Chapter 1683: A Huge Plan (Part II)

"You say, after having such a piece of equipment, do we make money or lose money?" At this moment, Zhang Lan did not hide his aggressiveness, and he didn't care at all that the person sitting in front of him was one of the most powerful people in the country, "I really don't know what you people think in your hearts, even I understand that you can't just focus on the Taiwan issue, there are many problems to be solved later." Although for us, the Taiwan issue is not only a major issue that has a bearing on the Chinese nation, but our country has had many problems in its maritime territory over the years, right? On the issue of the Nansha Islands, the Xisha Islands, the Diaoyu Islands, and so on, if there is no powerful and multi-purpose maritime combat force, will people take what we say the same thing? Absolutely not."

In the face of Zhang Lan's words that were close to "condemnation", Lao Liang could only respond with silence.

What can I say? Of course, he understands very well, what Zhang Lan said is the truth of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, Lao Liang of course knows very well, it is a 257.3 meters long, 42.7 meters wide, 25o meters long flight deck, 32.3 meters wide, full load displacement of more than 4oooo tons of monsters

The huge tonnage gives the Wasp class a huge usable area, and it is also an excellent weapon for maintaining US maritime hegemony and exercising effective strategic deterrence against countries that are not strong enough

The hangar can store 28 CH-46E "Sea Knight" large helicopters, and 14 CH-46E "Sea Knight" or 9 CH-53E "Sea Stallion" heavy helicopters can be parked on the flight deck. The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship is quite capable of carrying landing troops and their equipment and materials, and its typical landing force carrying capacity is 974 landing personnel, 5 M1A2 "Abrams" main battle tanks, 25 light armored vehicles, 8 M198 self-propelled howitzers, 68 trucks, 1 fuel vehicle and other types of vehicles. If it is arranged in a two-stage landing combat scheme, it can carry 12 1cm mechanized landing craft or 3 1CAC air-cushion landing craft. In front of the dock is a two-story vehicle compartment, which can load about 2oo tanks and vehicles.

In wartime, in addition to undertaking the tasks of amphibious assault, material transportation, amphibious three-dimensional assault operations, and operational command, it can also be used as a hospital ship with good technical content, and even when necessary, it can also carry several -- 8B "Harrier" vertical/short take-off and landing fighters -- so as to enhance the fleet's air strike capability and maneuver capability.

The main task of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship is to carry out amphibious assaults and provide air support to the Marine Corps, and it can carry 3O CH-53D/E "Sea Stallion" medium helicopters, CH-46E "Sea Knight" large transport helicopters, ah-1Z "Viper" carrier-based attack helicopters whose actual combat effectiveness is even better than that of the US Army's ah-64 "Apache gunships", SH-6oB/F "Sea Hawk" helicopters, and 6-8B Harrier fighters.

In addition, the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship can also assume the role of a sea control ship, and at this time the ship is equipped with 2o -- 8B Harrier fighters and six SH-6oB/F "Sea Hawk" anti-submarine helicopters, which can undertake short-range tactical attack missions and antisubmarine missions, or provide air protection for surface ship formations, and play the role of aircraft carriers.

If there is such a big guy in China, the right to speak in many international maritime affairs will definitely not be like now, China's series of South China Sea problems have already been solved, and the South China Sea issue cannot be dragged out until now There is no solution, in a word, there is an amphibious assault group with Wasp-class amphibious assault ships, and the domestic government can speak much louder in the international arena but...... It's not as simple as it seems.

"Is the 'Wasp-class' a straight-through deck large amphibious assault ship?" Lao Liang nodded, agreeing with Zhang Lan's words, but then shook his head, "Of course it's a good thing, but it's good, but for us at the moment, this project is ...... Isn't it funny? ”

"Well, why?" Zhang Lan was a little strange, he couldn't figure out what the problem was, "Why don't you engage in a straight-through deck amphibious assault ship?" It shouldn't be a powertrain problem, right? Didn't the government introduce Ukraine's ugT-25ooo series of high-power marine gas turbines, and absorb almost all the technology of this power system? Could it be that the hull design is a problem, and it doesn't seem right."

"In fact, looking at it simply, we can completely see this thing as a 'Minsk' aircraft carrier or 'Kiev' aircraft carrier that has been refitted and equipped with a dock, after so many years of exploration, I don't believe that your military is not clear about the structure of the 'Minsk' and 'Kiev', and it will not be done according to this line of thought? It's just about taking advantage of the proven technology that exists."

"Things are not so simple," Lao Liang shook his head, his expression was a little gloomy, "First of all, because China has no experience in building large through-deck amphibious assault ships, and it takes a lot of money and time to develop them independently, even if the structural design of the 'Minsk' and 'Kiev' is adopted and borrowed, it is very difficult, and the hull of the amphibious assault ship should adopt a technically mature hull and be built with high reliability." ”,

"Second, there are few exposed parts on the hull, and the stealth performance is good, and on the straight-through deck amphibious assault ship, many aircraft are parked on the deck, which affects the stealth effect."

"Third, the traditional warship-like hull can be well arranged with weapon systems and cabins to obtain high efficiency. The most important point is that we want good quality and low price, and the cost performance should be high. Compared with the French Mistral-class amphibious assault ship, whether in terms of weapon configuration, projection capacity and delivery degree, or the degree of modernization inside, the amphibious landing ship we want does not require the Mistral-class amphibious assault ship; The only thing we want is that the price should be cheap enough, and the money to build a Northwest Wind can build a lot of amphibious landing ships that we need, so that it has an advantage over Kunlun Mountain, because what we need is not for quick reaction, but for landing, it is an amphibious dock landing ship, and the French's 'Mistral class' is called an amphibious assault ship. ”

"Of course, one of the most important reasons is that we do not have combat aircraft that can take off and land vertically/short distances, and in the absence of combat aircraft that can fly at a higher altitude, the combat performance of a direct-deck amphibious assault ship will be greatly reduced. This is also one of the reasons. ”

Depend on. After talking for a long time, I finally know what this old fox is selling. Zhang Lan smiled and shook her head, "I don't agree with what you said, the stealth effect is not good?" In terms of bad stealth effect, are there any military ships that are not as good as the stealth effect of the American 'Nimitz' class aircraft carriers? But there is no doubt that the 'Nimitz'-class aircraft carrier is the most powerful maritime combat force in the world, so what if the stealth effect is not good? Countless countries are not shunning them? ”

"As for the question of a combat aircraft like the Harrier that can take off vertically/at short distances, have you forgotten that our Alice Group has a better tiltrotor for your military to choose from? Those tiltrotors can not only take on transport and ground attack missions, but also work better than conventional helicopters; And we can also help you convert it into a carrier-based AWACS aircraft that provides regional early warning to the fleet; If necessary, we can help you drive an armed fighter similar to the Harrier. Don't forget that our tiltrotor can hit up to 9oo km/h at its highest level, and the actual combat indicators are actually no worse than those of important fighters. ”

Speaking of this, looking at the tricky smile on Lao Liang's face, Zhang Lan suddenly realized: "Oh, I said, you are playing this abacus in your feelings."

"Huh...... Hehehe...... "The extremely unscrupulous Lao Liang couldn't hold back anymore this time, holding his stomach and laughing, he finally fooled this kid, it was really refreshing."

Thinking of the simplified version of the "City in the Sky" that the Ministry of Defense is discussing, Lao Liang is already imagining that if there is such a powerful amphibious combat fleet cruising on the sea, and there is a huge "City in the Sky" in the sky to provide regional air defense and early warning missions, then ...... At least 2ooo kilometers from China's coastline in any part of the waters, which country has the maritime combat capability to compete with China?

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"Tsk...... Isn't that good, kid, to be able to get so many orders from the military at once? Jill couldn't believe it, and circled around Zhang Lan, as if Zhang Lan had flowers on her body, and wanted to take a closer look at this, while circling around Zhang Lan, she kept shouting, "Tell me, how did you fool that old man into listening to you?" Well, no, no, no, it's not that you fooled Lao Liang, but you fooled the entire military leadership and government. Tell me honestly, how the hell did you do it? ”

Zhang Lan couldn't cry or laugh, how could this be said to be a fool?

Zhang Zongjun and Yang Zhi looked at their son with a smile on the side, they were also a little strange, why did their son go to the capital once and get back so many orders? ：

It is designed as a first-class large amphibious dock landing ship with a full load displacement of 18ooo tons to 2oooo tons, and a type 1 of an extra-large amphibious dock assault ship with a full-load displacement of 38ooo tons to 45ooo tons and a straight-through floating deck. If the technology is mature, you can consider using a pure electric drive power system with hydrogen fuel cells or nuclear fission fuel cells as the power source, and if the technology is not mature, the power system powered by the improved ugT-25ooo large gas turbine + large marine diesel engine improved by Alice Group will be used to propulsion...... In this regard, compared with medium-sized aircraft carriers, except for an extra dock and corresponding amphibious equipment storage compartments, it is no different from the "Charles de Gaulle", "Minsk" and the British planned "Queen Elizabeth Sea" medium aircraft carriers;

Six sets of fuel cell power systems for submarines converted to aIp-powered submarines of the "Song" class of conventionally powered submarines were provided. In view of the immaturity of domestic technology in attack nuclear submarines, and the several attack nuclear submarines that Zhang Lan abducted from Russia back then were also a turnip and a pit, the military decided to work around, planning to equip each fleet with two aIp-powered submarines with pure fuel cell propulsion to replace the role of attack nuclear submarines in amphibious assault/battle groups, and the corresponding system requirements and various system interfaces will be delivered later; ,

On the basis of the existing tiltrotor aircraft that can carry 1o tons of materials, the corresponding naval anti-submarine type, naval multi-purpose transport type, and naval shipborne early warning type will be developed;

At the same time, it is necessary to drive a high-tiltrotor that is purely combat-ready, similar to a gunship. However, unlike the armed helicopters commonly equipped in various countries now, this tiltrotor with a forward-swept wing and three-stage wing design tells the story that in addition to having the same vertical take-off and landing and hovering, sideways and inverted flight capabilities as helicopters, what is even more powerful is that it has a maximum flight of 9oo km/h when the maximum flight of the American gunship is still at 33o km/h, and the V-22 "Osprey" tiltrotor is 555 km/h. The tiltrotor of the Alice Group had left them far behind

Finally, it is necessary to help the military develop a large air-cushion landing ship whose combat mission is to transport combat equipment and members of the advance landing detachment of the naval landing force, to land on the shore without fortifications, to provide fire support to the beachhead troops, and to transport mines and lay active mine barriers.

At the same time, this kind of large hovercraft should be able to carry three Type 98 main battle tanks or eight Bmp-2 infantry fighting vehicles or 1o Type 89 armored vehicles or eight Type 63 amphibious tanks, and at the same time require a certain degree of self-defense and attack capabilities. When used for the deployment of troops, the boat can carry about 14o combat personnel and corresponding combat equipment at the level of a reinforced company, in addition to being able to carry 13o tons of various materials.

When all these designs have been evaluated and determined to meet the needs of the military and the requirements of modern high-tech and high-tech use in the conditions of intense warfare - there is no doubt about this - these weapons and equipment designed by the Alice Group will be given an order of 5o% to 1oo% of the total number of units of the Alice Group, depending on the circumstances...... Those state units must be taken care of after all, and the state also has to consider improving the technical strength and manufacturing capacity of the military industrial enterprises, as for the equipment that they cannot produce, then there is no way, and they can only hand it over to the Alice Group to produce.

It can be said that this decision of the government and the military is actually entrusting Alice Group to design for itself a brand-new, multi-purpose, amphibious/naval warfare multi-purpose amphibious/naval warfare multi-purpose aircraft carrier combat fleet with a total fleet of three

With such three multifunctional aircraft carrier combat fleets, it is already conceivable that the days when the Americans dictated to China's South China Sea and Taiwan affairs are gone forever, and the peaceful recovery of Taiwan is no longer so far away.

The Taiwanese are not stupid, and after seeing that their American lord does not dare and cannot provide shelter to themselves anymore, they naturally know how they should choose.

In fact, Lao Liang wanted to use the tiltrotor developed by Alice Group for the military and the tiltrotor with a maximum load of 2o tons that had just been tested as the basic model, and provide regional air defense tasks for the fleet after replacing the fuel cell power system and installing laser weapons, but Zhang Lan clearly told him that it was not feasible...... In fact, it's not impossible, if the military can afford that price, of course Zhang Lan won't have any problems, but the problem is that the military really can't afford that price...... Lao Liang had to dispel his idea very depressed.

However, Lao Liang can also be said to grit his teeth and make a decision to give each large straight-through floating deck with a displacement of 38ooo tons to 45ooo tons of amphibious dock attack buttons equipped with three vertical/short-range fleet early warning aircraft, using fuel cell power systems.

"Slap" Xiao Chenxi slapped Jill on her buttocks unceremoniously, and scolded with a smile, "Dead girl, don't make trouble" After teaching Jill a lesson, he turned to Zhang Lan again, and his crooked eyes were full of sincere joy that Zhang Lan's dream was about to come true, "So to speak...... Our Alice Group is completely integrated into your country's military industrial system. ”

"It's not just that I've blended in, but I'm still a leader." Yang Zhi couldn't close his mouth with a smile.

Compared with others, Zhang Lan thought deeper, "Lao Liang told me that if our technical strength allows, the total tonnage of the large amphibious dock landing ship with a straight-through floating deck can be relaxed to 6oooo tons. I wonder if this is not a test of our shipbuilding prowess. Well, with a displacement of 6oooo tons, it is already the scale of a large and medium-sized aircraft carrier, and if this design can be passed, then the aircraft carrier project will be launched next......"

The eyes of several people lit up instantly

If a large amphibious dock landing ship with a displacement of 6oooo tons can be built, it means that it basically has the technical strength to build a large aircraft carrier, thinking of the aircraft carrier gambling ship that Alice Group is building for Ellison that is larger than the American "Nimitz" class aircraft carrier, so the strength of Alice Group in aircraft carrier construction, do you still need to doubt it?

Get on the aircraft carrier? This is a huge wish in the hearts of all Chinese people

When the Alice Group was able to successfully build a large aircraft carrier, no one knew better than the people present in their hearts