Aircraft carrier fires mainly occur on the flight deck, especially in the process of aircraft take-off, landing and recovery, high-speed carrier-based aircraft are very likely to collide and catch fire, followed by ammunition explosion and fire, fuel leakage and fire, and so on. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Don't think that the aircraft carrier is steel and iron bones that cannot be burned, the wires and pipelines inside the hull are thousands of kilometers long, and the flames can scrap the entire aircraft carrier just by burning all the way along the cable, and the fire prevention of the cable system in the ship is the top priority.

In previous aircraft carrier fires, the U.S. Imperial Navy has established a fire-fighting system for the aircraft carrier that can be quickly and easily started, such as high-efficiency foam fire extinguishing agents, fire-fighting cannons with no dead spots on the whole deck, and high-pressure fire hydrants. Moreover, in order to prevent the fire hydrant from failing after the aircraft carrier is attacked, the fire protection system of the whole ship is composed of several independent fire extinguishing systems, which are independent of each other but can be connected.

All the fire hydrants on the deck are hidden below deck, protected by armor and easily indestructible.

It is precisely because of the experience accumulated again and again that the US imperialist navy has a super ability to manage damage, and later in several serious fires that broke out on modern aircraft carriers, it still worked hard to save the aircraft carrier and minimize the losses.

Strong damage management is also combat effectiveness, the Chinese country has introduced this aircraft carrier, not only the fire extinguishing system, but also to thoroughly digest all the working systems of the aircraft carrier, but it is not possible to complete it in one or two years, and it is the safest decision to talk about combat effectiveness after ten years.

What's more critical is that once an aircraft carrier fires, the losses are often very serious, and the replacement of burned lines is a big project. It may not be able to carry out missions for more than ten months, and for countries with only one or two aircraft carriers, the combat effectiveness of a navy without aircraft carriers will be seriously weakened.

Therefore, the Chinese country must establish a number of aircraft carrier battle groups as soon as possible, and if there are two or three fewer aircraft carriers, this amount of strength will only be stretched thin when it is used, and at least four aircraft carriers can ensure the absolute security of thousands of miles of coastal defense.

After visiting the fire station on the first floor, you will find the aircraft control room, the control tower, the cockpit cabin, the war room, the radar and the communication antenna, and basically the command system of the whole ship is in the ship's island.

These are all software things, and there is nothing to see except for the room, and it is over after a hasty pass, and a group of people have unconsciously walked to the highest point of the ship island.

Chen Xu walked out of the hatch and came to the top of the ship island, holding the radar antenna with both hands, overlooking the aircraft carrier deck below. In the distance, there were crowds of people who were stopped outside the port to watch the bustle, even the cold wave could not dampen people's enthusiasm for aircraft carriers, and the entire military port became an amusement park, and some smart merchants set up food stalls on the side of the road, and business was booming.

The sun had risen in the distance on the sea, trying to radiate lazy light and heat, but under the cold wind, the warmth of the sun was only psychological comfort, more of the cold that came in through the cracks in the clothes.

The sea was silent, and seagulls flew in flocks in the sky, and a few seagulls stopped on the radar antenna at the highest point on the island to clean their feathers, and then "poofed" a cloud of gooey white guano onto the expensive antenna.

"Go away, go away! So many places just on the radar, and they can't be scraped clean even if they are hard in the sun. Tang Yi stood below and let out a strange cry in his mouth, trying to scare off these seagulls flying around.

Since the aircraft carrier was moored, the seagulls in Dalian Port have used this 80,000-ton iron lump as a public toilet, and they have stood in groups around the island to rest and spray white flying, and a lot of guano has accumulated on the island where they can stay, and it is estimated that a layer of natural dung shell will be formed in a few months.

"In the end, it is the seagull that grew up in the military port, as soon as the foreign aircraft carrier arrives in the port, it will desperately drop bombs on it, don't underestimate these seagulls, this guano can sink this aircraft carrier over time!" Chen Xu kicked the knotted bird droppings on the steel plate of the ship island with his leather shoes, and said with a smile at Tang Yi.

"Chen Dong, don't laugh at it, now the guano has become a disaster! In the next few days, we have to take stock of the internal equipment of the aircraft carrier, so the manpower is very tight, or I would have arranged for sailors to be on duty here to guard against seagulls, these guys are pulling bird droppings everywhere, and it will be very troublesome to clean up in the future. Fortunately, the planes below were covered with rainproof cloths, otherwise they would have suffered. Tang Yi blasted away the seagulls on the radar, turned around and said in embarrassment.

The eldest brother was wearing few clothes, and he was even more cold when he stood on this kind of tuyere, standing inside the hatch and shouting at Chen Xu outside: "Little five don't care about the seagulls, just take a look and leave!" It's easy to catch a cold when the wind is strong outside, but you're not afraid of the cold at this time. ”

Chen Xu's body trembled twice unconsciously, and he felt that it was indeed cold and uncomfortable, so he slowly walked back, and said to Tang Yi while communicating: "How is the Navy's future shipbuilding plan planned?" Although the state does not have the money to increase the construction of the army, the current economic situation will be short-cut in five to ten years, and the situation of the empty treasury will be greatly improved. In the meantime, the navy's funds will also be more abundant, and it will start technical demonstrations of the new warships as soon as possible, and when the funds are in place, it will be able to start construction. ”

"The top brass of the Navy is not very enthusiastic about the construction of new warships, and it will take time to digest so many advanced warships from the United States, and the Navy's energy is on receiving new warships. Not to mention that this aircraft carrier still needs a large number of naval aviation, and now the air force also has hundreds of new fighters, and there is a huge shortage of pilots, and they are not willing to give naval pilots at all, and now both sides are still arguing. There are so many things to do, and the ship-building plan is out of play for a while. Tang Yi put his hands behind his back and shook his head to say that the navy had received so much new equipment, and he would not want to spend money to build new ships in the short term.

"There is still a need for pre-research, and now that the direction of aircraft carrier operations has changed to integration, automation, and information intelligence, we are satisfied that we cannot receive a few American warships. This aircraft carrier does not look big, in fact, the combat system is very backward, not to mention that it will take seven or eight years for us to form combat effectiveness, and even if this aircraft carrier is upgraded, there are only ten years left before it is decommissioned. At that time, the new aircraft carriers of the US imperialists did not know how many aircraft carriers had been built, and we were already lagging behind, and if we did not catch up with the speed, we would only be farther and farther away. Chen Xu is very dissatisfied with the navy's dragging ship-building style, compared with the ship-building speed of the dumplings in later generations, it will not be the same, although there is a factor of money, but there is no money to do a good job of technology accumulation, and when the money is in place, it can be built immediately, at least it can save time for research and development.

A negative example of this is the Soviet Union, because Khrushchev personally did not like aircraft carriers, believing that such large surface ships were living coffins at sea, so he spent military spending and research forces on the development of ballistic missiles.

The Soviet Navy had no choice, and in the absence of aircraft carriers as the core of the fleet, it could only follow the old path of World War II and developed heavy battle cruisers such as the Glorious-class and Kirov-class, and used saturated firepower to suppress the US imperialist aircraft carrier fleet. But in any case, the Soviet Union took a crooked path in the development of the navy, and by the time it was later discovered that it was too late to catch up, the collapse of the country and the disappearance of Soviet aircraft carriers became a desperate sound.

"I will talk to the commander about this, Sino-US relations are good now, and the Navy sent many officers to the US military port for investigation a while ago. The Americans are polite, from nuclear-powered aircraft carriers to submarines, they are open for us to see, they despise our research and development capabilities, and they are not worried at all that we have stolen technology. After comparing the latest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the Americans with this old conventional-powered aircraft carrier, many enlightened officers found that the difference in technical level between them was indeed very large, and many advanced equipment were not available on this old aircraft carrier, and even the cabin planning of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was much more scientific. Tang Yi explained on the side, indicating that not all officials in the navy are satisfied with the status quo, and there are still people who are more looking forward to advanced warships.

"Hmmm! It is true that we should take advantage of the honeymoon period to send more people to the United States to investigate, and now the Americans who have a good relationship are willing to show us generously that water is impermanent, and the country is impermanent, and we don't know when the relationship will deteriorate again, and I don't want to see it when the time comes. Just like our relationship with the Soviet Union, it is divided and combined, sometimes good and sometimes bad. Chen Xu nodded, as long as there is this force within the navy that is eager for new equipment, the shipbuilding plan will be carried out.

After getting off the aircraft carrier, taking a short rest, while there was still time, Tang Yi led everyone to visit another big guy in the military port, the nuclear-powered cruiser Long Beach with a full load displacement of 18,000 tons.

As a nuclear-powered cruiser, the Long Beach boiled water through two C1W nuclear reactors to provide heat to two steam turbine engines, which could produce 80,000 horsepower and propel the warship at a maximum speed of 30 knots.

The biggest feature of the ship is that the island is equipped with eight large phased array radars, which makes the entire Long Beach very recognizable, as long as you see a ship wearing a square white hat on the sea, it must be that the Long Beach has not run away.

In the 50s, microelectronics was not yet mature. Eight large bricks are really big and heavy, and the power consumption is amazing, not 10,000 tons of nuclear-powered warships simply can't afford it. Moreover, the performance of this type of radar is also very poor, and the phased array radar, as the eye of a warship, not only cannot see far, but also often misjudges.

In fact, this set of large slab bricks of the Long Beach is the earliest 'Aegis air defense system', although the performance is not good, but this is the Aegis system that has evolved completely relative to later generations, and the large slab bricks are still very advanced in this era, even if there are various performance defects, but it cannot hide its advanced nature.

At that time, the U.S. Navy wanted to build a similar batch of similar nuclear-powered cruisers with the Aegis system modeled on the Long Beach, but the high cost of such warships could only keep this plan on paper.

However, with the advancement of microelectronics, the large bricks are not only lighter, but also have the right standards of reliability and power consumption, which can be loaded even on destroyers of thousands of tons, which is the later Arleigh Burke-class and Ticonderoga-class Aegis ships.

"What about the Long Beach's phased array radar? Why not! Coming to the other side of the military port, under the Long Beach, Chen Xu looked up and suddenly found that unlike the memory in his mind, the eight large white bricks on the ship were gone, replaced by an army gray bare bottom plate. (To be continued.) )