The world war on Blue Star has broken out for many years. It has been six years since the nineteenth year of Qian Sheng to the current twenty-fifth year of Qian Sheng.
In the past six years, numerous naval battles have broken out between the warring nations on Blue Star, even many medium- to large-scale naval battles.
In the Heng'ao War, the Daheng Empire Navy fought two large-scale naval battles with the Orissa Empire Navy. They were the naval battle when the Daheng Empire directly crossed the sea to launch a landing when the war broke out, and the subsequent naval battle of the Daheng Empire. After directly entering the Endless Strait, a naval battle broke out with the remaining forces of the Orissa Empire Navy.
In these two naval battles, the scale of the naval battles was not small. Dozens of capital ships participated, but most of them were battleships of the Daheng Empire Navy.
At the same time, the Orissa Empire Navy does not have enough new warships, and most of them are old warships.
So much so that when the fight started, there was no strategy or tactics at all. The Daheng Empire Navy relied entirely on its huge size to directly press forward, directly crushing the resistance of the Orissa Empire Navy.
Therefore, although the scale is relatively large, it is not actually that important to the history of the Blue Star Naval War.
On the contrary, in the 21st year of Qian Sheng, when the Krul Kingdom first entered the war, a large-scale naval battle between the Krul Kingdom Navy and the Kokel Empire Navy had a greater impact on the navy, because the fleets of both sides participating in the war were Although the scale was average, with only a dozen battleships and battlecruisers participating in total, the total tonnage of the warships on both sides was only over half a million tons, but the warships were all cutting-edge battleships from both sides.
The scale of this battle can only be considered average in this world war, but the impact it caused was very large.
The navies of various countries around the world, even the Daheng Empire Navy, have made targeted improvements in the design of warships based on the experience in this naval battle.
In this naval battle, the most important feature is that the distance between the fleets of both sides has always been maintained at more than thirteen kilometers, and most of the time their fighting distance has been maintained at more than fifteen kilometers.
The impact of this combat distance is huge!
In this kind of combat distance, smaller caliber naval guns are basically useless, and the small number of old warships in both fleets have no chance to even fire...
Naval guns with a caliber of more than 300 mm became the main force in this battle.
At the same time, the larger engagement distance makes the ballistic trajectory more curved, and this also leads to the high possibility that when the shell flies to the enemy ship, it does not directly hit the side armor, but directly hits the horizontal deck. .
At the same time, the cannonball will enter the water not far from the battleship, and then glide in the water for a certain distance before hitting the underwater part of the enemy ship.
In this naval battle, both sides were hit by many such horizontal bombs and underwater bombs.
In addition, when the naval battle entered the night, the light warships on both sides were very active and launched many torpedoes, which resulted in warships on both sides being hit by torpedoes.
After these situations were learned by the Daheng Empire Navy, the Daheng Empire began to improve the corresponding battleship design, such as further improving the battleship's sighting equipment and fire control equipment to obtain a greater design distance.
At the same time, more attention is paid to horizontal and underwater protection.
In addition, the Daheng Empire Navy has further strengthened the idea of key protection and strengthened the protection of key compartments such as ammunition depots.
The Daheng-class battleship was one of the battleships affected by this. Even though the design had been completed at that time, the design was still urgently modified midway to strengthen horizontal and underwater protection.
In addition, the secondary guns on the Daheng-class battleships were also replaced and equipped with more powerful 150mm secondary guns.
In the past many years, the secondary guns of all levels of battleships, battlecruisers, and various old battleships of the Daheng Empire Navy were all 120 mm caliber naval guns.
It is said that the Daheng Empire Navy has been particularly fond of the nine-year-old series of 120mm naval guns developed and produced by Nanzhou Machinery Bureau in the past ten years.
When rapid-fire guns first appeared, the Daheng Empire Navy adopted this rapid-fire gun from the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, which was used as the secondary gun of the battleships and the main gun of cruisers and destroyers at that time.
More than ten years have passed, and the Daheng Empire still uses this series of 120 mm caliber naval guns. Of course, it has undergone many improvements.
The reason why I have a special liking for this artillery is purely because of its excellent performance, high rate of fire, high accuracy, long range and great power.
And after more than ten years of continuous improvement of production, its performance has become more and more advanced, and its cost performance is also very good.
Up to the Endless Sea-class battleships, the secondary guns on the main battleships of the Daheng Empire's navy are basically this series of 120 mm class secondary guns.
There are two main reasons for using it this way before. The first and most important one is that the Daheng Empire's navy is huge, with dozens of battleships, and then even larger light battleships composed of large cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers.
The system and the large-scale light fleet are enough to erect a peripheral barrier for the main warships to intercept and attack the enemy's light ships.
Therefore, the battleships of the Daheng Empire Navy do not face much pressure against light ships.
The main targets are fish that slip through the net with faster speeds and smaller bodies. Therefore, the range and power of the secondary guns are not required, but the requirements for the rate of fire and accuracy are very high.
The second, and actually the most important reason is that the 120mm naval gun technology of the Daheng Empire is very excellent... Relatively speaking, the 150mm naval gun is somewhat lacking in performance.
A combination of various aspects has led to the Daheng Empire Navy continuing to use 120mm-level secondary guns on its main ships for many years instead of 150mm secondary guns.
This time, it is the first time that a Daheng-class battleship is equipped with a 150mm secondary gun. It is mainly because the current cruisers and destroyers have become larger in order to be able to better attack enemy light cruisers at long distances.
The Daheng Empire Navy improved the design of battleships based on its previous naval battle experience, but at the same time it also paid more attention to lightning strike operations and counter-lightning strike operations.
A variety of destroyers and cruisers specifically used in lightning strikes were designed and built to participate in the war.
At the same time, more attention is paid to anti-lightning operations. The Pinghai-class light cruiser built by the Daheng Empire is a typical example. This class of ship is equipped with three triple mounts and nine 150mm fifty-fold caliber naval guns, and uses a unified fire
The control system greatly improves the effective combat range of the light cruiser, allowing the ship's effective combat range to reach more than fifteen kilometers.
As for the maximum range, this is even more exaggerated and can reach more than 20 kilometers. Of course, the hit rate at this distance is very average.
This is a very astonishing data, and its range has basically caught up with the early unified main gun battleships.
The short-term burst rate of fire can reach eight rounds per minute, and the regular rate of fire can reach six rounds per minute.
Of course, the huge effective range of this new type of naval gun with huge anti-ship power is based on the premise of a unified fire control system, and the price is very expensive.
However, being expensive also has its advantages. Equipped with unified fire control and nine 150mm main guns, the Pinghai-class cruiser has extremely powerful firepower when facing warships with weak armor, especially light warships.
Because its effective range is very large, it can even assist battleships when necessary, strike at the superstructure of enemy battleships, destroy enemy secondary guns, observation equipment, etc.
The installation of the unified fire control system on light cruisers of less than 10,000 tons also means that the Daheng Empire has made great progress in the research and development and production of fire control systems. Not only has the output increased, but the cost has also been controlled.