Chapter 40： The era of deck washing is coming! (1/2)
”Sir, we just want to buy 240MM artillery from your country, and most of your test content today has nothing to do with our business.” Argentine representative Naval Colonel Diano said euphemistically.
”But wouldn’t it be nice to know more about things? Today, it’s not just you who came here.” A sign of a senior Krupp engineer hung on his chest, and our Baron Vittorio began to fool his potential customers. With his current status, it is not too easy to get a name in Krupp!
”Look there, that is the personnel of the Admiralty, the representative of the Austro-Hungarian Empire a little bit to the north, and the representative of Russia on the side. Today, we will witness the miracles created by rapid-fire artillery and new charges. We will use high explosive This target ship was completely destroyed!” The baron first introduced the audience present, and then pointed to the target ship more than 40 meters long on the river.
”But I think it is difficult to destroy this target ship with just 4 light guns!” Colonel Diano glanced at the artillery and then looked at the target in the distance and said unceremoniously.
”Light artillery? How is it possible? What we use today is...” When Mr. Baron glanced at the artillery on the cannon, his face immediately turned green.
”Isn't it a good 150MM naval gun? Why did you get me a 105MM naval gun?” Baron Yin asked the staff of the Krupp factory next to him.
”It's too heavy, the light gun body is more than 4 tons! So let us use the 105MM artillery on it.” The other party wiped a cold sweat and said, any naval gun is a big guy on the land. It's not that Krupp didn't try his best, it was because time was too short and the artillery was too heavy.
”Well, I hope today's performance will not be too bad.” This is the end of the matter, and it is useless to complain. Originally, the Baron thought that using picric acid high-explosive grenades could destroy the target in a short period of time. But the firepower now seems to him a little insufficient?
The purpose of planning this experiment was to make the Argentines realize how terrible the suffocation attacks of high-explosive shells and rapid-fire guns are, and then tell the opponent that the armored cruisers and dome cruisers with insufficient defense area are out of date, when the opponent is in despair. And when he is in a panic, he will come up with his work-the 7500-ton Munich-class armored cruiser! Brand-new armor, full-speed cannon fire, speed of more than 20 knots, whether it is MT, fighting output, or running is expert level!
But today... There seems to be some accident! Just as Mr. Baron cursed the Krupp factory for cutting corners and wondered whether his order would be ruined, a series of loud noises from the gun station told everyone that the test had begun!
Four artillery guns spewed deadly flames at a distant target that was still stationary! The 18KG high-explosive shell is shooting at a rate of about 8 rounds per minute! In just one minute, four 105MM guns can theoretically tilt more than 30 rounds toward the target, which is about 600KG of ammunition!
Because of the use of new smokeless gunpowder, the artillery does not have to wait for the smoke to dissipate before firing. One by one, orange fireballs jumped at the muzzle, and a series of shells fell on the target that had already been calibrated. The explosive power and burning effect of the picric acid high-explosive bomb is really excellent, and every shell hit will cause a local fire!