Chapter 131
The hull styles of Clemenceau and Yukikaze are exactly the same, and you can tell at a glance that they were designed separately.
The 270-meter-long battleship is extremely majestic. Except for a few battleships, the battleships are miniscule in front of her.
At once my eyes were drawn to Shropshire and Saratoga.
Because of the waterjet propeller, Clemenceau's speed was much slower when it just started.
It allows others to observe the armaments on Clemenceau's battleship completely and accurately.
Seeing Clemenceau's powerful equipment after reducing the superstructure, they took a breath.
When Vian and Elizabeth reunited, Elizabeth immediately jumped onto Clemenceau's battleship.
You can get a closer look at Clemenceau's quadruple 381mm main gun, as well as the secondary guns and anti-aircraft guns scattered on the deck.
"It's not cheap to have so many ship equipments, but can it be calculated for a battleship as big as hers?"
The Richelieu-class battleships in Elizabeth's memory are not that powerful, and there is nothing similar except for the three main guns.
"Fortunately, with the help of Saratoga and the others, the realization of the Clemenceau battleship was accelerated. Dean, you also know my talent. The calculation and load are not a problem."
"That's good. The displacement of such a large battleship is 5W tons, right?"
"55,000 tons"
"What are the other performances like?"
"We still don’t know, it just depends on how today’s audition goes."
"Okay, let’s wait for your performance."
Elizabeth, who was curious about the performance of Clemenceau's battleship, did not waste much time. She quickly returned to her battleship and began to command the fleet to set off.
Only Vian and the others who were walking beside Clemenceau were left behind. Hood's eyes widened.
Hood's first impression of Clemenceau was that it was beautiful, and the second was its size.
In Hood's eyes, Clemenceau's hull was truly elegant and beautiful. It was much better for other ship girls who just added weapons to the battleships without thinking.
But just like Elizabeth had seen Richelieu, she also knew that the battleships of the Vian ship girls were all designed by him. Yes, but she didn't expect the difference to be so big.
It was already two battleships from the Richelieu in her memory. She had even seen Clemenceau
's changes in the F-Union Division. De was curious about Wei An for the first time.
She had seen ship hull modification, but she had never seen the operation of directly changing ships.
Finally, Wei An spoke under Hood's fiery gaze.
"Miss Hood, do you have anything to ask?"
"Did you design the battleship?"
"Um"
"Why install so many anti-aircraft guns? Now that you have an aircraft carrier, the anti-aircraft pressure is not very high. You can use the limited space to strengthen the frontal firepower."
While Hood was talking, Wei An was also observing Hood's hull.
The hull was longer than the reputation and reached 262 meters.
As the flagship of the E-link headquarters, the ship's outfit was obviously better than most ship girls. It's more luxurious.
In Wei'an's memory, the Hood's main guns were eight 381mm main guns, with a total of four twin guns. But now the main guns on the Hood's deck take up more space, at least according to Wei'an's visual inspection.
It is a 406mm main gun, or a triple-mounted gun, with a total of 12 main guns.
The number of main guns is the same as that of Clemenceau, but it is more powerful and has a longer range.
The cost is also very obvious because of the Hood's superstructure. It has not been specially modified. The overall style of the battleship is still the same as before.
As a result, the deck of the battleship is somewhat compact.
For this reason, two of the 12 BL140mm Mk.I guns on the Hood deck are missing. There were no guns at all, but the six 533 torpedoes originally carried in Hood's core data were retained by her.
Because Clemenceau was relatively close to the Hood battleship, Wei An noticed the Hood battleship's surface. There are marks left nearby.
She removed all the anti-aircraft guns on her battleship to leave space and transformed it into a more powerful main gun, which allowed her to deal with the battleship in the deep sea.
However, her shortcomings are also very obvious. The result of changing the most important main gun and the greater weight was that she had to reluctantly modify the interior of her ship to increase space utilization and reduce the weight of her warship. Come down.
It can be controlled normally.
This is not the first time that Wei An has heard about Hood's issue with anti-aircraft guns.
When facing the deep sea, most of the pressure of air defense has been shared by the aircraft carrier, so they are not very careful. Maybe dispatching the ship girl alone will cancel the anti-aircraft guns in a specific way
"I'm afraid Saratoga and the others won't be able to take care of it, and the shipgirls in the Navy don't know how their carrier-based aircraft are doing, so they added anti-aircraft guns to Clemenceau just to be on the safe side."
Vian's caution made Hood nodded in approval.
For this reason, Hood did not ask too many questions and just kept the speed and sailed beside Clemenceau.
This time the sea area was closer than the last time, and Not all battleships are fast, so they all float slowly at 18 knots. The speed of 18 knots is the normal cruising speed, which is not stressful at all for Clemenceau.
Elizabeth and the others formed a fleet, but Vian still arranged his own formation.
Clemenceau took the lead at the front of his fleet, followed by Saratoga,
Shropshire and Snow. Feng Yi guarded Sarato in the center.
Elizabeth and the others did not ask too much about Wei An's arrangement.
Rather, they supported Wei An's decision after being discovered in the naval battle. The aircraft carrier is the least capable of resisting.
Vian's formation uses limited power to protect Saratoga.
At the same time, Clemenceau, as the battleship, can engage in battle in time. After all, it is controlled by the ship's mother. Battleships are not like battleships.
The more powerful battleships sail in front of the fleet and can attack the enemy with faster and more violent bombardment, creating a situation where the larger ones bully the smaller ones. At the same time, they are escorted by aircraft carriers in the sky..
As for why Wei An arranged such a formation, for other admirals, the aircraft carrier may be to seize air supremacy, but for him, before there are missiles, the aircraft carrier is responsible for reconnaissance, seizing air supremacy, and attacking important targets..
The most important thing is that the aircraft carrier is also the only means of ultra-long-distance strike he has now. Compared with the battleship exchange, he can at least see the enemy. This is really the ability to kill the enemy invisible.
This time, it is also to let his ship attack. Mom, please familiarize yourself with the formation you will use in the future.