At the maximum range of forty nautical miles, the effect of the Siren surveillance radar is not obvious.
However, the information detected so far can at least tell Wang Yu the number of warships and the direction of the Siren fleet.
This group of sirens has four heavy cruisers and six destroyers, which is considered a medium-sized fleet.
If he occupies a favorable position, Wang Yu feels that he can wipe out all these sirens with his single ship.
But what Wang Yu found interesting was that the direction of the Siren fleet was not towards the location of the Annapolis.
This is information worth thinking about.
Generally speaking, Sirens have two postures: silent sailing and attack mode.
In a silent navigation attitude, it will not produce a siren response that can be detected by the early warning device.
The siren that can be detected must be in attack mode.
When the Siren is preparing to attack, it usually sails directly towards the target.
The battle formation will not be changed until it is within sight range.
As a result, the sirens are not facing Wang Yu, but in another direction. This can only mean that for these purely logical sirens, their current main target is not Anna where Wang Yu is. Polis.
Wang Yu's heart skipped a beat.
A Siren fleet that has not targeted itself for the time being, but has launched an attack mode, then their target...
It must be the human fleet of this world!
For Wang Yu, who is currently struggling to find civilization in this world, this is no less than wanting to buy a game and just meeting Shi Gao. He picked up a sum of money while walking. It was a surprise from the sky.
This time Tata must open.
Wang Yu immediately adjusted the course of the Annapolis according to the direction of the Siren's advance. He needed to intercept the front of the Siren fleet at a salvo angle when it entered the visual range, so as to launch an attack on the Siren as soon as possible. The largest attack.
At this time, speed becomes very important.
It is a pity that the Annapolis' hull was also cracked due to power damage, resulting in the Annapolis not being able to reach its maximum speed of 33 knots in perfect condition. Currently, it can only go as fast as possible.
Wang Yu immediately turned the car clock to full speed.
Annapolis' clock forward gear has four gears, namely slow speed (1/3), medium speed (2/3), standard speed (Standard), and full speed (Full).
In addition to these four regular gears, there is also a special gear called Flank, which is the maximum speed that can allow a battleship to burst out in a short period of time, regardless of the life of the power system.
As Wang Yu changed the car clock gear, the "Kraken" control system automatically passed the command to the power cabin. As a result, there was a high-frequency and rapidly increasing tone from inside the battleship, which sounded like a jet engine emitting when increasing power. There was a loud roar, and the part of the battleship's power system that could still be used began to operate at full capacity.
In just one minute, the battleship's speed was obviously increased to the full speed it could currently reach, which was twenty-three knots.
This acceleration performance is incredible.
This is another pride of the super battleship - the efficient diesel-electric combined power system.
When cruising, the warship will use a diesel engine as power. Several high-power diesel engines are responsible for generating electricity, and then use electric push to move the warship.
However, when the warship starts, accelerates or needs to sail at full speed, the gas turbine with full thermal efficiency under high load will be used as the main power.
This kind of fast-starting and small-sized turbine can allow the battleship to complete the speed change in a very short period of time. It can be called the ejection start of the battleship, which is much faster than traditional steam turbines.
Unfortunately, the fuel consumption of the gas turbine is extremely large, so in order to meet the required long endurance, Annapolis did not use a more sensitive fuel-gas combination, but supplemented the diesel engine with less fuel consumption for normal navigation.
At the same time, in addition to driving the propeller, the diesel engine can also provide sufficient power support for the "Seren" system on the Annapolis.
Due to the need to fight against the Sirens, the power systems used by the various ships of the human navy in the previous world were simply diverse, including integrated electric propulsion, combined combustion and steam, and alternating combustion. However, in short, conventional fuel The combination of boiler and steam turbine is still the most common.
However, considering that the power system is not the focus of this book, just take a look at this setting.
I won’t introduce too much about the advantages and disadvantages of different power systems, so as not to overwhelm the word count (fog).
I digress.
The propeller accelerated the speed of churning the sea water, and the wake formed behind the battleship became increasingly whiter, while the bow of the ship broke through the sea waves, and snow-white waves splashed in all directions.
The Annapolis is located in the middle of the hull. The top of the chimney, which integrates the gas turbine inlet and the high-temperature exhaust gas outlet, also releases a burst of white condensation mist - this is the water mist produced by the condensation of high-temperature exhaust gas. After being mixed with a trace of exhaust gas produced by the combustion of the diesel engine, they are discharged out of the ship together.
Compared with the heavy oil boiler ships that emit black smoke when sailing, the Annapolis looks much more beautiful and tidy.
The appearance of a battleship can really reflect its combat effectiveness to a certain extent, brothers!
The more than 28,000-ton hull also increased the shaking amplitude during accelerated sailing, but for Wang Yu, who had lived on a battleship for a long time, it was not a problem.
If it is sailing at full speed of more than 30 knots, the shaking will be intense.
The battleship speeded up, and Wang Yu began to check the battleship's armament.
In the naval battle experienced in the previous world, the four main gun turrets of the battleship were not damaged and could still exert their full firepower.
Wang Yu predicts that in the next battle, all battles can be solved by relying on the main gun.
If nothing else, just because of the powerful main gun output capability of the battleship Annapolis,
The main gun used by the Annapolis is a 203 mm naval gun. There are a total of twelve guns in four triple turrets. A single gun has a total of 540 rounds of ammunition.
Of course, there are many cruisers equipped with 203mm naval guns, and the Hindenburg-class and Unzen-class heavy cruisers of the human navy in the previous world have the same configuration of twelve 203mm naval guns.
In fact, what is more critical is the rate of fire of the Annapolis's naval guns.
The normal rate of fire of a 203 naval gun is about 9 to 15 seconds per round. An average of five to six rounds per minute is the limit.
But Annapolis uses the same type of naval gun of the Des Moines class, which can fire one round in 5.5 seconds, that is, it can fire at least ten salvos per minute. In one minute, it can pour a hundred rounds on the opponent. Twenty rounds of artillery shells...
There is no doubt that this is the super cruiser's unparalleled projection.
When fighting against Sirens, sometimes the amount of projection can determine the outcome of the battle.
The Siren battleship has a strange characteristic. It will be destroyed if it suffers enough "damage" within a certain period of time.
The definition of this kind of damage is very broad. Armor-piercing bombs that can penetrate the Siren hull, high-explosive bombs that can ignite flames on the Siren hull, and torpedoes that can penetrate the Siren underwater hull can all produce " damage" effect.
According to human research, it is inferred that the Siren battleship has a "battleship consciousness", and this consciousness is responsible for controlling all the modules on and off the battleship during battle. When the battleship is damaged, it will have an impact on this "consciousness", and If the impact exceeds the threshold it can withstand, the Siren battleship will be destroyed.
Therefore, to summarize, in addition to directly using armor-piercing bombs to cause direct damage to the Siren hull, humans can also destroy the Siren warship by burning or flooding it, causing sustained damage.
Therefore, even a thick-skinned Siren battleship may still be sunk in the face of the sufficient projection of naval guns.
Therefore, unlike the traditional naval battle in which a gun larger than an inch can crush a person, when fighting the Siren, even a light cruiser equipped with only a 152mm gun has the possibility of challenging a battleship.
Again, whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway.
The main battery turret began to rotate to the side, and Wang Yu asked the battleship to turn its guns in advance, heading in the direction where the sirens might appear.
After a period of sailing at full speed, the battleship finally successfully cut into the direction of the Siren fleet.
At this time, the Siren surveillance radar in Annapolis also ended its function and entered a long cooling period.
But at this point it doesn’t matter whether we need radar or not.
The Annapolis is already in position, and the Siren fleet will soon appear in sight.
