Chapter 1639 Escort Aircraft Carrier
It is precisely because we are clear about the direction of future development that China has not taken a detour in army building, and even though it was quite difficult at the beginning, it still guarantees high standards. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info Army, directly rushed to the armored force, from the time when the northwest had not yet obtained national power, it was doing the accumulation of armor, to the improvement of scientific and technological strength, directly crossed, World War I tanks, aimed at T34, the overall performance is slightly weaker than T34, but for this era, it is a cross-era weapon.
In Yang Yuanzhao's understanding of China's weapon sequence, the development is more beyond this era or the Air Force, T34, but in the early stage of World War II, the Soviet Union's main battle tank, his prestige is more Russian-made weapons in the elite, simple and rude, easy to produce and maintain, in the middle of the period, Germany's No. 3 or 4 tanks have been above T34, not to mention the later Tiger and Tiger King, but because Germany's production can not come up, it has shaped the prestige of T34, but in essence, The technical content of T34 is not high.
However, in the Air Force, because of the relationship between turboprop engines, the 4-engine strategic bomber produced by China has its basic performance indicators above the B29, and even because of the fuel-saving performance of the turboprop, in terms of range and combat radius, and even above the B29, the B29 is a strategic bomber that only appeared in the middle and late stages of World War II, and it is the only aircraft that can drop atomic bombs in World War II.
In terms of the Air Force, it reached the late stage of World War II, and it is stronger than the Army at the level, and the reason why there is such a great development is thanks to Yang Yuanzhao is a power engineer, and he has the strength to surpass this era in the field of power. Whether it is the navy, air force and armored forces, the core is power, as long as the power is reached, even if there are some problems in the design, it can finally form a similar weapon, take the tank as an example, in Britain and the United States is still difficult in 90 horsepower, 100 horsepower when moving forward, China's civilian high-horsepower engine, the power has reached about 400 horsepower, and the power of military armored vehicles has reached 880 horsepower, strong power, giving the tank more powerful power, but also bringing strong combat effectiveness.
China is different from most countries in this era, and even during World War II, and has gradually moved towards this direction after World War II, radar, sonar, electronic components, and even future missiles, to a certain extent, a stable platform, can achieve different combat purposes by replacing different equipment, rather than such a series of different types of fighters, fighters, attack aircraft, bombers, and strategic bombers as it is now.
All kinds of different types of aircraft, with different functions, after the emergence of aircraft from China, it has developed rapidly, when the countries have not yet seen the role of aircraft, they have come out of different systems, because of the relationship between aircraft carriers, they have been divided into land-based and sea-based, and now, there are more and more anti-submarine, anti-ship, and even land, more and more, more and more professional, and more and more excellent.
From the beginning of the powerful role of the aircraft, the aircraft has become China's most important advantage project, up to now, can deal with the aircraft, only the aircraft, not to mention what anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns attack aircraft, in the world, the overall hit rate is not high, there are examples of aircraft being shot down by anti-aircraft machine guns, ambushed occupy more to say, or know that the front is raining bullets, still have to break through, attract firepower.
Now China's best anti-aircraft machine gun, can touch the height of 9000 meters, but this height, is basically the limit, the shell flies to this height, the speed is greatly reduced, this is also the fundamental reason why the anti-aircraft machine gun for the aircraft hit rate is not high, the aircraft itself is fast, at low altitude, the anti-aircraft machine gun can maintain a relatively high speed, so that the hit rate is a little higher, but once the altitude rises, not only the height of the bullet flight of the anti-aircraft machine gun is high, the kinetic energy is reduced a lot, and the speed is of course slow. If you can't catch up with the speed of the plane, you can't hit it even if you aim it, let alone if you don't aim it, it's almost unattainable.
China's research on aircraft is the most in-depth, and it has also used aircraft to do experiments, so that the anti-aircraft machine gun at an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, the hit rate is extremely reduced, and even to a certain extent, for a high-speed target such as an aircraft, the lethality of anti-aircraft guns for aircraft is also very low without a certain density. The best air defense in later generations is still airplanes and missiles, the former can fly to a certain altitude and catch up with the opponent's planes, especially high-altitude interceptors against high-altitude bombers, as long as they can reach the altitude, the opponent has almost no possibility of escaping.
The latter is because of the speed, the maximum speed of the missile can even exceed Mach 10, far more than the later generations basically under Mach 3 aircraft, the speed is extremely fast, the plane was shot down before it had time to react, and the coverage range of the anti-aircraft missile is much larger than that of the anti-aircraft machine gun, and can be flexible and maneuverable, under the premise that the range can cover the aircraft, as long as the guidance performance is superior, it is also common to shoot down the aircraft.
In the US aircraft carrier battle group, although there is a phalanx system, this phalanx is more to prevent the aircraft from getting too close to the aircraft carrier, or shooting down some missiles and torpedoes at close range, and using this thing to deal with the aircraft is not very reliable.
As long as the technical advantage is there, it is a complete victory, there is no such thing as a battleship, killing 3,000 enemies and losing 800 self-inflicted damage, if you can fight it, if you can't beat it, no matter how many planes you come, it's not enough to see it, and the second-generation aircraft meets the third-generation aircraft, and it's a dish to come as much as possible, unless the opponent's offensive weapons are all gone, but even if they are finished, they can't catch up with the opponent's speed, and they can only be beaten passively, and the speed is not as good as the opponent's, if the other side has enough weapons, then it's really over, as for the range, the number of weapons you carry, this thing is just a supplement, with a table of how many enemy planes you can shoot down at most.
You can hit the other side, the other side can't hit you, what could be better than this, not to mention the all-round power of the aircraft, the different ways of attacking the ground, the sea, and the air, when China set its sights on the twin-engine, or even the four-shot high-power aircraft, the combat performance of the aircraft has been greatly improved, which can no longer be described with an ordinary weapon, this is a strategic weapon.
The application of aircraft in anti-submarine is only one of the many applications of aircraft, but it will become a sharp weapon in the future, China's ocean, with it, can quickly carry out carpet reconnaissance in thousands or tens of thousands of square kilometers of sea area, and the speed of the aircraft is more than 450 kilometers, which is more than 10 times faster than that of destroyers.
At this time, China found that the previous plan was slightly omission, if the aircraft anti-submarine is used, in addition to the establishment of airfields on the islands, in the area covered by the roadbed of some islands, it is necessary to use aircraft carriers, aircraft carriers are very versatile, but not suitable for escort missions, each fleet's aircraft carrier, is a valuable wealth, is the core of a fleet, can not be easily wasted in the escort mission, and the aircraft carrier, close to 100 sorties, relative to the escort is a bit wasteful, at this time, Escorting aircraft carriers became an inevitable choice.
Yang Yuanzhao is familiar with the development of aircraft carriers, so from the very beginning, he took the road of fleet aircraft carriers, and in the case of the same tonnage, the combat effectiveness of fleet aircraft carriers is much stronger than that of other escort aircraft carriers, and it is also easy to organize a task force.
However, without this choice, but also ignore the problem of escort, it is not too late, China has the world's largest shipbuilding industry, can also produce a variety of high-standard ships, from the existing ships, choose high-speed hulls, with 30-40 aircraft grouping, you can complete the escort work very well, because of the simple structure, for the ship is not as high as the requirements of the aircraft carrier, to a certain extent, the cost of the aircraft carrier is relatively low.
After all, most of the time escort aircraft carriers follow the activities of the merchant fleet, and most of the merchant fleet, their speed is not fast, and it is not economical to go too fast.
Therefore, the maximum speed of the escort aircraft carrier will not exceed 32 knots like the main flight carrier, forming a fast fleet, and the speed of the escort aircraft carrier will only be about the same as that of the merchant ship, in principle, it will not exceed 17 knots, and the degree of protection is not as high as the requirements of the main flight carrier.
The hull of the merchant ship, slightly refitted, the installation of the flight deck can be, after a simple deployment, an excellent escort aircraft carrier appeared, the cost of this escort aircraft carrier, only 1.5 times that of a 10,000-ton fast merchant ship, the overall price is only about half of the price of a heavy cruise, on the price, cheap enough, but in terms of combat effectiveness, it is difficult to say, an escort aircraft carrier to a heavy cruise, if it is in the daytime, there is not much to hinder the aircraft to lift off conditions, the victory of the escort aircraft carrier is only a matter of time.
The entire escort aircraft carrier system, including seaplanes, ordinary reconnaissance planes, anti-submarine planes, and some fighters, is a camp with a variety of functions, which is a very important supplement to the protection of waterways outside the scope of land-based aircraft. (To be continued.) )