The new pirates are now done with their assessments, and their next step is to intern on a sailing ship. The commander of the Admiralty's training fleet in Jeju Island, Major Van Pitt, will be responsible for training the operation of these pirate Western-style sailing ships.

At present, the Jeju Island Training Fleet has a total of nine modified Dutch Frut merchant ships, and the main task undertaken in peacetime is to train naval recruits for the Admiralty in the operation and mastery of sailing ships, and in case of emergency, they can also participate in the maritime transportation and supply tasks of the troops. The instructors on these nine training ships were mainly Dutch captains and sailors.

Because these pirates are men who have been on the seas all year round, they only train here for three to six months before finishing their internships. Then the Pirates of He Wu and Manila, as well as a small number of Zheng pirates who were excellent and loyal to the Far East, would be assigned to serve on seven improved sailing ships and seventeen Western-style sailing ships that were about to be refitted.

As for the remaining 1,000 Zheng pirates, they will be temporarily assigned to the coastal garrison fleet of Sakhalin, Jeju, Haiyangdao, Tanegashima, Amami Godo, and Ulleungdo. Replace Admiralty recruits who have been serving there as interns for more than a year as a reserve for future Admiralty personnel.

At present, the garrison fleet of the Far Eastern Overseas Territories is equipped with dozens of wooden ships that have been refitted, such as the Japanese Ataka ship and the Korean Itaya ship. The shipyard will start construction of the 150-ton Slupp sloop this year, and the drawing design work has been completed.

The first batch of experimental ships will be built in four boats, and after a period of use by the troops, if they are in good condition, they will be built on a large scale. The hull adopts modular design, all hull components and accessories are standardized production, and even the shipboard of each part of the hull is produced in accordance with unified specifications and modern equipment. It is then sent to the shipyard for assembly.

Gao Jianguo and Li Ming after finishing the Jeju Island assessment. I took a boat back to Vladivostok. Although Gao Jianguo is the No. 1 person in the Military Commission, he still has a strong army complex in his heart, and he sees that the Admiralty is thriving. His heart was still a little depressed.

Li Ming saw Gao Jianguo's solemn face, so he smiled and said with relief: "What we have to do now is to train with peace of mind." Actively prepare, and when the time comes, we will move westward. In the future, the Far Eastern Continental Army plan will still be the mainstream, and even if the navy expands its territory, it can only be at sea, and no matter what era it is, it will still rely on infantry to solve the final battle. Whether it's a giant ship in the Navy or a big airship program we are developing, the ultimate goal is to serve the Army. ”

Gao Jianguo nodded. smiled and said: "By the way, should we go to Liu He's place to take a look at the progress of the big airship plan, it's been a few months, why hasn't there been any movement at all." ”

The next day, the two got on the train and went to the town of Biquge www.biquge.info again. The company's big airship project research center is located not far from the south of the town of Biquge www.biquge.info. It is not far from the newly built railway station in the town of Biquge www.biquge.info. In order to facilitate transportation, the railway team also threw off a railway line of several hundred meters directly to the factory area of the research center.

It is fenced off for almost a square kilometer. Two steel structure workshops stand in the center, and the railway is directly connected to the two steel structure workshops. Just looking at this hardware made Li Ming staggered. The company has made a lot of money, and this condition is really not to say.

They got off the train in the town of Biquge www.biquge.info and used walkie-talkies to get in touch with Liu He. So as soon as they walked into the big airship R&D center, Liu He and his gang greeted them.

Liu He said with a smile: "Why don't the two managing directors say it in advance, let's hold a ceremony and welcome the inspection of the two leaders." ”

Gao Jianguo scolded with a smile: "If you don't come to this set, we are just uncomfortable, come to you and take a look, don't make it look like anything." ”

Because the Military Commission has always supported the radicals at the beginning, Liu He and his gang at the Big Airship R&D Center are very enthusiastic about the people in the Military Commission. Liu He led them around the two factories. The situation was explained in detail for them.

The facilities are very well equipped, and there are researchers working in several departments. Li Ming could feel an inexplicable sense of urgency. He smiled bitterly in his heart, it seems that Liu He's pressure on them is not small.

In the end, they followed Liu He to his office. After everyone sat down, Gao Jianguo smiled and said, "Lao Liu, how is the progress of the big airship plan?" ”

Liu He shook his head with a wry smile and said, "A lot of progress has been made during this time, but difficulties still exist. Although several technical difficulties have found the direction to be solved, they are all in the process of technical research. I handed over several technical problems that are important to solve to several technical groups for their respective studies.

We are also blind to airship technology, and we do not have experts and technicians in this area, but fortunately, we have brought a large amount of technical data from modern society, and everyone is sorting out and looking for information, and then sitting together to discuss.

The overall design technology of the airship in modern society, including the overall layout design research of the combination of buoyancy body and lift surface, the comprehensive aerodynamic layout design of low drag and static lift, and the design technology of advanced material light structure, etc., have been very mature. We stand on the shoulders of giants, and there is basically no bottleneck in zài theory.

Because there is no large amount of nitrogen, hydrogen can only be considered for the time being, and the main problem now is how to solve the safety hazards caused by the flammability of hydrogen. One expert suggested a good way forward. That is, the use of double-layer airbags inside the airship, the use of hydrogen liner, and the outer helium. And the outer layer can be divided into two layers with gum.

Bubble-shaped layers are used to fill them with a movable gum material. Even if one is pierced, within a few seconds of gas leakage, moving the filling will move the hole to fill. Hydrogen does not react with helium, and helium extinguishes fires.

His idea also opened our minds, and now we are doing further research and demonstration, and we will carry out practical research and demonstration in the near future, and if the test is successful, it will completely solve the biggest problem of our big airship plan. ”

Gao Jianguo and Li Ming were both very excited when they heard this, if this real yàn succeeded, the big airship plan would be greatly accelerated.

Liu He saw that the two of them were very excited, so he smiled bitterly: "Don't be too happy, there are still a lot of problems we need to solve." Since we are not familiar with airships, we are afraid that the hard airship we originally envisioned will be difficult to realize now, mainly because we have found a lot of information in modern society after argumentation, if we want to build a large load airship, a completely rigid structure will cancel out at least half of the buoyancy, so we finally decided to use a semi-rigid structure design.

It is to use skin, frame, beam, and truss structure as the main body, and only the bottom adopts a rigid structure for carrying people and goods. The flexible fabric material required for the skin is the focus of our current research. The company's chemical industry has just started, and for the time being, we still have to use pure cotton fabric as the raw material for the skin, but in order to achieve the characteristics of flame retardant and tear resistance, we must work the coating of the outer skin.

There is also a technician who proposes to transport the load in the form of a combination of several airship platforms, through guò. The modular combined load airship is composed of several semi-rigid load airship units, and each semi-rigid load airship is separately installed with a combination interface, which can be flexibly combined in parallel, series and hybrid mode according to the load needs and task requirements.

It's a bold idea, but it's worth studying. Once this idea can be realized, the large airships we build can be reduced in size, reducing the cost and difficulty of building airships, and the payload capacity will be greatly increased. Moreover, there is no restriction on the size of the load, and many large industrial manufactured goods can be transported to destinations thousands of miles away without even disassembling and disassembling. ”

Although Gao Jianguo and Li Ming are not professional and technical personnel, they can still understand the prospect of this idea, and the application will be incomparably broad. From a military point of view, imagine if one battalion of reinforced combat units and material equipment were transported at one time and directly deployed to a region thousands of miles away.

Ha...... What kind of rhythm is this, then isn't our Far East equivalent to mold, and we can also be the world's policeman.

Liu He saw the hot expressions on the faces of the two, and couldn't help laughing: "Don't be too happy, this is just staying in the demonstration stage, in fact, the military of many developed countries in modern society has begun to develop long-range load transport airships, and combined modular airships are also an important development direction."

But at least it proves that this development direction is correct, although we can not reach the high technical indicators of modern society, but to meet the current needs of the company can still do, it is only a matter of time. But now that we're just getting started, we need time.

The company has given us a lot of trust and all departments are very supportive. Even many of the company's plans are based on our R&D direction to formulate the next industrial development plan. Although we are very excited, we are also walking on thin ice and we are under a lot of pressure. ”

Li Ming said with a smile: "There is no pressure, there is no motivation, I heard you say so much, I know that you have put in a lot of effort." You don't have to worry, no matter what time it is, the Military Commission will support you strongly. ”

Liu He said with a smile: "On behalf of the employees of the R&D center, I would like to thank the Military Commission for its strong support. By the way, we have designed a small soft hydrogen airship, which will be tested next month, mainly for us to collect all kinds of real yàn numbers. During the test flight, I will invite all the leaders of your military commission to come and visit. After the number of jù is collected, this small airship will simply enter the air force sequence. Even if it's a reconnaissance airship for the troops, it's fine. ”

Gao Jianguo laughed and said: "Then you're welcome, with this airship, at least the ability of aerial reconnaissance between Vladivostok and Artem will be improved a lot." ”

Liu He smiled: "There is really no problem with this, if the weather conditions are good, his stay time can reach at least one day or more, and it is very energy-saving." (To be continued) R655