readx; In the two Washington Naval Treaties, the main dispute between the countries basically revolved around capital ships, which is inseparable from the current state of the navy. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

From the First Sino-Japanese War to the Russo-Russian War, and then to the massive Battle of the Navy, these battles laid the foundation for battleships as the mainstay of the navy, and the naval battle in the East China Sea that broke out not long ago once again proved that in modern naval warfare, battleships are still the core and main force, and they are the core factor supporting a country's navy.

The thick armor and powerful naval guns of the battleship roared again and again to affect the outcome of the naval battle, needless to say, the Battle of Delan during the First World War was almost a perfect interpretation of the huge power of the giant ship cannon, and not long ago in the East China Sea naval battle, the battleship confrontation between the two countries once again proved the huge power of the battleship, and the aircraft carrier that Chen Jingyun had high hopes for is even if it has appeared for many years, China's first one, It is also the world's first modified aircraft carrier Taishan in 1916 has been in service in the Chinese Navy, but now a full seven years have passed, China has built two 20,000-ton aircraft carriers, and also played a certain role in the naval battle, but still can not shake the main position of the battleship.

Taking the Battle of the East China Sea as an example, this battle can be regarded as the fact that the aircraft carriers of both countries participated in the war, and the aircraft carriers of the two countries were called "Fengxiang, while China's two aircraft carriers, Huashan and Huangshan."

At the time of the outbreak of the battle, the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carriers successively discovered the position of the fleet where the "Ben Tiancheng" was located and the position of the main force of the "Ben Tian Cheng", and the Chinese main fleet in the rear provided timely early warning information, so as to avoid letting the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor collide headlong into the iron wall of the "Ben First Fleet."

In terms of reconnaissance, the aircraft carrier has shown an incomparable efficiency compared with other ships, but it still failed to play the role expected by Chen Jingyun in the attack on the ship, and in the naval battle of the East China Sea, when the cluster sent by the Zhonghuashan and Huangshan bombed the 4th Squadron, not only did it not get any hits, but even said that the 4th Squadron's anti-aircraft fire shot down one, so that the more radical aviation faction in the navy had to cautiously say that the equipment speed in the navy was faster. Before the more advanced bombers, there were still huge limitations to the attacks on mobile ships.

And another huge role of aircraft carriers has also begun to appear, that is, air firing. Before the war, the Chinese Navy had already carried out air firing tests, but the war broke out before the test ended, and in the East China Sea naval battle, the navy accelerated the air firing test, and achieved great success in a test in September, the navy used a B4 bomber equipped with radio as an air observation and firing machine, and then guided the main gun on the Yandi to shoot, and achieved an ultra-high hit rate of 4.3% at a distance of 20,000 yards, even at a distance of 25,000 yards. The shooting percentage remained at 2.5 percent, and at the ultra-long distance of 30,000 yards, it still achieved a 1.5 percent shooting percentage. Perhaps a single-digit percentage point may seem small, but the hit rate of naval guns in these years is very low, in the Navy's previous traditional shelling tests, if you only use the top of the mast to observe, the hit rate at a distance of 20,000 yards is only 2.5 percent, and once it exceeds 25,000 yards, the hit rate is only a few tenths of a percent, and once it exceeds 28,000 yards, it is impossible to shoot at all.

This test shows that with aerial observation, the long-range shooting rate of the main gun is not increased by a little bit, but by a multiplier, and even warships can be shelled at enemy warships at a distance of more than 25,000 meters, and even the combat distance can be extended to more than 30,000 meters.

As soon as this test data came out, China's navy top brass was surprised, and immediately ordered the test to be kept secret, lest other countries also discover this, and what the Chinese navy did not know was that in fact, the United States had already conducted tests on aerial observation and firing last year, and it had also achieved tremendous results; last year the US Naval Aviation Administration had already advocated increasing the elevation angle of the main guns on battleships, but now the US aviation force is far less powerful than the air force in the Chinese navy. At best, they are advocating, but the Chinese Navy is actually doing it.

And it was prepared to take advantage of this in the subsequent Sino-Japanese war, but before the air observation and shooting were carried out in actual combat, the Sino-Chinese war was already over, which made a group of generals of the naval aviation faction very regretful.

Although the reality proves that Chen Jingyun, a staunch aircraft carrier faction, has to admit that there is still a long way to go for aircraft carriers to replace battleships as the main force of the navy. However, it does not affect the increasing importance of aviation in the navy, although the aircraft carrier's own ship-to-ship attack capability is not worth mentioning, but the aircraft carrier's reconnaissance capability and aerial observation and firing ability have further improved the importance of the aircraft carrier in the Chinese Navy. Then it was Huang Pinghan, a determined battleship faction, who also said: "In the future development of the navy, the battleship is still the only weapon that can control the sea power, but the aircraft carrier is also indispensable as an auxiliary ship in the main fleet!" ”

The reason why Huang Pinghan's battleship faction is not opposed to the development of aviation is very simple, that is, aircraft carriers can provide battleships with fleet reconnaissance, air defense, and air firing.

Although aircraft carriers still exist as auxiliary forces in the Chinese Navy, aircraft carriers have developed into indispensable auxiliary forces.

With the elevation of the status of aircraft carriers in the Chinese Navy, it is also possible to strive to increase the tonnage of aircraft carriers in the Second Washington Naval Treaty.

Not to mention, Chen Jingyun has always been a staunch aircraft carrier faction, and he has already decided that aircraft carriers will become the main force of the navy after the thirties, so Chen Jingyun is trying to increase the proportion of China's aircraft carrier tonnage. You must know that this Washington naval treaty is not a matter of one or two years, but a treaty that restricts the next ten or twenty years, and if you don't get enough tonnage for aircraft carriers now, you won't have enough tonnage to build aircraft carriers after the development of aircraft carriers after the thirties.

Originally, Britain and the United States meant that the relevant provisions of aircraft carriers should be maintained as they were, but at the behest of Chen Jingyun, the Chinese negotiating delegation insisted on increasing the tonnage of China's aircraft carriers, and in order to compete for the tonnage of aircraft carriers, they gave up the condition that China had to have the tonnage of 300,000 tons of capital ships. Under such circumstances, in order to let China give up the idea of insisting on 300,000 tons of capital ships, Ben was also forced to agree to China's increase in the tonnage of aircraft carriers to 13,000 tons, that is, the same tonnage of aircraft carriers as Britain and the United States, and even more than the 100,000 tons of Ben, but I still haven't figured out what the Chinese want so much aircraft carrier tonnage for!'

In the view of the admirals of other countries, although aircraft carriers have a certain role, they are far from becoming a decisive factor, and the reason why the tonnage of aircraft carriers is limited is because all countries are bent on equipping aircraft carriers with large-caliber naval guns.

For example, when it was said that when the Aiyan and Tosa were refitted, they were intended to be equipped with ten eight-inch guns on these two ships, and the Lexington-class aircraft carrier modified by the United States was also equipped with eight eight-inch naval guns. Considering that the aircraft carrier can have a tonnage of 27,000 tons or even 33,000 tons, it is completely possible to build an aviation warship with good protection and considerable firepower, and it can be transformed into a battleship in wartime by replacing large-caliber naval guns.

A gun with a displacement of 33,000 tons and a small amount of aviation power, but equipped with four twin eight-inch guns, and these gun mounts can be replaced with four twin large-caliber naval guns in a short period of time in wartime, the design has appeared in the discussion plan of the Chinese Navy's Department of Shipbuilding.

To some extent, the treaty restricts the tonnage of aircraft carriers not because of the air power of aircraft carriers, but because of the potential battleship power that aircraft carriers have.

Through the Second Washington Naval Treaty, China acquired not only 200,000 tons of capital ship tonnage, but also 135,000 tons of aircraft carrier tonnage.

As soon as the treaty was signed, the Chinese Navy's Ship Administration Department became the busiest department in the navy, and the design of the two new battleships became a key project of the whole navy.

Even Vice Admiral Wei Han, who has retired from the Navy and has entered his twilight years, once again came up with his excellent work, designing a 35,000-ton battleship, as well as a work by Vice Admiral Qin Yat, the current Secretary for Shipping. In addition to the works of these two bigwigs in the shipbuilding industry, Colonel Han Tonglin, who had already designed the Heshen-class light cruiser at the age of 25 and served as the chief deputy designer of the Yaodi, also came up with the design plan for the first large warship.

Although all three schemes have the same point of 35,000 tons, the others are different, such as Vice Admiral Wei Yuan's design is based on the Yandi-class battleship, which is simply downsized, and the huge power of nine sixteen-inch naval guns is maintained by reducing the protection capacity. However, the plan proposed by Vice Admiral Qin Yi was to reduce the caliber of the naval guns and put forward a plan to equip four triple mounted twelve 15-inch naval guns. Colonel Han Tonglin's design plan was to adopt the scheme of four twin-mounted 16-inch naval guns, and these plans had their own advantages and disadvantages, and there was endless debate within the navy for a while.