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Chapter 674: Dreyer Fire Control Station

This kind of affirmative answer from the boss immediately made everyone around Shixiong's eyes bright.

   Something that can increase the hit rate of the main gun is definitely fun.

Even Dahe, who has always been with Shixiong, the commander of the Fourth Division’s Coastal Defense Artillery Regiment, Shui Gouzi, and the commander of the Division’s Artillery Regiment, have big eyes, and their faces are full of evil dogs seeing fleshy bones. expression.

Among all the people on the scene, Dahe’s status is second only to Shixiong and Hekal. He and Shixiong are familiar with each other, so he immediately asked: "Boss, what kind of fire control do you mean? Can the system be matched to our fourth division as well?"

   said, this guy also licked his lips, his expression was disgusting...

   Dahe’s expression amused Shi Xiong. He laughed and pointed at Dahe and said, "You are also a forty-year-old man anyway, can you be more stable?"

   "Hey, they are all my own brothers, who doesn't know what kind of temper my Dahe is." Dahe has a sullen face.

   A group of people around were laughing and covering their mouths.

After taking a sip from the glass in front of him, Shi Xiong said, “I want to equip you with this kind of fire control system, but it still doesn’t work. The Yanhuang Institute of Science and Technology is now studying this kind of thing, and it still needs it. It will take a while to study it out."

   Shi Xiong said this, disappointed expressions appeared on the faces of a group of people.

But this is really no way. The fire control system is not something that can be made by just doing it, even if the fire control system that Shixiong handed over to the research institute is the Dreyer fire control station that appeared before the first world war. Researched as a template, but with the current level of technology, it is not that simple to get the Dreyer fire control station out.

   Dreyer Fire Control Station is the core of the fire control system of British battleships during the First World War. It is the first generation of mechanical fire control system.

   This fire control system was invented by Frederick Dreyer, an officer of the Royal Navy, and won the competition with the Puran fire control system in 1912. It was used by the British Admiralty to install most of the Royal Navy's battleships.

  In fact, before the appearance of the Dreyer fire control station, the naval gun fire control systems of the European powers also had them, but they were all scattered. For example, there are rangefinders, variable rate dials, range clocks, which are Demerik calculators, command instruments, and plotters, but they are not integrated.

  Dreyer is very clever. He discovered that if such scattered fire control equipment were integrated, the efficiency would be greatly improved, so he did. To put it bluntly, this Dreyer fire control station is an assembly that integrates the previously dispersed naval gun fire control equipment.

This kind of fire control station is composed of base, azimuth indicator, azimuth motor, azimuth change rate grid plate, change rate manual wheel, Demerik calculator, distance change rate grid plate, clock distance motor, mechanical rangefinder , Rangefinder distance motor, backup distance plotting handle, distance plotting, and clock distance adjusting bolts and other components.

The main function of the Dreyer Fire Control Station is to confirm and maintain the distance between one's own warship and the local warship, determine the speed and direction of movement of the enemy's ship, and give aiming instructions to the naval gun. Therefore, the Dreyer fire control station is mostly installed in the transmission control room under the armored deck, and a team of more than 30 people is responsible for controlling the Dreyer fire control station.

   To put it another way, the Dreyer fire control station is equivalent to a modern computer, and the transmission control room is equivalent to a wireless network. When the different data received by the transmission control room is input to the Dreyer fire control station, it will automatically convert these data into information that is beneficial to the shelling, and then send it out through the wireless network of the transmission control room.

In fact, the fire control system on a warship is far more than one Dreyer fire control station. A complete set of fire control system contains many things, such as main rangefinder, main observer, wind speed calculator, and pitch angle calculation. The Dreyer fire control station is just the core of a whole set of naval gun fire control system.

   Therefore, if you want to develop a complete fire control system, even with the golden finger of Shixiong, it is far from being completed in one and a half years.

   In fact, the development of the fire control system is mainly for future considerations. In the current situation where the Yanhuang tribal navy has a crushing advantage of steel battleships, the fire control system is actually not very anxious.

   Even if the hit rate of the naval gun can only be maintained at 1%, it is irresistible for the sailing warships of this era.

   If it doesn’t work, it can be bombarded at a close range. In the current situation that the maximum range of the guns of the European sail battleships is only two or three kilometers, the guns of the Yanhuang tribe have a crushing advantage. Therefore, even if the distance is shortened to four kilometers, the warships of the Yanhuang Fleet can use kite-flying to walk the sailing warships alive.

   And compared to the slow rate of fire of the large-caliber naval gun, the rate of fire of the 105 naval gun is too fast, and the operating speed of the mechanical fire control system is far less than the rate of fire of the 105 naval gun. Therefore, even if this fire control system is developed, it is actually of little use to the current Carlos-class warships.

   can not be said to be useless, but it is certain that the operating speed of the fire control system will drag down the shooting speed of the 105 naval gun.

   So, the fire control system currently being researched and developed by the Yanhuang Institute of Science and Technology ~lightnovelpub.net~ is actually for foreign large-caliber naval guns.

   If this fire control system is to be fully applied, the caliber of the Yanhuang Fleet’s main guns should at least not be less than 152 mm.

   The naval gun fire control system is a systematic project, and it will take a long time for this system to be fully developed. But while developing this system, many equipment in the system can be continuously applied to naval guns and army guns.

   The simplest example, once a mechanical rangefinder is developed, it can be directly applied to all artillery and replace the visual observation method of the observer.

   Although these generals are a little disappointed by not being able to use the kind of fire control system the boss said, but the atmosphere soon becomes active again.

   The beautiful tribal girls and strong tribal teenagers began to dance gracefully, immediately raising the atmosphere of the scene to a high chao.

   Cheers, singing, rhythmic applause and stomping make the Norfolk Chiefs Square a huge stage. The roaring bonfire and the ubiquitous aroma of grilled meat all highlight the festive atmosphere here.

   When the wine reaches its heart, Shi Xiong and Dahe even went off the stage to celebrate with the people.

Later historians also gave a detailed description of the day that occurred in the summer of 1785. The Grim Bear Army even designated the day as "Navy Day" to commemorate the first actual naval battle that occurred on this day, and declared This day is the day when the Grim Bear Army and Navy officially go to the sea!

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