Datang took over the eastern part of the United States and prepared to turn East Virginia into a new industrial belt, in the northern part of the Louvre metropolitan area, and on the other side is Newport News Shipyard, one of the most important shipyards in the United States. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIt's just that in this plane, this land has not yet begun to be developed, and it is still a wasteland. The most important shipyard in the United States is Newport in the northeastern state of Rhode Island, which is two different places from Newport News. The Tang Dynasty is naming Newport News as the Gwen District and preparing to build a large shipyard there, Virgin Shipyards. The original Newport Shipyard was a private American company, and the original owner was convicted of involvement in the war of aggression and his property was confiscated. Shipbuilding tycoon Zhang/Jin originally wanted to buy the shipyard, but it was eventually acquired by another more powerful private shipbuilder, in which the Datang SASAC holds 25 percent of the shares. These two shipbuilders will become Datang's most important shipyards in the eastern United States.

Together with the original Pengzhou Aoliang Shipyard and the Xinhang Shipyard in Florida, the shipbuilding capacity of the East Coast will also reach a peak. The number of shipyards with large ship construction capacity and capital warship construction capacity will also reach a staggering 12. Long Beach Shipyard, West Coast Shipyard and Pigeon Bay Shipyard on the West Coast, Pearl Harbor Shipyard in Hawaii, Jiangnan Shipyard, Dalian Shipyard, Mawei Shipyard and Whampoa Shipyard in China.

In addition to these shipyards, there are dozens of weaker but equally capable state-owned and private shipbuilding enterprises. On the other hand, in the 21st century, China's shipbuilding accounts for half of the world's total shipbuilding, and in this plane, more than 90% of the world's ships are built by Datang Shipyard. Datang's shipping capacity is also rising.

Off the coast of Jiazhou, a new type of ship is sailing on the sea.

The tester in the white coat was holding the small board in his hand and recording all kinds of data, and the captain of the battleship next to him was a little gearing up, and he smiled and said to the leader of the white coat: "Dr. Liang, our shooting test is about to start." ”

The man in the bookish white coat with gold lace glasses and who was only in his thirties said: "We still need to wait for a while, we still have work to complete here." ”

The captain could only continue to wait helplessly, but he was full of excitement in his anxiety. The captain of this battleship is already extremely lucky, and it can be said that he will be a witness to history.

The battleship under the feet of the captain and Dr. Liang has a full load displacement of 5,800 tons, but the ship is not a light cruiser, but a destroyer. This one, to be precise, is a missile destroyer.

In the division of ships in the Datang Navy, destroyers seem to have been deliberately set aside and directly linked to missiles. The ships of about 3,000 tons in Datang are frigates, and when Datang started to build destroyers, it was a big guy who was about to build 6,000 tons.

The enemy's strength is far inferior to its own, but Datang is still lonely on the road of scientific and technological progress. In fact, this kind of progress is more like completing what he knew before, and it is not particularly difficult for the Datang military industry department to complete a technology. That's not to say that they can do everything overnight, in fact, a lot of technology development has encountered bottlenecks. But compared to those real technology pioneers, Datang's developers have a lot of reference materials, and they also have a lot of money to invest, and developers can continue to experiment until they get the results they want.

The technology tree has been going up like this, and the Tang people have overcome a series of difficulties such as fluid mechanics, liquid-fueled rocket engines, turbojet engines, and electronic technology. In the end, the Tang people integrated these things and created jet planes and missiles. These two weapons are now the most secret weapons and equipment of Datang, and there is no rumor of leaking them to the outside world.

As for missile research, Datang researchers began to carry out research as early as 10 years ago, using this time to develop Datang's first generation of ship-to-ship missiles, ship-to-air missiles and anti-armor missiles, and are now developing the first generation of air-to-air missiles.

The first-generation guided missile destroyer was named the Zheng He class, in honor of the pioneer of Chinese navigation and the former vice president of the Tang Dynasty. It won't be built in large quantities, as the experimental nature is much stronger. The Zhenghe-class missile destroyer with a full row of 5,800 tons has a length of 143 meters, a width of 16.2 meters, and a draft of 5 meters. The range of technologies used is up-to-date, making it risky. The power is a combination of a diesel engine and an accelerated gas turbine (the British first tried this system in 1947). In terms of avionics equipment, the level of Zheng He-class is even more than all the ships in Datang at this stage, equipped with anti-air warning radar, sea-sweeping radar, target indication radar, fire control radar, etc., so this type of destroyer is covered with all kinds of dense natural hazards, but it is still as simple as possible. In terms of weapons, the Zheng He class is a product of a completely different generation. The main gun is a new 130 mm high-rate medium-caliber naval gun, which has improved range and accuracy of rate of fire; The housekeeping weapons are eight YJ-1 anti-ship missile launchers; Two double-arm anti-aircraft missile launchers, each with 16 rounds of ammunition, and the missile is Haihongqi-2; There were also two twin 37-mm anti-aircraft rapid-fire guns; The anti-submarine weapon is an anti-submarine deep-bomb delivery device and two rocket deep-bomb launchers with a total of 96 rounds.

It can be said that the emergence of the Zheng He class is revolutionary for the Tang Navy and even the world. It completely broke away from the era of naval warships with naval guns as its main weapon, and used missiles as her main weapon. The first-generation anti-ship missile developed by Datang, the YJ-1, with a range of 2.2 tons and a range of 50 kilometers, uses a shaped armor-piercing warhead, which is different from the anti-ship missile with a semi-armor-piercing warhead in the plane, and the main combat objects of the YJ-1 are those battleships and cruisers with thick armor. The YJ-1 can penetrate the opponent with one hit on the enemy ship, and although it cannot directly sink the enemy, it can cause serious damage to the enemy, and two shots can basically determine that the enemy has lost the combat capability.

The Hongqi-2 air defense missile weighs about 1 ton, has a maximum range of 36 kilometers and a maximum altitude of 25,000 meters, especially its missiles can fly at speeds above Mach 2, making it impossible for propeller aircraft at this time to dodge missile attacks.

Because of the nature of technical verification, the Zheng He class did not design a helicopter hangar, but maximized the use of space to verify various equipment and weapons.

This type of destroyer is positioned as an all-rounder in the fleet, proficient in anti-ship, anti-air defense and anti-submarine, and in the future it will be the escort of the aircraft carrier with a knife. (To be continued.) )