Chapter 257 Ship Module

After more than a month's vacation, Zhong Yang took his own private plane back to China from the UK, while Chen Ze, Liu Haoran and Yi Zhongming still led their respective business teams to run around the entire Western world and show their strengths.

Every day, a large amount of sorted basic research data is sent back to China through high-level communication satellites. So far, Zhong Yang has launched 37 artificial satellites of various purposes into predetermined orbits, becoming the "sky eye" of China's supervision of the world.

The agency responsible for managing all satellites is the "Watch Tower", with Huang Shaoguang as the commander. As for his current authority, it covers almost all communication and transmission areas of Hualian. Because both the government and the military know very little about this plan, and Zhong Yang has no intention of selling satellites to other organizations for the time being.

Located on the coastline of Humen, hundreds of workers are busy working in a humid climate. Here, a new harbor will be built for trade.

Since the unification of Guangdong and Guangxi, the construction center of Hualian has gradually escaped from the restrictions of Nansha and gradually radiated to the surrounding areas. The three construction focuses are Guangzhou, Foshan and Dongguan, among which Guangzhou will focus on finance, trade and politics.

Like Liuzhou, Dongguan and Foshan will be the core area of ​​industrial development and the essence of the entire Hualiansheng industry. This is a long-term development plan, and it is expected to complete the first three stages within 15 years. The construction of a large-scale seaport in Humen is to increase foreign trade capabilities.

Of course, the establishment of an ultra-modern military harbor is also an important factor.

Shortly after Zhong Yang returned from the UK, he talked to Li Wansheng and Xu Jiangwen and reached a consensus on continuing to increase the investment in naval construction. As the young naval commander-in-chief, Xu Jiangwen certainly could not object to strengthening the navy's combat capabilities.

Although Li Wansheng, who was a civil servant, was old, his thoughts were not corrupt, and he could still clearly understand the role of the navy.

Without the navy to protect maritime trade, the lifeline of Hualian's maritime economy will have no maritime defense capabilities. This is not a military force, but to protect its dignity from being violated and that the lives and property of the Chinese people will not be deprived of by others. In this era full of smoke, without a navy means losing everything.

The lessons of the Qing Dynasty were still in front of us. How could Li Wansheng, who had been in power for many years, know nothing?

There are also many shipyards that have started secretly. A group of shipbuilders happened to be found from Germany and the United States. For this reason, Xinghua News Agency also specially established a new large shipbuilding company. This private company, called "Kunpeng Ship Industry", has become a partner of the Navy. The first order after its opening was to build twelve "snake-class" cruisers with a displacement of 9,800 tons.

According to the latest list of naval internal warships, the original division method of the three levels of "sun, month and year" is only applicable to warships with a displacement of less than 9,500 tons. If this standard exceeds this standard, the level naming division method of snake, python, dragon, Yinglong, ancient dragon and cyan dragon begins to be used.

This warship used the modular design concept for the first time, allowing the hull and weapon system to be built separately and reduced logistical pressure. Because after consulting relevant experts' suggestions, the Navy unified the establishment of a unified naval warship family system and unified the warships of the family system, and achieved generalization in the construction of specific modules.

During the five-year study, the Seventh Institute, which is responsible for ship technology, has achieved major achievements in the field of naval construction through the real environment simulator provided by smart factories, and has achieved great results. Among them, the modular design concept and technical achievements are ahead of the entire century.

The "Snake-class" ship that is about to begin construction is the world's first surface ship that uses modular design on a large scale. The core of the entire concept is to regard the hull as a standardized platform, divide the ship-borne equipment into several systems, and make the components that have the same function and are related to the system into a standard functional module, and determine the standardized installation interface between the module and the hull and the standardized interface of the support facilities.

This concept completely subverts the traditional ship construction procedures and concepts. In traditional ship construction procedures, the performance indicators must be determined based on the naval combat requirements, thereby determining weapons and equipment, and then determining the hull design. There is a progressive causal relationship between the hull and the combat system, which means that the development time of a new ship is as long as 10 years and as much as 20 years.

Moreover, ships built according to this layered design concept can only be equipped with special combat equipment. Once the equipment needs to be updated, the hull must be redesigned and adjusted, which can be said to have a single move that will affect the whole body and the modification cost is high.

The modular design will enable the hull to be built in parallel with the combat system and at the same time. You can even build the hull first, then design the weapon, and finally install it at the same time. The same functional modules can be easily interchanged.

Not only does it greatly shorten the construction cycle and reduce costs, but it can also update weapons and equipment at any time, solving the contradiction between the hull's life span of 30 to 50 years and the electronics and combat weapons, and the 7 to 10 years of renewal.

The Seventh Institute owned by Zhong Yang spent five years in this regard to conduct in-depth research, and widely collected data on the hulls, military equipment, electronic equipment and power systems of active frigates from various countries. Not only that, the missile attack technology developed by itself was also fully integrated into it.

After screening and analysis, the Seventh Institute assumed a maximum common divisor hull, and then made the main equipment such as the naval gun, missile launch system, etc. into a unified 4-meter standard module. The main equipment is installed on the upper part of the standard module, and the module is equipped with weapons control systems, spare bomb bays, entrances and exits, ventilation devices and other equipment.

Finally, after the completion of powerful data processing and virtual real-world simulation experiments, they achieved the initial modularization of the ship.

Now, Kunpeng Shipbuilding Company has worked closely with Hualian Navy to determine four standard weapon modules: Yingri, Huiyao, Huanhua and Tianheng, and has established digital standard interfaces, among which Tianheng is currently the highest standard level.

Through computers, various functional modules can be connected to the digital data information chain network, which fully reflects the new military idea of ​​network central warfare. At present, considering the confidentiality of network technology, the uses of business and civilians have not been officially opened, but the preliminary network informatization has long been achieved within the consulting committee and the military field.

Considering the complexity of large-scale warfare, the diversity of future naval missions and the variability of actual battlefields, the navy urgently needs a series of modular warships. In this system, warships will serve as a multi-functional maritime combat platform, and carry various module systems as needed.

Simply put, this concept is a hull that has long been determined. If you want to build an anti-submarine missile, you need to plug in the interface of an anti-submarine weapon. If you want to build an air defense ship, you need to plug in the module of an anti-aircraft weapon. For example, a modular ship like Meko can basically carry almost all weapons independently developed by Hualian.

There is no need to spend a lot of time and energy to design and build. Standardization and modularization will greatly reduce costs and save time. This will greatly improve the war potential of Hualian and shorten the gap in naval strength with the great powers.

You should know that the advantage of modularity is that it is faster to build, lower prices, and is relatively convenient to modify and repair. But it is by no means a good thing, because the module will cause a lot of waste of space and displacement, and all weapon positions must be set according to the largest weapon in the plan.

For example, a modular gun position can be equipped with all guns within 127 mm. If only a 76 mm gun is installed, a lot of space and drainage will be wasted.

But there is no doubt that if you value economic problems and efficiency factors, it is more appropriate to choose a modular concept. After all, the time, energy and materials required to design a targeted functional warship will mean a high price. What's more, for any warship, it means that it is outdated when it is launched.

Therefore, overall, if standardized and modular warship systems are not particularly necessary, the most suitable thing for the navy. Even if there are special needs, the occasional production of special ships with targeted functions does not affect the modular warship system.

The whole plan is so huge that it is difficult to hide it from the eyes of the great powers. However, Zhong Yang did not worry too much about it. After all, this kind of thing did not touch the bottom line of the great powers. Even Japan, which is most concerned about the lifeline at sea, only glanced at it a few more times.

Due to the limitations of traditional naval combat thinking, in the eyes of the great powers, there are no super battleships with displacement of more than 30,000 tons and super-large-caliber naval guns, Hualian's "small cans" are not threatening at all.

As for the so-called plagiarism, Zhong Yang is not afraid. Even if the modular concept is known to others, it cannot be completed in a short time. Without the smart factory or the super virtual intelligent system inside, the materials required to achieve modularization of warships in this era are far more than everyone can imagine.

Data collection, calculation and physical construction alone cost countless wealth. The known major power countries in the world do not have high-performance computer assistance, and it is even less likely to have virtual intelligent systems that can highly simulate the real environment.

For some data collection, the Seventh Institute may only enter instructions, spend one or two days, and then consume a little electricity. But if it is a country such as Britain, the United States, France and Japan in this time and space, it may have to pay the national strength of the entire country to achieve it. This is the gap.

What's more, the degree of modular use, the management level of a factory, the comprehensive scheduling, the arrangement of production rhythm, and more importantly, the control of accuracy. The control of accuracy alone includes many things: control of reverse deformation, construction without margin, compensation for welding and shrinkage, etc.

When the production capacity and quality control reach a certain level, modularization and palletization are inevitable choices, but when the accuracy control is not in place, complete modularization becomes less rewarding. Based on this, Zhong Yang is not afraid of the great powers coming to steal the masters. Even if he takes this "mind secret" of this, he can only practice "going into a devil".

Zhong Yang even thought maliciously, looking at the stupid guy to copy this design concept.

Taking Zu Jie and Gu Yuejun, Zhong Yang and his group walked in the dock located in Humen, where construction was underway, but the workers were not flesh-and-blooded humans, but various mechanical components. The only few human engineers were only responsible for adjusting the details.

The entire dock was built by Zhong Yang for Liu Haoran, and it is also one of the construction orders placed by Xinghua Community. "Lu Ban Industrial", a construction company registered and established by Zhong Yang himself, specializing in taking on some important large-scale engineering construction orders.

As long as there is no special equipment involved in the equipment list, there is no need to spend permission values, such as energy gatherers. Not only that, building such large buildings can also obtain permission value revenue and accumulate engineering experience. Members of the construction team can be intelligent mechanical bodies, and they can collect data during use.

This provides a blueprint for future improvements and improvements, which is the knowledge accumulation required by Zhong Yang. You must know that in the space exploration plan, these "cheap labor" occupy a key part of the entire planning blueprint and is one of the indispensable factors.

The entire construction site is closed, with high metal fences and barbed wire erected on the periphery, and a sign with "Idle people are not allowed to enter". There are even fully armed land soldiers standing guard, which shows Zhong Yang's importance to security and confidentiality work. Here, there are important plans for China's future naval development.

The first phase of the construction of the northern section of the port has been completed, the factory shelves have been built, and the equipment has been installed. There are busy figures of mechanical servants everywhere, like tireless worker ants, fulfilling their duties without complaints.

Chang Sheng, director of the Seventh Research Institute, was wearing a white research suit and a pair of copper wire-framed glasses. He was tall, fair and handsome. At this time, he was holding a display board in his hand, standing beside Zhong Yang, explaining the current project progress of the warships and the progress of the research progress of the warships.

"The fragile protective forces of destroyers and frigates built by the British Navy according to traditional ideas are highlighted in the current naval combat environment. These data collected from the UK provide us with rare research specimens. Considering the needs of actual combat, I think the battlefield survival of ships is one of the core indicators of Snake-class cruisers."

After a trip to the UK, Zhong Yang also visited some new British naval warships and several world-renowned large shipbuilding companies under the care of Smith and some upper-level leaders of the MI6th Bureau. Through Zhong Yang's eyes, the smart factory scanned a lot of data.

The British would never have thought that so many technical information would be leaked just by visiting it once.

"How has the research on the all-steel hull been carried out? Avoiding the harm of toxic gases generated after the aluminum hull was shot. It is very important for our future naval planning and improving the internal layout of the ship." Zhong Yang also held a display panel in his hand, and the information of the two people could be shared through wireless transmission.

"The research on the whole steel hull has been completed, and it depends on the upgrade of metal processing technology. The Second Institute has even completed the research on high-strength steel plates and ultra-tough bulletproof composite materials. We can only use it to reinforce key parts of the ship after the test and testing."

After hearing Changsheng's words, Zhong Yang was also very encouraged and continued to remind: "In terms of metal craftsmanship, I hope you can discuss more with Yin Xiangzhou, after all, it will help the ship's technological innovation in bulletproof armor."

"Yes, I understand." Although Changsheng had a relationship with Yin Xiangzhou, the director of the Second Research Institute responsible for the development of metal processing, due to some conflicts in concepts and positions, he had to obey and respond to his orders when Zhong Yang spoke.

Zhong Yang often discussed the new modular design with Chang Sheng, the main person in charge of the plan. Chang Sheng was originally one of the heads of the weapons development department, but now he has begun to take over the Seventh Research Institute, specializing in the development of ship technology. The research team under his command can be said to be the largest in the entire organization.

In addition to using traditional methods such as reasonable layout, space separation, redundant backup, bulletproof armor and equipment reinforcement, a number of innovative designs have been adopted, especially the design concept of ** vertical cabin, which was introduced in January this year.

In the view of researchers at the Seventh Institute, the battlefield survival is not only reflected in the "comprehensive battle", but also closely related to the probability of ship being discovered. Xu Jiangwen, as the commander-in-chief of the Navy, also agrees with this.

Therefore, the design of Snake-class warships emphasize appearance stealth very much. The basic design principle is: the surface of the hull is an inclined structure, the superstructure is smoothly transitioned, and the bridge is fully enclosed to avoid corner reflections from secondary and third-order direct planes, and at the same time, the exposed area of ​​external weapons and equipment is minimized.

After radar image testing, the results showed that the radar reflection section of a 3360-ton destroyer was only equivalent to a 500-ton missile boat with an appearance design without stealth treatment. The stealth effect is comparable to that of later French Lafayette-class frigates.

The snake-class cruisers also adopt similar technologies and processes, focusing on strengthening their own anti-radar stealth capabilities.

At present, the main combat power of the Hualian navy will be placed on missile boats and new missile cruisers. In this era of giant cannon ships, China will use missiles as a sharp blade to create a vast world for its dignity and glory.

Countless smoke will burn on the blue ocean. This is the fire of human greed, the enterprising spirit that will never be satisfied, and the great revenge of Eastern civilization to the Western world.

For the nearest future, both sides must shed enough blood to witness their own path.

There is always one side that will turn into ashes on the road to hegemony. The navy will be the sword that determines the ownership of the ocean. In this era, dominating the ocean means dominating the earth...

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