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Although the Buran multiple launch rocket system of the 1st Armored Division of the Imperial Chinese Guard allows missile launches, the Mistral-6 surface-to-surface missiles are not under the control of the Army during actual combat deployment, but are placed under the direct command of the Celestial Forces Command of the Chinese Empire. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info╔╗

Because of the cost problem and nuclear safety issues, the missile forces of the Chinese Empire were under the jurisdiction of the Space Army Command, and the passwords required for the launch of nuclear missiles were in the hands of the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, so the army only had theoretical missile units and did not deploy them in actual combat.

The most important inconvenience of the Army's use of the Mistral-6 missile is that the missile launch mechanism is too large and the maneuverability is too poor, which affects the ability to strike quickly. However, the advent of missiles was not the exclusive domain of the Army, and the Imperial Navy and Air Force ceased to compete with the Army all the time.

The Mistral-6 missile could not be deployed quickly on land, but this problem was very easy for the Imperial Chinese Navy.

It is very easy for the powerful warships of the Chinese Imperial Navy to carry missile weapons, especially the 28 super warships, all of which have a displacement of more than 60,000 or 70,000 tons, and it is still very easy to load more than a dozen missiles. ╔╗

In order to compete with the army for missile reaction weapons, the Imperial Navy quickly submitted a request to the Imperial General Armament Department to equip the Navy's capital ships with ship-based missiles. After research, the Imperial General Staff believes that the Imperial Navy, as a global projection force, has the ability of its capital ships to reach around the world to make up for the weakness of the Imperial Army's missile forces that cannot be deployed abroad, and the huge warship carriers can easily deliver any missile squadron to the enemy's border along the sea route.

After studying, the Imperial General Staff approved the Admiralty's request for missiles to be put on board. However, the Imperial Navy's request to use the active capital ship as a carrier to modify the missile launcher was rejected. On the one hand, because the General Staff is still uncertain about the actual combat capability of sea-based missile weapons, the cost of modification is extremely high, and the original layout of the capital ship's weapons is destroyed. Enemy shells exploded as soon as they hit the missiles. would pose a huge threat to the capital ship itself, so the General Staff vetoed the proposal to modify the missile launch system on the active capital ship. On the other hand, the attitude of Wang Chenhao, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, was very resolute. Oppose the modification of missile weapons systems on capital ships, especially battleships. ╔

According to Wang Chenhao's proposal, the Imperial Admiralty soon set up a special type of ship specially used to carry missile weapon systems-missile cruisers. With a cruiser of about 10,000 tons as a carrier, a special shipborne missile weapon system is installed. It is mainly responsible for striking important targets within 500 kilometers of the coastline inland.

In response to Wang Chenhao's idea, the Imperial Admiralty quickly organized the General Administration of Ships and the weapons research and development department to tackle key problems, and soon came up with a feasible missile cruiser plan.

As the world's largest super-naval power, the General Administration of Ships has designed tens of thousands of advanced warship structures for more than 40 years, and it is easy to find the design drawings of cruisers suitable for deploying sea-based missile weapon systems.

Of course, the biggest difference between the missile cruiser is that it uses missiles as a strike weapon, rather than a traditional naval gun weapon system. Therefore, the Imperial Ship Administration finally designed the Tornado-class missile cruiser, the first class missile cruiser of the Imperial Chinese Navy, based on the hull structure of the Typhoon-class air defense heavy cruiser. ╔╗

Tornado-class missile cruiser. Based on the basic design of the Typhoon-class air defense heavy cruiser, known as the Chinese Aegis, it has a design standard displacement of 10,200 tons and a width and a draft of 7.6 meters. Use a single chimney, flat deck appearance. In order to increase the missile launch system, the original naval artillery system was completely dismantled. In order to obtain more space for launching, the island was designed to be relatively compact, but still maintained the characteristics of the Imperial Chinese Navy, that is, the geometric angular layout of the island.

Although it is the standard of a heavy cruiser, as a missile cruiser, its combat mode is long-range strike, which is the same as the combat purpose of an aircraft carrier, so the requirements for armor protection are not high, and the total armor weight is only 1519 tons, and the maximum armor thickness does not exceed 150 mm. However, the water discharge compartment has been greatly increased to improve its anti-sinking ability. The transverse armor waterproof bulkhead divides the interior into 8 main compartments. Based on the requirements of following the actions of the main fleet, the design output of 120,000 horsepower to achieve a maximum combat speed of 33 knots is necessary for the operation of aircraft carrier battle groups and battleship battle groups.

The main gun system retains only one 127 mm 65x radial rapid-fire gun, with a rotating turret located at the bow of the ship, which is used to drive away small surface ships approaching at high speed. ╔╗

As a missile cruiser, its main weapon is undoubtedly missiles.

The Mistral-6 surface-to-surface tactical missiles used by the Army are too large to be suitable for mass deployment of missile cruisers. The imperial side quickly reduced the size of the Mistral 6 missile and developed the Mistral 9 shipborne cruise missile, but the Mistral 8 was aborted due to various technical defects and uneconomic factors.

The Tornado-class missile cruiser is deployed with the Mistral-9 ship-based cruise missile, which is codenamed the Roaring Sky Dog cruise missile within the Navy. This type of bomb is 4.8 meters long, 0.5 meters in diameter, has a total mass of 622 kilograms, has a maximum range of 210 kilometers, and has a cruising speed of Mach 0.86.

It is precisely because the size of the Mistral-9 missile is greatly reduced compared with that of the Mistral-6 missile, that it can be deployed on warships in the form of a quadruple assembly in the shape of a "Tian". ╔╗

A total of eight quadruple missile launchers were deployed and installed on the Tornado-class missile cruisers, which were arranged symmetrically along both sides of the island. Although Wang Chenhao proposed to install a vertical launch system, due to the Navy's urgency, the General Administration of Shipping was unable to design the hull design scheme required for the vertical missile launch system in time (mainly because of its lack of experience), so it adopted the inclined launch method. This makes the Howling Sky Dog cruise missile need to face the direction of the target head-on before it can be launched, and there is a certain combat blind spot. However, for the first class missile cruiser of the Chinese Empire, she is already the most advanced in the world.

At the same time, the drawbacks of the army's large radar station, which could not follow the situation of the Mistral-6 missile, were successfully solved on the Tornado-class missile cruiser, because the missile cruiser of this class was equipped with a large radar system specially designed to command the Roaring Sky Dog cruise missile, which could be controlled at all times within the missile strike radius, greatly improving the accuracy of hitting.

The Tornado-class missile cruiser has a powerful air-to-sea search and detection radar system installed above the island, with an effective search and tracking distance of 300 kilometers in the air and 250 kilometers in the sea, and the azimuth error of 12 meters and about 3 dense positions; in terms of the global radar detection technology level in the middle of the 20 th century, the detection accuracy of the Tornado-class missile cruiser is the highest, and even the radar system of the battleship Guanghua the Great, the most powerful battleship of the Imperial Navy, does not have this accuracy. Of course, this is all due to the missile weapon system, because the missile weapon system has extremely high requirements for radar accuracy, coupled with the extremely high cost of missiles, if the accuracy is not enough to accurately hit the target, then the loss is undoubtedly huge.

Air defense is still the top priority of the Imperial Navy, although it is not possible to install a huge number of anti-aircraft fire systems like the Chinese Aegis air defense heavy cruisers, but the Tornado-class missile cruisers still install as many anti-aircraft weapon systems as possible, 16 of the latest MK40 Vulcan Phalanx systems, divided into three parts. The first part is located on the main deck, and eight MK40 Vulcan phalanx systems are arranged on the protruding ear platforms on both sides of the ship's amidship, protecting each missile launcher and arranging it evenly and symmetrically. The second part is located on the secondary deck platform, with 2 seats on the left and right and 1 on the front and 1 on the front and rear. The third part is located on the front and rear control towers of the ship island, one in the front and one in the front and one in the front.

The Tornado-class missile cruiser is also anti-submarine capable, equipped with an anti-submarine weapon system, 2x3 with 324 mm MK-39 torpedo tubes (MK-40 red-headed anti-submarine torpedo), and no anti-submarine depth charges are installed.

At this time, the Chinese Empire had rarely adopted the early use of anti-submarine depth charges in anti-submarine warfare, because that anti-submarine method basically had little effect. After the Tang class submarines of the Chinese Empire were successively marketed abroad, the submarine capabilities of various countries rose sharply, and the traditional depth charge method was easily eliminated by fast submarines.

The anti-submarine torpedo developed by the Chinese Empire is different, in view of the shortcomings of the slow speed of depth charges, the use of anti-submarine torpedoes with thrusters can quickly control the enemy before the enemy submarine reacts. After several tests by the Imperial Navy, anti-submarine torpedoes have special effects against submarines with an underwater speed of less than 18 knots.

At the same time, since the invention of radio proximity anti-aircraft shells, the Chinese Empire has also installed advanced radio and wake tracking systems on anti-submarine torpedoes, making the anti-submarine capability of the Imperial Navy extremely powerful.

Of course, this technology has been kept in strict secrecy, which is due to the vigilance and precaution of the Imperial Chinese Navy against the tactics of German wolf packs.

The Tornado missile cruiser uses two Parsons steam turbine systems with two-shaft propulsion, a maximum combat speed of 33 knots, a cruising range of 28 knots, a cruising range of 8000 nautical miles per 20 knots, 2500 nautical miles per 32 knots, and a standard staffing of 423 people.

Four Tornado missile cruisers of the same class were built in Dalian Shipbuilding Heavy Industry, and the keels were laid in March of Guanghua 41, and it is expected that Guanghua will be launched from June to September of 42 years, and finally all outfitting will be completed from September to December of Guanghua 43 years.

The Imperial Navy gave the Tornado-class missile cruisers the CG designation, distinguishing them from other types of cruisers in service, and gave them special names after cities in the Chinese Empire. The four Tornado-class missile cruisers are the CG-1 Dalian, the CG-2 Lushun, the CG-3 Battalion Slogan and the CG-4 Dandong, all named after the major cities in the provinces where the ships were built.