Great warships

Chapter 673

From the weapon to the bridge roof, this span is really a bit big, but a simple detail can also reflect the design idea, is it beautiful or easy to maintain?

For a period of time, domestic warships have also taken a beautiful path. For example, on the aircraft carrier training ship, an aluminum gusset ceiling was installed on the top of the bridge, and all the ugly pipes were wrapped in it. But later, for the convenience of maintenance, Tore it all apart again.

Every detail reflects the designer's skills, Mr. Liu listened very carefully.

On this day, Mr. Liu drank too much. Because he didn't drink much anymore, he drank less. At the same time, because he was too happy, he couldn't help drinking too much when he was happy.

"I once said before that if China doesn't build an aircraft carrier, I will die in peace. Now, we have a modified aircraft carrier and a more advanced aircraft carrier made by ourselves. I am happy. Come, let's drink."

"Old Liu, you really can't drink any more!"

"I'm so happy today, how can I spoil my interest? Mr. Qin, don't let me come over to make an argument for being too drunk!" Old Liu's face drooped, but there was a blur in front of him. Is everyone drunk?

"Old Liu, Old Liu!"

After seeing off Mr. Liu, the banquet was over, and Qin Tao and his party set off on their way back.Arriving at the Mingzhou Shipyard, another lively ceremony has already been prepared.

Warmly celebrate the launch of the Sao Paulo aircraft carrier!

Mingzhou speed, China speed!

That's right, the Sao Paulo aircraft carrier built for the football country is about to launch!
Relying on advanced equipment and experienced workers, Mingzhou Group's fast shipbuilding has shocked the whole world.

"Mr. Qin, your speed is really too fast. Even if you build all the aircraft carriers yourself, there will be no problem. We are really touched by the order given to us." Sun Xuewen said.

According to Qin Tao's plan, the aircraft carrier built for Saudi Arabia will be built in Bincheng Shipyard, so Sun Xuewen followed him to learn about aircraft carrier construction, observe this grand ceremony, and prepare for them to start construction by themselves in the future. prepare for.

Hearing his words, Qin Tao smiled: "Didn't you see that Mr. Cao has been beating me? If our Mingzhou Group always takes care of everything, some people will definitely gossip. Besides, in the future we need There are more aircraft carriers in China, and our Mingzhou shipyard will definitely not be able to produce them. You are now practicing with the Saudi ship, and you will have experience in building aircraft carriers for the navy in the future.”

While speaking, Makarov walked up to him: "President Qin, I heard that the new aircraft carrier is about to start?"

Makarov did not follow to the meeting, but the news came back without delay. They already knew that the construction of a brand new [-]-ton aircraft carrier was about to start!Therefore, the Sao Paulo aircraft carrier had to be launched immediately to make room for its own aircraft carrier.

"That's right, work is about to start, old horse, I have fulfilled what I promised you!"

Makarov nodded: "Yes, Mr. Qin, my life belongs to our Mingzhou Shipyard, and I will work here until I die!"

Makarov, who has built ships all his life, hopes most is to build an aircraft carrier. After the collapse of the Red Empire, he once hesitated, depressed, and desperate. When the Varyag was driven away, his life seemed to be gone. any sense.

However, Mr. Qin gave him a new life!The Varyag was reborn under his hands, and he also presided over the construction of the Sao Paulo. Now, he is also in charge of the construction of an [-]-ton super aircraft carrier. In terms of performance, this aircraft carrier is already better than the former Uriano The Vsk is even more advanced!

Now, the fragments of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that was dismantled into scrap iron seemed to appear before his eyes. From then on, he knew that it was impossible to integrate into Western society. That kind of thinking was too naive. They need to keep their eyes open!
"Old horse, in our Eastern language, it is called dying and dying. However, our shipyards can't squeeze you like Western capitalists. After you work for ten or eight years, you should retire. You can come every day in the future. Take a walk around the shipyard to see our aircraft carrier construction, so you don’t have to be responsible for the specific work.”

"Well, Mr. Qin, then I will work for another ten years, and my subordinates can still build two or three aircraft carriers!" Makarov nodded, with tears in his eyes, which was excited.

It has begun, a new era is about to begin!

"Boss Qin, people from Football Country are here." Xu Zhengyang whispered in Qin Tao's ear.

At such an important moment, of course the football country also came to participate, and there were not only naval officers led by Sagas Tres, but also government officials, and there was even a radiant woman among them.

"President Qin, this is Mrs. Ruth, the wife of Your Excellency Fernando." As an old acquaintance, Sagas Tres came up to introduce Qin Tao.

Qin Tao stretched out his hand: "Welcome everyone, I'm very sorry, because the meeting was held in the capital, I didn't go to the airport to greet you immediately."

"We also came from the capital. My husband was still in your capital for a meeting and appointed me to attend the launching ceremony. Your reception has been very thoughtful," Ruth said.

"President Qin, I heard that you are going to start building a super aircraft carrier?" Sagas Tres asked.

"Really? Why didn't I know?" Qin Tao denied it immediately: "We are currently coordinating to build a large direct-deck warship for a certain country in the Middle East, our own aircraft carrier? This must be false news."

It hasn't been announced yet, so of course we can't talk nonsense.

"Oh." Sagas Tres nodded, "I see."

"President Qin, the time for the launching ceremony is coming soon." Xu Zhengyang reminded.

"Everyone, let's go to the ceremony first, Mrs. Ruth, have you prepared your speech? This speech is to be broadcast to the whole world."

"Of course." Ruth nodded.

Many reporters have come to the scene. The launch of this aircraft carrier is also the pride of Mingzhou Group. Mingzhou Group is already one of the few aircraft carrier manufacturers in the world!Whether it is modified or self-developed, whether it is light or medium, or even a large aircraft carrier, they all have sufficient capabilities.

The place where the ceremony is held is of course next to the aircraft carrier. With the aircraft carrier as the background, it looks very imposing.

An aircraft carrier of more than 3 tons can already be attributed to the level of a medium-sized aircraft carrier. The high jumping deck of the bow seems to represent the same trend in the world: when there is no ability to purchase catapults, use ski jumps Way to take off!
The deck floats just right, the angled deck protrudes to the left, and there is a small and delicate bridge on the starboard side, with a huge chimney on it, which shows that it still uses an ancient power system, which is mature and reliable.

The entire hull has been derusted and painted, making it even more spectacular with a new navy gray low-vis paint.

Numerous cameras focused on Mrs. Ruth, who often attends such occasions and behaves gracefully.

"Today, I am very glad that I can come here to participate in the launching ceremony of the Sao Paulo aircraft carrier. This aircraft carrier will be an important weapon for our country to safeguard maritime rights and interests. It is one of the most advanced aircraft carriers in South America and even in the world! Here, I also thank Mingzhou Group, they built this advanced warship for us, and with this warship as a link, our two countries have also carried out more in-depth economic exchanges..."

There was continuous applause from below. Amidst the applause, Mrs. Ruth finished her speech. She pressed the button with her hand, and the champagne that had been prepared earlier was released, drawing a beautiful arc, and crashing into the bow of the ship. , With the sound of the wine bottle breaking, the white foam splashed, forming a rainbow in the sunlight.

This picture was broadcast all over the world through radio waves.

Mingzhou Group launched another aircraft carrier!The warship construction of the Mingzhou Group has reached a new level!
This is not just an arms sale of an aircraft carrier. The football country also needs to configure the J-31A carrier-based aircraft on it. After this configuration is complete, their navy will become the strongest in the region, and even the number one existence in the world!
Apart from the United States, only Lao Maozi and Dongfang have aircraft carriers of [-] to [-] tons, and then there is the French Charles de Gaulle, and then it is the turn of this ship!
However, in terms of carrier-based aircraft, after it is equipped with a stealth aircraft, the French Charles de Gaulle, or even the old Kuznetsov, will not have the combat effectiveness of this ship!
Countless colleagues are jealous.

Ah San's capital, a conference room.

"Oriental's aircraft carrier has been launched, where is our aircraft carrier? Where is our aircraft carrier?" The big leader's face was livid, and he looked at the person sitting below him: "How long has our aircraft carrier plan been developed? Where are we now?"

"Report, we already have detailed design drawings for Project 71, but we..." Sunil felt the sweat on his forehead keep pouring out, there was no way, they really dragged on for too long, It is understandable that the leaders are dissatisfied now.

In the past few years, they themselves have been stumbled on the warship project. At the beginning, they bought a second-hand aircraft carrier from Lao Maozi and transformed it into the Chaoriwang. As a result... the deck of Yuefei collapsed and the hull was damaged Well, that aircraft carrier has been staying in the port now, and it will not escape the end of dismantling and selling scrap iron in the future. The air defense frigate they built was directly cut into two in the wind and waves!

Therefore, there must be no mistakes in this self-developed aircraft carrier plan!

"but what?"

"Saxena, tell me." Sunil couldn't continue, and simply pulled out the chief designer of the Naval Design Bureau.

"Reporting to the leader, we have purchased a complete set of drawings from the Neva Design Bureau, but we are not very sure about Lao Maozi's design, so we want to ask the relevant French agencies to help us verify it." Saxena said: " Currently, we are in contact with the French..."

Their own design ability is insufficient, so they can only ask for help from abroad. They feel that Lao Maozi is also unreliable, so they use Lao Maozi as a middleman to find Mingzhou Group to purchase aircraft carrier design drawings. This matter is too embarrassing and must not be disclosed.

It's just that the Neva Design Bureau was quick to give the structural drawings, but the detailed design drawings were very slow. At first, they thought it was the delay of the Mingzhou Group, but then they suddenly discovered that the Neva Design Bureau was only from the Mingzhou Group. Zhou Group bought a basic structural drawing, and the detailed drawings were designed by themselves!The damn middleman!

The style of the Neva Design Bureau has long since disappeared. It took so long to design an aircraft carrier!When they got all the drawings from the Neva Design Bureau, they still felt uneasy.God knows if there is a problem here, if there is a problem, it will have disastrous consequences!
"Then you should hurry up and get in touch. Is there any problem?" The leader asked anxiously.

"The French asked us for $500 million in review fees," Saxena said.

"What? 500 million? We only spent 200 million dollars to buy this design. These French people are a group of people who eat blood!" Sunil was anxious.

"So, we're negotiating with them to lower the fee, and we've got Italians as competitors," Saxena continued.

If the French still quote such a high price, they will go to the Italians, and the French will not make a dime.

However, the French still did not compromise.

What are Italians?They only have a light aircraft carrier with a displacement of [-] tons. Currently in Europe, only the French are left with experience in the design and construction of medium-sized aircraft carriers. Therefore, the French will eat them.

This is deadlocked.

"We can't wait any longer." The leader said: "We must start construction as soon as possible now! After we build it, the French should be in a hurry. They will lower the price. If it costs 50 US dollars, we can put Give them the design drawings, if there are too many, there is no way!"

Build it first, and then review the blueprints during the construction process. This kind of coquettish operation, probably only Ah San can come up with, but they really don't have time now!
"Now there are various news that the Orientals have frozen the design drawings of the new aircraft carrier. After the Sao Paulo is launched, their own aircraft carrier will start construction." Chetri said: "Also, I heard that this is an eight The [-]-ton super aircraft carrier uses electromagnetic catapults and interception landings, and its overall performance is higher than that of the Kitty Hawk."

This kind of news, true or false, is released slowly to test the reactions of all parties, and at the same time, it is also a foreshadowing.

If all of a sudden, the Navy throws out an [-]-ton aircraft carrier, there will definitely be strong opposition from all parties. Fang didn't pay much attention to it. When the [-]-ton aircraft carrier came out, they would be mentally prepared.

Now, when Chetri said this, the people present were even more shocked.

"Eighty thousand tons?"

The brand-new aircraft carrier they planned has a full-load displacement of only over 4 tons. It is almost based on the Chaoriwang, so it is also convenient to operate the same MiG-29K carrier-based aircraft, although the displacement is not as good as that of Dongfang. 001, but because there is no space to waste, they can proudly claim that the combat effectiveness of this aircraft carrier is the strongest in Asia.

Fortunately, the Orientals actually want to double the number and build [-] tons. This aircraft carrier must be the strongest in Asia.

The faces of the leaders present became serious.

"We must not be inferior to those in the East. We also want to build an [-]-ton aircraft carrier!"

They have to compare with Dongfang in every way, and they must not be inferior to Dongfang!
Chetri secretly laughed in his heart, he and Sunil are old rivals, so as long as there is an opportunity, he has to find a way to dig a hole for Sunil, now, it's Sunil's turn to have a headache!
"Report to the leader, this, this is very difficult!" Ten thousand horses floated in Sunil's mind. Doesn't the [-] tons mean that all efforts have been wasted and we have to start from scratch?
"Yes." Saxena also said, "Currently, with our capabilities, it is impossible to design, let alone produce. First of all, in terms of power, an 25-ton aircraft carrier needs at least 2500 horsepower. To drive it to a speed of [-] knots, at present, the aircraft carrier we are designing uses four LM[-] gas turbines, which only have [-] horsepower, and it is impossible for us to use eight, and it is impossible to arrange it at all."

The LM2500 gas turbine is also an evergreen tree for marine power. The output power of the initial model reached 18.7 megawatts, which is about 2.55 horsepower, and four sets are exactly 4.7 horsepower. The power of 21 horsepower, but that is already after the [-]st century.

Now, the most advanced LM2500 gas turbine that Ah San can purchase, the theoretical power of a single unit can exceed 3 horsepower, but Ah San is hot here!In the Indian Ocean environment, the output power has dropped to about 2.5 horsepower. In this way, the four driving aircraft carriers, needless to say, can reach 30 knots, and it is already good if they can exceed 26 knots.

Double the displacement?This is something they dare not even think about. This is not simply stacking the power. With twice as many gas turbines, how should the turbine cabin be arranged?How to arrange the intake and exhaust pipes?What about power output?It is impossible to get eight propellers, and the cars must be paralleled!

These great problems will be immediately before them.

In fact, after the displacement of tens of thousands of tons, boiler burning is the best choice.However, seven of Chaoriwang's eight boilers exploded, which made them shrink back, and even if they were killed, they dared not continue to use Lao Maozi's boilers.

Not in Europe. The Kitty Hawk used to burn boilers in the United States, but now it has been transformed into nuclear power. Only the East has boilers in the world, but can they buy boilers from the East?
They will never do that.

Without power, everything is a castle in the air.

Besides, the problem of power is only one of them. The larger the aircraft carrier, the cost of construction will soar, and the cost of operation will also soar. Where do they get so much money?
"Leader, although we can't build an [-]-ton aircraft carrier, we can build two [-]-ton aircraft carriers, which won't be inferior in terms of displacement. Isn't that all right?" Sunil said.

"That's right, we built two ships. The total displacement is higher than theirs, and the combat missions will be more flexible. The overall combat effectiveness is much higher than that of the Oriental aircraft carrier!" Saxena also became excited.

There is a market for Ah Q's spirit everywhere, and of course Ah San will often use this spirit to paralyze themselves. Now, this statement has tempted the leader: "That's right, in order to protect our maritime rights and interests, we need at least More than three aircraft carriers! We need to build two of these [-]-ton aircraft carriers! Now, the first aircraft carrier needs to start construction immediately, and I will personally attend the groundbreaking ceremony! It will be tomorrow!"

It doesn't matter if the ducks are put on the shelves, anyway, Ah San often does this.

"The Neva Design Bureau helped us design the Delhi-class destroyer, and it still has certain capabilities. We have to trust their design. If it is a blueprint purchased directly from Mingzhou Group, we must be more vigilant." The leader said.

"If construction starts, our aircraft carrier should have a famous name," Sunil said.

"Let's call it the Blue Sky Guardian. When this aircraft carrier enters service, it can just replace our Vikrant."

Ah San's first aircraft carrier is called Vikrant. This aircraft carrier was originally the British Dignity-class aircraft carrier Hercules. It was purchased by Ah San and officially entered service in 61. By now, it is almost 40 years old. It is old, if counted from the construction period, it has been more than 50 years.

The old-fashioned Vikrant should have been decommissioned a long time ago. They originally planned to decommission the first aircraft carrier after the Chaoriwang entered service. Unexpectedly, there was a big problem with the Chaoriwang, so they could only continue Keep the Vikrant running.

Therefore, this first domestically-made aircraft carrier must be called the Blue Sky Guardian first, and it cannot be named the same as the first one.

So, on the second day, in Ah San's largest shipyard in Cochin, Ah San's first domestic aircraft carrier finally started construction!

A lot of journalists came, all kinds of microphones were piled up in front of the spokesperson, and the cameras were all aimed at the people in white officer uniforms. At this time, Sunil was still very excited.

"Today, I am very glad that I am here as a representative of the Navy to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony of our first domestically-made aircraft carrier, the Blue Sky Guardian!" Sunil looked at countless reporters: "This is a huge progress for our shipbuilding industry. We not only Only Derry-class destroyers have been built, we can build even bigger aircraft carriers!"

"Let me give you a brief introduction. Our Blue Sky Guardian has a full-load displacement of 29 tons. It adopts ski-jump take-off and intercepted landing. It can not only take off our MiG-20000K carrier-based aircraft, but also take off Most of the LCA fighter jets we are developing, the steel of this warship, various weapon systems, etc., are developed by ourselves. For this project, we have formulated a budget of [-] crores! In terms of manufacturing aircraft carriers, we Seriously!"

"Now, I announce that the first aircraft carrier steel plate is officially cut!"

The piercing sound of the cutting machine rang out. After a long wait, Ah San’s self-developed aircraft carrier finally took an important step. No one knew that this aircraft carrier, which began cutting steel plates in 98, would go through more than ten years of work. Tossing and even launching into the water three times created a miracle in the history of world aircraft carrier construction. When it finally completed sea trials and began to serve, Dongfang's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has been completed!
(End of this chapter)