Battle of the Third Reich

Colonel von Hertz talked about his tremendous achievements, which was really elated, but not just a self-flaunting display. There were a lot of dry goods exposed in the words. The Japanese naval officers and soldiers present couldn’t help but applaud. Several even took out small notebooks from their pockets and took notes.

The atmosphere at the scene became very harmonious, as if it were a friendly and friendly atmosphere.

The Japanese navy really wanted to understand the naval battle situation in the European War. Because the naval attaché in Germany stayed in Berlin, he could only get a bunch of battle reports published by the headquarters. Because he could not get permission to observe the battlefield, he couldn’t get it. First-hand information to the battlefield.

In the past, Germany would also take the initiative to invite friendly countries to send field observation missions. The problem was that Hitler died suddenly on the front line, and the domestic high-level officials immediately began a **** and brutal cleaning. The Nazi officials who were pro-Japan on weekdays were too busy to protect themselves at this moment. Have time and mind to arrange this kind of thing.

The Japanese navy has always been relatively close to the British. During World War I, it also participated in the operations of besieging and suppressing the German Far East Fleet. The two sides can't say any hatred, nor can they say anything about friendship. Marshal Redell didn't wait much to see the Japanese. In the past, technical cooperation between Germany and Japan was mostly limited to the Army and the Air Force.

The Japanese navy has always believed that its technology is not weaker than any other power in the world, and certainly will not take the weak German navy into their eyes.

The German navy had been abandoned for more than two decades. Whether it was technical or personnel reserves, it had long lagged far behind its rivals on the other side. However, because Japan has received technical support from the United Kingdom and has accumulated decades of shipbuilding experience, it has long trained a large group of excellent technical personnel, especially after the Nagator class was listed as the world's seven largest warships, the Japanese Navy The self-confessed level of naval technology has entered the world's advanced ranks.

Although the rising speed of the German navy is amazing, the technical gap is not easy to catch up with, and the Japanese also believe that the British will never let this opponent resurrect, threatening the absolute sea power of the British Royal Navy.

As a result, the Japanese were miscalculated again. Who would have thought that in order to contain France, the British government would actually loosen the collar around the neck of the German navy. What's even more unexpected is that the Germans used a lot of the latest technology in naval construction. Relying on the advantages of materials and processing, they quickly caught up with the development of the Royal Navy, even in certain technical fields. Has clearly surpassed that old opponent.

When the Japanese navy found that it seemed to be gone, the European War had already been halved, and the British fleet, which had the Japanese joint fleet looking up for a long time, had been wiped out in Dunkirk.

The German Navy actually set an ingenious trap for the Royal Navy. In this campaign, the Germans boldly adopted a joint land, sea and air three-dimensional tactics that had never appeared before, relying on torpedo boats, coastal heavy artillery and torpedo planes to complete this impossible. The mission, the sharp Teutonic Tomahawk stunned the English heavy cavalry.

The series of tactics used by the Germans in this battle opened the eyes of the Japanese Imperial Navy. The Military Command subsequently conducted several tactical deductions to study how to use coastal heavy artillery, land-based aviation, and naval mines in specific environments. Replicating this tactic, it is said that the result is very satisfactory, and the navy staff who participated in the deduction were very encouraged. The Battle of Dunkirk can be said to have created a new way for the Japanese navy.

Since then, the Japanese imperial navy no longer dared to underestimate the German imperial navy, but the German head of state who was able to come up with this exquisite tactic was indeed worthy of the lord of the great German empire.

The Faroe Islands naval battle even more vividly showed the strong and brave performance of the German naval surface ship unit. They swept away the previous style of cowardly and self-protection. They froze with the British Royal Navy squadron in a face-to-face shooting distance. During the fighting, the [Prince Eugen] resolutely hit the enemy ship in order to cover the friendly ship, and became a commendable deed of the Japanese navy officers and soldiers.

The Japanese certainly would not know the motive behind the German Navy’s life-threatening life at that time. Instead, the crazy performance of the German Navy was regarded by them as proof that the high seas fleet Jutland’s legacy remains.

The captains of the Japanese Imperial Navy Combined Fleet all dreamed privately that if they could participate in such a splendid naval battle, even if they died on the spot, they would have no complaints for life.

Now the brave captain is sitting in front of himself, just like the hero who walked out of the legend, the officers of the first detachment are full of admiration for the deeds of Colonel von Hertz. Will use a tribute.

The so-called things gather together in groups, only to say that Christian von Hertz is worthy of being a man who can be a close friend of Lieutenant Colonel Randolph. The captain soon set up a brave, determined, wise, and loyal German naval officer in front of the visiting Japanese naval officers and men.

Finally, in Japan, Lieutenant General Takamoto Mataru sat down and stabilized his position. This didn't let his men bring him to the opposite German colonel.

After drinking a pot of black tea, the Japanese finally remembered that there was something to be done. They just got a lot of information about the [Prince Eugen] from the captain, but they always listened to it with a blind eye. Tanimoto asked whether he could visit this most advanced heavy cruiser in Germany.

Von Hertz had his own tasks in this regard. Of course, he did not hesitate to answer the request, and personally led the guests of the Japanese navy to visit this battleship from inside and out.

This is really not an ordinary warship. The [Prince Eugen] is the latest improvement of the [Hippel] class. It not only simply increased the draft tonnage, but also carried out systematic large-scale improvements, which also led to The cost of this heavy cruiser reached a staggering 104.5 million Deutsche marks, and even exceeded two [Germany] armored ships, only two [Bismarck] and two [Scharnhorst] Ranked in front of her. Of course, this ranking will change in the future, but you can see the special status of this heavy cruiser in the German Navy.

She is a technical verification ship built with various advanced equipment, using the latest internal welding structure, improved power equipment, updated and more complete sighting and fire control system.

There are as many as twelve sets of small and large optical rangefinders, including a set of ten-meter baseline rangefinders on the four main turrets, and a set of seven-meter baseline rangefinders on the main azimuth of the main gun. Each of the front and rear battle bridges has a set of six-meter baseline rangefinders, and the four air defense shooting command posts on both sides of the ship have a set of four-meter baseline rangefinders. Germany’s optical equipment has always been at the forefront of the world. This German cruiser’s sighting equipment is more than that of the Japanese first-class battleships. It really made a group of Japanese naval officers and men look at it.

This is also determined by the German Navy’s tactics. As an assault ship, it must have a full range of search capabilities. A large number of rangefinders can ensure that it will not lose sighting means due to combat losses during the battle, and can maximize the length of the attack ship’s battle at sea time.

Of course, it is not satisfactory in actual use. The optical equipment is extremely sophisticated. Any severe vibration will damage these fragile equipment. Germany is working with the British Navy to develop a new radar fire control system.

Because of the capture of the submarine n25, the British cavity magnetron technology did not flow into the United States as historically, Germany and the British Empire have firmly controlled this strategic technology, plus a bunch of "genius-like" German heads of state "Revelation", now the US radar technology has fallen far behind its counterparts in Europe.

Technicians in the UK and Germany have already produced samples of ppi displays, which is regarded as another great invention of the German head of state. Radar operators no longer have to widen their eyes to distinguish the pile of people on the screen of the cathode ray tube. The dazzling peak, now only need to look at the circular radial scan image, you can clearly report the number of distance and the direction of the target.

At present, scientists in Germany and Britain are studying how to improve the accuracy of target detection. Both countries have seen the strategic significance of this technology and strive to achieve practical standards as soon as possible. The Royal Navy believes that this will be a revolutionary naval technology Breakthrough, from then on the traditional naval battle will enter a new level.

The United States, whose naval strength has ranked first in the world, has once again become the number one imaginary enemy of the Royal Navy and the whole of Britain. The British have begun to quietly launch a technical blockade against the United States and are trying to recall the senior scientific researchers who were transferred to the United States to avoid war. .

Japan is certainly less likely to know these secrets. Pulse radar is still a legendary technology for them. Japan has a group of outstanding scientific researchers. It has also conducted research in this area before and has produced an original version. Air defense radar system, the detection principle of this kind of radar is very simple, that is, the transmitter and the receiver are placed at two places about 100 kilometers apart, and the radio wave forms an invisible line of defense between the transmitter and the receiver. When an object crosses this line of defense, the receiver will respond.

To put it simply, it is just like the infrared anti-theft alarm system for later generations, and you can only know that something has passed through the beam. As for the number, height, azimuth, and distance of the target, it cannot be displayed at all. It is such a thing that the Japanese even regarded it as a top secret, stupefied that more than 100 sets were created to serve as the island’s air defense warning.

What role did this system play? Because of the lack of wartime records, no one could tell. After installing this system, only the bombers of the U.S. Sea and Land Air Forces entered Japan as unmanned.

The more accurate pulse radar technology was a top secret in any country at that time, and the Japanese military did not even know that such equipment existed. In history, until four or one years, Japanese talents saw physical ground-based radar from the German Air Force. After receiving limited technical support from the German side, the Japanese Army and Navy began to develop their own radar systems.

As a result, when the practical products appeared, the aircraft carriers on the American side were almost flooded. The fighters were often swarming like locusts, and even if the large fleet of the combined fleet detected the target, they encountered such a scale. The opponents have lost their ability to fight back. The role of radar is to let the crew know their death one step earlier.

[Prince Eugen] has not been equipped with a radar system, but in the original plan, after returning to Germany after this mission, this warship will be docked for reconstruction, at this time it also avoids the danger of technical leakage. However, the existing equipment alone has made the visiting Japanese naval officers dazzled and dazzled.

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