Chapter 538 Guam Level!

In the morning.

Suddenly, the noisy footsteps broke the tranquility of Lushun Port. Some family members and soldiers living in the port narrowed their sleepy eyes and pushed open the window, only to find that two huge light gray figures appeared in the distance.

The long ammunition supply convoy drove into the military port of martial law a few days ago, and the booms on the dock began to swing back and forth, lifting heavy shells onto the deck.

The leather pipe is connected to the water tower and warship, and the thicker oil pipeline extends to the underground oil depot, and the filtered low-impurity light heavy oil is continuously injected into the oil tank.

The sailors who manage the oil depot stared at the rapidly rotating digital table and couldn't help swallowing. He never imagined that the two new battleships that suddenly docked the harbor in the middle of the night last night could drink so well. Looking at the huge and wide body in the distance, he couldn't help but suspect that if the port of Lushun had not been greatly expanded more than a decade ago, maybe it was fundamental. It can't accommodate such a giant ship.

When a full 13,400 tons of low impurity heavy oil were swallowed by these two big guys and didn't burp, the sailor was completely dumbfounded. You know, he had asked the officer on the ship. This kind of battleship that he had never seen before had 2,000 tons of oil in his stomach when he docked. In this way, it basically costs 8700 to fill one. Tons of heavy oil!

When he was finally busy filling the two battleships with oil for most of the night, the young sailor looked at the thick triple gun barrel on the deck that could almost drill people, and pushed the old monitor beside him: "Ban commander, is this a battleship or a supply ship? The supply tank of the Kunlun Mountain comprehensive supply ship that came last time can only be loaded with 7,000 tons!"

"With so much oil, is it enough to go around the world?"

"Ha ha." The old monitor smiled, but did not answer. As a veteran for many years, he knew how strict the confidentiality regulations in the army were. Not to mention this kind of actual data about endurance, even many officers and soldiers on the ship did not know.

However, with his vicious vision that he has practiced for many years, he also knows that the normal displacement of the two mysterious battleships that suddenly came here is at least more than 40,000 tons. If it is fully loaded, it is estimated that it will go 50,000 tons.

The old monitor's eyes are powerful. It was only launched half a year ago. It has just completed the sea test delivery and the first training. It is believed that the world has been included the largest super battleship in the construction so far.

Gam level!

Guam (Note 1) and Medan.

The Guam class was the product of learning about the construction and re-inspection of the United States. Originally, the funds earned from the United States were only enough to build three more. Fortunately, after Tang Shaoyi learned about it, she took the initiative to allocate two more ships, bringing the output to six.

However, because the last four ships started construction late, they will have to wait for service at least the first half of 2016.

This is a first-class fast battleship built in accordance with the standards of the early stage of World War II. It is also a reflection of the 20 years of combat experience of the Xinhua Royal Navy and the dream of Emperor Li, a later fanatical BB Party. If there is any regret, it is that the three triple 406mm guns in the original design are delayed due to progress. As a result, it has to adopt a backup scheme, equipped with the 380mm/L47 naval gun developed with Germany, with a backpack layout of the front two and the rear.

However, the 380mm naval gun jointly developed is not a bad choice. In fact, after many previous tests, it was found that after combining Xinhua's exclusive fire control and bullet technology, its surname energy even exceeded expectations.

At a maximum angle of 30°, it has a maximum range of 33 kilometers and an average speed of 2.5 rounds per minute. When using the 850 kg heavy-duty cap armored shell and a new launcher specially developed for it, the armor depth of 25,000 meters is 300 mm/Khrub. Surface carburized hard armor, 20,000 meters is 330 mm, and if it is close to 18,000 meters, it can reach 360 mm, which means that theoretically it can penetrate any main battleship currently in service or rebuilt.

Another surprise is that because the Guam class should have been equipped with 406mm naval guns, the systems such as ammunition depots and gun seats are designed according to this standard, but now only 380mm naval guns are installed, so the space has become larger, and the carrying capacity of the main guns has increased to 180!

The water line is 211 meters long, 216 meters long, 33 meters wide, 9.6 meters of water intake, standard displacement of 37,000 tons, normal 42,000 tons, and the full load reached a record 46,500 tons.

It adopts a central bridge building type similar to the Yangtze River-class light patrol. For the first time, it adopts a faster and more fuel-efficient square stern design on a large battleship. It has a double rudder and four-pulsoil, powered by four gear variable-speed steam turbines. Combined with 12 large supercharged boilers, the single-axis power reaches 30,000 horsepower, making it the most The speed soared to 29 knots, and the displacement increased, and it could carry more fuel, so the endurance also increased to 18,000 nautical miles/15 knots.

Although Britain has begun to equip destroyers with steam turbines, the gap in the powertrain gap that Lee Mo expected to narrowed did not happen. On the contrary, after 20 years of refinement under his influence, the gap has become wider and wider with the service of the Guam class.

Whenever and wherever, the power is the heart of the warship. A strong and small-scale heart can make other systems more leisurely and more comfortable.

So while the main gun is fierce, its secondary gun system is also particularly noteful, because the navy considers that the British destroyer has adopted a steam turbine, which is becoming more and more threatening after increasing the speed, and it proposes to increase the number of secondary guns, which makes the original six-seat double 130mm design that is not enough. The original The design department was ready to supplement the addition of the 76mm naval gun, but later a young Chinese designer designed a bold and ingenious double-caliber secondary gun, which solved the trouble of the navy.

That is, he canceled the single 76mm naval gun and replaced it with four triple L52/152mm rapid-fire guns for the Yangtze River-class light patrol as a secondary gun, diagonal layout, and then added six double L47/130mm naval guns, so that when shooting to one side, you can have twelve rapid-fire guns. Moreover, the 152mm shell is more powerful, and the two triples occupy a smaller area than the three doubles, so even Li Mo is full of praise for this design, not to mention that Italy has had a similar design in history.

12 quadruple 37mm machine guns and 16 double Viper machine guns not only support the last barrier of close-range torpedoes, but also improve air defense.

The armor design department is also doing its best. Although the caliber of the naval gun is small, the original standard of defense 406mm naval gun is still used when arranging the armor. The key defense concept and the box layout, considering the problem of near-lost, the sideboard main armor belt extends to the water again, 10° tilt arrangement, reaching It is 5.8 meters/350 mm, and the main parts of the stern and upper level are 180 mm. After adopting the perverted four-layer bottom of this era, the thickness of the torpedo wall is still increased to 180 mm, and the horizontal armor is strengthened to 200 mm. The key parts are welded with a layer of 80 millimeters like the Hebei level. Rice-thick carburizing hardened K Rump steel plate.

The turret has also been redesigned. The slope inclination of the front has increased significantly from the original 15° to 22°. The front thickness is 380 mm, the top and gun chamber are 305 mm, the gun seat is 330 mm, and it extends down to the entire well for the first time.

The sealing door of the ammunition depot is more refined, and the fire door has also been redesigned. In addition, adhering to the design of the small watertight cabin in Germany and the dislocation and partition layout of the four-seat power module, the survivability is further enhanced.

After having four steam generators designed with the power module, two additional high-power gasoline generators have been added, so that even if the power module is all damaged, there is enough power to start the pump and provide emergency power to the power equipment on the ship.

Because the newly developed radar is not perfect and there is no equipment for the time being, other fire control and other equipment are basically the best. The most important thing is that the Guam class also adopts a new naval gun control system that has just been adopted in the Hebei class and Yangtze River class light patrols.

RPC!

This is a technology that later BB parties will never forget. It is known as the naval gun control and aiming system second only to fire control radar. It is a preliminary combination of mechanical and electronic technology. Of course, Li Mo has renamed him the naval gun follow-on system.

To put it bluntly, it is to establish a naval gun control system with artificial coordinates with a stable gyroscope and remotely control it with a synchronous motor. Historically, this is a product of 1930, so as a BB party, it is impossible for Li Mo not to want this technology. After the initial improvement of electronic technology ten years ago, he gathered Tesla and other scientists. A special research group has been formed to study.

This is an imitation of the RPC system in the United States during World War II. The adjustment of the left and right directions of the highlands is completely handed over to the mechanical computer and the synchronous motor. As long as the target data transmitted back by subsystems such as the range finder is input, the automatic calculation and aiming can be completed.

To put it simply, it is like a ship equipped with a two-way stable fire control system on later tanks. It allows warships to maneuver at will on the sea, and the gun port can also point to the enemy unchanged and implement a precise shelling system.

In fact, battleships should strictly abide by the battle line in the battle, and the range of maneuver is very small, so this system is more suitable for light cruisers and destroyers. However, because it requires a lot of precision processing and the technical difficulty, the price cannot be suppressed, so Emperor Li can only give up the dream of installing all destroyers and cruisers. Yes, it is only equipped with two types of warships, the Guam-class and the Hebei-class, as well as the last 12 new Yangtze-class light cruisers, and is preparing to modify the first 12 Yangtze-class.

It should be said that this is the highest level that Xinhua can reach at present, and it can't even break through in a few years. Therefore, the Guam class is almost a battleship built by the whole country. The biggest problem brought by a large number of new equipment is the price soaring, which even once affected the construction of the second generation of five aircraft carriers.

When all the sea test data was obtained half a month and a month ago, the main designer McKinson even made a bold statement that as long as it was not surrounded by several times the enemy, no one could defeat the Guam level.

However, as soon as he said this on the third day, he was speechless by the results of a top-secret exercise shown by Li Mo.

But this is still worthy of the fact that this is a good warship, and of course, a good ship needs to be equipped with the best captain, so at the beginning of the construction of the Guam class, the Dragon Constitution began to secretly screen the captain. But unexpectedly, at the suggestion of Li Mo, the first two ships were led by the "Young Guards" two years ago. The most outstanding representatives are Li Xiuyan and Chen Shaokuan.

When this candidate was announced, many people thought that this was the emperor's preference for the young guards. Although this statement also makes sense, Li Mo has always liked to use young and talented captains. In the early years, when the navy was first established, except for the Dragon Guozhang, they were almost all young people, but that There was also the problem of insufficient talents at that time.

But now the navy has a great career, and excellent captains are constantly emerging. It seems to be suspected of taking risks. However, when Chen Ping and Long Guozhang announced the end of the assault war, the evaluation data of the young guard captains who were assigned to the capital ships as internship captains, all the doubts were closed.

Li Xiuyan's excitement was indescribable when he was able to complete the assessment of the captain of the battleship and lead the navy and even the best battleship in the world. However, when he saw that he was saying goodbye to his family at the dock, the couple of dozens of young officers of Dalian Naval School who were arranged to interns on the two ships were particularly noteful. The figure hugging, whispering goodbye, the corners of his mouth suddenly collapsed down.

The emperor really arranged a good job for himself to let the eldest prince come to his ship for an internship!

It is not uncommon for young officers of the Naval School to come to the front-line internship in the navy. Since the naval chief seng launched the promotional film of "Sea Soul" in the year of the Battle of Xibilu Island, the number of students applying for the naval school has increased year by year, almost crowding the two naval schools in Dalian and Ningbo, which makes naval officers The quality has improved a lot, but the pressure of training has also increased a lot, so generally some intern officers will be assigned to each ship.

What's more, he came here like this in those years, so the seedlings of the navy should be well cared for.

But he still didn't expect that Li Zhen would come to the Guam and come to his side, and there is no doubt that this must have been deliberately instructed by the emperor and the Chief of General Staff, otherwise how could it be so coincidental?

"Brother Li, you, be careful." Long Xinyi's mouth was small, her beautiful eyes were shining, and the dimples at the corners of her mouth were still barely supporting. Because she wanted her lover to see her happy appearance, she stubbornly gritted her teeth to prevent tears from dripping.

"Silly girl, I'm just an intern, and I'll be back soon." Li Zhen gently patted the girl on the cheek, lowered his head and kissed her gently at the white auricle. He bit his ear and said, "Remember to miss me."

"Well, Xinyi will miss you every day and wait for you to come back." The kiss in full eyes made the girl shy, but she still couldn't bear to push him away. She still shrank into his arms and felt the warmth brought by her broad chest.

When a loud whistle sounded, Li Zhen let go of the girl. It was time to leave!

Looking at the beautiful girl, Li Zhen suddenly stepped back a few steps and solemnly saluted the army before grabbing the wide marching bag. He strode on the gangway, leaving a young back in a white navy uniform. The girl looked at the back and was inadvertently photographed by a military reporter.

In the breeze, the corners of the girl's clothes fluttered with the wind, and the crystal tears could no longer be controlled, sliding down like pearls, and they didn't know that in front of a window farther away, a mother's eyes were already slightly red under the protection of several guards.

Small holding the window sill, her fingers are already a little white. Although she really wants to see her off, she also knows that if her imperial concubine appears on the dock, it will definitely be restless and busy.

"Don't worry, I have told Xiuyan that he will take good care of the eldest prince." Du Dazhuang took a breath and comforted him.

"Hmm." Xiao Xiao nodded and looked at Li Zhen, who stood by the railing like other sailors and waving to his relatives on the dock, and suddenly smiled again.

"The child is finally going to fly by himself!"

(to be continued)