Although all the powerful countries in the world have successively installed aircraft and put them into war.
A few powerful naval powers have also successively developed and equipped seaplanes for maritime reconnaissance and shooting. Among them, the Daheng Empire Navy has gone even more extreme.
The Daheng Empire Navy directly built the Fairy-class aircraft carrier with a standard displacement of 18,000 tons, equipped with specially developed carrier-based aircraft, and obtained a maritime combat platform that supports carrier-based aircraft operations. The aviation combat capabilities it provides,
Far more than the small number of seaplanes carried by large-tonnage battleships.
The mine attack aircraft it is equipped with are equipped with specialized aviation torpedoes, which gives the aircraft the ability to directly attack large-tonnage warships.
However, despite this, the Daheng Empire Navy actually did not place the important task of fleet decisive battle on aircraft carriers.
After all, the performance of current carrier-based aircraft is still too poor. Even the carrier-based aircraft specially developed by the Daheng Empire Navy can only reach a speed of about two hundred kilometers per hour and a range of only a few hundred kilometers.
The speed is low, and the aircraft's ability to withstand strikes is also poor, which means its survivability is too poor.
Even the anti-aircraft firepower, which is not taken seriously by the navies of various countries now, can still bring fatal blows to these carrier-based aircraft, and can only play a decisive role under special circumstances.
This was already proven in the morning naval battle between the Daheng Empire Navy and the Krul Kingdom Navy.
In the morning naval battle, the Daheng Empire Navy's carrier-based aircraft force took advantage of the fact that the Krul Kingdom Navy did not pay attention to air defense, and its battleship force was fighting its own battleship force and could not be distracted from air defense operations.
There was a wave of attacks.
This attack went very smoothly, sinking two Krul battleships and severely damaging one.
But when the carrier-based aircraft force of the Daheng Empire Navy wanted to continue their efforts and launch a second wave of attacks, they found no opportunity.
Because by that time, the Krul Kingdom Navy had already found a way to deal with it.
The method is very simple, that is to mobilize a group of light ships equipped with anti-aircraft firepower to serve as frigates for the battleship formation and provide air defense cover.
Even the anti-aircraft firepower on these light battleships is not very strong. On a cruiser of several thousand tons, there are only two or three 75-mm anti-aircraft guns, plus a few 45-mm anti-aircraft guns.
Anti-aircraft guns, coupled with 20mm machine guns and 11mm-level anti-aircraft machine guns, are enough to build an air defense network.
The torpedo aircraft was slow, had poor maneuverability, and was almost impossible to perform high-intensity maneuvers.
\bSo much so that the Daheng Empire Navy's carrier-based aircraft units had to abandon these high-value targets with anti-aircraft fire cover and instead attack some low-value targets without anti-aircraft fire cover, although they subsequently sank several enemy ships.
battleship, but it has no impact at all on the current huge battle situation.
After the initial panic, the Krul Kingdom Navy was able to face it calmly.
However, after noon, when the main fleet of the Third Mobile Fleet appeared behind the Krul fleet, they raised the barrels of their 400mm naval guns and fired the most powerful artillery ship on the Blue Star so far.
When the cannon roared, the Krull Navy directly suffered a devastating blow.
The two Royal Princess-class battlecruisers of the Third Mobile Fleet, with the six battlecruisers behind them, advanced at extremely high speeds, disrupting the formation of the main fleet of the Kingdom of Krul, and using 400 mm ships
The cannon fires.
The four Daheng-class battleships in the rear led the other twelve battleships to press directly up.
The leading six super battleships showed an almost dominant level of combat effectiveness after they appeared on the battlefield.
Its 400mm naval gun with a caliber of 45 times can defeat all dissenters!
Its powerful power is enough to penetrate the armor of any battleship in the opposing Krull Navy at a regular combat distance!
No exceptions!
This means that every 400mm naval gun shell hitting the enemy's battleship can cause huge damage to the opponent.
What makes people even more desperate is that the four Daheng-class battleships not only have terrifying firepower, but also have desperate protective performance!
As a standard battleship, the Daheng-class battleship's protection standards are designed for the 400 mm-class naval guns it is equipped with.
On the opposite side, among the battleships of the Krul Kingdom Navy, the top-notch naval guns are only 350 mm and 50 times caliber naval guns.
The naval guns of the Kingdom of Krul simply cannot pose any effective threat to the Daheng-class battleships within conventional combat distances.
If you want to attack the Daheng-class battleship, they must get close and fire!
But the problem is that the Daheng-class battleship uses a power system composed of the Daheng Empire's top-notch all-fired boilers and steam turbine acceleration and reduction gears, which allows this huge battleship to reach more than 26 knots.
It is simply not something that can be approached by the new battleships of the Krull Kingdom Navy, which generally reach a speed of about 21 to 23 knots.
As for sending battle formations over, you are just watching the battle formations of the Daheng Empire Navy!
Speaking of battlecruisers or heavy cruisers, the Daheng Empire Navy has always paid more attention to them than the Krul Kingdom Navy, and has a larger number.
Not to mention that there are two Royal Princess-class battlecruisers that exceed 40,000 tons, are equipped with eight 400 mm 45-caliber naval guns, and can reach speeds of 30 knots.
\bRoyal Princess-class battleships and Daheng-class battleships, a total of six super battleships, have achieved tactical effects that ten or even twenty traditional battleships cannot achieve.
Almost as soon as they appeared, they caused fatal damage to the navy of the Kingdom of Krul.
At 1:36 p.m., after being hit hard by two main gun shells from the Daheng in succession, the battleship Barrow, the flagship of the sixth battleship fleet of the eighth task force of the Krull Kingdom Navy, finally couldn't bear it anymore.
Two 400mm artillery shells directly penetrated the ship's main armor belt and exploded deep into its main gun ammunition depot!
Then, there was the dull thud of a lifetime!
The battleship Barrow, which had a full load displacement of more than 36,000 tons, began to shake. Then the front and middle parts were almost torn apart, and the two main gun turrets on the top were blown away!
The entire huge battleship was torn into two pieces by the huge explosive power of their own main gun ammunition depot!
After the explosion, the already shabby warship sank quickly and disappeared into the sea in just a few minutes.
Many people on both sides of the war were stunned!
So far in this naval battle, more than 20 battleships of over 10,000 tons on both sides have been sunk in total, and more than 10 new battleships have been sunk in total.
But no sinking of a battleship is as shocking or even frightening as the Barrow!
The huge explosion flames almost enveloped the entire battleship. The entire battleship was blown into two pieces and sank completely in just a few minutes, without even a chance of damage.
And this is not the end, it is just the beginning!