readx; Taishan, this is the name of the first aircraft carrier in the Chinese Navy, to be precise, the name of the first modified aircraft carrier, Taishan was originally an ocean-going passenger liner in the United States, started construction in 1909, and was commissioned in 1912. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info only served for a year on the way to China on the voyage from the United States to China, and when he arrived near Shanghai, he hit a reef, although it was in shallow water at the time and the ship did not sink, but the damage to the hull caused a large amount of water to cause the new ship to lose power and run aground. After a hasty repair last year, a large number of facilities in the ship were damaged due to a large amount of water ingress, and for a luxuriously decorated passenger liner, the decoration is the price of half a ship, the hull is not worth anything, and the hull was damaged too quickly when it hit the reef, so the Americans thought that the ship lacked sufficient safety surname, so it was not planned to repair and sell scrap iron directly.

At this time, the Chinese Navy was planning to carry out sea take-off and landing tests, although Chen Jingyun told the people of the Navy to build an aircraft carrier, and even the general outline of the aircraft carrier was spent on them, such as the all-through deck, starboard ship island, etc., but how to design the interior of the aircraft carrier, some specific problems of carrier-based aircraft take-off and landing are unknown, this is also Chen Jingyun's support for the Navy to first modify an aircraft carrier, and then gain enough experience before the design and construction of the aircraft carrier, of course, This also has the current Chinese shipbuilding industry to build a design of tens of thousands of tons of warships still has a lot of technical difficulties, Jiangnan Shipyard's latest expansion of a 20,000 tons is still under construction, so at present, Jiangnan Shipyard can only build ships below 10,000 tons.

It just so happened that this American passenger ship was on the maintenance slipway of the Jiangnan Shipyard, so through contact with the Chinese Navy, the seriously damaged passenger ship was purchased and repaired and refitted, for which the Chinese Navy specially allocated up to 1.5 million yuan of funds for refit and repair, in terms of the technical ability of the Jiangnan Shipyard, it is not possible to build a 10,000-ton warship for the time being, but the modification of a civilian ship is still handy, anyway, the navy in order to control the cost, The modification requirements put forward are also very simple, that is, to replace the coal-fired boiler of the Taishan with an oil-fired boiler, and then remove all the chimneys and other buildings on the center line of the ship, and rebuild them into hangars, fuel tanks, aviation fuel tanks, ammunition tanks, etc., and the chimneys are arranged on the starboard ship island, and at the same time, navigation, take-off and landing, and headquarters and other cabins are set up on the starboard ship island.

According to the modification design plan of the Ship Administration Department, the standard displacement of the Taishan will reach about 11,000 tons after the completion of the refit, and the full load displacement can exceed 13,000 tons. After replacing the coal-fired boiler with an oil-fired boiler, the speed can be further increased to about 22 knots.

In fact, the navy took a fancy to this ship at the beginning, simply for its speed, because even if the deck wind factor when the aircraft takes off and lands, it also has to take into account the accompanying fleet operations, although the speed of 22 knots is still not able to accompany the high-speed cruiser fleet, but there is no problem in accompanying the battleship formation operation. In fact, in this era, in addition to warships, the speed of other civilian ships is generally low, and freighters are generally only ten knots, so it is not easy to find a civilian ship of about 20 knots, and generally can only be ocean cruises.

After the completion of this modification, it seems that the appearance is very similar to the feeling of an aircraft carrier in the World War II era, but in fact it is still very different from the real aircraft carrier, first of all, in order to control the cost of modification and in order not to reduce the speed or even increase the speed, the navy did not add side armor to the Taishan, which was originally just a passenger ship, but only added extremely limited armor in the core compartment. In addition, this Taishan was originally a civilian ship, and the watertight structure cannot be compared with a real warship, so the anti-sinking surname is very poor.

If the modified Tarzan is hit, even a six-inch or five-inch naval gun is enough to inflict fatal damage on it!

However, the navy also has its own reasons for doing this, first of all, this Taishan is only a modified aircraft carrier, and its biggest role is to use it for testing and training, laying the foundation for the birth of the first real aircraft carrier of the Chinese Navy, and even the navy group of people never planned to let this Taishan go to the battlefield. The navy has only allocated 1.5 million yuan for the refit, so it can only be refitted like this.

As the world's first refitted aircraft carrier, the Chinese Navy has a strong interest and hope in the Taishan, which is still being refitted at the Jiangnan shipyard, hoping that the appearance of the aircraft carrier can extend the reconnaissance distance of hundreds of kilometers for the Chinese Navy fleet. Bombing was only a secondary mission.

Not only did the Chinese Navy see the reconnaissance force of the aircraft on the ocean, but the navies of other countries also saw it, first of all, when a large number of planes appeared on the battlefield of China's civil war, the military also quickly became interested in the aircraft, and then ordered dozens of planes from France and Germany, and based on these, the army air force and the naval air force were formed, and at that time, the idea of the navy and the Chinese navy was strikingly similar, that is, to bring the aircraft to the ocean to provide reconnaissance force for the fleet. So both countries have plans to get planes on ships.

However, the difference between the two is that the Chinese Navy has chosen to choose to modify aircraft and ships, trying to provide aircraft with a model of sea airfield, that is, in the form of an aircraft carrier. However, he chose the seaplane model, and in 1913 he converted a seaplane carrier, although it carried very few seaplanes, but it still allowed the fleet to obtain ocean-going aviation reconnaissance capabilities.

And it was this that greatly stimulated the Chinese Navy's Sa Zhenbing and others, so they couldn't wait to accelerate the aircraft sea take-off and landing test, first built a land training base, simulated the narrow deck at sea for take-off and landing, and at the same time purchased the Taishan and refitted it.

In addition, as the pioneer of sea take-off and landing technology, the United States is also continuing to carry out sea take-off and landing tests, and Britain is also because of the outbreak of the European war, the upgrading of aircraft technology is very fast, so after the test and equipment of seaplanes, Britain also formally put forward the aircraft carrier plan.

Generally speaking, in the past few years, the navies of all countries in the world have basically seen the huge potential of aircraft, and everyone is not stupid, and those admirals even the extremely determined giant ship artilleryists are also thinking of taking aircraft to the sea to provide reconnaissance support for the fleet, although in recent years, no one except Chen Jingyun thinks that aircraft carriers will replace battleships in the future, but the reconnaissance power provided by aircraft carriers alone is enough to make the navies of all countries in the world pay attention to it.

The only advantage that the Chinese Navy has over the navies of the world powers in the development of aircraft carriers is that Chen Jingyun attaches more importance to aircraft carriers than them, and is very sure that aircraft carriers will replace battleships!

Speaking of the fact that airplanes have generally entered the field of vision of the navies of various countries, this is inseparable from the rapid development of airplanes in the past few years, especially after the outbreak of the war in Europe last year.

Before the outbreak of World War I, the Italian-Turkish War provided the first battlefield for aircraft, and then in the civil war that broke out in China for several years, the National Air Force and the Beiyang Air Force in the Chinese [***] valve carried out a large-scale air force confrontation, and finally the Beiyang Air Force ended in a complete defeat, but that also let the world powers see the huge role of the aircraft, which also accelerated the development of the world's air forces before the First World War, before the outbreak of World War I, Britain, France and Germany combined with more than 600 aircraft, of which Germany accounted for as much as half. However, before the outbreak of World War I, the planes of these countries were still stuck in the primitive era, and even the planes of the Chinese Air Force were inferior!

Before the outbreak of World War I, the D5A fighter of the Chinese Air Force was able to completely explode the aircraft of Britain, France and Germany and all other countries, but after the outbreak of World War I, the air forces of various countries began to participate in the war, conduct reconnaissance, hit the enemy's artillery balloons, etc., so that the air war between the two sides also broke out. The first two months were fine, but a few months later, the German side did not know how to obtain the machine gun firing coordinator on the Chinese D5A fighter or said that it had developed the firing coordinator and equipped it with the Fokker E fighter, so the air balance on the European battlefield was quickly broken, and the German Fokker E fighter almost cleaned up the British and French planes over the European battlefield like a unilateral slaughter, so that when the British and French planes were on reconnaissance missions, It was even accompanied by three fighters to escort a reconnaissance aircraft.

In order to solve this situation, the British approached the Chinese side, because they also learned that the aircraft of the Chinese Air Force had a similar device. The machine gun firing coordinator has always been strictly kept secret by the Chinese Air Force, and the outside world only knows that the Chinese Air Force's aircraft can shoot in the nose, but it is not clear how to do it, and some other countries have also come up with many methods, such as installing machine guns on the propeller shaft, and installing machine guns on both sides of the wings, and even having a propulsion aircraft, that is, the propeller is mounted on the tail and the machine gun is mounted on the nose.

After Chen Jingyun learned of this, he felt that since the Germans were already equipped with a firing coordinator, it would not take a year or two for the whole world to know about it, and even if the Germans kept it secret, they could not stop the secret leakage of the firing coordinator, because as long as it was a plane on the battlefield, it was possible to crash, and if it crashed, it could be captured by Britain and France, and the technology of the machine gun firing coordinator could spread to the whole world in as little as one or two months, or as long as a year.

So now it's good to transfer this technology to the British and French.