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Chapter 192 Impossible Floating Battleship

Although it has no weapons, for this era, the Behemoth airship is still an unsolvable existence.

Before Purficott created the airship, humans had no other flying vehicles that could fly into the sky.

Although before this, a pair of brothers in France successfully built a hot-air balloon, inspired by the rising of scraps of paper in the stove, but this kind of thing was just a pure toy compared with the airship.

After all, compared with something that can only fly one or two kilometers and a flight time of no more than half an hour, and an airship like an air fortress that can cross the ocean, the gap between the two is difficult to measure.

You must know that in Perfectkot’s original world, the rise of Zeppelin airships into the sky was already during World War II, while the first manned flight of a hot air balloon was in the 18th century. There is almost a hundred years difference between the two. More than fifty years and technological innovations brought about by two industrial revolutions.

If it weren't for the existence of alchemy in this world, it would be difficult for even Purficott to send such a behemoth into the sky. After all, the development of related disciplines is too lacking.

And this undoubtedly makes the existence of airships even more shocking to people in this world.

There are even some good news media in Langton calling it a flying castle and a moving fortress, adding all kinds of exaggerated and praising words to the airship.

Correspondingly, Perfectikt, who invented the airship, has been elevated to the point where it is being discussed whether to add her name to textbooks.

Proposals have been received by the democratically elected parliament before, and some meddlesome people have requested that Perficott's name be added to textbooks, calling her the most outstanding scientist and master of alchemy in the history of mankind.

Purficott was still reluctant to accept this title. She did not think she was worthy of the evaluation of "the most outstanding alchemy master in human history", so she took the initiative to contact the democratically elected parliament and asked them to veto the proposal in her own name. .

So far, this reputation has not brought any trouble to Purficott. With her identity as the Northern Lord, no one dares to find fault with her on this matter.

After all, people are greedy. Although the airship is powerful, in the end it is not an offensive weapon. Although it has achieved impressive results, it is more due to the thermobaric bombs rather than the airship. The boat itself.

On the contrary, the military particularly favored her, especially the navy, which watched eagerly, hoping that Perficott could help them build a flying warship instead of an unarmed airship.

But even so, there is no doubt that she is currently the most outstanding alchemist in Langton, and even the Alchemist Association has no objection to this.

After all, such a big airship is right there. If you are not convinced, you can build one too!

The Navy also conducted tests after the last air raid. If it just dropped ordinary bombs, the damage the airship could actually cause was not great, and the effect might not be as good as the bombardment of a cruiser.

Therefore, the Navy hopes that Purficott can improve the airship, or find a way to get their warships into the sky, so that the Navy will have the ability to launch attacks from the sky.

It's just that the Navy was not familiar with Purfict. Her grandfather was a major general in the army, so they also approached Lieutenant Colonel William. Anyway, Purfict still wanted to call him cousin, after all. I can get along with some relatives and talk to them. Purficott was somewhat speechless about this, and the navy generals who made such a request were somewhat unreasonable.

The warships of this era were mainly old warships left over from the sail era and new ironclad ships, with a total tonnage of about one thousand to two thousand tons.

Although it is not a very large tonnage and mass, and is incomparable to the heavy cruisers and battlecruisers that weighed several thousand or even tens of thousands of tons during World War II, this is not a weight that an airship can easily carry.

You must know that although Purficott uses a very mature design and is assisted by alchemy, the maximum load capacity of the Behemoth airship is only seventy tons, and the empty weight of the airship is approximately Forty-five tons.

It is not a problem to use it to carry people and cargo, and even to install some weapons and equipment is not a big problem, but to expect an airship to lift a cruiser is simply a fantasy.

Unless Purficott can enlarge the size of the airship ten times, or can extract the flying stone that can make the city fly like Laputa in "Castle in the Sky", otherwise it must be developed Anti-gravity device, otherwise it would be impossible to make a warship weighing hundreds or thousands of tons fly.

So in the face of Lieutenant Colonel William's hint, Purficott just shook his head and said: "With my current technology, I can't make a warship weighing thousands of tons fly, not even a few hundred tons. The Behemoth It is already the largest airship that can be built by the current industrial level of the empire.

If you are a veteran of the Navy, you should be able to understand that what makes a warship float on the water is its displacement, and for an airship, this is the available lift brought by the volume of the air bag.

The filling gases we can currently use are hydrogen and helium, and under the current circumstances, these two gases can only build airships like the Behemoth.

To achieve a breakthrough, it is only possible to make a thousand-ton ship weigh only a hundred tons or even dozens of tons unless there is something that can reduce the weight of the ship. "

"But what can make a thousand-ton battleship weigh only a few dozen tons? Is it magic?" Lieutenant Colonel William was greatly disappointed by this. Although he was already the captain of an airship, who wouldn't want to truly What about commanding a warship? Especially warships that can fly in the sky.

"Magic? Magic can't do this. All those magicians can do is play some clumsy tricks." Purficott shook her head disdainfully. The change in her identity now allows her to easily access Being a magician also gave her a deeper understanding of the magic in this world.

If we judge it by the standards of various fantasy novels that Purficott has read, the level of magic in this world can be said to be quite low, almost to the point of non-existent.

Even for court mages, the destructive power they can exert on the battlefield is equivalent to an eight-pound cannon, and they can't even fire a few rounds.

As for using magic to achieve all kinds of incredible miracles, don't even think about it. Compared with the alchemists, their level is really unreasonable.

Just like Purficott once asked a magician to enchant the barrel of a gun he made, they couldn't even do the most basic fire enchantment in fantasy novels, let alone making an entire city fly. In the world of high magic, it can be called a miraculous feat.

(End of this chapter)