Chapter 523: Return Star
Although this new cruiser of the Chinese Empire was so powerful, most of the equipment was beyond the attention of people in this era, so if it seemed to the warship designers of other countries, the weapon system of this warship was surprisingly weak, and the weapon was only a 152 mm fully automatic gun, although the rate of fire was quite high and reached 65 times the diameter, but the power was not satisfactory.
In fact, no one knows what to say, this artillery is just what it looks like, but the real killer feature is the missile system. The Meishan-class cruisers are equipped with two quadruple anti-ship missile systems, equipped with YJ-2 anti-ship missiles with a range of 100 kilometers, and a four-seat single-arm anti-aircraft missile system with a range of 25 kilometers and twice the speed of sound.
These missiles are mounted in launch boxes or magazines on both sides of the warship, and in order to strengthen the air defense, four 25 mm caliber six-barreled super-high-speed guns controlled by fire control radar are installed in the upper part of the hull.
In addition, the warship is also equipped with two triple torpedo launch systems and a set of anti-submarine rocket depth bomb systems, and at the same time has a hangar and a helipad in the tail, and the ship carries a Wasp-type multi-purpose helicopter, which can not only carry out reconnaissance missions, but also carry out sea minelaying and anti-submarine operations, and has a wide range of uses.
This kind of cruiser Fang Ruijun directly followed Fang Xiaoyu's plan back then, and asked the Congress to agree to build two hundred, but Lin Feng thought that these warships were expensive and there was no need to equip so much, as long as the 'Meishan'-class cruisers and the 'Hunhe'-class destroyers were used, eighty would be enough. After such a decision by Congress, the military had no choice but to change the number of ships to be built to eighty.
Lin Feng's idea was actually the idea of all the councilors, they didn't even see the data of this warship and chose to approve the appropriation, the reason was that these weapons were still designed by Fang Xiaoyu, so they would not hesitate.
But after seeing the data of this cruiser, those councilors who still pay attention to tonnage, armor protection and artillery caliber do not see this warship very much, if it were not for their absolute confidence in Fang Xiaoyu, maybe they would have rejected the construction of this kind of warship, so they wanted to reduce the number of construction.
Fang Xiaoyu did not express an opinion on this, for the power of the new warship and various equipment, the fewer people who know the Tao, the better, it is best to let those powerful countries despise the Chinese Empire because of this, and when war breaks out, they will know that the warship designed by Fang Xiaoyu is still a high-quality product.
Fang Ruijun did not have any displeasure at all, he strictly followed the country's constitution, and after the parliament decided to reduce the number of warships purchased, he did not make any different suggestions. However, although the establishment of the Imperial Navy has shrunk, the hundred ships used by the Iron Blood Army for refitting are all built by the Chinese Consortium out of their own pockets, and Fang Xiaoyu also thinks that if the country is in danger, the Iron Blood Army can also help.
In addition to the new cruisers, the task of building new submarines is also on the agenda, with many years of experiments on the No. 1 experimental submarine, although the proven submarine carrier is too inefficient and not suitable for real combat, there is still accumulation and a lot of experience in the construction of large submarines. To this end, the Holland Submarine Design Bureau designed a new submarine with a displacement of 3,100 tons, this time the result of the cooperation of several of Holland's disciples, who abandoned the traditional Barracuda hull and replaced it with an elongated droplet, making the whole submarine look quite streamlined.
The whole submarine is 74 meters long, with a draft of 16 meters, and adopts the AIP technology of the mature closed-cycle diesel engine, and the main engine power is 6,000 horsepower.
The submarine has a maximum depth of 300 meters, an underwater speed of 17.5 knots, and six 533-millimeter torpedo tubes for its weapons.
Of course, the construction of this new Seawolf 3 submarine is completely secret, because it has broken through the limits of the Rome Convention, and Fang Ruijun does not want this terrifying weapon to be exposed at the first time, so as to cause various countries to scramble to develop anti-submarine weapons.
After all, missiles are still a thing that is not well known, and military experts of various countries look at the strength of other countries' warships by looking at the tonnage, firepower, speed, and armor, while the 'Meishan' class cruisers have few artillery, small calibers, less than 10,000 tons of warship tonnage, and almost no armor, and only rely on watertight compartments to resist sinking.
If other countries had built such warships, military experts would have begun to ridicule them for being useless, but the Chinese Empire has always been a pioneer in history, and every time it has surprised the whole world, so although they continue to slander, they dare not say anything sarcastic, for fear that they will be embarrassed in front of the whole world if they say something wrong.
It's just that these experts have made many arguments, and they can't figure out what the new cruisers built by the Chinese Empire are. As for the submarine, Fang Ruijun did not plan to announce it to the public at all, and foreign experts thought that the Chinese Empire was still using the Seawolf 2 submarine.
With the largest shipbuilding speed in the world of the Chinese Empire, the Meishan-class cruisers are launched at a rate of twelve ships per year, almost one a month, while the construction of submarines is even simpler, and more than three can be built every month. In addition, the Imperial Chinese Army also began to reequip Grizzly 2 and Weasel 2 combat vehicles, and the artillery began to be self-promulgated in large quantities, and the Chinese Empire was the first to equip the army with helicopter units. After Fang Ruijun ascended the throne, a series of plans to expand the army and update equipment dazzled the governments of various countries, and they speculated whether the young and vigorous new emperor was ready to take someone.
No matter how the world world speculated about the future policy direction of the Chinese Empire, Fang Xiaoyu at this time no longer cared about these, and all he cared about now was how to go home quickly. The base on Huang Yueshang has been put into official operation, and after sending the cabins into space in batches, they will be docked into a complete space station, and the exploration satellite launched in outer space a few years ago also sent back surprising news to Fang Xiaoyu.
On the outer side of Wangxiang, on the closest planet, the probe found to be completely suitable for human life, with a dense atmosphere, a thriving biosphere, and no intelligent life found. There are actually two planets suitable for human habitation in a galaxy, this is a twin star, according to Fang Xiaoyu's casual chat with Xiaofeng, such a situation is also very rare in the future period of the great development of the universe, for this new planet Fang Xiaoyu named it the return star, which means that it is one step closer to returning to the earth.
The regression star is half as small as the Wangxiang Star, only 6,794 kilometers, and it takes 686.98 days to make a circle around the star, which is 24 hours, 37 minutes and 22 seconds per day, and its closest distance from the Wangxiang Star is 55 million kilometers, and the farthest point can reach 400 million kilometers. Thanks to the protection of the atmosphere, the temperature and climate there are very suitable for human habitation.
However, because it is too far away from Wangxiang Star, it has exceeded Xiaofeng's detection distance, so Xiaofeng's teleportation function can no longer be used, which makes Fang Xiaoyu very distressed, with the current detection distance of only six million kilometers, even if it can be upgraded to another level, it can only be transmitted to the closest point of the two planets, and this point will only appear once in fifteen years, and the next appearance will be in a year and a half, relying on the current spaceship's flight speed, it will take at least seven months to get there.
Now the time is very urgent, and such an opportunity Fang Xiaoyu is not willing to wait for another fifteen years, so he immediately ordered Huang Yue to suspend the construction of the space station, and start to build a spaceship to land on the regression star, in order to be able to carry as many supplies as possible, he decided to launch several spaceships into space and then assemble them to make it a large spacecraft, which can solve the food problem of the astronauts during the journey, and at the same time help them get through the initial exploration period on the surface of the regression star.
In addition to building the spaceship, Fang Xiaoyu decided to go to Blue Moon in person, and strive to raise Xiaofeng to level eight as soon as possible, so that he could send them as many supplies as possible after the spaceship arrived at the Return Star.
"Xiaofeng, are you sure this will work?" Fang Xiaoyu was wearing a spacesuit, standing at the small base of Blue Moon, and he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in his heart.
"No problem, master, as long as you touch the palm of your hand to the surface of the Blue Moon Star, I can start absorbing it." Xiaofeng replied in the affirmative.
Fang Xiaoyu glanced at the base where all the personnel had been evacuated and said, "Are you sure I can leave safely?" ”
Xiao Feng's voice was like a strange uncle who was holding candy to trick Little Lori: "That's right, master, as long as I absorb it, I will teleport you back immediately, and the blue moon belongs to the outermost of the three satellites, and it has little impact on the magnetic field of Wangxiang Star, even if it disappears, the other two satellites can be fine-tuned to balance the gravitational force on Wangxiang Star, and there will be no trouble." ”
Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Okay, I'm going to go home in order to go home." Then he let out a sigh of relief, slowly crouched down, and pressed his hand on the blue surface of the blue moon that had been uncovered from the floor.
A word to readers:
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