To be honest, Jiang Chen had never seen such a large output, even in his previous life, he had never boarded such a large tonnage warship. This time, he also opened his eyes, and said that this was a ship or an aircraft carrier, and he didn't want to say that it was a city floating on the sea in the game. Jiang Chen walked around a lot of cabins on this, but it was also an eye-opener for him. Although the suitability of this ship in the towing country has been dismantled beyond recognition, and even deliberately destroyed, Jiang Chen can still see the previous appearance of this place from these original layouts.

Jiang Chen is like this, not to mention these experts, basically as soon as they board the ship, they are basically in a state of madness. They all wanted to be in their twenties and run around the whole ship. When some workers or accompanying staff changed the environment in the cabin and the suitability of the garbage, they were blocked by these old experts one by one, forbidding them to understand, saying that it would affect their investigation and research. A few more careful old experts also went over to put some garbage and things that destroyed the road back to the place where Taihe had originally put them, and they studied them later.

Jiang Chen was still carefully checking some facilities here, only to hear someone shouting at Jiang Chen over there: "Xiao Jiang, Xiao Jiang, come here, there is a big discovery." ”

Jiang Chen answered, then turned his head to look, and found that it was Feng Lao who was shouting at Jiang Chen excitedly.

What's wrong, Old Feng. Jiang Chen walked over quickly and asked.

What do you see this? Feng Lao said excitedly, pointing to a large device and several gas canisters.

Jiang Chen stepped forward and took a closer look, and when he saw some specific institutions and English logos, Jiang Chen said excitedly: "This is the catapult on the aircraft carrier!"

That's right! Feng Lao said excitedly: "This is a steam catapult for aircraft carriers, I just saw it." This one is basically relatively complete, and we can use it if we repair some of it. ”

Jiang Chen was also pleasantly surprised. As a person from later generations, he knew the meaning and importance of this catapult. Because of this catapult, yes, our country's aircraft carrier was built many years late, and we did not build a catapult in the end, yes, our country's first aircraft carrier. It was also necessary to use a glide with relatively small combat effectiveness to take off and release. Don't open just such a diǎn, but in fact, the surface is much worse.

≤dǐng≤diǎn≤小≤語,.¢.⊕os_(); The steam catapult was introduced in August 1950, and the prototype was developed by Mitchell, commander of the United Kingdom Naval Aviation Reserve, and the old US Navy purchased the patent and developed it to maturity. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier currently equipped with a 76.3-meter-long -13 steam catapult, which can catapult two carrier-based aircraft per minute, is powerful enough to catapult a two-ton car to the sea two kilometers away.

To this day, only the United States has fully mastered the steam catapult technology, and even the French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle" has also adopted the steam catapult technology of the United States. Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy and the Western Half of the country due to technological limitations. It is impossible to develop a steam catapult that really passes the technical and technological level, so it can only use the sliding and warped deck on the domestic aircraft carrier (that is, the end of the deck is made into a slope upturned, and the carrier-based aircraft rushes out of the deck along the upturned slope after taking off, forming an oblique throwing motion), and the combat efficiency is far inferior to that of the steam catapult. Although Lao Mei is a leader in the field of steam catapults, the inherent lack of steam catapults determines that it will be replaced by newer technology.

In terms of working principle, the steam catapult uses high-pressure steam to push the piston to drive the slider on the ejection track and eject the carrier-based aircraft connected to it. It's bulky. When working, a lot of steam is consumed, and the power is wasted. Only about 6% of the steam is utilized. To produce and transport steam, aircraft carriers are equipped with desalination units, large boilers and numerous pipelines, and the amount of work and maintenance is staggering. Its biggest flaw is that it cannot launch drones because of too much ejection power, and the drones in service will be torn apart by acceleration during ejection because of their light weight.

But despite all these shortcomings, the steam catapult is still in use on aircraft carriers. Bing is a catapult technique that is top secret. The combat effectiveness he has demonstrated is also incomparable with the current glide-over take-off method. For example, this one is that it can take off a large number of planes per minute, and according to the standards of the United States, they can use the four catapult planes on the ship to catapult out an aviation combat squadron within one minute in an emergency. This performance is not comparable to that of ordinary glide aircraft carriers. In this way, there is no advantage in terms of quantity.

The take-off weight of the second aircraft is large enough to carry more fuel and weapons. Glide take-offs are generally not fully loaded, and ammunition and fuel cannot be taken into account. Generally, in order to carry sufficient ammunition, the aircraft can only carry a small amount of fuel to glide over and take off. Because there was no tanker in the open sea, Su Yoyo took off another fighter from the aircraft carrier at this time, and used the refueling pod to refuel the take-off fighter, which greatly limited the combat effectiveness. When all the planes took off and the refueling was completed, the time for the operation was already delayed. Catapult take-off, on the other hand, does not require so many restrictions, and it can eject a fully loaded aircraft with sufficient ammunition and fuel without the need for additional refueling. In this way, his combat effectiveness has been greatly improved.

Thirdly, the take-off space required is small, and an aircraft carrier can take off up to 4 fighters at the same time, and the aircraft will not deviate during takeoff. In this case, it is especially valuable on an aircraft carrier where every inch of land is valuable. The take-off area needs to be small, which means that the entire aircraft carrier deck can carry more fighters, which will greatly increase the attack power of an aircraft carrier formation. The glide thing takes off, it needs a lot of take-off space, because the fit of the aircraft seven take-off is not fixed, so it may be due to the pilot's mistake or sudden wind measurement and other reasons, the aircraft's peace of mind will change, so if the take-off area is too small, it will be very unsafe. However, in this way, the entire aircraft carrier deck space will be wasted.

The fourth and most important one is that there are many types of aircraft that can be ejected. Catapult take-off, he can catapult a variety of aircraft types, such as this fixed-wing AWACS aircraft, tankers, alert aircraft, anti-submarine aircraft, transport aircraft, etc. This type of aircraft is relatively large and requires sufficient lift when taking off, which is simply not possible in a glide take-off, because a glide take-off cannot give him enough speed to provide him with the lift he can lift into the air. Unlike the glide thief, it accelerates quickly enough to allow these planes to gain the speed and lift they can lift off. In this way, its combat effectiveness is even more improved. (To be continued.) )