"This is a confrontation between two ideas. We must ensure that our ideas are more advanced than the other side. From the current point of view, both sides only have their own advantages. The British battlecruisers are fast enough to catch up with any other ship in the world except battle cruisers.

It is a main battleship, and its firepower is enough to destroy any armored cruiser. The outer armor combined with the dome armor can also resist the counterattack of the armored cruiser. In other words, in future wars, the armored cruisers of the German vanguard fleet will be absolutely suppressed by the opponent.

Make it!" Tirpitz said worriedly.

"In fact, the battlecruiser is not an ideal battleship. It is too specific and lacks versatility. It was only born to deal with the opponent's armored cruiser. In a battle at the battleship level, such a battleship is too survivable.

Worse, especially in larger-scale battles, the situation of battlecruisers becomes worse, because the larger the scale,

This means that the probability of being hit is higher. Beiyang's battle cruiser actually uses dome armor to ensure the safety of the core cabin. However, if there are too many hits, the reserve buoyancy will be lost, and even if the core cabin is intact, it will still be sunk.

But fast battleships with good armor protection do not have this problem." Liu Buchan said according to Xu Jie's explanation.

"Then since your country knew this flaw, why did you choose to build two battlecruisers? The Russian armored cruisers are not as fast as the fast battleships your country ordered from our country. If it is to deal with the Russian armored cruisers, so will all the fast battleships.

Okay." Tirpitz said reluctantly.

"The fast battleships are indeed faster than the Russian armored cruisers, but not as fast as the Dutch armored cruisers. We ordered these two battleships in order to maintain suppression of fast armored cruisers. The opponent's fast fleet lacks 12-inch class

Heavy artillery is another reason why we dare to boldly use battlecruisers." Liu Buchan said.

In fact, in essence, there is not much difference between a fast battleship and a battle cruiser. How can I put it, it is equivalent to the difference between the Lion and Lütsov in the first battle. The Lion is equipped with a 13.5-inch heavy gun, but only 9

Inch armor belt.Lücuo

The Husband and the Lion have the same speed, but they only have a 12-inch main gun, and the thickness of the armor belt is 12 inches. Lütsov is equivalent to exchanging firepower for protection, while the Lion is just exchanging protection for firepower. But now, Xu Jie is exchanging power for power.

protection while ensuring firepower.

Is there an existence with top-notch speed protection and firepower? In the history of World War I, only the Hood can barely be called it. However, even though the construction of the Hood took nearly twice as much investment as the Queen Elizabeth class, the full load displacement reached

With nearly 40,000 tons, the Hood is still no match for Tennessee or Bavaria, let alone the seven battleships behind it equipped with 16-inch guns. Xu Jie will never adopt this kind of one-sided pursuit of high-end design.

of!

Since under various restrictions, a battleship of a certain tonnage can only take into account two of the three elements of speed, firepower and defense, then it is very important to choose. Are British battlecruisers useful? The answer is yes

Yes! Didn’t you see that in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, Britain’s earliest generation battle cruiser HMS Invincible and the

The Qu directly brought down the glorious Spey fleet. After actual combat testing, the battle cruiser with high speed, heavy artillery and light protection was simply a massacre against armored cruisers. It is definitely the best choice to maintain communication lines and attack various warships that break engagements!

Fisher was right when he said that a battlecruiser was absolutely perfect when facing a cruiser!

It's perfect to face a cruiser, but what if you encounter a battleship of the same level? The Battle of Jutland fully demonstrated what it means to beat an egg with a hammer! Betty, with 6 BCs, rushed ahead with arrogance. And Hipper's 5

A war patrol is coming

In a passionate fight, the British fleet, which originally had the numerical advantage and the superior artillery, was destroyed by 2 BCs in a short battle. If it had not been for a seriously injured British officer to fill the ammunition depot with water,

,fall fire door,bei

Classmate Di may not be able to see the sun tomorrow! The German battle cruiser became famous in one battle! And later, when Hipper received Scheer’s death charge, he withstood the artillery fire of the British Grand Fleet and killed the follow-up battleships of the High Seas Fleet.

Create a bloody path, and it's smooth

Dao took away a battle cruiser, which fully demonstrated the performance of the German battle cruiser! The unsinkable Seydlitz became a symbol! From then on, the heavily protected German battleship also became a symbol in later military forums.

An immortal work from the First World War!

However, in fact, as shown in the war, is the performance difference between British and German battlecruisers so great? Is defense really more important than firepower and speed? Let us set aside the clouds of history and study it carefully.

.First of all, we need to explain that in the Battle of Jutland, most of the British warships were lost due to the explosion of ammunition, and the reason for the explosion of ammunition was the British's

There is only one fire door in the ammunition lifting shaft, and this fire door is usually still open! In order to increase the rate of fire, the British Royal Navy soldiers did not close the fire door as required! Originally, the turret and gun mount were penetrated

At most, it will ignite the shells and propellants in the turret, and the worst thing is that the turret will be destroyed. But if the flames of the explosion enter the ammunition depot along the ammunition lifting shaft, that is another matter!

Precisely because of design and operational reasons, the British paid a high price for three battlecruisers! What most people don’t know is that in the Battle of Dogger Sands, Hipper’s flagship Seydlitz

For the same reason, two turrets were destroyed at once! And a brave soldier also saved the entire warship by filling the ammunition depot with water. After the war, the Germans immediately

That is to say, double-layered fire doors and more stringent operating procedures have been adopted to prevent the occurrence of explosive explosions. Of course, if you can directly send the shells into the ammunition depot, then no matter how strict the measures are, you may not be able to avoid setting off firecrackers! And in

After the British absorbed the lessons of Jutland, they would light firecrackers less frequently. Well, Hood was directly stabbed through the ammunition depot, which was something even God could not do.

Another tragedy of the British lies in the artillery shells. Are the German battle cruisers really indestructible? The answer is of course no. Compared with German battleships, the protection of German battle cruisers is generally two levels worse! Except for the Derflinger class,

The so-called 300mm armor of other German battle cruisers is just a strip on the waterline, and the ones used to resist artillery shells are all 9-inch armor.

Other armor. The sad thing is that the British battle cruiser has a 13.5-inch gun in the sky, which cannot even penetrate the 230mm outer armor and dome armor! And this tragedy is due to the instability of picric acid explosives, and

The tragedy was caused by the combination of the fuse and the soft quilt cap! A cannonball is tragic wherever it can be tragic! No wonder the penetration is so poor.

Let’s take a look at the artillery shells of other powers at the same time, not to mention the incredible hardened capped armor-piercing projectiles of the Germans in World War 1. Even the American 1916-type armor-piercing projectiles have good penetration depth. The Americans’ 14-inch 45l main

In the test, the gun can penetrate 13.3 inches of hardened armor at a distance of 14,000 yards, while the 14-inch 50l main gun can penetrate the same thickness.

The armor can increase the distance to 16,000 yards! In other words, if the British's armor-piercing projectiles are only as good as those of the Americans, the 13.5-inch heavy guns on the battlecruiser under Betty's command can easily explode except for Derflinger and Lu

If the armor of all German battlecruisers except Tsov is closer, it is very possible to smash Lütsov!

In other words, although the German battlecruisers of the same period were indeed better than those of the British, if it were not for illegal operations and too tragic shells, the gap between the two sides was actually not that big. In terms of combat effectiveness, equipped with qualified shells

The British's combat effectiveness against the Lion that Set Fire is higher than that of the Seydlitz and Moltke class, and somewhat lower than that of the Derfflinger class. In other words, although the British have taken detours due to trade-off issues, the emphasis on firepower itself is correct.

It is necessary for warships to have good protection. This has been verified in the extremely cruel battle in the Battle of Jutland. It is also necessary to have good firepower. This has also been verified in the Battle of Jutland. Although

The gun caliber of the German battlecruisers was a bit smaller, but with the sophisticated armor-piercing shells, the firepower of the German battlecruisers was actually stronger than that of the British battlecruisers. It depends on the firepower.

You can just look at the thickness of the tube, but you have to look at the actual power! This is like the French 330mm main gun in World War II. Its actual armor-piercing capability exceeds all 14-inch naval guns in service in the world, and its power is close to that of 15-inch naval guns! Of course, so-called

The closeness also means that Bismarck's 15-inch naval gun is still incomparable to France's own m1935 15-inch naval gun and the Italian Andorsa 15-inch naval gun.

"From the perspective of the Chinese fleet, as a fleet trapped in a semi-enclosed sea area by a powerful enemy fleet, what you need is firepower and protection, not speed and range. Germany has only one goal, and that is to defeat the British fleet.

Fleet! The range is obviously useless, but what about the speed? It is basically impossible for a warship to escape from the opponent's gun just by relying on a small speed difference. Protection

No matter how good the situation is, the bow and stern of a battleship are still fragile. In the face of a dense rain of bullets, it is impossible for the hull to avoid water intrusion. Water intrusion or other damage will definitely cause the speed to decrease! Simply escaping will not bring you a higher speed.

The probability of survival is because it is a formation battle and the formation must take care of every warship, so the speed of the fleet depends on the slowest rather than the fastest." Liu Buchan paused and said.

"Isn't speed the most important factor in choosing engagement conditions? Once you have a speed advantage, can't you adjust your tactical deployment in time to gain local advantages? Doesn't the larger the fleet's engagement speed, the greater the tactical advantage it can gain?" It has to be said,

What Liu Buchan said today has somewhat subverted the common people's understanding. Is speed really the least important of the three factors? Tirpitz said with some doubts.
Chapter completed!