The operation of the power laboratory went smoothly and was directly reported to Yang Yuanzhao, Yang Yuanzhao knew very well that if Truss could solve the current power problem, the power of the power group of the aircraft carrier could reach 320,000 horsepower, which has exceeded the 280,000 horsepower of the Kitty Hawk in service in 1961, this era is only the beginning of the 20th century, there is so much horsepower, it may not be able to play such a big effect, and the energy conversion may not be as much as the Kitty Hawk, but the tonnage of the aircraft carrier is enough to reach 60,000, or even 70,000 tons, This is a massive platform for water warfare.

Aircraft carriers, different from battleships, his combat effectiveness, comes from the planes above, in the era of no steam catapult, can not achieve the efficiency of the classic American conventional power aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, but a larger displacement is equivalent to a larger area, the take-off deck and the landing deck are placed separately, the performance of this aircraft carrier in all aspects, far more than most of the warships during World War II, in the auxiliary northwest far more powerful than the ordinary more powerful aircraft, the effect is even more.

Under the forcible propulsion of Yang Yuanzhao, coupled with the premise that the aircraft is becoming more and more effective and powerful, the aircraft carrier began to enter the sequence of the navy.

China's navy, before the three sea ships led by Cheng Biguang did not join, it was just a blank, and the officers of the three seas and the original Beiyang Naval Division joined to fill the Chinese navy, but the gap was still very large, that is, with the help of Germany, a naval school was established in Qingdao, and a large number of old ships were added as training ships. Almost money in exchange for skilled naval soldiers.

Relying on such a multi-pronged approach, China's navy has emerged as prosperous as it is now. Precisely because everything is new, the innovation in the Chinese Navy. The pressure and resistance are relatively small, especially in the navy, there are battleships of the BB party, but the implementation of the aircraft carrier did not encounter much resistance, that is, Cheng Biguang, an old qualification, complained a few words, and then, it was smoothly promoted.

When the aircraft carrier strategy is determined, the entire fleet will be made up of strong ships and cannons. Switching to air defense, fighters, even the first fighters in the northwest, have a combat radius of 400 kilometers, or even more than 500 kilometers, and under such a combat radius, unless it is a sneak attack by an unexpected situation, it is impossible for battleships to threaten aircraft carriers.

This is also the fundamental reason why aircraft carriers will replace battleships in the future. Perhaps compared to battleships, aircraft carriers had various disadvantages, for example, they could not fight at night. The protection is weak, once it is approached by battleships, or even heavy cruisers. It must be the aircraft carrier that loses.

But the superiority of the aircraft carrier's attack radius and range is enough to become a gravedigger of battleships. The Pacific War during World War II proved this point. The main aircraft carrier has become the strategic core of the fleet, but the battleship has retreated to a subordinate position, and the entire aircraft carrier battle group is centered on the aircraft carrier, and all other ships do not undertake combat missions, but only provide necessary protection for aircraft carrier operations.

Although the current battleships, heavy cruisers and light cruisers, etc., can be added to the aircraft carrier battle group, and can also play a certain effect, but compared with the warships that are really prepared for the aircraft carrier, the professionalism is very different.

The real aircraft carrier battle group can threaten the aircraft carrier, only the aircraft carrier, the battleship may only be able to threaten when it is sneak attacked, when it touches the aircraft carrier at night, in the daytime, it is almost impossible, the combat radius of the aircraft carrier is 300-500 kilometers, for the aircraft, the range of about an hour, but for the battleship, it may be a day, and it cannot be found, let alone combat.

At present, the power index of Truss's power laboratory, based on this, began to design a positive aircraft carrier, incidentally, and then set up a batch of air frigates, in the era of no missiles, can only rely on the phalanx system composed of anti-aircraft machine guns, such air defense design, is not easier than the main gun battleship, how to reasonably test the application of the tonnage of the battleship, has become the biggest constraint.

Yang Yuanzhao doesn't have to worry about the battleship, the Northwest is subordinate to Germany, but after the Fantasy class and Orion reform, it has formed its own unique style, the design concept has gradually matured, and the tonnage control has been significantly improved, of course, this is indispensable to the excellent effect of the computer, the computer and the precision model aircraft, and even the help of the pool system, which can make the design of the battleship less detours, to this extent, the Northwest can quickly smooth out the gap with Britain and Germany.

As long as the structure of the hull is considered, the flight deck above is the same, and there is no road to a separate flight deck, but a double deck is directly in place.

The aircraft carrier has entered the design, and the other warships of the aircraft carrier battle group are also almost in the design, but the aircraft, which is the biggest factor restricting the aircraft carrier's capabilities, should not be underestimated.

Speaking of aircraft factories, we have to say that Xi'an Aircraft Factory, which began to gradually develop in 1910 and became a new industrial base, has now become the most important aircraft factory in the Northwest, from the Northwest No. 1 to the No. 2, in the Sea Eagle, Seabirds, Sea Dragons, aircraft from the road to the sea, become the entire Northwest more and more powerful pillars

Northwest aircraft, the engine was originally a piston propeller engine, from the research of the northwest, gradually developed the air cooling and water cooling two systems, accompanied by the larger and larger engine, the difficulty of the upward is getting bigger and bigger, which is the need to slowly accumulate, relying on continuous research, and gradually increase the power of the aircraft. However, Yang Yuanzhao is definitely a master in the field of power, he has not studied all the aircraft engines perfectly, and he cannot manufacture advanced aircraft engines, but he still knows some more advanced theories.

In later generations, among the large low-speed cargo and passenger aircraft, most of them are practical turboprop engines, this kind of engine, when later generations appeared, it was already after the seventies of the 20th century, and its performance was extremely good. However, because the large propeller cannot break the sound barrier, it cannot be used for military purposes. On the military side, it's all jet supersonic aircraft.

However, turboprop engines have excellent performance and fuel-efficient characteristics. Let its civilian use be developed, the military use is much less, at most as a transport aircraft, or a tanker, especially the latter, simply can only refuel helicopters and some low-speed aircraft, can not play a strategic role, that era is the era of jet aircraft existence, whether it is a generation. Whether it is a second-generation or third-generation aircraft, the jet has a huge advantage over the turboprop.

In this era, when even ordinary airplanes used automobile engines, and advanced airplanes had not even entered the era of piston propellers, turbine engines were simply a gift from heaven.

The theory of restricting turbine engines has been gradually perfected by many scientists under the mention of Yang Yuanzhao, and the difficulty of processing has also been solved because of a large number of skilled workers and advanced machine tools in Northwest China. As for the material, this largest pull Land Rover that restricts the turboprop is not a matter at all for the Northwest.

World War I and World War II. It is the era of the fastest development of military science and technology in the whole world, and the breakthrough of various materials and the development of various power have allowed mankind to create powerful weapons. The development of materials did not happen overnight, and the reason why turboprop engines appeared late. It is because of its material constraints that it needs to be able to withstand high temperatures of more than 900 degrees. Excellent materials with hardness and acid and alkali resistance to a certain extent, such materials, if countries spend a lot of effort to research, it is not impossible to get out, but a roadblock will always be in front, that is, processing technology.

The stronger the material, the more difficult it is to process, and many things are easy to make, but it is really very, very difficult to process him, which stops many people. But for the Northwest, all this is nothing, as far as the Northwest machine tool is concerned, it has reached the level of the third generation of machine tools, in addition to the absence of CNC, for some outstanding masters, or talented machine tool workers, relying on these, can process the workpiece that meets the requirements, the calculator can be calculated in depth, and even now, in the Yinshan base, at the beginning of the research, CNC is gradually researching, but Yang Yuanzhao does not have a CNC chip in his hands, relying on the initial chip such as the calculator, and even put the mobile phone chip industry up, it has little effect, this is not a system at all.

However, preliminary research results are still available. Now, in the Xi'an aircraft factory, 12 large, single horsepower reached 2500 horsepower large turboprop engine, has arrived a month ago, the concept of different, brought about the engine jump, from about 1500 horsepower, full of 1000, the most important thing is that such an engine, in terms of power energy consumption and practicality, far more powerful than the previous engine.

Restricting the aircraft, the engine is one aspect, the energy consumption and performance ratio is another aspect, 2500 horsepower large engine, his energy consumption, only about half of the piston engine, that is to say, such a horsepower engine, more fuel-efficient than the piston type.

High horsepower, but also fuel-efficient, such an engine, will simply make an aircraft earth-shaking changes, the most intuitive is the improvement of the combat radius, the combat effectiveness of the aircraft carrier comes from the aircraft on the aircraft carrier, how large the combat radius of the aircraft is, how large the combat radius of the aircraft carrier, more fuel-efficient engine, the effect is quite intuitive.

Starting from the strategic bomber, the Northwest has perfectly realized the manufacture of twin-engine aircraft, and is currently conquering three, or even four, once the four engines are completed, the total power is about the same, he will become the super B29 during World War II, whether it is take-off weight, or combat radius, or even speed, there will be a huge improvement, when the time comes, the name of the strategic bomber, will completely appear on the world stage.

During World War II, Japan's collapse was laid by the Pacific War, but the emergence of a base that can take off B29 is the most fundamental reason why Japan really can't continue to fight, no way, the power of strategic bombing is too great, the bomb load of a single plane, maybe like an airship, but the speed of the plane is much faster than the airship, it is easy to form hundreds, or even thousands of aircraft formations, projecting tens of thousands of tons at a time, so that carpet bombing is a spiritual and substantive blow to a country, quite huge.

A real strategic bomber, only to the B29, a fighter with a bomb load of more than 20,000 kilograms and a combat radius of more than 2250 km, is enough to exert strategic influence. And if such a 4-engine aircraft can be refitted, 2500 horsepower turboprops, and even after the research of the next 8 engines is completed, the strategic bomber can even surpass the airship in terms of load capacity, and then the overwhelming strategic bombing will change the color of the world.

In fact, during World War II, the strategic bombing role of the B29 was not highlighted in a centralized manner, and the concept of air supremacy still existed in the aircraft carrier battle, because heavy bombers could not board the aircraft carrier, and the research at that time was still based on the microparticles of twin-engine ordinary bombers such as the B17.

Only Yang Yuanzhao, who came from later generations, knew the horror of air supremacy, and immediately began targeted research after the turboprop found another way and made initial progress; Based on this large engine, the production of suitable aircraft, first of all, land-based, to ensure the number of strategic bombers, as for the navy, the aircraft carrier is a little more restrictive, compared to the land, can be infinitely expanded runway, as long as the aircraft can theoretically take off, you can use a longer runway to take off, but the navy is different, the runway of aircraft carriers has a certain standard, it is impossible to expand endlessly, not to mention the difficulty problem, even if it can be expanded to several kilometers, then for the design of warships, It becomes a problem, a battleship several kilometers long, drunk just thinking about it.

In the case that it cannot be expanded indefinitely, the technicians can only carry out some processing under the general idea given by Yang Yuanzhao, and finally give the maximum length of the aircraft carrier runway.

Under the concept of design, with the maximum possible length, and then the designer began to reduce the weight of the future carrier-based aircraft, and strive to develop an aircraft that can take off on the basis of the specified aircraft carrier, this fixed condition of the design, for the aircraft designer, is a huge examination, Xi'an aircraft factory spent a lot of energy, the progress is slowly faster, now, has produced 2 prototypes, is in the test flight field in the intense experiment and debugging. (To be continued.) )