The power laboratory was running smoothly, and it was reported directly to Yang Yuanzhao. Yang Yuanzhao knew very well that if Tras could solve the current power problem, the power of the aircraft carrier's power crew could reach 320,000 horsepower, which was more than the 280,000 horsepower of the Kitty Hawk, which was in service in 1961. This era was only the early 20th century. With such a large horsepower, it may not be able to exert such a large effect. The energy conversion may not be as much as the Kitty Hawk, but the tonnage of the aircraft carrier is enough to reach 60,000, or even 70,000 tons. This is a huge water combat platform. ∽↗∽↗,

The aircraft carrier is different from the battleship. Its combat effectiveness comes from the aircraft above. In the era without steam catapult, it cannot achieve the efficiency of the classic American conventional-powered aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. However, the larger displacement is equivalent to a larger area. With the separation of the take-off deck and the landing deck, the performance of this aircraft carrier is far greater than that of most warships during World War II. If it assists the Northwest, the effect will be even greater than that of ordinary aircraft.

Under the forced advancement of Yang Yuanzhao, and the aircraft carrier began to enter the navy's sequence under the premise that the aircraft's effectiveness became stronger and stronger and more powerful. Although no aircraft carrier has been truly completed yet, there are still long-term expectations.

Before the Chinese navy joined the Three Seas, led by Cheng Biguang, it was just a blank. The Sanhai and the officers of the original Beiyang Navy joined, filling the Chinese navy, but the gap was still very large. With the help of Germany, a naval school was established in Qingdao. The addition of a large number of old ships, as training ships, almost used money to exchange for skilled naval soldiers.

Relying on such a multi-pronged approach, the Chinese navy has emerged in such a prosperous scene. It is precisely because everything is new that the reform, pressure and resistance in the Chinese navy are relatively small, especially in the navy, there are battleships. However, the implementation of aircraft carriers did not encounter much resistance, which is Cheng Biguang's old qualification, complained a few times, and then the promotion was smoothly promoted.

With the determination of the aircraft carrier strategy, the entire fleet changed from strong ships and cannons to air defense, fighter jets, even the first fighter jets in the northwest. Their combat radius is 400 kilometers, or even more than 500 kilometers. With such combat radius, unless it is an accidental sneak attack, the battleships cannot threaten the aircraft carrier.

This is also the fundamental reason why aircraft carriers replace battleships in the future. Perhaps compared with battleships, aircraft carriers have various disadvantages, such as being unable to fight at night and having weak protection. Once they are approached by battleships or even heavily patrols, the loss will definitely be the aircraft carrier.

However, the advantages of the attack radius and range of aircraft carriers are enough to become gravediggers of battleships. The Pacific War during World War II proved this. The main force of aircraft carriers became the strategic core of the fleet, but the battleships retreated to their subordinate position. The entire aircraft carrier combat group is centered on aircraft carriers. All other ships do not undertake combat tasks, but only provide necessary protection for aircraft carrier operations.

The aircraft carrier combat group is a professional thing. Many designs need to be re-made. Although the current battleships, heavy patrol and light patrol, can be added to the aircraft carrier combat group and can also achieve certain effects. However, compared with the battleships that are truly prepared for aircraft carriers, the professionalism is very different.

The only real aircraft carrier combat group can threaten aircraft carriers. Battleships may only threaten aircraft carriers when they attack and contact the aircraft carrier at night. During the day, it is almost impossible. The combat radius of 300-500 kilometers of aircraft carriers is about an hour for aircraft, but for warships, it may be a daytime period and cannot be found, let alone combat.

Currently, the power indicators of the Telas Power Laboratory have been based on this to design the aircraft carriers. By the way, a batch of air venting frigates were set up. In the era without missiles, they could only rely on dense array systems composed of anti-aircraft machine guns. Such air defense design is not easier than the main gun warship. How to reasonably test the application of warship tonnage has become the biggest constraint.

Yang Yuanzhao doesn't have to worry much about the warship. Northwest learned from Germany, but after the Fantasy and Orion reforms, it formed its own unique style. The design concept gradually matured and the control of tonnage was significantly improved. Of course, this is indispensable for the excellent effect of computers. The help of computers, precise model aircraft, and even pool systems can help the design of warships avoid detours. At this level, the Northwest can quickly smooth out the gap between Britain and Germany.

The Zhenghang aircraft carrier is not troublesome after the steam catapult is missing. As long as the structure of the hull is considered, the flight deck above is the same. If you don’t take the separate flight deck, just walk on the double deck directly, which is equivalent to being in place directly.

The aircraft carrier has entered the design, and other warships of the aircraft carrier combat group are also being designed, but the aircraft that restricts the aircraft's capabilities are the biggest factor that restricts the aircraft carrier's capabilities cannot be underestimated.

Speaking of aircraft manufacturing plants, we have to talk about Xi'an aircraft manufacturing plants, which have only gradually developed since 1910 and have become an emerging industrial base. It has now become the most important aircraft manufacturing plants in the northwest, from Northwest No. 1 to No. 2, when it comes to Seahawks, Seabirds, and Sea Dragons, the planes enter the sea from the road and become increasingly powerful pillars of the entire northwest.

The engines of the northwest aircraft were initially piston propeller engines. From the research in the northwest, two systems of air-cooling and water-cooling were gradually developed. With the increasing number of engines, the difficulty of upward progress became increasingly greater. This requires slowly accumulation and relying on continuous research to gradually increase the power of the aircraft. However, Yang Yuanzhao is definitely a master in the field of power. He has not thoroughly learned all the aircraft engines and cannot produce advanced aircraft engines, but he still knows some more advanced theories.

In later generations, large low-speed cargo and passenger aircraft were mostly practical turboprop engines. This type of engine appeared in later generations and was after the 1970s. Its performance was extremely outstanding, but because large propellers could not break through the sound barrier, they could not be used for military purposes. In military terms, they were all jet supersonic aircraft.

However, the excellent performance and fuel-efficient characteristics of turboprop engines have developed its civilian uses, and the military uses have been reduced a lot, at most as a transport aircraft. Or tankers, especially the latter, can only refuel helicopters and some low-speed aircraft, and cannot play a strategic role. That era was the era when jet aircraft existed. Whether it was a first-generation, second-generation or third-generation aircraft, jets had huge advantages over turboprop.

In this era, even ordinary aircraft use automobile engines. Advanced aircraft have not even entered the era of piston-type propellers, and turbine engines are simply gifts from heaven.

The theory that restricts turbine engines has been gradually improved by many scientists under the slightest point of view by Yang Yuanzhao. The difficulty of processing is also solved by a large number of technical workers and advanced machine tools in the northwest. As for materials, this is the largest Land Rover that restricts turboprops, which is not a problem for the northwest.

World War I and World War II are the era of the fastest development of military technology in the world. The breakthroughs of various materials and the development of various driving forces have allowed humans to create powerful weapons. The development of materials cannot be achieved overnight. The reason why turboprop engines appear late is because of its material constraints, and they need excellent materials that can withstand high temperatures above 900 degrees, and have a certain degree of hardness and acid-base resistance. If countries spend a lot of effort to research such materials, it is not impossible to make them, but a roadblock is always in front of them, that is, the processing technology.

The stronger the material, the more difficult it is to process it. Many things are easier to make, but it is really very difficult to process them, which has stopped many people. But for the Northwest, all this is nothing. For the Northwest machine tools, it has reached the level of the third generation of machine tools. In addition to the lack of CNC, for some excellent masters or talented machine tool workers, relying on these, you can process workpieces that meet the requirements, and the calculator can calculate more in-depth. Even now, at the Yinshan base, research is beginning, and CNC is gradually researching. However, Yang Yuanzhao does not have CNC chips in his hands. Relying on initial chips like calculators, even putting the mobile phone chip industry on, it has little effect. This is not a system at all.

However, there are still preliminary research results. Now, in the Xi'an Aircraft Manufacturing Plant, 12 large turboprop engines with a single horsepower of 2,500 horsepower have arrived a month ago. The different concepts have brought about an engine jump, which has increased by 1,000 from about 1,500 horsepower. The most important thing is that such an engine is much more powerful in terms of power consumption and practicality than the previous engines.

What restricts the aircraft is one aspect, and the energy consumption and performance ratio is another aspect. The energy consumption of a large 2,500-horsepower engine is only about half the energy consumption of a piston-type engine. In other words, such a horsepower engine is more fuel-efficient than a piston-type engine.

High horsepower and fuel-efficient. Such an engine will simply cause earth-shaking changes to an aircraft. The most intuitive thing is the increase in combat radius. The combat power of an aircraft carrier comes from the aircraft on the aircraft carrier. The larger the combat radius of the aircraft is, the larger the combat radius of the aircraft carrier. The more fuel-efficient engine brings a very intuitive effect.

Starting from the strategic bomber, the Northwest has perfectly realized the manufacturing of twin-engine aircraft. It is currently conquering three or even four-engine. Once the four-engine is completed and the total power is similar, it will become a super b29 in World War II. Whether it is take-off weight, combat radius, or even speed, it will have a huge increase. At that time, the name of strategic bomber will appear completely on the stage of the world.

During World War II, Japan's collapse was laid by the Pacific War, but the emergence of the base that could take off the B29 was the most fundamental reason why Japan could not continue to attack. There is no way, the power of strategic bombing is too great. A single aircraft carried a missile capacity, perhaps like an airship, but the aircraft was much faster than an airship, and it was easy to form hundreds or even thousands of aircraft formations, projecting tens of thousands of tons at a time. Such carpet bombing would have a huge impact on a country's spiritual and substantial impact.

A real strategic bomber can only have a combat aircraft with a load capacity of more than 29,200 kilograms and a combat radius of more than 2,250 kilometers. If such a 4-engine aircraft can be replaced, a 2,500-horsepower turboprop, or even the next 8 rounds are completed, the load capacity of the strategic bomber can even exceed that of the airship. At that time, the overwhelming strategic bomber will change the color of the world.

In fact, during World War II, the strategic bombing effect of b29 was not concentratedly demonstrated, and the concept of air supremacy still existed in aircraft carrier battles. Because heavy bombers could not board the aircraft carrier, the microparticles of twin-engine ordinary bombers such as b17 were studied at that time.

Only Yang Yuanzhao, who came from later generations, knew the terribleness of air supremacy. After the turboprop took a different approach and made preliminary progress, he immediately began targeted research; based on this large engine, a suitable aircraft was produced, first of all, land-based, and the number of strategic bombers was to ensure the number of strategic bombers. As for the navy, the restrictiveness on the aircraft carrier was greater. Compared with the land, the runway that could be expanded infinitely, as long as the aircraft could theoretically take off, it could use a longer runway to take off. However, the navy is different. The runway of the aircraft carrier has certain standards and cannot be expanded endlessly. I don’t think about the difficulty issue, even if it can be expanded to several thousand meters, then the design of the warship will become a problem. A warship that is several thousand meters long will be drunk if you think about it.

In the absence of infinite expansion, technicians can only perform some processing under the general creativity given by Yang Yuanzhao, and finally give the maximum length of the aircraft carrier runway.

Under the design concept, with the maximum length possible, the designer then began to reduce weight on the future carrier-based aircraft, striving to develop aircraft that can take off based on the prescribed aircraft carrier. This fixed-condition design method is a huge postgraduate entrance examination for aircraft designers. Xi'an aircraft manufacturer has spent a lot of energy and progress has slowly gotten faster. Now, two prototypes have been made and are undergoing intense experiments and debugging in the test flight field. (To be continued.)
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