Although there were only 3 warships involved in the shelling, the firepower intensity was equivalent to 3.

2c In 177, before the project was established for the "Qinling" class cruiser and "Taihu" class destroyer, three military research institutions in the Republic made major breakthroughs in several key technologies of electromagnetic guns, and the installation of electromagnetic guns became a question of time...

At that time, the Republic's Navy conducted in-depth research on the launch of electromagnetic guns.

There are only two problems that hinder the promotion of electromagnetic guns, one is materials and the other is energy.

Orbital electromagnetic guns require two extremely special materials: one is the high-temperature superconducting material used as conductors, and the other is the high-strength wear-resistant material used to make "blast barrels". Both are indispensable.

High-temperature superconducting materials are easy to solve, but the difficult ones are high-strength wear-resistant materials.

As a key project in the second phase of the "Yanhuang Plan", high-strength wear-resistant alloys are not only the key material for the manufacturing of electromagnetic guns, but also the necessary material for the manufacturing of electromagnetic catapults.

In order to reduce development risks, the Republic had to adopt a two-pronged strategy.

While focusing on the development of orbital electromagnetic guns, the Navy and the Army jointly established the "Electromagnetic Weapons and Equipment Research Office", jointly invested over 100 million yuan, and entrusted five scientific research institutions and research institutions to carry out the preliminary development of coil electromagnetic guns, concentrating their efforts on overcoming several technical difficulties.

In terms of working theory, coil electromagnetic guns are more advanced than orbital electromagnetic guns.

Of course, it is more difficult to develop coil electromagnetic guns. In addition to not requiring high-strength wear-resistant materials, the requirements for coil electromagnetic guns exceed those of orbital electromagnetic guns in other aspects. Especially the design and manufacturing methods of "high-density induction coils". No country has sufficient technical reserves.

As long as the material technology is overcome, it is not difficult to develop orbital electromagnetic guns.

For the Republic, the energy problem is easy to solve. Under the premise that the state concentrates its efforts to solve the "air-based laser interception system" ground energy problem, the electromagnetic gun ground energy problem is very easy to solve. For the navy, because warships have enough space, the energy problem is not prominent.

According to theoretical calculations, although the electromagnetic gun requires a 12-level composite battery to drive, it can use 8 or even 6-level composite batteries as energy storage carriers. It does not require all 12-level composite batteries to be used.

At this time, the Navy and the Ministry of Defense had differences on the power schemes of cruisers and destroyers.

Batteries can be used as energy carriers for electromagnetic guns and as energy carriers for power systems. When the production of 8-level composite battery land has increased by dozens of times and has not been put into civilian markets for the time being, the Ministry of Defense tends to build "fully electric warships" rather than "nuclear power hybrid warships". The main reason is that the cost of fusion reactors remains high. The cost of "nuclear power hybrid warships" is very high. The Navy tends to build "nuclear power hybrid warships" rather than "fully electric warships". Because only when equipped with fusion reactors, warships have the ability to truly continue to fight. Otherwise, they will have to return to the port or rely on other warships to provide electricity.

Here we have to mention another type of warship, namely the "Huaxia" class aircraft carrier.

As the first surface warship in the Republic equipped with a fusion reactor, when designing the "Huaxia" class aircraft carrier, the engineer thought of providing electricity to the "fully electric warships" in the formation at sea. Therefore, the "Huaxia" class fusion reactor can operate at 125% of the design power in a short period of time, and at the same time charge the 2 escort warships.

Based on this situation, the Ministry of Defense firmly believes that there is no need to equip fusion reactors on escort warships.

If the Qinling class is equipped with a 2500~:6-level composite battery, a 550~:6-level composite battery and a 80~:12-level composite battery can not only ensure its maximum endurance of 8,500 nautical miles, but also provide all the electricity for the two electromagnetic cannons equipped with 550 rounds of shells on the basis of the endurance of the nautical miles, and there is no need to charge before replenishing ammunition (charge can be carried out simultaneously with ammunition replenishment).

The Navy still insists on equiping fusion reactors on large escort warships. The Navy's reason is very simple. Escort warships cannot always be fought with aircraft carriers, and often need to fight alone. To this end, the Navy took the combat operations of the US Navy's "Zumwalt" class destroyer in the Iran War as an example to prove that large warships equipped with electromagnetic guns (electrothermal chemical guns) can not only shoulder the heavy responsibility of supporting the ground, but also have to leave the aircraft carrier to operate alone.

The dispute between the Navy and the Ministry of National Defense almost ruined the Qinling class cruiser and the Taihu class destroyer.

Until 2019, something happened when the electromagnetic gun was about to be developed, which eventually changed the attitude of the Ministry of Defense.

At that time, the United States had already manufactured composite batteries and promoted civilian products equipped with level 2 composite batteries in the international market at a "sale price", and sold military products equipped with level 8 composite batteries to some countries. The Republic immediately revised the "electric product export specifications" to promote civilian products equipped with level 6 composite batteries to the international market, including civil aviation aircraft, advanced electric vehicles, and advanced electric yachts in the mainland, and sold military products equipped with level 8 composite batteries to "friendly countries".

As a result, the market demand for 6-level composite batteries and 8-level composite batteries has soared.

If a "fully electric warship" is built, the cost will exceed the budget

Relatively speaking, it is more cost-effective to equip warships with fusion reactors.

At this point, the dispute over "nuclear power" of the escort warships ended. Because the anti-submarine frigate was not equipped with electromagnetic guns and had relatively small displacement, the Navy did not install fusion reactors on the frigate.

The Qinling class is equipped with a hd-3a fusion reactor with a maximum output power w and an emergency maximum output power of 60mww. It works at the maximum emergency output power to ensure that the warship sails at a speed of 30 knots, and while powering all electronics and power equipment on the warship, it can provide 15mww of power supply to each of the two electromagnetic guns, ensuring that the electromagnetic gun energy storage battery is fully charged within 30 minutes; if the warship reduces the speed to 16 knots (cruising speed), turn off unnecessary electronics and power equipment, and the charging operation can be completed within 20 minutes. Each electromagnetic gun is equipped with a 45~12-level composite battery, which can be emitted with maximum energy without charging.

From this, it can be calculated that the "Qinling" class can fire 96 shells within the first 5 minutes. While charging the electromagnetic gun energy storage battery, each electromagnetic gun can continue to fire at a speed of 2 rounds per minute.

The "Taihu" class is equipped with an HD-3b fusion reactor with a maximum rated output power of 30mww and a maximum emergency output power of w. Except for only one electromagnetic gun, the other performance is comparable to that of the "Qinling" class.

Equipping a fusion reactor has another very obvious benefit. When improving it in the future, various electrical energy weapons can be added!

Because the priority level of the Qinling class is higher than that of the Taihu class, the Qinling land service time is about 8 months ahead of the Taihu class, so the Qinling class is the first type of warship equipped with electromagnetic guns in the world.

The electromagnetic guns equipped with the Qinling class are comparable to those of the Zumwalter class destroyers.

The main reason is that the Republic focuses on solving the problem of "existence or not" of electromagnetic guns, and has not increased the development of shells in the early stage. Influenced by the special launch principle of electromagnetic guns, before the key technologies were solved, the shells used by electromagnetic guns were relatively single and could not be equipped with various extended-range ammunition like electrothermal chemical guns.

Even so, the performance of the dp-11a electromagnetic gun is still sufficient to be "present-minded".

Compared with traditional chemical energy guns, including electrothermal chemical guns, the most prominent feature of electromagnetic guns is that they have greater kinetic energy at the muzzle, but that they can "steplessly adjust" the firing energy according to actual combat needs, and exert the power of electromagnetic guns in the most ideal way. Another feature of orbital electromagnetic guns is that they can use "adapters" to use shells of different calibers and natures according to different combat tasks. For example, small-caliber air explosive bombs are used when dealing with air targets, large-caliber high-caliber bombs are used when dealing with ground targets, and large-caliber armor-piercing bombs or semi-piercing bombs are used when dealing with sea targets.

Of course, the biggest advantage of electromagnetic guns is the amazing range and rate of fire.

When using ordinary ground attack shells, the maximum range of dp-1a (output energy 25mj) is 185 kilometers. When using reduced-loading ballistics to correct the shells, the maximum range of dp-11a is 240 kilometers. After the rocket extended-range bomb was successfully developed, the maximum range of dp-11a was increased to 360 kilometers!

During rapid shooting, dp-11a can fire 8 shells in 2c seconds, or 16 shells in 1 minute, or 5 minutes (it is not the energy supply that affects the continuous shooting speed, but the orbital cooling). The fusion reactor directly supplies electricity to the fusion reactor, and at the same time, when the battery is slowly charged, it can also use the maximum launch energy to fire shells at a speed of 2 per minute.

In terms of range, dp-11a is comparable to that of the American geothermal chemical cannon, with a firing rate of 20% to 50%.

If the orbital heat dissipation problems and electrical energy supply problems can be solved, the rate of fire of the orbital electromagnetic gun can be further improved. According to theoretical calculations, the maximum rate of fire of the orbital electromagnetic gun is more than 0 times that of the chemical energy gun.

Technological progress is endless, only stronger, no strongest!

Because there is no need to carry a launching medicine bag, the electromagnetic gun has a stronger carrying capacity under the same tonnage.

The standard ammunition load of the "Qinling" class is 750 rounds per gun (250 rounds are stored in the ammunition depot below the turret, and the other 500 rounds are stored in the backup ammunition depot). The reserve ammunition capacity of each gun "Zumwalter" class is only smaller than that of the "Qinling" class.

The advantages of electromagnetic guns are obvious, otherwise the United States would not have spent billions of dollars to develop electromagnetic guns, and plans to replace the electrothermal chemical guns on the Zumwalter-class destroyer with electromagnetic guns.

Although no one denies the ability of electromagnetic guns to deal with air and sea targets, due to technical limitations, the performance of electromagnetic guns still needs to be improved. The initially equipped electromagnetic guns are mainly used for ground attacks. It has to be admitted that the cost of electromagnetic guns is far greater than that of ordinary guns, but the price of shells is only one percent of that of missiles with the same range. The comprehensive combat effectiveness of electromagnetic guns is still far greater than that of other ground strike weapons!

War is fighting for technology, but often we still have to care about costs!

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In the new January, please give me the guaranteed monthly tickets in my brothers! (To be continued,)

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