Chapter 643 Testing and Face Changing

With Arthur's support, Tesla burst out with great enthusiasm. As soon as the battleship docked at the shipyard, Tesla had already started installing the radar.

When the radar was installed and debugged, it was already a week later on February 26.

Arthur took the current Navy Commander-in-Chief, Vice Admiral Andrew Reid, Defense Minister, Vice Admiral Thomas Johnson, and many staff members of the Ministry of Defense to Sydney Harbor to participate in the actual test of this radar.

After boarding the battleship, Arthur saw Tesla again, who was directing people to debug the radar.

Tesla also saw Arthur, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, and said excitedly: "Your Majesty, the radar is ready!"

Arthur nodded, looked at the generals behind him, and said with a smile: "Introduce these guys how to conduct the radar experiment this time."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Tesla nodded, looked at the generals, and explained: "Everyone, the principle of radar is to know the enemy's position through the reflection of radio waves. The measured distance and the effectiveness of the measurement have become the two major factors in testing the function of radar.

In order to better test the performance of our first generation of radar, please ask the commander to order the fleet to approach this battleship from a distance. My team will record the number and time of warships that appear on the radar of your fleet, as well as the maximum distance of the radar test, to verify the true performance of this radar."

The current function of radar is to detect the enemy at a long distance, and the direction of Tesla's experiment is roughly the same.

Several generals nodded when they heard this, and Tesla's proposal made no sense. After all, commanding the fleet to approach the battleship is just a simple matter.

With Arthur's order, several generals did not dare to underestimate the radar developed by Tesla, and even Defense Minister Thomas had expectations for the actual role of the radar.

If it is really possible to detect the enemy at a long distance, the impact on the war is naturally self-evident.

It will take some time for the fleet to be prepared. Arthur took several generals and Tesla to the high seas on this Monarch-class battleship, where better tests can be carried out.

Because almost half of the Australasian fleet was dispatched, no additional troops were needed to protect Arthur's safety.

In addition to a small team of royal guards, Arthur did not need any other protection in Australasia. Australasia was already the safest place for Arthur.

About two hours later, dozens of kilometers away from Sydney Harbor, in a certain ocean.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Tesla, everything is ready and can start testing at any time." After contacting the navy dozens of kilometers away, Navy Commander-in-Chief Andrew nodded to Arthur respectfully and said.

Seeing Arthur looking at him, Tesla nodded to his men, and after receiving the reply that everything was ready, he reported to Arthur: "Your Majesty, the radar is ready and can be tested at any time."

"Let's start, and take a good look at the role of the world's first practical radar." Arthur smiled and announced the official start of the radar experiment.

With Arthur's order, the radars on the fleet and battleships in the distance started working at the same time.

The radar was concentrating on sending radio waves to find distant enemies, while the fleet in the distance approached Arthur's battleship at different places and at different speeds according to the original plan, testing whether the radar could record all when facing enemies of different speeds.

Time was passing by, and Arthur and several generals also looked at the working radar with interest.

"Your Majesty, is this thing really that magical? It can find enemies dozens of kilometers away." Navy Commander Andrew asked curiously.

Not only the navy, but also the navy, the army and the air force, being able to find the enemy dozens of kilometers away means that they have already taken the lead in the war.

Encounter battles are often unexpected, but if you can understand the enemy's position and direction of advance before the encounter, you can prepare in advance before the encounter, and even carefully plan an encirclement.

One side is well prepared, and the other side is caught off guard, and the outcome of the war is basically determined.

Arthur smiled, looked at Tesla who was busy, and said: "Whether it can be done or not depends on the actual performance of the radar."

In the eyes of everyone's expectation, less than 20 minutes later, Tesla's assistant shouted excitedly: "Your Majesty, Mr. Tesla, a warship has been found and is heading towards us quickly."

Arthur and several generals were delighted to hear this, and quickly came to the radar display screen, and indeed saw a green dot in the distance heading quickly towards the center.

The green dot represents the warship that has been detected, and the center point is the battleship where the radar is located.

The Navy Commander-in-Chief had no doubts now. He nodded in surprise, as if he had thought of something, and asked quickly: "Mr. Tesla, can your radar detect the actual distance between the warship and us and the speed of the warship?"

General Andrew was not satisfied with knowing the approximate position of the enemy. He also wanted to rely on radar to obtain the actual distance between the enemy and himself and the enemy's speed.

If these two data can be clearly known, it will be known when the enemy will meet him, so as to make more comprehensive and handy preparations.

"The distance and time can be calculated, but it is still unknown whether it is accurate." Tesla said.

Andrew nodded and looked at Tesla, who was already calculating the distance and speed of the warship.

After more than a minute, Tesla finished the calculation, looked at Arthur and Andrew, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, according to the results of the radar display, the warship is currently about 13 nautical miles away from us and is heading towards us at a speed of 19 knots."

A speed of 1 knot is equal to 1 nautical mile per hour, which is also equal to 1.85 kilometers per hour.

A distance of 13 nautical miles is approximately equivalent to 24 kilometers, which means that the actual test distance of the radar has reached more than 24 kilometers.

Although 24 kilometers is not far for the navy, it is the first generation of radar that has just been developed, and it is not bad to have such a test distance.

More importantly, it is not clear what the effective distance of the radar is at present, and 24 kilometers is only the current result.

This made a group of generals, including Navy Commander Andrew and Defense Minister Thomas, extremely excited.

If such radars can be equipped on a large scale in the navy, army and air force, it will undoubtedly improve the combat effectiveness of the Australasian army.

In particular, Admiral Andrew was ready to shamelessly ask Arthur for more radars.

Even though he was the one who had previously refused Tesla's experiment with the battleship, Andrew, who now knew the actual performance of the radar, shamelessly requested more radars to equip the navy.

Of course, the actual distance and speed of the warship calculated by the radar remain to be tested. How to verify this data? Of course, it is to see when the warship will meet everyone.

At a speed of 19 knots, it will take about 41 minutes to reach the current position of the battleship at a distance of 13 nautical miles.

As long as the error is within one or two minutes, General Andrew feels that he can accept it. After all, radar has just been developed not long ago, and it is a bit unrealistic to expect the accuracy of the radar to be accurate to within seconds, that is, within a hundred meters.

Since learning the distance of the warship, these generals have not only looked at the working radar, but also kept looking at the custom watches on their wrists.

This is actually a tradition of senior military officers. Carrying a watch is not for showing off, but for better determining the time and conducting unified military operations.

After all, if you don't even know the time, how can you launch military operations at the same time?

The watches of these officers are basically from the royal watchmakers. They are specially customized watches with very small time errors.

Although ordinary people cannot get customized watches from royal watchmakers, the watches handmade by these watchmakers will also be used as gifts and prizes, given or rewarded to those who have made contributions, as well as royal and national guests, etc.

Arthur is also very good at brand management, and specially established the watch brand Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

The purpose of using your own surname as a brand for a watch is also very simple. One is to quickly increase the brand awareness of the watch.

The popularity of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty is not low. After all, the current British queen Wentha is also a member of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha dynasty, but the British king himself changed his surname.

Such watches named after aristocratic surnames have a noble temperament since birth. The price of any watch is more than 500 Australian dollars, and they are all the kind that are in short supply.

Even some capitalists wanted to buy a watch for 2,000 euros but still failed, because such a watch in Australasia not only represents the surface value, but also represents the respect of the royal family and Arthur for the person who gets the watch.

Everyone stared at the time nervously. About twenty minutes later, a warship in the sea in the distance could be seen with a telescope.

General Andrew ordered the warship to continue to move forward at the original speed. At a little over 41 minutes, it just crossed the battleship a hundred meters away.

General Andrew breathed a sigh of relief, but immediately turned his head to look at Tesla with amazing eyes, and praised very shamelessly: "What a great invention, Mr. Tesla. I can't imagine how powerful the combat effectiveness of our navy would be if we knew the position and speed of the enemy."

Hearing General Andrew's praise, Tesla nodded with an unchanged expression and said very calmly: "Your Excellency General is too flattering. All this is due to the support of His Majesty."

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