At this moment, for these designers who are still studying in the research room, how they hope that all this is illusory, what is on the telegram, what is on the war report, maybe there is a possibility of overthrowing, but then, more and more personnel return to London, the Admiralty began to look for military narratives, with real examples, to show the combat effectiveness of this battleship, when the narrative results are matched with the previous battle report analysis, the combat effectiveness of the opponent's battleship will come out, and in the end, it is the return of the injured battleshipSubjective speculation, and even what you see with your own eyes, can be faked, but the actual battlefield damage cannot be faked, especially those wounded battleships, each of which is a real reference, and these staggered evidence proves that the Scheer fleet is powerful and outrageous......

In the final assessment report, the strength of the Scheer fleet came out in general, and the speed was surprisingly fast, which was vaguely obtained before, and now, after the two sides fought head-on, it was even clearer, there was no speed measuring instrument in this era, and excellent officers could still determine the approximate speed by visual inspection, or with the help of some references, etc., between 24 and 26.5 knots, and in most people's opinions, it was biased towards 26.5 knots.

The maximum speed is as high as 26.5 knots, this is not a fuzzy calculation based on the battle report before, it is a comprehensive measurement, impression and example finally obtained, even if they don't believe it, they must also recognize, the battleship can run so fast, the Queen Elizabeth class is only so much, but that is the design speed, not the realistic speed, in the case of full load and light load, the speed is different. Such a battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class, once out of battle. It has to be heavy-loaded, when the time comes. It's good to be able to get to 24 knots.

Even the heavily loaded Queen Elizabeth class, with a fully loaded displacement, is only about 35,000 tons, but Sher's fleet is several times larger than the British ships, and conservative estimates that the opponent's warships, at least close to 50,000 tons, can be with such a large tonnage. is still running so fast, what kind of power system is used by the other party, even if it burns out the brain cells of the designer, I can't think of what kind of power system can be stuffed into the power cabin that is not much larger than the Queen Elizabeth class, which is at least twice as high as the Queen Elizabeth class, or even one and a half times the huge power.

The powertrain should be the most important concern for designers, and after most things are figured out, there are doubts about the powertrain. It can only be put aside for the time being, the artillery is the easiest to determine, it is 15 inches, and there is no problem with this one. The bullet holes in the battleship, as well as the shells embedded in it, these amounts can be used.

Follow the information they have. Scheer had gone to Asia two years earlier. It has been determined that more than 2 years have not returned. When the Scheer fleet appeared in East Asia, it was finally determined that it would receive warships, according to a certain period of manufacturing, sea trials for a period of time, combined with the time when Scheer appeared, it was easy to get the result, as early as 2 years ago, China or Germany had mastered the production of mature 15-inch guns, which was a big deal.

Launched at the end of last year, this year officially entered the Navy sequence of the Queen Elizabeth class, in 1912 when laying the keel, the artillery was only about half of the study, has not officially completed the finalization, stumbling almost 2 years, that is, some time ago this was installed, and even the current 15-inch gun, and the power of the opponent's artillery, there is a gap, the armor-piercing ability is too poor.

After finding a few shells, the reason why the other party is strong was found, but none of them could say a word, the reason why it has so much power is because the armor-piercing projectile has a tungsten core, which is made of high-strength alloy tungsten, the power is much greater than that of ordinary steel cores, if there is enough kinetic energy, if these shells are shot out, it should not be too difficult to achieve the above effect.

With harder, higher molecular weight, larger specific gravity metal, instead of ordinary steel, has more performance, but this performance improvement, does not have universality, after all, steel is a public thing, and this metal is not, on the periodic table, more powerful than tungsten metal, but the cost is quite high, even tungsten, the British side does not have much research, the reason is simple, most of the world's tungsten ore, are controlled by the Chinese, Germany has an innate advantage, And the UK does not.

The power is not clear, the artillery is finally figured out, but there is no way to learn, power, artillery, the gap between the two main aspects, so that the designers are like ashes, this is not the final result, in addition to these, there are also various gaps, such as the initial velocity of the artillery firing, protective armor, especially the latter, more than one eyewitness saw that the shells of their main guns, bounced off by the opponent's armor belt, and the other side carried turtle shells, which was the fundamental reason for the failure to achieve results.

Listed one by one, the designers are like ashes, although it is said that the current strongest Queen Elizabeth class in the United Kingdom can not be regarded as the top, but it is already the highest in mass production, and then concentrate some scientific and technological strength, it should make the Queen Elizabeth class stronger, but the cost has soared, it may be double, it may be three times, and even the production time will be extended a lot, but in terms of the power of the ship, it is still not as good as the Scheer fleet, which proves something, the Entente has fallen behind.

Take 10,000 steps back, even if you can achieve power, protection and firepower, there is a problem that cannot be solved, everything of the three elements, there is no aiming system terrible, until now, the senior officials of the Admiralty can't believe why such a high hit rate, under such great power, can still maintain such a high rate of fire, this is a completely unscientific thing, it is too strange. It must be evaluated on the basis of actual battle examples, and the final assessment result is very simple, no matter what kind of result, it is required to avoid a decisive battle with the Germans at sea before the number of capital ships reaches 60, because with the Scheer fleet, the probability of defeat is as high as 70%.

As soon as this result appeared, the entire research room fell silent, and after a long time, Fisher said with some fear: "Shouldn't we be glad that the other party did not rush to kill everything, otherwise, once we are cornered, it will be very difficult for our battleship to retreat!" ”

The senior designer opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything, yes, the coast of Sweden was biased towards the British, and even at that time it was ready to help Britain with huge torpedo boats, but how many such torpedo boats, Sweden has never been a naval power, there are only about 50 torpedo boats, such a number of torpedo boats, if you are lucky, you may threaten one or two, the capital ship, if you are unlucky, maybe it is just a heavy blow, you can create a certain advantage for Britain, but what next, Before there was no way to solve the Scheer fleet, the Scheer fleet was desperately determined to bury the high seas fleet, it was not impossible to eat the entire Entente fleet, according to the speed at which it sank 5 battleships, that is, five or six hours, there were still 4 hours before dark, even if it could not be finished, it was almost the same.

"Perhaps, they didn't realize that the Scheer fleet would be so powerful!" A designer said tentatively, even he didn't believe his own statement, let alone others, what he didn't know was that what he said was really in a word, the most familiar person is always the opponent, Scheer knows that the fleet is very strong, but in the inertia of the capital ship, no matter how confident he is, without the capital ship exercise as a reference, he can't think that he can be one to two, or even one to many, ocean return, in the end, he didn't think about the real decisive battle with the British fleet, just thinking about the return as soon as possible, The two sides disengaged in such a tacit understanding.

"So, what do we do next?" Fisher asked the question.

There is a dead silence in the research room, different from the army, the navy is the supremacy of strength, one side is strong, you can eat it all, one side is weak, that is, it is bullied, as the young designer said, the other party may not have found out, but it is a matter of time before it is discovered, and even if it is not discovered, it is thought that the Scheer fleet has an advantage over the same number of fleets, and they can't stand it with the use of the Scheer fleet to be high-speed, powerful, and piecemeal.

The last-mover first-to-come thing, for the navy, is not a way at all, preemptive talent is the mainstream, we must take this opportunity to kill the opponent's fleet, at least not let them come out casually to sneak attack, the designer and many officers discussed a little, came up with a solution, Fisher listened to the light of his eyes, agreed. The British moved very fast, they didn't believe in the result, but they had no choice, so they had to follow this strength, and the designer's method was to blockade the Baltic Sea and use mines.

Mines are a very cheap, very early appear, a way to deal with warships, once in the era of sails, and even appeared, with the help of frogmen to promote the tactics of mine attacks, at the beginning of the 20th century, the effectiveness of mines has improved a lot, and it also has the basis for large-scale use.

The method discussed by the designers and generals is to blockade the Baltic Sea, the Scheer fleet is a battleship, since it is a battleship, it cannot escape the ocean, Germany is not an island country, on the North Sea, there is no outlet to the sea, that is, after those Belgium and northern France, they have a part, but even Germany itself will not think that these ports are theirs, lonely and have no foundation, unless it is digested for a few years, otherwise now, no matter how confident Germany is, the land occupies an absolute advantage, They did not dare to dock their warships in it, in this case, the only outlet to the sea would be in the Baltic Straits, and if they blocked it, even if Germany had 10 Schell fleets, it would not be able to play any role, and they would not be able to fly over. (To be continued.) )