After the construction of the submarine was completed, Li Lan set his sights on two other units, two units that had previously made him somewhat retreat.

On the list of aircraft carriers to be built, he can currently build two types, one is a conventionally powered aircraft carrier in the current naval units, and the other is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

At the beginning, because of the financial relationship, Li Lan directly chose to build a conventionally powered aircraft carrier, also in order to make the navy form combat strength as soon as possible, but now, the construction work of the navy has begun to decrease, and there has been a very basic change compared with the original form of building everything.

Starting from scratch, there are not only aircraft carriers but also supporting ships, and now that there are basically supporting warships, it is time to consider building some high-value units. So, now his eyes are on nuclear-powered aircraft carriers.

This is the second-class aircraft carrier given by the base, and it is also the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the base, which is naturally much better than the first-stage conventionally powered aircraft carrier. Of course, in terms of price and construction time, it is also much higher.

Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers: the main surface combat ships of the Navy, the price of ship construction - 400 million base funds, and the construction time to service - one and a half years. (750,000 consumed per day)

Note: This is the second of the three aircraft carrier classes and belongs to nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. …… All-electric propulsion with a stealth design,......

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Simple data: full load displacement 105,000 tons, nuclear-powered maximum speed 32 knots, two electromagnetic catapult devices on each of the right-angled and beveled decks, four barrage cables and 1 barrage net on the beveled deck, four elevators. The whole ship has a strength of 4,500 people. (100 people less than conventional power)

Standard configuration: 76 fighters, 8 anti-submarine aircraft, 5 electronic warfare aircraft. 5 fixed-wing AWACS, 6 helicopters, 12 UAVs.

Armament: four-seater eight-mounted vertical launch system,......

Electronics: 3D phased array radar system,......

Suggestion: The core strength of naval deterrence, the most powerful proof of the navy of a great power, is that this sentence can be applied for at least the next 50 years.

This is no less powerful than the last Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in the United States, that is, the USS Bush that was destroyed by the Red Guard Corps with ballistic missiles. If it weren't for the high cost of 400 million yuan, Li Lan would not have chosen to build a conventionally powered aircraft carrier.

Now there are fewer slots in the shipyard for the construction of Aegis ships and destroyers. With a lot of funds available, and in order to improve the combat capability of the Red Guard Corps, Li Lan set his sights on this type of warship.

After refueling at one time, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier can sail continuously for more than 1 million nautical miles, which is to spare 50 circles of the earth. Theoretically, there is unlimited battery life. The reason why a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has a great deterrent power is its strong endurance and maneuverability. Because its navigation area is unlimited. Besides. Thanks to nuclear power, space is freed up to carry more aviation fuel and ammunition, and the crew's living conditions are greatly improved by the absence of turbines, such as the ability to desalinate with unlimited electrical energy and take hot baths every day. Improve crew comfort. It is to improve the combat effectiveness of warships, and this has long been decided on the relationship between warships and soldiers.

Compared with the aircraft carrier of the first stage of the base, the difference between the aircraft carrier of the second stage lies in the difference in the power system. But it's the difference in powertrain that makes a huge difference. First of all, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers can at least remove their own fuel consumption. For example, Russia's current aircraft carrier will use up half of the entire fleet's fuel stocks at a time, which will have a greater impact in wartime!

Secondly, the power of nuclear power is higher than that of ordinary power, and it can provide better and more powerful steam power for the catapult system while providing itself with high speed. Secondly, since there is no need to carry fuel itself, more space can be left to load the aircraft with fuel, weapons and ammunition.

Although the cost is more expensive than the first stage of 250 million base funds, but just one nuclear power is enough to close this price gap, not to mention the electromagnetic catapult used on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the cost of an electromagnetic catapult, the gap between 250 million base funds, is even more nothing.

If it weren't for the fact that this guy's price was too expensive at the beginning, in order to develop the navy in an all-round way, Li Lan would have directly started building a second-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier long ago. Fortunately, his choice was not wrong at the beginning, otherwise he would have been able to rely on this aircraft carrier to cover the price of one aircraft carrier battle group, and Li Lan would definitely not have been able to get two aircraft carrier battle groups at that time.

As for the third-class aircraft carrier, Li Lan has not yet seen the slightest sign of it, and the second-stage is already advanced enough, and although it is not as advanced as the latest Ford-class in the United States in many aspects, it can already surpass the Nimitz-class.

Just an electromagnetic catapult, if combined with the principle that the production of the base must be a high-quality product, then such an aircraft carrier is definitely comparable to one and a half aircraft carriers like Nimitz.

As we all know, electromagnetic catapult has more than a little more benefits than steam catapult.

The maximum overload of the steam catapult launch can reach 6g, and the average acceleration of the entire trip is only a little more than 2g. With the increase of speed and cylinder volume, most of the energy of the expansion of superheated steam is used for the acceleration and propulsion of the steam itself, and the proportion of steam required for gas expansion increases after the volume increases. The current steam catapult length and cylinder volume are almost at their limit, and by the end of the ejection stroke, steam can basically only accelerate the pistons, which will not help the aircraft much.

The thrust starting stage of the electromagnetic catapult does not have the sudden explosive impact of steam, and the peak overload can be reduced from 6g to 3g, which not only has huge benefits for the structure and life of the aircraft, but also a good improvement for the pilot's physical endurance. In addition, since the acceleration of the electromagnetic catapult has no relationship with the length of the catapult, except for the influence of aerodynamic drag and frictional resistance, the basic acceleration from the beginning to the end of the ejection will not fluctuate much, which is more efficient than the gradual decline of the steam catapult. According to calculations, an electromagnetic catapult can carry an aircraft 8%-15% more than a steam bullet with the same average acceleration.

Another important benefit is that the electromagnetic catapult has a large range of energy output adjustment. The power output of the steam catapult relies on something called a rate valve, which controls the power output of the catapult by controlling the steam flow, and the adjustable performance output of the machine reaches 1:6 is almost the limit. The power output of electromagnetic catapult is controlled by the circuit system, and from the experience of high-power civil substation, it is quite easy to change within 1:100.

Whether it is the United States or other powers, the navy will use a large number of drones of different light and heavy in the future, and it is difficult for the current steam catapult to adapt to this requirement. The electromagnetic catapult is a big boon for aircraft carrier designers and naval operators, not only reducing the size of the hangar deck to one-third, but also halving its weight. Dramatically reducing the weight above the center of gravity is a great way to design the aircraft carrier's stability, without having to worry about a maze of complex steam piping and scorching steam leaks and spilled, hard-to-clean lubricating oil.

It is precisely because of so many characteristics that in the description of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, in the carrying of carrier-based aircraft, there is also the existence of UAVs. Because of the weight of the drone, if you want to use steam catapult to eject a lightweight drone into action, there is only one result, that is, the drone will be seriously damaged and even disintegrate directly on the deck under the violent pull of the steam catapult.

Therefore, once the technology of electromagnetic catapult is skillfully used on aircraft carriers, it is not impossible for all unmanned carrier-based aircraft to appear on future aircraft carriers.

However, this picture is very far away from the navies of various countries, and it is also very far away from Li Lan. At present, in the base, the air force has always made Li Lan very helpless, there are no large fixed-wing transport aircraft, and there are no excellent unmanned aerial vehicles. The base only gave him a series of question marks, and now, two years have passed since the advanced permissions, but not even a single question mark has been unlocked. In terms of scientific and technological accumulation, he has no way to urge, so he can only rely on the efforts of scientists step by step.

Therefore, the current electromagnetic catapult on the aircraft carrier will not bring much change in addition to speeding up the attendance rate of fighters, increasing the take-off weight of carrier-based aircraft, and increasing the space of ships.

Of course, it is a very happy thing to have an electromagnetic catapult. Thanks to the maintenance center, the base can also produce parts for weapon units, and electromagnetic catapults are also in the construction list, which will be of great interest to both China and Russia. This can not only bring Li Lan very high economic benefits, but also bring great political benefits. Provided that he's going to sell it.

Combined with the current development of the navy and the comparison of existing strength, he no longer plans to continue to build conventional-powered aircraft carriers for his own navy, but plans to launch nuclear-powered aircraft carriers one after another in the next time, that is to say, he will continue to bear the consumption of 750,000 base funds every day. Compared with the value of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, his idea was finally determined as the future development strategy of the Red Guard Corps Navy.

As long as a large-scale war does not break out, he plans to build ten nuclear-powered aircraft carrier battle groups within 15 years, and if the third-stage aircraft carrier is unlocked within this time, then he will decide the subsequent aircraft carrier construction work according to the cost performance.

As for conventionally powered aircraft carriers, he will not continue to build them unless someone wants to buy them. During this period, he also wanted to draw the whole world into this naval arms race led by him. (To be continued......)