Any ship has a unique role, for example, a submarine, he is fighting underwater, once on the surface, let alone a ship of the same level, even if it is a small gunboat, it can beat it, the aircraft carrier is the same, his main role is the aircraft, at night, when the plane can not take off, let the aircraft carrier and the battleship face each other on the battle line, the loss must be the aircraft carrier, and even when the battleship successfully breaks through the aircraft carrier layer of barriers, into the shelling area, The danger of an aircraft carrier sinking has increased dramatically. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In a specific field, not necessarily the most powerful ship, can play an important role, the right is the best, the escort aircraft carrier looks very inconspicuous in combat effectiveness, and can not even keep up with the large fleet, but in a specific field, such as escort, it has the advantage that destroyers and cruisers do not have, his own speed is about the same as that of a merchant ship, and even the hull is the hull of a merchant ship, but it has been militarized and has increased its sinking resistance, and in terms of economy, it is much less than a general warship.

Yang Yuanzhao intervened in the development of aircraft carriers, all of them were made regular aircraft carriers, ignoring escort aircraft carriers and light aircraft carriers, which is equivalent to saying that the development of China's aircraft carriers has taken a little detour, but fortunately, it was discovered in time that replacing escort warships with escort aircraft carriers can save a lot of manpower and ships, whether it is a destroyer or a cruiser, and finally it is incorporated into the aircraft carrier battle group, which can increase the strength of the aircraft carrier battle group.

There is the existence of anti-submarine aircraft, the escort aircraft carrier is almost the natural enemy of the submarine, the submarine does not have to worry, even if it is a small broken fleet, as long as it is not the main fleet, the escort aircraft carrier can deal with one or two, and even to a certain extent, it can annihilate these broken fleets, after all, no matter how fast the battleship is, that is, more than 30 knots, converted into less than 60 kilometers per kilometer, but even the slowest speed of the aircraft is more than 120 kilometers, similar to China, which uses large engines and is optimized for hydrodynamics, the slowest transport aircraft, will also exceed 350 kilometers, which is much faster than the battleship.

The number of escort aircraft carriers, finally determined to be about 30 aircraft, too much, will make the tonnage of the escort aircraft carrier rise significantly, escort aircraft carriers, the tonnage does not have to be too large, too big and wasteful, really when the number of aircraft exceeds 60, a little expansion, is a 100 or so aircraft carrier, this is meaningless, professional things will be handed over to professional ships to do, escort aircraft carriers are for escort, even if he has a strong attack power, unless necessary, He will not be involved in a strategic showdown or a fleet showdown, and it is too fragile compared to a full-fledged aircraft carrier.

Between 30 and 40, it is the most suitable match to give full play to the combat effectiveness of the escort aircraft carrier, among them, 12 fighters, for 2 squadrons, this protection is enough to attack to a certain extent, three or four other types of aircraft, the rest are anti-submarine aircraft, the main task of anti-submarine aircraft is anti-submarine, which is also the main effect of escort aircraft carriers, but if it is to break the fleet, anti-submarine aircraft can also play a role in bombing, in the battle, you can also carry bombs for bombing, itself is a bomber modification, To bomb is just a return to the old profession, which cannot be said to be smoother, but it is not that it cannot be effective.

The weaving of 14 aircraft and 2 squadrons, a squadron can drop 50 tons of aerial bombs, according to the tonnage of an anti-submarine aircraft bomb is about 7 tons, in a war of the next scale, even if it encounters a battle cruiser, it can be dealt with, as for the main fleet of aircraft carriers and battleships, it is not at all what the escort aircraft carrier can deal with, on the escort, it is impossible to consider that the main fleet comes to attack every day, it is too tiring and unrealistic.

Generally speaking, it is difficult to break through the fixed line of defense, and when the task force threatens the merchant shipping routes, it is impossible to carry out large-scale merchant shipping before the annihilation of this task force, after all, whether it is a merchant ship or a cargo, it costs a lot, and the merchant ship must sail in a safe condition until it is forced to do so.

The development of China's aircraft carriers, even if it is a little detour, is not fatal, but it is just some logistics, as long as the escort is available, and even for China's production capacity, as long as the target is selected, it will be built quite quickly, and dozens of escort aircraft carriers may be completed in more than half a year, at most 10 months.

In the past 8 years, China has made great progress in building ships, in China before 1910, in the production of warships, only 3000 tons, and old ironclad ships, new warships and merchant ships have no way to build, take Jiangnan Shipyard as an example, received some orders, but to complete those orders, basically is to purchase various sub-projects, Jiangnan Shipyard is more of an assembly process, China can not produce engines, marine steel, and some other important unitsAt most, it can only be integrated and produce interior decoration, and even if the ships are built, the bulk of it is also earned by those upstream production enterprises.

But the rise of the Northwest has changed all this, China got Yang Yuanzhao's power and steel, and based on this, the Jiangnan shipyard has been renovated, the Northwest far exceeds the world's level of power, so that commercial ships not only reduce tonnage, reduce consumption, speed is also slightly accelerated, in the merchant ship, any small proportion of consumption reduction, will bring a big reform, not to mention such a huge scale, you run a trip to spend 1000 US dollars, I run a trip to spend 800, even if it is the same price, are more profitable than you, and under certain circumstances, you can also reduce the cost of competing for orders, and the less expensive almost occupies a natural advantage.

Relying on the power and the original foundation of the Jiangnan shipyard, the merchant ship system was built, and with the help of the experience accumulated by the merchant ship, it gradually transferred to the field of warships, which happened to be out of Germany, and with the help of Germany, a complete shipbuilding system was built, just as the United States now obtains British technology, Britain can not give full play to the technology, once transferred to the Americans, it is suddenly like a cocoon into a butterfly, the United States' shipbuilding output and shipbuilding technology are perfectly combined, and the sea of warships begins to storm.

At that time, the cooperation between China and Germany was the same, the technology provided by Germany was turned into magic by China, once the basic ship manufacturing was completed, China's advantages in all-in-one machines and materials directly turned the vision into the present, and the improvement was extremely obvious. Thanks to the fact that Germany was not the first in the world at that time, he introduced China as an arm in order to challenge the position of Britain, otherwise, even if China had Yang Yuanzhao and an all-in-one machine, it would be absolutely impossible to find out how to make a battleship without taking a detour of a few years.

With the help of Germany, the most basic ship-building technology was accumulated, and then gradually embarked on a different path, after making such a perfect battleship as the Fantasy class, China quickly transferred, from the era of battleship cannons, to aircraft carriers, because there is a tradition of shipbuilding, and the accumulation in the field of aircraft carriers is also quite strong.

To put it bluntly, escort aircraft carriers are miniaturized aircraft carriers, and even most of them can be replaced by civilian ships, but they are strengthened in terms of water tightness, speed, and maneuverability, and the deck on it is far shorter than that of ordinary aircraft carriers, and it is impossible to fly aircraft with a take-off weight of more than 20 tons, which are generally about 18 tons, basically, they are medium and ********, reconnaissance aircraft, anti-submarine aircraft, and light fighters, which are enough.

But even these, for small ships, submarines, and some land units, they all have extremely strong attack power, besides, escorting aircraft carriers has never been for the front line of combat, so the speed or something, not too high, faster than ordinary merchant ships, what is faster than airplanes, as long as they can't outrun the planes, these ships can't run away, mainly to undertake some land suppression tasks, so to a certain extent, to avoid expensive fleet aircraft carriers, close to land, are sunk by some of the no.

The design work was quickly completed, and the most outstanding design was that it could accommodate 36 aircraft, which were 6 reconnaissance aircraft, 18 anti-submarine aircraft, 12 fighters, at a certain time, fighters could replace reconnaissance missions, 6 reconnaissance aircraft, which would be replaced by 6 light bombers to strengthen the combat capabilities of the aircraft carrier.

China's accumulation of aircraft carriers, coupled with the low requirements of escort aircraft carriers, casually determined a 18,000-ton merchant ship bottom as the bottom of the ship, and then determined some central positions, waterline positions, and formed a plan, and then China has at least hundreds of docks to build this kind of dock.

Because of the simplicity involved, coupled with the use of fewer personnel, China's escort work at sea in the future can definitely not be regarded as a small amount, so the first batch, the completion of the order of 30 ships, if the effect of investment is better, will be carried out in succession, the second batch of undetermined quantity, may be a double 60 ships, or two to three times, directly on 100 ships, the price of this kind of aircraft carrier is not high, compared with the heavy patrol capital is much worse, with China's financial resources, it can be built on a large scale.

After the completion of the escort aircraft carrier finalization, in the future China in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean busy coastline, there will be a large number of merchant fleets, in order to protect these fleets, 30 escort aircraft carriers are a little insufficient, according to the plan, the escort aircraft carrier will be two as a unit, a total of 15 escort formations, the future will increase to about 40, is a specific situation and increase, will not stick to a certain number, in short, enough can be. (To be continued.) )