Chapter 150: Towering Kunlun
The process of delivering the Kunlun aircraft carrier to the Dutch Navy, although there was no necessary ceremonial propaganda or anything like that, for some special considerations, still attracted great attention from various countries, for the simple reason that this aircraft carrier was too maverick.
At this time, the aircraft carrier is basically a mold, with a straight deck of equal width, a lift in the middle of the runway, a plane in the front and rear of the runway, the aircraft is lifted from the rear lift, lined up at the back of the deck and waits, and runs from the back to the front when taking off, and pulls up in the shortest distance possible against the high-speed deck wind, and also hangs the blocking cable from the back to the front when landing, pushes to the front elevator and descends into the hangar, and completes a cycle in the hangar.
The size of the aircraft carrier may not be the same, but this layout is all the same.
But the Kunlun is very different.
It has an octave oblique deck forward, and the various signs of the landing area have also been moved to this beveled deck position, the rear elevator has been moved to the side of the ship island, and the front elevator is still in a normal position, in addition, this aircraft carrier island looks extremely small, many of the anti-aircraft guns that should have been there are not, especially the large-caliber anti-aircraft guns are not visible, and those outer gun positions have also been canceled, which looks very neat and clean.
All in all, it's eye-catching.
Although this is one of the Centaur class, it is actually completely different from other stoppages and other appropriations, and even its final appearance is not at all different from the original history, if you want to determine a rough shape for it, it should be more like the Clemenceau class of the later Frenchman.
Yes, when the requirements for construction were finalized, Yang Feng drew a sketch of the Clemenceau class for Lord Mountbatten, and demanded that the Britons must build it for him in this way.
Of course, this one of him is much smaller than the Clemenceau class, mainly because the keels are paved, and the length can't be changed too much for him. In the end, it was a giant ship with an oblique deck of 150 meters and a forward axial deck of 85 meters, adding up to a total length of 235 meters, which was five meters longer than the original, and the full load displacement did not increase much. It was just twenty-nine thousand, mainly because he threw almost all the anti-aircraft guns.
What age is it, and you are about to enter the era of missiles, and you are still doing such a brainless thing as stacking anti-aircraft guns on aircraft carriers?
Turning around, I put a four-seater AK630 on top of it, which works better than anything else.
The maximum speed of this aircraft carrier is not fast, especially compared with the Essex, because the power of the steam turbine is less than 80,000, so the fastest is only 28 knots, the endurance is 5,000 nautical miles, and the personnel is 1,400. The hangar was filled with forty-two Hawker Siddeley Sea Fury. Using the latest MK8 hydraulic catapult made in China, it is easy to accelerate such an aircraft, which has a maximum take-off weight of less than six tons, to nearly 200 kilometers at a distance of 53.1 meters.
In fact, this kind of catapult is already the limit of hydraulic catapult, and it can theoretically also catapult small jets, such as vampires, of course, Yang Feng will not do this, when he thinks of the plywood of the little vampire, no one will take the catapult to hit out.
But a little bigger doesn't work.
The people of the United States are ambitiously developing a super hydraulic catapult. It is said that a 20-ton plane can be accelerated to 105 knots in 70 meters. It can even accelerate the forty-five ton weight to seventy-eight knots, which is almost catching up with the steam, and it is estimated that even the Thunder Dragon can hit it.
But they are not destined to be made.
But Yang Feng is working hard, hoping to let them work hard to develop it, and sell a few units to himself when the time comes, but he is just doing his best to obey the destiny of God. He can't stop the steam catapult from moving forward, and the tech tree is not so easy to make mistakes, but fortunately, it will not be difficult to modify it at that time, although the axial deck is shorter, but it is still no problem to install the C11-2. The ejection stroke of that thing is about the same as the current one.
As for the Sea Fury fighter, this is just like that, anyway, there is no jet carrier-based aircraft for him to choose from, this kind of aircraft is old, but the payload capacity is still very strong, and there is no pressure to dominate the air in a short time, it is a 2,500-horsepower engine, and the later models are said to be over 3,000.
Later, he was going to get the little devil out first, the little female fox couldn't, although it was beautiful enough, but the speed was too slow.
Moreover, he has already designed the preliminary drawings and handed them over to the team headed by Messerschmitt to improve, the United States Navy was proposed in the middle of the four or eight years, and the McDonald company proposed the plan at the end of the year, and he will start to study it from now on, so that no one will trouble him.
Although this fighter is not supersonic, it is no problem to make do with it until the sixties, and the people themselves use it until the mid-sixties, and it can also be equipped with fire control radar, and it can also bring combat missiles, why can't it last for ten years, the maximum take-off weight is only fifteen tons, which is enough to take off and land on the Kunlun, and more than twenty tons of marauders can use it, let alone ten tons.
And in the initial development stage of this fighter, the J40 engine of Westinghouse was used, and the performance of this engine was not advanced, but the safety was too poor, and he liked to park in the air or even explode or something, but this is mainly a matter of process and materials, he can buy the right to produce under the banner of introduction, anyway, this is a doomed engine, and Westinghouse's aviation development career is ruined on this engine.
Of course, his purchase was just selling dog meat on the head of a sheep.
Could it be that the scientists of the Ming Dynasty just stood still and did not study the engine themselves? Can't we continue to study if you can't build it? The J79 came out after researching, and the Spey came out after studying and researching, and the F404 came out.
But if he dares to come up with an F404 engine now, then the result is very simple, either honestly contribute all the information to the United States, or quickly transform from the mainstay of the free world into the most dangerous enemy of the free world, and then more than 30 aircraft carriers of the United States will hit the door together.
Well, then he'd have to convert to the Horse Sect Master and be friends with Joseph.
Therefore, if he wants the Ming Empire to continue to live happily in the imperial camp, he must control the pace of technological development.
The Kunlun aircraft carrier, flying the flag of the Netherlands, sailed out of the shipyard and sailed directly to Rotterdam amid a large number of idlers.
It has received so much attention, not entirely because of its peculiarity, but also largely because of the fact that in this sensitive period, the Netherlands is Yang Feng's arms transit point, which is already an open secret, and everyone knows that at this time the Dutch government has no money to buy it, and they are now almost unable to maintain the military expenses of the East Indies, and the British government is said to be ready to give them a Giant-class.
So who bought this aircraft carrier?
Just look at the Chinese standing on the deck, it can't be bought by the Minhua government anyway.
When the Kunlun was hoisted with the flag of the Netherlands, the Republic of Tianzhu, which was already a real republic at this time, had already rolled up and gone home, and the government of the Republic of Tianzhu lodged a formal protest against the British government, which was still their master a year ago, violating the principle of neutrality, and threatening to confiscate the assets of the Britons in Tianzhu if they dared to hand over the aircraft carrier to Yang Feng.
Even Attlee really couldn't stand Nehru's arrogance, and the British government responded directly, and if he dared to do so, he would bear the consequences.
Nehru shut up.
"Mah, do you really think that Starling will become a great power by giving some arms?"
Wu Zurong stood on the Kunlun aircraft carrier, looked at the newspaper in his hand and sneered and said that he was now the captain of the aircraft carrier.
"Captain, an order from China."
An officer handed him the telegram, then turned his head to hold on to the guardrail, and looked at the dock expectantly, because of the special affection of the Ming Empire for Prussia, and because of the fact that they had given the Prussians in the most difficult times, many Prussians spontaneously came to Rotterdam to welcome these most respected friends, including some young girls.
The officer, who had followed the cruiser Yongle to Hamburg, knew very well that after he landed, as long as there was money and good things, there would be countless young women and girls who had lost their relatives in the war rushing to seek his spiritual solace, and he had been able to comfort him a lot last time.
And below him, already a large number of Prussian sailors, rushed to the empty deck and began to wave at their loved ones on the dock.
Almost a quarter of the 1,400 crew members who came to receive the Kunlun were Prussian prisoners of war.
And this time not only the Kunlun came over, but also the cruiser Hongwu, Zhang Huangyan and Qu Shiyun, which came from China to provide escort for them, are also sailing into Rotterdam to make peace with them, and these three battleships have also brought a large number of Prussian mercenaries to work in the distant Ming Empire, which is becoming an important means for Prussians to support their families in this difficult era.
"What? Traveling on the Americas-Pacific route? ”
Just as the officer was smiling at a strange blonde girl on the shore, the exclamation of the captain and the commander of the formation sounded beside him.
Well, Yang ordered Wu Zurong to cancel the original order to return to China by the Suez Canal route in the Mediterranean, and instead went straight west to the United States, first visiting New York and other eastern cities of the United States, and then crossing the Panama Canal into the Pacific Ocean, and then going north to Los Angeles and San Francisco for a visit, and after visiting San Francisco, he crossed the Pacific Ocean through Hawaii and returned to the Ming Empire.
It's going to be a long journey, and it's estimated that you won't be able to go back without tossing for three or five months.
This is a time of war, shouldn't we immediately return to join the battlefield?
At this moment, Wu Zurong was at a loss.
Of course, he wouldn't know that this was a new conspiracy brewing in Yuanfeng Yang's crazy brain, which was idle again.
He's fishing. (To be continued......)