22, 9/11.

Banton Island.

Third shipyard.

In the fully enclosed dock, more than a dozen employees stood inside the console at the top, looking at the behemoth at their feet.

Designer Eno, as well as engineer Huang Weida and others, are in the console at this time.

Huang Weida watched the water level in the dock rising, and the hull of the ship was slowly floating on the water, and he showed a relieved expression: "The construction of the Malacca has finally been completed." ”

"Is the first one really going to be used as a transport ship? What a pity! Ino was also pleased with the giant ship he had designed.

Huang Weida shook his head: "There is no way, now the company has enough warships, with the production capacity of major shipyards, there is no need to build warships with all their might." ”

The warships currently in service with Homo sapiens are:

3 Pacific-class battleships.

13 Greater Luzon-class amphibious assault ships.

11 Luzon-class amphibious assault ships.

57 Manila-class frigates.

32 tuna-class attack nuclear submarines.

6 Killer whale-class strategic nuclear submarines.

In addition, there are 8 Sumatran crocodile-class landing ships, 30 Tiger Crab-class hovercraft, 35 Blue Whale-class supply ships, 21 Blue Whale-class special ships, and 1 Haili channel dredging ship.

This scale is already very large, and in the next 10 years or so, Homo sapiens will still build 15~20 ships per year.

This ship-building speed, in fact, has temporarily withdrawn from the wartime mechanism, and if the previous wartime mechanism is still followed, the scale of shipbuilding will be increased by more than ten times.

After all, Homo sapiens has applied too many new technologies and new materials in shipbuilding technology, resulting in rapid shipbuilding.

After research and discussion, the headquarters considered it necessary to adjust the current production tasks, not to continue to focus on warships, but to take into account the civilian sphere.

This is the new ship at the feet of Eno and Huang Weida and others, the Malacca.

The Malacca is the first ship of the Malacca class, a 100,000-ton dwt container carrier about the size of a Pacific-class battleship equipped with three small thorium-based molten salt nuclear reactors.

That's right, the Malacca-class transport ships are nuclear-powered.

The reason for the engagement of nuclear-powered transport ships.

On the one hand, it is to reduce the consumption of oil and gas and reduce the cost of transportation.

On the other hand, in order to reserve enough warship spare ships, the hull of the Malacca class is still 20~30% stronger than the aircraft carrier hull due to the use of a large number of new materials, although it is not equipped with armor.

In other words, when necessary, Homo sapiens can completely transform the Malacca-class transport ship into a Malacca-class amphibious assault ship, an armed escort aircraft carrier, a special warfare ship, and the like.

The purpose of this is to reduce the size of warships that are too large to maintain in non-war periods.

At present, the first batch of Malacca-class transport ships has been built, a total of 4 of which are launched today, and the other two will be launched in the middle of next month.

After Huang Weida saw that the hull had stabilized, he picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered: "The test team has begun to station." ”

"Roger."

A crane lifted a specially made personnel cabin onto the deck, and 15 test crew members emerged from the personnel cabin and into the cockpit of the transport ship.

The other 5 groups of testers also boarded the Melaka one after another.

Soon the dock gates opened.

Two of the three nuclear reactors are up and running, while the other is used as a backup.

As the reactor pumped out power, the Malacca slowly left the fully enclosed dock and sailed down the waterway to the open sea.

Inside the Malacca at this time, various groups of testers were busy testing whether the ship was in line with the design.

Tests such as driving and energy saving are actually not very different.

But on the Malacca class, the new Luzon Shipbuilding Company recently came up with a new design concept, which is that the tools should be human, not anti-human.

What anti-human designs are there on traditional transport ships?

In Homo sapiens' view, the most anti-human thing about traditional transport ships is their long range, especially for ocean-going cargo ships, where the crew drifts for months as soon as they go to sea.

It is boring and boring, and it is difficult for ordinary people to feel the discomfort, and long-term separation is easy to cause emotional problems between husband and wife, which in turn causes psychological problems for employees.

Although Homo sapiens has biochips to prevent derailment, the company's management also believes that the prevention and treatment of biochips is only a symptom but not a cure, and it is too depressing, which will still cause employees to suffer from mental illness.

Therefore, the company's headquarters asked the new Luzon shipyard, in the new generation of transport ships, to solve this problem.

After many revisions, the designers of Innova and more than a dozen other ship designers decided to save nearly 6,000 tons of deadweight from the new material hull, and take 3,000 tons from it to improve the living facilities of the crew.

At the same time, the New Luzon Shipping Group also said that it would increase the proportion of female crew members on transport ships to ensure that both husband and wife can be on the same ship.

At this time, one of the testers was on the test ship's living facilities.

Including kitchen, restaurant, freezer warehouse, vegetable greenhouse, satellite Internet room, small cinema, infirmary, gymnasium, sauna, chess and card room, firearms room.

Inside the gym.

The testers didn't find any barbells or anything like that, mainly because the inside of the boat is very turbulent during sea voyages, and equipment such as dumbbells and barbells are easy to injure.

The sports facilities here are mainly indoor rock climbing, squash courts, stationary treadmills, single poles and double poles, etc.

Several testers tested the facilities at the Malacca's high speed.

Incidentally, since the Malacca itself was designed as a reserve battleship, its speed was very fast, with a top speed of 35 knots, and with a full load, it could still maintain a high speed of 25 knots.

After all, with nuclear power, the speed will naturally be increased, and low speed is not economical for nuclear-powered ships.

According to the design, the Malacca will be equipped with four departments, namely: Deck Department, Marine Department, Affairs Department, and Security Department.

Among them, the deck department includes the captain, first officer, second officer, third officer, telegrapher, boatswain, carpenter, sailor, a total of 15 people;

The marine engineering department includes chief engineer, chief engineer, second engineer, third engineer, electrical officer, chief mechanic, nuclear power maintainer, coppersmith, and mechanic, with a total of 20 people;

The affairs department includes psychological counselors, chefs, second chefs, waiters, medical staff, and daily warehouse keepers, a total of 15 people.

The Security Department consists of a total of 12 security captains, security officers and emergency correspondents.

In addition, there are 10~15 interns.

The whole ship has about 70~80 crew members, and the personnel size is 3~4 times that of large transport ships of other shipping companies.

But Homo sapiens can afford to use so many employees and doesn't need to worry about wages and benefits.

In the future, as Homo sapiens vigorously expands into other regions, the ocean shipping industry will definitely need a large number of nuclear-powered carriers.

It is also a good thing for the crew to fully promote the Malacca-class transport ship now.

In fact, the decline in the transportation cost of Malacca can basically offset the improvement of labor costs and living facilities.

After all, Homo sapiens' thorium-based molten salt reactor uses 92% thorium rods, which can be used for decades after being loaded with fuel at one time.

Moreover, Homo sapiens' nuclear fuel refining process is different from the traditional centrifugal separation method, the cost is very low, and the other components are also self-sufficient.

The total cost of the three thorium-based molten salt reactors of the Malacca-class transport ships is only 4.2 million gold yuan, which is much cheaper than burning oil.

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