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The aircraft carrier INS Indu, led by Major Liezhong, arrived in Madagascar on 25 October. For Li Guang, this aircraft carrier can be regarded as a bloody investment, and several economic difficulties in the past few years of the Maritime Resistance Force have a considerable relationship with the investment in this aircraft carrier.

Over the past three years, the investment in the warship itself has been increased again and again, and with the rise in prices and the upgrading of equipment, the initial expected investment of 10 million US dollars was not enough at all, but by the time the outfitting was completed, it had almost doubled, and the total investment reached nearly 20 million US dollars. The later training and fighter configuration consumed huge manpower and material resources.

Just one number, you know the horror of the aircraft carrier, a gold-swallowing beast. During the eight months of pilot training, the amount of gasoline consumed reached more than 8,000 tons, accounting for half of the consumption of all air forces of the Naval Resistance Force before October.

Moreover, the fact that this battleship can be created has a great deal to do with Li Guang's material reserves in advance. If it is the current US policy, it is difficult to buy marine steel plates, let alone some large section steel. As for the armor steel plate, it is absolutely a fantasy.

Even with such a huge investment, Li Guang was both satisfied and apprehensive about this aircraft carrier.

What is satisfying is that this aircraft carrier is much more formal than the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier, and many configurations, especially the appearance, meet Li Guang's requirements. What is worrying is that this aircraft carrier is still designed by Robert, the original designer of the Oolong Shipyard.

At the beginning, Robert's group of American designers were recruited by Li Guang to the Oolong Shipyard because of the economic depression in the United States. Thanks to the drawings obtained by the Spaniard Mr. Rameau, the submarine was designed by the gourd drawing scoop.

Later, the low-grade guano ship and the destroyer Pickup were designed. Later, the freewheel was designed. In any case, in addition to the performance, there are no major problems with these ships.

Li Guang, who has no research on ships. Therefore, I believed in the level of these designers, and even handed over the task of designing the aircraft carrier to Robert's group.

Later, the Morgan consortium of the United States took over the management of the Oolong shipyard. The level of Robert's group of designers immediately showed his feet. The Morgan consortium simply doesn't look down on designers of this grade. The big-bellied Tengu-class destroyer designed by it was ridiculed by the senior designers poached by the Morgan consortium.

Li Guang felt that the situation was serious, but a large amount of investment had already been spilled out, and he had to send the arrow, so he had to do it hard.

Robert later blushed and admitted that he had a design fee of more than $30,000.

When Americans apply for jobs, whether it is World War II or later generations, there is a common problem that they will dare to brag about being proficient at a little. This Robert was only when a certain aircraft carrier was being built in the United States. Playing a small role, the level of qualifications and experience and knowledge is seriously insufficient. However, Li Guang was still fooled, so that Li Guang found such a design team for half a bottle of water.

There was a time when the course of the aircraft carrier USS Indian Ocean was very unsatisfactory. You must know that when Li Guang decided to invest in the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier, it was determined after seeing Germany's pocket battleships at the end of 39. But in forty years. When the Navy returned to Uruguay from Dunkirk, the progress of the project was extremely slow. The work carried out by Robert and others was only to order boilers and certain spare parts. as well as the design and manufacture of certain fragmentary outbuildings on board.

Li Guang knew that Robert's group of engineers had not been able to determine many important parameters of the hull for half a year, let alone the structural design. Fortunately, during a trip to Europe, the Naval Resistance Army got a French battleship that was still called Dunkirk at that time. Robert's classmate finally has a goal of copycating.

Therefore, the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier of the Maritime Resistance Force, if you don't look at the superstructure, is actually a copy of the Atlantic battleship.

Copycat designer Robert. In fact, it almost copied the hull design of the Atlantic. It's just that the aircraft carrier requires the hull to be long, and Robert simply strengthened the keel and some materials of the main structure, and lengthened the Atlantic by twenty or thirty meters, and it became the hull of the aircraft carrier Indian Ocean.

Then put together the shape of the aircraft carrier that Li Guang said, with the wind bow, the inclined deck and the sliding take-off deck, it became the current Indian Ocean aircraft carrier.

Aircraft carrier design is a comprehensive discipline, and although the aircraft carriers of this era are not as sophisticated as those of the 21st century, they are definitely a symbol of a country's technological level. Whether such a copycat and cobbled together battleship can be used is a serious problem. This is where Li Guang's apprehension lies.

At the beginning, the aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon was unable to take off and land fighters in a slightly worse sea condition, but fortunately, it did not encounter particularly bad sea conditions during several voyages and battles, otherwise it would have sunk by itself without fighting. Finally, the keel was blown off by an aviation torpedo in the Battle of Midway, which is almost a joke in the shipbuilding world. However, the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier has made outstanding achievements, but it has covered up one or two.

It should be said that the Maritime Resistance Force is still lucky, especially in the design and manufacture of the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier.

In the pre-World War II world, the highest level of ship design was undoubtedly the United Kingdom. And then there is France. The United States and Italy and Japan are basically at the same level, as for Germany, it is even worse, and the Soviet Union is not to mention at all. In fact, the level of shipbuilding in the United States was greatly improved in World War II, mainly thanks to the cooperation between the United States and Britain, and British ship designers worked for the United States in large numbers during the war.

The French had a technology that was quite advanced, and even after the war, and that was the roll and roll reduction system of aircraft carriers. The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in later generations was only a small aircraft carrier of 40,000 tons, but the standard of rolling was much higher than that of the 100,000-ton aircraft carrier of the United States. (The smaller the boat, the harder the roll will be.) ）

The aircraft carrier has six degrees of freedom to shake, which will affect the take-off and landing of fighters. Roll is one of the key criteria. And on the battleship Atlantic, the French used the most advanced hydraulic stabilizer fin device of the time. Although it was not computer-controlled by later generations, the idea was very correct, and the designers adopted the method of relying on gyroscope mechanical control.

This alone, copied by Robert and his designers, greatly reduced the roll of the aircraft carrier and improved the seaworthiness of the aircraft carrier.

Plus. The naval resistance army has always been helpless and stupid, the power system uses civilian boilers, which are extremely bulky and heavy under the hull, which also contributes to stability.

As a result, this copycat and patchwork aircraft carrier was found to be indeed seaworthy in use, at least much better than the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier.

Another indicator of the battleship, anti-torpedo performance. The Indian Ocean almost copied the double bottom of the battleship Atlantic, with three layers of mine protection next door. But the armor, of course, is no match for a battleship. Slightly inferior anti-artillery performance.

The most commendable thing about this battleship is its anti-sinking performance. In addition to the design of more than 600 watertight cabins, there is also the shape of the aircraft carrier. Aircraft carriers with an outward float shape (the 21st century aircraft carriers are basically like this, the aircraft carrier is narrow at the bottom and wide at the top), and the floating part is a closed cabin, which undoubtedly adds more buoyancy. Due to the adoption of such a shape. Once the aircraft carrier is injured and tilted, it can greatly avoid capsizing.

To say that Robert is a pure copycat. Not entirely true. There is at least one design. These designers still took a lot of effort, and that is the design of the ship island.

Due to the fact that the boilers of the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier are not very powerful, but there are too many of them, they are extremely heavy, and the power system layout is huge, and it is extremely difficult to integrate all the smoke exhaust systems. The designers combined the chimneys of the ship island and designed two ship islands. The island, located on the right rear side of the aircraft carrier, became the air command island.

The design of the twin ship islands seems strange, but it solves a problem that Li Guang made a mistake. He has always asked for Kokanjima. The width of the ship island is only less than five meters, and the aircraft carrier command system with more than 100 people deployed on one ship island is indeed insufficient.

Let's take a look at the basic parameters of the USS Indian Ocean:

Standard displacement 29,200 tons, full load displacement 34,000 tons. The length of the ship (overall length) is 259 meters, and the flight deck is 269 meters long; The width of the ship is 28.35 meters, the flight deck is 29.26 meters wide, the widest point is 45 meters, and the average draft is 7 meters. The hangar is 174 meters long, 21 meters wide and 5.4 meters high.

Propulsion unit: 12 boilers, 80,000 horsepower, plus 4 large diesel engines, the total power reaches more than 103,000 horsepower. It has a range of 15,000 nautical miles / 15 knots and a top speed of 30 knots.

armor

The waterline armor belt was 63 mm - 101 mm thick, the flight deck armor was 76 mm thick, the hangar deck armor was 38 mm thick, and the main deck armor was 38 mm thick.

anti-aircraft weapons, a total of one hundred and twenty-eight anti-aircraft guns of various calibers......

Carrier-based aircraft: seventy-two carrier-based aircraft of various types. If fighters are deployed on the deck, it can reach more than a hundred.

The number of personnel was originally planned to be more than 1,500. Due to the fact that in the Battle of Midway, the Naval Resistance Army found that the number of anti-aircraft gunners, especially auxiliary gunners, was seriously insufficient, which affected the continuity of the output of anti-aircraft firepower. Combined with the increase in the number of telecommunications personnel, the total number of personnel has reached 2,450.

Compare it with the Essex-class aircraft carriers of the United States to see where the flaws lie.

Both aircraft carriers have about the same displacement and aircraft carriers. The Indian Ocean is only two-thirds more powerful than the power of the American Essex-class aircraft carrier, but the power system is nearly 2,000 tons heavier. The power is small, and the top speed is certainly not as good as that of the Essex-class aircraft carriers. And a huge additional drawback is that the amount of fuel carried is only more than 3,000 tons. That's only half the size of the Essex class. Although the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier uses diesel engine power for cruising and consumes little fuel, it cannot guarantee that the aircraft carrier formation will act as a supply ship for other warships during the voyage. In the case of long-distance operations, an oil tanker is indispensable to follow, and it is impossible for the oil tanker to reach a speed of 30 knots, which really seriously limits the overall maneuverability of the fleet. Maneuverability is the biggest advantage of aircraft carriers.

However, the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier also has something Li Guang can be proud of. The aircraft carrier already has three of the most important improvements to aircraft carriers after World War II.

The first item is the sloping deck arrangement. This allows the carrier to release and recover fighters at the same time. If Japan had used a slanted deck aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway, Nagumo Tadaichi would not have been entangled in whether to release the fighters first or recover the fighters first, and there would have been no tragedy later.

The second is the skid take-off deck. This take-off method can not only shorten the take-off and taxiing distance of the fighter, but also increase the bomb load or fuel load of the fighter when taking off.

The third item. Fresnel lens drop system. The principle is very simple, and the level of manufacturing by the Naval Resistance Army is not high. However, five rows of angled colored light were placed in front of the inclined deck, forming five staircases that shone towards the stern. It is very simple to make the landing fighter pilot master his flight attitude, and can also better adjust the flight attitude, so as to land safely.

There are two phases of naval pilot training with the highest crash rate. First, the stage of solo flight. The second landing training stage. Some pilots only need three or two days to become proficient in landing training, but most pilots need about two months. Moreover, at this stage, the proportion of pilot casualties and fighter aircraft damage is extremely high. At the beginning of the training of pilots on the Freedom Dragon aircraft carrier of the Maritime Resistance Army, the group of dozens of the most elite pilots of the Maritime Resistance Army was the most elite of the Maritime Resistance Force, but they lost nearly 10 fighters, lost one pilot, and injured several pilots. The price is staggering.

However, after adopting this landing aid system, more than 100 pilots were far inferior to the quality of the pilots of the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier. During the landing training stage, only six or seven fighters fell, several pilots were injured, and none of them were killed.

However, during the landing training stage of the US and Japanese troops, it was almost common for them to drop planes, and it was almost normal for 100 pilots to drop 30 or 20 planes, and it was also extremely normal for them to suffer casualties. In World War II, the pilots of the British aircraft carrier have been using bulky, slow and old-fashioned biplane torpedo planes, which is actually related to the casualty ratio of landing training, and no one is willing to take elite pilots to adapt to the new fighters. Moreover, at the stage when the European war had just broken out, the casualties of British pilots were really heavy, and there were simply not enough elite pilots. In addition, Britain was dealing with the German Navy and the Italian Navy, which did not have aircraft carriers, and it was not much necessary to use advanced but more difficult carrier-based fighters to operate. Therefore, the combat effectiveness of the British aircraft carriers in World War II was actually far inferior to that of the American and Japanese forces.

With the use of these three advanced technologies, the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier of the Maritime Resistance Force has the need for secrecy. The Americans will know this thing when they see it, and they must not easily let the US military know about it. The reason why the Indian Ocean aircraft carrier completed the final outfitting on Shixiang Island was actually because they did not want the Americans to get this technology for free.

On the east coast of Datang Island, about 300 kilometers away from the southern tip of Datang Island, there is a large inland sea. In terms of orientation, Datang Island is the northeast, and China's Bohai Sea is also located in the northeast of the mainland, so this inland sea, which is less than half of the Bohai Sea, is also named the Little Bohai Sea by the Haitang Kingdom, and several small harbor cities around it are also named Lushun, Tianjin, and Qingdao.

However, in 42 years, the surrounding area of Xiaobohai was barren, and foreigners were strictly forbidden to approach by the Haitang Kingdom, and the secrecy effect was quite good. Therefore, it became the anchorage of the aircraft carrier Indian Ocean, and later became the base of the first task force of the Navy of the Naval Resistance Army.

In addition, in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the concrete flight deck scheme proposed by the officers of the Maritime Resistance Army was unsuccessful, and in the accumulation experiment of the aircraft carrier, it was found that after accumulating two or three thousand tons of materials, the seaworthiness of the aircraft carrier would be greatly reduced. So the whimsical idea died.

Li Guang returned to Datang Island, one for the formation of the first task force of the navy. Second, the next operational plan of the Naval Resistance Force needs to be discussed with the government.

(Ask for a ticket, ask for a ticket.) The number of monthly passes this month is seriously insufficient, and I am very blushing. (To be continued......) (To be continued......)