Yang Yuanzhao lowered his head and seriously thought about the future layout, based on the Ministry of Intelligence's assessment of the United States, it may be that the future battle in the Pacific Ocean will be quite tragic. The tradition of the Northwest focuses on casualties, but it does not mean that the Northwest and Yang Yuanzhao are afraid of casualties, and to rise to the top of the world, there must be a war of blood and fire.

The rise of Britain was the Anglo-Dutch War and the Anglo-Spanish War, the naval war, which established the position of the British, the rise of the United States was two world wars, and even the gradual rise of Japan, but also in the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and even World War I, and it began to rise when World War II began to challenge the world. But for the sake of the rise of China, there is no hesitation.

Cheng Biguang saw Yang Yuanzhao looking down at the report, but he didn't turn it, obviously fell into contemplation, thinking that the conditions he proposed were too high, but Yang Yuanzhao also agreed verbally before, what happened, did he regret it?

Cheng Biguang also boldly proposed this, I thought that it might be discounted, after all, these are all main battle ships, it stands to reason that a military plan not only includes a large number of main battle warships, but also includes a large number of civilian ships, for example, the new supply ship plan proposed by the Northwest has been upgraded on the basis of the original, adding hospital ships, repair ships, special supply ships, and more scientific, so that supply ships can complete operations faster.

Perhaps, something will be changed. Yang Yuanzhao's contemplation did not last long, and he quickly flipped through the report. At the end, sign your name. And stamped with a private seal, Yang Yuanzhao's private seal has several, this is a private seal for mobilizing private funds, once stamped, it is equivalent to saying that he agrees to allocate funds, which makes Cheng Biguang extremely excited, which means that in the next 2 years, China's current East China Sea Fleet, Bohai Sea Fleet. The South China Sea Fleet and even the Lanfang Fleet will have a strong capital ship of considerable tonnage.

Watching Cheng Biguang leave, Yang Yuanzhao looked at those standards, as far as the navy is concerned, the standard of battleships is appropriate, enough naval guns, 9 can provide sufficient fire support, plus some air defense. It can be said that it is both. The standard of aircraft carriers is somewhat conservative, you know, the northwest is on the turboprop engine. It has great advantages, high temperature resistance, high corrosion. High-strength materials, even for the world in 60 years. It is also a difficult problem to solve.

But for China, that's perfectly fine. With an all-in-one machine, this has never been a problem, Yang Yuanzhao took out 21 kinds of similar materials, after the research of the material research department, the laboratory produced all of them, and researched out 5 kinds of industrial production specifications, although the output is not large, such high-precision materials, even if it is produced in the laboratory, are enough for a period of time, after mass production, the cost is decreasing, the output is increasing, it is enough to support large-scale construction.

Turboprop engine, in this era, was born, replacing the original piston engine form, not only a single engine can be made larger, the most important thing is that the energy consumption ratio has been reduced on a large scale, which is conducive to the aircraft to obtain a longer range and combat radius.

For aircraft carriers, the combat radius is not the range of the artillery, but the range, the aircraft takes off, the return is almost halved, and the increase of about 40% is just like the range of the artillery, which is more than others, as long as the problem of aiming and hit rate is solved, it naturally occupies an invincible position.

It's just that the turboprop engine is larger, and its weight is more than that of ordinary pistons, how to achieve a balance, which is the key to carrier-based aircraft, aircraft carriers are not land-based, they can be 3,000 meters, 10,000 meters, or even more to increase the runway, no matter how heavy the aircraft, even if it is twin-engine, four-engine, eight-engine, as long as it can fly theoretically, it is fine, but the aircraft carrier, the longest runway is about 300 meters, such a distance, for any aircraft that can take off and land on the aircraft carrier, It is a huge test to accommodate more aircraft, and the wings of the aircraft in the aircraft carrier hangar must also be folded, which has a huge test of the strength of the aircraft.

The approval of the plan means that the funds will enter the secret account of the navy, which does not mean that the ship-building plan is completely finalized, and the specifications of the warship need to be adjusted to a certain extent.

This is a huge research base covering an area of more than 2,000 acres, with 37 buildings of more than 30 floors, with more than 700 research institutes and more than 21,000 scholars and assistants.

In a few years, learning in the actual construction of warships, in towing pools, wind tunnel tests, high-pressure platforms, and other practical, expensive, and even exquisitely designed various practical machines, especially the entry of computers and auxiliary systems, have changed the situation of the previous warship design for months or even years, and building a ship has become a simple matter, as long as you understand the basic design methods, and then follow them. Imagination and basic requirements, you can design a model, and then take the model to various test benches for systematic testing, and you can get the final results to determine whether the project should be continued.

As the largest artificial creation in the entire history of mankind, the design cycle of battleships is quite long, starting from dreadnoughts, and even to super dreadnoughts, British and German battleship designs are in the same line, on the one hand, there are successful experiences to absorb, on the other hand, the lessons learned in the past will be adjusted and modified in the future.

In the UK, their capital ships are all more mature methods, but in the purchase of warships and the sale of warships, it is much bolder, such as the legendary seven-gun turret holy relic, and many strange battleships, to put it bluntly, it is to try, spend other people's money, verify the imperfection, or the cutting-edge approach, this is the British way of reducing costs, in history, the seven-gun turret holy relic is a failed product, but the King Kong class is a successful product.

Each accounts for 50 percent, or a lower chance, in order to avoid waste, other people's warships are better to say, their own, is a gradual process, see the modification, when a battleship, when there is a big problem, can not be completely reheated, can only be made up by various methods.

All kinds of model aircraft tests, even targeted tests, can find problems in the laboratory, directly modify the design, so that the design of the warship, each is quite mature, in this case, the design of the battleship is very fast, and even after manufacturing, the time for sea trials and assembly is greatly reduced.

Yang Yuanzhao first came to the laboratory of the battleship, and handed over the drawings of the navy's capital ship to the designer Zhou Tongbin, who was a former Beiyang designer, graduated from the Fuzhou Naval Academy, and was sent to the United Kingdom, as an observer of the three seas, and then because of the Beiyang layoffs, he was laid off, and came to the northwest, that is, the northwest found him at the time of great development, and accidentally knew that he was a naval talent, and sent him out to study, that is, in the fantasy-level design and manufacturing, he returned, relying on his previous experience, Coupled with the experience he absorbed in the design fantasy class, he naturally became the number one battleship designer in the northwest.

Zhou Tongbin listened to Yang Yuanzhao briefly explain the origin of the shipbuilding plan, and carefully looked at the battleship, after reading it, he did not say whether it was good or bad, nor did he directly design, but was stunned for a while, and did not speak for a long time.

"What's wrong, Mr. Zhou!" For this designer who was trained in the northwest and can mature the design of battleships, Yang Yuanzhao did not underestimate him, you must know that after the return of German designers, some of the overall designs and shortcomings of the Fantasy class and Orion were made up for by him and his team, and he had the strength to independently design battleships.

"We have a design based on a 16-inch battleship here, you can take a look, it's similar to that, or even better than him, or don't take a look!" Zhou Wenbin said as if he had just woken up from a dream.

"Oh, there's this, let's see!" Yang Yuanzhao was also a little curious, for battleships, in principle, they were up to the fantasy class, and there was no financial support for continuing to design. However, none of the previous designers of battleships relied on funds, and to many extents, funds were only an alternative, not the main option, and if a genius designer could design.

The design drawings of a battleship can range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and Zhou Tongbin can't take them all out, what he took out was just a sketch, a thick, dozens of drawings in a book.

Yang Yuanzhao looked at this drawing carefully, first checked whether it had been tested, sure enough, it was just a basic idea, and it had also undergone several small tests, but the pool test and several other more expensive tests were not carried out, and he somewhat understood that this was a design that had not been verified, but was conceived by Zhou Tongbin, or that his team worked with him in his spare time.

But Yang Yuanzhao did not underestimate this design at all, with Zhou Tongbin's professional ability, since he dared to take out this design, then this design has been verified in terms of rationality, what is lacking is only to spend more money on the verification process, it can be said that a warship, the most time-consuming process has passed a part, and then, step by step, find out the problem, and make corresponding modifications, so that the design is completed.

The birth of many classics comes from a point of aura, take a look, with Zhou Tongbin's ability, maybe this is an excellent design! (To be continued.) )