The Liberty Dragon light aircraft carrier, with a displacement of 16,500 tons, did not adopt a diagonal deck or a skid take-off deck technology because of its small hull, but an all-access deck 210 meters long and 18 meters wide.

Due to the small hull of the ship, the design of the ship island is not grandiose, and it only occupies a small territory five meters wide on the right side of the aircraft carrier. However, in the absence of radar, altitude is a guarantee of safety, and the highest point of this island is more than 30 meters, where the engineers have arranged a small lookout.

The ship's cabin can carry forty-two P40 fighters. If bombers can be equipped in the future, the total number of bombers is estimated at thirty-six.

Comparing this aircraft carrier with the British aircraft carrier or the Japanese and American aircraft carriers, Li Guang is actually a little depressed. As a modern person, Li Guang's aircraft carrier did not have much advanced nature to speak of.

Just in terms of appearance, there is almost no beauty at all. You must know that the keel design of this ship is based on a free wheel, which is only one hundred and forty-three meters long. In order to achieve the necessary length of the deck, the engineers put a lot of effort into it. The shape of the bow at the front end is very much like the first aircraft carrier of the Republic "Liaoning", and a beautiful arc sticks out of the hull. Even so, it was still difficult to reach 210 meters, and the engineers boldly extended a suspended stern at the tail to achieve the set goal. So this aircraft carrier, from the front end, is quite beautiful, if you look at the whole body from the side, it looks top-heavy. If the British or American and Japanese aircraft carrier experts saw the flight deck, they would even more unanimously agree that the ship was top-heavy and had poor seaworthiness. Without him, the aircraft carrier of the Maritime Resistance Army used an armored deck, and the three-inch steel deck made the hull superstructure even heavier.

Originally, with such a structure, the seaworthiness of the ship must have been very poor, but the naval resistance army made a mistake and hit it crookedly.

The technology used by the Oolong shipyard is all civilian technology, and in the most critical power system, it is obviously not far behind the United Kingdom and the United States and other countries. On the warships of Britain and the United States and other countries, most of the boilers are high-temperature and high-pressure boilers, which are small in weight and volume, but not small in power. Generally speaking, boilers in Britain and the United States can reach 10,000 horsepower and weigh 350 tons. The boiler used by the Oolong shipyard is only civilian technology, and 10,000 horsepower requires 500 tons of equipment weight.

In order to achieve the speed of 30 knots required by Li Guang, the power of the aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon was 64,000 horsepower, and the weight of the boiler was 3,200 tons, plus the steam turbine and the transmission device. The power system turned out to be around 4,500 tons.

As a result, several important parameters of the USS Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier showed serious deficiencies. The hull weighed about 6,000 tons (the weight of the freewheel would have been more than 7,000 tons, minus the power system), the armor and deck weight were 3,000 tons, plus the power system was 5,000 tons.

These three items accounted for 14,500 tons of displacement, and 1,000 tons of personnel, weapons, ammunition supplies, and ancillary facilities for fighters. The result is only 1,000 tonnes of crude oil and 200 tonnes of jet gasoline.

In this way, the Liberty Dragon can only last 7,500 nautical miles at a speed of 22 knots, and the combat radius is only 2,500 nautical miles. (The combat radius is generally one-third of the endurance).

In other words, this aircraft carrier is, to put it bluntly, an aircraft carrier operating near the sea, and if it is an ocean-going operation, it must follow a supply ship.

It is also the heaviness of the lower power system that makes the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier have a pretty good index, the stability of the hull is good, the seaworthiness is quite good, and it can be regarded as a crooked hit.

In addition, on this warship with a displacement of 16,500 tons, the engineers arranged more than 20 cabins and more than 270 watertight cabins, which should also have good sinking resistance.

This aircraft carrier continues Li Guang's consistent style, with a strong power system, fire-fighting facilities and pumping capacity, and super damage management capabilities. The aircraft carrier did not design a cumbersome main gun like the aircraft carriers of other countries. But the number of anti-aircraft guns of various calibers reached one hundred and twenty, and there was a fairly sufficient number of anti-aircraft machine guns as auxiliaries.

Although it is far from perfect, in any case, the first aircraft carrier of the Maritime Resistance Force can be regarded as entering service.

On 22 June, the Liberty Dragon had completed its transportation mission to and from the United States, and the PC had been able to transport aircraft over the ocean after simple modifications, and the Liberty Dragon finally unloaded the transportation mission. On the same day that the Soviet-German war broke out, the Liberty Dragon light aircraft carrier was officially put into service.

The USS Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier has a strength of 860 people.

Captain Lieutenant Commander Huang Zhonghua. Flight Commander Colonel Yuan Zi (Professor Yuan still dug up his eldest son, who was disabled in battle, to the Naval Resistance Army. ), flight captain Major Liu Gensheng. Forty-two P40 fighters are standard (thirty-six if there are bombers).

Since the crew led by Huang Zhonghua had already made three trips to the United States on the sea, working and training at the same time, the crew had become familiar with the warship in four months. The pilots assigned to the Liberty Dragon aircraft carrier are all elite members of the Naval Resistance Force, and the next step of training is mainly focused on air defense and fighter planes.

For this reason, Li Guang was very extravagant in giving a budget of $3 million, requiring the aircraft carrier Liberty Dragon to be combat-ready within four months. Since the battleship Atlantic now has not only 12 water reconnaissance planes but also hundreds of antiaircraft guns, and has a speed of nearly 30 knots, it already has an independent combat capability. Even if the Japanese attacked again, the battleship Atlantic would have been able to escape with considerable certainty.

So two pickup air defense destroyers were also configured for the Liberty Dragon. In addition, for the sake of this aircraft carrier formation, Li Guang specially allocated a high-speed supply ship. (Made in France, the result of the exchange of prisoners in French Guia, although the displacement was only 2,000 tons, but the performance was the best of all the supply ships of the Maritime Resistance Army.) ）

Since June, the four warships have been away from Asia and have begun intensive training on the island of Statues. The defense of Don Harbor fell to the seaplane carrier PJP and a battleship Atlantic, as well as a Jawsian torpedo boat (captured by the French). But the main force is actually the submarine force led by Ren Tianyang. Because the battleships Atlantic and PJP also had to participate in the escort and work for the British.

Such a configuration is obviously not reasonable, and it is obvious that the escort ships of the Atlantic are seriously insufficient, but Li Guang has no choice.

He simply didn't have a suitable diesel engine on hand, and the three Tengu-class destroyers under construction were still slowly being built in Uruguay.

The three Tengu-class destroyers, as well as the newly added Baxia and Jairus torpedo boats, are waiting for engines. Civilian boilers and steam turbines are too heavy, and if those equipment were used, such a small-tonnage warship would simply not have endurance, and could only be used for coastal defense.

In the submarine program, there is also an extremely important technological breakthrough, and high-power diesel engines must also be used.

Therefore, from June, Li Guang began to prepare for trade with the Germans. Li Guang hoped that the Germans would not cancel the trade because of the war with the Soviet Union. For the Germans' high-power diesel engines, Li Guang is bound to win.

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