Hit!
But this is not the key to the problem. The key to the problem is whether it has been penetrated?
The 14-inch main gun of the Queen Elizabeth is undoubtedly the sharpest "spear" of the British Royal Navy today, and the main belt of the Da Zhou is the strongest shield of the Ming Dynasty Navy! Now the sharpest spear is piercing the strongest shield. Whether it can pierce it will determine the outcome of today's naval battle, and will also determine the rise or fall of the empire on which the sun never sets!
Although this is a bit "weapons only", today's naval battles are all about the strength of ships and artillery, and the survival of the current empire is also determined by the victory of naval battles. In other words, whoever's ship is stronger, has more powerful guns, and is large enough will be the master of the world!
William Baga, who had just climbed up from the floor of the command tower, had already grabbed a good seat to watch the battle. He raised his binoculars and stared at the fire coming out of the side of the Dazhou. His heart was moved. My throat is sore - the waterline armor of the British Empire's strongest battleship King William IV has already made several holes for the enemy's cannons. If the 14-inch cannon of the King William IV cannot penetrate the opponent's waterline armor, then The British Empire is... coming to an end!
The smoke from the 14-inch shell dissipated in the blink of an eye, and then revealed a large area of scorched black. When he saw the scorched black, William Baga's face also turned dark. Because he knew that the charred blackness was left after the picric acid charge burned violently on the metal surface - and the picric acid charge burned a large area of pitch black on the steel plate surface of the Ming warship, which meant that the 14-inch armor-piercing projectile must have been The armored steel plate of the Ming Dynasty battleship was not penetrated. Otherwise, it should have exploded in the belly of the battleship, and a hole should have been opened on the surface to let out fire and smoke!
"No, there is no breakdown...how is this possible?" Major General Jervis's voice rang in William Baga's ears, and he sounded a little trembling. Apparently, he was struck by the Ming Dynasty's 30,000-ton battleship I was frightened by its solidity.
"It must, it must be the damn fuze that caused the trouble!" Of course William Baga was not willing to let it end like this. He immediately found a reason for the 14-inch shell that could not penetrate the main belt of the Ming Dynasty's 30,000-ton battleship—— The shells are good, but the fuze is too sensitive and explodes when touched... This is an old problem. It has been like this since the beginning of the war. The Royal Navy has been mentioning this to the arsenal, but it cannot be corrected. It is really a mistake. The country has wronged you!
Thinking of this, William Baga loudly ordered: "Keep fighting, don't stop...we must penetrate the armor of the Ming Dynasty battleship!"
"Yes, sir!"
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"Admiral, damage control report, there is no obvious damage to the main armor belt on the starboard side. Our battleship withstood it!"
"Long live! The Ming Dynasty is victorious...the Ming Dynasty is invincible!"
At this moment, the commander tower of the Da Zhou was filled with joy.
The thickness of the side main mounting belt of the Da Zhou is 175 mm - 350 mm, and the thickness of the upper main mounting belt is 175 mm. They all have a certain inclination, which can increase a certain degree of protection when being shot.
In addition, the bulletproof steel plate used by Dazhou is the latest "deep hardened plate". This steel plate is harder than the earlier surface-hardened armor steel - one is carburized and hardened on the surface, and the other is hardened on the inside. , so it’s even harder. The price of armor steel produced using this process is extremely high, almost 20-30 times that of ordinary steel plates! Moreover, the steel plate hardened by this process is difficult to post-process (it is too hard), so it must be processed into the required shape before hardening. This is also a considerable challenge for the shipbuilding industry. Only an industrial country strong in both shipbuilding and metallurgy can play well...and Ming Dynasty is such an industrial country.
However, you get what you pay for. The bulletproof ability of this "deep hardened plate" is also just right, almost equivalent to 2.5 times that of ordinary armor steel. Compared with armor steel with only surface hardening technology, it is 15% - 25% stronger. %.
In other words, if the last 350 mm of deep-hardened steel armor on the main side belt of the Da Zhou is converted into the surface-hardened steel used on British battleships, it would have to be 400 mm upward. If you take into account the enhanced bulletproof effect produced by tilting the steel plate, it should be equivalent to more than 450 mm! 1
The 4-inch (356 mm) armor-piercing bullet does not have a hood, the fuze is not very reliable, and the picric acid charge is not passivated well... This will not penetrate the thicker parts of the main shell. That's right. If it's penetrated, the shipyard must have cut corners.
However, Admiral Li Kezhi of the 102nd Fleet knew that it was not the time to be happy yet—victory was not yet achieved!
Li Kezhi ordered loudly: "Continue to focus on the British No. 1 ship and beat me hard!"
"Yes, Admiral!"
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The admirals on both sides were determined to beat each other to death!
The gunners in the main gun turrets on both sides did not stop for a second. They were loading and firing with all their strength. 14-inch, 12-inch, 360mm, and 300mm shells came and went. Very happy. Although the quality of the British's armor-piercing shells is indeed poor, they now have more than 200 cannons firing shells at the four battleships of the Ming Dynasty. Armor-piercing shells filled with picric acid are raining down. Whether it is power or momentum, it is very amazing. .
At 6:36, the British fleet finally gave the Ming Dynasty a hard blow. The side of the No. 4 turret of the battleship Chengzhong King was penetrated by a 12-inch shell, and an explosion occurred on the spot. If it were not for the reliable Ming Dynasty manufacturing provided for the Chengzhong King class The fire door and turret base may cause even greater damage.
But only a minute later, the 360mm cannon of the "Da Zhou" class retaliated. Two armor-piercing shells weighing more than 700 kilograms hit the King Wilhelm IV again, one of which hit the first officer. Cannon, when the turret was blown up, a huge fireball exploded! The other one penetrated the bow of the ship and directly penetrated the torpedo room on the bow!
To equip a battleship with torpedoes... To be honest, it's a very puzzling design! Fortunately for the Ming Dynasty, they have powerful steam gas torpedoes after all! It can be launched from a distance of 10 kilometers, and the speed of more than 30 knots looks scary. However, the British steam gas torpedoes have not yet entered service, so their battleships are equipped with compressed air torpedoes. This torpedo can only hit one or two kilometers... What is the use of installing it on a battleship? Can a battleship still rush within 2 kilometers of its opponent? They're about to hit each other!
But British warship designers stubbornly equipped their battleships with torpedo launch tubes, and built a torpedo cabin on the bow of the ship, which also stored some air-compressed torpedoes!
As a result, the torpedoes did not cause any damage to the enemy, but they were about to bring disaster to the British Empire! This 360mm armor-piercing bomb not only penetrated the armor of the bow of the König Wilhelm IV, but also easily broke through the armor of the torpedo cabin, penetrated into the torpedo cabin and caused a big explosion!
This is a violent explosion! All the people in the command tower of the William IV were unable to stand and fell to the ground again... William Baga fell very hard, his head hit the steel plate hard, and there were bursts of severe pain. , but his mind is still very clear. He knew that such a violent explosion could not have been caused by an armor-piercing bomb that did not contain much picric acid. Something must have been destroyed.
As soon as he thought of this, someone shouted: "It's over, it's over... The torpedo room on the bow of the ship exploded, the bow of the ship is gone, we are sinking quickly..."
