The Third Reich in Desperation

Denitz smiled even brighter. After all, this weapon was enough for him to draw up even more terrifying wolf pack tactics and a more desperate strangling battle system.

"Marshal, the weapon we drove before could only be said to be a water weapon that can dive, but now this submarine is simply an underwater weapon that can surface."

"Is there any difference?" Raeder still didn't understand the difference between the two, but he immediately realized something, and before Dunnitz could open his mouth to show off his new toy, he asked: "You mean . . . the submarine is mostly underwater?"

"Yes, Marshal." Doenitz nodded triumphantly, and said proudly.

"This submarine can travel far, far away, and for a long time. The underwater speed..."

He lowered his voice, pressed it against Raeder's ear, and whispered a number: "More than 15 knots."

"Hiss!" Raeder couldn't help taking a breath.

The temperature in the Hamburg military port in October was very low, so his lungs were a little irritated by his sudden inhalation, and he coughed violently: "Cough! Cough! Cough!"

The performance of the military band has not stopped. In the German Navy submarine formation, the luck is very good. The submarine commander Prien, who has achieved brilliant results, is standing there. What kind of stimulation did you receive.

"Ahem!" After coughing, Raeder looked at Dönitz and was quite frightened by his words.

As a commander from the Navy's surface fleet, Raeder is very familiar with the fleet's anti-submarine combat rules. Does he know what a speed of 15 knots means for submarines.

In this era, the sonar installed on almost all surface ships is not accurate, and can only roughly find the position of the submarine, and then use the relatively large explosion radius of the mine to make up for the lack of attack accuracy.

Now the speed of the submarine has been increased by a full three times, which means that the approximate position of the submarine can no longer be used as the basis for the attack of the surface ship - from the moment the depth charge is dropped, the submarine has already left the effective damage radius of the depth charge.

The bow of the World War II submarine was designed into a sharp shape. A large part of the reason is that the submarine needs to sail on the water for more than half of the time, so it is designed into a ship shape to reduce driving resistance as much as possible, thereby improving the seaworthiness of the submarine.

However, this is obviously not designed for long-term underwater driving, and the operating power of the battery under water is really not flattering. Therefore, the underwater speed of World War II submarines is maintained at about 5 knots in most cases. Speed ​​up.

However, under Reinhardt's reminder, fuel cells, a trendy gadget, were secretly and successfully developed as early as during the Soviet-German cooperation. It reached the design standard a year ago and met Reinhardt's requirements for stable performance of the equipment.

With this new powertrain, Germany's new submarine can travel quietly underwater for up to two days, or even more than three days if driven at a quiet cruising speed.

What's important is that during the period, the breathing pipe for ventilation does not even need to be exposed to the surface of the water, which makes the submarine a real underwater god of war, and it is no longer a warship that can dive.

Since the submarine only needs to float up and charge once, it will stay underwater for about 3 days. For the safety of the submarine, this new type of submarine will remain underwater most of the time, so the sharp bow The design style just seems outdated.

Therefore, the new submarine adopts a more fluid-dynamic round bow design. With stronger power, its limit speed under water can even reach 16 knots, which is three times the fastest speed of the previous submarine.

Such a speed can even enable the submarine to have the ability to pursue some merchant ships underwater, and it can almost track the enemy fleet underwater if conditions permit.

In order to increase the speed of the submarine to such a fast speed, and to reduce the noise generated by irregular parts underwater, this new type of submarine has made many unprecedented changes.

For example, the 88mm cannon on the bow of the boat was cancelled, and the 40mm anti-aircraft gun on the conning tower was designed to be more concealed and recoverable.

After all this effort, the submarine is good enough to be called the quietest submarine at this stage.

The battery update also increased its size, so a larger submarine was necessary.

Since the members cannot ventilate above the water surface in most cases, they also need a larger space to reduce the mental pressure brought by the closed space to the submariners.

From another point of view, a larger volume also means that the submarine has the ability to carry more supplies and ammunition. Under such a design idea, the displacement of the new submarine has reached an astonishing 2350 tons, which is quite a terrifying Underwater Behemoth.

The rounded bow also brings a previously unimaginable benefit to the new submarine, that is, a part of the sonar system can be installed in the position where the submarine has the widest coverage angle.

In this way, the submarine can find the enemy earlier and farther underwater, and the last dead angle is only the stern.

Benefiting from the increased volume, the new submarine has the powerful firepower of 6 torpedo launch chambers at the front bow.

In the more professional torpedo cabin, it is even equipped with a fashionable gadget such as an auxiliary loader.In the case of sufficient ammunition, this new submarine can shoot out the 18 torpedoes in the torpedo cabin on standby in one breath, and can conduct a new round of salvo strikes in less than 10 minutes.

When Dönitz transferred Prien back to Hamburg, Germany, Prien and his staff were somewhat reluctant.But when the military band left the pier and the engineers opened the hidden dock and showed the new submarine, Prien and his men were immediately so shocked by the super submarine in front of them that they couldn't speak.

After the engineer finished explaining the powerful functions of this new submarine, Prien glanced at General Dönitz standing beside him.

The eyes of the other party reflected what he saw in his eyes, and their souls were trembling with excitement for the birth of this submarine. The situation of submarine warfare, which they had devoted their entire lives to, was changed at this moment up.

And these people will personally witness this earth-shaking change.

"You are no longer just a battleship killer, you are also the fastest person underwater." Doenitz said proudly looking at the new submarine.

Unlike the Type XXI submarine in another time and space, Germany directly evolved the appearance of the bow part of the submarine this time to resemble the Chinese Type 60 conventional submarine in the 033s, instead of the sharp bow design of the Type XXI submarine used.

This also made it the first time that the latest German submarine data showed the strange phenomenon that the speed of surface navigation was not as fast as that of underwater navigation, which completely subverted the traditional submarine design concept of "submersible boat".

The same improvement has also appeared in the reduction of anti-aircraft guns and other weapons. Now the Allied forces have not many aircraft in the Atlantic Ocean. In order to compromise the underwater quietness and speed, this new type of submarine only leaves a 40mm with a rather limited shooting range. Caliber anti-aircraft guns, which is also different from the XXI submarine in another time and space.

Another terrible change is the sonar system on the bow of the boat, benefiting from Reinhardt's systematic weapon technology reserves as early as ten years ago.

Germany has not taken a detour in many weapon designs, and the development and research invested in manpower and material resources is also heading in the right direction.

Coupled with Germany's consistent leadership in technology, it has created a large number of world-leading advanced electronic equipment, radar and sonar are part of it.

Therefore, this new type of submarine with a relatively wide internal space is endowed with more advanced electronic equipment, which seems to be the true ancestor of modern submarines.

The sonar system on the bow of the boat enables it to launch torpedoes directly underwater. It has also become the first submarine in the world that can directly launch torpedoes to attack targets without the assistance of a periscope.

In addition, it is also equipped with a foldable small radar antenna, which can search for enemy ships within a range of 35 kilometers near the sea and warn aircraft within a range of 85 kilometers.

Coupled with such achievements and a maximum dive depth of 200 meters, this submarine has become an underwater killer that is almost impossible to hit with today's technology.

Of course, this is only an integral part of the German modernized naval reorganization plan. The future German navy will use three types of ships as the main force.

One is the anti-submarine air defense missile destroyer and cruiser whose main function is escort, the other is the aircraft carrier as the core combat force, and the last is the ocean-going submarine.

This direction of development, which has long been proven correct, enabled the Germans to jump over the gap of battleships that were too late to catch up with their own development, and pulled the world navy into the era of air fleets centered on aircraft carriers in one fell swoop.

It also allowed the originally weak German navy to become a first-class navy, and then defeated the powerful Royal Navy of the British Empire.

Today's naval battles have already changed beyond recognition. The era of large ships and giant artillery has gradually come to an end, and the era of air fleets pioneered by emerging naval powers such as Germany, Japan, and the United States has quietly walked ahead of the world.

Of course, those lunatics in the Tokyo base camp clamoring all day long to use the main guns of battleships to knock on the door of the west coast of the United States can not be counted in the scope of the progress of the times.

But after all, the scene of using naval guns to penetrate the armor of an enemy ship is too fascinating, so some people can still understand the idea that naval guns are paramount.

After all, not everyone can use the old war experience to clearly figure out the development direction of future weapons like Reinhardt. This is the best model that other world powers can choose.

Every powerful country has its own summary of experience in war.

Germany was defeated in World War I, and Germany began to reflect on its own shortcomings. The Treaty of Versailles lagged behind the progress of Germany's military technology, which made the development of German military technology blind and inexperienced.

Only in this way can Reinhardt have the opportunity to intervene and change.As for those victorious countries, they pursue experience first and believe that their direction is more correct.

Only a nation that is constantly innovating and a country that is constantly improving is worthy of enjoying the foundation of the world and standing on the top of the world without being dragged down.This truth has been verified by countless imperial dynasties that were once glorious.

Just as the Japanese high-level leaders had always firmly believed that battleships could defeat aircraft carriers before the Pearl Harbor incident, because they have only risen by relying on large ships and cannons for just 30 years, and it is still a matter of course to learn from previous experience.

Judging from Germany's technological development path, its path is completely opposite to that of Japan.Germany regards technological development as the most important part.Now it is even starting to manufacture equipment based on the automation industry.