356 Shipbuilding Program
After Professor Yang Yuan saw Gao Jianwu's warm actions, his uneasy heart calmed down a lot.
"Mr. Gao, I don't know what the main positioning of our marine equipment research object is in the near future?" Cramped, Professor Yang Na is not good at greetings, and runs straight to the topic.
"The immediate task of your Marine Equipment Institute is to build ships, 10,000-ton ships, modern destroyers, submarines and aircraft carriers!" Gao Jianwu's first sentence almost didn't make Yang Yuan break out in a cold sweat.
This is a long-term dream, but as a short-term goal, it is even more difficult than climbing to the sky!
"How much tonnage do destroyers and aircraft carriers need to do?" Professor Yang asked with a dry mouth and some trepidation.
In fact, this question is a bit redundant, and even the smallest destroyer is a huge challenge for him.
"The destroyer should be 3,000 tons and have a cruising range of more than 3,000 nautical miles. Aircraft carriers should be 60,000 tons and have a range of more than 8,000 nautical miles. Gao Jianwu said lightly.
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"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" When Professor Yang heard Gao Jianwu's answer, he jumped up like a conditioned reflex.
You must know that although the first domestic armored ship in China was born for more than half a century, half a century has passed, due to the lack of continuous investment in research and development costs, the level of shipbuilding is still very limited, the so-called light cruiser "Yatsen" built in 1927, the standard displacement is 1650 tons!
That's it, the core armament system, power system, shipbuilding steel, etc. are still "imported"! The maximum speed is 19 knots (35 km/h) and the maximum range is 2,000 nautical miles. The ship is equipped with a single 150 mm 50 x diameter gun imported from the Dutch company in the bow, and the secondary guns include a single 140 mm gun in the stern, four 75 mm anti-aircraft guns, and one 47 mm rapid-fire gun, all of which are imported foreign goods.
In other words, this battleship reached the standard of a light cruiser with one imported 150-mm gun, and the others were inferior to other frigates. At the same time, the light cruiser "Leander", built in 1930 by the British, had a standard displacement of 7430 tons, a maximum speed of 32.5 knots (60 km / h), and was equipped with 4 twin (8 guns) 152 mm 50 times diameter guns...
There is no doubt that the Yixian is completely crushing advantage. More than 10 years have passed, and then only a 2,000-ton Pinghai ship was built, and the localization of this ship is even more debatable, because at that time there was no invasion of Xiaori, and the entire design drawings and equipment were provided by Xiaori, and Xiaorichi Harima Shipyard also sent shipbuilding director Toshio Kambo and technical personnel such as hull, engine, and carpentry to provide technical assistance. The whole country is building ships and that's it.
The technical level has long been outdated compared with the world level.
In this case, Gao Jianwu proposed the goal of building his own 3,000-ton destroyer in the near future, which is naturally more difficult than heaven in the eyes of the pragmatic Professor Yang.
"Nothing is impossible, Professor Yang, you see, this is the hull design of our first generation of modern destroyers, and your goal is to realize it according to the drawings, and other departments such as armament systems, power systems, and radar systems will cooperate with you to achieve them." Gao Jianwu walked to his bookcase and took out the design of the production process of the destroyer hull of the 051g complete body - of course, only part of it now.
After all, Professor Yang has not passed his test, he will only give a part for Professor Yang to study first, and what he gives now is the main design part.
Are the blueprints complete? Professor Yang was a little dumbfounded again, where did the talent come from here in the Eighth Road to complete such a huge work?
Professor Yang didn't expect that Gao Jianwu had already done this, and he couldn't help but take the drawings in disbelief, he just opened the main design part, and was stunned all of a sudden.
This is already a production plan for a finished ship.
Professor Yang looked through it with trembling hands for a while, convinced that this was not a random drawing, but that the rigorous drawing and detailed dimensions on it all showed that this was a real design atlas.
With such a detailed design, although he can't verify whether it is feasible now, as long as he sees that this picture is taken from Gao Jianwu's side, Professor Yang knows that this is not a joke.
Maybe the Eighth Road was brought from someone else's hands, either the north or the Americas, their side is already very mature in terms of destroyers, if it is from their hands to get such a set of design, although it is difficult, but it has been countless times less difficult than their own design, thinking of this, Professor Yang put away his shock, and was sure that this design in Gao Jianwu's hands was not a pipe dream.
Some subsystems may be available for purchase from the North and the Americas. In this way, Yang Na felt a little enlightened, and suddenly felt that this matter was something wrong.
"Mr. Gao, this is the main design of the destroyer that we are going to realize? Does it mean that the entire ship has now completed the design of the production process? Put down the drawings and turn to ask Gao Jian Wudao.
"That's right, this is the main design part of our first generation of new destroyer 051 design drawings, the supporting marine steel smelting process we have successfully developed and trial-produced in Jinyang Iron and Steel Plant, and it can enter mass production immediately, both in Anshan Iron and Steel and Benxi Iron and Steel have the ability to produce marine steel in accordance with this set of marine steel production and smelting process.
Not only that, the 130 mm naval gun Jinyang Heavy Industry has begun to build the first prototype, I believe it will not be long before it can be realized, radar system, shipboard radio and communication system, we Huaxing Electronics is also developing a prototype system, about to complete the first complete set of shipborne electronic system.
In terms of power system, our Huayuan Power 453 steam power system has been put into research and development, and it is planned that the horsepower of a single engine can reach 36,000 horsepower, so that two Type 453 power systems to drive the destroyer are enough to help it run at a speed of more than 30 knots. ”
What, each key subsystem is developed by itself? Not yet integrated with someone else's?
Gao Jianwu's words once again subverted many concepts in Professor Yang's mind.
After listening to this, my head was buzzing, and I didn't expect that on the side of the Eighth Road, the development of shipbuilding technology had unconsciously reached the forefront of the world level.
In addition to building that shell, the core part of the people has long been doing research and development, so the most important and difficult part is actually already being done.
It's just that as a well-known expert in the shipbuilding industry on the side of the fruit, Yang Yuan didn't know that the layout of the Eighth Road was so deep.
However, these are all good things, great good things, Yang Yuan, who was originally unsure of his task, suddenly felt relaxed.
"If that's the case, then it's not a big deal, Mr. Gao, thank you for trusting me and telling me so much top-secret information. Yang is not talented, he will do his best to build this ship. Yang Yuan calmed down his agitated mood and said to Gao Jianwu excitedly.
Before he came, although he guessed that the Eighth Road side was going to invest in the shipbuilding industry, which happened to be the same as his own ambition, compared to doing nothing on the preserved fruit side, Yang Yuan, who had just arrived in his prime, wanted to come over and try it, but he didn't expect that the first meeting with Shangguan would be a shocking good news.
"We now have two large shipbuilding bases, Dalian Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard, and if each subsystem has been designed and finalized, then we can first concentrate the strength of the two shipyards to build the first prototype, and then build it in the two shipyards.
Simple hull manufacturing, Jiangnan Shipyard once customized a 10,000-ton ocean shipping freighter for the Americas more than 20 years ago, of course, the design drawings and key subsystems are provided by the Americas, our assembly and manufacturing capacity still has a certain level, what we lack is the key subsystems and hull design.
If all of these things are in place now, then the next step is to realize the overall customization and assembly problems, but they are by no means insurmountable. ”
Of course, Gao Jianwu knew that when the system was exploded, he must have considered the current technical level, and gave solutions to the shortcomings, and it was impossible to give something completely unachievable.
"I hope that on the basis of the 051 design, our marine equipment institute will absorb and upgrade as soon as possible, and gradually design new destroyers of 5,000 tons and 7,000 tons, and even aircraft carriers, so as to catch up with the advanced level of shipbuilding in the world today and build an ocean-going combat capability fleet as soon as possible." Gao Jianwu did not mention the technical sources of those subsystems, just to minimize the loss of too many words.
The 051 design scheme given by the system is not a prototype ship with many problems in the early days, but based on the mature 051G version of the ship design drawing, of course, the electronic control system is completely simplified, and the current electronic tube control system is used, which is much weaker than the original configuration, after all, the current instrument control and computer level compared to the latter, have not had time to start.
Most of them are now controlled by tubes, buttons, and switches. However, with the development of transistor computers, when Huaxing Electronics realized the first generation of computers and 12-inch displays, two key supporting products, Gao Jianwu believes that the electronic control system will usher in a wave of rapid progress.
"Mr. Gao, we have all such design foundations and subsystem support for marine equipment, and I believe that the construction of this new destroyer is certain, but the budget for the construction of naval ships is generally very high, do we have such budget support?" Although technically Gao Jianwu gave the feasibility, Professor Yang knew that in addition to technical limitations, there were also financial constraints.
A so-called light cruiser of more than 2,000 tons, the Pinghai ship, has a budget of more than 4 million oceans, and Gao Jianwu, a 3,000-ton destroyer, has a more complex and modern subsystem than the Pinghai ship.
In comparison, the cost of the Fletcher-class destroyer with a full load displacement of 3,000 tons in the beautiful country is 10 million US dollars, and it will cost 24 million yuan when converted into the ocean!
The navy is a real gold-eating beast!
"I'll solve the budget thing, and now the Marine Equipment Institute will focus on the construction of the hull, and the other subsystems will first reserve space according to the drawings. Moreover, in terms of steel, it is now all allocation, and labor is mainly considered in the budget. Gao Jianwu gave an affirmative answer to Yang Yuan's worries.
Now it is impossible for him to budget according to the actual cost, and there is really no money to support.
However, after he built the first prototype of each molecular system through R&D expenses, he first applied it on the first ship, and then mass produced and priced it according to economic accounting.
In this way, it seems that the cost of building a ship has been reduced to an incredible extent, but in fact, it is dispersed to the research and development of various subsystems.
And these subsystems are scattered in various places to complete the research and development, and the cost is actually transferred to different places.
Before there was no unified finance and taxation, Gao Jianwu's way avoided the huge black pit of the huge capital budget!
Let's get results first.
At the opening ceremony of the 2nd Institute, when Yang Na accepted the task of building a destroyer, Gao Jianwu participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the establishment and began to enter the busy preparatory work.
Yang Nao did his best to summon his old colleagues, the old workers of the Fujian Shipyard, and the engineers of the Jiangnan Shipyard to the shipyard in Dalian, and intensively prepared to build the first destroyer of the Eighth Road.
Gao Jianwu named the Type 051 destroyer Luda class (3,000 tons), and the follow-up destroyer models, according to Gao Jianwu's plan, will be named Type 052 Luhai class (5,000 tons), Type 054 Luyang class (7,000 tons), and the aircraft carrier lead ship Type 01 is named Zheng He class.
With the staffing of the Marine Equipment Institute in place and the workers and engineers of the Dalian Shipyard in place, a new defense and counterintelligence system was established at the same time in the 2nd Institute and the shipyard, so that Gao Jianwu could rest assured that the hull design of the 051 destroyer was delivered to Yang Na.
As the most advanced and large-scale steel plant in China, Anshan Iron and Steel has begun to manufacture marine steel in accordance with the needs of 051.
The process parameters of the system, as well as some special metal additions transported back by Gao Jianwu, make the indicators of this HY-100 marine steel far exceed the current world's mainstream marine steel.
Yang Yuan was originally a little skeptical about what Gao Jianwu said, but after rigorous testing, the marine steel far exceeded Yang Yuan's expectations, and both strength and corrosion resistance, hardness, and impact resistance all surpassed any known existing marine steel.
Much better than the homogeneous armor steel of the United States, under the protection of the lower side armor of 0.75 inches, the HY-100 naval steel can now resist the tearing threat of near-miss bullets of caliber below 150 mm.
In other words, the destroyer has a certain ability to defend against light cruiser attacks.
This is something that a destroyer of the same tonnage of beautiful countries cannot do, not even a light cruiser with a small book, let alone a destroyer with a crispy book.
This alone gives 051 an advantage against the destroyers of the beautiful country and ships below the light cruiser of the small book.
According to Gao Jianwu's plan, within 3 years, 4 051 destroyers will be built, and the armament will be mainly traditional naval guns and anti-aircraft guns; Within 10 years, the number of 051 destroyers will be increased to 16, of which the 051 destroyers produced later may be applied to the primary computer control system, and the armament will be mainly based on ship-to-air missiles and ship-to-ship missiles for air defense, becoming a truly modern warship.
These warships will be the main force of the Eighth Route Naval Fleet for the first decade (45 to 55 years).
Then, when the 052 was designed, the entire shipbuilding program began to shift to the 5,000-ton Type 052 destroyer in the next decade.
In Gao Jianwu's planning, the Type 052 destroyer successfully developed in the late 50s will be a typical missile destroyer, the computer system has evolved to at least the 8088 level, the first generation of the network has begun, and the entire new ship has begun to have preliminary digital capabilities.
With the second- and third-generation ship-to-air missiles and ship-to-ship missiles developed by Professor Qian and them, the overall combat power will be reborn, and destroyers with old-fashioned naval guns will be completely eliminated.
Of course, this plan is only in Gao Jianwu's secret file, and even Yang Yuan and they don't know yet, after all, Gao Jianwu's plan is too shocking.
However, Gao Jianwu is confident that he will complete this plan, and now he only needs to ensure that the entire talent system is completed as scheduled, and the two colleges and universities will continue to cultivate new talents according to the talents he introduced, then there will be a strong guarantee for the realization of this matter.
Other aspects, such as the budget, although Gao Jianwu has not yet found a source, but as he led the industrial system, large-scale production capacity began to explode, producing large quantities of industrial products.
In the market, the American market has been initially opened, waiting for the European battlefield to calm down, and the European market is also the focus of Gao Jianwu's efforts.
Under such circumstances, with more than a dozen destroyers and one aircraft carrier, Gao Jianwu thought that he could afford it.