Chapter eight hundred and seventeen the secrets of various countries
Their latest model of the Kaili-class battleship has a standard displacement of 20,000 tons, four 300 mm 45-caliber main guns with a rate of fire of 1.5 rounds per minute, and twelve 250 mm 45-caliber guns.
A secondary main gun with five times the caliber, a speed of 20 knots, and nickel steel hardened armor, the combat effectiveness is off the charts!
The mixed main gun battleships of other countries are worse.
Also using 300mm caliber main guns are the Orissa Empire, the Garfia Empire, the Oran Kingdom and some other medium-sized countries. However, the 300mm caliber main guns they use are far inferior to the Daheng Empire in terms of performance.
As for the main guns of the Kingdom of Krul, it's not that their main guns are only 300 mm and 40 times the caliber main guns, but because they generally use ordinary loading mechanisms, which cannot achieve omnidirectional loading, and the rate of fire generally remains stuck.
One shot per minute,
Well, the main gun exported by the Daheng Empire has a similar loading mechanism, with a rate of fire of about one round per minute.
The caliber of their secondary main guns is also relatively uniform, and a 170mm caliber rapid-fire gun is generally used as the secondary main gun.
Why?
Because they haven't developed a large-caliber rapid-fire main gun yet.
For example, the Garfiya Empire only managed to break through the 120mm rapid-fire cannon technology in their 12th year as a Saint. They only developed 150mm and 170mm rapid-fire cannons in their 14th year as a Saint.
Rapid-fire cannons, and these rapid-fire cannons all have one feature, that is, they can be loaded manually.
As for the larger-caliber rapid-fire cannon, they haven't developed it yet, because it involves more things. In addition to the retreat and re-entry of the main gun, it also requires the cooperation of the loading system. If it is really developed, it will be a huge task.
systematic engineering.
There are actually only three traditional powerful countries on Blue Star that want to quickly develop large-caliber rapid-fire cannons. As for the Daheng people themselves, they have been secretly developing it for many years in advance.
Needless to say, the three major traditional powers, the Kingdom of Krul, and the Kekel Empire and the Varia Empire have been relatively embarrassed when building ships in the past two years.
Because they haven't developed a 300mm rapid-fire main gun yet, but they have barely managed to develop a 200-mm rapid-fire main gun.
But there are two countries that are relatively special, namely the Kokel Empire and the Valia Empire.
These two countries are what people call the traditional three major industrial powers. If not for the strong rise of the Daheng Empire, they would have firmly occupied the second and third positions in the world.
Like the Kingdom of Krul, they developed large-caliber rapid-fire cannons relatively late, but they did not have the strong technical foundation of the Kingdom of Krul. It took them seven years to catch up with the Daheng Empire in just two or three years.
It took eight years to develop large-caliber rapid-fire artillery technology.
Until now, their 300mm caliber rapid-fire cannon technology has been unable to be solved. However, they are not like other countries in that they cannot even develop a 200mm-caliber rapid-fire cannon.
Therefore, the shipbuilding paths of these two countries in the past two or three years have been very tangled and even somewhat repetitive.
Take the Kekel Empire as an example. Their first few mixed main gun battleships had traditional 300mm main guns with 200mm secondary guns. Later, they started building several more traditional 300mm main guns with 230mm secondary guns.
of secondary artillery.
But after they developed the 250mm rapid-fire cannon, they became a little confused.
The traditional 300mm main gun has a low rate of fire, and the 250mm rapid-fire gun has a higher rate of fire, but its power is somewhat insufficient.
In the end, they gritted their teeth and believed that the rate of fire was more important, so they began to build a relatively special six-main gun battleship, using three twin-mounted 250 mm caliber naval guns as the main gun, coupled with a 170 mm rapid fire
Hybrid main gun battleship.
Although this kind of warship has a small tonnage and a small main gun caliber, it is still a big guy with more than 15,000 tons, and its combat performance is not bad.
Later, based on this kind of battleship, the Kekel Empire built a battleship with a tonnage of more than 17,000 tons, equipped with six 280mm rapid-fire main guns and numerous 230mm secondary guns.
Their six-main-gun battleship seems to be the same as the six-main-gun battleship of the Daheng Empire itself at first glance, but in fact the concept is very different.
This can be seen by looking at the difference in the secondary guns of the two sides.
Their six-main gun plan was unable to obtain a 300 mm caliber rapid-fire main gun, so they were forced to use a smaller-caliber rapid-fire main gun. At the same time, in order to ensure firepower, after all, all battleships these days have fifteen thousand
The number of tons goes up, and the newly built ones are 17,800 tons or even 20,000 tons.
If you get four sub-class main guns and a little guy with a little over 10,000 tons, I'm afraid he will be laughed at by other countries.
When other countries see you, little guy, they probably don't bother to use their main battleships to deal with you. They can just send out an armored cruiser. After all, the main force cruisers of all the powerful countries these days start at 12,000 to 3,000 tons.
Fourteen to five thousand tons.
But the Daheng Empire is different. Their six-main-gun battleships are purely for future upgrades and modifications, and then carry out long-distance operations.
Of course, these six-main-gun battleships are also transitional for the Kokel Empire. Their target is still large hybrid main-gun battleships equipped with rapid-fire main guns with a caliber of more than 300 mm and a tonnage of more than 20,000 tons.
Judging from the development of contemporary battleships in various countries, the top hybrid main gun battleships of various powerful countries have excellent combat effectiveness, especially at the classic combat distance of between five thousand meters and seven thousand meters, they can fully display their power.
of firepower.
At a combat distance of 5,000 to 7,000 meters, the Luohe-class battleships and Fengshan-class battleships, which have six main guns but only some 150mm secondary guns, can still survive without unified fire control.
It really can't beat the Kaili-class battleship of the Krull Kingdom Navy.
But all this changed after the unified fire control system was successfully developed and installed on the ship!
In the 14th year of Qian Sheng's reign, the Daheng Empire Navy installed the first unified fire control system on the Mirror River and conducted numerous live ammunition tests.
After the successful test, the Daheng Empire Navy quickly ordered six sets of the first batch of unified fire control systems for use on four Luohe-class and two Fengshan-class six-main gun battleships.
Nowadays, these six-main-gun battleships have been fully equipped with unified fire control systems. After live-fire testing, it has been found that although their six main guns are still a little short, they can barely meet the sighting requirements of unified fire control, allowing for long-distance combat.
But the outside world knows nothing about all this!
They knew that the Daheng Empire had a batch of six-main-gun battleships, and they also knew that the main guns were extremely powerful, but they did not know that these six-main-gun battleships were not designed for medium-range combat, but for long-distance combat.
They didn't even know that the Daheng Empire also had a series of unified all-heavy artillery battleships such as the Ningyu-class battleships, and they had already begun to enter service one after another.
Of course, other countries probably have their own secret plans. For example, the latest Kaili-class battleship exposed by the Kingdom of Krul was built the year before last and was put into service this year.
After the Kaili-class battleship to now, in the past two years, the Krul Kingdom Navy will definitely have an updated shipbuilding plan, but what they have built, only they know, at least the information of the Daheng Empire
Department, still has not been able to know the true identity of their successor to the Kaili-class battleship.
Countries have done a very good job of keeping new warships secret. After all, the special terrain of Blue Star makes the navy very important. It is normal for the new warships in the navy to receive widespread attention from all countries.