Chapter 431: Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier: Under the Fuxi
According to the established strategy of the empire, after the end of World War II, it is necessary to take half of the Eurasian continent, that is to say, the entire Indian Ocean will become China's inland sea, and half of the Pacific Ocean will be China's front yard.
Then, as the absolute main force of future ocean-going operations, the newly started Fuxi is one of the future fleet flagships.
With a displacement of 80,000 tons, the Fuxi aircraft carrier in the design fully reached the level of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Zhang Shusheng's era.
With the use of catapult take-off and folding wing carrier-based aircraft, this aircraft carrier will reach the combat level of four or five Yandi, and it will be even better than the Yandi and Huangdi in terms of speed, ocean-going navigation capability, air defense and anti-submarine capability, and take-off fighter capability.
The Fuxi, which started construction three years ago, was originally used by Zhang Shusheng to build the navy needed for the next twenty years.
To rule half of the Eurasian continent, or even the entire Eurasian continent in the future, and then the whole world in the future, it is not suitable to rely solely on particularly advanced space warships, and the effect of slaughtering chickens is often not good, after all, space warships cannot always be opened around today in order to quell a little rebellion, and tomorrow in order to deter a little supper.
Therefore, even if Zhang Shusheng has his own plan for the construction of armed forces to defend the entire civilization, it is still needed for the production and manufacture of weapons on the conventional planet. For example, a very powerful fleet, if it cruises in the Indian Ocean for a long time, can deter the whole of India and the whole of Africa, and has the ability to deter half of South America.
In the original history, a Seventh Fleet frightened the whole of Asia, and the Chinese people have been under the iron heel of aircraft carriers for a long time, and what Zhang Shusheng wanted to do was to keep the Chinese Empire a strong armada in the next twenty years, so that other newly joined nations could breathe and dare not have any idea of resistance.
The 80,000-ton aircraft carrier Fuxi will be the flagship of the next detachment of the Chinese Invincible Fleet. It is planned to build five aircraft carriers of the same class, that is, with five invincible ocean-going fleets. Even if any of them encounter a wrecked enemy, they will be able to eat them.
Of course, this nuclear power reactor cannot be built by relying on the Empire's own capabilities, not that it cannot build a nuclear power reactor, but that it cannot be built with high efficiency, safety, high surname-to-price ratio, and small size.
The Reich's research in this area is far from sufficient, and it will take at least two or three years to solve the problem of putting self-built nuclear reactors on ships. In the original history, the Americans built nuclear-powered submarines in five years, and began to build nuclear-powered aircraft carriers a few years later, and with the current scientific and technological strength of the empire, it could have the first nuclear-powered submarine as early as 1948.
It is only now, due to the urgent need for this kind of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with particularly strong ocean-going capabilities and combat capabilities, that Zhang Shusheng specially exchanged several small ship-based nuclear reactors, and the price is still very cheap, even the drawings of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are not expensive.
Therefore, five years ago, research and preparation began, four years ago began to make construction preparations, and three years ago the construction of the empire's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier officially began, which will not only be applied to the nuclear reactor provided by the Science and Technology Committee, drawings and some key parts, some new materials, new shipboard computer systems, fire control systems, command systems, detection systems, air defense pre-meal systems, etc., all of which have concentrated the most advanced scientific and technological forces of the empire at present.
What makes Zhang Shusheng feel very pleased is that in addition to the reactor, some particularly key spare parts, and drawings, other things are self-produced, and under the premise of having a very strong high-precision processing capacity, the new steam catapult is on the ship. Under the premise that the missile is developed to the third generation, new anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft missiles will be put on board, and under the premise that a new fire control computer and a new detection radar and command and coordination system will be put on board, the automatic short-range high-efficiency air defense system JCF will be put on board. After the launch of more than a dozen communication and navigation satellites, a simple Beidou navigation system finally began to operate, and correspondingly, it can also be used on aircraft carriers...... Too much new equipment is combined with the Empire's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the future, and it will be the new crystallization of Imperial technology.
In his original history, Zhang Shusheng was often shocked by the speed of science and technology of the Soviets and Americans, who were able to build nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers in the fifties, and were able to launch satellites and land on the moon in the sixties and seventies...... But now, the speed of scientific and technological development of the empire seems to be even more terrifying, especially under the premise that the scientific and technological committee can always provide some particularly critical equipment and technical support, the scientific and technological research of the empire has done a lot less crooked paths, and the energy of scientists is more focused on solving problems and researching and exploring some scientific and technological problems that are impossible in some directions.
After all, the Chinese Empire is the first-level civilization, and the Dream Machine can ensure that there will be no mistakes in the direction of science and technology that will go down the next road, so there is no special innovation and thinking.
"She will carry more than 100 HL-2 jet carrier-based aircraft, and large carrier-based early warning aircraft......
Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but recall the relevant data of the Fuxi nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, hundreds of Hailong 2 jet fighters, this kind of combat surname can only be slightly weaker than the land-based version of the Tianlong 2 fighter carrier-based jet fighter, is a folding wing, the combat radius exceeds 1100 kilometers, and the flight speed has also reached 1.7 times the speed of sound, it can be said that this kind of carrier-based fighter is invincible at present.
Even if it encounters the newly modified Poseidon carrier-based jet fighter of the Americans, it will be able to take out it with its ultra-high combat capability; of course, this HL-2 carrier-based aircraft will no longer engage in hand-to-hand combat in the face of jet aircraft in the future, but will first launch a wave of long-range missile attacks.
It is absolutely a waste for missiles to hit propeller planes, and with the HL-2 type's mobility, fighting ability, and firepower, it is completely capable of completely bullying propeller fighters, but it is absolutely cost-effective to use missiles to hit American jet carrier-based planes, and it is the hearts and minds of the Americans that are shot down by cheap missiles.
It can be said that the Fuxi, which Zhang Shusheng personally checked, has reached the level of the Americans in the 60s in terms of the quality of the aircraft carrier itself, as well as in the choice of weapon systems and other auxiliary operations.
The Americans can build the same 40,000-ton large aircraft carrier, however, they are absolutely not able to build such a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the Fuxi class.
Of course, the construction of these armadas is not entirely to deal with the Americans, Zhang Shusheng's consideration is to face the naval needs of the next twenty or thirty years, some naval equipment that is destined to be eliminated, will no longer waste financial and material resources to build, build the most advanced warships, accumulate the most skilled construction workers, build more complex and advanced warships for the future, and even intra-planetary warships, and even intra-river warships to train skilled workers from generation to generation. After all, workers can't learn to build intraplanetary warships or cargo ships all at once, but they can take big strides forward and eventually become workers who can build more advanced warships.
"Chairman, can you say hello to everyone, the workers worked very hard when building the aircraft carrier, if they knew that you were coming, all the hard work would be worth it."
Wang Gaoming asked in a low voice on the side.
"Of course, gather the workers, I'll take up more than ten minutes of their time." Zhang Shusheng said with a smile that he himself was born as a skilled worker, so he naturally knows that the contribution and boredom of skilled workers often do the hardest and most tiring work, but the remuneration they get is unsatisfactory. Although the remuneration of the workers in the empire is definitely very high, the intensity of the work is also high, and the work of the workers is too high, which is very characteristic of the times.
As a result, the news spread quickly, and the construction of the entire Fuxi was temporarily halted, and countless workers began to converge on the deck, and on the ship island, there were workers everywhere.
"Long live Your Majesty!!"
"Long live Your Majesty!!"
…… The workers saw a group of people on the shore a few hundred meters away, although they could only vaguely see Zhang Shusheng's figure, but they were still boiling.
Zhang Shusheng leaned into the microphone in front of him and said loudly, "Comrades, everyone has worked hard. For the sake of our country's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, you have paid too much......"
In a short speech, without a draft, Zhang Shusheng conveyed his most sincere gratitude to this group of shipbuilders who worked overtime and were tired of black and white reversal with his empathy as a former skilled worker.
It is often easy for people to remember the navy that was on the warships, and it is easy for people to admire the pilots of the carrier-based aircraft who flew the carrier-based aircraft to fight the oceans at sea, but it is often difficult for people to think that behind these warships are countless workers who have built warships one after another in three shifts for thousands of nights.
They can't stand in front of the world, but at this moment, they have at least gained Zhang Shusheng's respect.
“…… In recognition of everyone's hard work, I will personally set up a shipbuilder reward fund with 1 million yuan for all shipbuilders in the empire. I would like to express my sincerest gratitude to all of you for your contributions to the cause of the Imperial Navy, and you have worked so hard ......."
As soon as Zhang Shusheng's words fell, thunderous applause suddenly sounded, one million yuan, which is a very large amount of money. You must know that the price of a Tianlong 1 jet battle is only more than 80,000 yuan, and the reward fund of 1 million yuan, not to mention the principal, the annual interest alone is enough to commend and reward a large number of shipbuilders.
Suddenly, the workers of the entire shipyard were in full swing.
And Zhang Shusheng seems to see a series of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers being built under their hands, little by little, and the greatness of shipbuilders is that they will create seemingly incredible industrial giants.
"Most of the planet is the ocean, and what the future empire needs is an invincible armada that can make no one, no force, no nation resist. This armada will consist of surface and sky components, with the surface part being conventional deterrence and the sky part being strategic deterrence. ”
(To be continued)