"Your Majesty, the Dwarf Heavy Cannon is basically on par with conventional artillery in terms of positioning and function. There's not much to say about that, but the Thunder Revolving Cannon is different."
At this point, Zhuang Mengdie paused to organize her thoughts.
"The Thunder Revolving Cannon is a special type of artillery weapon. It has eight barrels, and its defining feature is that it can launch high-frequency bombardments within a short period."
"But once one round of bombardment ends, all eight barrels have to be cleaned and reloaded before the next round can begin. In other words, the interval between operations is roughly eight times that of conventional artillery."
"Of course, if it's only being used to cover the gap while the Thunder Revolving Cannon reloads, the artillery troops could simply divide the Thunder Revolving Cannons into two groups and have them fire in turns. That would solve the problem."
After all, as the head of the Military Equipment Research Department, Zhuang Mengdie had spent years studying military equipment and naturally needed to understand tactics as well. Otherwise, how could weapons designed without regard for actual conditions possibly be useful on the battlefield?
Basically, if a problem could be solved through this kind of adjustment, it certainly wasn't worth opening a separate research team and production line for it. The investment would be far too great.
"The biggest problem with the Thunder Revolving Cannon is that although it can unleash a burst of eight consecutive shots in a short period, its effective range and the power of each individual shell are clearly inferior to those of conventional artillery."
At this point, Zhou Xu immediately understood.
In the future, if the artillery forces of Great Zhou were equipped only with Thunder Revolving Cannons and not conventional artillery, they might well