Super military empire

"Speed ​​up!" Seeing that the Chinese battleship was catching up, the captain of the frigate issued an order.

If you don't accelerate, you can't keep the distance. At first, he thought the distance was too far and the Chinese could not catch up. Now they worry about how to keep the distance, but they are beginning to worry about being caught up by the Chinese.

"Captain, the maximum speed of our warship is only so much. If you accelerate it, the boiler will explode due to overload!" The chief officer reminded the captain that he must be cautious.

"I am the captain, don't I know how much our warship can run at the highest speed? The Chinese don't care about problems with their boilers. What are we afraid of? Our warships are designed with a part of the reserved overload capacity!" Long roared.

Although in their regulations, the Duke class can only run at a maximum speed of 28 knots, that is to extend the life of the power system.

In high-speed navigation, the Duke-class gas turbine directly drives the main shaft through the gearbox, and the two improved speysm-1c gas boilers have a total output power of 34,000 shaft horsepower, which is absolutely powerful when running.

"Command, the gas boiler provides the power for the propulsion system, and the diesel generator set provides the power for the shipboard equipment!" As an experienced captain, he is very clear about these situations.

The huge power system can make the warship run at a high speed far beyond the maximum speed on the surface, and even the speed will exceed people's imagination.

At the insistence of the captain, the speed of the Duke-class frigate began to increase.

Soon, it increased from 28 to 30 knots, and continued to increase, reaching a high speed of 32 knots.

"The British warships also accelerated. Their top speed is not 28 knots, so they hide so much speed!" Wei Yong didn't expect at all. They thought it was a familiar British warship that reached a high speed of 32 knots!

The two warships were racing on the vast sea, and the distance could not be shortened.

A group of trainee captains looked at Ai Guoxiu, while Ai Guoxiu looked at Liu Yijiu. To be honest, he didn't want Liu Yijiu to increase the speed of the warship madly.

At present, the power of the two nuclear reactors is not too high, and the operation is very stable. If the power is increased, problems may arise.

On the sea, 100% operation of nuclear reactors inside battleships is absolutely not allowed.

The space of the battleship is large enough, but it is still unable to compare with the nuclear power plants on the land. The nuclear reactor reserves more power to ensure that it will not be overloaded, causing too high temperature to cause the reactor to explode.

In the reactor design of the battleship Yongxing Island, under normal circumstances, 80% of the power is already the highest, and 80% of the power of the two reactors can make the warship run to the theoretical 38 knots. High speed, this is also the limit speed. Given that the American battleship is an old guy from the Second World War, it has been in service for half a century now. Even if it is reinforced, problems must be avoided.

Metal has a degree of material fatigue.

"Compared with us in speed?" Liu Yijiu looked at Ai Guoxiu's worried eyes and signaled that he didn't need to worry. After all, all the conditions of the entire battleship were simulated by supercomputers many times during the design.

He believes in the domestic simulation results, and believes that domestic technicians will not make fun of this.

"Can our battleship run faster?" Wei Yong's mouth twitched.

Before running to 32 knots, he was already shocked, and it took a long time to accept this fact. At least, in their frigate brigade, there is absolutely no warship that can run at this speed.

"Try it and you will know?" Liu Yijiu did not answer directly, "The reactor power is 70%. Pay attention to the pressure system and temperature to avoid dangerous situations."

Liu Yijiu is not a fool either.

When the time comes, the reactor has a problem, and it will be troublesome in this place far away from the mainland.

He didn't want to be ashamed in front of the British.

What's more, once the reactor explodes, it is definitely a serious quality accident. The loss of property does not matter, but the loss of personnel is unacceptable.He cannot risk the safety of people's lives and property for the sake of the dignity of the country and to tell them that the Chinese power system is very strong in front of the British.

The old Maozi Kirov has one because the nuclear reactor exploded, and he is still lying on his stomach.

"Power 70%!" The operator of the power system adjusts the power to 70% through the buttons on the console. The monitoring system around the nuclear reactor instantly reflects various changes of data on the power system monitoring screen.

The pressure and temperature of the reactor are all within the normal range, which is far from the warning position.

"Speed ​​34!"

"Keep your speed and report to the monitoring system at any time." Ai Guoxiu reluctantly gave orders under Liu Yijiu's gesture.

On the radars of the warships of both sides, the two warships that had maintained the same relative distance began to approach again.

The Duke-class frigate was shocked again after discovering this situation.

"Isn't the American Iowa-class design maximum speed only 33 knots? What method did the Chinese use to make their battleship run 34 knots?" This is everyone's question.

Originally, they thought that the Chinese were able to make this warship run at 32 knots, which was already running the power system at full capacity, but they did not expect that when they also allowed the power system to operate at full capacity, China’s huge battleship this week actually It started to accelerate again, reaching 34 knots!

They are 50,000-ton battleships, not just a few thousand-ton frigates and destroyers.

If there were only one or two thousand tons of frigate, even if it ran at 42 knots, the British would not be surprised. The problem is that the Chinese battleship can run at 34 knots, which is faster than the maximum speed designed by the United States one period.

"Captain, do we continue to increase speed?" Captain Mawson took a deep breath and asked the captain with a blank face, "If we continue to increase, our power system will be dangerous."

"Report the situation to the headquarters. The speed of the Chinese battleship has exceeded our imagination. It has reached 34 knots. Whether it is the limit speed or not is yet to be known..." The captain's voice was a bit bitter.

The news was reported to the headquarters soon.

After hearing the news, Major General Stephen didn't believe it at all, "Is there something wrong with their radar? Or are their radar soldiers dazzled?"

"Commander, we should believe in our country's military technology! Radar can't go wrong." Colonel Taylor was also shocked that China's such a huge battleship can run at such a high speed."According to the technical parameters of our Type 23 frigate, during the overload operation, the speed of 36 knots can be maintained for a period of time. We don’t know if the maximum speed of the Chinese battleship is 34 knots, but I think we can take a risk. Give it a try, if their top speed is only 34 knots, the warship chasing us burns out the boiler..."

This situation is very likely to happen.

Even if the boiler does not burn out, it will greatly reduce the life of the power system of this Chinese warship.

Warships generally do not maintain high-speed navigation when unnecessary and during combat, and they will not use the extreme speed of overload in peacetime.

If the Chinese battleship can be dragged to damage the power system, the dignity lost by the empire will be recovered.

"What if their speed is more than 34 knots?" Major General Stephen said with a sullen face, "Although, I don't believe their speed may be higher..."

Colonel Taylor did not answer.

If the maximum speed of the Chinese warship exceeds 34 knots, then the dignity of the empire will be completely crushed by this terrifying steel monster, and the glory of the Royal Navy will also be crushed completely.

"I can only try! See when they can be arrogant!" Major General Stephen gave the order to allow the Duke-class frigate to overload sail to reach the limit speed.

"Speed ​​up! Keep the speed 36!" The captain of the Duke class gave an order.At this time, he could only pray to God in his heart, and the boiler could last longer.

"The pressure is too high!"

"Temperature is too high!"

Soon, the automatic monitoring system on the Duke-class warship started to alarm.

A short siren sounded in all cabins of the entire warship, especially in the power cabin. The maintenance personnel were already on standby, ready to repair the power system of the warship at any time.

The warship was in overload operation and was in a dangerous alarm state, in exchange for a higher speed.More powerful power, through the roar of the gas turbine, drove the warship to the propeller shaft connected to crazy rotation, the propeller also followed the crazy rotation, the huge water splash at the tail of the frigate turned like boiling.

"Oh my God, they can reach 36 knots! We can't catch up!" Seeing that the distance was shortened a little bit, the other party actually accelerated again, and Wei Yong was desperate.

He felt that no matter what, it was impossible for the battleship to speed up to catch up, even if the opponent only ran for a while.

"80% power!" Ai Guoxiu roared angrily before Liu Yijiu spoke."Push Lao Tzu to 38 knots!"

He is angry.

The British clearly believed that their warships were too large and the power system was not good enough.

This allows them to see the strength of China's military industry.

He did not madly let the reactor power run to 100%, it was too dangerous.Moreover, the power of the reactor reaches 100%, which will cause irreversible damage to the warship's hull, which is the result of many simulations through the computer.

When the Americans designed this warship before, the maximum speed was only 33 knots. It has been half a century since the warship was manufactured, and the metal has begun to age. Even after modification, the speed of 38 knots is the limit.

"Huh? Section 38?" Wei Yong exclaimed.