What are the difficulties in making aircraft carriers?

There are many!

But the most important thing is the rise and fall of the carrier-based aircraft!

That's right!

The main difficulty of aircraft carriers is not the power, keel, etc. Although those are also difficult, they are slightly lower than the inconspicuous things like the rise and fall of carrier-based aircraft!

Why is the most important difficulty of rising and falling?

Because the aircraft carrier itself is a ship, the runway is definitely much shorter than the normal runway, which means that the carrier-based aircraft cannot run enough to take off at all on the aircraft carrier!

As for the consequences of not being able to take off, there is no other choice except falling into the sea!

But if there is a problem, there is a solution!

Therefore, carrier-based catapults were born!

This kind of thing uses the principle of catapulting and installs catapults on the aircraft carrier. When the carrier-based aircraft is about to take off, it is ejected, reduce the runway distance required for its takeoff, and allow the carrier-based aircraft to reach the takeoff speed within a short time and a short distance!

It looks simple!

But the technical content is very high!

In the world before Arthur traveled through, countries with this technology could count in one palm, which was much rarer than those with nuclear bombs!

And similarly, because the runway is shorter than normal, normal landing is definitely not possible!

In that case, the carrier-based opportunity cannot reduce its speed because the runway is not enough, and it will directly hit the aircraft carrier!

However, if there are problems, there are solutions!

Therefore, the interceptor rope was born!

What is a slug rope?

To put it bluntly, it’s just a rope!

The function of this rope is to pull the carrier-based aircraft when it lands and reduce its speed so that it will not hit the aircraft carrier!

But the production of this rope is also very difficult!

First of all, the weight of the carrier-based aircraft itself is already very heavy, and coupled with the force attached to the speed when landing, this rope must be able to withstand more than 100 tons of impact!

Well, there are no fewer countries that can make ropes that bear more than one hundred tons of impact!

But the problem is that the rope used on the aircraft carrier is not an ordinary rope!

It needs to be detailed!

Because it is placed on the deck, if it is not thin enough, it may affect the normal skidding of the carrier-based aircraft when landing, resulting in accidents and destruction of the aircraft!

Moreover, not only must it be fine, but it must also be tough enough!

After the interceptor cable is hooked at the tail of the carrier-based aircraft, it must also follow the carrier-based aircraft and bend it. If it is not tough and cannot bend, it is very likely that the tail of the carrier-based aircraft will be pulled down directly!

At that time, not only will it not be able to slow down the speed, but it will also lead to the destruction of carrier-based aircraft!

Therefore, this kind of interceptor sounds simple, but it is very difficult to make!

Before Arthur traveled, a country that also had only one hand numbered can be made!

And the above are just the difficulties brought by the rise and fall, but in fact there are many difficulties!

Let’s say so!

Before Arthur traveled, there was no country that could not use parts from other countries when making aircraft carriers!

Even the aircraft carriers that are claimed to be domestically produced are only domestically produced, and a small number of them do not have the technology, and they are still used abroad!

In that world with highly developed technology, it is so difficult to make an aircraft carrier, let alone this pirate world. If you want to truly make an aircraft carrier, it is simply outrageous!

But if the strength is not enough, black technology will come to make it up!

After staying in St. Martin for so many years, he has obtained a lot of black technology. It’s not easy to get a simple version of the aircraft carrier?

Let’s talk about the most important difficulty, the rise and fall, was simply solved by Arthur!

Because his aircraft carrier is not a carrier-based aircraft!

But the steam mecha!

Steam mecha ascended on the spot!

What catapults, high-temperature resistant materials, and machine-blocking cables are not used at all!

The steam mecha takes off by the wind shells on the empty island. There is no problem with taking off and landing in place, and there is no high temperature. Therefore, the materials on the deck naturally do not need to be resistant to high temperatures!

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After Arthur arrived at the valley, he was immediately faced by a group of soldiers on the aircraft carrier in front of him.

At this time, hundreds of St. Martin scientists and workers had gathered on the aircraft carrier!

"See Your Majesty!"

Seeing Arthur arrive, everyone on the boat saluted respectfully!

"No gift!"

Arthur waved his hand.

"Your Majesty, this is the surprise I told you!" After Arthur finished speaking, Maker smiled and greeted him.

Upon hearing this, Arthur's eyes lit up and said, "Do you mean the aircraft carrier has succeeded? Can you get into the water?"

The aircraft carrier has always been one of the projects of Saint Martin!

After a long time of development, the ship has been parked for a long time, but it has always remained in a state of no water, just parked in this valley and sea water.

Now, since Meck has said that, it means that this ship can be put into the water and can be used in real life!

"That's right, your majesty!" said Make with a smile. "We have conducted the last inspection just now. Now this aircraft carrier can be officially launched!"

"Great!" Arthur said in surprise and asked again, "What is the current data of this ship?"

The aircraft carrier has been under construction. Although Arthur has the data from the initial design of the aircraft carrier, because the aircraft carriers are constantly adding new black technology, the current data is somewhat different from the original ones!

Therefore, Arthur did not know the current data!

"By your Majesty, the general data has not changed!" Meck explained in a deep voice, "The displacement is 30,000 tons, the length of the ship is 270 meters, the width of the ship is 40 meters, the length of the deck is 200 meters, and the draft is 8.5 meters."

Compared with the aircraft carrier in its previous life, this aircraft carrier is inferior, but considering the average technology in this world, this aircraft carrier is indeed not bad!

"In terms of power, I used my latest steam engine, Steam Pioneer, four, and added the hybrid power composed of tidal energy researched from the Kingdom of Tik!

The aircraft carrier is very large and heavy. The power required to drive it is very high, so there is really no way to use hybrid power!

St. Martin has no nuclear power, and only the fur has been studied about tidal energy, which can only convert tidal energy by 30%, which is not enough to drive an aircraft carrier. Therefore, hybrid power can only be used to achieve the power required for the aircraft carrier to start!

"As for speed, it is normally at thirty knots (one knot equals a speed of about 1.8 kilometers), but we also have many twin wind shells around the ship, so when necessary, we can start these twin wind shells to accelerate the aircraft carrier, and reach a speed of one hundred knots in a short time!"

“…”

Listening to Make's introduction, Arthur nodded with satisfaction and then asked a key question, "So, how much steam mecha can this aircraft carrier carry?"
Chapter completed!