Chapter 743 Sustainable
Of all the countries that purchased aircraft carriers, the Japanese Air Force was the first to enter service. Please search ()! Japan's navy, which is the fastest-renewing country, has always been the most important, but this time, the air force has finally raised its eyebrows, because the Ministry of Defense has decided that the air carrier will be assigned to the Japanese air force.
After evaluating the combat effectiveness, the Air Force believes that the carrier-based aircraft capacity of their air carriers is close to that of a 20,000-ton aircraft carrier, and has already named the lead ship "Fengxiang".
The operating expenses of aircraft carriers are very expensive, mainly because of the large consumption, and there are dozens of types of fuel required by a behemoth. Well, now the Fengxiang's cruise itself consumes fuel at all, and it only needs to prepare fuel for carrier-based aircraft.
One of the biggest benefits of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers is the abundance of energy, so they generally do not need to enter the port for resupply. The enemy could not master the fixed course of the aircraft carrier. The Fengxiang now has this advantage as well.
The mines that aircraft carriers are most afraid of, and the torpedoes launched by submarines, are now also being solved. The aircraft carrier must pass through a lot of narrow straits and canals during the transfer, and the enemy can easily bury cheap super mines with a charge of up to 1000 kg on the way through which the aircraft carrier must pass, which is a difficult problem in the operation of the aircraft carrier.
Nowadays, air carriers can pass anywhere, and they can often choose unexpected routes for the enemy, easily defuse the enemy's ambush, and achieve the purpose of the good attacker moving above the nine heavens.
The standard cruising altitude of an air carrier with a full load is 300 meters, and even with its own radar, it can detect targets from more than 60 kilometers away from the sea. Sea-skimming aircraft and missiles are at most at the level of subsonic.
At a flight speed of 800 km/h, there are exactly 4. 5 minutes reaction time. In high-risk areas, an AWACS aircraft will generally take off, and the detection distance is far more than 60 kilometers.
If it comes from the sky, the active phased array radar with a detection range of 600 km above the air carrier will be very useful.
In order to resist torpedoes, if the water ingress into the breach is large, the damage pipe will also release water on the other side to prevent the aircraft carrier from turning over. The material of the air carrier itself is the best damage tube, which automatically draws in air to balance the airframe.
The entire air carrier has 1,000 vacuum material compartments, and if a closed cabin is blown up, theoretically it will only lose one-thousandth of its lift, and the probability of being "sunk" is still quite small. The warhead charge of an anti-aircraft missile can be much smaller than that of a torpedo.
Of course, the best way to deal with Japan's imaginary enemy, the Tanuki, the cyborg entrenched in Goryeo, and the missile maniac who can launch hundreds of cruise missiles at a time, is not to be discovered by them......
The Japanese are not too afraid of the Tanuki, because the missile battleship has a fatal flaw, their air defense is not strong, maybe the Fengxiang can send a dozen fighters to blow up and sink this missile battleship with the most violent firepower in history.
Japanese satellites are tracking the Tanuki all the time, and if the Tanuki goes missing, they will go into a state of alert and the Hosho will immediately move.
The Tanuki is the king of firepower, and the Japanese call their own Fengxiang the king of mobility.
Israel is the third batch to purchase air carriers, but their adaptability is also particularly strong, becoming the second army to make air aircraft carriers form combat effectiveness, faster than the first batch of purchases of India and Argentina, and the second batch of purchases of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Israel, on the contrary, considered the air carrier to be more like the equipment of the navy, so they gave it to their own navy. Previously, Israel's navy only had a few missile boats, and the appearance of air carriers was the first time that they had ocean-going capabilities.
Their use of air carriers is more like a strategic counterattack weapon, and when a small mainland is hit, their air carriers far from the battlefield can carry out a strategic counterattack against a hostile country.
In fact, Israel has already secretly built nuclear weapons, but they just don't tell others, and their strategic counterattack will be surprisingly terrifying.
The Israelis' nuclear bomb is a tactical nuclear bomb, which is secretly tested overseas, but as long as the charge is increased, it is a terrible strategic nuclear bomb.
The ever-cruising strategic air carriers have raised Israelis' military self-confidence at an all-time high. They may declare that they have nuclear weapons when their potential enemy, Iran, builds a nuclear bomb. Today, Iran is the only country in the Middle East that could build a nuclear bomb.
Iran's separators have been cut by two-thirds by the IAEA, but the US-led IAEA has also recognized Iran's "peaceful use of nuclear energy." The Iranians obviously don't play by the rules honestly, everyone knows it.
Speaking of nuclear tests, Lee remembered his mini-hydrogen bomb plan again. It was not easy to fold the topology enough to reach the "Lawson criterion", and he felt he needed a huge testing ground.
Lee's plan is to create a chain reaction of the super battery, with each time the electrical energy breaks through more insulation, releasing more electrical energy, and after a series of discharges, the topology that is squeezed into a small space will explode instantly. The energy of this explosion is much stronger than that of ordinary bombs.
The proving ground must be deserted, and it must not attract the attention of cyborgs. Li Xiantai thought about it and thought of Greenland, the largest island in the world, or the Greenland subcontinent. A vast and inhospitable place with an area of more than 20 million square kilometers.
Four-fifths of Greenland is in the Arctic Circle, food is scarce, and the Norsemen who colonized it for centuries were wiped out by a Xiaoice period. It can be seen that survival is difficult, and until the beginning of the struggle, less than 60,000 people still live here.
Think about how barren it is to have only 60,000 people in a land area of 20 million square kilometers.
Mr. Lee first acquired Ivanhoe Energy, a struggling mining company in Canada, and was exploring for minerals in Greenland under the company's name.
After going deep into the north where the Wanjing people disappeared, basically no one knew what Li Xiantai's Unsullied employees were doing there.
In an effort to cover the strings, Ivanhoe Energy has a bit of a business to do, acquiring a small rare earth metal mine, one of the most valuable of which is hafnium.
Scientists at Brown University used a computer to simulate a hafnium-nitrogen-carbon alloy with a melting point of 4,126 degrees, two-thirds of the sun's surface temperature, the highest in the world. Lee will study the manufacturing process of this alloy in preparation for future hypersonic spacecraft.
In the extremely cold zone, the vacuum material is wasted, and Li Xiantai is not satisfied with the small electric aircraft produced by VOLO, feeling that it is not enough to save electricity.
He was ready to reinvent an aircraft that could take off and land vertically, using large wings that folded in three sections, and using two thrusts to take off and land like the U.S. Army's Osprey transport plane, but he was not going to use turboprops, but turbofans.
He will equip the turbofan with a vector vent that will face down when taking off, and gradually level with the ground level after takeoff. This is a turbofan version of the osprey, and the speed of the attitude change can be changed in less than a second. And the speed can also reach the level of a civil airliner (800 km/h+).
In comparison, the Osprey has a cruising speed of only 396 km/h, and even the V280 "Future Vertical Take-off and Landing System" jointly developed by Lockheed Martin and Bell for the US Army has a cruising speed of only 520 km/h.
The task of research and development is still entrusted to the almighty Greek company Pyrcar, which will build this aircraft into a universal platform for early warning aircraft, bombers, reconnaissance aircraft, transport aircraft, and anti-submarine aircraft.
According to the size of the volume, it will be divided into three models, large, medium and small, named V7V5V3 respectively. The vertical take-off capacity is 70 tons, 50 tons, 30 tons, respectively. The take-off weight of the run is 100 tons, 70 tons and 42 tons, respectively.
The big guys can be AWACS, bombers, and transport planes, and the little ones can be used as anti-submarine and anti-tank rescuers for all kinds of ground attacks.
Li Xiantai's design is a little more reliable than the Osprey, because he will design a center of gravity sensor for the whole aircraft, which can monitor the weight distribution of the aircraft anytime and anywhere, and automatically adjust the power of the vector nozzle, even if it encounters a sudden crosswind during takeoff and landing.
Well, with such a number of ace planes, catching up with Lockheed Martin is just around the corner.
The United States and the Soviet Union will certainly build a fortress of trade protection against their own military industries, and the task of the Greek Pyrcar Company is to occupy most of the international arms market, so that the two arms bosses of the United States and the Soviet Union will have a hard time.
During the design process, in order to balance the extreme conditions of the vector nozzle, the nozzle can even be bent to more than 90 degrees, and the air is specially sprayed in front of the aircraft.
The world doesn't know that behind the Greek Pyrkar Company is a huge number of programmers secretly hired by Li Xiantai all over the world, and only knows that the Pilkar Company produces new products like dumplings. Something like a vertical take-off and landing turbofan aircraft that requires extremely intelligent programming is quickly finalized with the efforts of a powerful programming corps.
At the Abu Dhabi International Defense Exhibition, the prototype of the V3 was unveiled, once again stunning a blockbuster. The U.S. Army's water flowed out of this vertical take-off and landing fetish at a cruising speed of 800 kilometers per hour.
The maximum vertical take-off weight of the V3 is already comparable to that of the Osprey transport aircraft, but the speed is double, which shocks the Bell company. They know how difficult it is to balance the vertical take-off of a twin engine.
The V3 prototype even showed a hovering and strafing posture of a gunship, showing that this could even replace some of the functions of the gunship.
The U.S. Army had no more than 23 Fierce Dog light tanks. 5 tons, not to mention the Apache gunship with a maximum take-off weight of 10 tons, the fire protection potential of the air tank on the V3 platform can even exceed that of the fierce dog tank, so how to match it.
The strong engine technology is amazing, and a V3 alone has made the armies of various countries dream of it.
However, the price of the artifact is also divine, and the price is the same as that of the osprey: 80 million US dollars.
This is the transport version of the V3, if you need to change it to other uses, the price is about the same, and there will be no R&D fees.