The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 324 Torpedo Boat? (Subscribe)

Yangcheng Shipbuilding Industry Group.

This is already a huge construction site with construction going on everywhere.

The existing shipyards and railways were busy.

There are already six missile boats parked at the berth.

These missile boats are waiting for Liu Tao to test them before they will be delivered to the troops.

This batch of missile boats will be delivered to the South China Sea Fleet to strengthen the strength of the South China Sea Fleet.

It is impossible for Liu Tao to test a missile boat after it is built.

Unless it is at Dalian Shipyard, or shipped to Dalian Shipyard.

However, these missile boats were all built in Guangdong Province or Fujian Province, so they would naturally not be shipped to the Dalian Shipyard, but to the Yangcheng Shipbuilding Industry Group.

Then, after Liu Tao arrives, we will conduct centralized testing.

"In terms of the shipbuilding industry, it is quite strong and there haven't been any unexpected problems." Liu Tao checked with a satisfied look on his face.

There were some issues, but nothing major.

A simple fix will do.

This time, Liu Tao came to Yangcheng Shipbuilding Group. In addition to inspecting these missile boats, he also inspected the expansion of the shipyard.

Liu Tao trusts the people below him, but he will never trust them blindly.

If you don't go down and take a look, you might be fooled.

He never underestimates human nature.

This is also why the disciplinary inspection team of Panshan Group is given enormous power to inspect its subsidiaries at any time, and once corruption is discovered, it will often not be tolerated.

There are quite a few cadres who are punished every year.

Liu Tao repaired all the problems with these missile boats without spending too many upgrade points.

Then someone contacted the South China Sea Fleet to deliver the six Type 022 missile boats.

Since the birth of the Type 022 missile boat last year, the originally planned Type 021 missile boat and Type 024 missile boat have been stopped.

The three major fleets are all looking forward to the Type 022 missile boat.

For the current Chinese Navy, any Type 022 missile boat can greatly enhance the navy's strength.

Although the current Chinese Navy has a large tonnage, it even has warships converted from wooden fishing boats. They are called warships, but in fact they are just equipped with heavy machine guns or cannons.

The navy would even put cannons or tanks on merchant ships to use them as warships.

"Now the navy also needs torpedo boats, so it seems we have to start developing torpedo boats." Liu Tao muttered to himself.

In 1979, the Soviet Union instructed the Soviet Navy's Pacific Fleet to organize forces to station in Annan's Cam Ranh Bay, Da Nang, Bien Hoa and other naval and air force bases. On the other hand, it transferred the Black Sea Fleet's flagship aircraft carrier "Minsk", which had been in service for less than half a year, to the Pacific Fleet. The meaning is self-evident.

而当时华夏海军南海舰队的主要战斗力量，有驱逐舰（051型1条）、护卫舰（01型、65型各2条）、潜艇、导弹快艇、猎潜艇、鱼雷快艇、护卫艇和侦察船共120余艘，除此之外便是海军海空兵作战飞机170余架也待命行动。

Now the missile boats have been solved, and we have the world's advanced Type 022 missile boats. Advanced frigates are also being built.

Compared with frigates, which have a long construction period and high investment, there is no doubt that missile boats, anti-submarine boats, and torpedo boats can quickly make up for the shortcomings of the Chinese Navy and quickly enhance the Navy's strength.

Here we have to mention the development strategy of the Chinese Navy.

In the 100s, the Chinese Navy formulated a development strategy of "air, submarine, and fast". Torpedo boats are mainly responsible for destroying large enemy surface ships within 1952 kilometers of the coast. From 1962 to , China introduced and copied the designs and built a batch of high-speed marine attack speedboats with simple structures, easy operation, maintenance and use from the Soviet Union. These small speedboats played a vital role in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Among them, there is the P-6 class torpedo boat, which is a Soviet wooden planing torpedo boat. China assembled and manufactured 6 boats according to the drawings transferred for a fee, called the 63 type. The boat is 6602 meters long, 25.05 meters wide, 6.06 meters high, 3.04 meters draft at the front, 1.04 meters draft at the rear, and has a displacement of 1.37 tons. It is equipped with 62 M4-50 diesel engines, each with 1 horsepower, a speed of 1200 nautical miles per hour, a cruising range of 43 nautical miles, a crew of 600, and a twin 16mm naval gun on each of the front and rear decks.

接下来便是6625型钢制艇壳型，这是根据苏联转让的水翼快艇-184型鱼雷艇的技术设计与施工图建造，1966年2月首艇在425厂正式投料开工，1967年3月下水，1968年9月一号艇完工交货，后续的2至8号艇7艘转让沪东造船厂继续生产。

The standard displacement of the Type 6625 torpedo boat is 39 tons, the full load displacement is 46 tons, the total length is 21.3 meters, the total width is 5.1 meters, the draft is 1 meter, it is powered by three M3F diesel engines with a power of 50 horsepower, a maximum speed of 3300 knots, a cruising range of 55 kilometers, a crew of 900 people, and a reconnaissance system of one tank-top sea search radar. The weapons and equipment include two 11 mm launch tubes, two Type 1 533 mm twin-barreled guns, and two 2 mm twin machine guns.

These are the torpedo boats of the Chinese Navy now. There are only these two models, and some have even been in service for more than 20 years!

Liu Tao wanted to develop the boat based on the Type 022 missile boat.

There is no need for so many anti-ship missiles, but instead two sets of triple-mounted torpedo tubes should be installed.

The rest won't change much.

After all, the Type 022 missile boat is itself an excellent speedboat.

Torpedo boats, missile boats, etc., are just equipped with different weapons.

The advantage of using the Type 022 missile boat to develop torpedo boats is that a large amount of equipment can be adopted and is common, which will undoubtedly further reduce costs.

"The navy is really a rip-off. They purchase warships on credit and pay on time." Liu Tao couldn't help but complain.

He felt that doing business with the Navy was simply a rip-off.

For example, for the Type 022 missile boat, the Navy cannot come up with so much money at one time. Each Type 022 missile boat has to be paid for in 24 months over two years, and there is no interest.

The 054 frigate is even more outrageous, with payments being made in installments over 3 years and 36 months, and there is also no interest.

In this respect, it is even more outrageous than the army.

If it weren't for supporting naval construction, Liu Tao would not be willing to deal with the navy.

"When this torpedo boat is successfully developed and built, I'm afraid it will have the same effect." Liu Tao had a feeling that he had made a losing deal.

Liu Tao could understand that the navy wanted a new torpedo boat. The Type 022 missile boat was naturally advanced, but there was a problem: it was expensive, both in terms of purchase and operating costs.

The cost of an anti-ship missile cannot be much cheaper.

But torpedo boats are different. The purchase price of torpedo boats is much cheaper, and the cost of using torpedoes is much lower than that of anti-ship missiles.

This is undoubtedly a good deal for the navy, which is tightening its belt.

Otherwise, from Liu Tao's personal point of view, there is no need for torpedo boats.

We already have the Type 022 missile boat, and if we add another torpedo boat, there will be some overlap.

He even believes that as more missile boats are used, the world's torpedo boats will gradually be retired and then exit the stage of history.

(End of this chapter)