The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 309: Two to Three Thousand Ton Frigate
After eight days of vacation in Beijing, Liu Tao embarked on the journey back to Panshan Machinery Factory amid the reluctant gazes of his relatives.

Afterwards, the weapons and equipment were inspected and sent out.

This time in Beijing, he signed an agreement with the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, entrusting them to build ten Type 022 missile boats.

As for the relevant technical data of the Type 022 missile boat, Liu Tao also handed it over to the China State Shipbuilding Corporation.

These materials are classified as confidential files.

Not everyone is qualified to read confidential documents like this; one must pass a political review and must be a trustworthy person.

This is also to reduce the possibility of leaks.

Moreover, it is impossible for one person to have access to the entire design document. He can only be exposed to one aspect of a certain field.

Hudong Shipyard and Dalian Shipyard are responsible for construction, while China Southwest Ordnance Industry Group Corporation is responsible for providing core components, such as radars, engines, etc.

Because the units affiliated with the China State Shipbuilding Corporation are most likely unable to handle these core equipment.

The remuneration for each Type 022 missile boat is 400 million RMB.

According to Liu Tao's estimation, these two shipyards can earn about 150 million RMB for each ship they manufacture.

He also provided the relevant formulas for aluminum alloys and composite materials.

Liu Tao began to focus his attention on the frigate.

He looked at the information of the Type 053 frigate, which is the first frigate independently developed by China, and the first ship has officially entered service.

The Type 053 frigate has a standard displacement of 1550 tons, a full load displacement of 1865 tons, a speed of 25 knots, is equipped with a single-barreled gun, does not have anti-submarine torpedoes, and does not have ship-borne helicopters.

It can be said that this is a frigate that is behind the times.

Based on the design data, Liu Tao began to produce scaled-down ship models.

After the last development of the Type 022 missile boat, Liu Tao knew that it was feasible to start with the ship model. After the ship model was completed, it was enlarged in the same proportion. Although there were still some problems, these problems were obviously much fewer and could also be upgraded and repaired.

This can greatly reduce R&D investment.

Of course, unlike the Type 022 missile boat, this time when building a frigate, we also have to consider air defense missiles, anti-submarine missiles and torpedoes, all of which are essential weapons for frigates.

Although current anti-ship missiles are becoming more and more advanced, torpedoes are no longer the only weapon for attacking ships as before, but torpedoes are still active in the world because they have their advantages - they are cheap!
The cost of torpedoes is much cheaper than that of anti-ship missiles.

Although torpedoes are a very old technology and were created much earlier than anti-ship missiles, they are definitely not without technology. On the contrary, the technological content of torpedoes is very high.

The world is also continuously investing in research and development of torpedoes, and one torpedo after another has been born.

Similarly, torpedo attacks are taken seriously, and how to defend against torpedo attacks has naturally become one of the important technical issues for the navies of various countries.

While Liu Tao was developing the frigate, time kept passing. Before he knew it, it was the end of the year and the footsteps of the Spring Festival could be clearly heard.

Liu Tao brought the guards to the Yunku, and then the guards worked together to move a large ship model into the reservoir, and the ship model floated on the water.

If you look closely, you will find that this ship model is very beautiful, painted in silver-white. The ship model has everything, including a missile vertical launch unit model, a naval gun model, and an anti-ship missile model.

This is a 1:200 model, 6.78 meters long, 0.685 meters wide, and weighs 13.75 tons. When Liu Tao added diesel, water, etc. into it, the weight was almost 18.2 tons.

Liu Tao was testing it and found that this ship model was much better than the first one. The appearance alone was much better and the size of the whole ship model was also bigger.

As Liu Tao operated, the engine started.

The test lasted for most of the day, and Liu Tao stopped only when it was almost dark.

Afterwards, the guards used a tractor to pull the ship model ashore, and then used a transporter to move the ship model up, and then used a crane to get the ship model onto the transporter. They all knew that this was Liu Tao's development of a warship, which was confidential. Now that the test was over and it was dark, it was impossible to leave the ship model in the reservoir and move it away tomorrow.

The transport truck drove away from the reservoir and returned to the production workshop, and the guards transported the ship model into the production workshop.

Then the guards left.

Liu Tao began to upgrade the 'ship model'.

Brush brush brush~~
Tiny rays of light flickered.

The ship model seems to have changed, but it also seems to have not changed.

"System, analysis!" Liu Tao muttered to himself.

Suddenly, design drawings appeared on the virtual panel.

Liu Tao used the system to enlarge the dimensions here to the same proportion.

"It seems that we have to wait until after the Spring Festival to build the prototype ship." Liu Tao said secretly.

Now that the Spring Festival is approaching, he has no time to go to the shipyard to build a new frigate prototype.

We can only wait until after the Spring Festival before we can start manufacturing the frigate prototype.

After returning home, Liu Tao took out a brand new hard drive, which he had made himself, with a total of 512G!

If there were no hard drive, the storage space in the computer would have been full long ago.

After downloading and printing a lot of information, he would copy it to a special hard drive and then keep it.

Every weapon has a hard drive.

Looking at the download speed, it is obvious that it will not be completed in a short time.

Liu Tao took out his notebook, picked up a pen, and started writing.

Originally, he planned to develop a frigate of more than 1,000 tons, but as time went by, the tonnage continued to increase.

Now, according to the frigate model, after construction is completed, the ship should be 135.6 meters long, 13.7 meters wide, 4.5 meters deep, with a standard displacement of 2750 tons and a full load displacement of 3640 tons. The power plant uses two super-powerful gas turbines with a total power of 2 horsepower and a maximum speed of 4.2 knots.

As for the endurance, it should be able to reach 20 nautical miles when sailing at a speed of 4500 knots.

As to whether there will be any specific changes, this can only be determined after the prototype ship is manufactured, tested, problems are fixed and upgraded.

But I think the difference won't be too outrageous.

Liu Tao didn't believe that the error would be that big.

Weapons and equipment, including air defense weapon systems, anti-submarine weapon systems, and anti-ship weapon systems.

The air defense weapon system consists of air defense missiles, 76mm cannons, 20mm 'CIWS' close-range weapon systems, and two six-tube jammer rockets.

The air defense missile is a ship-borne air defense missile developed by Liu Tao, which he named "Aegis-2". It is a medium-range air defense missile. It is a ship-to-air missile with multi-target attack capabilities and can effectively counter targets such as anti-ship missiles flying over the sea. The maximum firing height of the air defense missile is 2.4 meters, the maximum range is 80 nautical miles, and the maximum speed is Mach 3.

The entire 'Aegis-2' ship-to-air missile is a medium-range air defense missile with a length of 4.47 meters, a diameter of 340 mm, a wingspan of 1.07 meters, a weight of 610 kg, and adopts inertial/radio command + active radar guidance.

This 'Aegis-2' ship-to-air missile is mainly used to deal with medium and high altitude aircraft, anti-ship missiles and cruise missiles.

Of course, he also developed an extended-range 'Aegis-2' with a range of up to 100 nautical miles.

(End of this chapter)