire itself has also developed a main gun of this caliber, but it has not equipped it itself. Instead, it has used rapid-fire guns of this caliber on several exported warships.
In fact, the rapid-fire cannon of this caliber is also very good. Apart from consuming the physical strength of the soldiers, it actually has no major flaws. The rate of fire is very high, the power is greater than the 150mm, and the number of installations will be more than 200mm.
There are more large-caliber rapid-fire cannons.
Of course, a naval gun of this caliber is basically useless against the enemy's fully protected battleship.
These days, our new generation of warships basically adopt the design concept of hardened armor for comprehensive protection. The tonnage generally exceeds 15,000 tons, and 16,000 to 7,000 tons are very common.
To deal with such a warship, the caliber of the secondary main gun is too small to cause any fatal damage to this new generation of warship.
Of course, it won't be a problem to hit a dozen superstructures, secondary battery emplacements, etc.
Each country strives to improve its warship performance and fleet size as much as possible within the scope of its own technology and industrial scale.
This situation is not one or two countries, or even limited to the eight major powers, but all medium and large countries within the entire Blue Star are involved.
This is a global naval race.
At present, the Daheng Empire Navy is still in the leading position in this naval competition, and after the breakthrough of unified fire control technology, it will probably further increase.
With the Navy's expectations and Lin Ziran's attention, in September of the 14th year of Qian Sheng, the Navy Fire Control Office lived up to expectations and finally came up with the first unified fire control system that could be installed on ships as scheduled and installed it on the mirror.
On board the battleship HMS River.
After the installation was completed, the ship conducted multiple long-range live ammunition bombardments.
The effect of the bombardment greatly excited the navy!
With the assistance of unified fire control, the Mirror River conducted multiple rounds of shelling on the target ship.
The Mirror River was moving at a speed of sixteen knots, and the target ship was a decommissioned old cruiser. It was moving at a speed of fourteen knots, and the two sides were sailing in the same direction at an angle of thirty degrees.
The bombardment starts from 12,000 meters, and the distance between the two sides will continue to shorten until the target ship is sunk.
But when the target ship was 11,000 meters away, Mirror River's fourth salvo had already formed a straddle attack, and the sixth salvo hit the ship.
When the ship sank, the distance between the two sides exceeded 10,000 meters, reaching 1,500 meters.
The ship was sunk early, which also resulted in the planned eight-thousand-meter bombardment test. The six-thousand-meter bombardment test did not even have time to be carried out!
However, at this time, why are the navy generals paying attention to the 8,000-meter and 6,000-meter tests? Enemy ships can be sunk at 11,000 meters. The Navy naturally focuses on the 10,000-meter test.
Long-distance artillery strikes.
After the first target ship was sunk, the Navy used three more target ships to conduct tests, and during the test process it focused on the engagement distance of 10,000 meters to 12,000 meters.
In the end, the Mirror River successfully sank all three subsequent target ships.
The ship-mounted live ammunition test of the unified fire control system was a complete success!