Melbourne's current problem is actually quite big. Melbourne's biggest problem now is caused by her catapult. In fact, this problem is very big for Melbourne, but Melbourne is better covered up now, but in the eyes of Fatty Gao, it seems that it is.

Melbourne’s catapult is a steam catapult. As mentioned earlier, the early catapults can be said to be diverse in variety. Steam catapults are a great contribution to the development of aircraft carriers. Before the steam catapults, the more mature one was hydraulic catapult. The steam catapult turned the hydraulics into steam, which greatly improved the efficiency of steam, and could also eject heavier carrier-based aircraft.

Simply put, steam catapults are steam-pushing cylinders. The cylinders connect the aircraft to achieve the effect of ejecting the aircraft. The source of steam is the power system, because in the era when steam catapults were proposed, the power system of warships was mainly steam power, and steam comes from the power system. This is a big problem in this method of catapulting and is also the biggest problem facing Melbourne at present.

The steam of the steam catapult comes from the power system, and the lack of steam in the power system will affect the speed of the warship. This is a big problem caused by this catapult method. For the US super aircraft carrier Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, when the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is at a speed of 30 knots, the speed of eight carrier-based aircraft will drop from 30 knots to 22 knots, and the speed of 12 catapults will drop below 20 knots. For aircraft carriers, the speed of below 20 knots in the combat zone is dangerous.

This is the biggest problem in Melbourne now. The Skyhawk attack aircraft and S2 anti-submarine aircraft are indeed excellent, but both carrier-based aircraft need to be ejected and taken off. Melbourne was originally an emergency aircraft carrier built by Britain during the war. Melbourne's original plan was to be demolished in three years after the war. Many merchant ship standards were used during the construction process, which is a big problem.

The US Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Not to mention that it planned to use steam catapults at the beginning, Melbourne never thought about using steam catapults at the beginning. There is indeed no problem with installing steam catapults, but it should be noted that the speed originally designed by Melbourne was twenty-five knots. After the world was transformed, Melbourne's speed has been improved and the power system has also made great progress. However, as in history, the Melbourne power system did not consider the problem of steam catapults.

This makes a Melbourne attack wave, like those aircraft carriers in history, basically eight aircraft. If there are more Melbourne, the speed will be too slow. Therefore, in general, a Melbourne attack wave is eight aircraft, and only in an emergency will it take off ten aircraft, which will reduce Melbourne's attack power a lot, because in the past, a Melbourne carrier-based aircraft had twenty aircrafts moving upwards. Gao Fatty actually didn't understand Melbourne's behavior.

Fatty Gao knew clearly that there was no need for an attack wave in Melbourne to be just an aircraft. Melbourne's speed is not slow now. The world's catapult planes are different from history. In fact, more than ten aircraft are ejected at a time are not a problem. Fatty Gao didn't understand Melbourne's behavior at first. According to Melbourne's saying, frequent changes in speed will make the large digital light cruiser escort her unable to adapt. Fatty Gao said it is OK, but this requires a process. The aircraft carrier needs escort, but because of the steam catapult, Melbourne's speed changes are very frequent. This must cooperate well with the warship that escorts her. Therefore, Melbourne has been coordinating the issue of escort with the large digital for this period of time. After this matter is resolved, Melbourne will make adjustments.

In fact, the big numbers have just been adapted to, because Melbourne’s steam catapult is not available now. After the first awakening, there were steam catapults in Melbourne. However, with the changes in carrier-based aircraft, the catapults have also changed. The Skyhawk Attack Machine is much heavier than before, which makes the catapult aircraft require a lot more steam.

In fact, there were not many catapults before the secondary awakening, because for her, those carrier-based aircraft were excellent and not suitable for catapults, they could take off. Catapults were only used when taking off and landing at the same time, but this situation was relatively rare. After the secondary awakening, it was different. After the secondary awakening, the carrier-based aircraft was much heavier and had to use catapults to take off.

Fatty Gao is still very familiar with Melbourne now, and the guidance of the Glorious Ship Girl is basically not a problem. The Glorious Ship Girl is clear about the changes in Melbourne's speed, but she really doesn't know about the situation of Melbourne catapults. After knowing this, the Glorious Ship Girl thinks that Melbourne is like that, because the situation in Melbourne destined her to have a large number of attack wave carrier-based aircraft. This is the biggest problem in Melbourne. More than ten carrier-based aircraft were enough in the world before Fatty Gao traveled through, but it was not possible in this world. One attack wave had more than ten aircraft, which was too small.

After being enlightened by Fatty Gao, the glorious ship girl felt better. In fact, there was still a difference between her and Melbourne. The glorious ship girl herself knew that Melbourne is now an SS-class historical warship. No matter what, the SS-class historical warship is stronger. This glorious ship girl is very obvious from bravery, because bravery is like this. In fact, bravery is similar to gloriousness in terms of hull and carrier-based aircraft, but because it is an SS-class historical warship, bravery is more powerful than gloriousness. This glorious ship girl has no choice but to bravery, but bravery is her sister glorious ship girl doesn't care about this, but it is not like that for Melbourne, because glorious ship girl and Melbourne are not sister ships. The glorious ship girl has thoughts in her mind.
Chapter completed!