In April 1808, Shixiong boarded the second Shangjing-class battleship Denver in San Diego. This was a ship that had just completed a two-month sea trial in the Pacific Ocean and was carefully repaired from the dock. The latest steel battleship of the Imperial Navy.

　　 Compared to the earliest Carlos class, the Denver is much larger. This empire’s current most advanced warship is comparable to ordinary destroyers in later generations. The Denver with a displacement of 5,760 tons and a full load of 6,480 tons can be said to be the largest and most advanced warship in the world.

　　 The most important thing is that this warship can run as fast as 19 knots with such a large displacement. If sailing at a cruising speed of eleven knots, the Denver's maximum range can reach nearly three thousand nautical miles.

　　 Compared with the Shangjing-class first ship, the Denver, which was launched only one year later than the Shangjing, is undoubtedly more advanced.

In fact, with the strong support of Shixiong, whether it is the Yanhuang Institute of Science and Technology or the two major shipyards of the empire, there is now a lot of attention in the design and construction of new warships, as long as it is not the kind of outrageous warships with a big brain. The design scheme can basically be passed here in Shixiong.

　　 Shi Xiong is very supportive of the innovation of scientific researchers. Unless it is really unreliable design, Shi Xiong is willing to try. Even if it takes some unnecessary losses for this, it will not hesitate.

　　 Scientific progress is inseparable from the innovation of scientific research personnel. Only scientific research personnel continue to innovate and the country gives them strong support, so that the progress of science and technology can be continuously promoted.

　　 Especially Shi Xiong's mind is filled with a lot of knowledge and experience of later generations. He naturally understands that those innovations are correct and those innovations are not reliable.

　　 Therefore, there is a stone bear check, and the technological research and development level of the empire is almost rapidly improving at the speed of running.

　　 Denver is such a typical example.

　　Especially the firepower configuration of the Denver has once again improved a lot on the basis of the Shangjing.

　　 First of all, after more than 20 years of hard research and development and continuous corrections, the Imperial Yanhuang Institute of Science and Technology finally came up with a set of mature artillery sight systems. This set of artillery sighting system, which integrates optics, mathematics, geometry and other disciplines, has no difference in performance with the Dreyer MK3 fire control console during World War I.

　　 This gun sighting system was personally named "Kassel Fire Control Station" by Shi Xiong, in recognition of the French scientist Luther Kassel who led this scientific research team for twenty-six years.

This French scientist, who joined the Imperial Yanhuang Institute of Science and Technology long before the outbreak of the War of Independence, first joined the research and development of the artillery and gun sighting system, and later with his outstanding ability, he gradually became more than one hundred and twenty people. The leader of the scientific research team.

　　 After he became the leader of this team, Kassel took out several sets of shipborne artillery gun sighting systems, and the final shape was the Kassel fire control console installed on the Denver.

Shi Xiong has always been generous in naming inventions and creations. From the earliest Ferguson rifles to Carlos-class battleships to the current Kassel fire control console, as long as the things you develop are good enough, Shi Xiong is definitely not. Will be stingy with the name of the developer's last name or name.

　　 Denver was not only equipped with the world’s first semi-automatic mechanical shipborne artillery sighting system, the warship also adjusted the ship’s artillery in accordance with Shixiong’s advice.

　　The steel battleships built by the empire before basically installed all the powerful artillery of the empire on the deck, which can ensure the powerful firepower of the battleship, but it also brings great difficulties to the logistics supply.

　　 is like the first ship of the Shangjing class, with artillery ranging from 76 mm to 152 mm. There are as many as four ammunition for these different caliber artillery.

　　 So when the Denver was built, Shi Xiong unified the caliber of the Denver’s main guns based on the design ideas of the later British Dreadnought-class battleships.

　　 That is, the main guns on the Denver are all 152mm twin guns!

This method of carrying the main gun with the same ballistic performance can better allow the Kassel fire control station to exert its due power, instead of the Shanghai Jing, when the fire control station will be 152 mm in battle. The trajectory and firing angle of the artillery are calculated. At the same time, the 122mm artillery is also calculated. In addition, there are 105 guns and 76 guns...

　　Before there was a real electronic computer, this semi-automatic mechanical fire control console calculated four artillery at the same time, which would greatly delay the frequency and accuracy of the artillery firing.

　　 At any rate, the Empire’s artillery has a long enough range and a large enough fault tolerance rate, so that the Empire’s warships can have an overwhelming advantage.

　　 But since this problem has been found on the Shangjing and even the Cherokee-class battleship, it is undoubtedly the best to use the Denver to improve and test this uniform ballistic performance artillery.

The 　　 Denver was only equipped with two caliber guns, one was the 152mm gun with the largest power in the Empire, and the other was the 76mm gun with the fastest firing rate in the Empire.

　　 Denver is equipped with a total of nine 152 mm twin turrets in the first five and four rear. This is the main gun of the battleship. At the same time, it also carried eighteen 76mm artillery as secondary artillery. As for the 122mm artillery and 105mm artillery, all were banned.

　　 The effective range of the 152mm main gun exceeds 15 kilometers, the total weight of the high-explosive grenades used has reached 49 kg, and the charge is as high as 7.5 kg.

　　Because the weight of the shells has increased~lightnovelpub.net~, after testing, the 152mm main gun can maintain a very good hit rate at a distance of 8 kilometers, which is a lot more than 122mm artillery.

　　 Therefore, when the Denver fired a salvo at a distance of eight kilometers from the enemy ship, the eighteen 152mm main guns fired at the same time, the power was still extremely powerful.

　　 The 76mm gun has a rate of fire of up to 15 rounds per minute. It is used as a secondary gun of a battleship and can be used as an excellent defense against the battleship itself.

　　 It can be said that, apart from tonnage and artillery, the Denver is no longer inferior to the fearless class of later generations...

　　 And because of the thicker marine steel plate, Denver is similar in size to the Cherokee class, but in terms of defense, it is many times that of the Cherokee class.

　　 In the current era of sailing warships, there is no armor-piercing shell, even the large-caliber fortress guns cannot penetrate Denver's armor at close range. As for the solid ammunition of the sailing warship to penetrate the armor of the Denver, it is purely a dream.

　　 Such a steel battleship with powerful firepower and heavy armor has no solution in this age.

　　 Such an excellent warship, which integrates the most advanced military technology of the empire, is currently the most powerful steel warship in the Great China Empire and even the world.

　　 On this day, Stone Bear will take this ship to go to sea. Under the **** of eight new class three sailing battleships, it will cross the Pacific Ocean, and then converge on the Jingjing at Davao to patrol various colonies in the Pacific. And finally arrived in the country on the other side of the ocean...

　　:. :