[ Innovation ]
[ 14th of Novus 1614 ] [ Golden Sea ] [ Crown Conquests ]
@Japuile @ArtyomLmao
Großadmiral Oskar has a carousel autoloader.
It has two racks where the powder and charge handling rooms at the bottom of the turret. The top rack has 32 shells and the bottom rack has 32 tubes of 4 charges each.
The turret has only catwalks inside it rather than floors but for maintenance only, as most of the space inside are dedicated for the two loading arms for the two 20 inch K/00 50.8cm [M] guns. These arms are ten tons each and have their own rammer for ramming the shells and charges in the breech.
[ Loading proccess inside the Oskar's turrets ]
Shell and charge selection happen together, despite being on two seperate racks. It cuts down selection time to 1 second if the shells are next to each other, and 5 seconds at most if the shell is on the other side of the carousel
[ Shell selection and charge selection : 1 -5 seconds ]
The selected row [of the carousel] is tilted upwards and rammed into the loading arm that descends. The shell and charge is rammed into the loading arm by rammers in the autoloader. The arm lifts up and aligns with the opened breech. The ramming block drops down and rams the shell into the breech, then the shell and charge tubes lift up, and the ramming block rams the charges into the breech.
[ Shell and charge loading : 6-8 seconds ]
The ramming block lifts up, the shell and charge tube drops down. The loading arm drops down and the breech slams shut. The guns fire and recoil.
[ Breech Closure & Firing: 2–3 seconds ]
The breech opens up, and the carousel spins to prepare another round. Shell and charge loading is similar to T-72 attack tank
The other things about the turret
It also has blowout channels for the turret and blast doors between the carousel [first stage ammunition] and the carousel replenisher room, so in case the turret's carousel gets blown to hell, it won't fly out and hit other ships. The turret still has the back overhang like all Crown battleships. It's empty space as of now and might be home to radar targeting systems soon. It's sealed off from the main turret interior, the same way the maintenance access doors and the ammo replenishers are by blast doors and thick walls.
As put by some researchers, in the worst possible setting, it loads at 15 to 16 seconds minimum. At best it loads in 9 to 12 sec. It can potentially fire six rounds a minute, an extreme record for it's caliber size. Potentially even beats out Japuliean and Treporian battleships and will terrorize the entire Golden Sea and the Crown's enemies.
It obviously has drawbacks, and it's just higher power consumption and a higher fail rate under stress. But the fail rate is resolved with magic thankfully.
[ Worst possible setting is when the turret is receiving minimal power ]
Korolyan Admirality
For the sake of unity of the Golden Sea Commonwealth, this technology may be shared with Azeria, a special member of the Crown Royal's economic union, so both nations can better fend off enemy naval powers by obliterating the enemy fleet with fuckload of bullets.
