Chapter 554: The Threat of Aircraft Carriers
One of the ideas that is now very popular is the miniaturization of aircraft carriers.
In wartime, aircraft carriers are live targets at sea, and in the era of missiles, aircraft carriers are no longer useful, this is the point of view of a group of people, who completely deny the usefulness of aircraft carriers, among which the Soviets are the most determined, they do not develop aircraft carriers at all, and take many detours, so that Marshal Kuznetsov had to save the country by using the name of anti-submarine ships to get the aircraft carriers out.
Their aircraft carriers, just do one thing, escort nuclear submarines around the ocean, launch their own nuclear bombs, and at the same time search for the enemy's nuclear submarines, and that's it.
After that, everyone gradually realized that missiles are not omnipotent, and they have to rely on aircraft, so aircraft carriers are still useful, but large aircraft carriers are still live targets at sea, so it is necessary to develop small and medium-sized aircraft carriers, so that it is convenient to conceal, and now this is also a trend, and the most certain conclusion is the Americans, the Americans are useless in the world to preach their supercarriers, small and medium-sized aircraft carriers are useful, under their advocacy, plus the economic decline of the United Kingdom, Britain eliminated its own 40,000-ton aircraft carrier and concentrated on building their 20,000-ton invincible-class aircraft carrier, while the Americans are getting bigger and bigger, and in later generations, they have become 100,000-ton supercarriers, which is absolutely a fool.
Of course, the country was not fooled and firmly took the road of a large aircraft carrier, and now, everyone has begun to think about this light aircraft carrier.
Small aircraft carriers, is it useful? Look at it, there's chicken ribs everywhere.
"Only if the displacement of the aircraft carrier is sufficient, at least to reach the scale of 40,000 tons, there will be enough space for the placement of side lifts." Pan Lao said: "Otherwise, it will lead to an imbalance in the hull, and it will also encounter danger when lifting and lowering the fighter." ”
In fact, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country planned to develop aircraft carriers, and in the plan at that time, it was an aircraft carrier with a displacement of more than 40,000 tons.
"In addition to the problem of elevators, large aircraft carriers have a large deck area, which facilitates the scheduling of aircraft, and sets up a parking area near the bridge, which can be dispatched at any time once there is a mission, which is much easier than lifting fighters from the hangar."
In the lower hangar, the wings have to be folded, and after going up, the wings have to be restored, and they have to refuel and hang bombs, etc., if it is on the deck, they can be dispatched directly, which of course has a difference in efficiency.
"If you consider it from this point of view, it will take at least 50,000 or 60,000 tons of aircraft carriers, the deck area will be large enough, the length of the front and rear must be 300 meters, and the utilization rate of the beveled deck will be the highest." Qin Feng continued.
While chatting, the two walked forward, and the entire hangar was an empty structure, which was the most convenient way to store the fighters, and when they passed through the bridge, they could see that there was a passage there.
"The pilots live here." Pan Lao continued.
Unlike other warships, the aircraft carrier has very few superstructures, which means that most of the officers and men have to live on the lower floor, and because there are one or two storey hangars below, the position in which the officers and men have to live is even lower, which is almost the same as that of submariners, and smelling the smell of fuel mixed with the sea breeze all day long is definitely the most uncomfortable.
Even pilots have to live in the lower part of the bridge, and it is also for their convenience to go out on missions, and it is easy to go up to the combat command room, but the environment here is not good, and when the planes take off and land, the noise is unbearable for many people.
Qin Feng looked at this small space, even the pilots were treated like this, it is conceivable that living on an aircraft carrier is still very difficult.
"On the bridge, there are all kinds of operational command equipment, and there must be a small number of crew cabins, which are not too large, and the flue of the boiler must be accommodated, so the design is also very particular." Looking at the bridge overhead, Pan Lao said.
Even if it's just an empty shell, it's very valuable for research, and just talking about this bridge is very particular.
This is completely different from the previous design of destroyers, the bridge is laid out around the chimney, and at the same time, the more compact the better.
"This is exactly two extremes from the design of the Soviets." Qin Feng couldn't help but say.
Western aircraft carriers, the smaller the bridge, the better, but the Soviets are different, their bridge is quite large, hearing Qin Feng's words, Pan Lao pushed his glasses, and said: "People never admit that it is an aircraft carrier, it is a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser, since it is a cruiser, of course there are many superstructures." ”
The Soviets don't say it's an aircraft carrier, their Kiev-class, known as a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser, it does look different from an aircraft carrier, the upper deck of the warship, the left side is the flight deck, some like the oblique deck of the aircraft carrier, and the right side is like a cruiser, densely deployed with a lot of weapons, it is not like the American aircraft carrier needs layers of guards, people's long, medium and near protection capabilities are very strong, a warship can go out and fight alone.
"Yes, their kind of alternative guys, I don't know what the designers think, don't they see that in the battle at sea, without air supremacy, there is nothing?"
A single warship, no matter how powerful the anti-aircraft weapon is, will eventually be killed under continuous air attacks.
Only a powerful aviation force can protect their safety, and it is really incomprehensible that they actually came up with such a different thing.
"Although it's not like the four, it's also a threat to us." Pan Lao said: "Have you read the book "Minsk Sortie"? ”
Qin Feng was very busy and didn't have the leisure to come, but he had heard of this book, and this was a very popular book in the past few years.
"I've heard of it." Qin Feng said: "This is a military fantasy, assuming that in the outbreak of the Third World War, in order to compete for world hegemony, the Soviet aircraft carrier "Minsk" was put into battle, the Soviet troops landed on the Japanese archipelago, and the Japanese government went into exile in Shanghai. In the end, it seems that the Minsk was sunk. ”
"Yes, in this article, you can see the pressure of the Minsk on Japan." Pan Lao said: "No matter what kind of aircraft carrier it is, it is a super powerful weapon, a powerful deterrent to the enemy, and it can even be compared with nuclear weapons. ”
As a shipbuilder, Pan Lao also hopes to be able to personally design a domestically produced aircraft carrier, of course, this is just a fantasy now.
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