Great Power Ship

Chapter 303 Aircraft Carrier Opposition

Seeing this situation, Wen Dawei hurriedly sent someone to stop him.

It was a wrecked ship that had been scrapped for several years. Didn't see that it was covered with scum when it docked. Somewhere in Wen Dawei's body was unstable. What happened to this group of expensive experts, scholars, leaders, chiefs and persons in charge?

To put it bluntly, these people changed their minds and did not board the ship immediately, but waited until the Zhujiang factory towed the "Melbourne" into the dock and everything was ready before going to check.

Therefore, some people left angrily, but quite a few people still stayed at the pier, looking up at the mottled aircraft carrier, and even some old experts have begun to record visual observation data on their portable notebooks and outline the outline of the aircraft carrier .

Wen Dawei was not idle here, while signing various documents for the handover of the ship according to the procedures, and at the same time organizing manpower to carry out the docking work of the hull.

Thanks to the strength of CITIC, the superior unit, last year we ordered two second-hand high-powered tugboats for the Zhujiang factory for the dispatch and towing of ships in the shipyard. dock work.

If this was done in the past, relying on the navy's tugboat, it is estimated that it will take at least 2 days to wait.

After all, the scheduling and navigation of the Navy's tugboats takes time.

In this way, at 8:[-] in the evening, this aircraft carrier, which was built in the United Kingdom and served in Australia for a long time, has finally come to its end.

A group of experts and leaders who couldn't stand it anymore couldn't wait for tomorrow, so they took the spider plants on the dock crane to the deck of the aircraft carrier in batches that night.

On this wide deck with a length of 211.2 meters and a width of 24 meters, people's first impression is openness.

"Old Yuan, do you think our J-7 can land on it?" A naval aviation leader suddenly asked his colleague.

"200 meters..." The middle-aged man named Lao Yuan looked around a few times with the bright high-wattage lights around the dock, and slowly shook his head: "Don't talk about J-7, I'm looking at J-6 It’s hard, a ship over 200 meters looks big, but it’s actually not that long for an airplane, especially a jet.”

The leader of the naval aviation nodded affirmatively, and then asked: "Then do you think the J-7 and Qiang-5 in our hands are suitable to be converted into carrier-based aircraft?"

"I think I can try it, but I need to make some improvements in aerodynamics..." Lao Yuan said, and then suddenly remembered something: "By the way, I remember that the Yonghong Factory in Xingzhou is using the J- 7 as the basis, try to develop carrier-based aircraft, which can encourage them to go down this road.”

"I'll tell my superiors when I get back..." The leader of the Naval Air Corps smiled and nodded. Just as he was about to continue talking about this topic, someone not far away suddenly called them: "Hurry up and come here..."

The leader of the Naval Air Corps and Lao Yuan hurried over, and it was Lao Su, a researcher at a research institute who called them, and he pointed to the edge of the sunken elevator in the middle and said: "Look, how solid the flight deck is! Proper armor steel!"

As he was talking, Old Su still didn't forget to stretch out his hand to pinch it a couple of times, which resulted in a hand full of rust, but Old Su didn't care to just wipe it on the straight gray Chinese tunic suit indiscriminately.

The leaders of the naval aviation unit and Lao Yuan also didn't care, but squatted down and took a closer look. The thickness of the steel plate was about 70mm, and it was a proper purebred armor steel.

You must know that the thickness of the frontal armor of the domestic Type 59 tank is only 200mm, and this is only concentrated on the front of the turret, and the armor on the sides, rear and top is also between 30mm and 100mm.

On average, it is far less solid than the deck steel of the "Melbourne" aircraft carrier.

It can be seen that Britain, the country that produced the aircraft carrier at that time, made great efforts.

"Leader, do you think such a thick deck steel can withstand multiple direct attacks from aerial bombs? Can it withstand 250 kilograms?"

At this moment, Old Su looked at the leader of the Naval Air Force.

The leader of the Naval Air Corps pondered for a moment: "This... 250 kg aerial bomb is hard to say, but 100 kg should be no problem, and even if the 250 kg hits directly, the destructive power generated by it will also be due to the destructive power of the next deck. This layer of the flight deck is greatly weakened."

When Old Su heard this, he couldn't help but nodded, and immediately said with a sense of loss: "But this is just an aircraft carrier built by the British during World War II!"

The thoughtful old Yuan suddenly felt something was wrong, so he frowned and asked, "Old Su, what do you mean by that?"

"Come and see!"

Speaking of which, Old Su got up and led the two of them around somewhere on the deck, then stopped and looked at the two companions who were looking at each other, pointing to a weld covered in rust: "Just now we followed this I walked around the weld seam of a steel plate, what did you find?"

After hearing this, Lao Su and the leaders of the Naval Air Corps realized that the circle they circled just now was surprisingly large. What does this mean?
Naturally, the British used super-sized hot-rolled steel plates when building this aircraft carrier.

Visually, it is 50 meters long and 24 meters wide. That is to say, this flight deck only uses 4 large steel plates and three large welds to complete the construction of the entire deck.

Three large welds can be spliced ​​together to form a straight-through deck with a length of more than 200 meters. This level is currently blank in China.

Because it requires several indispensable core elements.

The first is the large size steel plate.

It is said that smaller things are more precise and difficult to make. For example, chips must be carved on the order of nanometers; but big also has great difficulties.

Because as the object continues to grow larger, the physical elements that it bears from the outside world will also increase exponentially.

Take the super-sized steel plate as an example, the stress level of itself will expand infinitely with the expansion of the plate, and the interior will become very brittle and unstable at that time.

This requires heat treatment combined with forging to eliminate internal stress, so that it has excellent performance.

However, with the expansion of the plate, the related heat treatment equipment and forging equipment must also be expanded, which brings a problem, that is, how to produce efficiently and cost-effectively.

This requires repeated trials and demonstrations.

In this regard, it is still difficult for the country to lag behind. Not to mention anything else, many steel mills are still unable to produce such high-performance deck steel as the British did during World War II, let alone the United States, which has been updated for several generations. New deck steel on supercarriers.

This is the key to Lao Su's helpless sigh. Seeing that his two companions understood, Lao Su said with a wry smile: "Do you know why I opposed the construction of aircraft carriers in the general meeting? This is not a matter of determination, but the entire industrial base." If the functional industry does not come basically, you will not be able to build an aircraft carrier even if you call it 100 years!"

(End of this chapter)