The needles of rice seedlings are green in May, and the rain is sparse during the tenth month. In the hot summer, it is when crops need water, but the drought makes farmers urgently need a heavy rain.
In Roman mythology, the goddess Maya is a goddess who specializes in spring and life. In order to commemorate her, the Romans named May after her, and the English May may evolved from the name of this goddess.
Come.
Portsmouth is located on the coast of southern England. It is a beautiful seaside city. The history of Portsmouth can be traced back to 1194. It is not only an important naval base in the UK, but also the famous University of Portsmouth in the UK.
It occupies a very important position in the history of Australia, and in the 18th century, the first batch of British people who went to Australia to open up new colonies set out by ship from here.
On the first day of May, Portsmouth, an important British naval base, welcomed a group of visitors from the East. The leader was a young man wearing a white navy uniform, although he did not have any military rank on his uniform.
, but the British soldiers accompanying him are not ordinary people, because if you pick one at random, the youngest one is a major general.
Surrounded by a crowd of people, the young man entered the core area of the shipyard, where the latest warship of the British Navy was being built. It has a very domineering name, called "Dreadnought-class".
According to the British, the ship is the world's first all-main-gun battleship. The battleship is equipped with 10 305mm main guns and no secondary guns. It has a displacement of 18,000 tons, a full-load displacement of 21,000 tons, and a top speed of 2
Section 1, the British Navy plans to put this type of battleship into service in 1903. It is an ironclad battleship with the strongest firepower and the fastest speed. It is also a milestone in the history of the world's battleship development. Therefore, the battleship is called the "dreadnought battleship".
However, this kind of battleship is just a derivative of the Far East mini battleship, because the Far East mini battleship has all main guns, but it is smaller than the Dreadnought class in terms of tonnage. At the same time, the number of main guns is only three in two units. I did not expect that it would eventually become
Models for various countries to build new battleships.
The engineer from the shipyard was introducing the introduction, but Li Ningyu, the young man in white, didn't listen to a word because he was concentrating on the dreadnought ship that was about to be built. He was born in the army, so he only knew a lot about the navy.
Maybe it's just a little bit of knowledge.
The Dreadnought battleship is a ship type with a long forecastle, which directly eliminates the underwater collision angle of the bow. The biggest difference between the Dreadnought class battleship and other battleships is the concept of full heavy artillery built by the Far East Navy battleship. The Dreadnought battleship
It will use 10 305 mm caliber main guns of the same type and 5 twin-mounted main guns.
Different from the Far East mini-battleships, the Dreadnought-class has a twin unit at the bow, one at the stern, and one in the middle of the hull. This arrangement is on the center line of the hull, which can be balanced, and then it is between the two boiler rooms, symmetrical on both sides.
There are two main guns arranged on each side of the entire battleship. The maximum firepower is 8 main guns, and the forward firepower is theoretically 6 main guns. In this way, the firepower advantage is doubled. The main guns with consistent ballistic performance enable the use of a unified fire control system.
become a reality possible.
The 11,000-ton mini-battleship of the Far East Navy uses two two-unit installations at the bow and one two-unit installation at the stern. It has six main guns for side firepower and four main guns for forward firepower.
At the same time, different from the mini type, the British Navy's dreadnoughts only retain secondary guns with a caliber of less than 3 inches. They are said to be used to defend small torpedo ships. However, in Li Ningyu's view, they are completely redundant. It is better to add more
It became an anti-aircraft artillery, because the once famous naval battle giant Bismarck was hit by an air-dropped bomb and was eventually destroyed.
Of course, the Dreadnought is also unique. Its four steam turbine units allow the Dreadnought to travel faster than any previous battleship. The maximum speed is increased to 21 knots, and it can also maintain high-speed sailing for a long time.
, and has good reliability, which is a major breakthrough, because compared with the old reciprocating steam unit, the reliability and practicality are many times higher.
There is also the defensive armor of the dreadnought, which is no less than any warship from various countries. It also uses surface hardening treatment for the first time on the armor. In important parts of the warship, the thickness of the armor reaches 11 inches, which is enough to provide comprehensive protection capabilities.
For all the sealed cabins in the hull that are launched under the waterline, the transverse contact doors have been directly eliminated. Instead, the watertight structure has been strengthened to improve the overall anti-sinking capability of the warship.
The design blueprint of the dreadnought was approved a long time ago, but due to many changes, the first keel was finally laid at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on October 2, 1901. However, according to the current construction progress,
It's been surprisingly fast.
Therefore, it can be said that the dreadnought has undergone a major innovation in major aspects such as weapons, power, and protection, especially in terms of firepower and power devices. It is a revolutionary improvement, and it has also triggered a new round of naval armament competition among various countries.
Since then, there has been a huge watershed in the construction technology of battleships. Battleships before the dreadnoughts are called "pre-dreadnoughts".
This is exactly why Li Ningyu went to Portsmouth Shipyard in person. Of course, he came here mainly for three things. The first was to take a look at the dreadnought; the second was to apply for Zhao Duoduo to enter Portsmouth.
The third thing is to help Helena deal with the playboy who doesn’t know what he looks like.
At the end of the 19th century, with the emergence of mini-battleships in the Far East Navy, naval ship designers from Italy, the United States, and the United Kingdom also took the initiative to propose the concept of future battleships with unified main guns, and advocated the elimination of smaller-caliber main guns and
For secondary artillery, it is recommended to increase the number of large-caliber main guns, because large-caliber artillery can fire beyond the range of smaller-caliber artillery. Centralized control of the artillery salvo to cover the target area with firepower is enough to achieve the purpose of improving the hit rate.
As fire control has moved from concept to further practicality, the above proposition has become possible. The most important thing is that all countries have seen the emergence of mini battleships in the Far East.
Therefore, under the leadership of the British Lord of the Admiralty, the British took the lead in forming a committee to propose a design plan for a new type of battleship. The first point was to unify the caliber of the main artillery. However, in order to shorten the design time, the British authorities still found the Far East Group, hoping to
achieve further cooperation.
After learning about this matter, Li Ningyu hesitated, but finally decided to help the UK. After all, with the UK's current technical capabilities, it was only a matter of time before it wanted to design and build a Dreadnought-class. If you follow the trend, you can get more
As expected, with the help of the Far East Military Equipment Department, they successively recommended to the British Admiralty a steam turbine unit that could maintain a speed of 21 knots for a long time.
It is precisely because of the help of the Far East that the British Navy's dreadnought battleships were created. The British's large-caliber artillery and speed advantages are still the dominant ideas in naval warfare. For this reason, the British Admiralty also said that the dreadnoughts are hard-boiled eggs because
It cannot be broken.
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