1217 Weird aircraft carriers from various countries
In order to ensure the valuable naval aircraft carrier pilots they have trained, aircraft carrier designers of various navies have put a lot of thought into it.
There are always some striking similarities in history. For example, some countries believed that the chimneys and thick smoke on their aircraft carriers would obscure the pilots' view of taking off and landing, so they made the chimneys retractable.
When this information first appeared on the desk of Emperor Tang Mo of the Tang Empire, he almost laughed out loud at the photos in front of him.
Next to him, Leo didn't know where Tang Mo was laughing. He could only watch his emperor laughing while holding the photo, but he didn't know why.
Frankly speaking, Tang Mo didn't know if this design of knocking down the chimney was useful, but it was unlucky for him.
What's the difference between designing this kind of chimney and naming one of your destroyers Yukikaze? Aren't they both just flag-raising and injustice?
In addition, some countries deliberately design the bridges of aircraft carriers to the left and right sides of the aircraft carrier deck. According to their thinking, this design can ensure that the aircraft carrier can be easily contacted and dispatched during formation.
This design also came from the combined fleet of a certain country's navy. Tang Mo suddenly felt dumbfounded after seeing it.
Don't tell me, sometimes the weird ideas of people who lived a good life can be really easy to get upset with.
In addition, various countries have also made many interesting innovations when building aircraft carriers: many countries have installed main guns of about 200 mm on aircraft carriers, giving the aircraft carrier a certain degree of "self-defense capability."
It's just that this ability seems a bit useless. These artillery can't fire when taking off and landing carrier-based aircraft.
Some countries have tried double decks on their aircraft carriers. The lower deck is used to take off aircraft, and the upper deck is used to land aircraft...
It later proved that this segmented aircraft carrier deck was not easy to use at all, and it also wasted the area and height of the hangar. In the end, the aircraft carrier was transformed into a normal aircraft carrier, which was a detour like the Akagi aircraft carrier.
Interestingly, because I have visited the aircraft carriers of the Tang Empire, almost all the first-generation aircraft carriers designed and built by various countries around the world adopted a semi-open side structure.
This structure can reduce the tonnage of the aircraft carrier and lower the center of gravity, which has many benefits. Of course, this design also has disadvantages, that is, poor anti-sinking performance and slightly lower armor protection level.
Another problem is that using a similar structure will affect the use of ships in areas with relatively strong wind and waves. However, the wind and waves in most areas of the Endless Sea are not particularly serious, so there is no problem with this design.
In addition, because of the backwardness of the aircraft carrier navigation system, countries around the world tend to be conservative in the choice of carrier-based aircraft. Some of them chose to purchase the Stuka of the Tang Empire, and some purchased the even more backward and slower Swordfish. In short, everyone
They all chose relatively backward and slow carrier-based aircraft.
Even when it comes to the choice of fighter jets, they have all purchased single-seat fighter jets such as the Zero, Sea Spitfire, Sea Hurricane, Corsair, Wildcat, and Hellcat. However, the navies of these countries insist that single-seat aircraft are not suitable for use in combat operations.
Perform separate combat missions at sea.
Tactically, navies of various countries believe that it is safe for escort fighter jets to perform deportation missions over the fleet, because they have their own fleet at their feet and do not need to worry about navigation issues.
At this time, the performance of the fighter is the key to fighting for air supremacy, so the fighter must be a high-performance, single-seat fast fighter.
When attacking, single-seat fighter jets escort the attack aircraft, which is actually a flying companion state. They also do not need a navigator, they only need to follow the attack aircraft group.
As for attack aircraft, they must have a navigator. On the vast sea, having a co-pilot or even an extra bombardier will do more good than harm in terms of search and flight.
I don’t know who first put forward this statement, but it is very popular among the navies of various countries. Therefore, multi-pilot aircraft such as Stuka, 97 Ship Attack, Dreadnought and even the outdated and outdated Swordfish have become
It has become the first choice for air force procurement in various countries.
The navy with no money uses Zero fighter jets, and the rich navy uses F-6F Hellcats; the navy with no money uses Swordfish, and the navy with money just uses 97 ships to attack...
In terms of carrier-based aircraft, all countries in the world have naturally been greatly influenced by the pioneer of the Tang Dynasty Imperial Navy. More than half of the countries hope to purchase general-purpose attack aircraft such as Stukas, which can use both bombs and torpedoes. It can be said that
Convenient and simple.
Everyone doesn't like special-purpose aircraft, and they don't want to distinguish torpedo attack aircraft and dive bombers like the lighthouse country did. But in fact, the Tang Empire was the outlier. In World War II, the United States and Japan fought on the Pacific battlefield.
All are equipped with two or more types of attack aircraft.
It's a pity that Tang Mo chose the less standard "German" approach in the selection of carrier-based aircraft, and turned San Dezi's helpless move into a classic: There is no way, who let the competitors' standards be too poor and let the Stuka
This kind of carrier-based aircraft can shine...
As a result, countries all over the world have become superstitious about general-purpose carrier-based aircraft, and everyone hopes to be equipped with a "good aircraft" like the Stuka that can carry both torpedoes and bombs.
As for the Stuka carrier-based aircraft's extremely slow speed and unprofessional torpedo attacks, they were selectively ignored by commanders of navies around the world.
In the eyes of these people, flying slowly equals safe takeoff and landing, flying slowly equals accurate attacks, and flying slowly equals convenient navigation... In short, flying slowly has its own reasons for flying slowly.
They never believe that the carrier-based aircraft of the Datang Empire were chosen out of necessity because technological iteration could not keep up, nor do they believe that the weapons and equipment selected by the Datang Empire were actually inferior.
Having been educated by the weapons and equipment of the Tang Empire all the way to the eyes of current military leaders around the world, whatever the Tang Empire chooses must be the right thing!
Due to the length constraints of the aircraft carrier deck and the performance limitations of the carrier-based aircraft, all countries believe that the Tang Empire's jet fighters cannot be used on the ship.
In other words, although there is an absolute performance gap between land-based aircraft, the Tang Empire's most advanced fighter jets cannot be mounted on ships.
This statement is not groundless. On the one hand, it is because the take-off and landing distances of the jet civil aviation aircraft that airlines around the world have queued up to purchase have indeed increased, and are much longer than the 47-type civil aviation transport aircraft that everyone used in the past.
This fully shows that as the speed of the aircraft increases, the take-off and landing distance of the aircraft will increase. Therefore, the Tang Empire cannot take off and land high-performance jet carrier aircraft on an airstrip less than 300 meters.
Another reason for the misjudgment by weapons experts from various countries is that someone stole some design information about the 262 jet fighter from the Yangmu Empire.
Although the data is not detailed and many technologies are missing, it somewhat illustrates some problems: while jet fighters emphasize speed, their takeoff and landing performance has indeed declined.
The take-off distance of the new aircraft is significantly longer than that of propeller aircraft. Jet fighters of the 262 level are indeed unable to complete take-off and landing operations on an aircraft carrier.
After confirming this matter, the navies of various countries breathed a sigh of relief. This shows that their fleets are at the same level as the Tang Empire in terms of aircraft performance. In terms of air supremacy in the decisive battle of the fleet, they should be able to match the Tang Empire with their numerical advantage.
war!
Even though the Tang Empire had an absolute advantage in terms of "missiles", various countries also had certain advantages in the number of battleships and cruisers.
As long as everyone unites to prevent the Datang Empire from landing across the sea, then the next war can definitely be won in a dangerous situation and break the myth of the Datang Empire being undefeated!
In any case, except for the Tang Empire, which is preparing to launch three modern aircraft carriers in one go, other countries are building their own aircraft carriers.
And their construction speed is not slow. The largest country has also started building three aircraft carriers at once in an attempt to expand its naval fleet. After all, aircraft carriers in this era have wooden decks, and the performance of carrier-based aircraft is not that exaggerated.
, so the technical standards are actually not high.
If the Tang Empire really relaxed its export restrictions on some special steels and was willing to provide some technical support, countries around the world could still play the game of dumplings under aircraft carriers.
Frankly speaking, if the performance gap of carrier-based aircraft is not considered, the aircraft carrier strength of these countries is actually not weak. After so many years of accumulation and competition with each other, the shipbuilding industry of these countries has basically reached or exceeded that of the British Empire before and after World War I.
s level.
These countries all have some strength in building battleships, cruisers, and World War II-level aircraft carriers.
Except for the Ice Empire and the Poplar Empire, which did not start building aircraft carriers due to the war, the remaining countries can have a large-scale aircraft carrier fleet in the future.
If we also count the additional aircraft carriers that may be built in the future, the Tang Empire may not even maintain an absolute advantage in the number of aircraft carriers.
Didn’t you see that the Chu State has already started building their new domestic aircraft carrier under the guidance of the engineers of the Tang Empire?
Didn’t you see that the Qin State, which had just annexed the Shu State, had already laid the first keel of their Qin State’s aircraft carrier at the shipyard at the southernmost tip of the Shu State?
Even Qin, a landlocked country in the past, has begun to build its own aircraft carriers. How could other naval powers in the world not build their own aircraft carriers?
In short, a new round of naval arms race initiated by the Tang Empire quietly kicked off, and the shipyards of the Eastern Continent were very busy for a while.
Only a few countries were lucky enough to escape this money-burning arms race: the Ice Empire and the Poplar Empire, which were really out of money, and the Sussus Empire, which had no navy at all...
