Chapter 301 Domestic aircraft carrier launched
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On 15 July, when the war between Xinhua and Annam was raging, Xinhua's first self-built aircraft carrier, the Tianjing, was launched at the harbor and a grand launching ceremony was held, which was attended by state leaders and high-ranking military generals.
Compared with the "Liaoning," which was rebuilt from an aircraft carrier of the former Soviet Union that had been completed, the "Tianjing" was the first aircraft carrier designed and manufactured by Xinhua itself.
What's more, at this time, the surrounding area of Xinhua is not calm, the conflict with Annan has been going on for a month, but there is no declaration of war on the surface, the Philippines, Indonesia, Tianzhu and other countries are ready to move, the aircraft carrier of Lijian is approaching the South China Sea, and the Japanese country is constantly creating a crisis in the East China Sea, at such a critical juncture, even if it is still very early before entering service, the launch of the "Tianjing" aircraft carrier has ignited the pride and patriotic enthusiasm of all the people in Xinhua.
The fact that the "Tianjing" has gradually made public its various numbers has already shown that it is a powerful warship, and it has also attracted the attention of the people of all countries.
The "Tianjing" aircraft carrier is 31o.8 meters long, 72.7 meters wide, has a standard displacement of 58ooo tons, and a full load displacement of just over 7oooo tons, which is slightly larger than the "Liaoning" aircraft carrier.
The nuclear power of the aircraft carrier has a high endurance. It is easy to maintain and other advantages, and only needs to add fuel a few times during the whole life cycle to meet the needs of decades of use, which is an inevitable development in the future.
Xinhuaguo's technology in nuclear power reactors has been very mature, and the research on miniaturization has not stopped, and has also made great progress, as can be seen from the successful service of O95 and O96 class nuclear submarines. In terms of technology and shipbuilding capabilities, Xinhua has been able to build large nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.
It's just that Xinhua has never had the experience of building large nuclear-powered warships, and the nuclear reactor specially developed for aircraft carriers is still under development, and it is not satisfactory in terms of miniaturization, reliability, and output power.
If the nuclear reactors on the O95 and O96 nuclear submarines are used, it is necessary to drive aircraft carriers with a full load displacement of more than 70,000 tons, and it must reach a maximum voyage of more than 30 knots. At least six nuclear reactors need to be installed.
Taking into account various considerations, the "Tianjing" aircraft carrier still uses conventional power.
It is a safe practice for domestic aircraft carriers not to use nuclear power, and the French have suffered a lot on the aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle," which is France's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the world that is not subordinate to the navy of a non-Chinese country. Unable to achieve the desired effect.
After learning a lesson, France decisively abandoned nuclear power and returned to conventional power when it unveiled the next generation of aircraft carrier PA-2.
Although it is conventional power, the maximum range of the "Tianjing" aircraft carrier reaches 33 knots, and the endurance is 48oo nautical miles when it is at sea at 28 knots, and when it is at sea at 16 knots. The endurance can reach more than 13ooo nautical miles, which basically meets the combat needs of the Xinhua Navy.
The "Liaoning" aircraft carrier adopts a sliding jump take-off method, and such a structure and take-off method have great defects.
First, the sliding aircraft carrier cannot provide additional power to the carrier-based aircraft, and the carrier-based aircraft can only rely on its own motor thrust to take off, and the take-off weight of the guide is greatly limited, in order to make the fighter. In particular, heavy fighters can take off in a short period of time, and the aircraft load must be reduced, that is, the weight of fuel and ammunition on board must be reduced, which greatly reduces the actual combat performance of carrier-based aircraft. Firepower, assault power, and strike range have been drastically reduced.
Second, the glide aircraft carrier must also sail fully in the wind when the carrier-based aircraft takes off, which may not only disrupt the original route, but also delay the fighter plane in the case of an emergency takeoff.
At the same time, it also increases the risk factor of the aircraft.
Third, the sliding jump take-off requires the fighter to fly in full sprint mode at the beginning of take-off, which strictly reduces the service life of the fighter's engine, reduces its flight time, and makes maintenance and even replacing the new engine a big burden.
Catapult aircraft carriers do not have such trouble, and under normal circumstances, aircraft can be ejected regardless of the direction of the wind.
Fourth, the combat effectiveness of the sliding jump take-off is poor.
Fighters that take off with a glide jump must have at least 1 minute warm-up time, which makes the fighters slow to take off and only one-third of the efficiency of catapult carriers.
In addition, the glide aircraft carrier has only one or two take-off runways because the glide deck can only be located in the bow, compared to the catapult aircraft carrier, which does not have this limitation.
Fifth, and the biggest drawback, the glide aircraft carrier cannot take off large fixed-wing early warning aircraft, large electronic warfare aircraft, and large transport aircraft, and can only use early warning helicopters, which has a great impact on high-altitude and long-distance combat capabilities.
Therefore, the aircraft carrier built by Xinhuaguo self-built abandoned the sliding deck from the very beginning, and instead adopted the catapult take-off method.
There are two types of catapults today, in addition to the steam catapult that is owned by the country, and there is also the electromagnetic catapult, which represents the latest technology.
Compared with the traditional steam catapult, electromagnetic catapult has the advantages of small volume, low requirements for shipboard auxiliary systems, high efficiency, light weight, low operation and maintenance costs, and reduces the weight by 5o%, 65% and manpower by 3o% compared with the steam catapult system, which will be more conducive to the layout of the ship and reduce the total weight of the flight deck facilities by about 1ooo tons.
The two latest Ford-class aircraft carriers launched in the country are already equipped with such electromagnetic catapults.
Xinhuaguo also wanted to develop steam catapult technology, but there was no corresponding technical accumulation, many technical problems were not solved, and when the domestic aircraft carrier was put on the agenda in 2o11, it decisively gave up the steam catapult.
There are two reasons for abandonment, first, although the steam catapult technology is not complicated, it is difficult in terms of power and miniaturization, and only Li Jianguo alone has mastered and applied it to the aircraft carrier, and even the former Soviet Union has not been able to develop a steam catapult.
Second, compared with the electromagnetic catapult, the steam catapult has too many defects, even if the steam catapult is developed, it is also facing the embarrassing situation of backwardness when it comes out, and only by focusing on the development of electromagnetic catapult can the problem be fundamentally solved.
Xinhua followed Li Jianguo, vigorously researched electromagnetic catapults, and made many achievements, but the process is not very smooth, domestic aircraft carriers from the nineties began technical reserves, until 2o12 to start construction, this year was launched, a big reason is to wait for electromagnetic catapults.
Fortunately, at the last moment, the group that studied the electromagnetic catapult made great achievements, overcame the last few difficulties, and installed the electromagnetic catapult on the domestic aircraft carrier, becoming the second country in the world to successfully develop and put into use the electromagnetic catapult.
On the aircraft carrier's onboard weapons, there are defense systems such as Haihongqi long-range ship-to-air missiles, pL-3ooo short-range air defense missile systems, anti-submarine rocket depth catapults, decoy catapult devices, and torpedo decoy systems.
In this respect, the "Tianjing" aircraft carrier also combined the advantages of the Lijian and Rakshasa countries, and did not carry a large number of heavy anti-ship missiles and long-range ship-to-air missiles on the aircraft carrier as the Rakshasa countries did, thus affecting the wave of carrier-based aircraft.
It did not pay attention to the air defense of aircraft carriers as Li Jianguo did, and was only equipped with a small number of defensive and self-defense weapons, and on several occasions the military aircraft of the enemy country broke through the heavy defense lines of the aircraft carrier formations, and successfully flew from a low altitude to the sky directly above the aircraft carriers of Li Jianguo.
In terms of carrier-based aircraft, the J-15 is used, that is, the domestic version of the Su-33 carrier-based aircraft.
Because when the aircraft carrier was built, it was not yet certain whether the J-2O and J-31 would be able to enter service, so the layout of the flight deck and the specific size of the hangar were designed according to the size of the Su-33.
Not to mention that the J-2O and J-31 are not yet fully mass-produced at this time, and even if they are already mass-produced, they need to be overhauled before they can be adopted, including another "Tianjing"-class aircraft carrier that started construction at the same time as the "Tianjing" and will be launched in a few months.
Compared with the "Liaoning" aircraft carrier, due to the abolition of large anti-ship missile firing units and the increase in the hangar area under the deck, the number of carrier-based fighters has reached 38, and in the high-intensity combat mode, 14 fighters can be moored on the flight deck, so that the scale of the carrier aircraft has been expanded to 52, which is sufficient to cope with high-intensity combat operations.
In terms of strike capability, the domestically produced aircraft carrier is far ahead of the "Liaoning" and the latest aircraft carriers of Britain, France, and Tianzhu, second only to the "Nimitz" and "Ford" classes of the Lijian Navy.
The most noteworthy thing is that the "Tianjing" aircraft carrier is equipped with four domestic JZy-o1 fixed-wing carrier-based early warning aircraft, which uses the front fuselage of the Y-7 aircraft, but is equipped with a new wing with a larger wingspan, and the J-6c turboprop motor with Y-951oo shaft horsepower, which is more powerful and has a performance close to the Lijianguo e-2 "Hawkeye" early warning aircraft.
This function can provide air early warning for the aircraft carrier fleet of Xinhua and provide long-range information support for carrier-based aircraft operations, and will also have strong electronic warfare capabilities.
In addition, the aircraft carrier is also equipped with more than a dozen Haizhi-8 and Haizhi-9 anti-submarine/multi-purpose helicopters, as well as aircraft for other purposes.