Imperial Overlord

Although the Japanese Navy lost a bankrupt in the Pacific War, in all fairness, if it were not for the advancement of the times and the sudden innovation of military technology, the Japanese Navy could still be said to be one of the strongest navies at that time.

Even if it is inferior to the U.S. Navy in number, the Japanese Navy is not inferior to the U.S. Navy in terms of training and combat effectiveness of weapons and equipment. The difference between the two sides is only in quantity.

Before the war, the Japanese navy practiced artillery hard, and was better than the U.S. Navy in terms of artillery hit rate and firing speed.

So, while the U.S. Navy fleet opened fire, the Japanese fleet was silent. They know that it is impossible to hit the target at this range, and that blind shooting will only drain their morale prematurely.

"Go ahead! We don't have to be busy fighting back! Let's wait until the Americans have had enough trouble!" The Japanese naval commander sitting on the cruiser Mogami ordered confidently.

His fleet is much larger than the American fleet, and now he has the Mogami, which has been converted into a heavy cruiser, and the battleship Mikuma of the same level!

The U.S. military seems to have only one light cruiser, and the rest are destroyers that are not on the table. Both sides have a clear advantage in the caliber of artillery and the number of artillery.

"Bombardment, they are not opponents! Just keep calm! If they pin their hopes on torpedoes, they will soon realize that they made the wrong idea!" Standing in his command position, the Japanese Said the naval officer triumphantly.

His adjutant stood beside him, lowered his head and said, "You are right, I have ordered to prepare for battle, and soon they will realize that they have made a serious mistake."

In the eyes of these Japanese commanders, whether it is artillery or torpedoes, the cards in his hand are much stronger than the opponent.

When it comes to torpedoes, I have to say that the Japanese navy has a leap-forward development path of its own.

The mainstream naval powers develop their naval system step by step, and finally use the stacking of numbers to form their own naval combat effectiveness.

The Japanese navy is not. It builds the entire naval fleet around one or two advanced weapons, and allows the naval fleet to create an environment for advanced weapons to improve combat capabilities.

From a short-term perspective, this method is very suitable, but if it is measured in the long-term, it cannot guarantee that advanced weapons will continue to advance, and the entire fleet will fall into a passive state.

Throughout the entire history of the Pacific War in World War II, it is the process of the collapse of the Japanese navy's tactics, which led to the collapse of the navy.

After the First World War, Japan, which was not accepted into the system of major powers, was determined to develop new weapons under the existing technical conditions, and wanted to surprise the naval powers such as the United States and the United Kingdom after the war.

Japan's vigorous development of naval aviation is a microcosm of this tactical development, but only naval aviation is neither insurance nor sufficient.

Before the launch of World War II, the Japanese Navy had a whole set of theories, and formed its own characteristic tactics around the advanced equipment they developed.

This is an effective and reasonable tactical system for the Japanese Empire with limited funds and limited resources.

Before the outbreak of the war, they developed an advanced torpedo system, that is, the spear torpedo that later generations talked about.

Surrounding spear torpedoes, large-caliber naval guns, and naval aviation, the Japanese navy has worked hard to develop an invincible three-axe tactics!

In the script written by the Japanese Navy, its own naval aviation at a long distance can be used as the first axe to consume the enemy's sea power.

Then entered the stage of artillery battle between the two sides, at this stage mainly relying on skilled artillery to operate sailors to create trouble for the enemy.

Immediately afterwards, when the two sides were in a melee, the deadly trump card, which was painstakingly developed by Japan, appeared on the scene: the advanced torpedoes ripped apart the opponent's battle line, disrupted the enemy's formation and sank the enemy's main ship, all in one fell swoop. Victory in the naval battle is established!

In this script, the Japanese navy's artillery level has been repeatedly strengthened, and it is no weaker than the old British Royal Navy, and it is even worse than the emerging maritime power of the United States.

The Japanese navy around 1941 was invincible in terms of artillery skills alone. At that time, the Japanese navy had the highest quality and the largest number of gunners, and was arrogant.

However, artillery alone is not enough. According to the provisions of the Washington Naval Treaty, the tonnage ratio of British, American, Japanese, French and Italian capital ships is 5:5:3:1.75:1.75, which also includes battle cruisers. .

That's right, Japan is that 3 in it! In other words, the number of Japanese naval capital ships is only three-fifths of that of the US Navy! If this system is not broken, then Japan will always be the weaker party in the future!

Under the restrictions of this treaty, the Japanese navy is obviously smaller than the US navy, so Japan's attempt to dominate the Western Pacific and establish the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere has failed.

After being unable to be evenly matched in quantity, the Japanese navy turned to the route of building an army with quality, striving to improve the actual combat capability of each warship, which is why each warship of the Japanese navy had to stack as many ships as possible The reason for the number of guns~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The Japanese Navy played a small abacus, secretly slightly increased the caliber of its naval guns, and concealed the sailing speed of the naval battleships, which is why the caliber of the main guns on the Nagato battleship was nondescript 410 mm instead of the mainstream 406 mm in the world's navy...

This kind of stealing continued until the Yamato-class battleships were launched. The Japanese navy played this slightly higher-level method on every battleship, but everyone with a discerning eye knew that all of this could not fundamentally improve the Japanese navy's operations. ability.

Therefore, the method has to be thought from other aspects. According to the Washington Naval Treaty, Japan's battleships can only reach 60% of the tonnage of the United States, and the number is even more different.

Japan had 6 battleships and 4 battlecruisers at that time, with a total tonnage of 301,320 tons; while the United States had 18 battleships with a total tonnage of 525,850 tons—the number of US Navy capital ships was almost twice that of the Japanese Navy.

Because of this, Japan's decision to launch a decisive battle at sea is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. Finding ways to reduce the number of enemy warships has become a top priority for the Japanese Navy.