Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Before World War II, and even for a considerable period of time after, artillery and giant ship doctrine was basically the mainstream ideology in all countries. The air power of aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft is considered to be an auxiliary tool rather than the main force in decisive battles with fleets of battleships and heavy cruisers.

Therefore, warships of various countries, including the United States, pay limited attention to air defense. Until the Pearl Harbor attack, the main anti-air firepower of the United States warships was the old-fashioned single-barreled 5-inch manual-loading cannon + the fast-firing 28mm Chicago Organ + 7 machine guns, and the number was extremely impressive.

Although Warspite has undergone two modernizations, there have been no major changes in its anti-aircraft firepower. The main force of air defense is still four 8-mounted 40mm automatic bang-pang guns. The movement of the gun base adopts electric mode and is operated by the commander. It can move synchronously with the commander to achieve maximum concentration of firepower. Each artillery has a huge ammunition box containing 140 shells. The initial firepower is simply incredible, and it can last for 73 seconds without stopping.

This thing sounds awesome at first glance. It is installed in 8 units. Once fired, it is an airtight firepower Internet cafe?

But actually that's not the case at all.

Pom pom (pom pom) is just its common name. The pom pom gun refers to a 40mm 39-caliber anti-aircraft gun. The model name in the army is QF 2 pound MkVIII, which is the Navy's Type 8 two-pound rapid-fire gun.

The 40mm 39-caliber gun has a barrel length of just over one and a half meters; while the famous 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun has a 60-caliber diameter, which is nearly twice the length of the Bang Bang gun.

You must know that basically no matter what kind of gun it is, without considering the shell, there are only two factors that determine its range and power: magnification and caliber. The longer the barrel, the more time it takes for the high-pressure gas in the barrel to act on the projectile, making the projectile's muzzle velocity greater and its range longer.

The Bang Bang Cannon, with a barrel length of just over one and a half meters, naturally has a very deceiving muzzle velocity and an extremely weird trajectory; the projectile spread is very large, making it impossible to continuously accurately track a target. Therefore, the original plan of eight gun barrels firing alternately to maintain the continuity of firepower was cancelled. In order to ensure that the target is hit, the density of firepower delivered in one launch can only be increased. Use quantity to make up for a lack of precision. The eight-gun Bang Bang gun becomes eight barrels that fire shells at the same time. Each barrel fires two rounds per second. It can only shoot out scattered barrages, and cannot fire the kind of shells originally envisioned in the design. wall.

Moreover, after firing 140 shells, we had to stop and refill the ammunition box. This task cannot be completed in a few minutes. Therefore, the eight-gun version has more than a dozen gunners alone. They are responsible for carrying shells, shooting, communications, and reloading ammunition.

As for why the British use such deceptive anti-aircraft artillery, firstly, the emphasis on air defense is limited, and secondly, during the First World War, this kind of artillery shells were mass-produced, with hundreds of millions of rounds, and they really didn’t have that much money to replace them all.

However, Pullman Cook was not too worried. As a naval veteran who had experienced the last war, he did not feel that these German naval aviation could bring any substantial harm to his fleet.

The ship under his feet is a battleship. Below the deck are armored steel plates more than ten centimeters thick. These armors are designed to ensure the safety of the battleship during large-caliber artillery battles! Then below are countless watertight cabins and steel plate partitions, ammunition depots and reinforced armor protection. This battleship can be said to be a steel fortress floating on the sea - how could it be sunk by a small carrier-based aircraft?

"Full speed, full advance!" He just wants to find the German fleet and wipe it out! "Send a telegram to the homeland and please send reconnaissance planes to search for the location of the German fleet."

In the sky, Yannick watched the British fleet turn and murmured in confusion. "Are they trying to find our fleet?" The commander of this fleet is Shen Jingbing! Their fleet is 200 kilometers away. Even if these British fleets are racing at a speed of 30 knots, they will still have to chase them for more than three hours; and these guys don't have reconnaissance planes, how can they find a fleet on the vast sea?

At this moment, he saw a lot of white smoke suddenly rising from the British warships below. Just as he was wondering what was going on, black clouds suddenly exploded in the sky in the distance.

"!!" It turned out that the anti-aircraft guns of the British fleet started shooting.

But Yannick wasn't too scared.

If it were battleship versus battleship, he might actually be scared. But now it was a fleet of aircraft versus a battleship, and he knew how inefficient the current anti-aircraft guns were. According to later statistics, during World War II, the 88mm artillery shot down an aircraft on average every 8,500 rounds. The 105mm caliber artillery shot down an aircraft every 6,000 rounds, and the 128 caliber artillery shot down an aircraft every 4,200 rounds. Because a larger-caliber artillery fires a larger-caliber shell, the explosion is more powerful in the air and has a better killing effect on passing bombers.

The most important thing is that there is no radio proximity fuze for anti-aircraft weapons. If he is unlucky enough to be hit by an anti-aircraft gun, he may not survive now.

"The attack begins, target Warspite!" the air commander issued the order to attack. "Boobies Team A, Sea Mouse Team A! Start attacking!"

"clear!"

"receive!"

With the roar of the engines, four Stukas and five FW-190Ts swooped down and rushed towards the largest warship below.

"Huh?" Why are there only four Stukas? Yannick patted Bazel on the shoulder. "Bazel, which group are we in?" I heard just now that he is Booby No. 5, so he should be in Group A? "We are also in Group A, right? Why don't you go down?"

Bazel was shocked. "Your Highness, you're not going to let me go down and attack, are you? It's already dangerous enough here, I can't continue to take risks!"

"I now order you to dive for me immediately and drop bombs on that damn battleship! Otherwise, you will be sentenced to retreat!!"

In daily life, many people will often hear or say such a sentence, "It's coming!" This sentence seems to have become an inescapable curse.

Halfway through a dull and boring movie, I feel sleepy all over the place. I am holding on to the movie tickets that I haven’t picked up yet, and I want to leave but I still can’t bear to spend the money. "I'm here now!" No matter how bad the movie is, you still have to watch it to make it worth the money you spent.

When traveling, there are queues at attractions, and there are huge crowds of people as far as the eye can see. "Come here!" Even if there are many people in the scenic spot, you should go there, and you should be able to afford the round-trip fare and accommodation fee.

I have also spent irrecoverable time and money, and I am not willing to accept that these efforts will not be rewarded. I also choose to bite the bullet and force myself to continue doing things that I don’t want to do.

And Yannick is now in such a state of madness. Although he didn't realize it, this was a battlefield after all. As an ordinary person who visited the battlefield for the first time, his adrenaline had already surged to the limit, making him completely forget what fear was and he wished he could fly a fighter plane down there himself.