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On August 16, Republic 2782 (1941), Canton.

"Mr. Wen, how many ships are we going to build in China's Guangdong class?" Shi Ziren couldn't help but ask.

The Guangdong level is good, but it's damn expensive. After Minister Shi learned about the unit price of 460 million Chinese yuan, he felt extremely painful. This is still the cost of the aircraft carrier itself, and if it is equipped with all carrier-based aircraft, it will be close to 600 million Chinese yuan.

What is the concept of 600 million Chinese dollars? This is equivalent to 300 tons of gold, or a 2,000-kilometer railway, or a large steel plant with an annual output of 30 million tons. Now there are 12 of them, which is a pain.

Wen Desi smiled: "This thing is indeed very expensive, but you get what you pay for." Six more ships will start construction next year, and it will be almost ......"

"18 Guangdong-class ships are almost enough, plus four Shanghai-class, four Shandong-class, and four Liaoning-class, so that we have 30 aircraft carriers, which is barely enough. Wen Deji thought for a moment and said.

"Aren't there still six Han Dynasty-class ships?" Shi Ziren asked.

Marshal Wang Tiehammer, the big boss of the navy, who has been silent, said: "The Han Dynasty class is outdated, the standard row is only 33,200 tons, and it is an unprotected aircraft carrier, and their survivability is too poor in the era of rapid technological change in China." And it's not suitable for jets. This year, we are ready to transfer all the Han Dynasty classes to the second line, and like the Xia Dynasty class, they will be converted into anti-submarine aircraft carriers or helicopter carriers. ”

So far, China has a total of 18 first-line aircraft carriers in active service, including six Han Dynasty-class aircraft carriers with a standard displacement of 33,200 tons (Han, Jin, Sui, Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties), four Liaoning-class aircraft (Liaoning, Shanxi, Hebei, and Anhui) with a standard displacement of 45,000 tons, four Shandong-class aircraft carriers with a standard displacement of 40,000 tons (Shandong, Boni, Annan, and Guangxi), and four Shanghai-class (Shanghai, Qinghai, Luzon, and Dingling) with a standard displacement of 70,000 tons that have been in service for the past two years.

Wang Tiehammer said: "If it were in peacetime, so many aircraft carriers would be enough, or even more than enough, but now it is World War II, and these aircraft carriers are just barely enough, and once we enter the war, we will be very nervous." If the battle is a little more intense, it won't be enough......"

"Well, if you think about it, it's really a little nervous......," Shi Ziren understood, he was also one of the insiders of China's World War II strategy, so he naturally knew the opponents he might face.

If China enters the war, it will certainly face at least several industrial powers. 30 aircraft carriers seems like a lot, but when you really use them, you know that they are not enough.

For example, the United States, which was in the original time and space, exploded N aircraft carriers in one go during World War II, with a total of 38 regular aircraft carriers and 124 escort aircraft carriers. Note that the US Navy needs to deal with only Japan, Sandezi has opium cows to watch, and it can't come out at all, at most a few submarines.

The World War II on this plane was obviously more violent than the original time and space, and China's imaginary enemy was also the huge United States of America, and the productivity of rice was at least ten times that of Japan. Not to mention the movements of other powers. So 30 aircraft carriers is really not much.

"The United States currently has 16 aircraft carriers, four Yorktown-class, two Lexington-class, ten Essex-class, and if you add the four Midway-class and six Independence-class that will be commissioned this year, they have 26 carriers. With their production capacity, four more Midway-class and six Independence-class ships will enter service next year. By 1943, another 8-10 Midway-class ships would enter service. Wang Tiezhu said with a frown.

The U.S. Navy's original USS Langley (CV-1) and two Raider-class ships (CV-2 and 3) have been decommissioned, and they have also mimicked China's approach by converting the Raider-class into a helicopter carrier for anti-submarine use, and the USS Langley into an aircraft carrier. Also in active service are four Yorktown-class (CV-4 to CV-7), two Battlecruiser-converted Lexington-class (CV-8 to CV-9), and ten Essex-class (CV-10 to CV-19).

What Mr. Wang meant in his words was that our aircraft carriers were not enough. Sure enough, he looked at the outfitting dock next to him and said, "Mr. Wen, I think the number of Jiangsu classes needs to be increased." The Guangdong level is too expensive, the Jiangsu level can be matched with them for high and low, and the Jiangsu level can be used in the secondary battlefield. ”

On the adjacent No. 7 outfitting pier, there is also an aircraft carrier moored, which seems to be almost completed.

This aircraft carrier looks a lot smaller than the Guangdong class, about the same as the Shanghai class, this is the Jiangsu-class aircraft carrier that China is about to commission, its shape and layout are no different from the Shanghai class, but there is an extra chimney. Well, this cargo is actually the conventional power version of the Shanghai class, and the displacement is the same, with a standard row of 70,000 tons and a full row of 88,000 tons, which is a little larger than the Kitty Hawk class of the original time and space.

In fact, the birth of the Jiangsu class is to consider that the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is too expensive, in order to maintain a sufficient number, so there is another conventional power version of the Shanghai class, because the first ship is actually built in Lianyungang Shipyard, Jiangsu, so the name of the class is called "Jiangsu class".

The carrying capacity of the Jiangsu class is also similar to that of the Shanghai class, which can carry more than 70 carrier-based aircraft at most, and the power system uses 8 gas turbines, which are also fully electrically driven, and other performances are similar to those of the Shanghai class. However, compared to the Shanghai class, its biggest drawback is that the endurance is only 14,000 nautical miles/20 knots.

The biggest advantage of the Jiangsu class is that it is cheap, with a unit price of only 145 million, while the Shanghai class of the same size has a unit price of 352 million. No way, nuclear-powered ships are just so expensive. Later generations had a saying that nuclear power was cheap, but that must have been a mistake between the cost of running and the cost of construction. Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are low in operating costs and more than twice as expensive to build as conventional aircraft carriers of the same tonnage.

Currently, the Jiangsu-class is planned to build eight ships to replace the old-fashioned Xia, Han and Liaoning-class. But now, according to Wang Tiehammer's prediction, eight ships are not enough.

Wen Desi pinched his chin and thought about it, and said, "The cost of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers is indeed a problem, and you can consider increasing the number of Jiangsu-class ......"

"The cost of the Jiangsu-class is also 145 million yuan, so why don't we build a smaller and cheaper light aircraft carrier? Just like the Independence class of the United States, which is more than 10,000 tons, in this case, the cost will not exceed 40 million. Shi Ziren said.

Wang Tiehammer shook his head: "The aircraft carrier is actually the bigger the more cost-effective, three 10,000-ton aircraft carriers will definitely not be able to beat a 30,000-ton aircraft carrier, and the cost is much higher." However, considering factors such as berthing and draft, the size of the Shanghai class is the most suitable. No matter how small it is, there is no guarantee of balanced performance. And it is difficult for small aircraft carriers to get on jets, since jetization, small aircraft carriers are not easy to use. Therefore, we are not ready to develop light aircraft carriers, if it is escort anti-submarine, we are also escort aircraft carriers converted from merchant ships. ”

"Mr. Xu, how long will it take for this Tibet to be completed?" asked Wen Desi to Xu Wei.

"The sea trials can be conducted in November this year at the latest, and if it goes well, it will be ......in service early next year," Xu Wei replied.

"Okay, let's go check out the new re-patrol now......" Wen Deji said with a nod.

The surrounding staff immediately transferred a Black Hawk helicopter over and sent them to the new heavy patrol nearby.

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Ten minutes later, the Black Hawk helicopter stopped on the back deck of a warship that was being outfitted.

"It's ......" Shi Ziren's eyes straightened

This warship is so large that even with the eyes of Shi Ziren, an amateur military fan, it can confirm that it has a displacement of at least more than 10,000 tons. But its shape is very different, unlike the previous warships. The superstructure and streamlined hull have been integrated, with the freeboard flared outwards and the superstructure tilted inward. Moreover, the superstructure is made of polyhedra, and the corners are also made of arc transitions. All the equipment is as good as possible inside the ship.

The most striking thing is its weapons. Generally speaking, for such a large cruiser, the artillery must be densely packed, such as the famous Qingcheng-class and Changbai-class, which are all four huge main turrets. But this ship is different, as far as the eye can see, there is only a lone polyhedral turret on the foredeck. And it's a single-loading gun, and the tube is still very thin, estimated to be less than 200 mm.

If it is a military fan of later generations, you can recognize it at a glance, this is the mainstream warship shape of the early 21st century in later generations, and in that era, the large warships of various countries were all of this configuration. It's just that in the eyes of people now, this stealth shape of the warship is too strange, and the most uncomfortable thing for everyone is that it has too few tubes and is too thin.

A cruiser of tens of thousands of tons, with only one main gun of less than 200 mm, is there still a royal law?

"This is my country's latest model of heavy cruiser, Kunlun-class heavy cruiser ......" Xu Wei's reaction to Shi Ziren was not strange at all, and all those who saw this warship for the first time had this reaction.

He smiled and explained: "It is not the same as a traditional cruiser, its main weapon is no longer a naval gun, but missiles." It has 192 universal vertical launch units, 4 quadruple long-range heavy anti-ship missile launchers, 2 24-pack Hongqi-6 short-range anti-aircraft missile launchers, 2 triple 600-mm multi-caliber torpedo launchers, and 6 7-barreled 30-mm close-in defense guns. So its main gun had only one 155-mm gun. However, this main gun is not simple. It has the ability to fire conventional artillery shells and artillery missiles, and can complete tasks such as air defense, sea and shore fire support. ”

It can fire both split and integrated shells, as well as a variety of sub-caliber shells and guided shells. The maximum range is 45 km when firing ordinary shells and more than 130 km when firing artillery missiles.