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Captain Langsdorf, who felt that he had won the victory, decisively ordered the escape, but he could not escape the approaching pursuers. The British colonies all over the world made the "Admiral Grafspey" even more difficult.
The advantage of the pocket battleship's endurance became meaningless, especially when the British fleet contacted the colonial fleet many times to help intercept it, forcing Captain Langsdorff to change his navigation route again and again, and was never able to hide in a friendly country.
Port refuge
On May 07, 1941, the British fleet was less than 30 nautical miles away from the pocket battleship "Admiral Grafspey". Captain Langsdorff, knowing that he was unlikely to escape pursuit, could only grit his teeth and issue a combat order. As for the battle,
As a result, he could only hope for God's blessing.
After the enemy ship entered the range of the main gun, the British Royal Navy heavy cruiser "Exeter" and the "Ajax" and the "Achilles" light cruiser, which were arranged in a "pin"-shaped battle formation, headed towards the "Graf"
"Admiral Spee" launched a fierce bombardment, with the focus of the attack being its 3-unit 280mm main gun turret, because the pocket battleship
The ship has two main turrets, and according to spy reports, the German warship's turret armor protection is much thinner than the main armor belt on the side strings. As long as these two weak main turrets are misfired, it can only
Let it be slaughtered, and when the time comes, get closer and use the main gun to load armor-piercing direct-aimed artillery fire, or simply launch torpedoes to sink it.
However, the British's wishful thinking came to nothing. The modified "Admiral Grafspey" pocket battleship has not only solved the safety hazard of easy jamming of the turret, but also the turret armor has been greatly strengthened.
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They are the 152mm main guns of the two British light cruisers. Even the six 203mm main guns of the "Exeter" heavy cruiser are also unable to deal with the two sturdy main guns of the "Admiral Grafspey" pocket battleship.
Turrets deal effective damage[
This cheered up Colonel Langsdorff, who was almost desperate. He naturally knew that the armor of this warship had been strengthened, but he had never thought that it could have such an amazing effect. If he had known it was so awesome,
How could he escape? Langes’ confidence has greatly increased
At this time, Colonel Dolph couldn't help but think of several special guns that were distributed to the ship before the war and were produced according to the designs provided by the Chinese. He thought that maybe they could also give him a surprise, and immediately ordered: "Main gun reloading type.
Aim at the No. 1 turret of that big ship and fire!"
Germany's world-leading optical sighting device and the German Navy's superb artillery technology were fully demonstrated at this time. In a single salvo of only 6 cannons, a full 5 rounds hit the enemy ship, 3 of which were not deflected.
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From the front of the main turret of the ship No. 1, after a loud and earth-shattering noise was heard, the huge turret was completely unrecognizable as if it had been opened. And the billowing smoke column rising to an altitude of more than 100 meters was enough to show that it was
suffered multiple traumas
The so-called type actually means that the traditional armor-piercing blasting is replaced with a more sensitive short-delay fuze. In this way, when dealing with thinly armored light cruisers and destroyers, the delay fuze will not often occur after the gun penetrates the hull and comes out.
The cannon was detonated only then, so it could not cause too much damage.
Although the "Exeter" is a heavy cruiser, the British heavy cruisers generally choose to abandon the turret armor protection design scheme because of insufficient tonnage. Generally speaking, the turret frontal armor is only 25mm thick, "Exeter"
"Sette" is no exception, and the turret is the most vulnerable part of the warship to be hit by artillery. As for the two light cruisers, none of the parts has particularly thick armor.
Therefore, in previous battles, although the six 280mm main guns of the "Admiral Grafspey" pocket battleship hit enemy ships many times, the powerful large-caliber armor-piercing weapons frequently penetrated enemy ships and then fell into the sea and exploded. In fact,
The effect is quite limited.
The type cannon penetrates into the turret or explodes inside the hull. If you are lucky, it can cause a sudden explosion to directly destroy the enemy ship. Even if you are unlucky, it can also cause huge damage to the enemy ship, especially the turret, which weighs more than 300 kilograms.
If a large-caliber gun explodes inside once, it will basically become unusable.
In the past, Germany, and even the navies of all major powers, mainly used two methods to deal with thin-armored warships. One was to use the main gun to fire blasts without armor-piercing capabilities, and the other was to use smaller-caliber secondary guns to fire armor-piercing blasts. But with the current
Compared with other models, the effects are not as good as each other. Although large-caliber blasts can shatter thin armor, the effect of exploding outside is incomparable to that of exploding in the stomach; and the power of small-caliber cannons is even more incomparable.
Compared with large diameter.
The technical difficulty of short-delay fuses is not high. The reason why the great powers did not think of this method before is because their naval and military strength are strong enough. If they really encounter a situation where a large ship fights a small ship, generally speaking, it will not be possible.
It's just a waste of more medicine. Anyway, they can win steadily, so they won't think about it so carefully. China's navy and military industry are not strong enough, and the Chinese people have a good habit of being thrifty, so they naturally have to find ways to do it.
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The British believed that the pocket battleship's only two main turrets were an exploitable weakness, but their flagship only had three turrets, and the firing rate and accuracy of the German naval guns exceeded the British expectations.
In just a few minutes, all three main gun turrets of the British flagship "Exeter" heavy cruiser were misfired, basically losing its combat capability.
, and other parts of the ship, including the crucial heavy oil boilers and steam turbines, were also damaged to varying degrees. The maximum speed of the heavy cruiser "Exeter" dropped sharply to less than 15 knots. At this time,
The two light cruisers with thinner armor have also been severely damaged by the eight 150mm secondary guns on the side of the pocket battleship "Admiral Grafspey".
At this time, the British were depressed because of the ineffectiveness of the plan to attack the main turret. A certain captain even yelled that "MI6" was a waste. However, the British Royal Navy had rich experience after all. Since the turret armor could not be penetrated,
The main armor belt on the side strings is even more indestructible, so we can only attack the superstructure of the enemy ship. Although it seems a bit late to think of doing this at this time (to be continued...)