Siheyuan: The Era of Core Generation

Chapter 187 Drone Carrier

The plane whizzed past the heads of the crowd. General Cheng didn't wait for the binoculars, but just looked towards the sky with his hands under the awning.

"What type of plane is this? Why didn't I see it?" General Cheng didn't see any familiar features, so he asked the people on the side.

"Oh, Chief, what just flew over is the Haihongqi-[-] air defense drone." Before anyone else could speak, the comrade from the research institute standing guard on duty explained.

"You know this plane?" General Cheng asked curiously.

"I know a little bit. This is a new model that performs regional air defense missions. But I haven't flown it yet, so I don't know much about it."

"What? You're still a pilot?" General Cheng was even more surprised. The pilot was sent to stand guard. This institute is quite luxurious.

"I used to be a pilot. I'm not too old, and I was a little injured. I retired a few years ago." The comrade on duty said a little sadly, but then, his face was filled with joy. "However, I was transferred here the year before last, and now I am working as a drone pilot. I also fly a plane, but here I am sitting on the ground."

"Sit on the ground and drive it? Then how do you drive it? Tell me in detail." General Cheng became interested and stopped looking at any planes. He dragged the former Air Force pilot into the duty room.

The duty room is air-conditioned, the temperature here is too hot, almost all places have air-conditioning.This thing is now basically popular on this island.

The former pilot of the Air Force has been a drone pilot for two years and is quite familiar with drones. In this duty room, he gave a detailed science popularization to the group.

Everyone also listened with gusto, especially General Cheng, who now has a basic concept of drones, at least he knows what this plane is all about.

After the phone in the duty room rang and the blockade was lifted, the group left and entered the research institute.

"Zhao Ye, I know you! Hahaha! I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, you just want it, you quietly build me an aircraft carrier!" Zhao Ye was watching the pilot's operation in front of the console, Whoever wanted to come in a group of people from the outside slapped him on the shoulder as soon as they came up.

"You are?" Forgive Zhao Ye, let him have the ability to take a quick look, but he really doesn't know this person in front of him.

"Comrade Zhao Ye, this is General Cheng, who used to be our commander." Before Zhao Ye had too much guesswork, Gao Mingyuan gave the answer.

"Oh, it's Commander Cheng! Hello, Chief!" Before Zhao Ye's polite words were finished, General Cheng grabbed Zhao Ye's arm and said in a hurry: "Don't say these polite words yet. , take me to see our aircraft carrier first!"

"Aircraft carrier? Where did it come from?" Zhao Ye pretended to be stupid and asked.

"Okay, don't act stupid in front of me, it's your plane recovery platform!"

"Hey, that's what you're talking about! What kind of aircraft carrier is that? What you said just now surprised me." Zhao Ye said this with a pretentious gesture.

"Okay, okay, don't care what it's called, take me to have a look." General Cheng didn't pick words with Zhao Ye anymore, anyway, no matter what it's called, it's always the same thing.

"Chief, come with me. This ship is parked at the ship repair yard." After speaking, Zhao Ye left the research institute with everyone, and headed towards the ship repair yard by car.

When the car reached the ship repair yard, General Cheng saw a big ship in the distance.He was born in the navy, and he knew the approximate tonnage just by looking at it.

Now the ship is being demolished, and some buildings that are not needed will be cut down.Then, according to the new function and design, a brand new facility will be built.

When General Cheng stood on the deck of this ship, he was not so excited anymore.

The total length of this ship is only about 180 meters, and the full load displacement does not exceed [-] tons.Calling such a "small ship" an aircraft carrier would make people laugh.

But what Zhao Ye wants is this kind of effect, low-key, low-key, low-key!It's better to let those people treat it as a joke, so no one cares about it, right?

Although this ship is a civilian ship, its foundation is still good.When this ship was originally designed, it should have been modified on the basis of military ships, so in many parts, some shadows of warships can still be seen.

This is also a big reason why Zhao Ye chose it. In this ship repair yard, Zhao Ye will turn it into a paramilitary ship little by little.

There is no need to think about completely changing it into a warship. If you really want to change it like that, it is better to build a new one directly.Besides, there is no ability to build large ships here.Not to mention building warships.

However, the main structure of the hull cannot be changed, but the equipment on board can be changed!What the technicians are currently working on is the design and construction of the ship island and the ship's counterweight system.

For an aircraft carrier, the first thing to ensure is stability.However, the material "aircraft" on the ship will move, coupled with the consumption of fuel and ammunition, these will complete the imbalance of the ship's static balance and dynamic balance.

For current technicians, how to ensure that the ship maintains a balanced state when these materials are constantly changing is the first element in building this ship.

After seeing the boat, General Cheng became silent.He was not disappointed, on the contrary, he saw and heard many things introduced by the technicians present.

The aircraft carrier is really not that easy to build!In the past, I just heard others say how difficult it is to build an aircraft carrier, but now I have seen such a "fake aircraft carrier" with my own eyes, and it is so difficult to build, let alone a real one.

So, after a night of silence, the old general made a decision.He is not leaving!
Asked for a residence on this island, the old general directly asked the guard to go back and asked him to help move the house here, and he will live here from now on.

Zhao Ye didn't feel anything, Gao Mingyuan was the first to get nervous.

Although the old general is no longer the commander, he is also the old chief!The old chief personally "supervised" the training of this detachment, so Gao Mingyuan, the detachment leader, couldn't help being nervous.

The entire detachment currently has 7 ships of various types. Except for the larger ship 283, the rest has two submarine hunters, two gunboats, and two torpedo boats.Gunboats and torpedo boats are small and can only undertake offshore patrol tasks.

After Gao Mingyuan organized a few days of intensive training, he realized that the old general spent almost all day at the shipyard, and there were only a handful of times when he came here.

Now, it was Zhao Ye who was nervous!
It's not that the old general is difficult to serve, on the contrary, the old general is easy to talk to, but you can't stand his demands!In the past few days, the configuration plan of this ship has been changed three times by the old general.

"I said, Yezi, what are you doing! Let me tell you, the primary task of an aircraft carrier is air defense. If you have an aircraft carrier that doesn't even have air defense capabilities, then you have to fight with a hammer! So you must increase the air defense type. carrier aircraft."

"My old general! Where do we have air defense carrier-based aircraft! Let me tell you, we don't have any drones that can perform air defense missions! This is a drone, you really want it to Where did the enemy plane shoot down? This is simply impossible!"

"Hey? Why is that impossible? I see that the UAV Institute already has fighter-type drones! Just use that!"

"Old general, you don't know, that plane is too heavy, and it can't fly on this ship. Do you want us to add an ejection system? Besides, that type of drone is not for air combat It’s just a missile launching platform. It doesn’t have the ability to fight the enemy at all!”

"Then why did you design that plane?"

"Hey! That's what I thought, using the high altitude and high speed of this drone to throw cruise bombs at the enemy."

"Oh! Hey? Are you talking about replacing that cruise bomb with an anti-aircraft missile? In this way, wouldn't it be possible to hit enemy planes?"

"Can you get air-to-air missiles?" Zhao Ye suddenly asked.

"What's wrong with this? Isn't there an airport here? If there are fighter jets, can there be no missiles?"

"But the fighter jets here are not equipped with missiles." Zhao Ye said helplessly.

"That's it, then I'll think of a way!" General Cheng didn't take it too seriously. He knew better than anyone the reason why there were no missiles here, so it wasn't difficult to solve it.

With this idea in mind, Zhao Ye began to study how to make the plane fly.

You know, this kind of plane is very heavy, and with a runway of more than 100 meters, it is really impossible for such a plane to take off.

The reason why his ship is called a sea plane recovery platform is that their design idea is to allow larger planes to take off from the island and then land on the sea. Combat radius, after all, there is no need to fly back!
But the old general wanted the ship to have the ability to fly planes, which made Zhao Ye blind.

The total length of the ship is only more than 180 meters. Even if some changes are made to lengthen the deck, it should not exceed [-] meters.Even if it is all used as a runway for flying, this is not enough!In Zhao Ye's design, this kind of plane is only used to fly some small reconnaissance planes, and other planes can be discussed later.

In fact, this has a lot to do with the starting point of the two people. What Zhao Ye considered was to use this ship to accumulate experience, patrol the relevant sea areas by the way, and at the same time provide reconnaissance information to the ships performing missions below.

The old general considered the problem from the mission of the army. The drone carrier is also an aircraft carrier. You can’t even fly a fighter jet. Call it a hammer carrier?
(End of this chapter)