Chapter 170: A New Electromagnetic Catapult System
648 Ship Research Institute, in Dong Chen's dormitory.
After the three of them left, Dong Chen copied the laptop again after tidying up the dormitory, and without moving the table to its place, he sat on the bed and turned on the computer.
"One, how are the computer simulations going?" Dong Chen touched his ears and said, he is almost getting used to it now, and he always touches his ears unconsciously when talking to No. 1.
"Sir, the number of laboratory simulation experiments has reached 101,863 times, and the success rate is 100%." No. 1's voice came directly to Dong Chen's ears from the secret headphones, and there was no sound from the outside world.
"Well, that's good, but what about the actual application environment simulation experiment?" Dong Chen asked while flipping through the experimental report given by No. 1.
"The number of simulations in the actual application environment reached 67,247 times, with a success rate of 99.9998%, and the number of various extreme weather simulations reached 20,479 times, with a success rate of 99.97%, of which 74.8% were caused by pilot misoperation."
"So, this new electromagnetic catapult has reached the standard of use?" Dong Chen asked happily.
"Yes, sir, the various computer simulations are complete and ready for fabrication and actual experimentation." No. 1 replied affirmatively, well, at least Dong Chen thought so, he felt that No. 1's tone was affirmative.
As for why Dong Chen could hear the affirmation from No. 1's tone, it was actually not because No. 1 had evolved, but because Dong Chen was stunned.
This new electromagnetic catapult system was not found in the world of fallout, nor was it improved on the semi-finished electromagnetic catapult in the world of Los Santos, but was completely designed by himself from scratch bit by bit, which can be regarded as the application of his recent understanding of electromagnetism, and it is still a very pleasant thing to turn his understanding into reality.
This can be regarded as a kind of assessment of him, his personal experience of electromagnetic force, and a lot of knowledge about electromagnetism that he has learned, it is not so simple to integrate them to complete a work, this is a very challenging thing, by the way, to test his own moisture after losing the cheat.
As a technical nerd with ideals, you must prepare your own back road, and it is better to rely on others than on yourself, but after all, it is the first time to do such a big project, so I feel a little bottomless in my heart.
But now, after hearing One's answer, he felt that he should have succeeded, and the world's top electromagnetic catapult system was completely from him.
The electromagnetic catapult represents the future development direction of the aircraft carrier catapult and has significant advantages over the steam catapult.
It uses electromagnetic force as the power source, which is not only simple in structure, small in size and light in weight, which can greatly reduce the space occupied on the ship, but also does not need to be warmed up in advance, and can cope with various emergencies. Moreover, the ejection force is consistent from the initial stage to the final stage, which can also allow the carrier-based aircraft to carry 8-15% more load than using a steam catapult. Its thrust output can be precisely controlled, can be "stepless speed change", and can catapult all types of aircraft and aircraft from a few thousand grams to dozens of tons, while the steam catapult can only catapult up to 40 tons, and the minimum is 5~6 tons. Therefore, electromagnetic catapults are suitable for all kinds of carrier-based aircraft, especially UAVs that will be on board ships in the future.
It has many of the above benefits, but it requires 30% less maintenance and operator than a steam catapult.
However, as a completely new technology, it is not surprising that the problem of high failure rate of electromagnetic catapults is now common in the development of new technologies.
The development time of electromagnetic catapults in China and the United States is basically the same, because they are all new technologies, so the starting point of China is not much later than that of the United States, both sides have been studying the electromagnetic catapult for many years, overcoming many key technologies, and have built a land electromagnetic catapult device, with their respective fighters for many land catapult tests.
However, the land experiments were all good, and the task was successfully completed, but after the actual loading of the ship, it was still found that there were many problems. Although the electromagnetic catapult on Hua Guoming's face has not yet been put on the ship, the supercarrier in this base has already explained the problem, and the progress on both sides is actually about the same, but the United States has already roared to drive the aircraft carrier out.
Moreover, according to the report, the electromagnetic catapult on the "Ford" will have serious failures after an average of 240 ejections, which is far from the 4,000 or so average trouble-free interval required by the design, and it is impossible to achieve the aircraft's full-load ejection take-off, and the average trouble-free interval of the advanced electromagnetic blocking system is even only 20 times. Such a low level of reliability is obviously not up to the needs of combat missions, which is why the launch of the "Ford" has been postponed, and it is understandable for the US Navy to let the "Ford" continue sea trials.
Although there is no news about this in China, Dong Chen has no less understanding of this giant here, and the base seems to have received an order from above, and did not stop Dong Chen, after Dong Chen checked various test data and surveys, he felt that the actual situation of this aircraft carrier was basically the same as the situation of the newly launched aircraft carrier in the United States, but this time he came to do the task about electromagnetic catapults, so his focus was on this aspect, and the new electromagnetic catapult system he wanted to do, It's about solving existing problems.
When it comes to the testing of aircraft carriers, it has to be said that the rabbit is generous, and it seems that in recent years, it has indeed made a small amount of money. Due to the secrecy of this supercarrier, it is impossible to conduct experiments on the sea, so the rabbits, who are getting more and more wealthy, simply open up a "aircraft carrier test site in the mountains".
Why Yamanaka? Because it's right in the mountains, inside the mountains to be precise, and how to do it, that's one word: dig.
The outside of the dock used for the construction of the hull is not the sea that Dong Chen imagined, but a huge mountain space, which seems to be a natural cave, and its outer edge is the ocean.
When the dock is filled with water, the gate separating the construction dock from the test site is opened, and the aircraft carrier is towed into the test site by a tugboat for various experiments. There are all kinds of man-made winds and artificial waves in the test site, although they can't do everything on the sea, but they are completely enough for the experiment.
Of course, the aircraft here can't really fly, but the test site also has his own way, that is, to install various sensors on the fuselage of the carrier-based aircraft, when the aircraft is ejected, the sensors will record various experimental data, and when the data reaches the take-off data of the aircraft, it means that an electromagnetic ejection is successful.
There is a special aircraft receiving and releasing facility above the test site, the experimental aircraft is connected with a safety rope, and the receiving facility is equipped with a multi-layer interception net to ensure the recovery of the aircraft after being ejected. Under the circumstance that sea trials cannot be carried out here, a large amount of valuable experimental data has been provided for the aircraft carrier's experiment, and Dong Chen is also amazed.
That's how the power of a country hangs!
Dong Chen also knew why the country would cooperate with him so generously, and he could see the big with such a small base, let alone what such a superpower was like.
It is no wonder that one of the most common sayings of Hua Guo is: we do not threaten anyone, but we are not afraid of any enemy.