Chapter Eighty-Seven: The 'Greedy Wolf' Cannon Since it is not the farthest range and the largest caliber, why should the 'Greedy Wolf' cannon be called the strongest cannon?
The reason is very simple, that is, the overall performance of the 'Greedy Wolf' cannon is the best: first, the power of the 'Greedy Wolf' cannon is large enough, although the caliber is only two hundred and five millimeters, but because the shells are slender, the number of charges is several times more than that of shells of the same caliber, and the explosion power is naturally stronger.
The second is the firing range, although the range of the 'greedy wolf' cannon is not the farthest, but it is also ranked second, in front of the cannon of the same level or even the three-hundred-millimeter cannon, the range alone is also the farthest, not to mention that the 'greedy wolf' cannon is huge in caliber, but whether it is from the point of view of the double diameter or from the point of view of the trajectory, it actually belongs to the ranks of cannons, and the range of cannons is naturally farther than howitzers.
Finally, the 'greedy wolf' cannon is very light, with a weight of only about seven tons.
But you must know that even in the later World War II period, the German army had a 'K18' 173mm cannon, which was known as the best cannon in World War II, but the 'K18' was far inferior to the 'Greedy Wolf' cannon in terms of caliber and range, and the power may be exceeded due to explosives, but in this way, the weight of a cannon has reached more than 17 tons (17520kg to be exact), and' The power of the 'greedy wolf' cannon is so great, it is only seven tons, this weight is really light, and the operation is extremely convenient, with the right tools, ten people can make the 'greedy wolf' cannon roar, and even if the steel battleship comes out, this 'greedy wolf' cannon can be used as a perfect battleship main gun without even modifying.
It's a pity that the steel battleship has not yet come out, and the reaction force of the 'greedy wolf' cannon is too strong, and it produces a huge vibration when the cannon is fired, and the wooden hull can't withstand it at all - 180 mm is already the limit of the wooden ship, and no matter how much it really can't bear, the Yuezhou shipyard has done relevant tests, and they will have a ' The 'greedy wolf' cannon was placed on a first-class battleship and fired a cannon, but the hull made a squeaky cracking sound at that time, and cracks appeared on the nearby deck, and the ribs were found to be broken after the overhaul, and even the keel was damaged, and finally the plan to put the 'greedy wolf' cannon on the battleship did not come to fruition after all, and those crazy ship designers saw that the wooden battleship had reached its peak, so they followed Li Zhen's order and began to study the steel battleship (before they didn't think that the steel battleship could be popularized).
Some people will ask, even with all these advantages, this cannon is not the strongest, right?
That's true, but what about precision?
Accuracy is the biggest reason why the 'greedy wolf' cannon is claimed to be the strongest: under the operation of a group of familiar gunners, the hit rate is as high as 70 percent at a distance of 10 kilometers, and the hit rate is 40 percent at 20 kilometers, even if it is placed 30 kilometers away, the hit rate is 15 percent, and the performance is simply superb......
Note that this is a sea target, and if it is a land target, the hit rate will be higher.
As I said before, the power of a qualified cannon is never the most critical, even if you blow up a mountain with a cannon......
That can indeed be called the strongest, if one shot can level the mountain, then the error of tens or hundreds of meters is meaningless.
But is there such a powerful cannon now?
Naturally, there is none, so accuracy becomes a measure of the qualification of a cannon.
It's a pity that although the 'greedy wolf' cannon has such and such advantages, it also has a disadvantage, that is, the output is too low, so that even in an economic and military dual center like Coconut Port, there are only ten guns, which is really a pity.
This seems to be a common shortcoming of almost excellent weapons - it is also an example of the war period in later generations, Hansmeow's 'Tiger' and 'Leopard' tanks are known as the best tanks in World War II, not to mention the shoddy T34 of the woolly bear, and the Sherman of Eagle sauce is still correct, and there are almost no opponents on the battlefield.
But in the end, because the production was too low, all these excellent tanks were drowned in the sea of T34.
Just imagine, if the production of the 'Tiger' and 'Leopard' types could be increased tenfold, although the Führer may still fail, it will never be so embarrassing, right?
There is also the Suomi submachine gun, which was also the best submachine gun at that time, also because of the complex production process and the high cost, from 1931 to 1953, it took 22 years for Suomi to produce a total of 80,000 pieces......
Such a gun was used as a fart during World War II?
In the end, it is Bobosha of the woolly bear and Thomson of Eagle Sauce who become famous on the battlefield, but Suomi becomes the character of the soy sauce on the battlefield.
Of course, there is no absolute, not that the assembly line process can not make a good weapon, the same is Hans Meow, MG42 general-purpose machine gun, known as the fastest rate of fire machine gun in World War II, because the rate of fire is too fast to the sound of a line, so its sound is not the traditional machine gun like the sound of 'da-da-da', and to go to the 'hiss' sound, as if a poisonous snake spits letters, so it is also known as 'Xiniu Sile's chainsaw' or 'Xiniu Sile's ripping machine'.
The structure of such an excellent machine gun is very simple, because of the large number of stamping parts, so the pruning machine gun can achieve extremely high production output on the assembly line.
The only drawback may be that it looks a little uglier - at first glance it looks like it was assembled from a number of iron pieces and an iron pipe, a shoddy patchwork, but in the face of excellent performance, even the discerning Führer has to give in.
Although the 'greedy wolf' cannon is not as delicate as the tiger and leopard or Suomi to the limit, it is still a long way from the assembly line production like MG42 - in fact, the structure of the 'greedy wolf' is very simple, and it is a little more complex than the general cannon, the problem is that the precision of each part is very high, and almost 50% of the parts even need to be hand-built by craftsmen, which is greatly limited.
The output of the Greedy Wolf's cannon, so if you want to mass produce it, then you must improve the processing technology.
It is conceivable that when the 'Greedy Wolf' cannon can be manufactured in batches, even if the steel battleship is still far away, but if all the cannons on the Datang battery are equipped with the 'Greedy Wolf' cannon, then even if the enemy also has cannons, it may be difficult to get close to the coast of Datang, let alone the dilemma of today.