"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 this important suggestion in the record book.
This was 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 their own country's navy for this new type of weapon.
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 us, 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 did the same thing." 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 was easy to save: isn’t it just a big ship to repair an airstrip? How difficult can it be?
But in actual operation, difficulties began to appear one after another: soon everyone discovered that an 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 some smart people in the Navy have figured out based on experience, and 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.
But the problem is...the length needed for a plane to land is not that short! If the runway on the aircraft carrier is too short, won'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 countless problems in aircraft carrier design and manufacturing.
Guess where the aircraft oil is installed on an aircraft carrier? How much space is required? How to arrange the oil pipelines?
Guess where the aerial bombs, torpedoes, and ammunition are placed, how much space is required, and 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 oil supply pressure enough? Is the fire protection in place? How to place the ammunition so that it is safe? How to pick it up and transport it conveniently... These are all university questions.
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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, and where will they eat? How big of a place is needed, and how should it be designed?
Arranging 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 Hecheng and Hecheng that were hit by one, two, and three aerial bombs and then self-destructed. Think about their endings, and you will know that there is a lot of knowledge involved.
As for the optical landing assist system on the aircraft carrier of the Tang Empire, just let the technicians from various countries in this world who have never seen the world think about it for themselves, 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 back then? Wasn't it just to get Mao Xiong's experience in the details of aircraft carriers? It's not that he can't build it himself, but if the things he builds are not polished in detail, problems will inevitably arise.
Want to eliminate these problems? Then rebuild the next level of aircraft carrier, rebuild the next level of 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 a cabin structure, which is enough for Rabbit to solve more than 25 years of self-development of aircraft carriers! This is why Rabbit
The main reason why I must buy Varyag and insist on bringing it back to China is not because Rabbit's skills are not enough, but because small details that need to be figured out in actual use can only be honed in actual use, which takes time.
What the rabbit lacks is time!
That is the summary of experience Mao Xiong has accumulated through the Moscow-class, Kiev-class and Kuznetsov-class three-generation aircraft carriers! That is the summary of decades of experience in using aircraft carriers! That is something other than technology.
But even so, Rabbit still found a lot of areas that needed improvement on the Varyag. After his own exploration and improvement, the Shandong ship was born, a true "Chinese aircraft carrier."
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."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Tang's aircraft carriers gave 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 incomprehensible to 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."
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"Is it possible that their aircraft carrier... has a special space for aircraft in its 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 began to shake their heads again: "Two floors...can it also contain personnel, equipment, ammunition, and fuel?"
Soon another smart person guessed another key: "Unless the plane is folded..."
"Isn't this impossible?" Some people who are familiar with airplanes are in a dilemma.
Others 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 additional weight is added to the aircraft?"
Engineers who know the aircraft are shaking 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 damn engine technology to maintain the combat performance of their aircraft. If we modify the aircraft... it would be equivalent to letting the pilots die." Someone soon started to complain.
The leader of the old engineers 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 he was a designer, but he was just modifying existing aircraft. When the old engineer asked him, he thought for a while and replied: "150 kilograms may not be enough."
This is almost equivalent to a plane hanging bombs fighting the opponent's fighter jets, so the old engineer could only sigh: "Just thinking about it makes people desperate."
At this point, an engineer walked 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.
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"What do you mean?" Hearing this man's cry, some people immediately became confused.
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 other areas... This is the ground service guidance of the Tang Empire
The advice given is the experience and lessons we have paid for."
This maintenance process was purchased from the Tang Empire and has proven to be effective. Since the aircraft placed on the beach require additional 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 okay 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 crane transport?"
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Hundreds of questions poured out at once, giving everyone the urge to flip the table. You know, just now, someone suggested that aircraft carriers do not necessarily need to use runways to launch aircraft, but can also use rockets.
Boost, launch with explosives...
Using the deck as a runway is actually just one of many ideas. As for what Tang's aircraft carrier actually looks like, no one knows yet.
All they know is that the aircraft carrier can carry a large number of aircraft, and can fly and recover these aircraft at sea! The design with a flight deck just seems the most reasonable, and other possibilities are not completely absent!
These people are actually trying to restore a prehistoric Tyrannosaurus rex through a few adjectives...