The advantage of a large hull is that there is enough space to squander. With the huge hull brought by the huge tonnage, the Lexington's ability to release aircraft is stronger than the Enterprise. To give another extreme example, for example

The Shinano, the largest aircraft carrier in World War II, could have a hangar of 200 meters long even if Shinano did not even remove the prepared artillery ring.

, and it is all covered with thick armor! For a large battleship, this is the cost, even if there are a few mistakes, it doesn’t matter. Therefore, the United States and Britain can directly join forces with large aircraft carriers. Although it is a waste of tonnage, it will create a

The difficulty of building a good aircraft carrier is still very low. But in order to make full use of the tonnage, China must start with small aircraft carriers and explore little by little.

"The first aircraft carrier is just for training. The displacement is limited to about 16,000 tons. I have set the following requirements. You can check them out. First, it must be a double-layer hangar. Secondly, the ammunition depot and power equipment must be

There is a certain degree of protection, and the third is to have a deck as large as possible. The speed does not need to be high, 30 knots is enough.

That's enough. This is the first-level combat aircraft carrier designed by China. I hope you can learn something from it." Although Xu Jie is a loyal supporter of large armored aircraft carriers, in the face of the actual situation, Xu Jie decided to start from scratch.

There is a reason for starting from a solid step and finally choosing such a tonnage as the starting point.

First of all, if the tonnage is smaller, then the aircraft carrier will have almost no combat effectiveness. If it is smaller, it will not only limit the aircraft carrier's carrying capacity, but also greatly weaken other performances, such as defense and speed. First, let's talk about attack power.

.For ordinary people, they may think that there is not much difference between a 220-meter and a 250-meter aircraft carrier. In fact, the gap in attack power is quite large. It can be described as one level difference.

A hypothesis can be used to prove here. For example, if the take-off distance of a fighter jet is 120 meters, the take-off distance of a dive bomber loaded with bombs is 160 meters, and the take-off distance of an attack aircraft loaded with torpedo aircraft is 180 meters, then as a plane

Calculated based on the length of 10 meters and the front and rear clearance. Calculated based on the width of the aircraft carrier that can accommodate 4 aircraft (with folded wings). Then the engine capabilities of the 220-meter aircraft carrier and the 250-meter aircraft carrier are as follows.

Subtracting the 120-meter rolling distance from the 220-meter deck of a medium-sized aircraft carrier, the actual take-off distance that can be used by this aircraft carrier is 100 meters. Four rows of aircraft can be parked from 120 meters to 160 meters at the front of the deck. A total of

16 fighter jets, 8 dive bombers can be parked between 160 meters and 180 meters, and a maximum of 4 rows, that is, 16 aircraft can be parked between 180 meters and 220 meters. In other words, such a layout

The Bureau can take off a maximum of 40 aircraft in one wave (not considering the changes in superstructure and tail width, as well as other issues that may occupy space, otherwise it will be too troublesome.) Of course, the aircraft at the back can be interchanged. For example, if you

You can have more bombers and fewer torpedo planes, but there can be a maximum of 16 torpedo planes, otherwise the take-off distance will not be enough. The maximum number of bombers and torpedo planes responsible for sea attacks is 24.

And if it is replaced by a large aircraft carrier with a deck length of 250 meters, from 120 meters to the rear, this aircraft carrier has a distance of 130 meters to deploy aircraft. If all are filled, 54 additional aircraft can be deployed. In terms of quantity, it is larger than 220 meters.

There are 12 more medium-sized aircraft carriers in China, but the gap in actual combat power will be even greater. Because the aircraft carrier only has attack aircraft and dive aircraft.

Only bombers can pose an effective threat to battleships, and large aircraft carriers can take off and land up to 36 attack aircraft and bombers behind! The sea attack power is 50% higher than that of medium-sized aircraft carriers. It also has higher flexibility, for example

Bombers can be equipped with heavier bombs. For example, if the total number of engines is certain, the number of torpedo planes can be more.

And this is only part of the advantage. For example, if the aircraft is changed, the new fighter jet requires a longer take-off and rolling distance, and the new attack aircraft has a larger bomb load and requires a longer rolling distance. Then the gap will be further widened.

Big! And even if the aircraft is not changed, if the fighter needs to undertake air defense missions over the fleet for a long time, then it must have an auxiliary fuel tank, and the increase in weight will obviously require a longer rolling distance, then

For medium-sized aircraft carriers, the impact on the batch of aircraft released is much greater than that of large aircraft carriers. Of course, if someone talks about catapults, then that is a different matter, but what needs support is that even if the United States has catapults,

Aircraft carriers generally take off by rolling, which means they can take off faster. The biggest advantage brought by a large-deck aircraft carrier is the change in the number of heavily loaded aircraft taking off rather than the change in the number of light loaded aircraft taking off.

As for defense, you can refer to the 17,000-ton Hiryu and the 25,000-ton Zuikaku. The former is one of those whose core compartments may be seriously injured if it is hit by ordinary armor-piercing projectiles, while the latter is very harmful to the ammunition depot.

The defense standard is 800kg. As for torpedo protection, the Zuikaku reached an astonishing 45

The defensive power of 0kg level TNT explosives. The two brothers Xianghe and Zuihe survived many naval battles definitely not only by luck, but also by the defense power brought by their powerful tonnage. Of course, because Zuihe is not an armored deck aircraft carrier, high-explosive

The bullets treat Feilong and Zuihe's decks equally. This can't but be said to be a pity.

The reason why Xu Jie insists on choosing a tonnage of about 16,000 tons is that all aircraft carriers in history that can be said to have a certain combat effectiveness are above this tonnage. Xu Jie designed the standard of a certain combat effectiveness in this way:

Deck size reaches history

Flying dragon level. At the same time, it has a speed of at least 30 knots. (If the speed is too slow, the takeoff distance of the aircraft will increase. It is also for the fleet's rapid maneuverability. After all, if 30 knots is an experimental speed, it will definitely be compromised in actual combat.

) double layer machine

The hangar ensures the aircraft carrying capacity and maintenance area. (China's maintenance requirement for aircraft carriers is that maintenance can be carried out in both the hangar and the deck, but maintenance is usually done on the deck.) As for the final protection of the core cabin, it is placed in a secondary position.

, after all, it is necessary to achieve stronger protection.

Even if it is 20,000 tons, it will not be able to hold it! Compared with aircraft carriers like Zuihe and Dafeng, the company is just a squishie. As for if the aircraft carrier is larger, it will not be accumulated experience. It is possible to build an aircraft carrier for the first time.

This is a problem. Although China has money, it cannot spend it recklessly!

Regarding the double-layer hangar, Xu Jie's reason for insisting is similar to that in the UK, which is to accommodate as many aircraft as possible and increase the operating area under a certain volume. After all, even if the hangar is used to solve the problem of the number of aircraft, the hangar

The aircraft cannot be used immediately, let alone prepared for operations. It also means preparing for the armored deck aircraft carrier. Of course, the double-layer hangar also has a very serious problem in the eyes of time travellers.

That is the layout of the side chord lift. Even people who do not understand military affairs can see from the picture that a lift measuring more than ten meters by ten meters takes up a lot of area. Therefore, Essex's side chord lift is considered an important progress.

However, on a double-deck aircraft carrier, because the lower hangar is too close to the water, there is a risk of seawater pouring in if a side lift opening is opened. Xu Jie solved this problem like this.

The aircraft carrier under design will have two elevators, one of which is located at the front of the battleship. This elevator runs through the two-story hangar, while the other elevator is a side chord elevator that only communicates with the upper hangar. In fact, this is

It is enough. Generally speaking, the number of aircraft that an aircraft carrier can release is less than half of the carrier aircraft. The aircraft tied up on the deck and the aircraft in the upper hangar are enough for the first wave of attacks. Generally speaking, the lower hangar is

It is used for the maintenance and upkeep of aircraft, and is rarely used during battles. (I don’t know if you have noticed, but the aircraft carrier duel in the second battle usually involves two large waves, and the battle is basically resolved.) After the first wave is released,

Then it was too late to lift from the lower hangar. Anyway, after the first wave was launched, there was still room in the upper hangar, which could be lifted by the rear side chord elevator, while the front elevator was responsible for lifting the aircraft from the lower hangar.

The upper hangar of the double-layer hangar is designed as an open hangar, which can be used for warm-up operations. The lower hangar is designed as a closed hangar, and horizontal armor is arranged on the floor of the upper hangar. Some people may say that the double hangar will

The height of the hangar is too low, which leads to inconvenient maintenance. How do you say this? Generally speaking

, the double-story hangar is indeed lower than the single-story hangar, but it is not absolute. For example, for the Chicheng aircraft carrier, this guy strictly speaking is a two-and-a-half-story hangar (the lower hangar is smaller.) The upper hangar is 5 meters.

, the middle hangar is 6.5 meters, and the lower hangar is 5 meters. Of course, this is because the Chicheng hull is relatively large.

However, after careful design and appropriately reducing the area of ​​the single-layer hangar, an aircraft carrier still has space to put down a double-layer hangar with sufficient height. Of course, if you want to add a hangar, you might as well forget it. As for

Jet aircraft? Xu Jie hasn’t thought that far, not to mention that historically

The British Eagle 2-class large aircraft carrier also has a double-layer hangar. In the end, didn't it still install various jet aircraft such as F4? As for the issue of planning to install carrier-based aircraft such as F14? I can only say that this will be 50 years later.

Something happened! So, as far as the current situation is concerned, Xu Jie still prefers a double-layer hangar.

As for the hull structure, Xu Jie hopes that the first-class aircraft carrier will adopt a staggered power layout to prevent one torpedo from destroying all the power. Even if it increases some tonnage, it doesn’t matter. Because Xu Jie knows that some aircraft carriers in World War 2 have a lot of

It was disposed of by his own battleship because the power system was destroyed. The staggered layout of the power system is

It can reduce the possibility of the warship losing all its power. As for the underwater protection system, Xu Jie can only try to be as high as possible. After all, an aircraft carrier of less than 20,000 tons maintains a double-layer hangar and has certain protection for the core cabin.

Under the conditions, and with a speed of more than 30 knots, there is really not much weight left for the TDS!
Chapter completed!