The official military exercise will be tomorrow, and after the two teams converge, they will only be less than 600 kilometers away from the designated sea area, and the speed of 20 knots will be more than enough to reach the destination in a few hours in the afternoon and one night.

After the Tropic of Cancer to the south is the tropics, although some are the natural belt of the tropics, but the climate is quite good, sailing between 15 degrees north latitude, the sea breeze blows, making people extraordinarily comfortable, in the evening the commanders held another meeting of the exercise, Xu Ziling had the honor to observe, but with the idea of a low position, he did not speak, has been just listening to the side.

After the meeting, it was still early, Captain Zhang, Tang Jiannian and a few others said that they were going outside to blow the wind, so the group asked people to bring the deck chairs and leisurely blow the sea breeze on the deck in a row.

Even if they are chatting, the topics are all military-related things, and Captain Zhang also understands the actions of the Jiangnan Factory, and he has been busy not asking, but at this time, when he is interested, he asks about this matter.

The construction of the dock has already started, and the overall project will be completed in three months, and then the aircraft carrier hull will begin to work, so there is nothing to hide about this kind of thing, and Xu Ziling also introduced this matter in detail.

More than a dozen, hundreds of thousands of tons of cargo ships are everywhere, but more than 100,000 tons of aircraft carriers, this is really a bit incredible, from Xu Ziling's mouth to confirm that the super-large tonnage aircraft carrier into the construction countdown, Captain Zhang sighed, a few years ago, he became the captain of the first aircraft carrier in China, and was ecstatic, feeling that his country finally has an aircraft carrier, but this is not five years, and he is actually ready to build an aircraft carrier of more than 100,000 tons.

He had to sigh that this world is really impermanent!

Who would have thought that such a thing would happen?

"Oh, by the way, a few days ago I suggested to Lu Shang that we equip a 'Shadow Dragon', I wonder if you have received any news?" The topic of aircraft carriers was discussed, and Captain Zhang suddenly said a news that surprised Xu Ziling.

"Oh?" Xu Ziling was stunned, he had called Fan Yi a few days ago, but he hadn't heard of it, but he quickly reacted, "I really haven't heard of this matter, but it's a bit difficult for drones to be equipped on aircraft carriers." ”

As a transfer location, the aircraft carrier is still suitable, but to choose to equip UAVs, Xu Ziling's aircraft carrier is still possible, but on the Liaoning, at least the "Shadow Dragon No. 1" is impossible, because the "Shadow Dragon No. 1" has exceeded the limit of carrier-based aircraft, and there is no such a large lifting platform on the Liaoning.

If you want to solve this problem, there are only two ways, one is to change the lifting platform on the aircraft carrier, but this method is impossible to achieve, because it is not a simple thing to increase the lifting platform, and it will have an impact on the deck of the entire aircraft carrier.

Then the remaining solution is to make the "Shadow Dragon" smaller, or change the wings to fold the way, the same as the carrier-based fighter.

But the UAV is a flying wing layout, the wing and the fuselage are integrated, unlike other types of aircraft such as canard layout, if you want to make the flying wing can be folded, it is not a simple matter, as for its size to be smaller, it is similar to redesigning a model, so Xu Ziling said that the UAV wants to be equipped on the aircraft carrier, it is not a simple thing, unless it is always placed on the deck and not included in the hangar, it is possible to equip it to the "Liaoning".

"Can't you get a carrier-based plane?" Basic technical knowledge, Tang Jiannian and Captain Zhang are both knowledgeable, and on this issue, both of them have similar problems.

Xu Ziling smiled bitterly, this is not a question of whether the carrier-based aircraft is not a carrier-based aircraft, the shadow dragon has already considered the carrier-based situation when it does this, if it is small, it will affect the range and combat effectiveness, the main problem is the purchased "Liaoning" lifting platform: its hull itself was purchased, and the building country only considered their own country's carrier-based aircraft at that time, and this hull was also built nearly twenty years ago. Slightly larger aircraft will not be able to be put into storage.

"The layout of the flying wings, many instruments are on the wings on both sides, it is impossible to fold the wings like ordinary carrier-based aircraft, and at the beginning of the design, I have already considered the shipboard problem, to ensure performance and combat effectiveness, the UAV can no longer change its size, now this is already the smallest, want to equip on" Liaoning ", unless I redesign one, but the range, the amount of bombs or something, it is definitely not as good as the "Shadow Dragon", otherwise, it is to change the lifting platform of the aircraft carrier."

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"So there's no way to equip us?" Captain Zhang asked quickly.

"Unless it's not in the hangar, it's on the deck. Otherwise, it will take a lot of effort to change the lifting platform. ”

Silence followed.

After that, Captain Zhang had a dejected look.

"Looks like we can't equip it. No wonder there is no response from above, it is estimated that I know this matter, and I didn't want to contact you at all, but I was busy here these days and didn't reply to me. ”

Looking at him like that, Xu Ziling was a little embarrassed, thought about it, and said: "The 'Liaoning' has also been in service for a long time, right, should it be maintenance time?" Maybe there was no reply from above, just thinking about changing the lifting platform. ”

The meaning of Xu Ziling's comfort was too obvious, and after hearing this, Captain Zhang smiled and was noncommittal.

After chatting for a while, it was getting late, and there was something important tomorrow, so everyone didn't talk much and went back to the cabin to rest.

There is a new satellite navigation system, no one is on duty in the cockpit, and the huge fleet is sailing quietly in the sea, and when you wake up, it is the next day.

After washing up, a group of people began to run around the deck, and only after dawn did they disperse and begin to eat breakfast.

Li Cheng's child is still young, this time Xu Ziling did not let him go along, only Yang Kaiming followed, Duan Zhan stayed on land, the two finished breakfast, they came to the command center of the island of the ship, the time was still early, I wanted to know the situation of the people of the United States, Xu Ziling turned on the satellite scan, and transferred the picture to the big screen in the command center.

The Mi army has an aircraft carrier formation involved, Xu Ziling is not surprised, what surprises him is that he finally "intuitively" understands the naval strength of the Filipinos, but after reading it, he is very strange, with these broken copper and iron, how dare they be so arrogant.

There are five warships in the Philippines this time, Xu Ziling looked at them, they are all antique-level goods, among which the strongest combat effectiveness was actually produced by the United States during World War II, and the latest one is second-hand goods that have been in service in the United States for more than 40 years.

This TM is also called the Navy? He was a little skeptical, if such a fleet encountered a larger typhoon, would it be blown over?