Chapter 554 First Emperor Class Aircraft Carrier
Fei Haner's plan was supported by some people in the British Admiralty, but some people supported the Dardanelles Strait combat plan by Navy Minister Churchill. Churchill believes that the most critical thing at the moment is the Battle of the Dardanelles, because only by capturing the Dardanelles can Turkey be curbed and Turkey will be brought back from the Allies. At the same time, there were only four active battle cruisers left in Britain at once, while Germany still had ten battle cruisers, which was very unfavorable to the British Navy and must be replenished as soon as possible.
To this end, the UK has set its sights on China.
Currently, only Britain, Germany and China have battlecruisers. A large number of battleships and battlecruisers in the UK are under construction, and there is no dock to supplement the six battlecruisers lost by Britain. For this reason, the British Navy hopes to obtain battlecruisers as soon as possible to make up for the current vacancy. So, the eyes are aimed at overseas. The American battlecruisers are still in their infancy, and the British Navy does not like it in terms of design or performance.
According to Church and B's ideas, China's current Tianquan-class and Sea Dragon King-class battlecruisers are the best choices for the UK and must try every means to buy them.
On January 12, 1q14, King George V of the British King and Lord Fisher of the Maritime Minister, boarded a plane to China and headed for a one-week state visit to Beijing, China. The purpose was to personally lobby the Chinese government, hoping that China could join the Allies to participate in the war or sell the active naval battle cruiser to the British Navy.
King George V of England personally came to visit China, which was the biggest political compromise for Britain during this period, because the King of England during this period was still very influential.
However, at this critical moment, the dispatch of the Minister of Maritime Affairs, Fei. Sales-Er to China was puzzling. British officials who were informed of the matter revealed that due to the conflict between Minister of Navy Churchill and Minister of Maritime Affairs, Fisher was transferred from China by Churchill, which was actually a seizure of power and undermining of Fei Haner.
Zi Mou-Chief of General Staff of the Cabinet of Qinzheng Hall of the City, Tian Renjie, and Foreign Minister Liang Cheng, came together to report to Zhang Yunfei about the itinerary and arrangements for British King George V and Maritime Minister Fisher's visit to China.
The British ambassador to China has greeted the Chinese Foreign Ministry in advance because the Chinese side already knows the purpose of the British visit to China.
Zhang Yunfei asked: "Have you arranged the schedule?
Foreign Minister Liang Cheng replied: "The schedule has been arranged. When they arrive tomorrow, the wealth minister and the prime minister will first be welcomed by them, and first test the British people's ideas, and then your Majesty will come forward to meet the King of England!"
Zhang Yunfei lost a little bit and said, "It's good to do this. Let's see how anxious the British are? We can prescribe the right medicine!"
Foreign Minister Liang Cheng said again: "Your Majesty, King George V of England visited China at this time, and his intention to lobby the empire to participate in the war is already very obvious! I wonder what your Majesty thinks?"
Zhang Yunfei smiled and said, "The European battlefield has entered a stalemate state, which is the most beneficial to the empire! We can export materials to the Allies through sea and export arms to the Allies through 6 routes. This is the best time for us to gain huge benefits. We must make good use of this opportunity and help each side as we weaken, maintaining this delicate balance. In this way, while we are fighting for wealth, Europe will be greatly weakened by us!"
Liang Cheng nodded excitedly and said, "Your Majesty is of great opinion! I already know how to answer the idea of the British King's intention to convince the empire to join the war! As for the arrival of British Maritime Secretary Fei Haner, I think the Chief of Staff is more suitable, and it is better for Chief of Staff Tian to say it!"
Tian Renjie nodded at Liang Cheng, then turned to Zhang Yunfei, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, Fisher's purpose in this trip is to negotiate with the Empire about purchasing the Empire's active Navy Tianquan-class battlecruiser! However, I think Fisher is also interested in the large-scale boarding 6 ships used by the Empire's Navy 6 Team!"
Zhang Yunfei said in his lyrics: "What does the Admiralty think?"
Tian Renjie said: "The Navy Department has different views on this and there are differences! Some people believe that the Empire currently has only these five Tianquan-class battlecruisers, and the Sea Dragon King-class battlecruisers are strictly still in the sea trial stage. If sold to Britain, the strength of the Empire's Navy's Atlantic Fleet will be seriously affected. Especially at present, the Empire's Atlantic Fleet is still confronting the US Navy on the Atlantic Ocean. Among them, the five Tianquan-class battlecruisers played an immeasurable strategic role and posed a serious threat to the US Navy. Once these five battlecruisers are missing, the Empire will only have five Sea Dragon King-class battlecruisers left, and I am afraid that it will be beyond our ability to deal with the vast sea areas of the two oceans!"
Zhang Yunfei nodded and then asked, "What else?"
Tian Renjie continued: "There are also some people who believe that the current battleships in the Empire are equipped with advanced radar and sonar systems, which are much more sophisticated fire control systems and other related equipment than European and American naval warships. Once sold to the British Navy, with the British Navy's technical capabilities and naval industrial system, they will imitate or even pass us in a short time. They are worried that technology leakage will pose a resistance to the Imperial Navy's future domination of the ocean, or even pose a threat!"
Zhang Yunfei kept nodding, very satisfied with the Navy's strategic considerations that could move forward, and was happy that the Navy could truly grow up.
Seeing that Zhang Yunfei was satisfied with this statement, Tian Renjie sold all the foreign ships to the UK or Germany at a high price!"
Zhang Yunfei asked in confusion: "Why?"
Tian Renjie smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, you don't know that there have been two factions in the navy recently. One supports the Imperial Navy's large-scale construction of class battleships and battle cruisers, and is a fanatical believer of giant ships and cannonism, and is called the Yu Party. The other faction is opposite to the Rou Party. They oppose continuing to spend astronomical funds to build class battleships and battle cruisers. In their opinion, the future naval battleships and cannonism cannonism cannot continue for a long time. With the Imperial Air
The army grew stronger and stronger. They believed that in the future naval battles, they would first seize air supremacy, and then sea supremacy. It was specifically reflected in their theoretically proof that aircraft carriers could completely defeat battleships through the four aircraft carriers in the Empire. Moreover, from an economic perspective, the cost of a class battleship could build three aircraft carriers. The Reading Party then classified their opponents as CV Party and began to make relevant arguments on the theory of giant ships and artilleryism continuing to rule the ocean.
Zhang Yunfei was stunned. He did not expect that the collision of naval thoughts in the future would appear in the Chinese Navy now, which made him feel very sudden. However, when he thought about it, the magnetic collision of naval thoughts showed that the Chinese Navy began to have its own military considerations and no longer followed the British Navy's thinking. Their own system shows that the Chinese Navy has not only grown in strength, but also matured in naval thoughts.
The correct naval thought will largely dominate the future naval destiny. Zhang Yunfei, a later generation, has a deep understanding of this, and is even more proud of the Chinese Navy's ability to have such thoughts.
Zhang Yunfei felt as if he had let go of a big rock. What Zhang Yunfei was most worried about was that the Chinese Navy would not have its own naval army building and development ideas. Because if he did not have his own naval development ideas, once Zhang Yunfei passed away in the future, the Chinese Navy without naval thoughts would sooner or later be passed by the Western Navy. That was Zhang Yunfei's most worried thing.
Zhang Yunfei did not make any requests for ideological improvement. He hoped that the Chinese Navy could understand it on its own and not rely on Zhang Yunfei's guidance. Now, the Chinese Navy has its own ideas, which can truly let go of the navy for Zhang Yunfei. Even if Zhang Yunfei is not there in the future, the Chinese Navy will continue to grow on its own.
Looking at Zhang Yunfei's changing expression, Tian Renjie thought Zhang Yunfei was angry that there was a disagreement within the Navy, and immediately said: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, please let them stop this ideological disagreement immediately!"
No!" Zhang Yunfei immediately waved his hand to stop him, saying, "This is a good phenomenon! I'm so happy that I can't have time to do it?
Then he said: "Only with such competition, even if the Imperial Forces will no longer have external competitive pressure in the future, the internal force will promote the development of the navy because of this competitive momentum. Only with competition can there be motivation. This is equivalent to providing a heart for the Imperial Navy and allowing the Imperial Navy to have continuous fresh blood circulation."
Tian Renjie said happily: "Your Majesty is a clear lesson! Olive minister also thinks this is a good thing!" Then he said: "However, most of the CV party are middle and lower-level officials at present, and the Yue party basically controls the top leaders of the navy, so the current winner is still giant ship cannonism!
Zhang Yunfei smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. The Imperial Navy has occupied the forefront of the world's naval forces. I believe that the mainstream of the naval forces in the world will still believe in giant ship cannonism for some time in the future. After those naval veterans who support giant ship cannonism have retired, the younger faction will naturally make new naval thoughts impact the old naval thoughts."
Then he said: "However, as the Chief of General Staff, you should find a way to balance it and give the new naval thought appropriately a certain space for development! If possible, let the facts speak and let the facts prove the views of both sides!"
Tian Renjie said: "From the current arguments and arguments between the two sides, it is still very difficult for aircraft carriers to defeat battleships. This is mainly because the combat capability of aircraft carrier-based aircraft is not enough to pose a threat to class battleships. The bb party has installed powerful air-to-air firepower on future-class battleships and increased the number of radar, sonar and carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, making it difficult for aircraft carriers to successfully raid within the combat radius. On the contrary, the search radar of battleships can obtain early warnings for them, so that battleships can avoid or prepare for air combat. What's more interesting is that in their military performance, once an aircraft carrier is revealed by a battleship, the aircraft carrier will soon be sunk.
Currently, China's current aircraft carriers carry only more than 30 aircraft. In the war game, a single aircraft carrier cannot match the battleship pk. Under the air defense fire of the battleship, the bomber cannot break through the prepared battleship air defense system.
Of course, these premises refer to the confrontation between the Chinese Navy's aircraft carriers and battleships. If it is a Chinese aircraft carrier attacking the battleships of other countries, the situation will be different. At present, the surface ships of various countries only have firepower systems to counter naval battleship reconnaissance aircraft, and overall there is basically no air defense awareness. Therefore, once it encounters China's aircraft carrier fleet, it is certain to be sunk.
However, Zhang Yunfei strictly prohibits the exposure of aircraft carriers' combat capabilities in advance. Without completely solving the problem of the aircraft carrier fleet defeating the battleship formation, the potential combat power of aircraft carriers exposed will be more than worth the effort to cause the naval strategies of various countries to be affected.
Therefore, so far, the navies of various countries still believe that China's aircraft carriers are just reconnaissance aircraft carriers, and they are all reconnaissance aircraft used for reconnaissance. This simple reconnaissance aircraft carrier, also has it, but is a cargo ship that can carry more than a dozen reconnaissance aircraft. Apart from the Chinese Navy, the term "aircraft carrier" has not been included in the naval branches by various countries' navies, which shows that countries' understanding of aircraft carriers is still at a very simple level.
As the supreme commander of the military, Tian Renjie has been doing the instructions given by Zhang Yunfei to leave room for the navy's new ideas.
Although he is also a person who serves the great ship cannonism. However, in the leadership, he must be equal and needs to treat different ideological differences objectively. Only by putting various ideas into practice can he achieve which idea is correct.
After the completion of the four modified aircraft carriers, the Navy has been testing the combat value of the aircraft carrier and has actually tested various data of the aircraft carrier in exchange for technical experience in building the next generation of aircraft carriers.
Zhang Yunfei once drew several sketches of future aircraft carriers. Although they are just a shell, they are very important for China's prompts to build aircraft carriers.
Originally, the Naval Engineering Department did not look forward to the oblique flight deck, but preferred the rectangular horizontal takeoff deck. However, as the flight test data of the aircraft carrier-based aircraft in service came out, both pilots and ship staff had a lot of complaints about the straight-through flight deck.
Because, during the battle exercise between the CV Party and the BB Party of aircraft carriers against battleships, the aircraft carrier fighter cannot sink or severely damage the battleship in one go after the takeoff, and several attacks are required. However, when the fighter returns, the battleship also follows and fires more than kilometers away with the firepower range of the battleship. While the aircraft carrier recovers the fighter jets, it cannot avoid it from a large angle.
While recycling fighter jets, it is difficult to get fighter jets with ammunition-completed replacement as soon as possible. Therefore, the CV team is eager to use aircraft carriers with oblique flight decks. Because the oblique flight deck can take off fighters at the same time in both directions, even when recycling fighters, it can ensure that the right-angle side deck can take off fighters. At the same time, the oblique flight deck can emit more fighters, enhancing the single-handed ability of a single aircraft carrier.
Since the current performance of carrier-based fighter jets and bombers is still far from sinking or severely damaging the Royal Navy's class battleships. If you want to break through the anti-aircraft artillery and dense array of warships, each wave of attack will cost at least twenty aircraft. The existing aircraft carriers cannot achieve a second wave of attacks, and the new straight-through aircraft carrier in the design can carry up to 7D aircraft. At most, it can only severely damaging the battleships and cannot sink it.
Therefore, under the policy tilt of the General Staff, the first generation of China's aircraft carriers built by the construction were approved to adopt a beveled flight deck.
Since the Naval Act of 1q14 was approved, the Navy Department has expanded its existing shipyards, expanding it to a 100,000-ton dock based on the original 50,000-ton dock. Therefore, until 1q15, only Hawaiian-class battleships were under construction in the dock, and no other large-scale warship construction projects were started.
The commander-in-chief of the Navy Fleet General Lin Jianzhang was preparing to use the newly expanded dock to build a class battlecruiser, but was shelved by the General Staff and given to the construction of a new aircraft carrier.
In response to this, General Lin Jianzhang's protest report has been sent to the imperial emperor Zhang Yunfei, and Zhang Yunfei only said that the empire currently has ten battlecruisers, which is enough to use. Moreover, with the advancement of technology, China's battleships are already very close to the level of battlecruisers, so there is no need to spend huge amounts of funds to build battlecruisers.
Zhang Yunfei's instructions were unconditionally implemented in front of General Lin Jianzhang's miserable people, so the veterans of the Admiralty had to watch the large dock that had just been vacated was used to build a new aircraft carrier.
Although it was not used to build battle cruisers, Lin Jianzhang and others were not idle and immediately began to conceive and design more powerful class battleships to prepare for the emergence of new aircraft carriers.
According to the design standards of the new aircraft carrier, after many demonstrations and tests, the traditional straight-through flight deck of Xingguo-class aircraft carrier was changed to an oblique angle and a mixed arrangement of flight deck, so that the entire flight deck can form three areas: takeoff, standby and landing, and takeoff and landing operations can be carried out at the same time, thus forming the basic model of Chinese aircraft carriers.
This class of ship was classified as the First Emperor level, and one was built at the same level, named the First Emperor level.
The arrival of the Qin Shihuang class aircraft carrier and the arrival of the angled deck technology has led to major changes in the ship: including an angled deck and a large starboard island-style building, and a chimney passes through the middle of the island-style building. The ship, flight deck and hangar are all closed, and the hull forms an integral box structure from the bottom to the flight deck, which enhances the overall strength and increases the ship's content, increasing the load capacity, and improving the aircraft support conditions and crew living.
Chapter completed!