Chapter 2176 The U.S. Navy Affair One

"From a tactical point of view, the number of attack aircraft in the carrier-based aircraft unit of the USS Independence is not too large. There are a total of 72 carrier-based aircraft, and the number of attack aircraft is 32. Some of them also serve as reconnaissance aircraft. The number of attack aircraft that can be mobilized may not even be 20, and considering the lower hit rate in actual combat than in exercises. Such a large-scale attack is not even for the huge British fleet, or even for a battleship squadron. What a threat it would be."

"The Germans are very aware of this, so in the previous telegram, the Germans strongly demanded that we increase the number of fighter jets. In fact, they have already considered giving up our sea attack function. From this perspective, the Germans should not propose similar Request," Magiffin said.

"As for the second point? This is my personal opinion. In my opinion, in order to be safe, the USS Independence should make effective use of its limited aviation resources to ensure the victory of the battle, rather than using limited attack aircraft in battles that are doomed to fail. In terms of attacking the sea, it is better to send more reconnaissance planes to ensure the perception of the battlefield situation." Ma Jifen said.

"Do you think it is more conducive to the victory of the war if we do this? You are quite considerate of the Germans." No matter how good-tempered Sims is, he is quite critical of Magiffin's statement. After all, in his understanding, the aircraft carrier itself As a purely offensive weapon, an aircraft carrier does not have the heavy armor of a battleship, so in his view, the best defense for an aircraft carrier is to attack, and if it cannot actively attack, then the aircraft carrier loses most of its meaning. But now, Ma Jifen lost the right to attack because of his distrust of his fleet! This is obviously a kind of irony for a general.

"I am thinking for the sake of the United States and Germany. To a certain extent, helping Germany is helping the United States. We have an all-round gap with the Germans. We recognize this gap, and when we formulate future war plans Considering this gap. Do you know why we will not send battleships this time?" Magiffin asked.

"The reason is very simple. Our capital ships are slow battleships that simply cannot keep up with the speed of the German fleet," Sims said.

"This statement is half right. But what about the other half?" Magiffin said with a wry smile: "Think about it, all the navies in the world, whether it's the British, Germans, Japanese or Austrians, all have their own fast battleships. The core of the German and Japanese fleets is also fast battleships. But why the United States of America has been building slow battleships? Have you ever thought about this problem?"

"Because of the budget?" Sims was a little uncertain, and he was also curious about the reason. After all, the role of the fast fleet is well known, so why didn't the US Navy develop it?

"Budget is one reason, and the other reason is technical problems. Although the United States of America has a very large industrial scale, and even ranks among the top in some fields in the world, there is still a gap between us and Britain and Germany, the real technological powers. After these gaps are reflected on battleships, various flaws will arise. The technical difficulty of building fast battleships is higher than that of battleships, and technical risk is one of the important reasons why we abandon fast battleships. In fact, even the current Battleships, starting from New York, there are more or less problems on each of our battleships," Magiffin said.

Unlike serving in the battleship squadron in history, Sims didn't stay in the battleship fleet for too long, so although he knew some problems, he still didn't understand the deep-seated reasons. For example, he once served on the USS New York, the first super dreadnought ship in the United States, and he knew that the two main guns in the middle of the hull in New York were unusually weird,

But he really didn't know why!

"All our battleships look very good on paper, but there are some problems in actual combat. Take New York as an example. As the first super dreadnought of the United States, we still use the same vertical steam engine as the former dreadnought , this in itself is a distrust of the country's steam turbines, but when it comes to the power-to-weight ratio of our power system, let alone the Germans, there is a certain gap with the British. Therefore, when the power system is not powerful, we Naturally, it is not easy to get fast battleships."

"As for the artillery? How should I put it, we now know why the two artillery pieces in the middle of the hull of the USS New York are problematic, because the ammunition depot of this turret is close to the power cabin, and our cooling work is not good. , so the temperature of the ammunition depot was high, which led to some changes in the propellant powder, which affected the spread of the artillery, so that the 10 artillery pieces of the New York can only be used as 8 artillery pieces."

"Then came the Nevada-class battleships later. We cleverly adopted the layout of 2 double guns and 2 triple guns. However, the distance between the guns of the triple gun turrets is 4 times the caliber, the distance between the guns of the double guns is 7 times the caliber, and the distance between the guns of the triple gun turrets The close distance between the guns caused the muzzle storm to affect the ballistics. This result caused the guns to spread differently. Of course, we can attribute this to a design problem for the time being.”

"Didn't we use half salvo to solve this problem?" Sims said with some dissatisfaction.

"Yes, we did use this method to solve the problem to a certain extent, but it is still a pity that we cannot fire in full salvo. We can make do with the problem of the battleship Nevada, but some problems are difficult to solve in a short time." Magiffen Said.

"Our latest two-class battleships are New Mexico-class battleships and Tennessee-class battleships. We have adopted a full triple artillery layout and adopted a brand new 14-inch L50 artillery. When these two battleships were launched, they were hailed as the hope of the Imperial Navy. star, but the actual situation is not the case. In many test firings, the new 14-inch L50 gun was used as a shotgun, which was about twice as large as the 14-inch L45 gun! So much so that a German naval officer once The evaluation said that the efficiency of these 12 14-inch guns may not be comparable to the British 8 guns. Do you know why this is?" Magiffin asked.

(Note: Historically, the American 14-inch L50 cannon's walk is really bad, even with delayed excitation, the root cause is that the ablation of the cannon is too serious. This problem was discovered in the 1920s in history .)

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