Chapter 485: Proud record

Compared with the waterline armor belt, the armor on the bridge is not thick. When a huge armor-piercing projectile hits the building at the front of the bridge, the scene is extremely spectacular.
If there is a high-speed camera to play back this scene, it can be seen more clearly.
When the shells touched the armor of the ship, the front quickly deformed.
From the outside, the front end of the armor-piercing projectile is quite smooth and beautiful in appearance. In fact, this is only the first layer of the hood, with a fragile structure. It mainly improves the aerodynamic shape and reduces the kinetic energy consumption in the air.
After contact, this layer was quickly destroyed, exposing the second layer of caps. This is the main force of the armor-piercing projectile, which is used to penetrate the carburized steel plate.
The 380 mm armor-piercing projectile is already quite powerful. At a distance of 27 kilometers, the penetration depth reaches 300 mm. For example, now, the 152 mm armor, like an aluminum plate that was hit, deformed instantly and then was torn. This armor-piercing projectile successfully penetrated.
"Boom!" There was a huge explosion.
Behind the front quilt is the main shell, the front part is the delay fuze, and the back is the charge.
The charge of the armor-piercing projectile is certainly not as high as that of the high-explosive projectile, but the charge of the 380mm projectile is also quite abnormal.
The whole shell weighs 800 kilograms, and the charge is hundreds of kilograms.
As it exploded, you could see the building that had just been hit, and it collapsed completely in an instant, with countless fragments flying across.
At the same time, a huge wave of air followed, and this wave of air could directly smash the glass on the bridge, not to mention the terrible fragments.
"Pop!" Almost instantly, a shard of several tens of kilograms flew onto the bridge, smashing the bridge's glass, and cutting off the upper half of the front helmsman.
The lower half of the helmsman was still standing, as if he wanted to sail, but the upper half was gone!
This is just the beginning.
At the moment of the explosion, Admiral Tovey squatted down. He hoped that the armor at the lower part of the bridge could block these terrible fragments.
The screams kept ringing.
A small shrapnel, the size of only one bullet, passed through the tens of millimeters thick armor of the control tower, got in, stuck in the stomach of an officer, and flew out from the other end of his stomach. Hit another person's head.
Under the huge impact, the officer's body fell backwards, a large opening appeared in his stomach, and his intestines rushed out.
As for the other person, without a hum, he fell, and his brains splashed on the side wall behind him.
Almost all who survived became disabled. After the explosion, 18 people died on the bridge, including 11 senior officers and 13 wounded, all seriously injured.
Only Tovey survived again. He curled up to a corner, avoiding the fragments of the terrible explosion and the impact of the air current. When he stood up, there were no survivors on the bridge.
The steering gear, has been blown up, senior officers, a large number of deaths, the Queen Elizabeth, suffered heavy losses.
However, this is not over yet.
Cannonballs fell like rain.
In the next three minutes, the Bismarck projected 36 rounds of 406 mm shells, while the Scharnhorst projected 48 rounds of 380 mm shells.
Among them, 12 shells hit the Queen Elizabeth.
This is a complete battle between battleships! The German Navy once again used its proud record to show the quality of its first-class navy.
At the back, the hit rate is higher, because the battleship Queen Elizabeth, whose bridge has been scrapped, has lost the ability to turn and is a better target.
The sixth 406 mm shell hit the engine room behind it, greatly reducing the speed of the warship. In this way, the Queen Elizabeth became a living target, and the hit rate in the later period was even higher. .
Another reason is that the wind and waves are getting smaller.
The Queen Elizabeth had a chance to breathe temporarily. After it was shot, the other battleships abandoned the Deutsche Deutschland, the fleet turned and began to attack the German formation.
At the same time, on the side of the Queen Elizabeth, the Enthusiast moved up quickly, blocking the German fleet and the Queen Elizabeth, and then billowing black smoke appeared.
On the battlefield, the means to interfere with the opponent is to release the smoke screen. This is a tactic in ancient times!
In this way, the German fleet lost the specific position of the target, and the entire Queen Elizabeth hid in the smoke screen.
This warship was fortunate. It had been shot many times and it stood firm. More importantly, its turret did not receive a devastating blow and did not attract the martyrdom of ammunition. This is commendable.
At this time, the two sides had already rushed to a distance of 14 nautical miles and were approaching a distance of 8 nautical miles.
In order to avoid the loss of artillery shells, and because other British battleships came up, the German fleet had to change its target. The next one was the Barham, the same model as Queen Elizabeth.
Regardless of the total tonnage of the fleet or the number of battleships, the British Navy still has an advantage.
After the Queen Elizabeth was injured, they also had three 30,000-ton-class battleships, Barham, Nelson, and Sovereign. uukanshu. com and in Germany, there are only two main forces.
The other warships were all soy saucers who waited until the outcome was determined, and then caught up to clean the battlefield.
However, as several of the escorted warships were destroyed by the USS Deutsche, the British fleet now has more capital ships and fewer escorts, and the German fleet is an exception.
The British navy will not back down. In order to maintain maritime hegemony, they have always taken the initiative to attack this encounter, and it has turned into a main confrontation.
In fact, the main force of the German fleet still has several ships. The main force of the British fleet is here. Although they can still be transferred from the colonies, overseas interests cannot be guaranteed.
This naval battle will determine the fate of the British navy!
At this time, they did not know that the German Navy also had an aircraft carrier, waiting anxiously for the weather to improve outside the combat area.
The storm in the Atlantic has just diminished. On the Hitler carrier, Captain Thiele asked the commander of the carrier-based aircraft wing: "Can we take off under the current weather conditions?"
"Using a catapult, we can take off, but once the weather is bad, we will not be able to land."
"That's worth it, go all out!" Tiller clenched his fist: "This battle completely wiped out the main force of the British navy!"
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