The Daheng Empire and the Kingdom of Krul have actually entered a state of war since the Andorian Battle.
It's just that they are in a state of undeclared war. The two countries are engaged in armistice negotiations and fighting at the same time.
As for the various commercial exchanges in the past, they have been completely stopped after the outbreak of the Andorian naval battle. The warships of the two countries were fighting almost everywhere in the sea area of the entire Blue Star.
But it is limited to naval battles and large-scale land wars.
The main reason is that the Daheng Empire and the Kingdom of Krul are not bordering each other, and they both lack the ability to land on each other's mainland.
So even if it is a fight, at most it will only hit some of the opponent's overseas colonies. It will not hurt the opponent at all, and it is very troublesome to fight. After all, fighting overseas colonies requires the projection of overseas troops. In the opponent's
Under the threat of the navy, it is impossible to organize transport fleets for transportation or landing unscrupulously. Therefore, although there are some ground battles, they are not major and cannot affect the national strength of both parties.
It has been more than half a year since the armed conflict broke out between the two sides. In fact, the top leaders of both countries understand very well that the only way to defeat the other side, even just to make the other side surrender, is to defeat the other side's navy.
If you do not defeat the opponent's navy, you will not be able to conduct a naval blockade against the enemy. More importantly, your own maritime transportation and supply lines will also be greatly threatened.
If you don't defeat the opponent's navy, you can't talk about fighting a large-scale land war, let alone deciding the outcome of the war.
It is also against this background that under the guidance of the empire's official officials, various domestic enterprises in the Daheng Empire are working overtime. Countless scientific researchers and technicians are working day and night, just to create more advanced products faster and better.
Battleship.
The Daheng-class battleship was able to be completed and put into service so quickly because of the tremendous efforts and dedication of the domestic industry.
As for the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, in order to mass-produce the 400mm 45-caliber naval guns used by the Daheng-class battleships as quickly as possible, they have solved numerous technical difficulties in recent years, so that they can successfully meet the schedule and build them.
22-year-old 400mm naval gun.
Jingzhou Iron and Steel Company has also solved a large number of technical difficulties in order to mass-produce the new hardened armor steel used in the Daheng-class battleships as soon as possible.
Dongdingzhou Optical Instrument Company has been intensively researching for three years in order to develop a new optical rangefinder for use on the Daheng. Only then did it come up with a new large-scale rangefinder. And it is precisely because of this new type of optical rangefinder.
The rangefinder, coupled with the new fire control system, allows the Daheng-class battleship to have the ability to bombard enemy ships above 20,000 meters, or even 25,000 meters or even 30,000 meters.
Of course, with the current fire control capabilities, even the Daheng cannot have a high hit rate when attacking moving targets above 25,000 meters.
Generally speaking, if you want to maintain a relatively stable hit rate, you actually need to keep the combat distance within 20,000 meters. At this distance, the Daheng Empire Navy Daheng has conducted tests. In the live-fire training of the simulated exercise,
The hit rate can be about five percent.
This distance is already very good for the Daheng Empire Navy.
This hit rate is the result of many years of hard work by the defense industry of the Daheng Empire and the continuous technological advancement of naval gun systems and fire control systems.
Otherwise, don't expect to be able to achieve this hit rate at such a long distance.
And this is extremely important.
The Andorian naval battle has already proved that the distance between naval battles nowadays is getting farther and farther.
When the World War just broke out, in the several small and medium-sized naval battles that broke out in the Kekel Empire and other countries, the combat distance between capital ships was generally concentrated at about fifteen kilometers, and even the combat distance of some old-fashioned battleships or special weather conditions
In some cases, it should be closer.
At that time, battles exceeding fifteen kilometers were relatively rare.
At that time, except for the Daheng Empire Navy, the navies of several other countries had not been trained to fight at a combat distance of more than fifteen kilometers. Technology was developing so fast that they could not follow up quickly.
However, in the following years, the combat distance of the battleships continued to increase. By the time the Battle of Andoria broke out more than half a year ago, the combat distance between the battleships of the Daheng Empire Navy and the Krul Kingdom Navy was well over 10,000.
A distance of five thousand meters.
In actual combat, the farthest combat distance started from about 25,000 meters. Of course, the symbolic significance of shelling at this distance is greater than the actual significance.
The actual combat distance between the battleships of both fleets is mainly concentrated between 18,000 meters and 20,000 meters.
The chaotic battle between the battlecruisers of both sides led to the engagement distance being extended to 15,000 meters. In extreme cases, the engagement distance was about 13,000 meters, but that was not a normal situation.
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Otherwise, the battlecruisers of both sides would not have suffered heavy losses at the beginning of the battle. It was because the distance was too close at the beginning, which resulted in heavy losses for both sides.
After the Battle of Andoria, it actually means that naval warfare has entered a new level.
For this reason, the Daheng Empire Navy required gunnery training to pay more attention to gunnery training between 20,000 meters and 25,000 meters, and even began to try to explore battles above 30,000 meters.
However, it only targets some newer warships, and some warships equipped with 300 mm naval guns, namely Ningyu-class, Zhongluo-class, Dongtaishan-class, and Zilanhu-class warships, cannot be trained even if they want to.
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Because the effective range of their main guns is not that far, when they were originally designed, they were designed based on a combat distance of 15,000 meters. The maximum range of the earliest Ning Yu battleship was only 18,000 meters.
In order to allow them to carry out bombardment at a greater distance, the artillery systems of these warships need to be improved to a certain extent in the future. At least the elevation angle must be raised, and the fire control system must also be improved.
You have to hit farther, and at the same time, you have to ensure that you can maintain a certain hit rate after hitting farther.
Currently, the Imperial Navy has arranged a modification plan for these warships in order to increase their effective range and adapt to newer war needs.
These problems will naturally not be a problem for the Daheng-class battleship. The main gun on the Daheng has a maximum range of 38,000 meters.
Although this maximum distance has no practical significance at present, at most it is used when conducting long-distance shore bombardment.
But at least it can hit this far!
But this is not the farthest-firing naval gun in the Daheng Empire Navy. In fact, the 24-year-old 400mm naval gun is currently the furthest-firing naval gun in the Daheng Empire Navy.
This artillery is actually an improved version of the 22-year-old 400mm naval gun. The biggest improvement is that the barrel diameter has been improved from 45 times to 50 times, and the maximum range has reached more than 40,000 meters.
The smooth development of this artillery also caused the Daheng Empire Navy to change its original plan and prepare to reduce its orders for the Jingzhou-class battleships under construction and replace the modification orders with orders for a new generation of battleships.
The Daheng Empire Navy is expected to start construction of a new generation fast battleship equipped with three triple 400 mm fifty times caliber naval guns in the twenty-sixth year of Qian Sheng.
However, it is not known whether this kind of battleship, which is still on the drawing board, can be ready for the war.