Bai Zhizhan returned home, but he didn't spend the night at home, packed a few sets of clothes, went to the airport, and flew to Puzhou overnight.

Don't look at the naval headquarters in the imperial capital, the foundation of the navy has always been in the south.

Traditionally, it has always been the army to the north and the navy to the south.

Puzhou has always been the main base of the Imperial Navy, and it is also the largest shipbuilding base in the Empire and even in the world, with the most complete supporting industries.

When I arrived in Puzhou, it was already early the next morning.

Bai Zhizhan has long developed the habit of sleeping on airplanes, not to mention transport planes, even on patrol planes with violent turbulence, he can sleep peacefully.

When he arrived in Puzhou, Bai Zhizhan went directly to Zhao Yu's ship design institute.

After arriving, he called Yang Hanlin, the director of the shipyard, and asked the staff of the design institute to find the head, and Zhao Yu also found it.

Yang Hanlin arrived soon.

Bai Zhizhan did not delay much and inquired about the situation of the "Imperial Capital".

Very bad, it will take at least 3 months to repair, in order to ensure the quality of the repair, it is better to extend it to 4 months, otherwise it is not guaranteed to eliminate all hidden dangers.

In Yang Hanlin's words, don't count on that aircraft carrier before the Spring Festival.

The situation with the four fast battleships was no less encouraging.

Depending on the damage, it can take 3 to 5 months to fully repair.

Due to the lack of dockyards, the repair of these four battleships may not be able to begin in time.

It's just that the Imperial Navy is already coordinating, and if it can be arranged, it will go to other shipyards for repairs. There is really no way, so we have to make a fuss about the maintenance process, such as taking turns to enter the dock, and arrange the maintenance work of the secondary parts outside the dock as much as possible.

As for the situation of the "Longjiang", Yang Hanlin did not say much.

It's not that he doesn't know, but it's inconvenient to say more.

Actually, this is understandable.

Don't look at the shipyard as the territory of the He family, but if you really have to make a choice, you will definitely be willing to leave that aircraft carrier behind instead of letting Bai Zhizhan take it away.

It was almost noon before Zhao Yu rushed back.

He did not go to the factory, but went to an upstream manufacturer that produces aircraft carrier equipment, and during this time he has been busy with the design of a new aircraft carrier.

Not a fleet aircraft carrier, not a large aircraft carrier, but a light aircraft carrier.

In fact, this is also a last resort.

Because there were no long sea routes to protect, and because there were islands along the main routes, the ability to deploy shore-based aviation to cover convoys and send patrol aircraft against enemy submarines, the Imperial Navy never thought of building small aircraft carriers with much inferior combat capabilities.

In the words of the White Stop, of course, the bigger the aircraft carrier, the better, how can there be a reason that the smaller the better?

It's just that now the situation is pressing.

After the completion of the first batch of four ships, the second batch of eight ships will not be delivered until 103 years of the new calendar at the earliest, and as for the third batch, it has not been approved so far, and no one can guarantee that in the next two years, the Imperial Navy will not lose aircraft carriers in battle, so even if the second batch of large aircraft carriers enters service, it may not be enough.

Well, the only solution is to build small aircraft carriers.

It is a small fleet aircraft carrier that has been rebuilt and is fast enough, not an escort aircraft carrier converted from merchant ships like the Newland Navy and the Royal Bran Navy.

In order to save time, Zhao Yu was lazy.

Using the hull of a heavy cruiser, removing the superstructure and the main gun ammunition depot and other cumbersome, a hangar was set up above the hull, and then on top of the hangar, the flight deck was put together with wooden planks, and finally a ship island was set up on the right side of the flight deck, which was mainly used to arrange chimneys.

In this way, an aircraft carrier with a standard displacement of about 10,000 tons is formed.

Of course, if necessary, a catapult can be installed at the nose of the flight deck.

In order to facilitate construction, the lift is set on the side side, and the hangar is a semi-open structure.

There is no need to install large-caliber anti-aircraft guns on the floating deck, it is enough to be able to put 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, and it is even better to be able to install 80-mm anti-aircraft guns.

The point is that such an aircraft carrier is especially easy to build and does not need to occupy a large slipway.

Ordinary shipyards can build it!

What Zhao Yu did was to take the design drawings of the "Wuzhou" class heavy cruiser and revise it, and then go to various upstream manufacturers to implement the relevant equipment.

In Zhao Yu's own words, after a few busy days, he finally got a little eyebrows.

The "Wuzhou" class left redundancy for the transformation when it was designed, and the full load displacement in wartime was as high as 14,500 tons, and it could still reach the fastest speed of 33 knots, so theoretically, the ship type did not make much changes, and the original power system was used, even if the displacement was increased to 17,000 tons, the speed of the aircraft carrier would not be lower than 30 knots. Because it is a small aircraft carrier, it is also required to reach only 30 knots.

A full load of 17,000 tons is not small.

The "Canglong" and "Feilong" of the Satsui Navy have a full load displacement of only more than 18,000 tons.

As long as the upper space is rationally utilized, more than 40 carrier-based aircraft are loaded in the hangar, and about 20 are moored on the flight deck, there will definitely be no problem.

The "Canglong" class sacrificed survivability and can carry up to 73 carrier-based aircraft!

In fact, only 40 to 50 aircraft are sufficient.

According to Zhao Yu's estimates, only 6 squadrons, that is, 48 carrier-based aircraft, can not only maintain a speed of 30 knots, but also ensure sufficient survivability.

In terms of aviation combat capability, it is equivalent to sixty percent of the "imperial capital" level.

It's a bit worse, but it's completely made up for in quantity.

The most important thing is actually the speed of construction.

If it is built in strict accordance with naval standards, the average small shipyard must be under pressure, after all, many small shipyards have never built warships, let alone aircraft carriers, and if they do not understand the standards for the construction of warships, it will definitely be very difficult to operate in practice.

In Zhao Yu's words, long before the outbreak of the last war, the large warships of the Imperial Navy were all built by the five major shipyards, and the other shipyards could only undertake the construction of small ships with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons, such as offshore patrol boats, landing craft and river gunboats.

Not to mention large warships, even submarines with some requirements for construction technology are divided among the three shipyards.

The implication is that the shipbuilding industry of the empire has long been monopolized by an oligopoly.

It's just that if the bar is lowered a little, these problems will not exist.

This is also a headache for Zhao Yu.

It's nothing to get a small shipyard to build a small aircraft carrier to a more demanding standard than a merchant ship, but how can you convince the Navy?

How can the Navy accept such an aircraft carrier built to merchant standards?

Two days ago, Zhao Yu submitted a relevant report to the Navy Command, in which he emphasized that small aircraft carriers are a wartime emergency product.

The implication is that these aircraft carriers are only used during the war and will be disposed of when the war is over.

No matter how hard this war is fought, it will only last for a few years at most.

In this way, even if the quality standard is a little worse, there is no problem, anyway, when the war is over, all of them will be retired.

Postwar?

The Imperial Navy has so many fleet aircraft carriers, and it is definitely no problem to dominate the world, and naturally it is not the turn of small aircraft carriers built in batches to support the façade.

To say, this truth is very sufficient.

It is a pity that the command of the Navy has not yet given an answer.

Among them, Zhao Yu didn't say it, and Bai Zhizhan could guess it.

Now it is He Yongxing who is in charge of the navy's equipment.

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