The train drove from the Liaodong Peninsula to Qingdao. The President did not return to Beijing. Instead, he boarded the battleship Changbaishan at the Qingdao Naval Base, and then went to Shanghai under the escort of several warships.
Lin Shuo attended the commissioning and handover ceremony of two Wuyue-class battleships in person. In order to expand its influence, the Republican Army not only invited journalists from allied and neutral countries, but the Navy also conducted a majestic maritime parade outside the Yangtze River Estuary.
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The propaganda department of the military and the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Renaissance Party have sent a special team of photographers to follow up the naval parade in all directions, which will eventually be made into a navy propaganda film and an army propaganda film that has been shot.
Together they will be screened to the Chinese people soon.
The Wuyue-class battleship only took 10 months from launch to completion of outfitting. This was an extremely remarkable industrial achievement in this era. You must know that even in Germany, which has a strong shipbuilding industry, the Bismarck-class they built
It also takes 18 months from the launch of a battleship to the completion of outfitting. The Bismarck built by the Germans was launched 2 months earlier than the battleship Tarzan, but it has not yet completed outfitting, which is enough to make the world tremble.
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A year later, the USS Iowa battleship built by the Americans was outfitted in less than eight months, which shocked the world even more.
Hundreds of thousands of people watched the commissioning ceremony of the new battleships on both sides of the Yangtze River. The Taishan and Songshan were more than 260 meters long, 36 meters wide, with a standard displacement of more than 45,000 tons and equipped with 10 410mm main guns.
The behemoth appeared at Chongming Naval Base, plus three Kunlunshan-class battleships, two Congling-class battleships and two Yandangs
Shan-class battleships, a huge battle fleet composed of a total of nine battleships sailed through the Yangtze River waterway, plus a rapid response fleet composed of four aviation battleships, two heavy cruisers and eight two-class cruisers. This fleet has exceeded the British in scale.
The fleet of the Royal Navy has shocked the world, and the Republic is showing its power to the world in the usual way of the great powers.
The president happily stood on the review stage built by the USS Suiyuan air defense cruiser and waved to the warships participating in the ship review. Through the loudspeaker, he extended the greetings of the Supreme Commander of the Republic of China to the naval officers and soldiers on the warships passing the review stage one after another.
The warships were hoisted with flags, and when passing the reviewing stand, they blew long whistles to pay the highest respect to their supreme commander.
"President, don't you dislike battleships very much?" As the president's deputy chief, Fang Minghao saw the president's excitement and asked quietly standing beside him.
"They look scary enough, don't they?" The president smiled and said, "At least they look fierce, very powerful, and have enough momentum."
Counting it in detail, the Republic Navy is now enough to make the whole world tremble. There are 5 Wuyue-class ships, 5 Kunlunshan-class ships, 4 Congling-class battleships, plus 7 battleships modified after capture, for a total of 21 battleships.
, in appearance, perhaps only the U.S. Navy with 24 battleships can rival it.
In terms of real combat effectiveness, the Republic Navy has far surpassed the United States. Only after the Americans' latest warships are put into service will they have the capital to confront the Republic Navy.
In fact, the battleship has been reduced to a secondary role in naval battles. Its main role is to follow the aviation fleet and act as a frigate, an expensive bodyguard.
What is obviously different from the high-profile promotion of the newly commissioned "super battleship" is that after the naval ship review, the president, accompanied by You Xicheng, director of the General Armament Bureau of the Navy, came to the Chongming Naval Shipyard, but quietly inspected the tense
The construction work of a new class of heavy aviation battleships of the Republic Navy under construction. This is a brand new class of heavy aviation battleships.
The current Tianjin-class aviation battleships of the Republic of China Navy are much larger aircraft ships. Its standard displacement exceeds 45,000 tons, which corrects the previous problem of crowded space on all levels of aircraft carriers, making it difficult to take off and land heavy aircraft. This class of aviation
The ship has stronger armor protection, a larger hull and high freeboard, giving it better stability in harsh sea conditions.
This is a first-class new aviation battleship with a completely new design and novel style. A shorter landing zone flight deck with a certain inclination angle is added to the left side of the deck. This greatly increases the area of the flight deck and allows combat aircraft to
They can take off and land at the same time without interfering with each other. The higher freeboard and higher hangar height give the warship better seaworthiness and room for upgrades.
Unlike the U.S. warships that were limited by the lock width of the Panama Canal and had to adopt a slimmer cruiser-type hull, the Republican Navy chose a wide-body ship type with a smaller length-to-width ratio, which made the warships of the Republic Navy have a longer length.
Good anti-sinking performance and stronger protection capabilities are also obtained at the expense of speed. Compared with U.S. Navy ships of the same class, the maximum speed of Republic Navy ships differs by 2-3 knots.
After completing his inspection of the new aviation battleship, Lin Shuo was quite satisfied with the overall performance of the new class of aviation battleship that he had intervened in the construction of. When Lin Shuo came to the large shipyard No. 4 and 5 of the shipyard, the
The hulls of the two heavy-duty aircraft carriers have been basically formed, and the completion degree of the power system has reached 100%.
Eighty. The 12 boilers can provide a total power of 210,000 horsepower, giving this battleship a high speed of 31 knots and an endurance of 12,000 nautical miles, which is enough for it to perform a long-distance operation across the Pacific Ocean or enter the
Atlantic sea area to deal with British combat missions.
What makes Lin Shuo most happy is that the Naval Radio Equipment and Communication Equipment Manufacturing Company located in the eastern part of the Hudong Shipyard. In the national laboratory established within this company, it finally succeeded in manufacturing the world's first transistor. The emergence of the transistor
Sounded the clarion call for the electrical industrial revolution.
However, at this time, the manufacturing technology of transistors was still listed as a first-level national military secret. With transistor technology, the Republic could produce radio equipment that was ten or even dozens of times more advanced than any other country. Moreover, the transistor performance was stable and the power consumption was low.
The power is extremely low, and radio equipment made with it is much smaller than the old tube radio equipment, and can improve performance dozens of times.
In fact, at the beginning of the 20th century, some semiconductor materials were widely used in the world's radio manufacturing field. People already knew the characteristics of some semiconductor materials. The transistor had been discovered in the 1920s. The problem was that due to the investment of funds, it was limited to the
Technical level, people cannot obtain high-purity semiconductor material purification technology.
Using silicon and germanium semiconductor materials to make diodes and transistors is a basic physical knowledge that every junior high school student will know in later generations, but it is a revolutionary scientific and technological achievement in this era. When the president provided the Radio National Laboratory with a document obtained from abroad
After receiving the "secret information", the work at the National Semiconductor Laboratory has been developing rapidly in the right direction.
After several years of hard work, the National Semiconductor Laboratory has mastered the production technology of large-scale purification of metallic germanium in soot, which has prepared for the large-scale transistor manufacturing industry.
"We are at least five years ahead of the West in this regard, which is enough!" Lin Shuo watched as Huang Kun, director of the National Semiconductor Laboratory, and Wu Xijiu, chief researcher, and Dr. Cheng Congzhi specially conducted a new transistor manufacturing process for the president.
They demonstrated radio communication equipment, greatly appreciated their achievements, and encouraged everyone to apply this new technological achievement to the production of military radio equipment as soon as possible.