Chapter 73, Shipbuilding

In addition to the mushroom bomb laboratory built in Queensland, other weapons manufacturing factories and laboratories are located around the base in the Tana Desert, Lu Qiang's idea is to turn this place into the world's largest weapons manufacturing base, hehehehe!

In order to facilitate access, it is necessary to build roads, and the plan is to build two highways and two railways, one by rail and road to the port of Darwin, and the other by rail and road to Brisbane, with other cities in between. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

And Brisbane, Lu Qiang is ready to use it as the capital, after all, in his occupation area, only Brisbane is the most suitable, in addition to Brisbane, followed by Bauver Creek, which was once used as the base camp of the Japanese invasion of Australia, the reason why he chose this place is mainly because it is close to his base and convenient to come.

There are some other cities that have no obvious advantages, and after Lu Qiang saw it, he directly ruled it out.

Of course, these two places are the capitals, but it is just a big possibility, after all, Lu Qiang is not ready to build a country now, there is a shortage of manpower, and the country cannot be built.

Domestic immigrants can't stop in the wild, this was discussed by Lu Qiang and Taizu to reduce the pressure on the country, after all, although there are 40,000 people in China now, who knows how many black hukou there are in fact, plus the Chinese people abroad, who can count clearly.

And China is at the end of the war, and everything is lacking, that is, there is no shortage of population, on the contrary, Lu Qiang, there is no shortage of anything, that is, there is a shortage of people, and the two sides just complement each other.

Lu Qiang exports resources and technology to China, and China exports population to Lu Qiang, achieving mutual benefit.

In this era, China has just ended the turmoil, millions of displaced people, and there is no fixed place to live, and now Lu Qiang is willing to provide them with a stable place, plus the Red Party is thriving in China as lobbyists, millions of immigrants, it couldn't be simpler.

Lu Qiang will surely shine the light of the Chinese people all over the world, and there will be the shadow of Chinese in every corner of the world, and Chinese are justice.

Ahem, let's get down to business.

The aircraft carrier 004, the only aircraft carrier designed and built by itself, is currently on trial voyage in the Coral Sea, running around right under the noses of Japan, after all, they still occupy New Guinea. The aircraft carriers on trial voyage were envious and jealous of Japan, and their own aircraft carriers were all sunk by them, and only two or three of them could fight, but fortunately, the Musashi, which was changed to an aircraft carrier, was launched, and the huge aircraft carrier injected a stimulant into the Japanese Navy.

The news of the sinking of 12 aircraft carriers has already spread, and despite their efforts to blockade them, it is not false that bad things have spread for thousands of miles, and the outside world has already made a lot of trouble.

However, they do not know who sank the aircraft carrier, and the Japanese side will not make it public, because they will not be able to save face, so they will save face. And Lu Qiang naturally won't say it, otherwise he will frighten those Western countries and provoke the "yellow/disaster theory" again, especially the "China/threat/theory", which is extremely unfavorable to Lu Qiang.

The Musashi aircraft carrier (laughs ~), its huge hull, will be regarded as a medium-sized aircraft carrier in later generations, with a displacement of up to 60,000 tons, and our Liaoning / full load is only 60,000 tons, so the Musashi, which has been changed to an aircraft carrier, is already comparable to the Liaoning / in some cases.

The deck of the aircraft carrier is 278 meters long, loaded with 47 carrier-based aircraft, a total of 48 anti-aircraft machine guns of various types, and 8 127mm high-level dual-purpose guns.

In terms of data, it is very beautiful, it can be said that this is currently the largest aircraft carrier in the world except for the Nimitz in the hands of Lu Qiang, and only the later Shinano can surpass it.

Speaking of which, the Shinano was originally intended to be built into a Yamato-class battleship, built according to Japan's "Fourth Ship Replenishment Plan", but when it was 50% built, it was converted into an aircraft carrier, that is, the Shinano.

However, with the beginning of the Musashi, it is believed that the Shinano will not be built to 50% before being converted into an aircraft carrier, but will be built directly according to the aircraft carrier.

The Musashi is supposed to be so big that it only carries 47 carrier-based aircraft, some of which are short-legged, and even the Yorktown-class aircraft carrier, which has a displacement of only 25,500 tons, carries about 60 carrier-based aircraft.

It may have something to do with the fact that he was originally going to build a battleship, after all, the layout of the ship was based on the battleship, and the aircraft carrier was rebuilt halfway, and at this time, the layout could not be changed, so that a lot of space was wasted. On the other hand, we can often find that the decks of American aircraft carriers are often full of aircraft, while the decks of Japanese aircraft carriers are very neat and empty. In this way, in addition to the planes in the hangar, the US aircraft carrier also carries a large number of aircraft on the deck, after all, the hangar is small and cannot fit too much. And the planes used by the Japanese army were all in the hangar, and they did not put any planes on the deck, so they did not carry as many planes as the American army.

There is no problem with the trial voyage of the 004 aircraft carrier, and the aircraft is currently taking off and landing in the test plane, and the carrier-based aircraft are transferred from the 002 aircraft carrier, and they have been training for almost half a year, and they have a lot of experience.

After a few takeoffs and landings without problems, the Navy was equipped, and as an aircraft carrier of the Second Fleet, it was enough for the First Fleet to have three aircraft carriers.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Second Fleet, with the addition of this aircraft carrier, there were only 6 warships, one Blue Ridge, one Duck Slip, one 004 aircraft carrier, two Sverdlov cruisers, and one destroyer, which was built later.

At present, Lu Qiang's shipyard can already build destroyers, which is much easier than cruisers, battleships, and destroyers with a displacement of only a few thousand tons.

There are two kinds of destroyers built by Lu Qiang's shipyard, one is as a frigate, all equipped with anti-aircraft weapons, anti-aircraft radars, and even torpedo tubes, which are completely anti-aircraft defense to protect aircraft carriers. The speed of such a destroyer was medium, and the armor on the sides was thicker, because it was used to block enemy torpedoes when necessary.

The second type is the Feng/Sao destroyer, equipped with 4 128mm high-level dual-purpose guns, 12 anti-aircraft machine guns, and 2 four-barreled torpedo launchers, with an average speed of 37 knots, and a top speed of 41 knots. However, no matter what kind of destroyer it is, in the face of battleships, it will sink with one shot, so Lu Qiang didn't expect it to be able to take two shots, as long as it could escape when the wind was headwind.

Destroyers are built much faster, with an average of one launching a month, but there is still some way to go before there are 20 destroyers. So Lu Qiang has built two new shipyards, one is in Brisbane, there is already one here, and now it will be rebuilt and continued to be used, and the other is in Townsville, not to mention Darwin Harbor, there must be one there. (To be continued.) )