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The opponent of an aircraft carrier is not only the opponent's aircraft carrier and fleet, but in many cases, the aircraft carrier battle group, as a rapid strike force, needs to fight the opponent's land-based air force. For example, in the just-concluded Italian Civil War, at the last critical moment, the addition of the five-nation combined fleet made it possible to evacuate the American and French troops trapped in the Italian peninsula, and gave the Germans a profound lesson. However, while achieving a great victory, Su Mo and others also saw the inherent inadequacy of aircraft carrier battle groups in dealing with land-based forces. Aircraft carriers are too fragile relative to airfields on the ground, and their sustained combat effectiveness is insufficient, and their attack power is inferior to that of those huge twin-engine aircraft.

Especially when Summer learned that Germany was developing a twin-engine bomber that could dive and possibly develop guided weapons, Summer already sensed a crisis. The result of the addition of these high-powered weapons is that even armored aircraft carriers may be powerless in the face of these tough killers. The so-called armored aircraft carrier, that is, in the upper part of the hangar has a horizontal armored flight deck. The rest of the area is still a light protection zone, and if it is hit by the opponent, it will definitely have a great impact on the take-off and landing ability. The armored deck only ensures the most basic take-off and landing capability, but how to define this basic? Is it to keep half of the release capacity or a third? It depends on where the other party's bomb lands. And even if there is armor protection on the lift, the level of protection will not be very high, taking into account the weight. Anti-shrapnel is OK, but if you want to block high-power armor-piercing bullets, you have to hang. Not to mention the possibility that the bomb did not penetrate. But the explosion caused the elevator to malfunction, so the armored aircraft carrier was not invulnerable.

And even if you're lucky. The opponent's bombs have been dropped on your armored deck, and it is debatable whether the armored deck can resist it. ABOUT 100MM HORIZONTAL ARMOR CAN ONLY ENSURE TO BLOCK THE 500KG LEVEL ARMOR-PIERCING PROJECTILE ATTACK, WHEN THE OPPONENT'S ATTACK AIRCRAFT WITH 800KG ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS TO CARRY OUT HIGH-ALTITUDE HORIZONTAL BOMBING OR LARGE-ANGLE DIVE BOMBING, THERE IS A CHANCE TO PENETRATE THE ARMORED DECK, AND IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO CONTINUE TO INCREASE THE THICKNESS, BUT THE PREMISE IS THAT YOU NEED TO BUILD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER VERY LARGE. This was followed by a vicious expansion of construction difficulty, cost, and cycle. AS A RESULT, THE COST PERFORMANCE IS GREATLY REDUCED, AND XU JIE, AS A TRAVERSER, ALSO KNOWS VERY WELL, EVEN IF YOU INCREASE THE THICKNESS OF THE ARMOR TO ABOUT 150MM, WHAT CAN YOU DO? Whether it will be able to block the attack of 1 ton of armor-piercing shells is still unknown.

In addition to horizontal attacks, the attack of aircraft with rockets on the flanks of aircraft carrier hangars could not be ignored no less. It's amazing to think of a 12-inch Tiem rocket weighing about 700KG whizzing through the fragile hull shell of a ship and plunging headlong into a busy hangar. I can't imagine it. Historically, except for the armored aircraft carriers of the British, which set up a layer of armor plates on the side walls of the hangar, the sides of the hangars of other countries were undefended. IT IS ALSO UNKNOWN WHETHER THE BRITISH'S 50MM TO 75MM SIDE ARMOR CAN WITHSTAND ROCKET ATTACKS. In short, the reality is cruel, in this plane where technology exceeds history by a large margin, armored aircraft carriers must also learn to be a man with their tails between them, otherwise I don't know which day I will be dropped a 3,000-pound bomb by a twin-engine bomber who looks at you unpleasantly and teach you to be a new person in minutes. Of course, in the aviation game, such a murderous scene usually does not happen, after all, everyone is mainly a single-engine aircraft, but if you encounter a land-based aircraft, it is not possible! Look at the history of being hit by a kamikaze and being seriously injured. Hundreds of people died, and they fought the fire for hours and finally survived Bunker Mountain. Xu Jie had to praise the Americans' level of damage management and luck!

Faced with this dilemma, there was a heated discussion within the Chinese Navy, and some people built aircraft carriers with larger tonnage and better protection, and one of the plans was quite similar to the historical aircraft carrier Shinano. Because it was a regular aircraft carrier from the beginning, although its performance was similar to that of Shinano in all aspects, the tonnage was not as large as it was in history. According to the assessment of the Naval Design Institute. Less than 60,000 tons can be taken down. The defensive performance is even better than that of Shinano, in order to defend against the attack of bombs. THE THICKNESS OF THE ENTIRE ARMORED DECK IS ABOUT 130MM, AND THE COVERAGE IS LARGE. The armored deck measures 210 meters long and 30 meters wide. In addition to this layer of horizontal armor, above the ammunition depot, there is a second layer of horizontal armor. THE THICKNESS IS AROUND 80MM. IN OTHER WORDS, THE MAIN HORIZONTAL DEFENSE IN THE UPPER PART OF THE AMMUNITION DEPOT IS 210MM, WHICH IS BASICALLY ENOUGH TO BLOCK MOST OF THE BOMBS. IT IS ALSO EXPECTED THAT 75MM OF ARMOR WILL BE PLACED ON THE ELEVATOR TO RESIST THE ATTACK OF 500KG HIGH-EXPLOSIVE OR SEMI-ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS.

IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE ATTACK OF THE MAGNETIC FUSE TORPEDO, THE BOTTOM OF THIS SUPERCARRIER ALSO HAS ABOUT 50MM OF ARMOR PROTECTION, AND THREE LAYERS OF BOTTOM ARE USED IN SOME KEY PARTS. The thickest part of the bottom of the ship even reached 2.5 meters, and the armor plus a certain depth had a certain defense capability even in the face of magnetic fuse torpedoes. The Admiralty considered such a level of defense to be quite capable of withstanding the impact of an explosion of 250 kg of TNT on the bottom of the ship.

While those who proposed the construction also acknowledged that such a defense would still not be able to cope with certain extreme situations, proponents argued that the ship could definitely withstand more than 95% of possible attacks, at least to be difficult to sink, and that the large armored deck area also guaranteed at least one-half of the aircraft take-off and landing capability in the event of an air attack. After all, the planned aircraft carrier is 265 meters long and 43 meters wide. There are only unarmored areas of less than 50 meters in the front and rear of the deck. If the opponent really hits this area, then he can only consider himself unlucky.

On the other hand, the cost of such aircraft carriers is too high, and the number of super-large aircraft carriers built under the same budget is much smaller than that of ordinary 30,000-ton aircraft carriers, and the resources of 5 30,000-ton aircraft carriers may only be built in the end. Although super-large aircraft carriers can carry about 140 aircraft each. However, the overall aircraft carrying capacity is still very different from that of 30,000-ton aviation, with three super-large aircraft carriers having a maximum of 430 aircraft, while five 30,000-ton aircraft carriers can have at least 520 aircraft. (The single-decker hangar Essex can hold up to more than 110 aircraft, and the Huaxia double-decker hangar aircraft carrier has no reason to fit less than the Essex.) Although the tonnage of super-large aircraft carriers has increased, the deck area has not increased much, and the hangar area has increased limitedly, so 140 to 150 is already a lot. This aircraft capacity is still a reference to the original aircraft capacity of Midway, you know, Midway's defense is a coffee table, and the Midway deck is larger, which is enough to make up for the small area of a single-story hangar. ）

And this is only the difference on paper, and the difference in attack power between the two sides is even greater when considering the ability to fly. The deck area of the three super-large aircraft carriers is not much larger than that of an ordinary 30,000-ton aircraft carrier, although it is nearly 7 meters wider, and each row can put one more aircraft, and the maximum number of aircraft released is only about 10 more than that of a normal aircraft carrier. If a normal aircraft carrier is calculated as 50 aircraft, then the ratio of the number of direct releases between the two sides is 180 to 250! This difference in attack power is really a bit big, and considering the scheduling difficulties caused by too many planes on an aircraft carrier, this number may be even lower. So the opposing side thinks that the price to pay for a better defense is simply too great. After all, an aircraft carrier is an offensive weapon, and the best defense is to destroy the opponent, rather than relying on its own armor to resist.

Both sides have their own reasons, and the side that supports it believes that its aircraft carrier can survive the war, and the long battle slowly closes the quantitative gap between the two sides, and thus gains both qualitative and quantitative advantages. The opposing side believes that the gap between the attack power of the two sides is so huge that no matter how good the armor protection is, it will not be able to protect itself, and it is difficult to imagine that a warship can run out of the battlefield at a speed of 30 knots and withstand the attack of dozens or even hundreds of aircraft. After all, even if the torpedo is prevented, it will cause water ingress. It's okay if you can carry one shot, try to hit you ten shots! What's the matter, it's all sinking!

If the matter ends at this point, it will be nothing, nothing more than the two sides continue to quarrel over the issue of spear and shield. Su Mo won't take it too seriously, anyway, he is in charge of tactics, and the ship design has nothing to do with him, but then, someone put forward a more creative idea, that is, wouldn't it be better to use this kind of heavy aircraft carrier to fight with a medium aircraft carrier with light protection and large aircraft?

The core of this tactic is to place the heavy armored aircraft carrier in the direction where the opponent is most likely to attack, and the lightly protected medium armored aircraft carrier to the rear position. In real combat, heavy aircraft carriers are responsible for the release of fighters, while medium protection carriers in the back are responsible for the release of attack aircraft. When the opponent's aircraft group hits over, it will first spot the heavy aircraft carrier in front, and then launch an attack, and at this time, the defensive performance of the heavy aircraft carrier will be reflected. Coupled with its own direct guard fighters and fighters released on the rear lightly protected medium aircraft carriers, it was enough to repel the enemy's attack.

Subsequently, the personnel of the side supporting the heavy aircraft carrier also made a cost simulation, for example, if the other side has 10 armored aircraft carriers, then the side can build 4 heavy protection super large aircraft carriers and 5 light protection medium fleet aircraft carriers. The carrying aircraft of both sides are almost comparable. The cost is also relatively close, and if it is fought, the side with a super-large heavy armored aircraft carrier will obviously have an advantage.

Faced with this plan, Su Mo was a little moved. Judging from the deduction, it is indeed possible to give full play to the defensive advantages of the heavy armored aircraft carrier, and at the same time, the medium-sized aircraft carrier located in the rear is not much worse than the 30,000-ton aircraft carrier, and the cost is relatively low. It is indeed a good idea to compensate for the lack of attack power with a medium aircraft carrier.

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