Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 783

The first floating battleship was occupied by Perficot, and its main gun was removed.

If it were in the original world, replacing the main gun of a battleship would be a very troublesome matter. After all, the main gun of a battleship is not just the gun barrel on the deck, but also includes an ammunition supply system under the deck that is larger than the gun barrel on the deck.

If you want to replace the main gun, you have to completely pull out the entire system from under the deck, and then replace the new main gun.

The whole process was quite complicated and took a long time even in wartime.

However, in this world, because of the existence of alchemy, replacing the main gun has become relatively easier.

All you need to do is use alchemy to disassemble the connecting structure of the main gun turret, and then use a crane to lift the turret out.

The airship is even simpler because one of its main guns is installed on the bottom of the ship. You just need to disassemble the connection structure between the main gun turret and the hull, support the turret from the bottom with supports, and then the battleship itself will float up and the turret can be removed from the battleship.

After removing the original turret of the airship, Perfect installed the already completed electromagnetic gun on it.

There is a huge difference between electromagnetic guns and traditional artillery. In order to ensure the firing of the electromagnetic gun, Perfect also specially set up a charging system inside the turret to charge the capacitor.

The fully charged capacitor will be installed on the barrel of the electromagnetic gun to provide power to the electromagnetic coil.

The reason why the charging system is not directly connected to the electromagnetic gun is mainly because the charging system is not fast enough to release a strong enough current instantly.

Therefore, electromagnetic guns must use capacitors to achieve instantaneous discharge, so that a strong enough current can pass through the electromagnetic coil, thereby providing the coil with sufficient magnetic force to launch the projectile.

Although it is possible to charge the capacitor directly on the electromagnetic gun, the charging speed is very slow. It often takes a long time to charge after firing one shot before the second shot can be fired. In actual combat, it is really useless.

The removable capacitor designed by Perfectoct does not have this problem. As long as the soldiers are skilled enough to replace the capacitors, the artillery shells can be fired at a rate of two to three per minute.

This rate of fire is terrifying enough for a battleship's main gun of huge caliber.

After seeing the power of the electromagnetic gun test and how the sailors fired three shots in one minute, the Navy evaluated it and said, "As long as there are enough shells, this gun alone can sink an entire fleet in a naval battle."

Of course, in actual combat, it is obviously impossible for a single gun to sink an entire fleet. After all, various situations can occur.

But if it is a combination of airships and electromagnetic guns, it can really sink an entire traditional naval fleet.

Who made them have no effective anti-aircraft means?

Before Perfecto stepped on the accelerator, the technological development of this world basically remained at the early level of the First Industrial Revolution. Although ironclad ships were mentioned in battleships, the concept of air defense had not yet appeared.

Otherwise, Perfect would not have completely defeated the three Old World powers in the Seventeen-Day War with just airship bombing, and even destroyed the capitals of the three countries, causing millions of deaths.

If they had a decent level of air defense, they wouldn't have been hit so badly.

However, before the airship took off, the people of this world had no concept of flying and air defense.

After witnessing the powerful air superiority of airships, the Imperial Navy tried to research air defense, but the Empire's primary goal at the time was to deal with the end of the world, so there was no investment in military research.

The Navy and Army could only fund a few weapons engineers and ask them to research anti-aircraft weapons. After all, both warships and the army were bombed on the ground. If they really encountered an airship bombing, they would have to develop some anti-aircraft weapons if they didn't want to be roasted.

But after several years, these engineers have not produced any results worth mentioning.

After all, the technological gap in weapons is too big. You can't expect to develop anti-aircraft guns when you are still using muzzle-loading rifles.

If Perfect had not brought out some of his research results, the navy and the army would probably have once again staged the famous scene of gathering together to block the door.

But even so, the army only had a few more anti-aircraft machine guns, which gave them some comfort that they could at least resist when they were bombed.

The navy, on the other hand, successfully obtained ownership of the airship. Now that they have their own air force, they naturally pay more attention to air defense.

Only by experiencing the smoothness of combat under air superiority can you know how important air defense is to ground forces.

Although all the navy's warships remained in the empire and were frozen in the ocean, the imperial navy did not disappear, but instead transformed into an 'air force' that flew airships.

Of course, even though they are already flying in the sky, the navy still calls itself the navy.

One of their research results in air defense is to use high-speed airships equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns as the fleet's air defense firepower points. After several high-speed airships form a firepower network, they can effectively intercept airships.

But this kind of thing... It's okay to stop an airship whose airbag will be broken, but do you want to stop an airship that is covered with heavy armor all over?

The Navy tested it and found that the airship didn't even need to return to port for repainting.

This had a huge impact on the navy, and they devoted themselves to the testing of airships and electromagnetic guns with great enthusiasm.

Whether Perfect needs manpower, intelligence or resources, they will provide them without limit, striving to meet all the requirements of this young lady.

At the same time, the Navy is stepping up efforts to urge the construction of new airships, but has modified the original main gun plan from traditional artillery to electromagnetic guns.

During the test, both the Navy and Perfect witnessed the powerful force of the electromagnetic gun.

Perfect's perception of this was that they finally had a practical weapon that could fight against the gods, while the navy thought that they finally had a weapon that could effectively defend against air attacks.

Although there are some differences in their ideas and cognitions, in general, both sides acknowledge the power of electromagnetic guns.

So Perfect put on the agenda the previously planned use of ancient beasts to test the electromagnetic gun's ability to fire armor-piercing discarding sabot shells.

She also specifically called Ellie over, hoping that she could evaluate the power of the electromagnetic cannon and confirm whether it had the power to kill gods.

Although Perfect had seen gods and killed gods, the last time he used an electromagnetic cannon to fire thermobaric bombs against gods he did not achieve very good results.

This time, she wanted to hear what Ellie, the elf girl who had witnessed the power of the gods, had to say.

(End of this chapter)