Chapter 831 Engagement! The pinnacle of giant ship artillery (six)!
It is still a bottom-row extended range bomb, and it is still a slender sub-caliber warhead with a jujube kernel, which is still accurate and terrifying!
The volleys of the two "Kunlun-class" battleships seemed aimless, but the timing of each shell ejected was so wonderful that it was the control ability of the intelligent fire control system to accurately calculate each variable, which was definitely beyond the reach of human power!
Only powerful computing power from the interstellar era can accomplish this super-divine mission of using 50,000 ton battleships as guns!
According to common sense, the bottom-row extended range bomb has a jet structure inside the warhead, which destroys the drag and deceleration effect of the tail vortex, but it also leads to the deviation of the overall mechanical trajectory of the bullet body, and eventually makes the bullet point spread larger. It seems to be an unsolvable trouble.
But it depends on who made the thing, and also on what kind of caliber shell it is!
The 305mm caliber armor-piercing shell and high-explosion shell have a length that is longer than the standard shell. The weight is reduced by only one-third at most, but it still has a weight of 700 to 800 kilograms. After bombing the barrel at more than twice the initial speed, the kinetic energy of its own rotation and forward rushing may not necessarily cause much rail change if the small-caliber shell hits it. The continuous eruption and spoiling behavior of the bottom exhaust gas, if the nozzle exhaust mechanism is carefully tuned and well-processed, will minimize the impact!
The most important thing is that under intelligent fire control operation, eighteen shells are shot strictly in accordance with the probabilistic shooting method. They are simply a terrifying technology that covers various variables and ensures that the final landing point will form a bullet rain covering the grid!
Not to mention the navy these days, even in fifty years, this technology will not be able to be played! Only by returning to the era of giant ships and cannons rampant in the universe and experiencing the normal cosmic war where hundreds of thousands of various cannons are scattered and the battle mode formed can this technology be carried forward!
What Zhu Bin got was just an introductory version of castration and incompleteness to the game level. It was the basic support system for building personal game fields and creating holographic virtual games in his era, but across time and space, there is the terrifying killing power at present!
Therefore, the Japanese and Japanese big and small Japanese devils can’t figure it out, that’s the normal reaction!
"Boom---Boom!" Another explosion was scrambling to submerge the second destroyer in the middle, no more than one kilometer away from the farthest deviation target. The nearest explosion was on the side of the warship. Unfortunately, it happened to be a high-explosion bomb. The huge water pressure generated was squeezed over from the side facing its waterline. Like the ancient giant's punch, it immediately crushed a large piece of the weak steel structure. A large hole with a diameter of four or five meters suddenly appeared, and hundreds of tons of sea water poured into it wildly!
The slender destroyer could not withstand such fierce power at all. Not only did the keel twist and destroy it, but the unlucky power cabin was watching from the side. The power of the broken impact destroyed a boiler inside on the spot. The boiling steam swept across the airline and destroyed it along the channel pipeline, causing greater damage!
The warship of more than 2,000 tons was then carried to the right, and dozens of soldiers were caught off guard and rushed into the sea. The screams of the wounded were heartbreaking, and the rolling smoke and steam quickly spread from the bottom, flooding its increasingly slow figure.
"Beautiful!" Zhu Bin and a group of old seniors saw clearly from the broadcast screen of the early warning aircraft and applauded gently.
The old gentlemen's faces were very wonderful. It was not just shock, it was simply shock!
They all came from the era of winning artillery shooting. They were all navy all their lives. Although they had never played with too big naval guns, and there was no chance of actual control of such a large warship, the basic theories were all clear.
Generally speaking, gunboat attacks are about efficiency and character. Under normal circumstances, artillery battles usually occur within a distance of less than 30 kilometers, or even about twenty kilometers, to exert real lethality. Nothing else. With the artillery firing level in the past few decades, forty kilometers is the limit of the sight of the bridge watchtower. Even if the carrier-based radar exceeds the sea level curve, it doesn’t make much sense to shoot the cannon further--you can’t see people, where can you go?
Even if you can see within 30 kilometers and aim, it is similar to using a rifle to hit mosquitoes with a naked eye from a hundred meters away. The hit rate is only a few percent. If multiple warships can shoot volleys, it is an excellent level that can reach one percent.
At a distance of 20 kilometers, the hit rate can be increased to three to five, so it is very impressive to hit ten times of volleys! Because the gun barrel of the main ship is not less than 300mm, even the 381,356 caliber of the Bismarck or George V class has the opportunity to seriously injure the battleship at this distance!
If Zhu Bin had not appeared in this time and space, there would not have been even more than 30 kilometers. The record of the main gun of the battleship was hit by at least more than 20 kilometers away. But now, all the records have been broken long ago!
Based on this common sense, the old predecessors felt a sense of frustration that their lifelong ideals were destroyed. They thought these young people were doing things randomly, but the facts told them that the degree of technological development was far beyond their old minds to imagine. Fights beyond time and space were not something that the old people could play!
The volley shot of nearly 70 kilometers of more than 60 kilometers was just "good" to Zhu Bin. So what level does his "good" have to be?
The coalition generals were also thinking about the same problem.
The first time he witnessed such a miraculous blow, the British became frustrated. Lieutenant General Philips shouted "Impossible" several times, and then the second destroyer finally overturned helplessly, shattering his luck. His face suddenly became unfavorable!
The British Empire is the founder of the navy today! A large number of tactical theories and basic construction procedures are carried out according to their standards. If apprentices surpass teachers, others can happen, but they shouldn't! The navy, that is something that can be successful by accumulation, and cannot be done by anyone with money.
However, it would be useless for him not to admit it, because just artillery skills, the Japanese are better than them! Although the two sides have never fought directly, the things that the Japanese summarized themselves are sometimes not simply blindly boasting.
General Kimmel didn't care about smoking his pipe. He frowned and looked at the large group of senior officers of the fleet who were sweating behind him. His nervous expressions made him feel sank. This blow was not small! Could it be that he really wanted to "ride the enemy's artillery fire"? What if the opponent just bombarded the outside world like this?
Tadichi Nagamo was very calm. Although he was very heavy in his heart, he had failed many times and got used to it. He nodded at the two generals and said, "It is such a distress to fight against the Chinese Navy. They always have something unexpected."
"But why don't they wait for us to get closer before launching an attack? That would be more confident! If we retreat now, I'm afraid he won't have a good idea!"
Lieutenant General Philips was puzzled. Isn’t this a scare in advance? The distance of more than 60 kilometers is a one-sided blow, but I suffered a loss and didn’t fight you. If you don’t go against you, everyone will go around the circle and you won’t catch up. If you miss the opportunity to attack, wouldn’t this cause trouble?
Kimmel and Natsuki shook their heads one by one: "They are hoping we will do this! Once the battle is delayed until the evening, we will have great trouble!"
Lieutenant General Philips suddenly remembered that at the joint combat meeting of the three armies, the Japanese repeatedly emphasized that the Americans were reminding the terrifying night combat capabilities of the Chinese Navy!
A layer of sweat oozed out of his forehead. He almost forgot about this!
When fighting at night, most of the warships are like blind people. Although most of their warships are equipped with radars, that thing is not reliable, and the scanning distance, angle and accuracy are both problems. And the eyes cannot see clearly. In this case, with the opponent's shelling accuracy, it is not a random slaughter!
Especially at night, the coalition planes, let alone bombing and attacking, did not even have the ability to harass, and the other was getting worse. The result was probably even worse!
If it weren't for all kinds of unfavorable conditions, how could the three armies finally decide to set out early, arrive at the scheduled attack launch waters in the morning, and fight against the other party for the whole day! That would be forced to do so. Even if you know the interests of the other party's air force, you can at least give full play to your abilities and strengths!
Gripping his teeth, Lieutenant General Philips resolutely raised his chest: "Then let's move forward bravely! In any case, our navy will not be scared! They are not the body of King Kong that cannot be damaged. Our naval cannons also have the ability to destroy!"
Go forward! Keep moving forward!
The main Alpha formation kept its course and continued to hedge, and the carrier-based aircraft took off again to carry out nearly suicide attacks and harassment--there was no choice. This is their mission. If there is a blind cat hitting a dead mouse, it might be able to achieve success.
Underwater, more than a dozen submarines changed their cautious mode of action, and bravely emerged, advanced at high speed, intending to approach and attack with torpedoes. Especially the Japanese submarines, equipped with powerful 93 torpedoes, with a long range and a fast firing speed, are the best choice for killing methods among the three armies.
The other escorted destroyers and cruisers also faced pressure and made snake-like maneuvers on the sea, which was not too large, but it should be more than enough to avoid aiming and shelling. In any case, the shells would have to fly in the air for at least two minutes before they could reach the place, and they could have already run a large piece.
It seems that this method is really in charge? At least the shelling did not come too frequently. The ocean-going fleet silently approached more than ten kilometers, and came towards them without dodging. The straight line distance between the two sides was close to the fifty-kilometer line, and the pioneers began a fierce collision!
The crowded coalition submarine finally caught the traces of the other party's peers and fired a series of torpedo hunting without hesitation. The destroyers on it tried hard to distinguish the enemy and us, bombarded with a volley of naval guns. As long as one shot hit, the opponent could be half dead.
The idea is good, but the reality is very skinny! The Chinese submarines operating at a depth of at least 100 meters are not something they can touch with when they attack. The so-called traces are just false signals created by dragging sonar. Instead, their attacks suddenly exposed their specific location on the water surface!
The counterattack immediately descended! The bow of the boat was raised and scanned upward to lock the target at a small angle. The torpedo was then launched directly at the submersible depth. The two were pushed out to deal with one, and suddenly rushed out from a depth of more than 100 meters. When the guys above discovered that it was too late!
Nowadays, most countries have relatively primitive sonars. The detection distance of passive sonars is only a few kilometers, and the active sonars are even shorter and even unable to escape deep-water bombs. Therefore, submarines are very afraid of destroyers.
But what are the equipment of Zhu Bin's warships? Super large-scale sonar array, single electron beam three-dimensional scanning, and detection distances are all more than ten nautical miles away. Even if the active sonar is discovered by the other party, it is useless--more than ten nautical miles, it is quiet enough to dive to a very deep and escape calmly. It is not something that destroyers these days can discover. Even if they discover it, you have to be able to catch up!
Can those who sent to play hide-and-seek with the Japanese and American navy be good at it?
A pair of torpedoes were launched more than ten kilometers away, and accelerated to more than thirty knots at a depth of 50 meters underwater before floating up. When they were discovered, they had already reached the stern of more than 50 knots. Their own active sonar scanned the target at close range and plunged head-on. Most of the stern of the thruster was located, and it exploded with a bang. At least 240 kilograms of warhead suddenly blew the submarine or destroyer into pieces!
A series of explosions rose in front of the fleet, and two more submarines, one destroyer was smashed! The terrifying water column of the torpedo warhead was four or five hundred meters high, and the broken hull mixed in the middle seemed particularly miserable, covering the attacking fleet with thick clouds!
At this time, you cannot retreat!
The hard-working generals ignored it and ordered the fleet to continue moving forward without any wavering!
The submarines scattered and surrounded the light cruiser running alone in front of the other party. There were several other destroyers that were harassed by both wings. If they could not defeat them, they would at least have to restrain some of their power.
At this moment, the Ocean Fleet suddenly opened fire again!
Fifty kilometers! The two ships were all volleys, all of which were bottom concave extended range bombs, and conventional bullet structures, but the sags reserved at the bottom of the warhead can greatly slow down the impact of vortex drag, allowing the shells with a range of 48 kilometers to easily increase the range of more than 15%!
Moreover, this time the target was no longer the small ship in front, but he was striking the stance and staggering in front, and the Yamato was more than a huge piece of the size!
The Alpha formation of the coalition forces looks like a column from the side, but from the front, six battleships are divided into two columns and intersect and parallel, with a distance of less than three kilometers. They lock each other at a distance, and in terms of radar reconnaissance, they echo and correct each other to ensure the maximum accuracy, which can also increase the success rate of strikes.
The radio shielded area has directly affected this side. The response between ships is suddenly mute and has to rely on lights and flags to communicate. It is reasonable that efficiency has dropped significantly. However, thick smoke was sprayed out from the muzzle from a distance. The reconnaissance planes in the sky responded immediately, swinging their fuselage to remind them that all warships immediately adopted evasion strategies!
There is no way, who made the cannons here not long enough? Even if you don’t know who they are firing at, you have to maneuver. The large warheads of more than one ton are not a joke! Even the Yamato-class battleships have to consider it!
It was indeed a big guy who was very angry. The target of the third volley was that big guy!
The trial sailing in January made many holes in the Yamato. After returning, it was scrapped and repaired it. It also made a lot of reinforcement accordingly, resulting in the total armor weight exceeding the standard again, but that was impossible.
The roaring shells were pulled out in the air, roaring like a train passing through a tunnel at high speed, shocking and thrilling! The dense and huge figure still had a speed above the speed of sound at the end. When it suddenly fell, the injection angle was extremely small and almost fell from the top of the head. It tried hard to make maneuvering "Yamato" toss and twists the situation. In the end, its speed was not enough, and it could not run far in just over a minute. All its maneuverability performance parameters were inputted to the intelligent processing system database of the entire fleet through the last test. The shells emitted also fully considered the forward speed of its huge hull when maneuvering, avoiding the angle and travel distance!
So, he tried his best and ran out more than a kilometer. Especially the battleship that deviated from the formation to the left and forced out forty-five degrees still could not escape the attack of the volley. The eighteen shells were smashed down for a second, and it surrounded it within the explosion range!
All of them had armor-piercing bombs, with little charge and not very explosive power, but the kinetic energy threat was still the same as the water columns that were raised by the explosion. From the perspective of other warships in the distance, it seemed that the "Yamato" was swallowed up all at once. Commander Tadichi Nagamo even raised his heart to his throat--he was really afraid of destroying his flagship in an instant!
Fortunately! Their luck is really good. The nearest explosion point is about 300 meters away, and there is no damage to the warship at all.
But it was obviously too early to be happy. In just half a minute, the second whistling sound followed one after another. The shell landing point still strangely covered the huge hull of the Yamato. Everyone became nervous, and Tadichi Nagamo's face turned green!
They are all old fry, who doesn’t know how difficult it is to form a cross-shoot for the first time? Even if you already know that the other party can destroy it at a very long distance, wouldn’t there be a trace of luck?
Now there is no luck! Because it turns out that people have really locked in the target ship from the beginning, and the accuracy control is outrageous!
As if to prove their conjecture, an armor-piercing bomb hit the stern of the ship from the right rear in a lobster manner, and killed two triple-mounted 25mm machine guns! The horizontal armor was also successfully penetrated through two layers, and a ball of thick smoke rolled up. An airplane mounted on the ejection slide was shattered in the front!
Chapter completed!