Chapter 394: The Death Fleet
"I really didn't expect that people of your level would still be seasick. It's really eye-opening." Sophie said in surprise and looked out of the boat, and then suddenly said, "By the way, if you really can't do it, you might as well fly. Are you not airsick, right?"
"Of course not."
"Will you end up? When we test it a while, you'll fly up and just look at us outside."
"There is no problem like this." After Kris Dena finished speaking, she could only agree to this suggestion.
Because testing such extreme acceleration and extreme deceleration have turned will have a great impact on the people on the ship, Sophie first notified it on the radio, and then waited for a few minutes before starting the test. According to this plan, after we tested our navigation ability, we probably entered the island group that could conduct artillery testing.
The preparation time passed quickly. Kris Dyna took the initiative to run outside and let his spear fly into the sky. The Kris Dyna battleship and the surrounding accompanying warships were all separated by a large distance. This time, the only one to test was not the only one who was on the test. The escort warships around were actually all new warships, and they were all going to sea for the first time, so the test was conducted by the entire fleet at the same time, but each warship was independently tested and did not require unified command. Of course, for safety reasons, the distance between everyone should be widened as much as possible. After all, warships are not like cars. This thing turns around and is shocking, so it is impossible to deal with emergencies in a short time.
After the fleet was dispersed, the personnel on the ship almost completed the preparations, and then with Sophie's order, our Krissina entered the test procedure.
"All members of the Clissiana are paying attention. Now we start the power system test. The first project is the acceleration capability test. The ship is now anchored and entered a stationary state."
As the next generation was ordered, the Krissidna immediately lowered the anchor, and then the warship slid for a short distance on the sea and stopped. After all, in order to test, we had slowed down in advance. After the hull stabilized, Sophie immediately ordered: "Collapse the anchor."
"Check the anchor." repeats sharply.
After a series of commands was passed, the anchor was pulled out of the water, and the battleship began to float slowly along the ocean currents and went little by little. Sophie shouted at this time: "Please note that the six-car is in five, and the speed is full."
"Six cars enter five, full speed." The warship pilot immediately retreated the two thrust control rods beside him to the bottom, and then saw a large circle of white waves spewing out of the tail of the Klissina. The bow of the entire warship suddenly raised a little bit. Then the entire warship began to accelerate and run forward.
As the speed increases, the sea water on both sides of the warship gradually forms a white track, and the bow of the warship is even raised high, feeling that it is almost water coming out. However, this situation gradually eases with the increase in speed. The balance system of the warship itself will also adjust this imbalance. After all, such a sailing attitude is actually very bad for the main keel of the warship. This may cause the keel to be under too much force. Although it will not break the hull at one time. However, over time, it will cause metal fatigue to the keel of the warship, and eventually the hull will break.
As the navigation time increases, the speed of the warship gradually stabilizes. The final test speed was as high as 60 knots. This speed is actually not too exaggerated. Although it is already very fast, after all, there are small boats that can exceed this speed. It is really scary that such a large warship can run to this speed.
Unlike the warships here, the smaller warships around have completed their power tests in advance. Large warships may be stronger in power, but because of their larger weight and much larger size, under the resistance of water, their navigation ability is still far behind the surrounding small boats.
After testing the acceleration ability, the extreme turning experiment is. This experiment is to conduct a turning test at the extreme speed to see how the hull is inclined. Each warship has a roll critical point. Once the hull inclination exceeds this range, the hull may overturn. Therefore, when the warship turns, you need to pay attention to the tilt angle at all times. Once the dangerous critical point is reached, you must correct the course in time to let the hull return to the right, otherwise the ship will overturn. However, although this critical point can be calculated using mathematical formulas, you still cannot master the actual data without actually testing it, so we'd better do some test.
This extreme navigation test is dangerous, but because the warship is large, the possibility of overturning is actually not high. Our test is just a step-by-step test, so the danger is much lower.
As Sophie's test began, the helmsman of the battleship suddenly pulled the rudder to the right and the battleship began to turn rapidly to the right. We immediately felt that we were thrown to the left of the hull. Fortunately, we had known this situation before, so everyone found a position to fix themselves.
In fact, there are seat belts in all operating positions in the cockpit of warships, and even some positions operated standing are protected by safety ropes. So except for me, a visitor, who needs to hold something by himself, everyone else is very relaxed.
The steering ability of the warship is very excellent. I feel that the deck under my feet is tilted by four or five degrees or more. However, the warship does not mean to turn over at all. It is still very stable. It is not until the horizontal inclination reaches fifty degrees that the warship begins to have an imbalance in the center of gravity. However, the helmsman who was prepared immediately killed the steering wheel in the reverse direction. At the same time, he was prepared to fire a collective fire at the naval gun on the left side of the hull. This is equivalent to using the cannon to make a reverse push and directly straighten the warship.
Because we were prepared and we quickly obtained the stable data of the warship, we could know what proportion of the steering angle reached when we made emergency avoidance in the future. We could know what proportion of the steering angle was safe and we could know it.
After testing the steering performance here, the next step should be to test the extreme deceleration effect. This should be a test to flip the propeller without getting off the anchor, but today this test seems to be impossible, because just when we were preparing to do a deceleration test, Kris Dena, who had been flying out of fear of seasickness, suddenly flew back and also activated the communicator.
"President, I have discovered something."
"What's going on?"
"There seems to be a pretty large fleet ahead."
"Fleet?" Sophie asked in surprise after hearing Klis Dyna's words: "Did you see the fleet of what country it is?"
Kris Dena replied, "I don't know, I just saw a large piece of ships from afar and came back to tell you."
"Is there a fleet of unknown nationality?" Sophie quickly walked to the front of the chart and looked at it, then frowned and said, "It's strange, this area should be our sphere of influence! How could there be a fleet of outsiders?" After thinking for a while, Sophie immediately ordered the big order around her: "Send a pilot ship immediately to see the enemy's situation."
"But Captain, we don't have a pilot ship!"
Sophie was stunned when she heard this. Then she reacted and shouted: "Oh no! I forgot that this is a fleet of defense replacement!"
The fleet that was replaced is not a complete fleet. Because a fleet usually does not change all defenses suddenly, but will replace half and half. This time, the Clissiana, who came here, actually took the surrounding group of warships to replace the main battleships in the fleet that were performing missions in the waters near Indonesia, and the auxiliary ships there will still continue to perform missions. That is, the two fleets merge into one. They just replace the original main battleship.
Because it is just a replacement fleet for the main battleship. So there are no auxiliary warships in this fleet now. Although there are dozens of warships of all sizes here, in fact, these are all main battleships. The smallest tonnage are all fast cruisers at the same level. Of course, warships of this level cannot be used as pilot ships.
In fact, although the pilot ship originally meant a warship that went out to explore the way as a vanguard, it was a temporary name, but in our Frost Rose Alliance fleet, this was not a temporary position, but a special warship name.
In our guild, there will be a category of warships called pilot ships. They are the same as destroyers, cruisers, and battleships, and are an independent ship type.
The main function of this kind of pilot ship is forward-looking reconnaissance, so their characteristic is that they are extremely fast, can easily catch up and approach the enemy fleet, and can easily run away at appropriate times, and make the opponent have no intention of chasing.
To do this, the pilot ship must be fast, unparalleled, so fast that people can't even have the courage to chase, because that speed is completely desperate.
In addition to its fast speed, the pilot ship has another feature, that is, it is small.
Although it is small, it is not of the level of a torpedo boat. The pilot ship is called a ship, so it naturally does not have the level of a boat. However, in fact, the tonnage of the pilot ship is just enough to reach the minimum requirements of the warship level. This kind of miniaturized warship usually uses a three-body structure and is equipped with hydrofoils. On the one hand, it can reduce the cross-sectional area of the hull and increase stability, allowing the pilot ship to make incredible turns. On the other hand, this three-body structure can also make the pilot ship run faster and more stable.
The pilot ship itself is actually only very weak armed, and its weapons and equipment can barely fight wooden ships. There is no chance of winning when encountering ordinary ironclad ships, because they are not used for direct combat.
The front and rear decks of the pilot ship are empty, with no weapons on it, and only small artillery is installed on both sides of the stern. However, a large observation room is installed in the empty position in the middle of the battleship. This thing is equivalent to a combination of the radar guidance system, communication system and satellite navigation system in reality.
With these advanced instruments, the pilot ship can immediately guide the fleet to conduct an out-of-visual range attack from the outside of the visual range after it discovers the target. The enemy can see only one pilot ship at this time. However, relying on the terrifying flexibility and speed, it is actually very difficult to hit it. Not to mention chasing it, it is basically a dream. Of course, although the pilot ship is rarely hit, the feeling of dancing in enemy artillery fire is actually quite exciting. So Sophie himself said before that to be a captain of a battleship, you must first serve on the pilot ship, because this kind of warship is really the best tool to train players' psychological qualities.
Although the pilot ship is very good, the technical difficulty of this thing itself is also very high. So although this thing is not large in size, the manufacturing difficulty and price are actually very exaggerated. Therefore, our fleet actually does not have many pilot ships, and generally a fleet only has two or three ships.
Because there are very few pilot ships, Kris Dyna did not bring a pilot ship at all when he came out to switch defenses. As a result, he needed to use it now and then he remembered that there was no pilot ship in the fleet at all.
"I actually forgot about this kind of thing." Sophie was a little angry and hammered herself, but she was not panicked. After all, she was also a qualified captain trained on the pilot ship, and she could still deal with such things.
"Send two players to ride a spear to see it." Sophie said.
"Wait a minute." Daling was about to go and pass the order when I stopped me. "No need to be so troublesome. Anyway, Kris Dena and I have nothing to do in the fleet. Let's leave this to us."
"Ah? President, you want to be a scout for me? I'm so embarrassed!" Sophie said this, but there was no sign of embarrassment on her face. She was just pretending to be polite.
I didn't care about this with her at all, so I went to the door and opened the door. In fact, Sophie is not bad. The reason why she is polite and joking with me is mostly the reason. She basically has a relatively casual personality, so even if she is with us guild leaders, she doesn't have the time to be serious.
After leaving Cambridge, I jumped out of the escalator. The bird instantly appeared and caught me and then climbed up to catch up with Kris Dena, who was hovering in the sky. I summoned directly and said, "Let's go over and see clearly, let's talk about it. The fleet here needs to prepare for the formation reorganization, and we can't help if we stay here."
"Okay. It just so happens that I don't want to sit on the boat either." Kris Dena breathed a sigh of relief when she heard that she didn't have to stay on the boat.
At the speed of the spear, this distance is not a distance at all. We soon saw the fleet that Klis Dena discovered before. Not to mention, the scale of this fleet is really not small. As soon as we came out of the clouds, we saw a large black spot on the sea below almost driving towards the direction of the Klis Dena.
Chapter completed!