Chapter 630 Chinese Aircraft Carrier
For more than ten years, the Chinese New Dynasty Navy has not built a battleship for itself. All the research and engineering personnel have gathered together to do one thing - to build an aircraft carrier.
It is not the life-long jet fighter aircraft carriers in this world after the 1980s, but the propeller aircraft carriers at the level of World War II. The route they took is different from that in this world. They are not all transformed on battleships as the basic version, but are brand new designs from scratch.
Of course, they have various aircraft carrier data collected from this world as reference, and supercomputing capabilities from this world help with drawing calculations, ship type testing, segmented design and production process decomposition design, etc.
In order to cultivate the ship design capabilities of Plane B, the entire work did not allow Liu Fatty and others from this world to intervene. It was entirely based on Jiao Hai and his group of people starting from scratch, slashing out one by one subsystem, and finally creating the entire design.
During the entire design and research process, a whole generation of ship design experts were trained. They integrated industrial production capacity from scratch, studied and practiced, and slowly took a solid step by step. With the support of almost unlimited financial appropriations, with the assistance of the supercomputing center, the conditions were even better than the Chinese Navy 2,000 years ago in this world.
If you have a sword for ten years, you will really be worthy of nothingness.
After understanding the design concept of the world's naval power and understanding various aspects of aircraft carrier tactical strategies, in the past three years, we began to switch from the final lofting model to formal construction.
In fact, as far as the level of China's industry is concerned, all the industrial capacity, basic equipment and parts production of aircraft carriers are ready-made. It is possible to build 40,000-ton battleships by itself, and everything needed for aircraft carriers can be provided.
The new thing is only equipped with carrier-based aircraft. However, this is also a ten-year research project. With the help of the technical data provided by the world, they have crossed the earliest thirty-year difficult stage from the beginning and entered the mid-stage level of World War II.
The training of pilots is quite troublesome and requires years of continuous practice. From the land simulation platform to the sea ship modification platform, takeoff and landing bit by bit. Finally, the combat capability of the entire ship is formed.
The most troublesome thing is aircraft carrier management and command.
An aircraft carrier is a small mobile town, and it is also a large factory that requires close cooperation among thousands of people. Whether it can operate smoothly and strictly directly determines the output ratio of combat effectiveness.
In this world, a considerable number of military fans only know how to pay attention to the displacement, catapult system, power, speed, etc. of aircraft carriers, and compare data one by one, but do not know that the real key is overall management and operation.
In this regard, due to innate defects in the world, the Chinese navy did not have the experience of using and commanding large ships until the 1990s. Therefore, even if you obtain a complete set of Varyag aircraft carrier information and obtain a semi-destructive hull, it will take more than ten years to understand it thoroughly, to successfully modify it, and then to form combat effectiveness.
Many people just know how to look at the superficial data of Western powers, such as those who built aircraft carriers like dumplings during World War II, and could be put into battle in more than ten months, etc. But they don’t think that in addition to the US Navy, traditional European naval powers also have at least one or two hundred years of experience in naval construction and use.
From the era of sailing warships, to the era of neat warships, to the era of dreadnoughts, hundreds of years of experience in maritime combat, from more than a hundred people to thousands of crew management and command experience. They are all the deep foundation for their final completion of aircraft carrier command and combat capabilities.
The Chinese navy in this world has been basically out of the Beiyang period to the difficulty of starting after the 1980s. There are too many homework left in the middle. I want to learn from the beginning. The level of World War II is useless. During the Cold War period, people will not give it to you. They can only try to get information and steal the lesson while rubbing the summary by themselves.
But the Navy is a very expensive military branch. Don’t play with the Navy if you don’t have money. This is a hard indicator.
It was not until the 21st century that the Chinese Navy had great economic development and sufficient military fund allocation that the Chinese Navy began to start working hard to get into the water. It took only more than ten years to make a full decision.
Therefore, a century-old navy is not something that can be crossed casually.
The new dynasty navy of the plane B started in the 1970s and ended in the first decade of the 20th century, and combined with nearly 40 years of ups and downs. Although the early progress was slow, the foundation was laid very firmly. The qualities they showed during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 were definitely qualified even if they were not as good as those of the British and French powers.
In the past decade, the older generation of navy and the new generation of young people worked together, and their careful management finally produced fruitful results now.
Against this background, the first "Kunpeng-class" aircraft carrier was finally born.
Under the autocratic rebellion of the head of state, the "Kunpeng-class" aircraft carrier was built for a complete design as soon as it came up. Its ship was 258.1 meters long (water line length), 267.4 meters (flight deck length), 33.2 meters wide, 7.63 meters draft, 37,924 tons of standard displacement, and 43,200 tons of full load displacement. It uses eight-seater heavy oil special-fired boiler and four-seater gear-driven steam turbine, with a total power of 144,000 axle horsepower. Maximum speed: 33.45 knots, endurance: 15,000 nautical miles/15 knots.
The hull steel uses high-strength special steel for ships produced by plane B. The related technology comes from this world, and its level is equivalent to that of the Western power in the early days of the Cold War. Its performance index is second only to the hy-80 series modulated steel in the United States.
From the perspective of design concept, the aircraft carrier has deviated from the battleship protection concept that still existed during World War II, and started directly from the foundation of the design and construction of Western aircraft carriers after the war.
Without relevant experience, the whole process will inevitably be extremely difficult, but the head of state is not in a hurry. He is very clear that China has a long time to develop, but the pace of surrounding expansion can slow down. Even if war is forcing, with the current strength of the Chinese navy, it is enough to cope with it.
As long as you don’t take the initiative to attack from the outside seas, you will be more than enough to let go. The confidence also comes from your huge advantages in aircraft.
Starting from 1900, China quietly established an air force on the plane B. The research and development of the Land Aviation and HNA fighter jets were carried out simultaneously, adopting a multi-purpose strategy of one aircraft. That is, developing a basic model, and on this basis, it is modified for land warfare and air combat respectively.
In this way, the dispersion of researchers can be avoided by the fact that there are few researchers, and relevant forces from all over the country can be concentrated to tackle the problem.
In fact, this is still a process of learning and practicing.
Without the world's aerospace technology accumulation that has been developing for a hundred years, and without the leading technology giants such as Qian Xuesen, who were all over the world, the research on the new dynasty on the B plane would be much more difficult.
Not to mention anything else. All researchers need to learn first, and eat up various aviation-related knowledge from the 19th century to the mid-to-late 20th century. Without living professors, they can only learn by themselves through videos and various lesson plans.
Fortunately, there are various publicly traded papers and publications to refer to, and after more than ten years of bumpy stumbling, they finally have some solid foundations.
China has always been without geniuses. With a population base of up to 400 million or 500 million, it can always burst out with enough genius brains. As long as they are provided with appropriate conditions, they can create amazing achievements.
The key is that with the correct results of this world as a reference, they can avoid wasting too much time on the wrong path. Every scientific and technological achievement in this world means thousands of wrong experiments and countless wrong products. It can be imagined that the waste of time, costs, resources, and energy is avoided.
Yang Hao was not eager for quick success and instant benefits and kept selling advanced equipment to Plant B, but started from the first five-year plan and steadily promoted learning and research and development in the field of scientific research.
At the beginning of this world, China was almost in poverty in scientific research. Later, it received assistance from the Soviet Union to build an industrial system in an all-round way, but most of them were carried out without knowing the reason. After they had fully understood the potential of those equipment and materials, they wanted to go further and found it extremely difficult.
Basic materials science. All power fields, including internal combustion engines and motors, aerospace, all those who are called industrial hearts are shortcomings that cannot be filled in a short period of time.
Especially in the field of materials science, the information accumulated by Westerners in one or two hundred years will not be open to you at all, and they cannot buy it even if they spend money. Even if people don’t tell you how the experiment is done, just knowing the principles, you can’t even get a suitable laboratory and R&D process. Not to mention the products.
There is no shortcut to take this aspect, so I can only rely on enough economic conditions and make up for the lessons.
So, the Chinese in the 21st century were shocked to discover that suddenly the group of scientific and technological forces in China exploded, and the number of papers continued to increase, as if they emerged overnight. In fact, it was around the second decade that the economy developed and the funds were sufficient. Various laboratories were established, and the scientific research army had work to put the previous theoretical things into practice.
But even so, it will take at least 10 or 20 years for China to make up for its shortcomings in materials and power to force into developed Western countries. Don’t think so much about anything beyond the limit. People are not stagnant, the more they reach high-end fields, the more difficult it is to force into. Furthermore, there are only two countries in the world - China and foreign countries, and the result that the Chinese people want is to surpass foreign countries at the level of tens of millions of products.
Even if Chinese people have lice on their bodies, they must have double eyelids, which is more beautiful than foreigners.
Therefore, for Chinese scientific researchers in this world, transcending these two words is really not a lifetime thing.
The conditions in Plane B are much better. From the beginning, they had laboratory conditions at least in the 1980s, and had a complete set of research systems for learning and reference, without going astray. They had almost complete successful products to refer to, without requiring millions of trial and error. Their research conditions were far superior to China in the 1980s.
Based on this, we conduct research on various basic materials, starting from being an apprentice to a little bit of breakthrough accumulation, and using some of the results to exchange for the data that Westerners have obtained to enrich the database. In just a few years, we have the foundation to go side by side with the West, but on the road ahead, it is like a plane, the other is walking, speeding.
In addition, the head of state has been desperately expanding its territory and putting land that produces various mineral raw materials into the target to be captured. It is expected that in the future, China will become another country that may be supported by global resources on the B plane.
The basic conditions for scientific research are very important. All the countries in this world, such as Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and other countries have similar resources from all over the world. The United Kingdom, which has colonies all over the world, the United States is everywhere in military bases, and the Soviet Union, which has red crazes swept most of the world.
In comparison, the hard-working China is blocked and unable to move in place. The minerals on its own territory are barren and difficult to mine and smelting are even more difficult. It is particularly difficult to produce some high-quality steel. If it weren't for rare earth materials that could be used as unimaginable oil, it would be difficult to manufacture qualified products according to Western technical indicators.
In this regard, it is particularly obvious in the engine.
In the final analysis, scientific research requires accumulation, and it is a work that requires persistence and dedication. There is no such thing as stopping or resting in the middle. If you stop for a while, others will surpass it.
In the new aircraft carrier of the B plane, every part and every screw is made by itself, and the radar and computer are also assembled by itself. The oldest large-scale integrated circuit chip comes from a production line that I don’t know how many times it is. But to take it one step forward, you can study and manufacture lithography machines and some troubles. Conservatively, you can understand the information in 20 years, even if you are high-speed.
Having an aircraft carrier means a comprehensive surpassing in the field of naval construction and a major change in naval combat thinking.
A generation of naval soldiers who had just gotten familiar with the battleships were very unfamiliar with this, but it was a step that they would inevitably take. Because at the same time, Britain, the United States and other countries had already begun testing of aircraft landing and takeoffs, and tried to carry very primitive aircraft on the battleships. With the catalysis of a war, the great powers could quickly make major breakthroughs in this regard.
The emergence of specialized aircraft carriers is only a few years later. China seems to be much ahead, but in fact it is because its foundation is too weak and it has to fly first.
In any case, in 1910, two aircraft carriers with a platoon of up to 43,000 tons appeared, which was a very amazing thing. All countries were still trying hard to get the battleships to this tonnage, and suddenly they found that the thing was outdated, which would be very sad.
Yang Hao was unwilling to let them return to the right path so quickly. He had to mislead the great powers to walk more time on the dark road of battleships, the farther they walked, the better.
In October 1910, two aircraft carriers loaded with fighter jets quietly drove into the Pacific Ocean, declaring the arrival of a new era in the entire plane B world. However, no one knows when it will work.
Patrol aircraft took off continuously at Wake Island Air Force Base, launching search and alert to the surrounding area of 500 kilometers to ensure that the aircraft carrier formation is docked without any accidents.
On the Hawaiian Islands more than two thousand miles away, a group of restless guys are preparing to make big news, and an unprecedented sense of tension is shrouded in the sky above the strategic center of the Pacific Ocean. (~^~)
Chapter completed!