Volume 13 The Moral Struggle Chapter 35 The Direction of Development
Aircraft carriers as the core do not mean that aircraft carriers are everything, and Xi is the only one after World War II that has caught up with the US Navy in terms of fleet strength. And in the war, the U.S. Navy's maritime power was heavily damaged, and the Republic Navy did not take aircraft carriers as the core from the beginning, but regarded submarines as the number one force of the Navy. Several classic submarine battles in the century were related to the Navy of the Republic, and all the major victories were achieved by the submarines of the Navy of the Republic. It can be said that the influence of submariners in the Navy of the republic is deep-rooted. After Lin Xiaolei became commander of the Navy and chief of the General Staff, the Navy of the Republic still has the largest and most combat-effective underwater fleet in the world, and it also has one of the world's best submarine officers and men.
The problem is that in Lin Xiaolei's "big navy" strategy, the territory of submarines is not as good as before.
If some people think that the "big navy" is just Lin Xiaolei's wishful thinking, or that it is just a matter of the navy, and that it has nothing to do with other branches of the armed forces and the basic strategy of the republic, then they are very wrong. Historically, the purpose of naval construction of all maritime powers is closely related to the basic national strategy, and naval construction that is divorced from the basic national strategy will not produce any results, and the national basic strategy without the support of naval construction is also dangerous. In other words, after the Fourth Indo-Pakistani War. It was not until after the Korean Peninsula War that the authorities of the republic approved the expansion of the navy, and at that time Lin Xiaolei was already the chief of staff of the navy, which opened the prelude to the expansion of the navy. In the final analysis, it is not that the republic does not need a strong navy, but that before the war on the peninsula, the role that a strong navy could play was not obvious.
All in all, the "Great Navy" is part of the basic national strategy of the republic.
It is precisely in this way that Lin Xiaolei was able to build the navy fleet of the Republic in accordance with his ideas, and in the context of the third military reform, he built hundreds of large warships in succession, expanding the scale of the communist navy fleet from the main warships with a displacement of more than four stews, a sailing power of more than four nautical miles, and the ability to sail and fight in the ocean to a relaxed ship, and the total tonnage of the navy warships has also increased from thugs to less than rui. In one fell swoop, it established the status of a "global navy".
The direct result of the increase in the size of the fleet is an increase in strike capability.
In fact, this is precisely the overlap between the "big navy" and the basic national strategy.
Although there were not many opportunities for the Republican Navy fleet to perform in the Peninsular War, and the performance of the US Navy, which played a leading role at sea, was not ideal, the role of the US Navy as the "pillar" at the critical juncture left an extremely profound impression on the Republican authorities, especially the high-level leaders. With war with Japan becoming inevitable. After the Peninsular War, the authorities of the Republic made plans to expand the size of the navy with Hitter-type ships, which would hardly be of use in future wars. In fact, after the war in Japan, the Republic disposed of many small ships, and even if it recovered some of its costs through sales and lend-lease, the losses were very serious.
However, in any case, the performance of the Republic Navy in the Japanese war was indeed remarkable, and it made great contributions to the victory over Japan. In the ensuing Indian War, the expeditionary task force of the Republic Navy made persistent efforts, won the sea supremacy of the Indian Ocean, completed the strategic blockade of India, prevented the United States from aiding operations, and made a great contribution to shortening the duration of the war.
From the Peninsula War to the War of Japan and the War of India, the Republic became stronger and stronger, and the requirements for the navy became higher and higher.
In the Peninsular War, the authorities of the republic had only one demand for the navy, and that was to blockade the Korean half of Ukraine. Threaten Japan from the flanks without demanding the seizure of sea supremacy. Before the Peninsular War, such as in the East China Sea War, the role of the Republican Navy was more limited, and it could only undermine Japan's sea supremacy. As the Republic grew stronger and more capable of building a global navy, the role of the fleet in warfare changed.
Join! During the Middle East War, the main task of the Republican Navy was ground support.
It can even be said that, in addition to assisting the Air Force in air defense operations, the two combat groups of the Republic Navy have only one task in the Middle East War, that is, to dispatch carrier-based fighters in accordance with the requirements of the ground forces to strike at important targets behind the enemy's battle line with out-of-zone ammunition with a range of several hundred kilometers.
That is, the strike capability of the Navy has already passed the "sea dominance capability".
In fact, this is also the number one combat capability of the navies of great powers.
Although there is ample reason to believe that as the struggle between the Republic and the United States becomes more and more intense, when a war between the two classes of great powers becomes inevitable, a duel between the two classes of navies will also be inevitable, and then the main task of the fleet will become to seize sea supremacy. However, in modern naval warfare, the distinction between sea supremacy and strike capability is not obvious, so as the strike capability of the fleet increases, the sea supremacy capability can also be improved.
Against this background, it is difficult for submarines to sing the leading role.
There is only one reason: the submarine is capable of carrying very limited ammunition. If you compare the total mass of the ammunition carried with the standard displacement of a battleship, the submarine is one of the lowest of all ships. The new address of this site has been changed to: Concave muscle Gong Shan, please read in white! Foot. At? About 10,000 tons. Strategic submarines carrying strategic ballistic missiles will not have gills at all, and attack submarines will be below the nephew, that is, above the thugs, and the ratio of some general-purpose destroyers is even close to paste.
In fact, after the advent of the electromagnetic gun, there was a historic leap in the strike capabilities of large warships.
By the end of the decade, as the new generation of cruisers and destroyers of the Republic Navy began to be equipped with the first navy-type spiral electromagnetic guns, the long-range strike capability of the Navy's large warships made another leap. According to some relevant information released by the Navy of the Republic of China after Qiao Nian, the basic range of the new spiral electromagnetic cannon is 1,000 kilometers, and when using extended-range ammunition, it even exceeds 4,000 meters for fighters. More importantly, the caliber of the new electromagnetic gun was increased to the western kilogram.
Because the shells of the spiral electromagnetic cannon do not come into contact with the projectile, ammunition of different calibers can be selected depending on the combat use. For example, when striking a solid target at close range, you can use high-power artillery shells weighing more than kilograms, and when hitting ordinary targets, you can use standard artillery shells weighing kilograms, and when striking targets at a distance of 1 kilometer, you can use various extended-range shells with a mass between 74 and 1 kilogram. More flexible ammunition configuration gives the electromagnetic gun a more comprehensive strike capability.
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You know, when the orbital electromagnetic gun came out. The maximum firing range is only about one kilometer, and when it is about to be eliminated by the spiral electromagnetic cannon, the maximum firing range has been increased to about ten kilometers. Because there is no frictional resistance. So theoretically. As long as the adder is long enough and the output energy is large enough. The Spiral Electromagnetic Cannon can infinitely increase the number of shells, and make the initial light of the cannonballs infinitely closer. Although this is not possible, it is optimistically estimated that only 4 times the efficiency of energy use can be improved. That is, from less than the batter's tendon to the strongest, the spiral electromagnetic cannon can give the cannonball the first cosmic degree. That is, to give the shell the degree it needs to enter low-earth orbit. And so it goes. On a planetary scale. The Spiral Electromagnetic Cannon has an "infinite range", that is, by improving the shell, the shell can reach any corner of the world.
It can be seen that the spiral electromagnetic cannon is definitely a weapon that is enough to change the face of war.
Although from a technical point of view, the energy utilization efficiency of the spiral electromagnetic gun is increased by 4 times, or the output energy of the first generation of spiral electromagnetic gun is increased by 4 times, the difficulty is not much lower than that of the spiral electromagnetic gun, the main reason is that the working principle of the spiral electromagnetic gun is relatively special, blindly increasing the input energy will lead to a sharp decrease in energy conversion efficiency, and it is impossible to completely increase the initial of the artillery shell by increasing the input energy, but by improving the shell, using more advanced ammunition motive, using variable trajectory technology, etc., It can also effectively increase the range. In fact, the Navy of the Republic has conducted tests that when using the extender shells, the shell of the shell is made of high-strength alloys, reducing the charge to kilograms. Increasing the propellant of the rocket engine and using the interstage separation technology can increase the maximum range from 4,000 meters to the old 4,000 meters. It's just that this is of little practical significance, after all, the charge of the kilogram can only deal with ordinary targets, and the accuracy will be sharply reduced after increasing the range.
All in all. For the navy, the key is not whether the range of the electromagnetic cannon is enough, but whether it can hit the target.
In local wars against small and weak countries, this problem is not yet prominent. Anyway. The Republic has the most complete strategic reconnaissance and intelligence system in the world, and the Republic Navy also has a very advanced tactical reconnaissance system. In multi-service joint operations, it is also possible to rely on tactical information provided by other services and arms. In fact, most of the time, the Navy's strikes are supported by other forces. Other words. It's not difficult to find a target from a distance of kilometers and guide a large warship equipped with a spiral electromagnetic cannon.
The problem is that in a large-scale war with a powerful country, it is not so easy to direct the shelling.
Although in the Middle East war, the large warships of the Republic Navy did not have the opportunity to use electromagnetic guns to bombard ground targets, the large warships of the US Navy have always been the main support force of the United States, the Turkish army, and the Israeli army, and the artillery support provided by the electromagnetic guns on the warships accounted for the entire war. The problem is that the effectiveness of artillery strikes in the US Navy is not very high. It is not because the electromagnetic guns of the US Navy are not advanced enough, but the power of the Quan-pound guns used by them is comparable to the power of the young kilogram-class shells used by the Republic Navy at the same time, and the spreading accuracy is slightly better. The real reason was the lack of guidance, that is, the fact that the front-line troops receiving artillery support were not able to play a role. Because there is no way to pinpoint the target. Especially when it comes to striking moving and semi-moving targets, the effectiveness of the US Navy's artillery fire is very low, so in actual combat application, the US military has chosen a very simple and very effective method, that is, to increase the density of artillery fire and use firepower to make up for accuracy.
In fact, this is also a problem that the Navy of the Republic has to worry about when it develops a new generation of cruisers and destroyers.
Unlike the army's equipment, when the cruisers and fighters with a displacement of about tonnage decide to see the new large warships at the end of the year, they have to consider a very acute question, that is, when these warships are completed and put into service, will there be a world war? If the answer is yes, then when designing, to be precise, when formulating the tactical indicators of the battleship, it is necessary to take into account the situation of direct engagement with the US Navy, and the actual combat capability of the battleship must be put in the first place.
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From a system point of view, this also happens to have a lot to do with the long-term consideration of future naval warfare tactics made by the Navy of the Republic after the Korean Peninsula War, that is, after the first actual combat application of the forced electromagnetic interference system. You know, in the previous naval battles, the combat efficiency of anti-ship missiles has not been high, and sometimes it is even necessary for submarines to take out the enemy's large surface warships with heavy torpedoes. If surface warships cannot be given more effective means of striking at sea, surface warships will not even have the value of existence in future naval warfare.
Against this background, the Navy of the Republic has been firing spiral electric bump guns with great enthusiasm.
It can even be said that when there was no need for the Republic Army to develop an electromagnetic cannon with a range of more than 1,000 meters, the Navy did not hesitate to shoulder the heavy burden of developing a spiral electric contact gun.
What the navy wants is a sea-fighting weapon that can replace anti-ship missiles in naval operations.
The problem is that the range of the electric blink cannon is no longer. The accuracy of attack, especially when striking flexible targets, is much inferior to missiles.
The simplest solution to this problem is to increase the density of firepower.
Obviously, this also coincides with the need for ground strikes.
It is precisely for this reason that the "large cruisers" and "integrated destroyers" that the Republic Navy has developed for the "Chongqing" class aircraft carriers are veritable "gunboats."
In the Navy of the Republic of China, it is the code name of the aircraft carrier and the code name of the cruiser, and the tun indicates that the project was established in the year of Likou. Because in the U.S. Navy, it is the code name of a battleship, so some Western news media believe that the Republic Navy is building a battleship that has been eliminated by history in the name of opening a cruiser, and also uses naval guns as the main strike weapon. Different from the "Chongqing" class, Qin's two catties, auxiliary energy body colloquially speaking, that is, the length of the small hull on both sides is less than one-third of the main energy body, and the individual position is relatively forward, basically located in the center, not the tail. As a result, the gun has a very wide flight deck and a "countersunk" design that uses a bridge that is level with the flight deck. Located at the front end of the flight deck, the superstructure does not have a single protrusion not to improve stealth ability, but to improve the combat resistance and survivability of the warship, the biggest feature is that the main body is slender at the front and rear ends of the slender ship and stern There is only one purpose. That is, two artillery groups in the front and rear of up to 6 guns are set up on the central axis of the battleship, and two giant ammunition depots that can accommodate stewed shells are set up in the underwater lower part of the main energy body, and the ammunition depot is a completely closed module, which can be separated from the hull when it is attacked, so as to ensure the safety of the battleship.
Undoubtedly, this is an unprecedented "cruiser".
Although there are still many advanced equipment that can make the US Navy jealous, such as a passive detection system, a terminal interception system, an integrated air defense system, an intelligent tactical command center, and a ship-wide electromagnetic shielding system with complete closure capability, it is really worth paying attention to. Or 6 spiral electromagnetic guns. To know. According to the project book of Jiangnan Shipyard, the price standard of the year of the turtle, the purchase price of 6 spiral electromagnetic guns accounted for 4% of the total cost of the navy for the gun, and under normal circumstances, this proportion should not be too gills. It is precisely for this reason that as early as the second year of the Secret Administration, the US authorities believed that the Navy of the Republic was engaged in conceptual research, and that the "Dragon was just a kind of "experimental warship" and would not be purchased in large quantities. It was not until the coincidence that the Ministry of Defense of the Republic approved the mass construction of the Cannon Chin and the plan submitted by the Ministry of Defense to replace all the cruisers of the Navy with the Cannon Bunkers submitted by the General Assembly, and the American authorities realized that the Navy of the Republic did not carry out experiments with torches, but regarded it as a kind of warship capable of going to war.
It can be said that it was Ju Qin's transition from design to construction and the beginning of mass construction, the small spiral electromagnetic cannon invested by the Navy of the Republic and the resulting new tactical ideas that attracted the attention of the whole world. In what direction the Navy should be headed, and what role it will play in future wars, it has also become a key topic at this time.
Of course, the Navy of the Republic has also attracted more attention than the US Navy!