Great warships

Chapter 808 Transformation of the Kirov class?
"This time, your Mingzhou Group has made a fortune. In addition to expenses, you can earn at least [-] million yuan." In the Mingzhou Group, Wu Shengli, who passed by here to inspect the construction progress of the aircraft carrier, said to Qin Tao with emotion: "Speaking of You guys are really good at making money."

"Dad, why do you only see this little money? For us, the most important thing is to deter many people. In the future, no submarines will dare to come to our place. Be careful that the sea will eat them up." Qin Tao Said.

Wu Shengli nodded: "Recently, we found that the sea area is very calm, and no one who is not afraid of death comes to make trouble. You really have made great contributions to us."

"This is also for the smoother development of our little horse generation, so as not to be disturbed by them." Qin Tao said: "Dad, I don't know if I can go back during the Chinese New Year this year, and I have to be busy building warships for Lao Maozi recently. "

"I know, this matter is the most important thing. The superior has already spoken, even if we lose money, we will do it. As long as we open this hole, we can gain a huge reputation." Wu Shengli said: "You are in charge of this matter. Don't worry, let's talk about the submarine, they have suffered a lot recently, can you guess what will happen?"

"They have a stalemate with the Americans, but this is only temporary. It is estimated that they will be better enough to wear a pair of pants in the future, and the Americans may even provide them with nuclear submarines."

"Nuclear submarine?" Wu Shengli's expression changed.

Although nuclear weapons can only be owned by the five big hooligans, such as Lao Ba and Ah San have also entered this club. In terms of nuclear submarines, the restrictions are even smaller. For example, Ah San likes to rent the nuclear submarine of Lao Maozi to show his existence feel.

However, if the country acquires a nuclear submarine, it will still have a great influence on its own side.

"How do we deal with it?"

"Hmph, if they do it, we can't stop it, but we can also sell the same equipment."

"The same? We also want to sell nuclear submarines? Isn't this very good?"

"Of course it's not directly selling nuclear submarines. We can modify a 039D." Qin Tao said: "Now we are already developing nuclear power treasures, and the effect of this thing is not bad so far. We can use the AIP cabin of 039 to use nuclear power treasures." replace."

There is a big difference between conventional submarines and nuclear submarines. They are completely different from the type of boat to the combat tactics. Therefore, although there were conventional submarines in China back then, when developing nuclear submarines, they still had to buy a nuclear submarine toy from the United States to study.

However, as long as a nuclear power compartment is added to the conventional submarine, the conventional submarine will be able to have unlimited underwater endurance!Due to other conditions, it cannot stay underwater for several months like a nuclear submarine, but its operational flexibility is far beyond that of conventional submarines.

The islanders used 18650 batteries, but they failed. If something happened, it would be much safer to use nuclear power treasures.

Wu Shengli nodded: "If they want to sell it, we will sell it too! That's right, that's it. Anyway, it's a conventional submarine with an AIP cabin added. We don't sell nuclear submarines. We don't care about public morals like the Americans."

"Report, Moscow has sent a telegram that they hope to send a naval inspection team." At this moment, an adjutant came over and reported to Wu Shengli.

"Study team? Why did they send the study team?" Wu Shengli was curious.

"They want to inspect our destroyer No. 138."

No. 138, [-]-ton large drive?Qin Tao became curious: "The construction of the frigate hasn't started yet, and they are trying to transform the Glory-class cruiser again?"

"With your operations like this, the old man is equivalent to getting a frigate for nothing, so they gritted their teeth and used the funds they originally raised for the frigate to refit the cruiser. After all, the cruiser is already the biggest thing they have on hand." Wu Shengli saw it more clearly: "If you want to say that the most successful modification is of course us, so they came to learn the experience of modification."

"They really take it for granted, why let them visit our warship." Qin Tao said.

"Of course it's because of your relationship with Nicholas." Wu Shengli said with a smile.

What's the relationship, it's not mutual use!Qin Tao was a little helpless: "The navy doesn't care about our relationship, just refuse if it should."

"Reject? Let them take a look, without losing a piece of meat." Wu Shengli said: "They can look at it if they want. If they look at our No. 138, then we can also look at their warship."

"Their warships? What's so good about them? They're all old-fashioned. The Kirov class is still under overhaul, and the aircraft carrier is probably about to be overhauled. We don't need to look at them at all. Whatever we want, we can build it ourselves."

"Let's look at their warships, of course it's time for the exercise." Wu Shengli said: "The exercise can also enhance the relationship."

Qin Tao nodded: "Okay, then go and see."

"You must be with me. It's not far away anyway."

three days later.

Nicholas came to the East with a large group of officers. After getting off the plane, he first communicated with the Eastern Navy. The next day, he went straight to the station of Destroyer No. 138: the military port near Mingzhou.

Here, Nicholas met his old friend Qin Tao again.

"Qin, we meet again." Nicholas said excitedly: "I heard recently that you have completed the salvage work. Congratulations."

"These are trivial things." Qin Tao said: "We are currently perfecting the design drawings, and it is estimated that we will hand them over to you next week."

"Qin, there are some unexpected changes in this project." Nicholas said: "Our domestic Northern Design Bureau has also designed a set of plans. At that time, you need to bid to see whose plan is more suitable. Of course, the construction is still In your Mingzhou."

"Northern Design Bureau? Okay." Qin Tao nodded, "If we had known they were going to design, we wouldn't have been so busy."

You are not busy, can they design for free?I still don't know how much money it will cost, Nicholas thought in his heart, but he said: "They haven't started construction for ten years. I don't think they can design a more advanced warship. I'm still optimistic about your design. You Experience is the richest, even if it is to refit this Glory-class cruiser, it is so perfect. Now, let's go up and have a look."

At this time, the big guys were chatting on the pier, and behind Qin Tao was destroyer No. 138.

For a long time, No. 138 was the warship with the largest displacement in China, with first-class air defense, anti-submarine and anti-ship performance.

It's just that after the Aegis battleship was launched continuously, the status of this warship became a little awkward. After all, although it has a large number of missiles, it does not have a four-sided phased array radar, so its omnidirectional air defense capability is not strong.

At the beginning of the transformation, Yang Dawei was very excited, and designed the four-sided phased array radar and the Hongqi-[-] missile model. However, this modification was too wasteful, even surpassing the new construction, so Qin Tao rejected it. Second-hand Not worth the remodel like this and can't cost too much.

As a result, the Glory class was transformed into what it is now. It still uses S-300 missiles and a single-sided radar like a tombstone. The orange petal radar on the top of the bridge was removed and replaced with a roof radar and a meter wave antenna. , the original medium-range missile was removed and transformed into a vertical launcher for the Hongqi-16.

This warship has served in the navy for several years, but it is well maintained. When you step on the warship, you can see that the deck is spotless.

Accompanied by Qin Tao, it would be easier for others. Wu Shengli followed with a smile, without saying a word, and gave Qin Tao the task of reception.

"After refitting, this warship has nearly [-] air defense missiles. Can its air defense system be deployed in a unified manner?" Nicholas asked.

Sure enough, they came here to investigate because something went wrong on the warship they modified themselves!
"Of course, the long-range air defense depends on the S-300. If the long-range air defense slips through the net, the medium-range Hongqi-16 missile will be fired." Qin Tao said: "If the medium-range missile fails to intercept, then there are still close-range missiles." Cheng’s rapid-fire guns form three fire defense nets, if none of them are intercepted, then it can only be said that luck is too bad.”

"Can you sell this technology to us?" Nicholas asked.

Qin Tao shook his head: "I'm sorry, Nicholas, although we are good friends, but these involve our national defense secrets, it is impossible to provide them to you, but if you plan to transform them, you can send the warship to us Come to the shipyard, let us upgrade, are you planning to transform the Glory class?"

"No, we intend to upgrade the Type 1144 cruiser." Nikolay said: "This is related to the future of our navy."

Type 1144, the Kirov class, is a super battleship with a displacement of [-] tons. In the era of the Red Empire, every time these warships went to sea, they would cause vibrations.

However, after the collapse of the Red Empire, these warships quickly withered like flowers.

The first Kirov, which was later renamed the Admiral Ushakov, had a nuclear power plant failure in 90, struggled to return to the home port, and never went out again.

The second ship, Frunze, was later renamed Admiral Lazaev. It stopped at the port in 94 and was officially retired in 97.

The third Kalinin, later named Admiral Nasimov, is a relatively new one. It was launched in 86 and served in 88. However, there was a reactor failure in 97 and it has been docked on the pier. .

This type of warship, as well as the fourth Peter the Great, entered service in 98, which is relatively new.

Now, the Damao Navy is probably planning to refit the third warship.

The Glorious class can be regarded as a miniature version of the Kirov class, so they came to observe it because they planned to learn some experience, especially the experience of the air defense system.

"We will never send this kind of cruiser to you for modification, Qin, you should also know that just because you are asked to help produce frigates, there has been a lot of noise in the country, and the 1144-type cruiser was not built by you. You haven't touched it, so you definitely can't put it in your place for transformation." Nicholas said.

Qin Tao shook his head: "If it is a Type 1144 cruiser, then it should be put on us to transform it. Only we can transform this kind of cruiser. If you come by yourself, there is no hope. Go to shipbuilding The shipyard of the factory must be delayed in the end, until it finally becomes yellow.”

"why?"

"The biggest problem with the Kirov class is the unreliability of the power system." Qin Tao said: "Air defense and so on are secondary. The reliable nuclear power system is removed and replaced with conventional power."

Lao Maozi seems to know that their nuclear power system is unreliable, so the Kirov class is designed to use a hybrid power system (CONAS) with a nuclear reactor and a boiler. It is equipped with 2 nuclear reactors for It drives two steam turbines and drives two four-blade propellers. (I don’t understand why it’s an even number.) But at the same time, it also added a conventional boiler auxiliary in another compartment. If the nuclear reactor suddenly fails, the boiler can also keep the Kirov class running, but The speed was reduced from 2 knots to 32 knots.

This kind of power system is very complicated and cumbersome, but it has proved to be useful. At the beginning, the nuclear power system of the first ship Kirov was unable to work due to a malfunction. As a result, the boiler was used to drive back to the base slowly, and then the I haven't been out either.

Now, when Qin Tao talked about the power system, Nicholas nodded helplessly: "Yes, its nuclear power system is very unreliable. If we remove the nuclear power system and replace it with a boiler, it should be more suitable for us. .”

"Boiler? Apart from the aircraft carrier, where are there boilers?" Qin Tao said, "Nicolas, you should have heard that we have developed a [-]-megawatt gas turbine, right?"

Nicholas nodded: "That's right."

"If the Kirov-class cruiser is handed over to us for refurbishment, we can remove the unreliable nuclear power system inside and replace it with our gas turbine. Only two of them can output more than [-] horsepower. It can meet the needs of cruisers. Usually, it is equipped with two diesel engines to form alternating diesel-fuel power. We can even use all-electric drive. Only when the problem of heart disease is solved can the Kirov-class cruiser be used to its full potential. Has fighting power."

Replacing an engine on a warship is not a small matter, especially when replacing a gas turbine on a nuclear-powered warship, the intake and exhaust are a big problem, but if you want to use all-electric propulsion, it will be no problem, and the gas turbine is directly arranged under the chimney of the bridge.

Of course, this is definitely a big project.

Since Nicholas has this idea, Qin Tao has to provide the most suitable way, after all, Nicholas is his good friend.

Under Qin Tao's flickering, Nikolai's idea finally shifted from upgrading the air defense system to upgrading the engine!

Wu Shengli watched from the sidelines, watching how Qin Tao fooled Nicholas step by step.

The nuclear power and conventional power of the Kirov-class cruiser are combined, and the total output power reaches 14 horsepower, which can make this monster with a displacement of 32 tons fly at a speed of 10.8 knots. Now it is replaced with two gas turbines. The maximum output power is 32 horsepower. Although it cannot reach the speed of 30 knots, there is still no problem with 6.5 knots. (I don’t know if the calculation is correct. Two 26-megawatt gas turbines can make the British 2.5-ton aircraft carrier reach a speed of 30 knots. It should be possible to make the [-]-ton warship reach [-] knots.)
For a warship, the speed of 30 knots has already reached the standard. The key is that the power system will be more reliable. This gas turbine power system is much more reliable than the Kirov-class nuclear power system. Look at the old Maozi's existing The status of the Kilo-class ship is known, and the nuclear power system is a scam.

Even if the old man still asks to modify it himself, then he can still sell gas turbines!
The [-]-megawatt gas turbine is only owned by our own side, and it was jointly developed with Ermao. Lao Maozi should rest assured.

Nicholas seriously thought about this power system, and then nodded seriously: "Okay, Qin, I hope you can come up with a detailed plan, and when the frigate design bids, hand over this plan to us. Next, Let’s talk about the configuration of the weapon system.”

Nicholas came here originally intending to discuss the weapon system. Although he was fooled by the power system now, his focus has not changed.

At this time, Qin Tao thought for a while when he heard what Nikola said: "Nikola, if we talk about the weapon system, we plan to use the four-sided phased array radar on the frigate. We can completely transplant this system to the base station. Lord Love."

Dongfang's transformation of the Glory class was successful, and there were many people's painstaking efforts, including Zhao Ling. Of course, Qin Tao would not let these painstaking efforts go abroad. However, the upgrade and transformation of the Kirov class is also completely Other options can be used.

Such a large warship does not even have a four-sided phased array radar, which is really too backward.

In fact, Lao Maozi has an improved version of 22350M after the 22350 frigate, which is based on the former, and the displacement is enlarged to more than 8000 tons. The best destroyer, the radar system on it, is also a modification of the 22350 frigate.

Now, if the Kirov class is to be modified, wouldn't it be faster to directly use the radar system of the frigate under development?
Nicholas thought about it seriously, then shook his head: "The search range of the radar system on the frigate is too short to meet the needs of the Type 1144 cruiser."

The displacement of the frigate is small, and the number of missiles it carries is also small. Even medium-range air defense is enough. If the S-300 is installed, it is really not enough to put a few, and the launcher they share has not been developed.

However, the Kirov class has a large displacement and uses many weapons. There are nearly a hundred long-range air defense missiles such as the S-300. Can the radar system of the frigate be used?
"Nicolas, you probably don't know enough about active phased array radar. The biggest feature of this radar system is that it can increase the transmission power by increasing the number of T/R components, thereby increasing the search distance. On the Kirov class, the search distance can be doubled, isn’t it not enough? The advantages brought by the four-sided phased array radar are obvious, and the omnidirectional air defense and anti-saturation capabilities will be stronger.”

Nicholas really didn't know much about these advanced technologies. Over the past few years, his main business line was interpersonal relationships. Hearing Qin Tao's words at this time, he thought about it seriously, and then nodded: "Qin, your proposal Yes, we need to go back and negotiate with Fazuron to see how to use their system, if it is feasible, it means that our entire system can be transplanted from the frigate."

"Of course." Qin Tao nodded: "This method is the safest."

While speaking, everyone had already walked around the warship, and Nicholas finally came to the bridge, looking at the combat command structure composed of modern display screens inside, with envy in his eyes, he knew that Dongfang was very advanced in terms of electronic systems. It is very advanced, but at the same time, he also knows that it is difficult for Da Mao to reach this level for the time being. If it is purchased from the East, it may not be compatible with the previous system. Therefore, these can only be achieved by relying on domestic technological development. .

A long way to go.

The one-day visit ended in this way. In the evening, Qin Tao hosted a banquet at the Mingzhou Group Guest House to entertain Lao Maozi and his party. The navy was on the sidelines to accompany him. The entertainment fee was also saved, and he could also eat good food.

Looking out from the huge bay window here, you can see the busy scene inside the Mingzhou Shipyard, especially the huge warship under construction in the dock.

"Over the years, the development of the East has been really fast. Our navy's aircraft carrier has just been equipped with carrier-based aircraft and has not completed a full set of training. You have already started building a second aircraft carrier." Nicholas was very emotional.

"If you want to have a strong national defense, you still need a strong motherland. Only when the economic level is reached, military development will naturally take a fast track." Qin Tao said: "Nicolas, our Mingzhou Group is willing to develop with you More cooperative relationships, through cooperation to develop your economy, so that you have more funds."

Nicholas nodded: "Yes, Qin, you have helped us a lot. Whether our navy can get more warships depends on you. Do we have more areas of cooperation?"

Over the years, Mingzhou Group and Da Mao have mainly cooperated in the energy field, importing a large amount of oil and natural gas. Mingzhou Group has also helped to open up the Arctic route, allowing Lao Maozi to play an increasingly important role in the world economy. However, these Apparently not enough.

If Da Mao wants to develop the economy, he needs to have more cooperation projects.

Qin Tao thought for a while: "Of course, there is a large amount of timber in your Far East. How about we cooperate to develop the timber business?"

As the shackles of environmental protection become tighter and tighter, the trees planted by oneself do not have the right to cut them down, but foreign trees are different. Imported wood can be used freely without any restrictions, so in later generations, many furniture advertised A wood such as shaggy larch is used.It is because the cost of importing foreign trees is cheaper than self-use.

Although Mingzhou Group does not produce furniture now, it can definitely help domestic furniture factories import wood.

(End of this chapter)