Europe is working, but Datang will not dance with the wind. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even though European navies generally recognized the impact of the sky on the sea in the future, they still felt that the battleship would be the dominant player in the sea for a long time. The main reason for its judgment is also related to the construction of two 70,000-ton Yamato-class battleships by the Datang Navy.

When the news of the British construction of the Lion-class battleships and the German construction of the Marnes Leader-class battleships reached Datang, the reaction of the Datang Navy was relatively flat. Even within the navy, there are no more emotional voices, such as Datang cannot lose to the Europeans in any type of ship, and Datang should also compete with Europe and build battleships.

This is obviously a very stupid and useless thing. Even if the passage of the two Yamato-class battleships has actually gone through some twists and turns, it is impossible for the Datang Navy to increase the number of Yamato-class or develop the next class of battleships in order to compete with the Europeans. In fact, the so-called arms race of the Europeans is what they unilaterally believe, and Datang is still developing its naval equipment step by step.

The tonnage of ships built by Datang every year is basically the tonnage of all ships in some countries, so in fact, the European navy can only be tied together to have some confidence to say that it wants to compare with Datang. In 1808, the total tonnage of warships in service was about 280,000 tons, of which the main warships included a Hubei-class aircraft carrier, a Yamato-class battleship, two Deng Xiyi-class missile destroyers, four Baishou-class missile frigates, three orca-class conventionally powered submarines, a Kunlunshan-class dock landing ship and a whale-class amphibious assault ship.

In terms of quantity, it is much less than the number of thirty or forty warships launched into service in previous years, but a Hubei-class aircraft carrier is 82,000 tons, and the Yamato-class battleship is 70,000 tons, which can be compared to dozens of small ships. Beginning in 1805, Datang's cruiser construction program had been completed, and the last heavy cruiser was the Qingdao class, and the last light cruiser was the Guangzhou class. The main operational position of cruisers will give way to missile destroyers and missile frigates in the Datang Navy, which are getting larger and larger in tonnage, with more and more combat missions and better performance.

After the completion of the initial tests of the Zhenghe-class missile destroyer and the Feixue-class missile frigate, the Datang Navy launched the Deng Xiyi-class missile destroyer and the White Frost-class missile frigate. The tonnage of the Deng Xiyi class has reached 6,500 tons, and the performance of the anti-aircraft, anti-ship, and anti-submarine missiles it is equipped with has been greatly improved, and the level of avionics has also been greatly improved. In fact, to put it bluntly, the combat strength of the Deng Xiyi class is not bad compared with the Type 052 destroyer that China commissioned in the early nineties. However, this comparison only shows how serious the Chinese navy's debt was in that time and space. The tonnage of the White Frost-class missile frigate is 4,250 tons, and its positioning is similar to the Perry class difference made by the US Navy in the 70s. Because it is cheap to build and has a wide range of uses, it has many orders, but its main role is to carry out anti-submarine for aircraft carrier formations, and it can also block guns when necessary.

The target ship of the Datang Navy is still developing Aegis ships with comprehensive data processing, rapid response speed, and wider detection range. The other plane of the Americans in the 70s came up with such a thing, the level of scientific research of Datang is not weak, the first generation of vertical launch units have been completed, but the phased array radar has not yet been completed, and the performance of the missile is roughly between the 60s and 70s of the United States in the other plane. However, in terms of electronic hardware, Datang is still at a relatively high level. With sufficient investment, the results of these systems and weapons are just around the corner.

What is a little troublesome is that unlike the missile destroyers and missile frigates of the Future Star, the cruisers with long hulls built by Datang cannot be compared with the missile destroyers and frigates designed in the missile era, even if they are refitted in the middle of the year, so it is basically better to honestly squat for enough years and retire. Except for a very few lucky ones, most of these cruisers cannot reach 20 years of service, and it is normal for them to be retired for more than 10 years. The Datang Navy wants to replace about 60 cruisers in service, plus 80 artillery frigates, at least 80 destroyers and 100 frigates. According to the calculation of service life, Datang's cruisers will basically be retired around 1820, that is to say, by 1820 at the latest, the Datang Navy needs to have 80+ missile destroyers and 120+ missile frigates.

This number is larger than the scale of the U.S. Navy during the Cold War in another time and space, although the Datang Navy and the U.S. Navy are both deployed globally, and the U.S. Navy's global deployment is in other people's land and sea areas, while Datang is in its own sea areas. This situation required the Datang Navy to be equipped with more warships than the U.S. Navy on the other side.

In the 15-year shipbuilding plan from 1805 to 1820 formulated by the Datang Navy, an average of 6 destroyers and 8 frigates were commissioned every year, which was almost able to meet the needs of replacing old technical warships. Among the capital ships, the battleship completed the construction of two Yamato-class ships and will not continue to appear. Compared with the nineties and the beginning of the century, the speed of construction of aircraft carriers will also decline to a certain extent. On average, one aircraft carrier is commissioned in 2-3 years, but considering that the aircraft carriers after the Hubei class are all supercarriers with huge tonnage, the actual construction speed has not decreased significantly compared with the previous one.

The slowdown production of aircraft carriers is also inevitable, Datang has accumulated more than 20 aircraft carriers, the early three aircraft carriers are not able to keep up with the naval battles after the jet age, the two Pengzhou-class have been prepared to be retired together in 1809, and the BC will be modified into an amphibious assault ship. The deployment of 14 Texas-class and 4 Liaoning-class ships of the five major fleets is enough for the Tang Navy to control the sea in the ocean. In the future, the five Hubei-class ships will be put into service one after another, which will enhance the strength of each fleet and can be regarded as the icing on the cake.

In the 15-year shipbuilding plan, the Datang Navy is also preparing to build 8 amphibious assault ships and 16 dock landing ships. In the past, Datang had built a number of medium-sized landing ships of several thousand tons, but it lacked large landing ships. The Whale Sea-class amphibious assault ship is the first amphibious assault ship designed by Datang, with a full load displacement of 40,000 tons, which is roughly similar to the Wasp-class LHD in another plane, and the 16 dock landing ships are completely compared to the 071 type dock landing ships of the PLA Navy back then. Time flies, and Datang has the ability to build ships brought by the people from the original world, which is also embarrassing. (To be continued.) )