In February 1938, two 40,000-ton aircraft carriers were officially commissioned. Qin's two aircraft carriers took two years to complete, and the completion time was three months later than expected. The situation changed again and again.
,Fortunately, three more months is not long.
Before the completion of these two aircraft carriers, Wang Jiuling also modified two merchant ships to train aircraft carrier personnel and used them as escort aircraft carriers. In addition, there was also a British merchant ship and cruiser that were sunk during the attacks on Borneo and Hong Kong.
Old battleships have also been converted into aircraft carriers
The British warships deployed in Asia are all old warships, and they have been repaired and outdated. However, Wang Jiuling, as a later generation, knows the importance of escort aircraft carriers, especially when Qin will control the South China Sea in the future, so that Indonesia and other places will
It is not the entire continent, so it naturally requires a large number of patrol fleets and escort transport ships. Using a large aircraft carrier is a bit like killing a chicken with a knife, so an escort aircraft carrier carrying more than ten or twenty aircraft is the most suitable.
The biggest feature of escort aircraft carriers is that they are small, usually with a flat flight deck. The island-type superstructure is much smaller than that of conventional aircraft carriers. Unlike light aircraft carriers that are converted from combat ships, escort aircraft carriers are converted from merchant ships, so they are more advanced.
They are small aircraft carriers used to escort merchant ships. They usually deploy in front of the transport fleet, use carrier-based aircraft to conduct reconnaissance, attack submarines, or guide surface ships to attack and escort. In addition to escorting, aircraft carriers often also play the role of transport ships.
Therefore, the transformation of escort aircraft carriers can not only cultivate naval talents for the Qin State in advance, but also can be put to great use in the future. The Qin State has transformed a large number of merchant ships into aircraft carriers, and they are the kind of aircraft carriers that can only carry more than ten or twenty aircraft. This has made countries
While Wang Jiuling was surprised that he wanted to develop an aircraft carrier, he was also laughed at by these countries.
This is what a country without industrial foundation is like. It has no ability to build large aircraft carriers, so it can only use those commercial ships to transform them. After a long time, they finally regained some face for their failure.
From the beginning of last year to this year, the Navy has had eight escort aircraft carriers. The officers and soldiers have no dissatisfaction or ridicule, because Wang Jiuling has long said that after the large aircraft carrier is launched, all the crew members will be selected from the current navy.
, if you are good enough, come in. If you are not capable, there is nothing you can do. Anyway, there are only two aircraft carriers.
So after the Navy got the aircraft carrier, it immediately put into intense training. Those who are outstanding will enter the real aircraft carrier. The commander of the aircraft carrier fleet will also select from them. Everyone is holding their breath, although it will be built later.
More aircraft carriers, but that is a matter for the future. They don’t want to wait until later to work on the first aircraft carrier built by the Qin State. The honor is not comparable to the aircraft carriers built later. The first one is the most important.
precious
With the escort aircraft carriers' training a year in advance, after the heavy aircraft carriers are launched into the water, they will not be completely ignorant. Moreover, the aircraft carriers of this era are far simpler than the aircraft carriers of later generations. Therefore, after the aircraft carriers are commissioned, there will still be officers and soldiers on the two aircraft carriers.
The officers and soldiers in the same fleet as them immediately threw themselves into intense training. Wang Jiuling didn't need them to worry about anything. Wang Jiuling only needed combat effectiveness. They didn't have to worry about anything else. As long as they had combat effectiveness as soon as possible, Wang Jiuling would give them everything.
The naval officers who were unsuccessful this time are not discouraged, because three ships will be completed this year, and four more will be completed next year, so as long as they train well, it will be a matter of time for them to join the aircraft carrier.
Wang Jiuling never said no to the cost of building an aircraft carrier. After Chen Shaokuan came to Qin, he saw that Wang Jiuling spared no expense to build an aircraft carrier. His expression can be described in words. As an aircraft carrier controller, he proposed to Chiang Kai-shek back then.
China needs twenty aircraft carriers to protect maritime security
As early as 1928, Chen Shaokuan, then commander of the Second Fleet of the Chinese Navy, wrote a letter requesting to spend 20 million yuan to build China's first aircraft carrier (hereinafter referred to as the aircraft carrier)! That was definitely a blockbuster in the Chinese military community!
When the news spread, everyone was talking about building an aircraft carrier. Of course it was a good thing, but did China have the strength? At this time, Chiang Kai-shek neither wanted to spend money nor lose people's hearts, so he resorted to the "delay" tactic: five years, ten years,
Fifteen years later, a big cake was drawn for Chen Shaokuan. In the blink of an eye, the Anti-Japanese War came. Chen Shaokuan had lost all the Chinese navy’s fortune, and Chen Shaokuan was still dreaming of his naval power: from Liaodong to the Sino-Vietnamese border in the South China Sea,
Divide four theaters and build 20 aircraft carriers, with each aircraft carrier costing about 1.8 billion yuan. This is really a "big plan", and it all tells the Chinese Navy's practice and ideals in the next few decades. The opposite of persistence is stubbornness in Chen Shao
From Kuan's perspective, he was realizing his dream of building a powerful navy; from others' perspective, this was stubbornness and an idiot's dream. When Chiang Kai-shek saw Chen Shaokuan's plan, he clicked his tongue. Chen Shaokuan, Chen Shaokuan, you've lost all your wealth.
, are you crazy to still spend money to build an aircraft carrier? From this moment on, Chen Shaokuan’s career began to be unlucky.
In the six-year naval plan proposed by Chen Shaokuan in 1930, it was necessary to build 1 aircraft carrier, 2 armored cruisers, 2 cruisers, 28 large and small destroyers, 24 large and small submarines, and gunboats, minesweepers, transport ships, etc., totaling 106 ships.
Historically, in November 1943, Chen Shaokuan once again proposed a naval construction plan on behalf of the Navy Ministry. In this plan, he was no longer satisfied with having a few aircraft carriers, but wanted to build several aircraft carrier groups. He envisioned that China's coast would be
It is divided into four naval areas: the first area is from Andong, Liaoning to Chengshantou, Shandong Peninsula; the second area is from Chengshantou to the Yangtze River Estuary; the third area is from the Yangtze River Estuary to Shantou, Guangdong; the fourth area is from Shantou to the junction of China and Vietnam.
The district established a coastal defense fleet with 5 aircraft carriers. A total of 20 aircraft carriers were needed along the country's coast. Each aircraft carrier cost 1.8 billion yuan (historically, 20 French currency was equal to 1 US dollar in 1935). This plan shocked many people, including Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Shao.
Kuan Que said: "The country cannot save this money."
Obviously, judging from the situation in China during the war, it was impossible for the above plan to be realized. Chen Shaokuan also knew this, but in his opinion, it was very meaningful to give Chiang Kai-shek a heads up first. In August 1945, when the Anti-Japanese War was about to win,
On this occasion, Chen Shaokuan made a real move. He invited Chen Cheng, the Minister of Military and Political Affairs, and Qian Zhuolun, the Director of the Quanxu Department (in charge of personnel), to formulate the "Naval Defense Separation Plan" based on the current situation of naval ships. This plan was based on the situation a few years ago.
The plan has been revised to reduce the number of aircraft carriers from 20 to 12, with the purpose of allowing more people to accept this plan. Chen Shaokuan explained that of course, these 12 aircraft carriers will not be completed at one time, and the deadline is 30 years.
In the 10-year plan, we will first build one 10,000-ton and one 8,000-ton aircraft carrier, with a cost of US$6,280 per ton.
But history has no assumptions anymore. At least Chen Shaokuan in this space got lucky and met Wang Jiuling, a half-expert, an aircraft carrier enthusiast, and a wealthy enthusiast.