Chapter 163: Amphibious Landing Ships and Submarines
On January 4, 2752 (1911), over Fuzhou
This year's National Day is a three-day holiday, and today is the time to go to work. At this moment, a huge airship flew in from the northwest and glided high above the clouds. Its streamlined figure looms in the clouds, like a giant whale swimming in the waves.
This is a "Jinyun-1" passenger airship, which is a 5o ton airship with a length of 2oo meters and a width of 42 meters. Four main propellers, six auxiliary propellers, with a maximum propulsion power of 6ooo kilowatts. The maximum is 14o km, the cruising range is 1oo km, and the maximum range is 7ooo km. The boat can carry 15o passengers, and is also equipped with kitchens, washrooms, entertainment rooms, cinemas and other facilities, making it the most advanced passenger airship at present.
Its livery is not the hideous shark mouth of an armed airship, but the cartoon panda whale livery, which looks like a round, fat, and cute panda whale. On both sides of the body of this very cute "panda whale", the words "Civil Aviation of China" are written, needless to say, this is a passenger airship under the jurisdiction of the Civil Aviation Corporation of China.
Because the space of the airship is relatively large, it is much more relaxed than that of an airplane. So the seats here are very wide, the spacing is relatively loose, and the backrests of the seats are all movable, which can be folded down for bed, which is still only economy class. Business class is similar to the arrangement of a train sleeper, with a small table in Changsha per person. The first class cabin is a private room with a separate bed, table and chairs. Moreover, the pods are equipped with large-format viewing windows on both sides of the pod, which can be used by passengers to overlook the scenery on the ground.
That's right, this is a domestic flight for a passenger airship. Since February this year, from Wuhan to various provincial capitals and key cities, passenger airship routes have been opened in 6. On August 8, the Asia-Europe route from Wuhan to Europe was also opened, and the Asia-Europe route was divided into two, the northern route was: Wuhan - Xi'an - Lanzhou - Yumen - Hami - Dihua - Ili - Yekaterinburg - Petersburg - Stockholm - Berlin - Amsterdam - Paris - London. The first part of the southern route is the same, starting from Dihua, Kashgar - Tehran - Baghdad - Damascus - Istanbul - Sofia - Belgrade - Vienna - Rome - Madrid - Lisbon.
According to the plan announced by the Civil Aviation Corporation of China, in December this year, the Sino-US Pacific route will be opened. At that time, it will only take about five days to travel from Shanghai, China to San Francisco in the United States, which is five or six times faster than the current one-month ferry ride.
This airship marked O31 is a flight from Wuhan to Fuzhou, and the whole journey takes only seven or eight hours, which is really convenient compared to the previous mode of transportation.
"China's aviation technology is amazing! I didn't expect you to use airships for civilian ......use so soon," Einstein sighed as he stood next to the viewing window, looking at the scenery below.
A young man next to him said with a smile: "Professor Einstein, our President Moon attaches great importance to science and technology, and he has said many times that the essence of science and technology is to serve mankind, and only the exhibition of science and technology can make human life better." ”
"His Excellency the President does attach great importance to science and technology, and he is a good scientist and engineer himself......" Einstein agreed.
Under the soft or hard means of the Swiss branch, Einstein finally failed to escape from the palm of Mr. Wen's hands, and in November last year, he took his whole family to China, nominally to treat his children. However, for the CSD, they are afraid that these guys will not come, as long as they come, it will be easy to do, and they have a way to make these target people stay willingly. So soon, Einstein's classmate asked someone to bring a letter of resignation to the University of Bern, and the reason for the resignation was naturally to facilitate the treatment of his children. At this time, Einstein was only a well-known scholar, although he was a genius, but he was not the kind of indispensable scholar, so the Swiss side did not care too much about his stay or stay, and besides, people are for children, this reason is strong enough.
Subsequently, Einstein announced that he had accepted the Chinese offer to be a professor in the Department of Physics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He now has a dedicated physical room, which is so advanced that he could not have imagined before, and he is also equipped with a "assistant" who reinforces the company, so he definitely does not have to worry about not having enough manpower.
Einstein went to Fuzhou this time to attend a science exchange meeting held at Fujian University. He is now very accustomed to life in China, in his opinion, although many parts of China are still relatively backward, but the exhibition is staggering, like the city of Wuhan where he lives now, there are new changes almost every month, especially the various tall things that continue to emerge in society, which are rare in Europe, or even not seen at all.
"Langzhi, is this a shipyard down here?" Suddenly, Einstein asked, pointing to a factory area below. At this time, the airship had already entered the range of Fuzhou and was about to descend. Underneath the airship, there was a huge factory area, and two large ships of the same kind were parked in two large docks. In addition, there are several huge factories that look like enclosed docks.
Lang Zhi looked down and replied, "Yes, this is the Mawei Shipyard, which is the earliest modern shipyard in our country. However, it is not the largest, and at present, it can only rank third in the national counterparts. The Guangzhou Shipyard and the Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard are both bigger than it...... "This young man named Langzhi, an international student at Humboldt University in Germany, is currently one of Einstein's main assistants.
"His scale is very large, no less than several large shipyards in Europe...... Einstein nodded, comparing it with the European shipyards in his impression, and the result is that the scale of this Mawei shipyard is really a bit unexpected, and its scale is definitely not inferior to the Volken shipyard in Germany.
"Oh, what kind of ship are they building now? It looks strange......" Einstein asked again. Now that the airship was circling and preparing to descend, the altitude was already relatively low, and it was relatively clear that there were many workers busy in those two docks.
Lang Zhi shrugged: "...... This one is not very clear, it does not look like a warship, the superstructure is concentrated in the rear, and the front is flat. Maybe it's a special kind of cargo ship, who knows?"
"I look like it, or a kind of large whaling ship......" Einstein nodded with an expert nodding, the two cargo did look a bit like whaling ships. Isn't the empty deck in front of it used to handle whales? There are several cranes on the deck, which are supposed to be used to pull up whales. That's right, that's it!
At this time, the announcer's sweet voice sounded on the radio: "...... Please get back to your seats, fasten your seatbelts, the airship is about to land!
Lang Zhi hurriedly said, "Professor, let's go back, we will land immediately......"
"Okay, let's go back first......" Einstein was just a little curious about the two strange ships, and didn't pay much attention to them, after all, most of his energy was on theoretical physics.
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Mawei Shipyard.
On the two large ships under construction that Einstein and his team saw, workers were working on the hulls like industrious worker bees.
Mawei Shipyard was also on holiday, but except for those who had been away from home for too long and needed to go back to visit relatives, most of the employees chose to work overtime voluntarily. Even those who visited relatives rushed back to work after the holidays.
Because this time the tasks of domestic battleships and heavy cruisers did not have a horsetail, almost all the workers held their breath in their hearts. To say that the strength of Guangzhou Ship and Jiangnan is stronger, there is still something to say. After all, Guangzhou Shipyard is the first shipyard of the CSD to be close to the sea, and the tilt of various resources and talents has created the current number one shipyard in China. The qualifications of the Jiangnan factory are old, and the capital is also very strong, so it is reasonable to be the second one. But Nima Lianyungang and Tianjin are a ball! When our Mawei factory built cruisers, these two factories were still liquid.
Why can't we even get a heavy cruiser? Does the superior think that Mawei has been abandoned for many years and has been reduced to a second-rate shipyard? Then build these two ships well, let everyone see what we are capable of, and know that although Mawei has been abandoned for several years, it is definitely not a second-rate shipyard. Because most people have this attitude of arguing, it has become the current situation.
However, this is only the idea of the grassroots, and the shipyard executives who know the inside story do not think so. These two ships under construction are national key projects, and Mr. Wen personally named them, and at present, only Mawei is being built, and no other factories have a share. Not only these two ships, but also the contents of the closed docks, are also the focus, and the attention paid to them by the superiors is not inferior to that of battleships. But these things were kept secret and it was impossible to explain them clearly to the workers, so the factory leaders had to play dumb.
Now a group of shipyard executives take turns sitting at the edge of the dock, and if there is a problem, it will be solved immediately.
At this time, the factory director came over to change shifts. He asked the deputy chief engineer of the previous class, "Mr. Wu, how is it?
Wu Dong smiled and said, "You can rest assured, there is no problem, a qiēshun lì." Now everyone is too motivated, and the progress is far beyond expectations. I expect that if this continues, we will be able to launch in the middle of this month and complete the outfitting in January next year......"
"But you can't just be fast, you must pay attention to the quality, if there is a quality problem, it will be a shame......" said the factory director worriedly.
"Everyone wants to make these two Jiulihu class model projects, and they pay attention to quality, and the requirements are higher than the national standard, hehe......" Wu Dong replied confidently.
Nine carp lake level. Judging from the naming rules for ships formulated by Wen Desi, it is a kind of amphibious ship. That's right, they are China's first large amphibious board-6 ships.
The standard displacement of the Jiulihu class is 64oo tons, the full load displacement is 88oo tons, the carrying capacity is 16oo tons, the maximum voyage is 21 knots, and the cruising degree is 14 knots. It can carry 8oo heavily armed soldiers, 12 personnel vehicles and 6 boats, as well as assault boats, speedboats, and 4 seaplanes.
There is no doubt that this kind of large-scale amphibious 6 ship was prepared for the liberation of Taiwan, and now Taiwan is still occupied by Japan, and the Science and Technology Socialist Party of Wende has always kept this in mind.
As for what's in the closed dock......
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"Submarine!"
In one of the enclosed docks, two shark-like hulls lay down. That's right, the Mawei shipyard is building submarines in addition to the 6 ships. This is also why the domestic battleships and heavy cruisers this time do not have their share, and it is already to the limit to build both things at the same time with the power of the horsetail.
Since the beginning of this year, after the construction of the fully enclosed dock was completed, the screened shipbuilders have been building their own submarines under the guidance of cyborg engineers.
If you are a military fan of later generations, you can recognize at a glance that these submarines are not traditional submarines that were widely used during World War I and World War II, but teardrop-shaped submarines that only appeared in the latter part of World War II. Of course, this teardrop-shaped shape is also the mainstream shape of submarines in later generations.
The teardrop-shaped submarine was born more than 3o years ahead of schedule, and this appeared, of course, with the intervention of the traverser. Because Mr. Wen doesn't look down on traditional submarines at all. He thinks it's more of a diving boat than a submarine, because they travel on the surface most of the time and only dive when attacking or dodging an attack.
As we all know, before the 5O era, everyone's understanding of submarines was still very rough, and they all used it as a diving warship, so submarines before World War II were basically still on the surface, including the most famous U-boats.
Later generations know that submarines need to be underwater for a long time before they can play a real role. Of course, Wen Dehei, who came from later generations, would not have made this detour, so he went directly to the drop-shaped submarine. The teardrop-shaped submarine is more of a matter of thinking and tactics, and its production technology is not much higher than that of the traditional ship-type submarine, and it is absolutely not a problem to build a drop-shaped submarine with the existing technology of the CSO.
For the current China, submarines are actually more important projects than battleships. Now China already has a relatively decent water fleet, but only in Asia, and the tonnage is not as good as Japan, let alone the European and American powers. Besides, China's coastline is very long, and there are far from enough battleships, so it also needs a strong defense force to defend it, and the elusive submarine is undoubtedly the most suitable.
Yes, submarines are not enough to fight for sea power, only to undermine sea power. But China has no sea power yet, and China's biggest enemy at the moment is the Anglo-Japanese alliance, both of which are sea powers, as long as they can destroy their sea power. Britain and Japan, on the other hand, are keen on large ships and huge guns, look down on submarines, and lack anti-submarine capabilities. Therefore, if there is a group of submarines, the threat to Britain and Japan is very great. At the very least, they will not do such a thing as driving warships to the coast of China and bombing them indiscriminately. Of course, if they did do this, Mr. Wen wouldn't mind sinking a few of them.
As early as 19o8, Wendesi ordered eight "Horned Whale-class" submarines (later renamed D-class) at the Holland shipyard in the United States, and asked Holland to change the engine to a diesel engine. After the completion of the project in O9, Wen Deji handed over these 8 submarines to several shipyards for them to disassemble and play. Anyway, for Mr. Wen, this thing is very cheap, the unit price is only 5o US dollars, and it doesn't hurt if it is broken.
Up to now, all eight "Horned Whale-class" submarines have been broken by everyone, but they are not dishonorable, and China has trained a group of submarine designers and skilled workers in this time and space. Among them, Mawei got the most points, with three.
The performance of this kind of submarine currently under construction does not meet the requirements of Wen Desi, but in the eyes of people at this time, this is already a very tall thing.
This class of submarines was designated as the "Fur Seal Class". 6o meters long, 7 meters wide, draft 4. 5 meters, the standard displacement is 85o tons above the surface and 1ooo tons underwater. It is powered by two 25oo kilowatt marine diesel engines, 4oo tons of batteries, fly-by-wire propulsion system, and single-shaft five-blade large propeller propulsion. The maximum navigation is 16 knots / underwater 24 knots. The cruising range is 6ooo nautical miles/12 knots on the surface, 12o nautical miles/6 knots underwater, and 12 nautical miles/24 knots underwater. The safe depth of the dive is 18o meters, and the time to dive to the periscope depth (12 meters) is 2o seconds.
The main armament is 6 55omm torpedo tubes with 4 front and 2 rear layouts, equipped with 18 torpedoes. In front of the bridge there was also a retractable 75-mm single-barreled naval gun. Set up a crew of 4o people, and the cost of a single ship is 23o yuan, which can be regarded as cheap and good.
However, the submarine under construction at the Mawei Factory is not this one, and there is another submarine being built in another fully enclosed dock. It does not have a real name for the class, only one is codenamed "Type 9O1", and the "Sea-Dog Class" is codenamed Type 9O2. This shows that the Type 9O1 is not the standard equipment of the Chinese Navy.
That's right, the "Type 9O1" is a special export company, and its user is the German Navy. Well, in fact, the Type 9O1 is a German U-boat, but this is a World War II-era U-boat, or a later model with a snorkel that has been magically modified by cyborg engineers.
Mr. Wen is going to vigorously promote this kind of magic modified U-boat to the Erdezi, and he also comes with a gift of wolf pack tactics, even if he doesn't make money. There is no doubt that this is the "self-engaged Five Marks Party" that Wen Desi is ready to pit a bull again. As long as he thinks of the fact that the cows at the level of World War I meet the wolves at the level of World War II, Mr. Wen's heart is extremely sour, and the picture is really too beautiful to watch.
Because every time he saw the large number of British colonies on the map, Wen Desi gritted his teeth and his eyes were green. Southeast Asia, South Asia, Sub-large 6, Oceania, Middle East, Africa...... Wait, the patches of fertile land are really mouth-watering! This cow and cow occupy so much good land, it's really too much! Mr. Wen knows very well that although these places haven't opened yet, they are all treasured land, and if you don't eat them, you'll be too sorry to cross them.
But now the sun never sets on the empire is at its peak, the gorgeous more than 100 battleships, the incomparably powerful navy, just think about it makes people's livers tremble, don't make them miserable, how can our beloved Mr. Wen go to fish in troubled waters. In Mr. Wen's view, the losses of Britain in the original time and space in World War I were too small, and less than 10,000 people died, accounting for 2 of the total population. 19%。 Looking at the fact that they were able to force the world to sign the "Washington Naval Treaty" after World War I, we can see that their confidence is still there.
But now it's different, now that Mr. Wen is here, Niu Niu won't be so lucky anymore. Not to mention an increase of one or twenty times the loss, at least a triple or five times increase for them. The rooster of their gang died 17o thousand, and the woolly bear died 33o thousand, as the leading Niu Niu, if he didn't die three or five million, how could he be worthy of the identity of the world's first brother?
"Erdezi, you must come on! I support you!" Wen Deji sincerely blessed the Second German Reich.
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