Chapter 1079 Chapter 055 Launching the Water

 The people of Kimchi in South China are still dreaming of becoming powerful.

“What about our own aircraft carrier? Have you started designing it?” the naval officer leading the team continued to ask.

“Yes, we have started designing, but we think some parameters need to be adjusted,” Zheng Yishan said.

 “What parameters?”

"For example, the tonnage." Zheng Yishan said: "The tonnage given to us by the Navy is 40,000 tons. We believe that this tonnage is too small and cannot meet our needs at all. We should expand the tonnage to more than 70,000 tons. , Only in this way can we compete with the Eastern aircraft carriers."

Speaking of aircraft carriers, Zheng Yishan was eloquent. The parameters given by the Navy were too low. How could the Navy be so blind?

“As for the take-off plan, we also have to change from ski-jump take-off to electromagnetic catapult take-off and arresting cable landing, so that it can perfectly match our KF-21N carrier-based aircraft.”

Although the aviation system has announced that it will develop a new stealth aircraft that also has carrier-based capabilities, the Navy still has a clear understanding of its own aviation industry and feels that it is safer to purchase American carrier-based aircraft, so , they proposed to carry JSF carrier-based aircraft, use ski jump to take off and land vertically, and the overall layout is close to the British aircraft carrier.

However, the development of the JSF project continues to be delayed, and now there are rumors that the Americans are very dissatisfied with the JSF project and feel that it should be replaced by Lockheed's plan. It is conceivable that this project will go through many iterations again, and the US military will not use it for its own use. You have to wait three to five years, but third-party customers have to wait ten or eight years?

 They can’t wait any longer, they must change!

  If they want to use their own carrier-based aircraft, they must use catapult takeoff and arrested landing solutions. After all, they do not have the ability to develop vertical takeoff and landing fighters, which are complex and niche.

Moreover, they still have to compete with Dongfang. Dongfang’s aircraft carrier is already an 80,000-ton aircraft carrier. How can their own aircraft carrier fall behind, a 40,000-ton aircraft carrier? That's a joke.

"The Korean Navy is trying to repair their Kuznetsov. After the repair, they will have a modern aircraft carrier. Moreover, the Korean Navy will soon have two 25,000-ton amphibious assault ships. I think, We must focus on the future. One day in the future, we may face a huge formation of the Dalai Lama Navy at sea. If the performance of our aircraft carrier is too poor, it will not be able to compete with the Dalai Lama Navy."

"But this kind of aircraft carrier requires electromagnetic catapult technology. Can we develop this technology?" The naval officer still has doubts. After all, not everyone can play with this electromagnetic catapult. Currently, only Dongfang is in service. Human products are still being tested by Americans.

"We don't have it, but the United States does. When construction starts, we can just purchase it directly from the United States. We plan to install two catapults, one each on the bow deck and the bevel deck. This will not only allow us to take off Carrier-based aircraft can also take off E-2 Hawkeye early warning aircraft. Only such an aircraft carrier can have truly powerful combat effectiveness. At the same time, we also plan to adopt a dual-ship island layout..."

 A group of naval leaders were impressed and looked at the design of the 70,000-ton aircraft carrier that appeared on the screen. They were very satisfied. If this aircraft carrier plan is realized, they will have the strongest maritime power in the region!

As for the amphibious assault ships of the island countries, they cannot be compared with our own.

 Everyone is immersed in the fantasy of a better life in the future.

 After viewing the design plan, everyone came to the slipway and looked at the KDX-2 destroyer under construction.

"This is our most advanced guided missile destroyer, and also the most advanced destroyer in all of East Asia." Zheng Yishan said excitedly: "The ship currently under construction is the fourth ship of KDX-2, and the Navy has named it Wang Jian. .”

This warship is being built at a high speed and is being formed into the army at a rate of one ship per year. The first ship, Yi Sun-shin, is the most famous hero in their history. It was launched in 2002, underwent sea trials in 2003, and was delivered to the Navy at the end of the year. , the No. 2 ship is undergoing sea trials, the No. 3 ship is being outfitted, and only the No. 4 ship is still on the slipway.

This Wang Jian is also very famous. He was the founding king of the Goryeo Dynasty that unified the entire peninsula.

“Yes, this kind of guided missile destroyer is the most advanced. When our KDX-3 is completed in the future, it will be even more advanced!” Naval officers were also very excited.

“Yes, when our 10,000-ton destroyer is launched, we will have the most powerful destroyer in the world!”

“That’s right, there is no destroyer that can compare with our destroyer!”

While they were discussing, someone came over in a hurry: "Report, a 10,000-ton destroyer has been launched in the East. Model 055, hull number 101."

What?

“Are you sure the destroyer launched by the Orientals has a displacement of tens of thousands of tons?”

"Yes, based on the data taken by the satellite, the displacement is about 10,000 tons. However, compared to the displacement, the phased array radar antenna base reserved is more surprising. There should be more than three groups of phased arrays on it. antenna."

“What? So many antennas? How much will that cost?”

The KDX-2 in front of them has not been equipped with a phased array radar. Although it also has a MK41 vertical launcher, it cannot be called an advanced warship. It has a displacement of 5,500 tons and is incomparable with the Eastern 052 destroyer. They are just swollen by themselves. He pretends to be a fat man and says that he is the number one in East Asia.

As for the new KDX-3, it sounds very advanced, but it is only on paper and has not officially started construction. Moreover, the radar system is still purchased from the United States and is a passive phased array radar.

 What about the East?

Dongfang Yishui's active phased array radar Aegis battleship has already made them very envious. Although they don't say it, they are very envious in their hearts. Now, their 10,000-ton Aegis battleship is still on paper. , the Oriental's 10,000-ton battleship has been launched!

 Not just four-sided phased array radar, but eight or even twelve?

Aren’t Easterners too luxurious? Wouldn't it be better to equip us with the extra radar?

 Eastern, Mingzhou Group.

Although the reconnaissance satellites in the sky fly over every day, they usually pay attention to the aircraft carrier being built in the dock. The intelligence personnel ignore the warship on the dock. After all, the appearance of that warship does not seem to be much different from other 052s, except that the size is different. Same.

It wasn’t until it was completed and launched that someone realized something was wrong, this warship was too big!

It is obviously larger than the 052, with more vertical hairs at the front and rear, and a dazzling number of radar holes reserved on the bridge. This is a brand new destroyer!

On this day, the slipway became lively again. Although the Eastern Navy often comes here to hold warship launching ceremonies, today's launching ceremony is still very exciting.

 This warship is very special!

"Today, we have the launching ceremony of another warship. This Aegis warship is somewhat different from other warships. Its displacement exceeds 10,000 tons, and its number of vertical beams exceeds 100. This is the first 10,000-ton ship in our navy. Class 055 destroyer!”

 The launching ceremony was still presided over by Wu Shengli. He did not need to take a draft and performed it on the spot.

“Now, the Navy has set its hull number as 101 and its name as Nanchang!”

There was warm applause below, and everyone knew what this ship number meant.

 At that time, the motherland had just been founded and was very poor. However, it was still willing to spend huge sums of money for the construction of the navy. The country used its gold reserves to purchase four warships from Lao Maozi. Over a long period of time, they became the four kings of the navy.

The first ship, Anshan, has a hull number of 101. It is a "thunder strike ship" of Lao Maozi's Pacific Fleet. Although its full load displacement is only 2,581 tons, at that time, it was already the first Chinese ship.

After returning, this warship took on the important task of guarding the motherland's maritime borders. In the 1970s, it was modified with missiles and became a guided missile destroyer. It was retired from active service in 1992 and entered the Naval Museum to tell the story of the development and growth of the navy to future generations. Since then, the hull number 101 has been vacant.

 Now, this hull number is being used again, which is of great significance!

"All the four previous King Kongs of the Navy have been retired. Now, Ship 101 is in service here as the new Four King Kongs. No, this is not the Four King Kongs, it may be the Eight King Kongs, or even the Ten or Twenty* King Kongs. !” Wu Shengli said: “The launch of this warship marks that naval construction has entered a new period! We must not only pursue quantity, but also quality!” ˆˆˆ˜Qiongzhou No. 3 Shipyard is simultaneously starting construction of six 052DLs. This kind of destroyer is the product of pursuit of quantity. Of course, the quality is not low. Just look at what the warships in Europe are like, and you will know what level the warships in the East are. With a four-sided phased array radar, it can dominate Europe. Come on, what if it’s a dual-band radar? What about adding other antennas?

 Europeans will cry with envy.

“Now, the launching ceremony officially begins! Please invite the wife of the mayor of NC City to hold the bottle throwing ceremony!”

The bottle-throwing ceremony is usually performed by women, and domestic warships are named after places. Therefore, some leaders of NC City were also invited to this bottle-throwing ceremony. Especially for this bottle-throwing ceremony, the mayor's wife was invited. It is an honor to carry out the project. In the future, NC City will also be proud of this warship.

 The mayor’s wife, wearing a formal dress, stepped onto the podium.

“I am very excited today. This warship is named Nanchang, which is the pride of our people in NC City. In the future, we will have more interactions with the officers and soldiers of this warship, and our city will also hold various social activities..."

The mayor's wife spoke for three minutes, and then she pressed the button without finishing. The wine bottle spun down from the air and hit the bow of the ship. White foam flew into the air, and everyone applauded.

 “Get into the water!”

The stern of the 10,000-ton destroyer No. 101 began to move slowly toward the river. According to the old practice, the stern of the Mingzhou Group's warships is launched first.

The golden shiny propeller is about to come into contact with the river water for the first time. At the same time, after the contact, it will never leave the sea water for a long time. The red anti-rust paint bottom of the boat will also come into contact with the water surface and will never be seen again.

 The hull moved backwards, and the speed became faster and faster. When the stern of the ship came into contact with the water, countless water splashed up, followed by the hull, and then the bow.

 The entire warship has entered the water, and the launching ceremony is officially over!

The tugboats that had been waiting for a long time came over and worked together to transfer the warship to the outfitting dock nearby.

Wu Shengli’s eyes were full of expectation: “Should we be able to conduct sea trials by the end of this year?”

"Of course." Qin Tao said: "During the construction stage, we installed a lot of supporting facilities, including engines, reducers, hair extensions, etc. The reserved holes outside are ugly, but this is just It’s just because I think it’s more appropriate to install it during outfitting, and the outfitting will definitely be completed before the end of the year.”

Since the third factory has started construction, the slipway here is more abundant, so everything that can be installed on the slipway is put on the slipway, which is more convenient and faster.

But there are also some that are not very suitable. After all, after the warship is built, stress must be relieved, and the hull may be slightly deformed. Those devices that require high installation accuracy need to wait for the outfitting process after launching. There are also some that are afraid of For impact, it also needs to be installed after entering the water.

"This is the first 10,000-ton destroyer we have built independently. It is of great significance to our navy." Wu Shengli continued: "Taozi, you must pay attention to it, not only to ensure the progress, but also to The quality of construction must be ensured.”

"Dad, do you need to say this? The significance of this 10,000-ton destroyer is no less than our aircraft carrier. How can we relax? In the future, our navy will sail to the Eastern Pacific with it."

If the aircraft carrier drives directly over, it may cause unnecessary disputes, but destroyers, on the high seas, have freedom of navigation.

  After the first destroyer No. 101 was built, it sailed 100,000 nautical miles within five years. The 101 ship was the first to go to sea areas that the navy had not sailed before, whether it was to the east or north.

"In the future, we can also drive it to take a trip to the Arctic route and go to a country that clamors for freedom of navigation in our waters every day." Qin Tao continued to make the request: "At that time, we can go with the Mao Navy Let’s go with the warship.”

Some clowns must be tamed. Those guys shout about freedom of navigation every day. Even if their own aircraft carriers don’t even have carrier-based aircraft, they still want to send them to the East to show off. We can’t be used to it. We have to sail there too. free.

Anyway, the strength of the Lao Maozi Navy is also recovering. When the time comes, we will appear there with the Lao Maozi Navy and hold a maritime search and rescue exercise or something to let them know that times have changed.

Wu Shengli nodded and looked at the amphibious assault ship built for Lao Maozi on the slipway again.

 Click, click!

 The sound of the camera kept ringing. Zhang Zhong held the camera and took precious photos one after another.

 This time 055 is launched, he is going to do a special program.

 In space, the satellite passed by again.

 The other side of the ocean.

“Judging from data such as the length and width of the hull, the full-load displacement of this warship may reach 12,000 tons. We believe that this is a brand-new cruiser from the East, and we decided to call it the Luyang class.”

 Starting from the brigade commander level, these names are all given by NATO. The original Luda class was produced in Dalian, the later Luhu class was produced in Shanghai, and then the Luhai class, which means sailing on the ocean.

 With the Luhai-class, of course there is also the Luyang-class, and each one is more domineering than the last. In terms of naming, NATO does not just give nicknames.

"This is the first 10,000-ton cruiser produced by Oriental. It is larger than our Ticonderoga-class cruiser. In our development plan, only the DDG-1000 has better performance than it. We can no longer tolerate it. Domestic shipyards are delayed, DDG-1000 must be built, and it must be built and put into service in large quantities, otherwise our fleet advantage will be lost little by little!"

 The East already has aircraft carriers, more than one, it has a large number of air defense ships, and now it will have 10,000-ton cruisers!

Although there were 10,000-ton battleships in the East in the past, they were just modified Lao Maozi's Glory class and were nothing to be afraid of. But now it is different. They are real modern battleships.

 Americans are feeling tremendous pressure.

Swift was smoking a cigar with a gloomy face. Over the years, he had watched the Eastern Navy grow from weak to strong, from small to large, but he still had no solution. Now, this brand-new cruiser represents the Eastern Navy. The level of shipbuilding has reached a new height.

Looking at its ship type, it has absorbed the design plans of several previous warships. It is simply a masterpiece. The stealth of the entire warship is better, especially the mast, which has been made into a tetrahedron-shaped stealth mast, even at the base of the mast. There is a hole in it, so it must be for installing a phased array radar.

Like DDG-1000, the other party will definitely install dual-band radar, or even radar with more bands. In this field, the East is moving faster than our own!

Looking at the two vertical launchers at the front and rear, you can clearly count them after zooming in. There are eight groups in the front and six groups in the back, with eight groups in each group. This brings the number of vertical launch units in the entire ship to an astonishing 112!

You know, this is not an ordinary vertical launcher, but a large vertical launcher with a diameter of 850 mm. The large missile occupies one space alone, two medium-sized missiles can be crammed into it, and four small missiles can be crammed into it. The number of missiles the entire ship has is very large. Easily over two hundred!

 This warship of the Easterners is very powerful. I am afraid it will become the most advanced warship in the world!

"Our DDG-1000 is too expensive. If we want to mass-build such warships to surpass the East, it is impossible." Swift finally said: "Now, we should use the technology of DDG-1000 to improve our own For warships, such as the Burke-class destroyers, we replaced the backward passive phased array radar with an active phased array to improve its combat capabilities and increase its displacement to compete with the 055."

The DDG-1000 sounds high-end, but the high price is not affordable by the US military. It is more realistic for them to upgrade existing warships. After all, this is more economical.

Since the Ticonderoga-class cruiser is completely outdated, it is most reliable to improve it on the Burke-class destroyer.

 (End of this chapter)