In fact, if we look at the inventions and creations of the US Navy in warship design and tactical theory from history, you will understand this, and the world's first former dreadnought battleship equipped with a second-class main gun was the Americans' Indiana. The first battleships with artillery pivot deployment and knapsack were American South Carolina-class battleships. (Based on the start time). And the battleship that first adopted the key defense was the iron turtle of the Americans. During the inter-war, the Yorktown-class aircraft carrier developed by the Americans was also a classic, and the full-deck assault tactics, emphasizing the number of aircraft carriers and the ability to release aircraft carriers, also became the key to the aircraft carrier tactics of the second war in history.

And in this plane, because of the existence of the time-traveler, the Americans have lost many firsts. However, this does not hide the creativity and ideas of the US Navy. For example, this time the Americans came up with a three-in-one tactic! That is, one aircraft can take on air combat, bombing and lightning strikes at the same time! This idea is not unsophisticated. The Germans combined a dive bomber and a fighter into one, or a bomber and a torpedo plane into one, and they didn't think of merging the three into one. At least that's the case now. (There is a historical figure of the FW190 carrying a torpedo, but after all, it is not in large-scale service, so it is not considered for the time being.) Not to mention the Americans in this plane, let's just say that the Americans in history have also made a three-in-one aircraft, which is the F7F, which has a very small production in history. Such an aircraft is a fighter that can fight in the air and also carry torpedoes!

The Americans thought of this, and at the same time considered the feasibility of this setting. At this time, the initial model of the R2800 engine was ready for production. The Americans, who had finally outperformed the British in terms of air-cooled engines, were in high spirits and began to fiddle with their new toys eagerly. With an engine with a power of more than 1,800 horsepower, all the problems caused by the lack of power were greatly alleviated. The Americans could not wait to throw aside the Spitfire-beaten F4F aircraft and began to accelerate the Grumman F6F fighter development program.

And when developing a new fighter, they found that the attack aircraft of the past were too slow and the performance was too tragic. The performance of the SBD bomber was so good that the Americans always had to choose between fuel and bomb load. It is simply intolerable in the eyes of the US Navy to load a 1000-pound bomb and reduce the internal oil, of course. They can also opt for 500-pound bombs, but in the words of the US Navy itself. Whether these planes loaded with 500-pound bombs can blow up the deck of Essex is unknown! It's too powerful! As for the torpedo machine? Whether it is the TBF that is being used now or the TBD that is being prepared for use, the Americans are a little disdainful, these torpedo machines fly too slowly!

Unlike the Germans, who are overly performance-oriented. While the Americans emphasize the performance of the aircraft, they also emphasize the range of the aircraft. THE GERMANS CAN MAKE A FW190 WITH AN INTERNAL OIL OF 624L AND A FUEL LOAD OF ONLY 500KG AS A CARRIER-BASED AIRCRAFT. But the fuel capacity of the American F6F was set at 250 gallons. (The number of fuels directly marked in gallons on the data I read should be US gallons.) However, even so, the amount of oil in the FW190 is about 1.5 times that of the FW190. The Americans sought a balance in performance and range. As a result, the flight performance of the F6F fighter was much worse than that of the German FW190. Even though the R6 engine of the F2800F is much better than the BMW 801 of the Germans. (The R6-2800-10 engine used in the American F3F-2000 has a take-off power of 2000 horsepower.) In the case of drugs, it is 2250 horsepower. But the flight performance of the F6F is still inferior to the FW190! After all, the total weight of the FW190A5's air combat is only about 3.8 tons. And the F6F alone weighs nearly 4.2 tons! And the weight of the air battle reached 5.25 tons! The slight power advantage was eaten up by an overweight body. Then the initial rate of climb of the F6F-3 was only about 3,200 feet per minute. The maximum speed is just over 600 km/h. This performance cannot be compared to the FW190A's speed of 670 kilometers per hour! Of course, the F6F has good hovering performance, while the FW190A has stronger rolling performance. Overall, the FW190A is still superior.

It is difficult to say who is right and who is wrong about this choice of the United States. Although theoretically the problem of insufficient range of the aircraft can be compensated for by the auxiliary fuel tank, in practice this kind of plug-in is not very safe, after all, you don't know when you will run into the enemy, and the fierce air combat has greater fuel requirements. The theoretical range is difficult to achieve in real combat. So in the later naval battles, the German navy found that their attack was closer than expected. So they had to bring the two sides closer together. And because of the lack of aircraft fuel, many times the loss of German aircraft was not due to being destroyed. It's because there was no gas when I landed in line! After all, the planes have to land one by one, and the planes in the back may have to wait for more than 20 minutes or even longer! Range or performance is a difficult question to juggle. The benevolent see the benevolent, the wise see the wise!

And it is precisely because of the Americans' requirements for range that the performance of the aircraft will be slower. Even with high-power engines, the Americans' attack aircraft still did not improve much, after all, now there is only the initial model of the R2800, and the fuel is only No. 100 fuel. Like the later 115 fuel has not been used. The Americans also wanted to pursue the speed of the attack aircraft group, and also thought of twin-engine aircraft. From this point of view, the United States and Germany are on the same path, but the only difference is that the BF110T sea-based twin-engine aircraft modified by the Germans is to turn the BF110 from a half-hanging twin-engine fighter into a professional attack aircraft. And the Americans are reluctant to give up the air combat capabilities of twin-engine aircraft!

The Americans' persistence in this regard was also largely influenced by the Chinese Air Force, and the all-round performance of the Foxbat fighter on the Iranian battlefield had a considerable impact on the American pilots participating in the war. It can fight in the air and bomb, and the range is super long. The sturdy airframe, this series of advantages, while prompting the United States to equip the U.S. land-based aviation with the P38, also made the carrier-based aircraft force consider deploying a twin-engine aircraft on the aircraft carrier. And under this current of thought. In history, the F7F, which was born at an untimely time, and ended in disgrace without much being created has turned over in this plane! After the Americans placed a large order for the F6F, the recruitment for the design of the F7F was officially launched. And if you want to get on a twin-engine plane, the Americans quickly find out that the size of Essex is not enough? After all, the width of the F6F after folding the wings is a little more than 16 feet, and the Americans estimate that the width of the twin-engine aircraft after folding the wings is also about 30 feet! If Xu Jie is next to him, he will definitely give the Americans a thumbs up. They guessed too accurately! The width of the F7F is just over 33 feet!

In addition to the conceptually super-superior aircraft for combat, bombing and lightning strikes, the Americans also thought of the role of twin-engine aircraft in electronic warfare and against the sea. But alas, they believe that the attack power of the existing aircraft is enough. Twin-engine aircraft are needed, but the direction of aiming is not against warships at sea, but at submarines at the bottom of the sea! The Americans found their single-engine aircraft small fleet anti-submarine too inflexible and inefficient. So they came up with a twin-engine anti-submarine aircraft. Prepare to be the backbone of the fleet's periphery as an anti-submarine force! As for talking about electronic warfare aircraft? The Americans pay more attention to early warning and radio lateral direction to sea targets. Combined with the already very powerful electronics industry of the Americans, it is not too difficult to come up with an electronic warfare aircraft and a warning aircraft, and even a single-engine aircraft can be used to combat the coastal alert aircraft!

Then the bigwigs of the Navy tendered for new aircraft, and at the same time found Roosevelt and said that the aircraft carrier was too small for the new generation of aircraft to use, and hoped to start construction of a new aircraft carrier! The 270-meter-long, 30-meter-long Essex can no longer satisfy the appetite of the US Navy, and the design and construction of a new generation of large aircraft carriers have begun. Of course. Because of this plane, the Americans no longer had the opportunity to fight a life-and-death battle with the Japanese Combined Fleet at Midway. Therefore, the name of this class of aircraft carriers cannot be called Midway. Instead, a simple CVX was used as the code name for the aircraft carrier.

Although this class of aircraft carriers may not be called Midway, the main size is still similar to the historical one, with a flight deck length of nearly 300 meters and a width of about 40 meters. It is equipped with four lifts, two on the left and two on the left and right, two of which are relatively large to lift twin-engine fighters. The length of the hangar is around 210 meters, and the width is between 27 and 32 meters. The height of the hangar has reached more than 5.5 meters. And in terms of defense, this new class of aircraft carriers has also been greatly improved. First of all, the Americans positioned the thickness of the flight deck armor by 4 inches, which was basically on the same level as the British Fury and the German Moltke-class aircraft carriers. By this standard, the Americans believed that armor of this thickness could withstand an attack from 1000 pounds of armor-piercing shells and 2000 pounds of semi-armor-piercing shells. And in addition to the flight deck armor, at the junction of the lower main armor and the side armor, there was a layer of armor up to 3 inches thick. THE TOTAL THICKNESS IS CLOSE TO 175MM. Such a defense is already comparable to a battleship! AS AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER, THE AMERICANS PRESSED A 180MM THICK INCLINED MAIN ARMOR BELT ON HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS TIME IN ORDER TO RESIST THE ATTACK OF CRUISER-LEVEL GUNS! With such a huge hull and heavy armor, the tonnage of this new ship jumped up and down, and the final calculation result was a standard displacement of 45,000 tons, and a full load displacement of more than 50,000 tons!

Although the size and weight of this aircraft carrier are unprecedented, it does not mean that it is slow and bulky. This behemoth with a flight deck length of almost 300 meters and a width of 40 meters is equipped with a crew with an output of up to 200,000 horsepower! Its maximum speed will reach more than 32 knots! In the end, the rated aircraft carrier of this class of heavy aircraft carriers was 64 F6F fighters and 64 single-engine attack aircraft. As well as more than a dozen other aircraft, if the twin-engine aircraft is successfully developed, the aircraft carrier of this aircraft carrier will definitely undergo some changes. When the Americans' aircraft carrier program first appeared, the supercarrier, codenamed CVX, was almost the most powerful aircraft carrier of the same period. In fact, this class of supercarriers, which carries too much hope for the US Navy, is also the mainstay of the US Navy in the middle and late stages of World War II and the only existence that can compete with the German Caesar-class aircraft carriers and subsequent aircraft carriers. In the course of the 2nd World War naval battle full of blood and rain, it was difficult to go on!

At a time when the U.S. Navy was expanding greatly, the British were also working hard, but compared with the United States, which had deep pockets and relatively safe homeland, the situation of the British was obviously much worse than that of the United States, not only because from the point of view of position, it would be Britain's turn to fall when France fell, but also because Britain had too many places to defend. the mainland, the shipping routes connecting the colonies, and South Asia. Although the British firmly believed that there would be no empire without the Royal Navy, the pressure on the homeland was unprecedented, and the Luftwaffe inflicted heavy losses on the British Air Force in Iran. The British, still sensibly, focused on air defense and anti-landing on their homeland. The British estimated that the United States would be responsible for providing escort forces in World War II, so even in the matter of the number of aircraft carriers that the British Royal Navy could protect, the British could only start construction of 3 aircraft carriers, one of which was a ship of the same class as the Fury class. Again, this is the result of being stimulated by the Europa-class aircraft carriers of the Germans!

The French also felt the immediate danger. Even if they are unwilling to face the painful losses in history, even if they try to avoid war, the French also know that France's security depends on Britain and the United States, and if they choose neutrality this time, then the United States and Britain will never pay for the security of a country that does not help. The French are also trying to expand their navy, but the relatively weak national strength and huge land pressure make the French naval rearmament activities seem inadequate, and when Britain announced that it will continue to complete three aircraft carriers, the French also gritted their teeth and started construction of an armored aircraft carrier of more than 20,000 tons.

So, on the eve of World War II, the world's major powers were making tacit preparations, and huge figures could be seen in large shipyards around the world, and countless engineers and workers were busy around these behemoths. Everyone knows each other well and tacitly prepares for this war, which is designed to determine the global landscape for decades to come. The pace of war was approaching, and the shadows were beginning to loom over the entire European continent. The interval from the Iranian War to World War II was even shorter than the Italian Civil War to the Iranian War. The Iran War had just ended in '36, and after a seemingly calm but turbulent period of '37 and the first half of '38, the situation in Europe was gradually coming to the brink of war.

"We are ready, the war can start at any time." At a cabinet meeting, General Bock assured everyone present that the Army was ready. The massive German war machine has finally completed its final step in war readiness. In 39 years, the world will remember this year, which changed the world!

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