Great warships

Chapter 676
On the other side of the ocean, McDonnell Douglas.

"Today, Saudi Arabia sent a delegation to investigate in the east. The vertical take-off and landing fighter jet in the east has been perfectly demonstrated in front of them. That model has been fully mature." X-35 engineer Schnoeder said: "Damn it, we took the wrong route. So far, our vertical take-off and landing fighters are still facing many difficulties, especially the problem of ablating the deck, which is almost unsolvable!"

Schneider has long discovered the disadvantages of using a lift engine. Therefore, he once proposed to replace the lift fan with a lift engine. However, due to the deterioration of the company's financial situation, they have no funds at all. To modify the design, we can only build a prototype first, so that the army's research and development funds can be fooled.

"Yeah, this route is wrong. Fortunately, our competitors are not much better. Their X-32 design has many problems, so although it has made its first flight, it still needs to be revised again. If we It’s still too late to modify it now.”

"That's right, it's too late to modify it now, but what about the money? Our project funds have been spent!" Schneider clenched his fists.

A lot has happened over the years.

The operation of McDonnell Douglas is becoming more and more difficult, so the company's director, Stonecipher, has repeatedly diverted funds from their projects to maintain the company's operations.

However, the company still did not hold on. Last year, the company was merged by Boeing, and the once brilliant McDonnell Douglas came to an end. Stonecipher was also brought to court for misappropriating military research and development funds.

However, their X-35 design department did not merge with it.

Boeing is working on the X-32. If their X-35 design department also goes there, what does that mean?Then the competition advertised by the Americans is gone!On the F100 engine, the U.S. Air Force has already experienced the harm brought by a single company, so they firmly disagree with the military aircraft research and development department.

In this way, the design department of the X-35 became an abandoned baby, and none of them knew where their future was.

They are infighting.

When they were in turmoil, the technology of the Orientals was developing rapidly. Now, seeing the progress made by the Orientals, they are itching with hatred.

Boom!
Just then, the outside door was pushed open.

Everyone looked out and saw the old rivals from the bidding.

"Daniel? What are you doing here? There are our secrets here, you can't come in." Schnoeder shouted.

"I'm the person in charge of this project, why can't I come in?" Daniel said.

"You? How is it possible?" Schnoeder was surprised.

"I would like to tell you the good news that the military has officially approved that Lockheed will take over your department. The formal acquisition process may take some time, but since we are already seriously behind in the joint fighter project, so , we at Lockheed must start working immediately, and now I am the person in charge of this project."

McDonnell Douglas was merged, but Lockheed is still in full swing. Although they failed in the initial bidding, they still had the last laugh. This is the banknote ability!

How can you outperform your competitors?The answer is to annex the competitors!It's that simple.

Of course, their Lockheed company also has this capability. The F-22 fighter they manufactured is progressing smoothly, demonstrating their leading position in military aircraft research and development. Now, let them hand over the X-35 project that the joint fighter bid for, the military It is reassuring.

Moreover, the merger requires a large amount of funds, and a large part of these funds will offset the embezzled research and development expenses, so that the research and development of this aircraft can also enter the fast lane.

Whichever way you look at it, this is good news.

However, for Schneider and others, it is not necessarily so.

"You probably already know that there is a fatal problem with your plan?" Daniel continued to ask.

"Yeah, we use the lift engine solution, which will cause the gas ejected below to overheat, and eventually cause the deck to be ablated. This problem is almost unsolvable. Moreover, during vertical takeoff and landing, the downward jet The heat from the flames could also be sucked into the engine, causing a sudden drop in engine power," Schnoder said.

Something went wrong with their technical route!

"So, we plan to change the plan to use a lift fan like Dongfang, so that many problems can be avoided. Dongfang has successfully developed it, and we have to speed up our efforts."

"Hmph, you also know that your route is wrong!" Daniel said: "At the beginning, we knew that the route of this kind of lift engine was wrong, and only the lift fan is the most suitable, but you guys are all in Laugh at us! You won the bid by relying on this immature plan, and our mature plan was rejected!"

Speaking of this, Daniel was very angry.

"Yes, we went the wrong way. Fortunately, Lockheed took over. We believe that this fighter will be successfully developed soon." Schneider said.

"Of course, we will quickly catch up and surpass us. We must not let the Easterners ride on our heads!" Daniel said: "They are just playing tricks, and they are still inferior to us in terms of strength, especially their engines are behind. We have the most powerful engines in the world, and our F-135s have more thrust than they will ever be able to achieve."

"Yeah, you are right, we will work hard, now, you can give instructions." Schneider said.

"Okay, the first order I gave was to fire more than 20 technicians headed by Schneider."

"Why?" Schnoeder was stunned for a moment.

Why?Of course it was for revenge. At the beginning, Schnoeder dared to laugh at them. Now that the villain is successful, of course revenge is needed.

However, this is also a normal process.

When a new company is merged, a group of people must be replaced.

These people are either veterans who usually like to be lazy and not work to take advantage of the company, or they are just unwilling and always want to do some small tricks below to cause trouble for the company and drag the company back. These people will not be replaced. How is the company's business going?

Use the most drastic means to replace a group of people, so that you can kill chickens for monkeys to see, let the remaining people work hard, and don't always think about crooked ways.

Of course, as for now, it's retaliation, simply because Daniel doesn't like Schnoeder.

Schneider has been studying this project for many years. If he is kept, it will be of great benefit to the continuation of the project. Moreover, although the prototype they manufactured uses a lift engine, they have already begun to try to use a lift fan.

It's just that there is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Daniel just wants to drive Schnoeder away, otherwise he will feel a lot worse when he sees him every day. How can he work?

"Because you took the wrong route when developing this fighter, wasting a lot of time and money." Daniel said: "Actually, letting you go now is already a kind of gift to you, and you didn't pursue it." If you are asked to compensate the company for the loss caused by your negligence, you will definitely not be able to afford it."

"Okay." Schnoeder knew that there was no point in saying anything else, since he wanted to drive him away, then he should leave.

Schnoeder returned to his desk, packed up his personal belongings, and left in a dark manner. There were also a group of elites who walked with him. If these people stayed, the development time of the fighter could be shortened by at least half a year. However, this damn Daniel definitely wouldn't do that, he didn't have such a great capacity.

The performance of the East has brought great stimulation to the West. Under this stimulation, the Joint Fighter Project is finally on the right track, but time has been wasted.

For the Eastern fighters, the only thing left to do is to expose the flaws through continuous use and continue to patch up the loopholes, and this fighter has finally been sold.

"Now that everyone has decided on the carrier-based aircraft, then we will be able to determine the specific research and development of the aircraft carrier. We will set up the meeting for this aircraft carrier at the Mingzhou Shipyard. By the way, I will show you our shipbuilding industry." Qin Tao sent out the invitation with a smile.

Salman and others nodded.

The second design office of the aircraft carrier is in Huating, but there is nothing to see there. Instead, they went to Mingzhou Shipyard, which made them look forward to it even more.

Spring is already blooming everywhere, and Mingzhou Shipyard is also a vibrant scene. When everyone came to the shipyard, the first thing they saw was the 052C air defense ship under construction.

The first destroyer has already entered service. Next, the other five destroyers of the first batch are all under rapid construction. On the berth here, three destroyers were built in batches at one time. After all, to escort the aircraft carrier, the number must not be small. .

Although the degree of secrecy of this kind of ship is the highest, it is only in the stage of building the hull and has not yet installed various radar equipment, so there is no problem in looking outside.

Looking at the advanced warship in the sparks of the electric arc, Salman said with some emotion: "Your side has reached the world's first-class level in the development of warships. At present, apart from the US Aegis system, it is your Chinese warship. Aegis."

There is really no third model in the world, not now, or even in the future, because this thing is too expensive.

"Yes, our Aegis warship is indeed the only one in the world, but if we talk about the radar method, then we are the number one in the world. After all, the Aegis system still uses passive phased array radar, and we use The most important is the active phased array." Qin Tao said: "Our air defense system is the most powerful in the world."

This is self-confidence, self-confidence in technology!

"I just don't know, do you have any plans to export this kind of system?" Salman asked.

Sure enough, the big dogs are rich. After buying an aircraft, they want to buy an aircraft carrier. After buying an aircraft carrier, they also want to have other escort warships. The whole system is worth tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of dollars. Big business.

However, it is not yet time!

The aircraft carrier can be sold. After all, before the navy ordered it, Mingzhou Group was already manufacturing the aircraft carrier for export. However, this Aegis battleship really cannot be sold at present.

The 346 Sea Star radar used above and the Hongqi-[-] air defense missile are the most advanced technologies in China, so of course they cannot be sold immediately.

This will have to wait until the liquid-cooled 346A radar is used, and after the Hongqi [-]A with a longer range comes out, these existing weapons can be sold.

Of course, you can't say that now: you wait, wait until we have new weapons, these are low-end products, and then sell them, which will definitely make customers dissatisfied.

"I'm very sorry, my friend, you may not know that the production process of this phased array radar is very cumbersome, and the scrap rate is very high, so our relevant units are currently producing at full speed, and it is only enough for our own orders. Therefore, there is no way to sell the four-sided phased array radar for the time being. Otherwise, after we produce it, the radar array may take three to five years or even ten years before it can be installed. This is irresponsible to users. We absolutely Can't do this kind of thing!"

Qin Tao said it firmly, and Salman could only nod.

"If you need to order an air defense ship from us, we recommend you to purchase our frigate version. Regardless of the frigate, the displacement is about 2500 tons. It also uses vertical hair, which has excellent multi-target attack capabilities and interception capabilities. The ability of the ultra-low-altitude sea-skimming anti-ship missile is only a little slower in the power system. Of course, if you can purchase LM30 gas turbines, or decide to use our gas turbines, the speed can still be increased to [-] knots. "

Air defense destroyers cannot be sold for the time being, but air defense frigates are the flagship product of Mingzhou Group!

Now, the 054 frigate is still in mass production, and you can see the frigate under construction on the other side through the berth where the destroyer is built.

The stealth-shaped frigate also looks very beautiful, but Salman looked back at the Aegis and shook his head.

No, local tyrants are only interested in expensive ones.

"The construction of an aircraft carrier takes three to five years. When the aircraft carrier is launched, the radar production technology of our Aegis warships may improve. When the radar production comes up, you can order it." Qin Tao said: " Now if you don't like this frigate, you can wait a little longer."

Salman nodded: "Let's wait and discuss the design of the aircraft carrier first."

Everyone returned to the office building, and the floor-to-ceiling windows with a good view could clearly see the busy berth outside. After everyone sat down, the slide projector was turned on, and Qin Tao introduced him.

"Since you have chosen a carrier-based aircraft with vertical take-off and landing, we will focus on introducing the design of this aircraft carrier with ski-jump take-off and vertical landing." Qin Tao said: "On this aircraft carrier, we used Lots of new designs."

Can there be a new design?Didn't the aircraft carrier displayed by Mingzhou Group at the defense exhibition already have many novel designs?
What new design can there be now?

The big guys are full of expectations.

Babich and Makarov are both busy with the domestically-made aircraft carrier project. After all, that is a key project, and Saudi Arabia is only an intention at present. Therefore, the drawing is also simple, and it is directly provided by the first design office of Mingzhou Group. Do it for me.

There is no rush to hand it over to the second design department for detailed design after Saudi Arabia has made a final decision and transferred to the detailed design.

Everyone sat in the conference room and watched the projection on the slide projector.

"Whether the design of an aircraft carrier is scientific or not depends first on whether its deck design is appropriate." Qin Tao said: "We designed an aircraft carrier solution with ski jump takeoff and vertical landing, which is currently only used by small British aircraft carriers, but , Our displacement is larger, so our deck will be more advanced, you can see how advanced our deck layout is."

The larger the displacement, the easier it is to arrange.

As the slides appeared, everyone was suddenly excited: "Thirty carrier-based aircraft can be placed on this deck!"

If this is added to the hangar, wouldn't it be possible to place fifty carrier-based aircraft?However, is this sure to be a [-]-ton aircraft carrier?The French aircraft carrier deck does not have such a large capacity.

This is of course due to the advantages of ski jump takeoff and vertical landing!
"Let's start with the front. On the left side of the bow, a 12-degree jump deck has been designed. It has been tested at our base in Huangdi Village. This jump deck is sufficient to ensure the normal take-off of carrier-based aircraft." Qin Tao said: "At the same time, the plane on the right side of the bow can be used as a parking area for carrier-based aircraft, where five carrier-based aircraft can be parked obliquely."

After the bow finished speaking, we continued to move backwards.

"We have designed a take-off runway behind the jump deck. The take-off point is at a distance of 160 meters. With this distance, even if the vertical take-off and landing system is not used, the carrier-based aircraft can take off normally. If the vertical take-off and landing system is used The landing system is used to assist the ski jump takeoff, which is sufficient to ensure full load takeoff. Even if the speed of the aircraft carrier is zero, we can also extend the takeoff point to the end, which is more than 260 meters long takeoff line, which is enough to ensure the takeoff of the aircraft.”

The total length of the deck is 264 meters, and the width is 64 meters. This deck is based on the plan of Charles de Gaulle with a displacement of [-] tons. However, the total deck area of ​​the aircraft carrier is not much smaller than that of the Queen Elizabeth.

The length of the latter is 280 meters and the width is 73 meters.

And this gap in width has resulted in a row less number of carrier-based aircraft on the deck of this aircraft carrier.

Behind the queen-class aircraft carrier, two rows of carrier-based aircraft can be accommodated on the right side, and one row of carrier-based aircraft can be accommodated on the left side. In the design plan of the aircraft carrier deck in front of you, a row of carrier-based aircraft can be accommodated on the left side of the take-off runway, and only one row of carrier-based aircraft can be accommodated on the right side. There can be only one row.

If compared with the invincible level, it is equivalent to the invincible level with a row of parking areas on the left. This row of parking areas is quite powerful.

"On the left side of the take-off runway, we designed a parking area for [-] fighter jets. This is also the parking area for the main force of our aircraft carrier. The nose of the aircraft is facing the runway. When needed, just drag the plane out and it can take off at any time. "Qin Tao continued to introduce: "Next, let's look at the right side. The ship island is arranged in the middle of the starboard side, and there is an elevator at the front and rear. The docking of thirty carrier-based aircraft."

Compared with the Queen class, the rear has become a row of parking areas, and at the same time, the two-ship island has become a single-ship island.

"This design looks very good!" Salman nodded.

"However, the location of the ship island seems to be a bit forward. The layout of the flue may waste space. Can the ship island be placed at the back?"

The island is not only to accommodate aviation and navigation personnel, but more importantly, to accommodate the chimney.

Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers do not need a chimney, and the ship island can be arranged in any position. The Charles de Gaulle is strangely designed in the front. American aircraft carriers are all centered, and there is a tendency to gradually move backward.

The queen-class aircraft carrier uses gas turbines. It adopts the plan of two ship islands. Each ship island has a chimney, and a gas turbine is directly arranged under the ship island, which is convenient for operation and avoids complicated detours for the chimneys.

Eastern aircraft carriers don’t have nuclear power yet. Saudi Arabia has plenty of oil, so it must be using oil-burning engines. The engines have to be placed at the back to facilitate driving the propellers. The chimney is in the middle and the engines are at the back. How incongruous it looks.

After hearing this question, everyone reacted: Yes, how to solve the problem of the chimney?

"Placing the ship island in the center makes it easy to observe the situation before and after, which is very beneficial to command and dispatch. In order to solve the problem of too long chimney, we decided to place the engine directly under the ship island. Now, let's look at the perspective view. This picture can It's relatively easy to see the layout of the engine."

The engine is arranged under the island?How can this be?The chimney is short, but the transmission shaft is long!

For the transmission of tens of thousands of horsepower, or even 10,000+ horsepower, the shorter the drive shaft, the better!

The group of people who came was not only flying, but also shipbuilding, and they immediately realized the problem.

"The drive shaft will be very long!"

"We don't use drive shafts." Qin Tao said: "I also said that this aircraft carrier is a cross-generational one. We will use a new integrated electric propulsion system on this aircraft carrier. The engines under the island are only used Generate electricity, and then use the entire ship's power grid to comprehensively match the power, including the propulsion system."

Big dogs have ideals, no matter when they need the most advanced equipment, the current aircraft carrier, of course, must be cross-generational!

Without high technology, can you get the recognition of the big dog?

On the 002 aircraft carrier, because the electromagnetic ejection and electromagnetic blocking systems are used, the integrated power system of the whole ship has been used. This system has been tested on land many times to ensure that it will not lose the chain. However, this system does not The propulsion system is not included. After all, the power required by the propulsion system is too strong, and it is not possible to make such a large propulsion motor for the time being.

However, if the displacement has been reduced from [-] tons to [-] tons, you can try it out. It happens to be on this aircraft carrier in Saudi Arabia to test our brand-new technology!

As for whether there will be problems?Qin Tao trusts Ma Gong unconditionally.

(End of this chapter)