Chapter 725: Offensive Navy Battles within the Navy
readx; The battleship party within the Navy had high hopes for the 1933 armor-piercing shell, believing that after the successful commissioning of this shell, it would play a great role in improving the combat effectiveness of the four battleships, and some extreme opinions even believed that the effect of the new armor-piercing shell even exceeded that of a new battleship. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
According to the 1933 armor-piercing shell to reduce the caliber of the research and development of 12-inch caliber and 8-inch shells, those eight-inch shells are naturally used for those heavy cruises, and the 12-inch shells are specially developed for the Shaohao, the main gun of the Shaohao has entered the final test stage, and will soon be able to be installed on the Shaohao.
The nine twelve-inch main guns on the Shaohao were not developed by China alone, but developed in cooperation with France, and the stage of this cooperative research and development was mainly focused on the cooperation in basic technology, and then after solving the basic technology, France made its own 13-inch main gun, and China made 12-inch main guns, although the caliber is different, but the basic structure of these two guns and the technology used are mostly the same.
The content of the seventh phase of the Navy's development plan is messy and complex, although the overall scale is not as huge as the Navy's previous development plans, no aircraft carriers, nor 30,000 or 40,000 tons of battleships, but the funds spent are beyond any previous development plan, and the ships built are also varied. In the completion of the seventh phase of the navy's development plan, the Chinese navy can only be regarded as a regional defense navy at most, but after the completion of the seventh phase of the navy's development plan, it can be justifiably called an ocean-going offensive navy.
Before the seventh phase of the Navy's development plan, the Chinese Navy did not even have a single high-speed supply ship, only a few supply ships converted from ordinary freighters, and could only rely on the ammunition supply carried by the warships themselves to go to sea. The shipbuilding plan in the seventh phase of the Navy's development plan includes a number of supply ships, including oil supply ships, ammunition supply ships, etc., and these supply ships are all high-speed supply ships, which can accompany the fleet for high-speed maneuvers in the ocean. With these supply ships, the Chinese Navy will be able to de facto move forward to fight in the Pacific, otherwise it will have to curve in the East China Sea, the South China Sea, and the western Pacific Ocean.
The construction of the century-old navy needs to be carried out step by step, it must take decades to train qualified naval officers, it will take decades to accumulate the main fleet, and at this point, it will only be a regional navy with a defensive surname, and the next step must be many naval bases around the world, and under the current international situation, the Chinese Navy has no way to obtain naval bases in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. As soon as they offered to lease the ports of Persia in order to obtain a supply base for the Chinese navy, the British immediately jumped to their feet, as if China had directly pumped it out, and even transferred several warships from the Mediterranean to Asia. In this case, the Chinese Navy will need to rely on ocean-going supply ships when it wants to carry out ocean-going activities.
Although the seventh phase of the Navy's development plan was affected by the Navy embezzlement case, it did not stop the pace of development, but continued to develop with a high-speed development attitude, when the Chinese Navy developed, the old adversary said, "The Navy was not idle, in the middle of 1931, the First World War made the Navy suffer a lot of damage, a 10,000-ton aircraft carrier in the capital ship was sunk, two aviation warships were sunk, the Amagi battlecruiser was sunk, and the Nagato battleship was sunk, In addition, the old battleships Suruga and Omi were sunk in the Sasebo Naval Port. After the war, he said, "I salvaged the Suruga and Omi, repaired and continued to use, after all, even if these two battleships are old, they are still battleships, and they can continue to exert their residual heat after salvage and repair." Other heavy and light cruisers and destroyers were also lost, but the Chinese Navy also lost a number of auxiliary ships in the battle between the two navies, including a heavy cruiser with the surname Equilibrium, a mine-strike cruiser, and five destroyers and submarines. From the auxiliary ships, everyone's losses were about the same.
The loss of auxiliary ships is not great for the overall strength of the two navies, but the loss of capital ships in this area is a bit larger.
Therefore, as soon as the war ended, the navy began a large-scale shipbuilding program, but in those years, it was said that Ben's economy was in a downturn, and he couldn't afford to develop the navy at all.
This time, however, it was said that the navy's shipbuilding plan was somewhat different from the previous one, and the previous plan focused on battleships, but this time it was said that "after the navy suffered a big loss from China's aircraft carriers, its focus suddenly shifted to aircraft carriers." This situation not only appeared in the United States and Britain, the Chinese Navy aircraft carriers in the mid-1931 war shined, naturally received the attention of the navies of various countries, this kind of thing is not Chen Jingyun can limit and mislead, after all, everyone is not stupid, this loss once or twice will be counted, will not always be stupid to continue to suffer.
As a result, it was said that the two Maya-class light aircraft carriers, which had been urgently refurbished during the war, had been successfully put into service, and the two fleet aircraft carriers, the Wyvern and the Soryu, which had been commissioned during the wartime, were also commissioned in 1933 and 1934 respectively.
The reason why the Feilong-class aircraft carrier can be regarded as the second-generation fleet aircraft carrier built by the Navy, and the reason why it has been separated from the first-generation Fengxiang aircraft carrier for more than ten years is because during the 20s, it was said that the development of the Navy's aviation forces was placed on aviation warships, and in mid-1931, the two aviation warships Longxiang and Linzhen performed unsatisfactory, and their artillery combat capabilities were not good, and their aviation capabilities were not good. The Navy urgently designed the second-generation fleet aircraft carrier, which is the origin of the Wyvern-class aircraft carrier.
The standard tonnage is 17,000 tons, as an aircraft carrier designed urgently in wartime, the Wyvern-class aircraft carrier has many defects, such as the position of the bridge is the center of the ship's side at the beginning, but it was later found that the smoke exhaust system and hot air will cause serious turbulence on the flight deck, which will affect the take-off and landing of aircraft, fortunately, the construction of the Wyvern-class aircraft carrier has not been completed when the war has ended, and after the end of the war, it is said that the economic downturn of the two ships has slowed down, This was a blessing in disguise, so the bridge was able to be relocated to the starboard forward position before it was completed. The protection capability of this class of aircraft carriers is relatively low, but most of the aircraft carriers of this tonnage are very general protection, after all, the tonnage is placed there, if you want to equip more carrier-based aircraft and speed, you will not be able to obtain too high protection ability, China's 20,000-ton Huashan-class aircraft carriers and Hengshan-class aircraft carriers The protection capacity is not good, and only the protection capacity of the 25,000-ton Songshan-class aircraft carriers is better.
It is said that the speed of the existing aircraft carriers is very high, the Maya-class modified light aircraft carrier is as high as 34 knots, and the speed of the Feilong-class aircraft carrier is as high as 34.5 knots, which exceeds all the aircraft carriers in China, and the Hengshan-class aircraft carrier, which has the highest speed of China's aircraft carriers, is 33 knots, while the Huashan-class is only 32 knots, and even the latest Songshan-class is only 32 knots. The reason why the speed of China's aircraft carrier is lower than that of this aircraft carrier is that the Chinese Navy believes that the aircraft carrier has 32 knots, and no matter how high it is, the power system will occupy a lot of space, resulting in a decrease in the number of carrier-based aircraft and a decrease in the ability to protect the aircraft on the carrier. In terms of speed and the number of carrier-based aircraft, the Chinese Navy has chosen the number of carrier-based aircraft.
In terms of the number of aircraft, the Maya-class light aircraft carrier is not much, because this class of aircraft carriers is converted from the Kaohsiung-class heavy cruiser, and the modification will also be limited by the original hull design, and the carrying capacity is only about 36 aircraft. The number of aircraft carried by the Wyvern-class aircraft carriers is somewhat larger, with 57 aircraft in reserve and 16 aircraft in reserve, adding up to 75 aircraft. And this number is much less than that of China's aviation, which has the same number of aircraft carriers on its six aircraft carriers, all of which are 75 standing aircraft and 12 standby aircraft, adding up to 87 aircraft.
In the mid-1931 war, although the Navy also made an attempt at deck mooring, it soon abandoned this attempt after the war, for the simple reason that "I did not have many planes, and I could barely fill the existing four aircraft carriers, and if there were combat losses after the start of World War I, I also knew that the production capacity of my own aircraft was relatively poor, and it was difficult to replenish it." So he simply gave up the deck mooring and continued to choose to load the aircraft in the hangar.
This is mainly a question of need, not whether it is possible, and if Ben's Flying Dragon-class aircraft carriers also learn from the Chinese Navy to let a large number of planes on the deck, they can also install about 80 aircraft, but they don't need that.
The Chinese Navy is different, limited by the restrictions of the naval treaty, the Chinese Navy can only be six aircraft carriers now, so the Chinese Navy is trying its best to improve the combat effectiveness of each aircraft carrier, once the war starts, how much can be loaded, you must know that China has seven carrier-based aircraft wings, only six can be on the ship, and there is one empty in peacetime. And he said, "The number of planes itself is insufficient, and in addition, the tonnage of their aircraft carriers is still very large, and now they have used a total of more than 50,000 tons, and there is a surplus of more than 40,000 tons."
He said: "After the Sino-Chinese war, the focus was on the development of aircraft carriers, but the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers does not mean that aircraft carriers and aircraft are sufficient, in fact, what affects the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers is the training of personnel and a large amount of experience. This aircraft carrier is still a strange thing to all countries, everyone is still in the stage of exploration, and in this stage of exploration, China is at the forefront, this has been used for a long time, and the more it is used, the more problems it will be able to discover, and the more problems it can solve, this kind of experience accumulation is not to be tricked, and it is said that if this aircraft carrier wants to achieve the same combat effectiveness as China's aircraft carrier, it will take at least ten years of accumulation and training.
In addition to vigorously developing aircraft carriers, the Navy has also started construction of a treaty-type battleship to supplement the strength of the fleet.
The London Naval Treaty was originally intended to limit the pace of development of the navies of various countries, but in fact it did not play its due role; after the signing of the treaty, the pace of naval development of various countries has actually accelerated a lot, and the development of the navies of the two countries has attracted more attention from China and China.
In order to deal with the threat of the Chinese and Chinese navies, the US Navy also adopted a series of development plans in the early thirties, and like the Navy, it attached great importance to the development of aircraft carriers.
Even Germany in Europe did not dare to be left behind, and put forward a series of naval development plans, which made Britain vigilant, and even wanted to sign a naval limitation treaty with Germany.
In the mid-thirties, all countries were engaged in a silent arms race, and unlike the arms race before the First World War, the arms race in the mid-thirties was quietly carried out, and ordinary people thought that the economic crisis from 1929 to 1934 had passed, the economy had improved, and the world was peaceful. What they do not know is that the worldwide crisis is far from over, and that the series of stimulus policies adopted by countries have ostensibly stimulated the economy, but have not fundamentally solved the economic crisis.
Historically, when did the economic crisis end, when Hitler provoked the Great War in Europe?