Chapter 607 607 North Sea Training Base
Lake Baikal, known by the Chinese as the North Sea in ancient times, now belongs to the Siberian Soviet Republic, but due to the "Chita Agreement" signed by the member states of the Shanghai Peace Organization, residents of the Shanghai Peace Organization member countries can freely cross the border, so it is no longer an unattainable place for the Chinese. Recently, however, Baikal has suspended tourists from all over the world on the grounds of protecting the ecological environment, which has caused many tourists to sigh.
The reason why Lake Baikal stopped receiving tourists, and at the same time took away a large number of residents on the shores of the lake, is really to protect the local ecological environment, as the relevant departments say, but there is another unknown reason related to Qi Yiming. Due to the rapid economic development of China's coastal areas for a long time, especially after China became the world's largest trading power, China's coastal waters have become extremely busy. This makes it more difficult for the Navy to test its own new ships, especially to train weapons that are not exposed, and it is difficult to operate them unless there is a ban on navigation.
However, the ban on navigation naturally affects normal shipping, and it is easy to be watched by the outside world, even if Qi Yiming uses a crack generator to conduct a strict investigation near the military port, there is still a relatively high risk of leakage. So much so that the Type 011 arsenal ships that appeared in the secondary base have basically not been trained much, and the navy has held them in their hands for several years, plus the 052D and 055 are already very handy, so they simply returned the four arsenal ships to Qi Yiming, making one of them quite tearless.
In fact, the Navy's choice is not wrong, as a killer-level warship, it can't be taken out and exposed, and even has to be hidden, so that the officers and men on the ship are wasting their time in vain, and it is really not as cost-effective as training a few more 055 cruisers. Moreover, Qi Yiming himself is equivalent to the bench member of the navy, if reinforcements are needed, the navy does not need to send its own fleet, let Qi Yiming directly send the red police fleet to the fleet, although the powerful black technology fleet is good, but the pragmatic psychology of the navy makes them not operate an unrealistic fleet formation.
Even Qi Yiming doesn't want to bury the Type 011 and Type 011B arsenal ships, Type 012 battleships and Type 004 UAV carriers in his hands like this, even if they are hidden and not exposed, Qi Yiming needs to conduct a lot of sea trials and training on these ships to determine what kind of combat capabilities these ships can have.
Under the guidance of such ideas, Qi Yiming strangely built a temporary sub-base on Lake Baikal, opened a naval dock port and a cryogenic space device, and summoned several of his own warships from here that could not be used for ostentation. The production capacity of the navy after the third-level red alert base is no longer a pervert, and now the most important condition that restricts Qi Yiming's manufacturing of ships and other weapons is not the dock production capacity, but the fact that the resources obtained by his base are a little unable to keep up with the consumption, which has not happened before.
Qi Yiming felt that if he supported the energy consumption of the third-level base, he needed to control the resources of the entire earth in his hands, and now although he controlled a large area of land, he was still a little bit behind. At the same time, Qi Yiming also felt that the cost of some weapons such as arsenal ships and drone carriers was too high, although the combat effectiveness was also very high, but the cost performance was really inferior to Lv2 base ships such as 052D, 055, and 054B. Therefore, Qi Yiming only built a small number of third-level base ships, and still built a large number of Lv2 ships.
In fact, even the navy has obtained the manufacturing technology of raid destroyers and naginata cruisers, and they all plan to build two or three ships to verify it first, and there is no plan to install them in large quantities at all, and it is estimated that if too many such ships are built, the combat effectiveness will not be improved but destroyed. As for things like the shogun's battleships and drone carriers, the Navy is not even interested in starting to verify the technology, because the budget is too large.
The average water depth of Lake Baikal is more than 700 meters, which is larger than the average water depth of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, and the deepest place is more than 1,000 meters.
Of course, before the training, the vicinity of Lake Baikal had passed through the borders of the Red Police, and some residents had already moved out of the vicinity with considerable relocation money, and the crack generators were also turned on to prevent hostile forces from using satellite reconnaissance.
There were not too many ships on the lake, and Qi Yiming built four Type 004 aircraft carriers before and after, but only one was trained at the moment. It was accompanied by a shogun battleship and a dreadnought II battlecruiser. All of these warships have a strong ability to fight alone, and they can pose a huge threat to the enemy without the need for an escort fleet. Even the Type 004 UAV carrier, which has poor self-defense, has a strong defense capability because it can release sea wings.
Qi Yiming himself was standing on the bridge of the unmanned aerial vehicle carrier that had not yet been named, and he was also wearing a brand new navy white uniform. Last year, the three armed forces changed their uniforms again, and the Type 07 (called Type 85) military uniforms were completely replaced, and the Type 98 military uniforms were replaced by even taller Type 98 military uniforms. Type 98 military uniform is a new generation of military uniform designed by the military after conducting scientific research, which has not only improved in terms of materials and aesthetics, but also made great progress in functional specificity, taking into account the needs and characteristics of more combat in the new era, such as the use of information equipment. At the same time, the level of digital camouflage has also been greatly improved.
Although Qi Yiming is wearing the uniform of an admiral, he really doesn't know how to command the fleet, there is an independent command system on the ship, and they are all Red Alert soldiers, Qi Yiming is more like a spectator playing soy sauce. The captain ordered the take-off of a number of Sky Knight-type drones, which are highly artificial intelligence drones that can continue to fight only by entering fuzzy combat commands.
The aerodynamic shape of the Sky Knight UAV is more complex, with the stealth characteristics of the fifth-generation aircraft, and what is even more amazing is that it has a pair of "folding knife wings" that can change the swept wing and large diamond-shaped wing, which has both supersonic and subsonic maneuverability, balancing both flight and maneuverability. At the same time, the Sky Knight also has a bunch of canard wings, which are also set up to increase mobility.
After actual verification, although the knight UAV is not comparable to the fifth-generation heavy manned aircraft such as Black Hawk and Weilong in many air combat links such as BVR and dog fighting, the Navy and the Air Force believe that the knight UAV is to surpass the J-31 Falcon in terms of mission and combat effectiveness.
The Sky Knight itself is larger than the Falcon Fighter, and has a larger magazine and fuel compartment because it does not have a cockpit. The Sky Knight can reach a maximum speed of Mach 3, is capable of supersonic cruise at Mach 2, has a combat radius of up to 2,000 kilometers without auxiliary fuel tanks at economic speeds, and can carry up to 8 tons of ammunition for air combat or bombing missions with a built-in magazine.
Because a number of technical indicators have achieved breakthroughs, so the military tends to identify the Sky Knight as a sixth-generation fighter, and the Air Force is also rushing to create a more powerful sixth-generation Air Force unmanned fighter through reverse research on the Sky Knight, but at this stage, the air combat performance of UAVs is not as good as that of manned aircraft is still an indisputable fact, and the Navy cannot completely give up the air superiority characteristics of manned combat aircraft.
The Sky Knight has actually carried out a number of flight tests, and the main test of this trial is actually the take-off and landing on the Type 004 aircraft carrier.
In addition to verifying the Type 004 aircraft carrier, the shogun-class battleships and the second generation of dreadnought battleships are also subject to high speed and weapon tests, and these two large main battle ships of tens of thousands of tons have an astonishing high speed, both of which can reach 40 knots, completely destroying the large main battle ships of all countries at this stage. This high speed naturally gives these two types of ships an advantage in battle, and when the enemy encounters them, they can't catch up and can't run, which is really bad.
The two triple 400mm Shirata heavy guns of the shogun-class battleships were finally able to show their might without any scruples. Half of the targets set for the 012 battleship during the exercise were on the water and half on land, mainly to verify its lethality. However, on this occasion, the Shogun battleship could not test special warheads such as EMP or neutron bombs, and could only shoot relatively ordinary armor-piercing and high-explosive shells, but even so, the power was quite terrifying. A 400mm heavy artillery bombardment on a ground target can even blast out a mushroom cloud, which would have been blown to pieces long ago if it were an ordinary military facility or something. After all, it is not the Second World War period, the fire control of battleships has evolved many times, and the calculation of ballistics is carried out by supercomputers, and there are very few water columns that fall next to the hull, which can basically hit the target ship.
The 50,000-ton second-generation dreadnought warship mainly tested the launch of land-attack cruise missiles and resisting saturation attacks, and the firepower that the 768 vertical hairs that are so dense that it makes people's scalps tingle are really too much, and on this earth, even if Qi Yiming wants to attack the dreadnought, it is unlikely that he will use hundreds of missiles. In the past, submarine sneak attacks could still threaten dreadnoughts, but because dreadnoughts have adopted a new defense system and have full defense against underwater attacks, the current dreadnoughts can be called the most difficult targets in the Red Alert fleet.
Of course, Qi Yiming felt that if he used the means of electromagnetic attack paralysis, it might be possible to kill the dreadnought, but in response to this, the dreadnought battleship also carries an iron curtain device, which can effectively prevent such an attack, so it seems that it is really difficult to sink a dreadnought battleship.
"Just a few ships, although there are not many of them, but once deployed on the battlefield, I am afraid that they will be the key players in changing the situation of the war, the Americans would never have thought that we still have such a thing, and when the time comes, it will be a nightmare for the enemy to be dispatched to different battlefields through cryogenic space teleportation!" Qi Yiming thought excitedly.