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Chapter 853 The Dream of Britain ([-]th update, please subscribe)
The two airships on the sea were flying awkwardly, they were approaching each other, even both sides were still shooting with machine guns, although the bullets kept hitting the airship, the airship was still flying freely.

At the same time, the spacecraft even directly approached, collided...but still no problem.

It's an air battle!
A simulated dogfight with a fleet of airships from the Royal Navy.

When the air battle was going on, on the famous White Cliff, Secretary of the Navy Milne and a group of admirals were observing the "air battle" with binoculars.

"Your Excellency, according to our ongoing experiments, it can be proved that air combat between airships seems unrealistic. Even shooting with a Gatling gun will not have a great impact on the airship. This is because there are more than ten independent airships inside the airship. Airbag, if a bullet destroys an airbag, only a small amount of hydrogen will escape, and it will not be ignited, let alone explode, as for the shell..."

Will, a spaceship engineer who had studied spaceship construction in Daming, shrugged helplessly.

"The strength of the glued silk is simply not enough to trigger the fuze of the shell. The shell whizzes past like a bullet. Whether it is an impact, a machine gun bullet or a shell, it cannot cause fatal damage to the airship..."

The engineer's answer made Milne so confused!
Compared with the previous experiments, this test has not made any progress at all. Why in the past few years, the anti-aircraft weapons researched by various countries have not made much progress? Not much use.

It seems that the airship is impossible to shoot down!
airship
It's a bit of a killer!
"What if we hit the pod with a Gatling cannon from the ground?"

Admiral Yelverton pointed to the airship and said.

"There are some hard objects in the cabin of the airship, such as balsa beams. Of course, the most important thing is people. If we can't shoot down the airship, can we destroy the cabin of the airship through intensive shelling and kill as much as possible the people who operate the airship?" personnel!"

"Attacking people... seems so ungentlemanly."

"Mr. Will, this is war, and there has never been a gentleman in a war!"

As the admiral of the navy, Yelverton replied directly!

Under the airship bombing of the Ming Empire, eight warships were destroyed, including four second-class ironclad ships.Such a cruel reality forced him to consider how to preserve the fleet during the bombing.

What hit is useless!

Then hit people, if they are all killed, the airship will naturally be useless!
"Your Excellency, Admiral, this requires a premise that the enemy airship must fly low enough. Only in this way can we attack them with machine guns or cannons. In addition, even if we use machine guns to attack the airship cabin, it is difficult to confirm whether it is effective. kills the people in the airship, it will continue to fly! If it flies high, it will be difficult to hit even a machine gun."

Engineer Will's answer made the expressions of the generals of the Royal Navy extremely exciting.

"Fly high enough."

Milne frowned, and then said.

"If they fly high enough, does it mean that the accuracy of their bombs will drop directly?"

When he said these words, Milne's eyes lit up.

"We can equip a large number of Gatling machine guns on the warship, and use it to drive the airship away. They may be able to fly very high, but the bombing accuracy will definitely decrease. In the end, even Da Ming's airship bombing will hardly hit the warship. !"

Milne's words made Engineer Will nod repeatedly and said:
"If the airship flies to an altitude of 2000 meters, 3000 meters, or even 4000 meters, it should be very safe. The accuracy of bombing at this altitude is very poor, but..."

After thinking for a moment, Engineer Will said:
"It's really hard to hit the target when flying so high, but it's not impossible. General, if you keep the spaceship above the warship and maintain a corresponding speed, and constantly adjust the angle and direction of the bomb, I think there is still a chance to hit the target." Among the warships... and the airship can also bomb the enemy's fleet before the fleet's decisive battle. Even if it misses the target, it can still interfere with the enemy's fleet and damage the morale of the enemy.

Of course, I think the airship can also attack those warships that were injured in the battle after the decisive battle of the fleet. The speed of those wounded warships usually drops sharply, and the Gatling cannon will also suffer losses in the artillery battle, so it is easier to attack target, the airship can lower the altitude appropriately to increase the hit rate. "

Will didn't notice that when he said these words, Admiral Milne, Admiral Yelverton, and other generals of the Royal Navy, such as the Secretary of the Navy, had such rich expressions. They even felt that, This airship was simply sent by God to attack the Royal Navy.

With dirigibles, wouldn't the Royal Navy be able to cross the oceans any longer?

While the generals of the Royal Navy were staring at the airship with different expressions, Engineer Will said again:

"Of course, the most suitable task for airships is to bomb enemy cities or army units. Although it is very powerful, in my opinion, airships do not have the ability to replace warships. Even to some extent, if combined with other Battleship coordination can exert greater effects, and in order to surpass the Ming Empire, the British Empire must build airships with better performance. It should be bigger, faster, and of course stronger. The most important thing is to have enough! Only enough Airships can keep the British Empire at the leading level!"

"You're right, Mr. Will!"

Staring at the airship in the air, which had been lowered to a low altitude of only four or five hundred meters from the sea because the airbag was penetrated, Milne said.

"We must have more and better airships. This is related to the future of the British Empire! Of course, it is related to the future of the Royal Navy!"

In fact, as early as 6 years ago, when the British Empire exchanged the British Columbia colony for airships, it almost got involved in this project.

However, at that time it was just getting started!

But what about now?
Facing the dazzling record of the Ming Empire's floating troops, how could it be possible not to be tempted?Even the Royal Navy... has to adapt to the changes of the times!
In fact, in history, European powers still attached great importance to airships, and it was only natural that they regarded huge airships as artifacts. In the early days of World War I, Zeppelin airships bombed the British mainland many times, causing panic among the people across the UK.This is the famous "Zeppelin panic", but the airship was born at an untimely time in that era-the advancement of aircraft technology has gradually marginalized the airship.

But now, the airplane has not yet been invented, but the airship has become more mature under the intervention of Emperor Zhu.Except that there are no hard-hulled airships because aluminum is too expensive, the current soft-hulled airships have reached the level of another world [-]s.

This kind of large airship has continued to prove its own value with tangible results!From the "Bombing of Versailles", to the French "Bombing of Luxembourg", and then to the "Air and Sea Battle of Montevideo".The actual battles have proved the value of the airship to the whole world.

Faced with such a brilliant record, the airship has naturally become an artifact of this era.

The current airship is an artifact!
No one doubts this.

Before the "Montevideo Air-Naval Battle", the airship was just a "strategic deterrent weapon" used to ensure the destruction of enemy cities, but now?The airship has become an artifact that can dry-sink battleships to the bottom of the sea.

Awesome!

Therefore, the British Empire must go all out to catch up with Ming Dynasty on the airship, and must use the airship to occupy the sky!
Just like the Royal Navy once owned Earth's oceans.

The sky is also the sea, a blue ocean, this sea of ​​sky must belong to the British Empire!

(End of this chapter)