Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Lin Yuan went on to say: "Which one is more suitable as a weapon for warships, missiles or artillery shells, I believe everyone will choose missiles. In our era, warships are all equipped with missiles. Accurate, and with its own power plant, the charge can be very large, for example, the Russian SS-N-12 missile, the weight of the high-energy explosive loaded in the warhead is as high as 900 kg."

"900 kilograms, nearly one ton in weight, and the charge of other missiles is also 500 to more than 460 kilograms, and the artillery shells used by the 300mm main gun of the Yamato-class battleship, the largest caliber artillery in the history of human naval warfare, have a charge of [-] kilograms. But it only weighs more than [-] kilograms, so the missile is more powerful."

"With so many explosives, one shot can cause a devastating blow to the enemy's warship. In our era, in the war between Britain and Argentina in the 1982 war for the Malvinas Islands, Argentina used a charge of 165 kg The Exocet missile sank the destroyer HMS Sheffield with a full load displacement of more than 4000 tons."

Lin Yuan said: "Since the enemy has embarked on the road of big ships and giant guns, their industrial system will develop in that direction. It is not easy to change, so their warships will become bigger and bigger. In our era, In order to carry larger artillery, the tonnage of battleships has risen sharply. The full load displacement of Japan's Yamato-class battleships has exceeded 1922 tons; in [-], European powers, the United States, and Japan jointly signed a "Naval Armament Limitation Treaty" ", with this treaty, the crazy momentum of building huge ships was curbed."

"In our time, this treaty will definitely not appear, so they will make the warship bigger and bigger. If we still use artillery shells, it will definitely not work, so we will install missiles on the ship. Now let the missile experts Gao Academician Ning Hai introduced the latest development of missiles to us."

Gao Ninghai smiled shyly, and said, "I'm ashamed to say that, if we talk about missiles, I'm afraid we can't achieve what Comrade Xiao Lin said."

Lin Yuan asked: "Then what technical difficulties are there now?"

Gao Ninghai said: "There are two main difficulties, one is power, and the other is control. Let's talk about power first. There are two main powers for missiles, one is rocket engines, the other is aircraft engines. If it is For rocket engines, the propellant manufacturing process is not up to standard, and it is still difficult to produce qualified propellants. If it is an aircraft engine, the projectile body of the missile is very small, and we will not be able to manufacture such a small engine for the time being.”

"The other one is control. Now that our electronics industry has just started, it will take some time before a reliable guidance system can be produced."

Lin Yuan nodded and thought: "Since the missile cannot be manufactured, it is better to make the shell more accurate." So he turned to Qin Peng, a laser expert, and asked, "Mr. Qin, our current semiconductor laser research and development How's it going?"

When Qin Peng saw Lin Yuan and Gao Ninghai talking about the missile, he felt that he had nothing to do with him. He was a little surprised by Lin Yuan's question, and Qin Peng was stunned for a moment before he said, "It went well, what's wrong? Do you want to Use lasers directly as weapons? Semiconductor lasers are not so powerful."

Lin Yuan shook his head and smiled: "What I want to talk about is the laser proximity fuze. I think so. Our artillery must be very accurate. In this case, if we install a laser proximity fuze on the artillery shell, this artillery shell can It landed on the enemy's warship as if it had eyes, which can be regarded as a substitute for missiles. We will manufacture a batch of such shells first, and then replace them after the missiles are produced."

Everyone nodded, and Lin Yuan continued: "Let me talk about the last part, the fire control part. This part includes target search, target range measurement, etc. When I was in Germany, I saw the stereo range finder, and also saw it. When it comes to the gyroscope, when I visited the dreadnought's fire strike demonstration, I found that their guns were very accurate, so I concluded that they used a fire control system with a mechanical computer."

"They also use optical distance measurement, which is not a good way on the battlefield, because there will be a lot of smoke and sometimes fog on the battlefield of naval battles, so our fire control system must be based on radar. Next, I would like to invite academician Ma Zhiliang, a radar expert, to introduce the progress of the radar system to us."

Ma Zhiliang said: "Our radar system is also facing some problems. The main problem is that the frequency of electromagnetic waves that our radar can emit is relatively low. If the frequency of emitting electromagnetic waves is low, the error in measuring angles will be relatively large. It can be used as a warning radar, but not as a fire control radar, so the shells are not easy to shoot accurately, mainly because we have many advanced components that have not yet been manufactured."

Lin Yuan asked, "What about measuring distance and speed?"

Ma Zhiliang said: "Although there is still a certain error, the error is definitely much smaller than that measured by foreigners using optical methods."

Lin Yuan said: "Then let's install the radar first and replace it later."

Everyone nodded, and Lin Yuan continued: "After hearing the speeches of the experts, everyone must have a general understanding of the equipment of our warships. Our warships will be equipped with gas turbines and radars. Now they are equipped with laser proximity bombs. The fuze shells will be replaced with missiles in the future. As for the types of shells? I suggest to use three types, one is shell-piercing shells. Didn’t we get a lot of tungsten ore? We use it to make steel cores, and the other is Armor-piercing explosive bombs, the last one is cloud bombs."

Everyone said: "Such a warship is definitely the strongest warship of this era!"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Now let's talk about how many warships we should build? How should our navy be organized?"

Han Mingguang said: "You should tell me what you think."

Lin Yuan said: "Actually, I have been thinking about this issue for a long time. We now have an invincible aircraft carrier. When the technology matures in the future, we will build more aircraft carriers and fighter jets. We should organize warships and aircraft carriers into A battle group, that is, an aircraft carrier battle group, in the battle group, the aircraft carrier uses its ultra-long-range detection capability to detect the enemy's formation, and then we deploy our formation in a targeted manner."

"So I decided that we want to build a blue-water navy. This navy is composed of more than ten aircraft carrier battle groups, which can go to the enemy's doorstep to fight. Do you think it is good?"

Everyone nodded in agreement, and Lin Yuan continued: "We have finished formulating the naval strategy, let's talk about the types of ships. In this era, the core of the fleet is the battleship. The battleship has strong firepower and thick armor. It is the main force of the sea battle; secondly Even cruisers, compared to battleships, cruisers have weaker firepower and protection, but they are fast, and can be used for long-distance reconnaissance during sea battles, and can also undertake part of the combat mission."

"There are also destroyers. Destroyers are fast, with weaker firepower and protection. Their main purpose is to destroy the opponent's torpedo boats. Then there are frigates. In our era, all countries have equipped a large number of frigates, but the frigates of this era Still weak."

Lin Yuan continued: "After talking about this era, let's talk about our era, and then select the types of ships for our fleet as a reference. In our era, battleships have completely withdrawn from the stage of history, and cruisers have become tomorrow's warships." Yellow flowers, destroyers and frigates are the mainstream of warship development."