Chapter 107, Rewards
One is the production line of the amphibious command ship of the Blue Ridge, and the other is the production line of the EA-18G "Growler" electronic attack aircraft.
The "Blue Ridge" amphibious command ship is the US Navy's most capable warship in comprehensive maritime operations and is the flagship of the Seventh Fleet. It is the largest command ship designed since World War II. In amphibious operations, it can provide integrated command and control facilities for the sea, air, and land.
The EA-18G "Growler" electronic attack aircraft was developed on the basis of the US Navy's F/A-18E/F "Super Hornet" fighter-attack aircraft. The EA-18G not only has a new generation of electronic countermeasures equipment, but also retains all the F/A-18E/F weapon systems and excellent maneuverability, and its advanced design makes it better to carry out airborne electronic attack (AEA) missions on both the flight deck of aircraft carriers and on land.
These two can be said to have decided at once the issue of transporting troops on land and the issue of carrier-based aircraft.
The Blue Ridge has a displacement of 20,000 tons, which is no less than a large cruiser, and can also store 3 personnel landing craft and 2 vehicle landing craft, and can also carry 700 landing combat personnel and vehicles on the ship, and a medium helicopter can be placed on the clean deck, with a maximum speed of 23 knots, although it is not comparable to the perverted yacht, but it is enough.
As for the Growler, how to say it, at present, for Lu Qiang, it can only be used as a carrier-based aircraft, after all, it was originally developed according to the Bumblebee, and all kinds of hanging weapons are still retained. It may be good in the future, but during World War II, its electronic warfare system was of little use and could only be used as an ordinary carrier-based fighter. But even so, it is enough to sling all the carrier-based aircraft in the world.
Out of the Blue Ridge and the Growler, Lu Qiang is more and more interested in the rewards behind, for him, if there is a cruiser or battleship or destroyer production line is the best, as for the aircraft carrier production line, forget it, there is no suitable carrier-based aircraft, the Growler is too advanced, at most it will be placed on Nimitz, if it is a World War II aircraft carrier, it will not be of much use to Lu Qiang.
The third level to the fourth level is still two rewards, but this one is not very good, which makes Lu Qiang roll his eyes.
Obtain a copy of the design drawings of the Ice Carrier (various defects have been corrected, and the power system has been changed to a biological engine), and obtain a production line for depth charges.
What Lu Qiang knows about the depth charge is to bomb the submarine, and the timing fuse of World War II is different, this depth bomb is touched, and when it feels an unknown signal around, it will automatically explode, and it can also be timed.
As for the ice aircraft carrier, this Lu Qiang didn't know, picked up the drawings, and they were all introduced.
The ice aircraft carrier was conceived by the British during World War II, when the sea was blocked and there was a serious shortage of steel materials, so they were forced to come up with the idea of an ice aircraft carrier. A month later, a 20-meter-long model with wooden planks on the outside, asphalt on the inner bulkheads, and pipe-like vents chiseled into the hull. Miraculously, this "ice aircraft carrier" survived the hot summer without melting. Due to the fact that the envisaged ice carrier was made of the extremely rigid "Parkerit", none of the weapons of the time could penetrate its 12-meter-thick flight deck. However, this plan was quickly put on hold, the biggest reason was that the heat dissipation of the engine was not handled well, and as soon as it started, the surrounding ice began to melt, in addition to a number of technical problems. However, now the drawings say that all these problems have been corrected, especially the engine problem, replaced by a biological engine, no heat, no loss, better than nuclear power and more environmentally friendly. It looks pretty good, but! A current technology, let alone a biological engine, can't even get nuclear power, according to the drawings, if you want to get this biological engine, Lu Qiang feels that he may not be able to see it in his lifetime.
Although it is impossible to build a biological engine, so that the ice aircraft carrier is useless, there are some other technologies on the drawings, which can be borrowed and put on other ships.
And the fourth level was upgraded to the fifth level, and Lu Qiang gained one is a towed sonar, and the other is an anti-submarine helicopter, which is matched.
There is nothing to say about towed sonar, that is, the sonar that tows the transducer base array to the target in the water behind the tail of the launch platform, which is almost invincible for submarines of this era. On the contrary, the anti-submarine helicopter is the American SH-2G "Super Kraken" anti-submarine helicopter, which is a good thing and can be used for anti-submarine, search and rescue, transportation, etc.
Everything in front is very good, but there is no cruiser or battleship or destroyer that Lu Qiang wants, and he has to complete the mission.
From level five to level six, Lu Qiang expects that he can come out with an expulsion, or cruise, or just come to any production line.
However, the reward was not out of expulsion, or cruise, but out of a battleship, which made Lu Qiang a little dumbfounded, that's right, it was a battleship, and it was also the last battleship built by the United States and the last decommissioned battleship, which had participated in World War II, the Korean War and the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
It was the USS Missouri, launched in 1944, the fourth Iowa-class battleship (BB-63).
For now, the battleship Missouri is undoubtedly advanced, and the main gun is a caliber of 406mm, which is beyond the reach of many battleships. Equipped with 3 triple main turrets. The secondary guns are MK12 38 times caliber 127 mm twin high-level dual-purpose guns, and 10 twin 127 mm caliber high-level dual-purpose guns are arranged on the middle side of the hull. The anti-aircraft armament consisted of 20 four-pack 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, 49 20-mm Erlikon anti-aircraft guns, for close anti-aircraft defense.
Then it also has a catapult, which can launch seaplanes, but the planes have to be made by themselves, and Lu Qiang is not eye-catching for seaplanes, so he decided to dismantle the catapult after it was built, change it to a helicopter platform, and equip it with a super Kraken.
And the last reward is the radar production line, which specializes in building all kinds of large-scale radars, mainly ground radar, ship radar, airborne radar, airship radar, missile radar, aerospace radar, over-the-horizon radar, multi-base radar, air intelligence radar, artillery sighting radar, battlefield reconnaissance radar, terrain mapping radar, navigation radar, collision avoidance radar, ground penetrating radar, weather radar, multi-function radar, limited to the manufacture of radar during the Cold War. Even so, this is a super powerful BUG, and the radars of this era are still in an electrocardiogram state, mostly used for air defense early warning.
So far, Lu Qiang has accepted all the ten awards, namely: a naval artillery shell production line, a yacht, a production line for the Blue Ridge amphibious command ship, an EA-18G "Growler" electronic attack aircraft production line, an ice aircraft carrier design drawing, a depth charge production line, a towed sonar production line, a SH-2G "Super Kraken" anti-submarine helicopter production line, a Missouri battleship production line, and a radar production line. (To be continued.) )