Entering the lower cabin of the aircraft carrier, the oppressive, dark feeling, and then the smell of steel and engine oil mixing, forced the people to breathe. www.biquge.info Although the lights above the passage are bright, it is difficult to adapt to the environment in the cabin for a short time when you are surrounded by copper walls.

"It's so hot in here, isn't the ship's ventilation on?" Chen Xu gasped and leaned against the cold bulkhead to make himself comfortable.

Tang Yi didn't know where to take out a handkerchief, kept wiping the sweat on his forehead, and said with a smile: "After the aircraft carrier docked, all the steam boilers were shut down, and the generators could not generate electricity. The electrical equipment on this ship consumes a lot of electricity, and if it is fully turned on, it will use more electricity than half of the city. We have no experience in repairing and replenishing aircraft carriers after docking, and we have no preparations at the port, so the wires are still pulled up overnight to ensure that the whole ship has electricity for lighting. Fortunately, after the Americans delivered the aircraft carrier, they also provided a complete maintenance manual, and three trucks were transported with this maintenance document alone. Among them, there are technical drawings of the power supply equipment of the port and the ship, which have now been studied and manufactured by the factory there, and the factory director there has already made a military order to ensure that the equipment will be built within three months to solve the problem of the aircraft carrier's lack of electricity. ”

Chen Weiguo simply took off his coat and hung it on his arm, and swore loudly as he walked: "Looking at it along the way, I think there is no difficulty in designing this aircraft carrier itself, and our domestic ship designers can draw drawings." The difficulty of this big ship lies in the fact that the equipment on board needs to be gradually improved after repeated experiments and improvements, and the crew's experience in using the equipment is the most precious military secret. The Americans' experience in operating this aircraft carrier for more than 30 years has been accumulated with the blood and sweat of a large number of crew members, and I dare to guarantee that no less than 30 crew members have been killed or injured due to improper use of machinery on this warship since its commissioning. ”

"That's right, although the Americans handed us a lot of information about the maintenance of the aircraft carrier this time, we found that many of the folders of the materials were brand new, and the paper was obviously just made. These Americans should have re-edited and revised these materials before handing over the aircraft carrier, and many core secrets were concealed from us. Tang Yi nodded his head beside him, and he was deeply convinced of what Chen Weiguo said.

That's right! The Yankees are not stupid, and the accumulated experience in the use of warships is the key to forming combat effectiveness. The Yankees gave us the aircraft carrier only to attract military pressure from the Soviets, and this is the significance of this aircraft carrier coming to China. As for whether we can form combat effectiveness, it is none of the Americans' business. ”

Chen Xu was most afraid of this stuffiness, and every time he walked through a passage, he hugged the clean pipe around the corner to cool down his body, and then continued: "In fact, the design life of this Saratoga is only thirty years, and it stands to reason that it should be decommissioned. However, the biggest advantage of this aircraft carrier is that its military quality ensures that it can be put into service beyond the time limit, and after we modernize and upgrade it, it can be used for another 20 years. ”

"We have long seen through this conspiracy and trickery of the Americans, and the exchange of an old ship for the Soviet Union to increase the deployment of military forces in the Far East has reduced the military pressure on Western Europe. It's just an equal exchange of interests and taking what each other needs. "As a capable officer of the Navy's counterintelligence department, Tang Yi is far more sensitive to the international situation than ordinary people.

As they spoke, they saw a huge jar, surrounded by a dense array of other pipes. Seeing this kind of big canister, Chen Xu felt trembling all over, and said excitedly: "This is the gas tank of the steam catapult!" The high-pressure steam is stored through the ship's steam boiler, and then the high-temperature steam enters the slotted cylinder through the ejection valve to push the cylinder piston forward at high speed, and ejects more than 10 tons of heavy fighters in a journey of more than 80 meters. ”

Hearing what Chen Xu said so mysteriously, the other entourages all had stars in their eyes, and they all crowded over and stood next to the gas tank to knock here and there, and touched there, except for feeling that the gas tank was very heavy, this group of laymen actually couldn't see anything.

"I have read the repair manuals of the Americans, and this set of steam catapults is structurally complex. Don't look at the tractor that pushes the aircraft on the deck is only a little bigger, that is just the tip of the iceberg, it has a lot of heating parts and moving parts in the ship, frequent vigorous movement under high temperature and high pressure, extremely strict requirements for material design and processing technology, often malfunctions and dangers in use, and the maintenance and testing work is very complicated. This steam catapult system weighs 500 tons and occupies more than 1,000 cubic meters of space inside the ship, and the Americans installed four steam catapults on the aircraft carrier in order to increase the frequency of aircraft take-off and landing. Tang Yi shook his head and sighed beside him, although he received the American warship, but after getting on the ship, he found that there were complex institutions everywhere.

In particular, the four sets of steam catapult systems could not be operated by personnel in the navy, and they would be damaged as soon as they were turned on. The carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier all have to rely on these four steam catapults to ensure combat effectiveness, so they must not be damaged.

The best engineering experts from China are also at a loss for this, and only after all the parts of the steam catapult system are surveyed and mapped, can the operators be trained in a targeted manner.

"This steaming system is so complex that the energy utilization rate is only 6%, if the energy utilization rate can be improved, the number of steam catapults on our aircraft carriers can be reduced in the future. This can not only reduce the weight of the warship, but also save space. The eldest brother pinched his chin and gave his opinion on the steam catapult device, he was not as obsessed with this system as Chen Xu.

Chen Xu scoffed at his eldest brother's idea and said disdainfully: "Always chasing behind the ass of the United States and the Soviet Union, and using other people's technical standards to limit its own development direction, this is the stupidest method!" This steam catapult has a complex structure and low utilization rate, and has no prospects for development at all. The nuclear-powered aircraft carriers we will launch in the future do not need to be launched with steam catapults, but with higher-tech electromagnetic catapults! ”

"Electromagnetic ejection? What kind of technology is that! The eldest brother asked strangely, electromagnetic catapult in this era is still a science fiction theory, even the Americans are only in the stage of theoretical exploration, and it is unheard of in the domestic military industry.

"A catapult system with an energy utilization efficiency of up to 60%, with high technical content, small weight and objective volume, is an alternative to steam catapult." Chen Xu patted the eldest brother, and then the figure disappeared into the cabin next to him, and after a while, his more refined voice came: "Big brother, come and see, this is the steam turbine of the aircraft carrier, this thing is really big enough!" (To be continued.) )