"Standard displacement of 33,000 tons, full load displacement of 43,400 tons, enclosed cabin, flight deck 268 meters long, using four steam turbines and 16 heavy oil boilers, 180,000 horsepower, speed 34 knots, endurance 10,000 nautical miles at 10 knots, main armor belt 79 to 127 mm, hangars and decks 50 mm, upper cabin 76 to 114 mm. Equipped with 20 127-mm 45-fold-diameter high-altitude dual-purpose guns, 96 40-mm quadruple rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns, plus 16 20-mm cannons, it is expected to carry 100 carrier-based aircraft, and anti-aircraft radar? Dittman looked at the drawings that Fang Xiaoyu brought, and then looked at his drawings with a full load displacement of only more than 8,000 tons, and was stunned for a while.

"There is really nothing to say about the hull designed by His Majesty, I have seen this floating bow, it is very practical, and the ability of the warship to press waves has been greatly enhanced. However, I can't understand the equipment of artillery, what is the use of so many small artillery, it is better to replace it with a few 203 mm guns, and it is only used for aircraft take-off and landing, and the full load displacement of more than 40,000 tons is not too large. Dietman was a little skeptical about Fang Xiaoyu's design.

Fang Xiaoyu originally thought that with Dietman, a famous warship designer, and seeing that the battleship he designed was very good, he wanted to be lazy and let him design a new aircraft carrier.

As a result, after seeing Dittman's design, Fang Xiaoyu felt that the designers of this era could not grasp the main point of the aircraft carrier, although he repeatedly emphasized that the hull was at least 20,000 tons, Dietman still gave himself an 8,000-ton design, which made Fang Xiaoyu have to decide to redesign it himself.

The test aircraft carrier built by Fang Xiaoyu was originally rebuilt from a half-built 10,000-ton cargo ship, but a wooden flight deck was laid on the freighter, and elevators and bridges were added, which not only had poor survivability, but also had a speed of only 15 knots.

The first aircraft carrier was built only for training and testing new carrier-based aircraft, and in order to save time, such a simple hull was made, to be precise, its hull was originally a merchant ship, and there were too few watertight compartments, although it could be equipped with more aircraft, but the sinking resistance was not high.

Originally, Fang Xiaoyu planned to slowly test it, but the war has become a catalyst for science and technology, although the national strength of various countries is rapidly depleting, but their scientific and technological level, especially the military scientific and technological level, has developed rapidly, last month the Saar Navy has dismantled the front main gun of a cruiser, and used the Eagle 1 aircraft sold by the Chinese Empire to test the take-off from the warship, which made Fang Xiaoyu very nervous.

Marshal Giulio, commander of the Army Air Corps of the Grand Duchy of Sardinia, even publicly declared after the crushing defeat of the Sardinia Army that the reason why the Sardinia Army would fail was because there were not enough planes and airships, and who could win the land war in the future war would no longer depend on the number of troops and the quality of weapons, but on who had enough planes and airships, and who had air supremacy, and who would get the key to victory.

Marshal Giulio's words were somewhat premature, after all, the performance of the aircraft was still very backward, and the survivability of the airship did not dare to compliment. However, this shows that military experts in various countries have begun to pay attention to the threat from the air, so Fang Xiaoyu decided to speed up the development and update of aircraft carriers and aircraft.

"Mr. Dietman, I suppose you do not yet understand the methods of warfare of aircraft carriers. As a matter of fact, we have just developed an aircraft that can carry bombs, and as long as this kind of aircraft can be put on board, our aircraft carriers will have the possibility of striking at the enemy from a long distance. ”

Fang Xiaoyu induced Dittman's train of thought: "Please imagine, our aircraft carrier will fly carrier-based aircraft hundreds of kilometers away, and use the aircraft to sink the opponent's warship, such combat large-caliber artillery is useless at all, we should instead guard against the attack of the opponent's aircraft, so it is easier for small-caliber rapid-fire guns to defend against threats from the air than large-caliber artillery." ”

"As for the tonnage, I'm purely trying to be able to load more planes and increase the length of the runway, and now the weapons of the planes are still very poor, and the power and accuracy need to be improved, so we must try to increase the number of planes to win by quantity." Fang Xiaoyu explained in detail.

Dittman nodded repeatedly: "Maybe I should study the plane first." ”

Fang Xiaoyu suddenly realized, it is true that a person who has never been in contact with aircraft can design an aircraft carrier, even if he is a warship design master, it is impossible to succeed, after listening to Dietman's suggestion, Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "I am about to go to the aircraft test site to visit the new aircraft test flight, Mr. Dietman can go with me if he is interested." ”

Dittman nodded: "Of course, I also want to see what is unique about the air force under His Majesty, so that you can also design a warship specifically for it." ”

The design departments of the China Consortium are divided into two places, such as the overall design of aircraft and warships, the development of ordinary ordnance, and the development of various light industries in the eastern continent, while the engines, materials, electronics, rockets, and other key and sensitive departments are placed in the wild continent, where it is easier to keep secrets. The distance between the warship design office and the aircraft test site is not far, and it only takes half an hour to drive a car to arrive.

As soon as they got out of the car, Fang Xiaoyu and a few others saw that many people near the test flight site were looking up and looking at something with binoculars. Fang Xiaoyu also raised his head, stared at it, and found a big bird hovering in the sky, judging by its flying posture, it was definitely an airplane.

"Young Master, you're here." Li Zhonggong ran over quickly, in order to design a new plane for a while, he made a special trip from the Wild Continent, and the other researchers stopped looking at the plane when they heard Li Zhonggong's words, and ran over to greet Fang Xiaoyu.

Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "What are you looking at?" Is it a new plane? ”

Li Zhonggong smiled: "Yes, it's new, but it wasn't designed by me, but by him." Li Zhonggong smiled and pointed to a young man.

Fang Xiaoyu looked at the very thin young man with interest: "Oh? You designed it? Tell us about its performance and your design ideas. ”

The young man was a little restrained, he secretly glanced at Li Zhonggong, Li Zhonggong smiled and said: "The young master asked you to say it, just say it, say it professionally, the young master is probably more professional than you for airplanes." ”

The young man received Li Zhonggong's encouragement, and immediately bowed his hand and said, "Your Majesty, I call this kind of plane a bomber, which is specially used to carry bombs. "Li Zhonggong called Young Master Fang Xiaoyu because he was the old man next to Fang Xiaoyu, Fang Xiaoyu gave permission, that young man didn't dare to call him Young Master the same, he still honestly called the emperor.

Seeing Fang Xiaoyu listening attentively to his speech, he became a little bolder: "In order to be able to load more bombs, I installed four 100-horsepower engines, so that he can load 1.5 tons of bombs, and the maximum speed can reach 122 kilometers per hour. ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said, "It is very rare to be able to build such a good bomber with the current engine, what is the size of this aircraft?" ”

The young man said: "It is nineteen meters long, with a wingspan of thirty.5 meters and a height of three meters. ”

Fang Xiaoyu touched his chin and said with some embarrassment: "Such a big plane can't fit a warship." ”

Li Zhonggong said with a smile on the side: "Young master, this is an aircraft developed for the army, and the plane you asked to go on board is over there." Saying that, Li Zhonggong pointed to a small plane parked next to the runway opposite: "Young master, let's go over and have a look." ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said, "Okay, let's take a look." He was just about to leave, when he suddenly turned around: "What's your name?" ”

The young man said, "Your Majesty, my name is Feng Hao. ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded and said: "Feng Hao, I remember you, do a good job, I am very optimistic about you, and remember to put a self-defense machine gun on the tail of the bomber, if it is chased by a fighter in actual combat, it needs to have the ability to protect itself." ”

Fang Xiaoyu, who took Li Zhonggong, Dietman and others, came to the small plane, and said in a circle: "This plane is very good, can you bring a torpedo." ”

Li Zhonggong spread his hands and said: "This is not enough, even the smallest caliber 350 mm torpedo is too heavy, it can only carry a 100 kg bomb." ”

"So little?" Fang Xiaoyu frowned.

Li Zhonggong said: "This is also a matter of no way, the power of the engine is insufficient, we will not be able to increase the bomb load, and this kind of carrier-based aircraft can not use multiple engines, that will cause the aircraft to be too large, unable to get on the ship, one engine is really not much room for maneuver." ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Let's use this first, and wait until the good engine comes out and then build a good one." ”

Fang Xiaoyu was a little depressed when he came back from the test field, and now he was a little skeptical that he had built the aircraft carrier too early, with such a small bomb, even if the aircraft carrier was full of that kind of small bombers, a hundred hundred hundred kilogram bombs would not be able to sink a battleship.

It is no wonder that many of those naval generals still adhered to the doctrine of giant ships and cannons until World War II.

"Husband, you're back." Fang Xiaoyu raised his head and found that Xia Tingyun was coming back from outside with Wang Ling, the two of them were all **, as if they had just been drenched in the rain, Fang Xiaoyu looked at the sky strangely, as if it was very sunny today, and it was not raining.

Fang Xiaoyu said strangely: "What are you going to do, how did you get covered in water." ”

Xia Tingyun smiled and suddenly rushed into Fang Xiaoyu's arms, arched Fang Xiaoyu's chest with her wet head and said, "Let you cool down too." ”

Fang Xiaoyu hugged Xia Tingyun and said, "You are now the imperial concubine, why are you still so young after giving birth to a child." ”