Six Hundred and Seventy Six Vegetarian

Recently, because of the loss of paratroopers, Akado missed the commissioning ceremony of the new navy equipment, but the ceremony was held on time under the auspices of the deputy commander-in-chief of the navy, Raeder, and the commander-in-chief of the submarine force, Denitz. up.

In a shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, 40 of the best submarine officers and soldiers stood in four rows with their hands behind their backs, waiting for the military band to play a solemn war song. In fact, the new submarine was parked at the moment. Inside the closed special submarine dock, the military band and the current crew have not seen this new equipment that claims to change the way submarines operate.

"General Doenitz, can this new type of submarine really change the combat mode of the submarine force in ocean-going operations as those designers boasted?" Marshal Raeder leaned slightly to the sound of military music. Leaning close to Denitz's ear, he asked softly.

He is wearing a black admiral dress with double rows of golden buttons, and he looks very energetic. After all, under his command, he defeated the powerful fleet of the world's number one navy. He can be said to be the most successful since the birth of Germany senior naval commander. Although most of these achievements have nothing to do with him directly, after all, during his tenure as the supreme commander of the navy, the German Navy achieved terrible achievements that shocked the whole world.

It can be said that he has stood at the pinnacle of the entire imperial navy. The battleship Admiral Raeder named after him can even be said to be the first real battleship since the German Navy was newly built, and it may also be the last battleship.

Dönitz nodded. He was the supreme commander of the submarine who had seen the test of this new submarine. He even personally witnessed the whole process of the submarine from birth to development. Because of the improvement and development of materials and technology, this submarine is destined to become the representative of the highest technology of this era, and it is also destined to be forever engraved on the long scroll of human weapon development history because of its terrifying performance.

"The new power is a newly created terrifying system that allows submarines to sail underwater for a long time." Doenitz tried his best to explain this German Navy's technology to Raeder with not-so-secret data. Super weapon: "The birth of this submarine marks that the weapon of the submarine has evolved into a real submarine from today."

"There is such a big change? What is a real submarine? Wasn't it a real submarine before?" Raeder became even more confused after he stopped. He looked at Denitz, waiting for the other party to give him a more popular and reasonable answer. Explanation.

Denitz laughed even brighter. After all, this weapon was enough for him to draw up even more terrifying wolf pack tactics and a more desperate strangling battle system: "Marshal, the weapon we drove before can only be said to be a diving ship. The ship, and now this submarine, simply put, is a submarine that can surface."

"Is there any difference?" Raeder still didn't understand the difference between the two, but he immediately realized something, before Denitz could open his mouth to show off his new toy,

Then he asked again: "You mean...the main navigation state of this submarine is to sail underwater?"

"Yes, Marshal." Doenitz nodded triumphantly, with a proud expression on his face: "This submarine can submerge to far, far away places, and can submerge for a long time. The underwater speed..."

He lowered his voice, pressed it against Raeder's ear, and whispered a number: "More than 15 knots."

"Hiss!" Raeder couldn't help taking a breath. The temperature in the Hamburg military port in October was already very low, so he took such a sudden breath, which made his lungs a little thin and irritated, and he coughed violently: "Cough Cough! Cough cough!"

The military band was still playing non-stop. Standing in the middle of the crowd, as the most unlucky and most brilliant submarine commander in the German Navy submarine formation, Prien was standing there, and suddenly saw Admiral Raeder not far away. Suddenly coughing violently, I don't know what kind of stimulation I received.

"Ahem!" After coughing, Raeder looked at Denitz with shocked eyes, and was speechless for a while because of the other's words. As a commander of a naval surface ship, Raeder is relatively familiar with the anti-submarine combat rules of the fleet. Does he know what this speed means for surface ships.

In this day and age, the sonar installed on almost all surface ships is not accurate. Everyone just roughly finds the position of the submarine, and then uses the explosion radius of the mine in the deep sea to make up for the embarrassment of the lack of attack accuracy. Now the speed of the submarine has increased by a whole Three times, this means that the approximate position of the submarine can no longer be used as the basis for the attack of the surface ship-the moment you drop the depth charge, the opponent has already left the damage radius of the depth charge.

The reason why most of the submarines of World War II were designed with sharp bows is that most of the time submarines need to travel on the water surface, so try to design them into ship shapes to reduce driving resistance and improve the seaworthiness of submarines. However, this design is obviously not prepared for underwater driving, and the operating power of the battery underwater is really not flattering, so the underwater speed of World War II submarines is maintained at a speed of about 5 knots in most cases. .

However, under the reminder of Akado, the Germans successfully developed the fuel cell as early as 1927 in Bai Lanhua's laboratory. After ten years of technical reserves, this new submarine underwater The power scheme finally reached the design standard a year ago, meeting Akado's requirements for stable performance of the equipment.

With this new type of powertrain, Germany's new submarine can travel quietly underwater for more than two days, and even more than four days at a quiet cruising speed. And during the period, there is no need to expose the ventilation pipe to the surface of the water, which makes the submarine truly an underwater god of war, not a warship that can dive.

Since the submarine can float and recharge at one time, it can stay underwater for about 3 days, so for the safety of the submarine, most of the driving state of this new submarine will remain underwater, so the sharp bow design The style seems a bit outdated.

Therefore, the new type of submarine adopts a more hydrodynamic round bow design, coupled with more abundant power, the limit speed of the new type of submarine can reach 17 knots underwater, which is about three times that of the fastest type of submarine before. The speed can even support the submarine to chase some merchant ships underwater, and if conditions permit, it can almost track the enemy fleet underwater.

In order to increase the speed of the submarine to the extreme, and to reduce the noise generated by irregular parts underwater, this kind of submarine has canceled the 88mm cannon on the bow for the first time, and put the control tower on it. The 40mm anti-aircraft gun is designed to be retractable and hidden. It can be said that after all these efforts, this submarine can be said to be the quietest submarine today.

Because the volume of the battery increases, a larger submarine volume is required, and because the members cannot come out of the water in most cases, they also need a larger space to reduce the pressure brought by the closed space. From another perspective, it is more The large volume also means that it can carry more supplies and more ammunition, so the displacement of the new submarine has reached an astonishing 2,400 tons, which is definitely a terrifying underwater behemoth.

The more rounded bow brings an additional benefit that could not be realized before for this new submarine, that is, part of the sonar system can be installed in the position where the submarine has the widest coverage angle, so that the submarine can go farther and farther underwater. If he found his target early, there was only one place at the tail of the submarine in the blind spot.

If anyone still remembers Prien's battle in Scapa Flow, they will criticize the pitiful temporary loading ability of the U-47 submarine, because they cannot fire enough torpedoes in one go, so in that battle, although the German submarine has More opportunities to create more brilliant records, but ultimately unable to do so due to technical reasons.

Now, this phenomenon has finally been solved by the German submarine design technicians. The increased volume allows the new submarine to have the powerful firepower of 6 torpedo launch cabins in the front bow position, and the more professional torpedo cabin is also equipped with auxiliary equipment. The loader is a fashionable thing. With sufficient ammunition, this new submarine can shoot out the 18 torpedoes in the torpedo cabin in one go, and can fire another round of salvo after 10 minutes.

When Dönitz transferred Prien from the Spanish coastal port back to Hamburg, Germany, Prien and his men were still a little reluctant, but when the military band left the dock, the engineers opened the hidden dock and revealed After seeing the new submarine inside, Prien and his men were immediately shocked by the super submarine in front of them, speechless.

After the engineer explained the powerful functions of this new submarine to Prien and his crew, Prien glanced at General Dönitz standing beside him, from which he could see his own eyes. Everything in it, the depths of their souls trembled at the birth of this submarine, because the submarine warfare they had devoted their lives to changed at this moment. And these people will personally witness this earth-shaking change.

"Now you are not only a battleship killer, but also the fastest person underwater." Doenitz pointed to the new submarine and said proudly: "Once this kind of submarine starts to form a pack of wolves, the British Empire on Iceland His Majesty the Emperor, he probably starved to death."

Prien nodded: "I'll go to sea tomorrow, and let him eat vegetarian food for a few months before starving to death!"