Admiral in the Azure World

Chapter 223 Trials
"Oh, this little guy is in good health." Stoker patted the instrument in the control room.Because of the huge size of the refurbishment equipment, five pieces of equipment placed side by side almost occupied the entire deck, so the captain's cabin had to be moved to one side of the Iris, making the entire Iris look like an aircraft carrier with all the aircraft taken out. .

Huang Jiang, Stoke and Stephen stood in the bridge, looking at the sea conditions outside through the front glass window.

It was still calm and cloudless.

Today's test has nothing to do with the power of the Iris itself, but for the sake of confidentiality, Huang Jiang still asked Stoker to drive the Iris out of the port of Wutou Island and towards the sea in the center of the three islands.

Hood stood on the deck and gave a thumbs up towards the Yellow River.

Huang Jiang nodded towards Stoke.

Immediately afterwards, the Iris started smoothly and sailed slowly towards the established sea area.

Only one renovation equipment was loaded in the five slots on the entire deck, and the other locations were isolated with temporary wooden decks.

The sound of sea water lapping against metal came to Huang Jiang's ears, and there was an inexplicable melody one after another, which felt particularly beautiful.

Stephen held up the telescope and looked at the sea in the distance.At the top of the bridge, there is a lookout point, and a sailor wearing a glory flower pattern is already standing on it.The Federation does not yet have an official radar, and all observations on the sea require the naked eye, so an experienced observer is particularly valuable.Originally, none of the sailors gathered by Thors had such a profession, but through his own reputation, Stoker easily found several of his old subordinates to form the Iris's grass team.

50-person damage control unit, 35 logistics personnel, five investigators, three deputy captains and a captain.Of course, there are not enough people, but they are the only unit in Jialan that can form combat effectiveness. The subsequent recruitment of personnel will be an extremely long process. It is not a wartime and we can just select talents for the war.

The Iris moved forward smoothly, and all the parameters displayed on the instrument were normal. Before reaching the target sea area, there was an accident of propeller shutdown, but it was quickly resumed under the operation of the damage control personnel.

Huang Jiang glanced at Stoll, who was following the experiment. He was lowering his head to record the problems encountered in this sea trial.

Huang Jiang turned his head and looked at the deck again.

Although the Iris only received a rough anti-rust coating, precise markings had already been painted on the deck.In order to meet the needs of night operations, Storr planned to install small light bulbs on the deck to indicate the position to the ship's wives who came back for supplies at night.But this plan was quickly rejected by Huang Jiang, and lighting up lights at night was simply a living target.Although the repair and repair ship is usually on standby at a position very far behind the front line, who knows whether the mirage will suddenly make a detour and cut off the supply line of the ship girls.In the case of ocean warfare, if the repair ship is stolen, it will basically directly push everyone into an extremely dangerous situation. This is a risk that Huangjiang will not take.

However, identification is indeed necessary, because most of the ship girls have shipboard radars in the later modifications, so a paint that is easy for radar identification is used around the Iris. However, the premise of this approach is The Mirage does not have radar-like equipment.

The Iris began to slow down slowly, and it seemed that it was almost reaching the target sea area.

Huang Jiang waved towards Hood, indicating that the experiment could begin.

The information to be recorded today is the time it takes to replenish each type of ship and the reaction time of the elevator. Therefore, during this period, the four ship girls in the experiment were all empty. They emptied the originally full load of fuel and only Keep the fuel you need for your voyage.

"Speaking of which, would such an obvious bridge really be blown up by a mirage?" Huang Jiang asked for no reason.

"This has always depended on luck." Stoker said leisurely. "If you have less luck, you will be a living target. If you have better luck, you will be unscathed. Just like the era of big ships and cannons, the gap between the sea ghost and the mirage Attacks are based on increasing the probability through quantity."

And this situation will change with the emergence of fire control radar.

Huang Jiang didn't speak, but just turned around and continued to watch the progress of the experiment.

The four ship girls all set off from a distant ship. They wanted to approach the Iris at their highest speed, and then successfully contact the ship for supplies.

After all, there are no refurbishment ships in the port area, and the ship girls don't know how to optimize the supply. Whether to board the ship at full speed or need to slow down before boarding requires actual testing to draw a conclusion.

The first firefly to arrive, the firefly was running with all its strength, its hands back like wings, its whole body leaning forward, its golden twin tails constantly trembling backwards due to the airflow.Firefly's expression was serious and focused, with his eyes fixed straight ahead.

When she was about to approach the Iris, her expression was obviously dull for a moment, followed by panic, and then Huang Jiang heard her scream through the communication with the firefly: "Ah! Can't stop!!! "

"Oops!" As soon as Huang Jiang said this, he saw the Iris begin to evade quickly to the right at a right angle.

The swishing sound of fireflies made it easier for the Iris to pass by.

After completing a series of quick and standard evasive actions, Stoker blinked and said with some surprise:

"What was it just now?"

"Firefly, the sea soul of this experiment." Huang Jiang replied.

At this moment, the originally designed connecting device popped out.

From the reaction speed point of view, it is completely unqualified.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!!!" Firefly, who successfully boarded the boat, hugged Huang Jiang and kept apologizing.

"It's okay." Huang Jiang comforted with a smile, "I told you to move forward at full speed."

In fact, it doesn't matter even if the Firefly is really installed on the Iris, the airtight cabin can still ensure that the giant ship will not sink.It would be a bit embarrassing to do something like this on the first flight. This was also due to Huang Jiang's poor thinking. He really didn't expect that the fireflies could run so fast at full speed.

Thinking about it now, these ship girls in my family have never sailed at full speed when they arrived in the blue world. The fastest speed was when Lexington and Saratoga were resupplying on the Garland when they bombed Iris Island.

Next came prestige.Shengheng listened to Huang Jiang's suggestion and slowed down when approaching the Iris. Then when it reached 300 meters away from the Iris, the guiding device was triggered. A steel plate suddenly lifted up from the side of the ship and faced Shengheng at a 45-degree angle. It's the lift that starts to move.

Reputation ran onto the ship smoothly. After stepping onto the yellow line on the deck, the elevator started and the renovation equipment was lifted off the deck.

Reputation goes into it for supplies.

The replenishment time took about 10 minutes.The time used by Firefly before was 5 minutes.

Then the big mackerel squealed and climbed onto the boat. Judging from the red mark on her forehead, she probably hit the deck where the guiding device protruded.

It took 3 minutes to replenish the big mackerel.

Next up is Saratoga.

"Ah, finally I don't have to climb onto the ship in such a graceless way like last time." Saratoga shouted and got into the renovation equipment.

The aircraft carrier replenishment time is similar to the time spent on the Gloria last time, about 25 minutes.

These times do not include the time it takes to repair the ship's equipment if it is damaged.

"The elevator can be made faster." Huang Jiang began to make requests casually.

(End of this chapter)