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https://unsplash.com/photos/eMP4sYPJ9x0What conclusions were drawn from the analysis of the Battle of Tsushima? First of all, the design displacement, precipitation, and initial stability were finally recognized as the most important characteristics of the ship, along with weapons and armor, and must now be consistently observed in the construction process. The ships should have abandoned the location of the artillery of the anti-mine caliber below the upper deck, and to strengthen the combat stability...

Serious shortcomings were also inherent in the material part of the ship's artillery, even the newest armadillos. Despite the satisfactory design of the main caliber turrets, the artillery had a relatively low rate of fire due to a long time of opening and closing the locks of the guns of low speed of ammunition supply. The elevation angles of the guns were not sufficient for increased combat ranges. Nor were there any modern sights on the ships. New optical rangefinders with the increased base...

On the battleship, "Oslyabya" instead of steel armor was changed steel armor with cementation of the front side. This resulted in a decrease in its thickness and some increase in the total surface of the armor. For the first time in the Russian Navy on the armored carriers of this type using the design of the armored deck with bevels, closing with the lower edge of the armored belt, as it was done on the English armored carrier "Majestic". This is how the standard design was developed for all subsequent battleships...

Without going into the analysis of the general military-political and strategic reasons for the defeat of the Russian army and navy in the Russo-Japanese war, well known to the reader, let's see why the newest Russian squadrons of armageddons, which entered into service already during the war, died. "Navarin" (1894), which occupied an important place in the development of armored shipbuilding in the Russian Navy, belonged to the type of so-called citadel battleships with unarmored ends of the hull...

Russian ships also tried to concentrate fire on one of the Japanese ships, but due to lack of experience in the management of shotgun shooting and long-range could not achieve tangible results. The superiority of Japanese artillery in terms of firing rate, range, accuracy and destructive power of high-explosive shells immediately affected. At 14:25 a.m., having received severe damage and lost control, the Oslyabya armadillos failed. The ship, having rolled to the right, continued to describe the circulation, having a roll of 12 ° on the left side and a large difference in the bow...

The Russo-Japanese War on the Sea began on the night of January 27 (February 9), 1904, when Japanese destroyers attacked Russian ships on the open road of Port Arthur. Squadron armored carriers "Caesarevich" and "Retvisan", cruiser "Pallada" were severely damaged by explosions of Japanese torpedoes. At about 12 o'clock that same day, Japanese ships attacked the cruiser Varyag and the cancer boat Koreyets in the Korean port of Chemulpo. After the unequal battle with the Japanese squadron Russian sailors,...