Durin's Diary

Chapter 889 Manhu Ying

In Dulin's imagination, an ironclad warship would simply be a wooden ship covered with a thicker layer of iron, with additional thickness added to critical parts.

However, the Changtang Navy proved to Dulin that the ironclad warships the Changtang people spoke of were indeed entirely metal. At least Eleven and Daju indicated that these things did indeed have all-metal hulls, and as for the interior…

I don't think furniture counts.

"That's what Daju added."

Furniture definitely doesn't count.

Dulin looked at the giant ships docked at the port. These giant ships, called battleships, had quadruple 500mm guns. According to the accompanying personnel, these things had integrated turrets and magic array-based automatic loading, and could fire five rounds per minute at the fastest.

In other words, not counting the first round already loaded, four rounds will be loaded in the next sixty seconds.

Dulin and Daju didn't understand whether this thing was good or bad in terms of efficiency, but Eleven said that its speed was already incredibly fast compared to similar warships in their world.

After looking at the warships, Dulin felt that even if he came here, he couldn't think of anything that could help him improve.

Take battleships for example. Although they don't have artillery radar, they have astronauts in the sky who observe the impact points and make calculations and corrections. Although these things are done by humans, they are still quite effective.

As for the other cruisers and destroyers, Dulin believed they were also armed to the teeth.

My Adriatic Anti-Smuggling Bureau is still passionately battling pirates with long-barreled bronze cannons on galleys of about a hundred tons each, while your destroyers here are over a thousand tons, with twin 100mm guns firing eleven rounds a minute and reloading every six seconds. Not to mention, your 20mm anti-aircraft guns can fire at a negative five-degree angle. One of your destroyers could clear the Adriatic Sea.

As for the fleet, Dulin had no choice—in his previous life, the seas of the world Dulin lived in were inhabited by sea creatures. With them around, the only ships available to land dwellers were cruise ships, passenger ships, or some deep-sea fishing fleets.

Navy? What is that? It doesn't exist.

However, Dulin did have aerospace carriers at that time, and he had seen things about the air force in various magazines, even if he hadn't seen them in person.

So, regarding the Air Force, Dulin has already proven his worth at the air force base yesterday. No one really believes that Dulin can dominate all three branches of the armed forces, and those from the Navy who came to accompany him felt that Dulin's trip would be worthwhile if he could make some constructive remarks regarding the Naval Air Force.

So Dulin quickly boarded the flat-top ship—that's the navy's version of events, where naval fighters and celestial masters take off using the acceleration array on this huge deck.

If people from the past saw an aircraft carrier resurrected in this form, I don't know whether they would be happy or disappointed.

Eleven sighed.

Despite his admiration, after looking at the model of the fighter jet, Dulin said that this fighter jet should be their historical F6F, also known as the Hellcat.

It is a high-altitude fighter jet, which appears cumbersome at low altitudes. However, its purpose is to provide cover for bombers and prevent and drive away attacks from the Puppet Bone fighter jets on the bomber formations of Changtang.

Diving down from high altitude, using the energy advantage to launch an attack and then returning to altitude, repeating this process—while it sounds foolish, Dulin sees it as a standard Boom and Zoom tactic. It's said to be a classic energy maneuverability tactic in aerial warfare.

In Dulin's time, this tactic originated in ancient times and was mainly used by high-speed fighters (such as the German Bf 109 and the American P-51 Mustang). Its core idea was to launch an attack using altitude and speed advantages and then quickly disengage to avoid close-range dogfights.

Its tactical concept is to maintain a higher energy level and control the rhythm of the battlefield through a cycle of "dive-attack-climb".

This approach avoids the situation where Changtang fighters cannot compete with Puppet Bone fighters in low-speed dogfights (Puppet Bone fighters perform better than all Changtang aircraft at low altitudes, and the AI-type reaction speed of Puppet Bone is faster than that of the human brain to a certain extent), and also greatly disrupts the attack efficiency of Puppet Bone fighters against Changtang bombers to a certain extent.

Yes, that's right. The Changtang people discovered that the Puppet Bone fighters were all single-threaded. If they kept switching between attacking Changtang bombers and fighting against Changtang fighters, they would soon become inefficient due to mental overload and eventually become easy targets for the Changtang people.

Therefore, the losses of bomber formations are not actually that great when they need fighter escort. The most dangerous time is the first wave of attacks by the Puppet Bone. At this time, the Puppet Bone fighters react most inhumanly, and more than 60% of the personnel and aircraft losses occur during this period.

"How effective are the fighter jet's machine guns against the Puppet Bone's fighter jets?" Dulin asked.

"It's quite ordinary. The Puppet Bone fighter jets are very light, and machine guns can easily overshoot them," a strategist replied. "So we use 10mm machine gun bullets. For an aircraft like the one in front of you, we've equipped it with eight machine guns."

Dulin nodded: "Besides fighter jets, what other types of aircraft does the Puppet Bone have?"

"They also have bombers that can attack our fleet, but most of their bombers are guided rockets that launch long-range attacks. They have good firepower, but because it takes too long from launch to completion of the attack, their efficiency is generally low," another vice admiral said. "And they can usually break through our air defense network by sheer numbers, ultimately damaging our ships."

The technicians also arranged for Dulin to use a live machine.

In Eleven's words, the Puppet Bone's fighter jets are like the Zero fighters in their history. They are high-speed, low-altitude fighters that are very agile at low altitudes. With the control of the Puppet Bone, which is like an AI, they can indeed inflict a lot of damage on the bomber formation in the first wave. No wonder the Changtang bombers are so big; they must have structural armor for defense.

As for the Puppet Bone bomber, it is somewhat similar to the bomber of Chang Tang, both being thick and solid, so the damage from the rockets depends on the location.

Now that you mention it, Du Lin understands what Lin Xiangguo meant by "can't afford to die"—the puppet bones are just forcibly exchanged for yours, and the puppet bones that die are consumables, while what you die is the child your parents raised for over twenty years. From a cost-effectiveness perspective, it's really not something you can afford to exchange.

But Dulin still felt that the Navy really made a mistake in that matter—you can't just leave your own Marines on the beach to fend for themselves because you can't afford to die. Every child is born of parents, and you can't consider yourself superior to others.

In this matter, Dulin will still support the old man.

It's not because we're close, it's because the old man is in the right.

However, Dulin had a better idea on how to defeat the puppet skeleton.

"Have you ever tried having the Celestial Master fire a self-guided rocket?"

(End of this chapter)