Perhaps because of the eventual disintegration of the Soviet Union, many people like to criticize the military equipment of the Soviet Union as useless.
For example, when the Soviet Union still existed, Europe was afraid of the T72 tanks. They even pessimistically believed that it would only take a week for the Soviet Union's steel torrent to push from Romania to the English Channel. Except for nuclear bombs, nothing could stop the Soviet tank army.
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However, after the Soviet Union collapsed, Europe began to continuously belittle the T72 tank, even criticizing it as useless.
It's like how much they feared the Soviet Union at the beginning, and how low they want to belittle the Soviet Union now.
At this point, the Kiev-class aircraft carriers once built by the Soviet Union naturally encountered the same criticism.
Because it carries a small number of carrier-based aircraft and has a short combat range, it has not only been criticized for its poor design and wasteful deck, but also ridiculed the carrier-based aircraft it carries as mast defenders.
However, in fact, the carrier-based aircraft carried by the Kiev class was the world's first vertical take-off and landing fighter, and later Americans also made many references and imitations of it.
As for the design of the Kiev class itself, although it has many shortcomings as an aircraft carrier, the Soviets themselves do not position it as a simple aircraft carrier.
The Kiev-class has powerful anti-ship, anti-submarine and defense and control capabilities. At the same time, a single ship also has strong survivability. It does not need to be accompanied by a large formation like ordinary aircraft carriers.
Its main mission is to perform formation anti-submarine, air control, and air defense tasks, serve as a formation command ship, conduct aerial reconnaissance and warning, attack enemy aircraft carrier formations and surface ships, and provide anti-ship missile over-the-horizon attack relay for other surface ships and submarines.
Guidance or target indication, support amphibious operations, vertical landing, etc.
In terms of its function and role, it is more similar to the positioning of today's amphibious assault ship, except that it does not carry landing combat troops.
In fact, the Kiev class itself can do a lot, but unfortunately it was born at the wrong time. Not long after its birth, the Soviet Union disintegrated. Russia could not afford these four aircraft carriers and could only sell them as scrap metal.
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However, for Chen Mo, the Kiev-class design, which is half cruiser and half aircraft carrier, is very practical.
After all, the Blood Sail will basically only operate as a single ship in the future, and will not be accompanied by so-called aircraft carrier formations. Therefore, the more functions and the more complete, the more practical it is for Chen Mo.
Otherwise, it is indeed not difficult for Chen Mo to get a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. There is a Nimitz at the San Diego Naval Base that can be used.
But the problem is that without the accompanying formation, carrier-based aircraft, and huge logistics support system, what use can the aircraft carrier have? Can it serve as a large fish drying deck?
Although it is said that the more modern warships are, the more they are inseparable from the logistical support of a huge industrial system. However, compared with modern aircraft carriers, which even have worrying self-defense capabilities after losing carrier-based aircraft, Chen Mo still feels that half-aircraft carriers and half-cruisers like the Kiev-class
The design is more practical and more in line with his taste.
So after devouring the Nimitz and many warships at the San Diego Naval Base, the Bloodsail evolved again, with an additional flight deck on one side of the hull and a huge aircraft carrier hangar below the deck.
In addition, Chen Mo also transferred the original nuclear reactor and power system on the Nimitz to the Blood Sail, allowing the Blood Sail to take its power system, which had been greatly improved after swallowing the Arcadia, to a higher level.
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In terms of armament, on the front deck specially vacated by Chen Mo, there are four more MK-41 vertical launch systems from the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, and the Aegis also from the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is installed on the mast.
Of course, both of them have been strengthened because the Bloodsail devoured several Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, and their performance is much stronger than the original version.
The artillery systems of several destroyers are much smaller in caliber than the artillery that Bloodsail plundered from Mutsu, but they are far superior in performance. After all, they are more advanced modern artillery, and they are far more powerful with the same caliber.
An antique beyond the Second World War.
Chen Mo also integrated several artillery systems from the Arleigh Burke-class into the main gun, allowing the three main gun turrets inherited from the Mutsu on the Blood Sail to be upgraded. While maintaining the same caliber, it has
The power and range of modern artillery.
It can be said that the current Blood Sail is an out-and-out monster even in modern naval battles, and it still has the formidable strength of a single ship to challenge a fleet.
Not to mention anything else, the anti-ship missiles launched from the vertical launch systems installed on the front deck and both sides, as well as various types of carrier-based aircraft taking off from the deck, are enough to deliver a devastating blow to any target.
For some small countries that are not strong enough, this is even a nation-destroying force.
And this is not strong enough, but it is predicated on having a modern air defense system and being able to operate it effectively.
As for the World War II environment that is about to break out in the mummy world, it will be a crushing combat power gap.
After all, during World War II, the Navy's so-called air defense was just to fight some propeller aircraft. As for supersonic missiles and supersonic fighter jets, that was something they would never even think about.
Of course, having these powerful weapons also means that the Blood Sail no longer needs to rely on logistics to a greater extent than before.
If it were still a traditional sailing battleship, it would be easy to say that just replenishing cannonballs and gunpowder would be enough, but modern warships rely on logistics that was unimaginable in the past.
Although it obtained nuclear power by devouring the Nimitz aircraft carrier, the Blood Sail still needs to rely on a huge industrial system to provide logistical support.
Various caliber artillery shells on the hull, various fuels for carrier-based aircraft, stealth coating on the hull, wear-resistant and anti-skid coating on the deck...
Even inconspicuous daily maintenance consumables such as gear lubricants greatly rely on the improvement of the logistics support system.
If you want to meet all the needs of an aircraft carrier, you must have a complete and powerful industrial system. Otherwise, even if there is an aircraft carrier, it will not even be able to provide the daily maintenance required for the aircraft carrier to sail. How can an aircraft carrier be able to perform at its best?
What about combat effectiveness?
What's more, even if the Blood Sail can sail automatically and does not require a large number of crew members to maintain the operation of the entire ship, those carrier-based aircraft still need pilots to fly, and various modern weapons are obviously not available to non-professionals like Chen Mo.
People have a lot of fun.
Therefore, he needs a group of professional naval crews to allow the Blood Sail to exert 100% combat effectiveness. Otherwise, it will still be no different from the sailing battleship of the past.
Fortunately, Chen Mo already has a solution to this problem.
