Chapter 1334： Fierce fighting (1/2)
At the same time, he also knew that he had too few opportunities to shoot because his warship's rate of fire was too low. The guns on his warships had no automatic reloading capability and were completely loaded manually by humans. Of course, it was quite slow. . It is obviously inappropriate to waste shells at a long distance.
The one-character column continued to sail forward at high speed, and quickly approached the Italian's one-character column. At this time, other warships in the Italian fleet also opened fire one after another.
Every shot will bring huge black smoke, blocking their sight. After the black smoke passed, the Soviet fleet was still rushing towards them!
This made the Italian Navy extremely depressed.
”Is this the level of our fleet's gunners?” On the bridge, Catano said angrily: ”Until now, our shells have not touched the Soviet warships!”
Cataño knows that naval gun shooting is actually a process of constant adjustment. First test fire, and constantly fine-tune according to the test firing situation, gradually approach the target, and finally hit the opponent. Now that the impact point is not visible, every time This is equivalent to the first test shot, so the alignment of the head has not been guaranteed.
However, seeing the two sides keep getting closer, they couldn't hit each other, which made Cataneo feel bad.
The distance between the two sides was already close to five nautical miles, and Gorshkov finally issued an order: ”Fire!”
The shortcoming of the one-word column is that the fire boundary of the rear warship is easily blocked by the front warship. Therefore, in the actual progress, it is not a complete one-word column, but every one behind is more to the right than the front. Some, so it's free.
After receiving the order to fire, the gunners who had been ready for a long time immediately pulled their gun ropes.
”Boom!” The 180mm twin-mounted naval gun roared, black smoke enveloped the turret, and two high-speed armor-piercing projectiles flew toward the Italian battleship!
Draught does not forget the well digger, and the armor-piercing bullet at this time is simply ungrateful.
When the Soviet Union designed the Red Caucasus, it planned to leapfrog, using 4 180mm guns against 6 to 10 203mm guns of imaginary opponents.
Therefore, they have no choice but to increase the chamber pressure and tube length. When your gun is not powerful enough, then increase the propellant!
As a result, the Soviets did it. The muzzle velocity of this naval gun was as high as 1,000 m/s, and it was so powerful that it could completely suppress the Western 203 mm naval gun.
However, the rifling of this artillery is extremely fast, and even the barrel life does not exceed 10 rounds. That is to say, as long as a few rounds of shells are fired in actual combat, the shells fired afterwards will show great deviation, which is equivalent to a waste gun!
The Soviets had no choice but to ask for help, but they couldn't hang themselves on a tree in Germany, so they turned to Italy.
With the technical assistance of the Italian company Andorsa, they shortened the gun barrel to 57 calibers, reduced the propellant package to 37.5 kg, and reduced the barrel pressure and muzzle velocity to 3200 kg/cm² and 920 m/s, respectively. , And the use of more sparse rifling distribution to alleviate the problem, so that the barrel life can reach 320 rounds, with actual combat capabilities.
The Italians probably never dreamed that they helped the Soviets transform the naval guns, but now this naval gun is about to fire at them!
In addition to the 180 naval guns, other naval guns also fired.
In addition to the 180 naval guns, the Red Caucasus also had four 1911 102mm 60-caliber single-mounted non-shielded secondary guns. This type of gun is a mature naval gun, built by the famous Obukhovs Designed and manufactured by the base steel plant.