Li Xiaofeng's idea is very simple, since it is no longer possible to continue to prevent the Navy from developing large artillery cruisers, it is better to give the Navy the best choice directly in one step. Then both the Navy and Stalin would have to recognize this favor, and the favor had to be returned.

Soon Li Xiaofeng put forward his demand: "The imperialist countries are vigorously developing naval aviation, building more aircraft carriers and developing newer fighters. In this area, we, the Red Navy, cannot be left too far behind, and it is well known that after the commissioning of the aircraft carriers Leningrad and Moskva, our naval aviation has been at a standstill, I think ......"

Li Xiaofeng paused deliberately, and then looked at Stalin's face, the expression of steel was so interesting, it was obvious that this person did not have much interest in aircraft carriers, and when he transformed the Izmail-class battle cruiser into an aircraft carrier before, the price spent was quite high, almost equivalent to rebuilding.

Let's put it this way, the Leningrad and Moskva, which have been converted into aircraft carriers, have a full load displacement of up to 45,000 tons, a maximum speed of 30 knots, and a cruising range of 4,000 nautical miles per hour of 18 knots. Its flight deck is covered with 70 mm of high-elastic steel armor, and the hangar can accommodate a hundred warplanes.

All in all, these two aircraft carriers exhausted almost the vast majority of the Red Navy's shipbuilding costs throughout the twenties, and the Admiral-Nasimov-class cruisers, which were originally intended to be rebuilt, were forced to cancel. For the entire twenties, the Red Navy built only one light cruiser, the Red Ukraine.

Stalin was quite dissatisfied with this method of a certain immortal, and attacked a certain immortal on this issue more than once. But the power of a certain immortal in the navy is too strong, who let the current Red Navy family all the money be snatched back by someone. Most of the senior officers of the Navy even have complaints about a certain immortal's priority in the development of aircraft carriers. But they also did not dare to attack someone directly.

And now. Stalin listened to someone's meaning, this is a preparation for the continued development of aircraft carriers, and new ones must be built, isn't this fatal? Originally, the cost of building a ship was tight, and you still got on this gold-swallowing monster, how can you bear it!

Even if someone agreed to launch a new 10,000-ton cruiser, Stalin could not accept to continue to launch the aircraft carrier, but when the steel was ready to refuse. Li Xiaofeng preemptively said: "In order to cooperate with the Leningrad and Moskva operations, we converted the other two Izmail-class battlecruisers into fast support ships. I know that the current military spending is not abundant, and it is not realistic to directly build a new aircraft carrier. It is entirely possible to continue to use the hulls of the two fast support ships for modification...... We have already gained a lot of experience in the previous rebuilds of the Leningrad and Moskva, and it will not cost much to continue such renovations......"

Stalin was stunned, because he remembered the scene when Li Xiaofeng advocated the transformation of the two remaining unfinished Izmail-class ships into so-called rapid support ships. At that time, the Navy was strongly opposed to someone's nonsense, believing that either the remaining two Izmails should be completed, or the unfinished hulls should be dismantled. It's a toss to engage in a fast support ship, the Navy doesn't need a supply ship with a speed of 30 knots at all, the price of this thing is too high.

However, at that time, Li Xiaofeng's multifaceted activities suppressed the resistance of the navy, and he was stunned to do this. Over the next few years, the two supply ships were almost idle. Most of the time he spent more time doing private work on a high-speed freighter than he did his job, but now Stalin wanted to come. The reason why someone is so insistent may be that he was ready to transform the remaining two Izmails into aircraft carriers from the beginning, and this is the foreshadowing left by someone!

And today, this foreshadowing has taken effect, whether it has become an aircraft carrier, or Izmail, which has become a rapid support ship, the armor and power system are exactly the same before, and in order to replace it with a new oil-fired boiler, the navy has shed a lot of blood. And now, the benefits of this come out, those two high-speed supply ships to transform into aircraft carriers is indeed very simple, the cost is very small, so small that Stalin has no reason to oppose this mention at all.

For Li Xiaofeng's foresight, Stalin couldn't help but admire a little, so is this really the foresight of a certain immortal? Yes or no. At that time, the most important reason why Li Xiaofeng advocated using the remaining two Izmail-class hulls to transform them into rapid support ships was not to prepare for the transformation into aircraft carriers in the future, but because Li Xiaofeng felt that the aircraft carrier formation really needed high-speed supply ships.

The speed of traditional supply ships is less than 20 knots, which is simply unable to keep up with the aircraft carrier formation, and the aircraft carrier formation is indispensable to continue to fight, especially for countries like the Soviet Union, which lack overseas bases, to ensure the continuous combat capability of the aircraft carrier formation. At that time, among the goods of the Russian Navy in World War I, only Izmail could make such a transformation.

To put it bluntly, Li Xiaofeng really wants a high-speed supply ship. However, in the past ten years, the activities of the Red Navy have been really limited, and there is no need for high-speed supply ships at all, and judging by Stalin's face, he will definitely not agree to build a brand-new aircraft carrier, and in desperation, a certain immortal can only temporarily abandon high-speed supply ships.

After reaching an agreement on the issue of aircraft carriers, Li Xiaofeng and Stalin were able to resolve one of the most critical points of disagreement, and the next bargain was much simpler. Of course, this simplicity is only relatively simple, and there are actually quite a few difficulties.

For example, on the issue of destroyers, although both sides agreed that a new destroyer must be built for the Red Navy immediately, there was considerable disagreement between the two sides on what kind of destroyer to develop.

Stalin was a traditionalist, and he wanted destroyers more large torpedo boats than destroyers. Iron and Steel hopes to develop high-speed destroyers with strong lightning strike capabilities. And Li Xiaofeng has no interest in this kind of destroyer, his navy is based on aircraft carriers, whether it is a destroyer or a cruiser, it is the aircraft carrier's knife guard, which is used to attack the aircraft carrier.

As far as the aircraft carrier faction is concerned, the task of striking at sea is still left to the attack aircraft on the aircraft carrier, and the efficiency is dozens of times higher than that of traditional artillery warfare. Since destroyers and cruisers are not needed to take on many tasks for sea attacks, why increase artillery, torpedoes and speed?

In the maritime formation with aircraft carriers as the core, other ships still focus on air defense and anti-submarine capabilities. Especially air defense. The lessons of World War II show. A fleet with poor air defense will be blown up in minutes. Therefore, Li Xiaofeng is ready to focus on the development of air defense destroyers and air defense cruisers. It does not emphasize how strong the sea control capability is, but it must have strong anti-aircraft firepower.

It is clear that Stalin's demands were far from Li Xiaofeng's, and Stalin wanted more and larger caliber artillery and torpedoes, preferably at lightning speed. And the ship Li Xiaofeng wants is more inclined to small and medium-caliber naval guns, and the torpedoes do not need to be loaded too much, and the speed does not need to be so fast, it would be nice to be able to keep up with the aircraft carrier formation. But at the level of electronics, communications and automation. Li Xiaofeng's requirements are super high.

The differences between the two are so great that it is almost impossible to talk about Cheng Dù. Because the demands of both sides are almost all conflicting, if neither side refuses to make concessions, it will naturally not be possible to negotiate. The more they talked, the less speculative they became, and whoever blocked them couldn't convince anyone, and the negotiations were about to break down. Fortunately, in the end, a certain immortal came up with a way to make peace with the mud.

"In this way, the future destroyers of the Red Navy must be larger!"

For Li Xiaofeng's brainless sentence, Stalin was a little inexplicable. However, Li Xiaofeng did not sell off, and explained in detail: "To meet most of our requirements, it means that this new type of destroyer must be able to accommodate more weapons and equipment." And more weapons and equipment means more displacement......"

The corners of Stalin's mouth twitched, and a larger amount of water meant a larger and more expensive drainage. For a moment, even he hesitated. Is the warship piled up like this still a destroyer?

Li Xiaofeng believes that it is the trend of large-scale destroyers, and the large ships of Burke that are close to 10,000 tons in later generations are also called destroyers, so why care about a name? The most important thing is to be able to complete the technical and tactical indicators, and the large displacement is great!

As a result, under the intervention of Li Xiaofeng and Stalin, the Red Army's Type 33 destroyer became an out-and-out freak, and when the destroyers of the great powers were still hovering around 2,000 tons, the standard displacement of the Type 33 destroyer reached 2,500 tons, the normal displacement reached more than 3,000 tons, and the full load reached more than 3,500 tons.

From 1934, the Type 33 destroyer was put into production, which is 150 meters long, 12 meters wide, has a maximum draft of 4 meters, is equipped with four twin 130 mm naval guns and two four 533 mm torpedo tubes, has a design maximum speed of 36 knots, and has a maximum endurance of 5,000 nautical miles when sailing at 15 knots.

Judging from the number of Jù on paper alone, the Type 33 destroyer is quite powerful, 8 130 naval guns are almost unprecedented among destroyers, and the power of the boiler and engine is defeated, and the maximum speed of the general is more than 36 knots, and the fastest fierce ship has run a god-class speed of up to 41 knots in one mission!

Of course, this is not to say that the Type 33 destroyer is good and powerful, in fact it is not perfect, first of all, in order to pursue high speed, the length to width ratio of the ship is as high as 12.5:1, which is quite narrow. Although this narrow length makes the Type 33 destroyer very powerful, it can be called a large torpedo boat of 3,000 tons, but the seaworthiness is terrible!

The excessive aspect ratio has caused the ship's seakeeping performance to be very poor, and it is very likely that there will be an accident like the Fourth Fleet of the Devil Navy in extremely bad weather, and it is not impossible to be broken into two sections. Moreover, in order to reduce weight, the ship has applied a large number of welding technology imported from the United States, and the strength of the hull is really not good, and it has to be returned to the factory one after another to strengthen the structure after being put into service.

Let's talk about the 8 unprecedentedly powerful 130 guns, which are actually the B13 50 times caliber 130 mm naval guns of the Soviet Union in 1936.

In terms of basic performance, the performance of this 130 can be said to be quite strong, which is much stronger than the same caliber naval guns of the same power. But stuffing eight doors on a 3,000-ton warship is indeed a little too frustrating. Let's put it this way, in order to plug these eight 130s, two quadruple torpedo tubes, and the necessary turbine units to ensure high speed, the Type 33 destroyer had to frantically lengthen the hull, and finally the Type 33 destroyer became the longest destroyer in World War II.

Of course, although these 8 doors 130 are indeed strong, the effect is not very good. How so? Maozi's B13 has nothing to say about the sea strike, it is very strong! However, the barrel of this gun is too long, the projectile is too heavy, and the pitch rotation rate of the guide turret is relatively slow. And for air defense operations. The latter is even more important. Overall. B13 is slightly clumsy. It is more suitable for traditional sea-to-land shooting than for air defense operations.

This is Li Xiaofeng's original intention, to build an air defense destroyer, which is really not qualified. On the contrary, this is more in line with the idea of large torpedo boats with lightning strike speed in Stalin's heavy fire. Of course, a certain immortal can't help it, because Mao Zi didn't have many high-level dual-purpose naval guns that could handle it back then, and this 130 is also the only high-level dual-purpose naval gun that can use radio proximity fuses.

Friends who are familiar with World War II know that the naval air defense of US imperialism is so powerful. In addition to the aircraft carrier's parachute, it is entirely thanks to the application of radio proximity fuses. However, this kind of electronic fuse, which is very good and powerful, and even did not have much technical content in the eyes of later generations, was really high-tech at that time. For the Soviet Union, where the electronics industry was weak, there was no way to produce it at all.

Even Li Xiaofeng's Nokia has set up a special research team for this purpose, investing financial resources at any cost, and the results achieved in the past ten years are also speechless. First of all, the developed fuze is relatively large in size, and for the time being, it can only be used in guns with a caliber of more than 5 inches. That is, this one is directly K.O The 100-mm anti-aircraft gun that Mao Zi introduced from Italy that year made the Type 33 destroyer only carry the heavy 130 to the battlefield.

That's not all there is to it, be careful. The radio proximity fuze developed by the US imperialists in those years was active, and the fuze could actively emit electromagnetic waves. The echo that receives the feedback detonates the shell at a certain distance.

In other words, the U.S. imperialists' radio proximity fuses can transmit both radio waves and receive radio waves, which is the so-called active radio proximity fuze. However, the radio proximity fuze developed by Nokia is passive.

What is a passive radio proximity fuse? Quite simply, the fuse cannot emit radio waves, but can only receive radio waves, which means that the fuse needs a transmitter that emits radio waves.

The application flexibility of passive radio proximity fuzes is certainly not as flexible as that of active ones, so why didn't Nokia develop active ones? It's not that I don't want to, in fact, an active radio proximity fuse has already been developed. However, there was a very embarrassing little problem, the electronic level was too poor in those years, and the developed active radio proximity fuze was too large, not to mention the 130 mm caliber artillery shells, which could not be loaded with a 152 mm caliber.

In desperation, I had to abandon the firing mechanism in the fuse and change it to a passive one, which is what I did, as you can see, can still only be used for 130 guns. Of course, the use of passive radio proximity fuses is not without benefits, the main thing is that it is slightly cheaper, and as for the effect of the fuse, it is no worse than the active one. The disadvantage is that there is a problem with the emission source, and the fuse will be stopped.

However, even so, in the 1930s, the passive radio proximity fuze was also regarded as an artifact, and after the actual test of the fuze, the Military Commission directly ordered to buy out the full set of patents for the fuze at a sky-high price, and also signed a confidentiality contract with Nokia, requiring that within ten years, Nokia shall not sell the patent and finished product of the fuze to a third party.

From 1930 to 1945, the North Industry alone produced more than 10 million of these fuses, and as for the domestic output of the Soviet Union, it exceeded 20 million.

Since the outbreak of World War II, the Red Army's anti-aircraft artillery has been extremely powerful, giving great damage to the German fascists and creating a brilliant record. Of course, in the 30s, not all units could use radio proximity fuses, and according to the regulations of the Military Commission, all units in the Red Army were not issued with radio proximity fuses, except for the Red Navy and the Guards units. Moreover, each fuse must be in charge of each fuse from production to use, and no one is allowed to take the fuse out of the arsenal without the order of the Military Commission!

In short, with the radio proximity fuse, the Type 33 destroyer was also considered a warship with relatively strong air defense capabilities at that time. However, this did not satisfy Li Xiaofeng, because the Type 33 destroyer still lacked the most important core, radar.

Without radar and advanced fire control equipment, radio proximity fuses alone would still be slinged. And radar is really not easy to get, even if Nokia has invested a lot in this area, but in 1933 still could not come up with a suitable shipborne radar. Either the size and weight of the antenna are amazing, and it is not suitable for boarding ships at all, or the performance is quite improvised, and there is almost no real combat value.

In this regard, Li Xiaofeng did not have much to do, so he could only reserve an interface for the radar on the Type 33 destroyer, and wait until the technology was mature before going on the ship.

Overall, the Type 33 destroyer was the first step towards the modernization of the Red Navy, it applied a large number of advanced technologies, carried out useful explorations, and the experience gained laid the foundation for the subsequent development of the Red Navy.

To put it bluntly, whether it is a Type 36 destroyer or a Type 35 cruiser that can be born smoothly, it is inseparable from the Type 33 destroyer. The new technologies applied on the Type 33 destroyers are really ripening in them.

And because of this, the Type 33 destroyer, as a pioneer in the application of new technologies, inevitably became very expensive. Let's put it this way, two Type 33 destroyers cost as much as a Type 35 cruiser.

Please note! The Type 35 cruiser was an out-and-out heavy cruiser, with a normal displacement of more than 12,000 tons and nine 203-mm guns, which was only as big as two Type 33 destroyers, which shows how expensive the latter was. Because of this, the Type 8 destroyers, which were supposed to be built at least 33, ended up building only four and were replaced by cheaper and more economical Type 36 destroyers...... (To be continued......)

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