Mu Feng asked Neptune to accompany Bismarck to sort out the information, and he went to the next room with Crimson and found Zeppelin, who was resting on the sofa with squinting eyes.

Seeing Mu Feng coming in, Zeppelin opened his eyes and stood up unhurriedly:

"Hello Commander Mufeng, are you going to start?"

"Hmm." Mu Feng nodded, took a prepared document and handed it over, "This is the transformation contract, you can take a look at it, and then sign it......"

Zeppelin took it and read it carefully, most of them were very common terms, and the agreement that Zippelin could not reverse engineer was signed directly as if he hadn't seen it.

Zeppelin was lying on the bed in Mu Feng's lounge, and Mu Feng took her hand into the system and began to transform the design.

In view of Bismarck's cooperative attitude and the purpose of publicity, Mu Feng decided to be as comprehensive as possible in the transformation of Zeppelin, like Guanghui, rather than simply allowing her to use the silver fox and finish the job.

Zeppelin's hull has a lot of problems, and there are quite a few changes that need to be made.

The Germans were inexperienced in designing aircraft carriers, and Zeppelin, which was roughly the size of the Essex class, made a strange result.

Zeppelin has apparently reinvented himself more than once, but there are still quite a few problems.

The first is that her 8 twin 150mm guns are still there, which is a heresy in the carrier like Lexington's 4 twin 203mm guns.

In Mu Feng's opinion, Zeppelin and the former Lexington are the real aircraft-carrying cruisers!

Mu Feng directly dismantled this cannon and talked about the rest.

The biggest point of Zeppelin is the power system, 12 boilers provide steam for 4 sets of turbines to output 200,000 horsepower, which is second only to Midway's 210,000 horsepower among all World War II aircraft carriers.

Mu Feng looked at these boilers and turbines, and finally dismantled them.

Replaced with the one before the Liaoning, 8 boilers provide steam and 4 sets of turbines to provide power, and the output is still 200,000 horsepower, but the reliability has been greatly improved.

This set of boilers and engines has been installed by many people, and the large ships that have been modified by themselves are basically this set.

At the same time as changing the boiler and turbine, Mu Feng took a break from the outer line of Zeppelin's hull.

Zeppelin's speed is no problem, it doesn't need a complete overhaul, it's basically a matter of adjusting the details, such as designing a modern bulbous bow, adjusting the bow and stern shape, and so on.

Then look at the hangar.

Zeppelin's hangar is actually not small, with a single-story hangar area of 2,276 square meters, which is already larger than the Lexington class of 2,232 square meters.

In fact, Zeppelin is still a double-decker hangar design, and it is enough to dismantle the 16 150-mm guns.

The two-storey hangar has a total area of 3,817 square meters, which is very close to the 3,948 square meters of the Essex class.

With such a large hangar as Zeppelin, the design capacity in history is only 42 aircraft, not only so many, but Air Marshal Goering only approved 42 aircraft for the navy.

In the future, the opportunities for carrier-based ships are getting bigger and bigger, and the height of the double-decker hangar is limited, which will limit subsequent upgrades.

Therefore, Mu Feng did not change Zeppelin to a double-storey hangar, and continued to retain the single-storey hangar, but only adjusted the layout to make its space utilization more reasonable.

After the adjustment of the hangar and the deck mooring, a total of nearly 80 planes like Hellcat can be carried, and there are still more than 50 short of the silver fox that is replaced by Mufeng.

Above the hangar was the deck, and the entire deck of Zeppelin had problems, and it could not carry jet fighters, so it was directly dismantled and rebuilt in its entirety.

Strengthen the outer floating deck and the beveled deck, dismantle the original bizarre "inflatable" catapult, and replace it with a steam catapult.

The anti-aircraft artillery crews were all replaced, and the set used by themselves for the transformation of the aircraft carriers of the task force was used.

The long-range is a twin 130-mm high-level dual-purpose gun, the medium-range is a double-mounted 60-mm anti-aircraft gun, and the close-range is a quadruple 30-mm anti-aircraft gun.

These anti-aircraft guns, which had reached the level of post-war technology, were equipped with radar and automatic fire control systems, plus proximity fuses, and were sufficient to deal with propellers and primary jets.

When fully refurbished, Zeppelin has a full load displacement of just over 40,000 tons, which is slightly smaller than the beveled deck of Essex.

Mufeng asked the system to check and confirm that all the changes were fine, and finally clicked to confirm.

Watching Zeppelin go into hibernation, Mu Feng asked Eugen and Hipper and other German shipwives to guard Zeppelin, and he and Crimson returned to the small room before.

Neptune had unpacked his ship and was simulating it while recording what Bismarck had said.

Bismarck took a piece of paper and said while writing and drawing on the table:

"The ability of the deep-sea flagship is not suppressed by its proximity to land, but by the depth of the sea, and the seawater is weaker the ability to dive, and the sea water near the offshore continental shelf is usually less than a thousand meters, and most of them are only a few hundred meters, so when they are close to the land, they are just weak, and they are mistaken for being suppressed by the land.

In this way, in fact, the favorite place of the deep-sea flagships, and at the same time their strongest ability, is the deep-water area near the trench in the ocean.

"Starting in Germany, passing through the fortress of Pacina in Italy, and finally arriving in France, there is a roughly S-shaped trench that stretches for tens of thousands of kilometers.

"This trench is the deepest and longest trench I know, and if nothing else, Cavour and the other deep-sea flagships will still be operating around this trench......"

Listening to Bismarck's words, Neptune couldn't help but say: "Doesn't this mean that you Germany and France, as well as the fortified areas that are very profitable, are very dangerous? ”

Bismarck thought for a while: "Of course, it is more dangerous than the Royal Navy, but the inland sea of the headquarters of Germany and France is still quite a distance away from this trench, and the deep-sea flagship will basically not be directly close to our two commands, the most dangerous is the Pacina Fortress, the trench passes through it, and if the deep-sea flagship surfaces here, she can directly shell the fortress areas on both sides of the strait in full condition......"

Neptune suddenly shouted, "This is really a pit!" ”

And Bismarck continued: "Not only that, I heard you just say that you have sunk hundreds of deep seas around Pacina's Fortress, and these deep seas will become deep-sea wreckage and sink into the depths of the trench, and the deep-sea wreckage will absorb the energy of the ocean and re-give birth to the deep sea, and the funnel bay where Pacina's Fortress is located is the most energy-rich place in this sea......"

Neptune suddenly rolled his eyes: "This is really a sinkhole, Fortress Pacina is simply a natural lair of the deep sea, no wonder Cavour chose this place for his base." ”

Mu Feng smiled as he listened to the conversation between the two, walked over quickly, stroked Neptune's hair and said:

"You don't have to be so nervous, I don't think it's a bad thing at all, it's actually a good thing, because our goal is not to hide from the deep sea, but to destroy the deep sea.

"Now we are standing on a natural deep-sea nest, strengthening the attack force, and in the future, if there is a deep-sea birth, we will directly destroy them on the spot, so that we don't have to go outside to chase them?"

Neptune suddenly realized and clapped his hands violently: "That's right! We put more sonar in the water, set up a row of electromagnetic cannons on the shore, and kill them directly if they dare to show their heads in the deep sea! ”

Bismarck, who was next to him, listened to the conversation between the two, and once again felt the obvious difference between Mu Feng's way of thinking and ordinary people, and couldn't help but praise very directly:

"Mufeng Command, you are really a little different as a commander."

Mu Feng smiled and shrugged his shoulders: "I'm praising you for me." ”