Chapter 565: The Rise of the Navy (5) (Asking for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! )
Tian Haiyang and others proposed the need for five main battle aircraft carriers, five light aircraft carriers, 10 Fusang-class battleships, 30 Kaohsiung-class heavy cruisers, and 150 other warships.
However, Chen Feng has a system, and there are as many as hundreds of thousands of system points, but Chen Feng knows that when Daotian Haiyang and others formulated the plan, it was based on the combat effectiveness and number of Japanese warships, and they did not know that the warships he provided were far more powerful than the Japanese warships.
So there is no need for so many warships, and of course, it is impossible to exchange for hundreds of warships at once with more than 900,000 system points.
After thinking about it repeatedly, Chen Feng decided to exchange 1 battleship, 6 main battle aircraft carriers and 10 heavy missile cruisers first, and then exchange 15 frigates and 20 destroyers, and of course, some submarines.
Together with the original warships that are still in use, it is enough to form three aircraft carrier battle groups, and there will be no problem against the Japanese Navy.
Open the system interface, Chen Feng with the help of the little fox to the system stored in the hundreds of aircraft carrier information in the past hundred years, Chen Feng believes that the navy does not need those too powerful warships, as long as it is slightly more advanced than those warships of the Japanese army.
On the one hand, because of the lack of talent in the navy, even if he reluctantly brought them the USS Ford, he would not be able to control it with the ability of Chang Zhiguo, Tian Haiyang and others. Besides, it is impossible for him to spend more than 300,000 points to exchange for an aircraft carrier, it is too wasteful, and it will not do any good for the improvement of naval strength, so it is better to spend more than 100,000 points directly to exchange for an atomic bomb.
According to the actual situation of the navy, Chen Feng believes that what the navy needs is an aircraft carrier comparable to Japan's Shinano aircraft carrier and can also carry jet aircraft. After consulting all the information on aircraft carriers from 1940 to the new century, it was decided that the aircraft carrier would use the American Forrestal-class aircraft carrier.
The Forrestal-class aircraft carrier was the first class of aircraft carriers built by the United States after the war, specifically designed to equip the new jet carrier. This large aircraft carrier was built in 1952, and there are four ships of this class in the United States. The first ship, the Forrestal, was built in 1952, launched in December 1954, and commissioned on October 1, 1955. The cost was $189 million.
Forrestal-class aircraft carriers with a displacement of 76,614 tons (fully loaded); The main size is 301.75x39.3x10.8 meters, the maximum size is 317x76x10.8 meters, and the power is 8 4-shaft boilers. The maximum output is 280,000 horsepower, and the maximum speed is 30 knots; The endurance is 8,000 nautical miles, and the establishment is 4,676 people.
In addition, this is a very good armored aircraft carrier, with armor in its hangar, flight deck, and ammunition magazine; The armament was 8 single 127mm guns; It can carry 80 aircraft.
The most important thing is that the exchange price of this aircraft carrier is not high. Even if you count 80 carrier-based aircraft and the required ammunition production line. One is only 55,000 points. Much cheaper than the USS Ford.
Although the Forrestal-class aircraft carriers were built only a few years later than the Japanese aircraft carriers, the combat effectiveness of the two is simply incomparable. Japan also has aircraft carriers, and both main battle carriers and light aircraft carriers. There are quite a few of them. However, because Japan's naval combat thinking has always remained on the doctrine of giant ships and artillery, it does not pay much attention to the development of aircraft carriers.
Take Japan's largest aircraft carrier Shinano as an example, with a displacement of 62,000 tons, a total length of 266m, a full width of 38m, a speed force of 27 knots, 47 aircraft, and 16 12.7cm high-angle guns, 105 25mm machine guns, 40 25mm machine guns, and 12 12cm 28 spray guns.
A comparison between the two shows that Japan's largest aircraft carrier and the Forrestal-class aircraft carrier are not opponents of the same level at all, and it can be said that the Forrestal-class aircraft carrier completely destroyed the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano.
After the aircraft carrier was selected, Chen Feng began to select the only battleship, but the battleship Chen Feng chose the target almost without much selection - the Iowa-class battleship, on the one hand, the battleship is not very suitable for modern naval warfare, any one is the same. In addition, Chen Feng has always had a soft spot for the USS Missouri battleship, which was the site of the signing ceremony of Japan's surrender, and now that he has the opportunity, he must get such a huge ship, and the battleship Wuli belongs to the third battleship of the Iowa class battleships of the United States.
After the selection of the battleship, the most important missile cruiser was selected, and the cruiser was a large surface ship with strong firepower and multiple uses, mainly operating in the open ocean. Equipped with strong offensive and defensive weapons, it has high speed and seaworthiness, and can conduct long-term ocean-going operations under harsh climatic conditions. Its main task is to escort aircraft carriers and battleships, or to form mobile formations at sea as the flagship of the formation, attacking enemy surface ships, submarines or shore targets. Therefore, it is extremely important to choose a suitable cruiser.
Since you want to change your outfit, you must change your outfit according to the enemy's equipment, and you must overwhelm the opponent's weapons and equipment. Before 1922, there were three main types of cruisers: heavy cruisers, light cruisers, and auxiliary cruisers. The tonnage of the heavy cruiser has reached 2-30,000 tons, the speed is 32-34 knots, the endurance is more than 10,000 nautical miles, and the thickness of the armor is 127-203 mm. The ship is equipped with eight or nine 203-millimeter guns, with a firing range of more than 20 nautical miles, and is mainly used to attack enemy surface ships and shore-based targets.
However, after the signing of the Washington Treaty of 1922, which limited naval armaments, the tonnage and number of battleships, aircraft carriers and cruisers were severely limited. In order not to violate the provisions of the treaty, countries began to develop light cruisers. The tonnage of such cruisers is less than 10,000 tons, the speed is very fast, it can reach 35 knots, the ship is equipped with 6-12 main guns, and the caliber is about 127-133 mm.
In addition, it is equipped with 8-12 secondary guns of 127 mm and dozens of small-caliber guns. It is also equipped with weapons such as torpedoes and mines. Some ships also carry 2-4 seaplanes, which are mainly used for reconnaissance. It can be said that the naval cruisers of the major countries in the world are generally dominated by warships of these two classes.
The cruisers before 1950 gave up decisively, and none of them could completely destroy the main warships of the Japanese army in terms of comprehensive performance. That guy is the best weapon against the enemy! Of course, it would be nice if you could get a nuclear-powered one.
However, after watching the nuclear-powered missile cruiser, Chen Feng was decisive, and his mother's was expensive, and the price of a nuclear-powered cruiser was more than 100,000 points. A conventionally powered warship only needs about a tenth of it. Isn't it necessary at all.
It's like a person suddenly arrives in a primitive society, and you can make those primitive people worship as gods and goddesses by playing with a pistol, do you need to get a cannon? A conventionally powered missile cruiser can completely blow up any warship of any country in this era, is it necessary to get nuclear power? Anti-aircraft guns fight mosquitoes. That mosquito is uncomfortable. How comfortable is it for people who fight mosquitoes.
Picked for a long time. Chen Feng jumped two models, one was the former Soviet Union's Kara-class missile cruiser, and the other was the American Raisi-class missile cruiser.
The Kara-class missile cruiser was a work of the Soviet Navy. It occupies a more important position in the ranks of cruisers of the former Soviet Navy, and it is the first gas turbine cruiser of the former Soviet Union. The total length of this class is 173 meters, the width is 18.6 meters, the draft is 6.7 meters, the standard displacement is 8,000 tons, and the full load displacement is 9,700 tons. The main engine is 6 gas turbines, with a total power of 134,000 horsepower, a maximum speed of 34 knots, a cruising range of 9,000 nautical miles/15 knots, and a crew of 540.
The armament system is: 2 double-barreled 76 mm guns; 6 AK-630 close-in guns; 2 twin SA-N-3 'Goblet' ship-to-air missile launchers, with 72 bombs in reserve; 2 twin SA-N-4 'Gecko' ship-to-air missile launchers, with 40 bombs; 2 quintuple 533mm torpedo tubes for firing Type 53 anti-ship/anti-submarine torpedoes; 2 quadruple SS-N-14 anti-submarine missile launchers; 2 RBU-1000 anti-submarine rocket depth launchers; 2 12-tube RBU-6000 anti-submarine rocket depth launchers.
The Leahy-class missile cruiser is a work of the U.S. Navy, commissioned in 1962, with a standard displacement of 5,670 tons, a full load of 8,203 tons, and a main size of 162.5×16.6×7.6 meters; The speed of the ship is 32.7 knots, and the continuous power is 8000 nautical miles/20 knots; Power: 2 steam turbines, 85,000 horsepower; Establishment of 513 people.
The weapon system consists of two 4-pack MK141 Fish* missile launchers, two 4-pack Tomahawk missile launchers, and one two-pack Beagle/Asroc anti-submarine missile launcher; 2 3-pack MK62 torpedo launchers; Artillery: 2 MK16 "Phalanx" close-in weapon systems.
The displacement of these two types of missile cruisers is not very large, and the performance can meet Chen Feng's needs, and the exchange points are not very expensive, so Chen Feng decided to exchange 5 each.
Originally, Chen Feng planned to exchange 10 heavy missile cruisers, just like the Soviet Kirov-class heavy cruisers, but the little fox suggested that Chen Feng exchange this kind of light cruisers, because history has proved that there is not much difference between heavy cruisers and light cruisers, especially the weapon system, the weapons used by large cruisers of 20,000 or 30,000 tons and destroyers of several thousand tons are not much different, they are all missiles, naval guns and helicopters, the difference is only the number of carrying.
Therefore, it is questioned whether it is still necessary to continue the construction of new cruisers. Let's take another time and space, the most powerful one, all of its current nuclear-powered cruisers were retired before 2000, and Russia, another great power, is also refitting Kirov-class nuclear-powered cruisers, and the number of cruisers is decreasing overall.
The most important thing is that against those backward battleships of the Japanese Navy, light cruisers are enough, no matter how big they are, they are a waste. Moreover, the "petite" body of the light cruiser could confuse the enemy even more, so Chen Feng followed the little fox's advice. (To be continued......)