Chapter 1336 Fierce Battle
At the same time, he also knew that there were too few opportunities for him to shoot, because the rate of fire of his warship was too low, and the guns on his warship did not have the ability to reload automatically, and reloaded entirely by hand, which of course was quite slow. . It is obviously inappropriate to waste shells at long distances.
The one-line column continued to sail forward at high speed, and the Italians' one-line line quickly approached. 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. When the black smoke passes, the Soviet fleet is still rushing towards them!
This made the Italian Navy extremely depressed.
"Is this the level of our fleet's gunners?" On the bridge, Cataño said angrily: "So far, our artillery shells have not hit the Soviet warships!"
Cataño knew that the naval gun firing was actually a process of constant adjustment. First, test the firing, fine-tune it according to the test firing, gradually approach the target, and finally hit the opponent. It is equivalent to the first test firing, so there is no guarantee for the accurate head.
However, seeing the two sides keep getting closer, but unable to hit each other, Catagno was in a bad mood.
The distance between the two sides was already close to five nautical miles, and Gorshkov finally gave the order: "Fire!"
The defect of the one-line column is that the shooting range of the warship behind is easy to be blocked by the warship in front, so in the actual process of advancing, it is not a complete one-line column, but each ship in the back 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 towards the Italian battleship!
The water does not forget the well digger, the armor-piercing projectile at this time is simply ungrateful.
When the Soviet Union designed the Red Caucasus, it planned to leapfrog, using 4 180mm guns against the imaginary opponent's 6 to 10 203mm guns.
Therefore, they have no choice but to choose to increase the chamber pressure and tube length to achieve this. When your gun is not powerful enough, increase the propellant!
As a result, the Soviets did it. The muzzle velocity of this naval gun is as high as 1,000 m/s, which is so powerful that it can completely suppress the Western 203mm naval gun.
However, the rifling of this kind of artillery wears very fast, and even the barrel life does not exceed 10 rounds, which means that in actual combat, as long as a few rounds of shells are fired, the shells fired afterward will have a 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 Andorza, they shortened the gun barrel to 57 times the caliber, the propellant package was reduced to 37.5 kg, and the barrel pressure and muzzle velocity were reduced to 3200 kg/cm² and 920 m/s respectively. , and the use of sparser rifling distribution can alleviate the problem, so that the life of the barrel can reach 320 rounds, and it has the actual combat capability.
At that time, the Italians probably never dreamed that they helped the Soviets transform their naval guns, but now this kind of naval guns are going to fire on them!
In addition to the 180 naval guns, other naval guns also fired.
In addition to the 180 naval guns, there are also 4 1911-style 102 mm 60 caliber single-mounted shieldless secondary guns on the Red Caucasus. This gun is a mature naval gun, designed by the famous Obukhovs. Design and manufacture at the base steel plant.
At this time, the Red Caucasus roared and shot its own artillery shells. At the same time, other warships were also shooting. Although their artillery caliber was not large enough, they had to show their existence.
Moreover, their targets were all aimed at the battleship in the middle of the other side's line, and concentrated their firepower, even if they couldn't hit it, they had to beat it.
"Boom!" Amidst the huge impact, a 102mm armor-piercing projectile hit the Count Cavour accurately!
On the emplacement of an anti-aircraft artillery, several Italian soldiers screamed, and it happened that their position was shot!
"Boom!" Under the attack of this artillery shell, the artillery shell unexpectedly exploded. In an instant, smoke and dust were billowing here.
For a battleship, the 102mm armor-piercing projectile can be completely carried down, like a scratch, but now, the black smoke is rising from this unfortunate anti-aircraft gun emplacement, let it stand in the bridge and watch it. To all this, Cataño just sank in his heart, no, what's going on?
For any country, battleships are very valuable. After all, it takes all the country's efforts to build a few ships. For example, the Soviet Union shipped half of the country's steel to the shipyard, and the USSR battleship was not built. Come.
Therefore, once the main warship suffered losses in the naval battle, the country could not bear it, and even Germany in history could not bear it. After the Bismarck was sunk, the German surface fleet never took the initiative to attack.
At this moment, the glory of the navy in Catagno's mind has been put aside, and he is thinking about one thing in his mind, this battleship can't be in trouble! If anything goes wrong with this ship, his military career is over!
Catagno felt a little guilty. Watching the Soviets fight so bravely, why don't he retreat to the side? Or change the formation and call a few ships around to protect it?
The naval battle was fierce, and in the air, the battle was going on.
"Tom tom!" It was the sound of the shaft gun firing again. Following the shooting, the Il-4 bomber in front of Ancrus fell down dragging black smoke.
At this moment, suddenly, Ancrus saw bullets shot from his left side, and he knew that he was ambushed by Soviet fighter jets!
It is very difficult for a biplane to fight a monoplane, especially since the Germans used a dive-climb, hit-and-run tactic, they simply couldn't reach them.
However, Ancrus was just greedy for his credit. He had already shot down four Il-4s. As long as he shot down one more, he would be the first HNA pilot who became an ace pilot in the first battle.
Therefore, when he shot down the fifth Il-4, he unknowingly missed a hit and caught up. As a result, he was attacked.
Pull up! Ancrus no longer craved the low altitude and began to climb upwards, but unfortunately, it happened to fall into the other's arms.
Aleksandr Mironenko's eyes almost burned. They were escorting fighter jets, but they watched the German fighter jets jump up and down, constantly shooting down their own bombers. Now, he must shoot down the opponent!
The opponent made a mistake and moved horizontally, so he quickly circled behind the opponent and opened fire.
When watching the opponent pull up, Alexander followed by pulling his own nose, the 7.62mm machine gun bullet, and then climbed up, hitting the opponent accurately!