Chapter 585 585 Epoch-making naval vessels
In addition, some very strong combat units have also appeared. At the time of the second-level base, only the top unit of the Soviet army, the Apocalypse Tank, could be built, and by the time the third-level base was completed, the future tank VX-1 and the Ghost King Mecha, two equally powerful combat weapons, also appeared.
The future tank VX-1 with super artificial intelligence carries laser weapons, as well as neutron spread weapons, its lethality is extremely amazing, but at the same time, the cost is also amazing, as army equipment, the cost of a future tank is more than a Black Hawk fighter, this rhythm still makes Qi Yiming very uncomfortable.
The Ghost King Mecha is generally more powerful than any of the PLA mecha models at this stage, with a larger body and defense, as well as the weird two-eyed deathlight cannon, as well as the agility and mobility that are relatively flexible in army units, so that although it will not be deployed in large quantities like the Apocalypse, it can also find occasions where it can fight.
And some other weapons and equipment that also came from Red Alert 3 made Qi Yiming spontaneously have a kind of overwhelming mood at a glance. Among the unlocked weapons of the third-level base, naval weapons can be regarded as an epochal improvement. Allied raid destroyers, drone aircraft carriers, and the Rising Sun Empire's sea wings, Naginata cruisers, and shogun battleships were all approved for construction.
For example, the Allied raid destroyer, this new destroyer tonnage is smaller than the 052D destroyer, with a full load displacement of only 5,800 tons, although it is also equipped with the Aegis system, but there are only 40 universal vertical launch units, and the firepower is not even as good as that of the 054B frigate. And at least eight of these forty vertical hairs are used to launch anti-ship missiles and cruise missiles, and even fewer are really used for anti-aircraft and anti-submarine attacks. However, even so, the Aegis system of the raid destroyer has a faster and more accurate reaction and anti-jamming ability, and this system also has the ability to guide anti-submarine missiles to directly attack underwater targets.
Of course, the most perverted role of the raid destroyer is as a large platform for inshore artillery support and even amphibious artillery support. Qi Yiming didn't understand what kind of idea such a thing as a raid destroyer was created in the first place. The DDG-1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer, which has not yet appeared in the US military, can be regarded as a high-tech product of the times produced by the Americans' remembrance of the cannon of the giant ship. The purpose is to provide itself with cheap inshore fire support for the ground forces.
But in fact, at that time, the powerful integrated combat strength of the sea and air, especially the use of combined guided weapons of fighters, was not much more expensive than those shells, and the strike effect was also better. In addition, the United States faces the challenge of China's ocean-going fleet, and the role of a DDG-1000 in the aircraft carrier fleet is far less than that of the previous Alec-class destroyer. Therefore, the Zumwalt-class was only budgeted for three ships, which was actually considered an abandoned ship type.
In fact, the positioning of the raid destroyer is similar to that of the Zumwalt-class. All have a very complete stealth design, and they will not look bigger than a fishing boat on the radar. It was also equipped with artillery, which was mainly used for land attacks. However, the guns used in the raid destroyers are more powerful than the advanced AGS guns of the US military. The raid destroyer had only one main gun, but the main gun was a rather strange Gatling-type rotating medium-caliber gun. Originally, it was 120mm in the game, but in order to adapt to reality, the gun has been changed to a 100mm six-barreled Gatling gun, which can be said to be the largest Gatling gun in the world.
Naturally, this gun could not reach the rate of fire of a Gatling weapon below 30mm, but with its large caliber and accurate landing, it was still a rather formidable weapon. Moreover, the raid destroyer also has the incredible ability to land on an amphibious landing, turning from a ship into a huge vehicle. Coupled with its heavy armor, it can attract enemy fire to the landing force, and its powerful artillery can also send a baptism of terror to the enemy.
Qi Yiming still couldn't predict how such a strange weapon would perform in actual combat, but he planned to build a few ships first to explore the tactics of battle.
The Naginata cruiser from the Shengyang Empire, with a tonnage slightly smaller than the dreadnought, and a full load displacement of 14,100 tons, is slightly larger than the Type 055 Aegis cruiser of the PLA Navy. Its appearance is more sci-fi, but it is a bit like an enlarged version of the Independence class in the LCS, which is a trimaran battleship. It is very amazing, and it is also equipped with its strongest weapon on both sides of the central hull - ultra-long-range supercavitating torpedoes. What is more puzzling is that the Naginata cruiser is positioned as a large surface ship that mainly uses fish attacks, and has relatively strong anti-submarine capabilities, but its air defense capabilities are relatively limited. There are a total of 90 vertical launch systems on the ship, between 052D and 055, but instead of designing four large plate array antennas, the ship uses a rotating phased array radar similar to the 054B. The overall air defense combat power is much weaker than that of Type 055 cruisers.
However, the Naginata cruiser also has its own quite strong points, that is, amazing anti-ship capabilities and anti-submarine capabilities. The Pheasant Cruiser is equipped with ultra-long-range supercavitating heavy torpedoes with a range of more than 160 kilometers, which uses many cutting-edge technologies and is far superior in terms of power, anti-jamming, and intelligence.
In addition, the fan-attack torpedo array possessed by the Nagi Cruiser is also quite powerful in close ship melee, but Qi Yiming feels that it is becoming less and less common for naval ships to engage in close visual range now, and even if the Nagi Cruiser has this ability, it may not be able to use it.
And the Shogun Battleship, the ultimate unit of the Shengyang Imperial Navy, seems to be even more overwhelming. The full load displacement of this thing is close to that of the Yamato-class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II, reaching 70,000 tons, which is the size of two Type 011 arsenal ships. In order to pull her, a very advanced nuclear reactor must be adopted. But like the raid destroyer and the Naginagi cruiser, her position is rather vague and quite anachronistic.
Two triple 400mm main gun turrets constitute the main combat power of this type of battleship. Of course, she also has some characteristics of a modern warship, such as a certain stealth design, a well-developed shipboard avionics system, and a 200-cell edge-type universal vertical launch unit, similar to the Zumwalt-class destroyer. This battleship is also an ultra-high-speed battleship, because of its double-hull design, the maximum speed is close to 40 knots, which is unimaginable and jaw-dropping for a big guy with a displacement of 70,000 tons.
Like all other medium and large ships produced by the Red Alert, the 70,000-ton General Battleship also has an Aegis defense system and is equipped with a powerful phased array radar, although its number of vertical fires is not as large as that of the Dreadnought, but considering that the real power of this ship is reflected in the six 400mm main guns, its combat power is still slightly stronger than that of the Dreadnought.
These six super-heavy guns are not only capable of firing ordinary high-explosive shells, armor-piercing shells, etc., but also integrate a variety of modern weapons, including tactical nuclear weapons. The gun can launch neutron bullets, electronic pulse bombs and other tactical nuclear weapons, and can launch artillery missiles similar to cruise missiles, full of power, especially when used in land offensive operations, it is conservatively estimated that three shogun-class battleships can be worth the strike capacity of two 100,000-ton supercarriers. Not to mention the fact that the defense capabilities of the shogun-class battleships were much stronger than the aircraft carriers themselves.
As for the Lv3 Red Police base, the previous base's restrictions on the number of important weapons and equipment have finally been lifted. On the naval side, dreadnoughts, which could only build four ships, were given unlimited construction rights. And with the upgrade, the grade of the dreadnought has also been improved. The new and improved dreadnought warships have increased their full load displacement to 50,000 tons, and the number of their vertical ships has also increased to 768.
It can be said that the original 512 dreadnought patrol with vertical hair is already the existence of excessive firepower in this era, and the second-generation dreadnought patrol with 768 vertical hair has begun to make people wonder what to say. Qi Yiming felt that to protect such a large ship and carrying thousands of missiles to sail safely on the sea was probably more dangerous than encountering an enemy attack.
By now, Qi Yiming can also see that the route of the arsenal ship is probably unlikely to work in any plane without a base, even if the super multi-target tracking and control ability can be mastered, with strong automation, you will find that such a ship is like a lonely defeat, and it is difficult to find an opponent on the battlefield. Even frankly speaking, the Chinese Navy has not exposed its arsenal ships so far, and the naval ships such as 052D and 055 are rushing in the front-line waters, and the Navy is quite satisfied with these two types of ships, and even in terms of actual combat situation, when the two types of ships with 64 vertical hair and 128 vertical hair are used together, there is no lack of firepower at all. Of course, this may also be the reason why China's main adversary is not particularly strong, and if China and the United States clash, this firepower will not be so redundant, although it will not be overstretched.
Even if Qi Yiming has the super production capacity of the base, I am afraid that he may not be able to produce arsenal ships on a large scale, or even the battleships of the shogun, Qi Yiming feels that it will be more useful to show off than actual combat. If the situation of the new warship is sent to the naval command, the naval command is estimated to be a little interested in naginata, raid destroyers, etc., but it is limited to Qi Yiming to supply some for them to play, and the shogun battleship and the second-generation dreadnought battleship will probably be interested in visiting. But if it really comes to large orders and rearmament, I am afraid that even if the internal trend of thought in the navy is very avant-garde, it is unwilling to give up the practical and efficient configuration of existing ships and pursue this new thing.
Moreover, the Navy is now able to produce its own 052D and 055 warships, and continue to place orders for continuous additions, and the top level of the Navy is now more inclined to put forward parameters and requirements by themselves, and then let shipyards and research institutions cooperate to develop ship types, rather than when Qi Yiming took over everything like a treasure when his family was insufficient.
Considering these, Qi Yiming felt that his Red Guard fleet might be equipped with some of these things on a larger scale. At that time, I am afraid that there will be a situation in which the PLA Navy and Qi Yiming's Red Alert fleet will have completely different combat modes.
In addition to these, there are also a few pieces of naval equipment, and Qi Yiming feels that the interest of the navy will be very great. The first is the sea wing of the Ascending Sun Imperial Navy. This kind of equipment breaks through the definition of naval ships and naval aircraft, and can not only dive at high speed like a submarine underwater, but also jump out of the water to carry out flight operations like an ordinary aircraft when needed.
It is shaped like a manta ray, which is slightly larger than a heavy fighter, and after rising to the surface, it uses the principle of a ground-effect aircraft to break away from the sea, and then flies autonomously through a powerful jet engine, and the flight speed is not particularly fast, but there are more than 500 kilometers per hour, which is equivalent to an attack aircraft. The aircraft is capable of carrying about 6 tons of ammunition, including medium torpedoes, anti-ship missiles, and even air-to-air missiles, all with built-in magazines.
The existence of the sea wing, Qi Yiming believes that it is the most valuable one in the third-level base naval unlock. In particular, as an air-sea amphibious vehicle, the sea wing has also been organically integrated with the UAV carriers of the allied forces. Thus the drone carrier turned into an even more terrifying kind of ship.
The UAV carrier has departed from the design of the traditional aircraft carrier's large through deck, and its carrier-based aircraft "Knight UAV" is ejected and taken off in the hangar and automatically recovered through a preset program. So the runway of the drone carrier is disconnected and angled. In the middle of the hull is a huge ship island, which serves as a command and control center. The bow and stern were shells, as well as armored doors in the hangar.
The Knight UAV is a fifth-generation intelligent unmanned fighter, and its real combat power is certainly not as good as that of ordinary manned carrier-based aircraft, but it has a large range and bomb load that manned aircraft cannot have, and it can also carry out more extreme maneuvers, ignoring the overload limit of the human body.
The UAV carrier not only has a super carrier-based aircraft such as a knight UAV, but also has an underwater retraction cabin to collect and release sea-wing carrier-based aircraft. The sea wings can be released directly from underwater by drone carriers, and then wait underwater like submarines. It can lightly attack enemy warships in places where they are not expecting. It is even possible to leap out of the water and deliver an air strike on the enemy's fleet.
Because of the operation of two carrier-based aircraft, the sea wing and the knight, the displacement of the UAV carrier is quite huge, reaching 156,000 tons, which is much larger than the Type 003 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier designed by the Navy itself. Even an additional nuclear reactor was added to make it smooth and run at a speed of more than 35 knots.
The Navy is very interested in this super ship, believing that it may be an important weapon to change the form of naval warfare in the future. Along with the new ships unlocked in the other three tiers, they have been officially finalized. The raid destroyer was typed as a Type 057 destroyer, the Naginata cruiser was typed as a Type 055B cruiser, the second-generation dreadnought arsenal ship was typed as a Type 011B arsenal ship, the Shogun battleship was typed as a Type 012 battleship, and the drone carrier was called a Type 004 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.