The Rise of the Empire

"From a tactical point of view, the number of attack aircraft in the carrier-based aircraft detachment of the USS Independence is not that large. There are 72 carrier-based aircraft, and the number of attack aircraft is 32. Some of them are part-time reconnaissance aircraft. The number of attack aircraft that can be mobilized may even be less than 20, and then consider the lower hit rate in actual combat than in exercises. Not to mention such a large-scale attack for the huge British fleet, or even for a battleship squadron. What a threat it will pose."

"The Germans know this very well, so in the previous telegrams, the Germans strongly requested us to increase the number of fighter jets. In fact, they have already considered giving up our sea attack function. From this perspective, the Germans should not propose something similar. Request." Ma Jifen said.

"As for the second point? This is my personal opinion. I think that in order to ensure a safe period, the Independence aircraft carrier should effectively use the few aviation resources to ensure the victory of the battle, instead of using the limited attack aircraft to be destined to be unable to obtain results. In terms of sea attacks, it would be better to send more reconnaissance planes to ensure the perception of the battlefield situation.” Ma Jifen said.

"Do you think that we do this more conducive to the victory of the war? You think for the sake of the Germans." No matter how good Sims' temper, he still criticizes Majifen's statement. After all, in his understanding, the aircraft carrier itself As a purely offensive weapon, an aircraft carrier does not have the heavy armor of a battleship, so in his opinion, the best defense of an aircraft carrier is to attack, and if it cannot attack actively, the aircraft carrier loses most of its meaning. But now, Ma Jifen has lost the right to attack because of his distrust of him! This is obviously a kind of irony for a general.

"This is for the sake of the United States and Germany. To a certain extent, helping Germany means helping the United States. There is an all-round gap between us and the Germans. We recognize this gap and we will also plan for war in the future. Considering this gap. Do you know why we won't send a battleship this time?" Majifen asked.

　　 "The reason is very simple. Our capital ships are slow battleships and cannot keep up with the speed of the German fleet." Sims said.

"This statement is half true. But what about the other half?" Ma Jifen smiled bitterly: "Think about it, all the navies in the world, whether they are British, Germans, Japanese or Austrians, have their own fast battleships. The core of the German and Japanese fleets are also fast battleships. But why the United States of America has been building slow battleships? Have you ever thought about this?"

　　 "Because of the budget?" Sims was a little uncertain, and he was also curious about this reason. After all, the role of the fast fleet is well known to the world, so why didn't the US Navy develop?

"Budget is one reason, and the other is technical problems. Although the United States of America has a very large industrial scale and even ranks among the top in the world in some fields, there is still a gap between us and the true technological powers of Britain and Germany. When these gaps are reflected on battleships, various defects will be produced. The technical difficulty of fast battleships is higher than that of battleships, and technical risks are one of the important reasons why we abandon fast battleships. In fact, even now Battleships, starting from New York, there are more or less problems with each class of our battleships." Majifen said.

　　 Unlike having been in battleship squadrons in history, Sims did not stay in the battleship squadron for too long, so although he knew some problems, he still had some confusion about the underlying reasons. For example, he once served on the United States’ first super-dreadnought ship, the USS New York. He knew that New York’s two main guns located in the middle of the hull were weird, but he really didn’t know why!

"All of our warships perform very well on paper, but there will be some problems in actual combat. Take the New York as an example. As the first super fearless in the United States, we actually use the same vertical steam engine as the former dreadnought. , This in itself is distrust of the steam turbines of our country, and to say the power-to-weight ratio of our power system, not to mention that there is a certain gap between the Germans and the British. So in the case of the power system is not strong, we Naturally it is not good to get a fast battleship."

"As for the artillery? How to say it, we now know why the promenade of the two artillery in the middle of the New York's hull is problematic, because the ammunition depot of this turret is close to the power compartment, and our cooling work is not very good. , So the temperature in the ammunition warehouse was too high, and this caused some changes in the propellant, which affected the walk of the artillery, so that the 10 artillery of the New York could only be used as 8 artillery."

"Then the later Nevada-class battleships, we cleverly adopted 2 double and 2 triple artillery layouts~www.wuxiaspot.com~ However, the artillery spacing of the triple turret is 4 times the caliber, and the artillery spacing of the double artillery is Seven times the caliber, the distance between the artillery of the triple turret was too close, which caused the muzzle storm to affect the ballistics. This result caused the artillery to travel differently. Of course, we can attribute this to a design problem for the time being."

　　 "Didn't we use a half salvo to solve this problem later?" Sims said with some dissatisfaction.

"Yes, we did use this method to solve the problem to a certain extent, but it is still a pity that we can't make a full salvo. We can make do with the problems of the battleship Nevada, but some problems are difficult to solve in a short time." Said.

"Our latest two-tier battleships are the New Mexico-class battleships and the Tennessee-class battleships. We use a full triple artillery layout and a new 14-inch L50 gun. These two-tier battleships were hailed as the hope of the Imperial Navy when they were launched. Star, but the actual situation is not the case. In many test firings, the walking part-time of the new 14-inch L50 gun was regarded as a shotgun, which was about twice the size of the 14-inch L45 gun! So much so that a German naval officer had The evaluation said that the efficiency of these 12 14-inch guns may not be as efficient as the 8 British guns. Do you know the reason for this?" Ma Jifen asked.

(Note: Historically, the American 14-inch L50 artillery was really bad for walking, even if delayed excitation is used, the root cause is that the artillery ablation is too serious. This problem was discovered in the 1920s. .)

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