The Immortal Warrior: From Reverse Engineering to Forging Swords for the Country

Chapter 195 Concerns about Nuclear Power
Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "It seems that I have to coordinate the time first."

"I will first arrange the research project on the electromagnetic gun in the laboratory here in Chang'an, and then go to the Capital Shipbuilding Institute to arrange the design work of the second aircraft carrier and the 10,000-ton large drive."

Guo Zaijie said apologetically: "Thank you for your hard work. These tasks are indeed very important and need to be done together!"

Therefore, Zhang Zhipeng began to arrange the research tasks of the electromagnetic gun.

If you want the electromagnetic gun to be more effective and truly become a big killer, it must be equipped with a guidance function.

If the electromagnetic gun projectiles can be guided, the damage effect on the target will not be as simple as doubling.

The muzzle velocity of the electromagnetic gun projectile is quite fast and can reach Mach seven or eight.

Such a fast projectile has a relatively long launch distance and can easily reach 300 kilometers away.

In this case, if the electromagnetic gun's projectiles have a guidance function, will the target still be able to escape?

Therefore, Zhang Zhipeng must lead the team to develop the guidance function of the electromagnetic gun shells first.

This electromagnetic gun is fast. Under normal circumstances, electronic equipment simply cannot withstand the excessive overload caused by its high-speed flight.

Moreover, the electromagnetic gun shells will also produce plasma sheaths during flight.

This problem had already been solved once when Zhang Zhipeng was studying ballistic missiles to attack aircraft carriers.

The solution to the problem this time is actually not much different from the last time.

However, the problems that electromagnetic artillery shells face during flight are much worse than those of ballistic missiles.

The principle of electromagnetic gun is actually to use the principle of electromagnetic orbital launch. Direct current is applied to both ends of the track, and the magnetic field generated by the track causes the current of the projectile in the middle of the track to move in the magnetic field, thereby accelerating it to extremely high speeds.

The electromagnetic gun is also called the electromagnetic rail gun.

The electromagnetic gun principle is simple, but it can easily lead to two difficult problems:

One is that extremely high temperatures damage the track itself.

The second is that ultra-high current causes extremely harsh electromagnetic environment.

In such an electromagnetic environment, conventional chips will be broken down instantly.

All guidance systems will be completely destroyed in such a launch environment.

To solve the guidance problem of electromagnetic artillery shells, we must develop an antenna that can withstand high electromagnetic radiation.

As long as this antenna can be solved, then more than half of the guidance of electromagnetic artillery shells will be solved.

After all, the problem of the plasma sheath hindering communication has been solved before.

There is also the issue of high-temperature protection for electromagnetic artillery shells, which is not a big problem.

Research on the guidance function of electromagnetic artillery shells currently only has one research task: to develop antennas that can withstand high electromagnetic environments.

In addition, it is to develop active damage element technology.

This active damage element technology can greatly enhance the killing effect of the electromagnetic gun.

As long as these two problems are solved, we can almost develop a useful electromagnetic gun.

Zhang Zhipeng and his team began to study these two issues.

He is responsible for pointing out the direction and methods of research.

Then, he asked his team members to work together to conduct research on their own to see if they could produce the results themselves.

After handing over the task, Zhang Zhipeng took a plane and flew to the capital.

He was still traveling on a military plane.

Zhang Zhipeng's itinerary is also strictly confidential. Only a few people know where he is going to perform and what tasks he is going to perform.

This is the best way to ensure safety.

After arriving in the capital, Zhang Zhipeng was escorted directly to the Ship Research Institute by a security convoy.

Liu Yongqiang, director of the Naval Shipyard, was already looking forward to Zhang Zhipeng's arrival.

Last time we cooperated with Zhang Zhipeng to design and develop the first domestically produced aircraft carrier, the shipyard actually carried out the tasks assigned by Zhang Zhipeng and helped Zhang Zhipeng.

However, after the domestic aircraft carrier was successfully manufactured, the ship's crew still received notifications and awards from the country, and received many material and spiritual rewards.

Although the domestic aircraft carrier project is led by Zhang Zhipeng, the shipbuilding industry deserves a lot of credit.

Therefore, Liu Yongqiang and everyone on the ship were very grateful to Zhang Zhipeng.

They knew that without Zhang Zhipeng, the Shipbuilding Institute would be able to produce the entire set of design drawings of the aircraft carrier in less than a year?
That's simply impossible!

Even just studying the drawings of the Varyag aircraft carrier of the Giant Bear took more than two years.

Liu Yongqiang sighed in his heart: Comrade Zhipeng is really too powerful.

If it weren't for him, how could the first domestically produced aircraft carrier be approaching the commissioning stage so quickly?

This time, the task of designing a second domestically produced aircraft carrier came again, and it also came with the task of designing a 10,000-ton large drive.

This is all credit and results!
Although the Shipbuilding Institute already has experience in designing an aircraft carrier.

However, Liu Yongqiang still feels that it is better to let Zhang Zhipeng continue to lead this project according to Guo Zaijie's arrangement!
After all, he, Liu Yongqiang, really does not have the overall perspective of Zhang Zhipeng to strategize.

This second aircraft carrier is said to be equipped with electromagnetic catapult, and may also be equipped with a brand new gas turbine or even a nuclear reactor!
In this case, the design of the second aircraft carrier will face many challenges.

He, Liu Yongqiang, simply cannot bear this heavy responsibility.

"Comrade Zhipeng! All the comrades of our shipyard have been looking forward to you for a long time! Finally, we are waiting for you." Liu Yongqiang smiled and shook hands with Zhang Zhipeng.

Zhang Zhipeng laughed and said: "Haha! I miss my comrades a little too!"

"It was very pleasant to cooperate with the comrades last time."

"You guys did a really great job."

Liu Yongqiang shook his head in shame and said: "Comrade Zhipeng, without your guidance, it is almost impossible for us to do even the most basic design work well."

"Under your leadership, we can accomplish our tasks well."

"And we also learned a lot from you."

Now, Liu Yongqiang is convinced of Zhang Zhipeng.

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "You are all very good ship design experts, and I have learned a lot from you."

"However, this second aircraft carrier has a lot more innovations than the first one. If we want to design it well, we still have to work hard, haha!"

"Let's not waste time, just seize the time to have a meeting and start working."

Therefore, Zhang Zhipeng hosted a mobilization meeting for the design and development of the second domestically produced aircraft carrier.

This mobilization meeting is mainly for the design backbone.

During the meeting, Zhang Zhipeng discovered that among the key people present in the conference room were several experts from the Ermao Kingdom.

And the old expert named Boris is among them.

Those who came to attend the meeting all respected Zhang Zhipeng.

Because they knew that without Zhang Zhipeng, there would be no chance for them to receive awards, let alone gain fame and fortune.

These key experts have also visited the Leonin ship that has been outfitted.

Although they were designers, they were still shocked when they saw the built Leonin ship.

Because this ship is really beautiful.

The design is also too reasonable.

Although these people participated in the design, what they did was only partial design.

In the final analysis, they just followed Zhang Zhipeng's instructions and did some basic design work.

They couldn't even imagine what the aircraft carrier on the drawing would look like in reality.

Generally speaking, when building the first aircraft carrier of any country, it will never be smooth sailing.

Everyone will face difficulties of one kind or another.

However, under the leadership of Zhang Zhipeng, both the design and construction of China's first aircraft carrier went really smoothly.

This first domestically produced aircraft carrier, from design to construction to finished product, is comparable to the conventional aircraft carriers of several powerful countries in Lizufang!

Even better than their aircraft carrier!

This is all because of Zhang Zhipeng!

After visiting the Leonin ship, Boris was the most shocked.

Because he is an old expert in the era of giant bears!

He had experienced the giant bear when it was at its most powerful.

Even when the Giant Bear was at its strongest, it was impossible to build an aircraft carrier in less than a year!
All we can say is that Zhang Zhipeng is the hero who created the situation!

During the meeting, Zhang Zhipeng made a few jokes with these key experts.

Then, he entered the topic of today's meeting.

He said: "Comrades, everyone must already know the purpose of my coming here to hold this meeting."

"We want to build a second aircraft carrier!"

"This second aircraft carrier, some people are talking about whether it will be nuclear powered."

"Let me emphasize here that our second aircraft carrier is still powered by conventional power."

"Because our nuclear experts have not yet mastered the technology of small nuclear reactors."

"Another thing is that we currently have no need to send aircraft carriers around the world, so there is no need to quickly launch nuclear power."

"The main thing is that if nuclear power really breaks out, it is too dangerous. If safety cannot be ensured, it is better to use conventional power."

Zhang Zhipeng is actually not too optimistic about aircraft carriers.

When ballistic missile-to-aircraft carrier technology and hypersonic technology have become increasingly mature, wouldn't it be useless to develop aircraft carriers?
If the war actually begins, there is a high probability that the aircraft carrier will quickly become a living target.

At the very least, within two thousand nautical miles around China, it can only be a target!

However, later, Zhang Zhipeng also figured out: the most important role of building an aircraft carrier is to export the threat of force in peacetime.

You have to own this thing, and then have it sent out on the ocean from time to time, and then you can get respect.

Therefore, if others have it, it’s best for us to have it too.

But why don’t we just stay within our sphere of influence?

After hearing Zhang Zhipeng's announcement that the second aircraft carrier would still be conventionally powered, there was a sigh of disappointment in the conference room.

Obviously, everyone had been looking forward to going directly to nuclear power.

If nothing else, all 11 of my ships are nuclear powered! In theory, other people's aircraft carriers can have unlimited endurance.

If something happens anywhere in the world, it can drive to the location of the accident at full speed and intervene or take advantage of it.

This is our second aircraft carrier, but it still needs conventional power. This is not good.

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "Don't think that nuclear power is necessarily good."

"Nuclear power, to me, feels like a crater that could erupt at any time."

"Even if a conventional aircraft carrier is unfortunately hit by a few hits, it may be fine."

"But if the nuclear power reactor is hit by a shot, it will have catastrophic consequences!"

"So, I've always felt that nuclear power was a little flashy."

Boris raised his hands high at this time.

Zhang Zhipeng smiled, nodded, and said, "Comrade Boris, please tell me."

Boris stood up and said to Zhang Zhipeng with a smile: "Comrade Zhipeng, what you said is really good."

"I think we have a lot of people whose only problem is that they believe in mold too much."

"Many people think that anything made by Lao Mo is the best."

"This is sick thinking."

"If we can't abandon this idea, we will never try to catch up."

"I firmly believe that using nuclear power for war equipment is definitely not a good thing!"

Zhang Zhipeng nodded with a smile and said, "That's true. We must get rid of the superstition about old mold!"

"However, we cannot completely deny nuclear power."

"If we can build safer nuclear reactors, I am not opposed to using nuclear power on large ships!"

"But if we want to build safer nuclear reactors, we probably still have a long way to go!"

Next, Zhang Zhipeng began to talk about the main design changes of the second domestic aircraft carrier: the electromagnetic ejection device!
Because of the installation of a stable and reliable electromagnetic ejection device, the aircraft carrier can free up more deck space to park more fighters, and at the same time, more hangars can be built below the deck.

Such an aircraft carrier can even carry as many as seventy or eighty fighter jets.

Large early warning aircraft and bombers can also be placed on aircraft carriers.

In this way, the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier can be doubled.

Because of such changes, the design of this second aircraft carrier will also undergo quite a huge change.

While Zhang Zhipeng was talking, he drew out the most important design changes of the second domestically produced aircraft carrier.

There are new changes in the power plant: Zhang Zhipeng is cooperating with relevant units to develop a large steam turbine with higher power and greater energy efficiency.

If an aircraft carrier does not use nuclear power, it will generally have to continue to use steam turbines.

Because the power of the gas turbine is relatively small, it is a bit difficult to drive an aircraft carrier that can easily weigh 50,000 to 60,000 tons.

However, current steam turbines have actually made great progress.

Energy efficiency ratios are rising, and horsepower continues to become more powerful.

In fact, Zhang Zhipeng really wanted to design a more powerful gas turbine as the main power of the aircraft carrier.

However, after calculation, he found that if the gas turbine was made too large, its cost performance would be far inferior to that of the steam turbine.

Therefore, the only option is to continue using steam turbines.

Zhang Zhipeng is actually still thinking about things like nuclear high-temperature gas-cooled reactors.

In the previous life, although China started relatively late in the civilian use of nuclear energy.

However, many good things were developed in the future.

This high-temperature gas-cooled reactor is claimed to be the safest nuclear reactor in the world. It will not even melt down, and it uses a gas-cooling device, which is much easier to use than a pressurized water reactor.

Traditional pressurized water reactors require large amounts of water to cool the reactor.

If we can build a nuclear high-temperature gas-cooled reactor in advance, it will be a great thing for China!
That is not just as simple as solving the aircraft carrier's power plant.

Most importantly, this thing can be used to create safe nuclear power plants!

Today, China's economy is booming.

The consumption of electricity is not generally huge.

So far, China's electricity is not enough.

In many rural areas, power outages occur almost every now and then.

After Zhang Zhipeng finished talking about the new changes in the power plant of the second domestically produced aircraft carrier, he started talking about the high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device.

He also played the video he took in the conference room.

People in the conference room began to applaud enthusiastically after seeing the picture of the high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device test.

"This electromagnetic ejection looks really powerful!"

"I'll go! You can actually eject a 30-ton object more than a hundred meters at high speed. That's awesome!"

"Just now Comrade Zhipeng said electromagnetic ejection, I have no idea about it. But after watching this video, I think it is really a major creative breakthrough!"

"Electromagnetic ejection, it seems that even Lao Mo has not started to use this technology yet? Unexpectedly, we were the first to do so."

Everyone in the conference room was very excited and started chattering.

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "The high-voltage DC electromagnetic ejection device we have developed is quite stable. We have tested it for more than 20 days and used it to eject small railway cars more than 3,000 times. All of them were successful. A glitch!"

"Theoretically, as long as we install four electromagnetic catapults on the aircraft carrier, all the aircraft on the aircraft carrier can be ejected into the air in as little as ten minutes!"

As soon as Zhang Zhipeng finished speaking, there was a burst of warm applause.

Zhang Zhipeng waited until the applause subsided, then smiled and said: "In addition to the electromagnetic catapult, we can also use this high-voltage DC electromagnetic device to build an electromagnetic gun on the aircraft carrier. This can also give our aircraft carrier one more Weapons of offense and defense.”

Everyone in the conference room became excited again when they heard the electromagnetic gun.

Zhang Zhipeng had to introduce to them some of his research projects on electromagnetic guns.

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This mobilization meeting lasted for a full day.

It was quite enthusiastic.

Zhang Zhipeng once again explained his design ideas and concepts through this meeting.

Then he took out the overall design drawings of the second domestically produced aircraft carrier that he had already produced and gave an in-depth explanation.

He assigned specific modular design tasks at the mobilization meeting.

After assigning the design tasks for the second domestically produced aircraft carrier, Zhang Zhipeng talked about the design ideas and overall design plan of the 10,000-ton large drive.

The design of a 10,000-ton large drive is actually much simpler than that of an aircraft carrier.

There are almost no design difficulties.

However, Zhang Zhipeng still added some brand new features.

Most importantly, he added an electromagnetic gun device.

In fact, it is a high-voltage DC electromagnetic system, which is used to drive the electromagnetic gun.

Put a powerful electromagnetic gun on the ship. Then, in the future, when you can build a cheap and easy-to-use electromagnetic gun and a more lethal guided electromagnetic gun shell, you can greatly increase the lethality of the 10,000-ton cruiser. !

Not to mention anything else, the electromagnetic gun can hit targets 300 kilometers away, and its speed can be as fast as Mach 7 or 8, making it a hypersonic projectile.

Even if the opponent's ship is defending, it is not easy to defend!
The electromagnetic gun consumes only about 52 degrees of electricity per launch, costs about 100 yuan, and the cost of the shells is not high. It can also be fired quickly, once a minute.

At such a low cost, it can play a powerful role comparable to hypersonic missiles worth millions.

In this regard, its development potential is extremely huge!

Therefore, Zhang Zhipeng has made up his mind to install high-voltage DC electromagnetic systems on all large domestic ships and install electromagnetic guns on the ships.

After Zhang Zhipeng arranged the tasks, he stayed at the Ship Research Institute for about ten days. He worked with the experts at the Ship Research Institute to help them solve the problems that confused them.

Soon, he helped the ship design the second domestically produced aircraft carrier and the 10,000-ton cruise ship to get on track.

There are still quite a few people in the shipbuilding department, and they can work on two large-scale designs at the same time with ease.

Zhang Zhipeng helped the people at the shipyard check several times and found that their work was relatively efficient and rigorous.

He also decided to leave the ship station and return to Chang'an.

After all, what he values ​​most now is electromagnetic gun research.

If the electromagnetic gun is developed, it will be enough to change the pattern of war.

Just when Zhang Zhipeng was about to leave, Guo Zaijie came to the shipyard to inspect the work.

After checking the work, he naturally wanted to have a chat with Zhang Zhipeng.

"Comrade Zhipeng, I just came back from Dalian. Our J-15 carrier-based aircraft has begun practicing takeoffs and landings on the Leonin ship."

"I have to say that the carrier-based aircraft pilots did a very good job. Hundreds of takeoff and landing trainings were all successfully completed."

Guo Zaijie introduced the situation on the Leo Ning ship to Zhang Zhipeng.

Zhang Zhipeng said with a smile: "After the carrier-based aircraft takeoff and landing training is completed, we can actually go to sea for testing."

"It seems that our first domestically produced aircraft carrier is not far away from truly forming a combat capability!"

Guo Zaijie smiled and said, "Who says it's not the case?"

"We have created a miracle this time! In just over a year, we have brought our aircraft carrier close to combat effectiveness!"

"Looking around the world, there is no such precedent! Haha!"

Guo Zaijie smiled happily.

He felt it was really not easy! Many countries around the world are waiting to see the joke!

However, China has created a great achievement!

Guo Zaijie and Zhang Zhipeng agreed that they would spend a few days together to watch the takeoff and landing training of aircraft on the Leonin ship.

Later, Zhang Zhipeng returned to Chang'an.

He was still thinking about the electromagnetic gun research mission.

However, what he didn't expect was that not long after he returned to Chang'an, he received a request from an uninvited guest who wanted to see him.

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