Chapter 1118: 1119 Let’s make it ourselves
Chapter 1118 1119 Let’s make it ourselves
"It's easy to take off the aircraft. If it doesn't work, let the aircraft carrier sail into the wind. This is equivalent to giving the aircraft a positive wind blessing." A naval expert adjusted the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said to several engineers around him.
“Write it down! Write it down quickly!” Several engineers responsible for recording quickly lowered their heads and wrote down this important suggestion in their notebooks.
This is a technical seminar for the Dornish Empire, a powerful naval power. After the Tang Empire released an aircraft carrier with a price of 190 million, they began to imagine a new type of weapon for their country's navy, the aircraft carrier.
As long as you can build a decent aircraft carrier yourself, the money saved can almost build a huge aircraft carrier fleet!
With such a temptation in front of you, everyone must give it a try no matter what! This is what everyone thinks and does.
“It is indeed a good idea to sail into the wind. I wonder if the aircraft carriers of the Tang Empire also did this.” Because there is no reference, everyone is just guessing about various problems on the aircraft carrier.
At the beginning, everyone thought that the 190 million could be easily saved: wouldn’t it be just a big ship to repair an airstrip? How hard can it be?
But in actual operation, difficulties began to appear one after another: soon everyone discovered that the aircraft carrier was not as simple as adding a runway to a large ship.
After all, not everyone has a mature aircraft carrier design that has been tested in actual combat, with correct design ideas and polished details, like Tang Mo.
But the problem is that the navies of this world do not have time to slowly explore on their own: now that the Tang Empire has produced mature aircraft carriers and begun to use them in actual combat, they have almost no time and space for trial and error.
"You can use the deck wind for takeoff...but what about landing?" After finally solving one problem, everyone was stumped by another problem.
Deck wind is something that some smart people in the Navy can figure out based on their experience. The length of the runway for aircraft takeoff is indeed within a reasonable range: under normal circumstances, the takeoff distance of a propeller aircraft can indeed be reduced to about the same length as a battleship.
The problem is...the length needed for the plane to land is not that short! If the runway on the aircraft carrier is too short, wouldn’t the landing plane have to run off the runway and fall directly into the sea?
How to stop the planes so that they can shorten the landing distance? Everyone started thinking again.
Some people have suggested using an interceptor net to block the aircraft like fishing for fish. However, this will definitely cause damage to the aircraft. You can't just take off and land once and then be unable to continue fighting, right?
The answer to the blocking cable seems very simple, but it is not an easy task for a group of people who have never seen an aircraft carrier and have no similar experience to guess.
Moreover, this is actually just a relatively minor problem among the countless problems in aircraft carrier design and manufacturing.
guess where the aircraft fuel is installed on an aircraft carrier? How much space is needed? How to lay out oil pipelines?
guess again where the aerial bombs, torpedoes, and ammunition are placed, and how much space is required. How to get these things to replenish the aircraft?
Do you think it’s enough to just leave a place and lay some pipelines? no! Is the fuel supply pressure sufficient? Is fire protection in place? How should the ammunition be placed safely? How to pick it up and transport it conveniently... This is all a college question.
If you continue to think about it, this is the end? Thousands of pilots and sailors are crowded on a battleship. Where will they sleep, where will they work, where will they eat? How big of an area is needed and how should it be designed?
Placing the dormitories between gasoline, boilers, artillery shells and toilets... so many seemingly unimportant details will eventually become fatal flaws that affect the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier.
Think about those aircraft carriers such as He in a certain city that blew up after being hit by one, two or three aerial bombs. If you think about their endings, you will know that there is a lot of knowledge involved.
As for the optical landing assist system on the aircraft carrier of the Datang Empire, just let the technicians from various countries in this world who have never seen the world think about it, and they will probably think about it ten years later.
Not to mention...guess whether the aircraft carrier created by these great designers will have a useful and classic...ship island?
Or will they be like the old Japanese navy, with weird ships without bridges and horizontal chimneys?
Why was Rabbit so insistent on buying the Varyag? Isn’t it just to get Mao Xiong’s aircraft carrier details experience? It’s not that you can’t make it yourself, but if you don’t polish the details, problems will inevitably arise.
Want to eliminate these problems? Then rebuild the next-level aircraft carrier, rebuild the next-level aircraft carrier, accumulate experience and lessons yourself, and finally complete your own accumulation of experience and technology in aircraft carrier construction.
How to avoid wasting time and energy? Then buy the Varyag and see for yourself. It is just the cabin structure, which is enough for Rabbit to solve the self-research time of the aircraft carrier for more than 25 years! This is the main reason why the rabbit must buy Varyag and insist on letting it return to China. It's not because Rabbit's skills are insufficient, but the small details that need to be figured out in actual use can only be honed in actual use. That takes time, and Rabbit lacks time!
That is the sum of experience accumulated by Mao Xiong through the three generations of Moscow-class, Kiev-class and Kuznetsov-class aircraft carriers! That is the summary of decades of experience in aircraft carrier use! That's something beyond technology.
Even so, Rabbit still found a lot of areas for improvement on Varyag. After their own exploration and improvement, the Shandong ship, a true "Chinese aircraft carrier", was born. A group of people are still making suggestions for Dorne's aircraft carrier, and everyone is racking their brains: "Don't worry about the landing for now. I calculated that an aircraft carrier can carry up to 20 aircraft. This is in line with what the Tang Empire said Yes, the level of 70 carrier-based aircraft is too different.”
Tang Guo’s aircraft carriers have given a relatively conservative number of carrier-based aircraft. In fact, each aircraft carrier can carry more than 75 aircraft.
Even the conservative number of 70 is beyond the understanding of many people: no matter how they calculate, they can only park about twenty aircraft on the deck: any more will affect the takeoff of the aircraft.
An old engineer looked at the design sketch and expressed his opinion: "The data given by the other party is definitely not wrong. After all, they are selling. We can buy it as long as we pay for it. It is impossible to lie! So our design is still good." question!"
“Is it possible that their aircraft carrier...has a special space for aircraft in the belly?” An engineer next to him made a gesture on the side view of the drawing and added a hangar.
Others nodded: "It's very possible! But...it's impossible to install more than 40 more planes!"
“Two-story warehouse?” the engineer asked tentatively. The word hangar was a bit unfamiliar to him.
Others started to shake their heads again: "Two floors...can they still contain personnel, equipment, ammunition, and oil?"
Soon another smart person guessed another key: "Unless the plane is also folded..."
“Isn’t this impossible?” Some people who are familiar with airplanes are in a dilemma.
Someone else agreed with the idea of folding the plane: "It's not impossible. I think the plane should be folded to save more space."
Soon, everyone's attention was drawn to the topic of aircraft folding: "After calculation, the aircraft should indeed be folded, but doesn't this mean that it adds extra weight to the aircraft?"
Engineers who understand the aircraft shake their heads like a rattle: "This will seriously increase the dead weight of the aircraft, reduce the aircraft's maneuverability, and reduce the aircraft's range."
"The Tang Empire can rely on their **** engine technology to maintain the combat performance of the aircraft. If we modify the aircraft... it will be equivalent to letting the pilots die." Someone soon started to complain.
The old engineer headed by him turned his head, looked at a more authoritative aircraft "designer", and asked: "How much dead weight do you think will be added to the aircraft by folding the two wings?"
The other party said that he was a designer, and it was nothing more than modifications and modifications on existing aircraft. When the old engineer asked him, he thought for a while and replied: "Even 150 kilograms may not be enough."
This is almost equivalent to a plane carrying bombs and fighting the opponent's fighter jets, so the old engineer could only sigh: "It makes people desperate just thinking about it."
At this point, an engineer came in with a pile of data and shouted to everyone in despair: "Let's take a look! This is the data sent from the field airport in Bunas. We have another discussion session. "
“What do you mean?” Hearing this person’s cry, some people immediately became uneasy.
I only heard the man lamenting, and said with a sad face: "The aircraft deployed at Bunas Field Airport, because of the high salinity on the seaside, the fuselage corrodes faster than in other areas... This is the ground handling guidance of the Datang Empire." Opinions are lessons we pay for.”
This maintenance procedure was purchased from the Tang Empire and has proven to be effective. Since the aircraft placed on the beach require extra maintenance, do the aircraft on the battleship also need maintenance?
in addition…
At this time, a voice sounded resentful in the corner, and someone asked: "It's OK to install the aircraft below the deck, but how do you get it to the deck? Is it too dangerous to operate at sea by using a crane to transport it?" "
Hundreds of questions poured out at once, giving everyone the urge to overturn the table. You know, just now, someone suggested that aircraft carriers do not necessarily need to use a runway to launch aircraft. They can also use rockets to boost and launch with explosives...
Using the deck as a runway is actually just one of many ideas. As for what Tang's aircraft carrier looks like, no one knows yet.
All they know is that aircraft carriers can carry a large number of aircraft, and they can fly and recover these aircraft at sea! The design with a flight deck just looks the most reasonable. There are other possibilities!
These people are actually trying to restore a prehistoric Tyrannosaurus rex through a few adjectives...
(End of this chapter)