Battleships can be revived with guns with a range of 1000 nautical miles.

Battleships can be revived with guns with a range of/kloc-0.000 nautical miles. That was not the case.

Unconsciously, warships have been out of the historical stage for nearly 30 years. The battleship was last seen during the Gulf War of 199 1, and the Iowa battleship equipped with Tomahawk missiles became the swan song of the battleship. However, although the warship has been abandoned for nearly 30 years, the US military has never given up on restarting it. Revitalizing battleships has become the obsession of the US military.

The website of the monthly magazine Popular Mechanics reported on June 65438+1 October 65438+June 6 that the US Army is developing a new type of long-range cannon, which claims to be capable of hitting the longest distance of 1 150 miles (1mile is about 1.6). If this technology is feasible, the range of the "strategic long-range cannon" (SLRC) may be 50 times that of the existing artillery.

At the moment when this kind of artillery was released, the US military was extremely excited, because American military experts believed that with the appearance of this super artillery, this weapon of warships would make up the last short board of comeback. Returning to the ocean is no longer a dream.

American military experts say that once the warship is equipped with this super gun, it will pose a threat to the target outside 1000 nautical miles. And this range is 50 times that of ordinary battleships! The operational radius of modern carrier-based aircraft is about 700 nautical miles, that is to say, this new battleship has the ability to fire before the aircraft carrier.

If only from the voyage, this new type of warship is really attractive, and it can also save the flight cost of carrier-based aircraft. Because battleships are ready-made, it is only necessary to dismantle the existing main guns and replace them with new ones. So compared to building an aircraft carrier, the cost is really low.

However, this is not the case. First of all, this super artillery is very heavy, and the specific size can refer to Gustav cannon in Germany during World War II. It may weigh hundreds of tons, so it is very difficult to put such a behemoth into a battleship. Even if you put it in, it will slow down the speed of the warship. Battleships sailing at turtle speed will be very difficult to fight. It is also easy to become a living target of the enemy.

In addition, the structure of this super gun is very complicated, including rocket booster, infrastructure and missile. Complex structure will inevitably make maintenance very difficult. The failure rate is high, and it is easy to say that there is a problem at ordinary times. If something goes wrong in wartime, it will be a big trouble, and the artillery will not work, and the warship will become a living target. It is not surprising that it will be sunk.

Even if the above situation does not happen, there is still a problem to be solved in this new type of warship, that is, the hit accuracy is too low. As early as World War II, battleships hit targets 20 nautical miles away, with a hit rate of only about 3%. Now stretch this distance to 1000 nautical miles, and the hit rate may not even be 1%.

In addition, due to the influence of the curvature of the earth, projectiles with a range of more than 1000 nautical miles need to be corrected in the medium-range trajectory. Cannonballs have no autonomous guidance ability and cannot be corrected. When they fly close to the target, they may have deviated by several kilometers. So launching this weapon is similar to shooting birds at will.

The best way to solve this problem is to add a homing system to the missile body, but it is no different from a missile. Modern anti-ship missiles are fully capable. Is it necessary to develop super cannon? So this so-called "super cannon" is more of a joke and has no practical significance. Maybe it's just a bullshit project made by the US Army to brush the sense of existence, that's all.