There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. Human beings are a kind of thinking creatures, different people will have different opinions about the same thing, and naturally they will have more opinions about a new thing that appears in people's field of vision for the first time. Therefore, when the navies of various countries look at the aircraft carrier quota in their hands, they will consider such a question, how to build an aircraft carrier!

What is an aircraft carrier? An aircraft carrier is a warship that can carry aircraft as the main combat weapon, and to put it bluntly, it is an active airfield at sea. First of all, it is a ship, and secondly, he has to provide a full service for the planes on it and have the ability to send them out, it's as simple as that. But there is still a long way to go if we want to build a perfect aircraft carrier in the minds of all countries.

The aircraft of an aircraft carrier is the main gun of a battleship! As a type of ship that is biased towards attack, the Americans believe that the first thing to ensure is the attack power of aircraft carriers! That is, how many planes can an aircraft carrier send out in the specified time! This involves the preparation of the aircraft carrier and the number of aircraft that can be deployed! Especially the latter, the Americans are more concerned about ...... The reason is simple, the aircraft rearmament work can be completed before the war, slow down, slower, endure it. But once the war starts, whether or not as many planes as possible can be sent out in the shortest possible time becomes the key to determining the outcome of the war! …。

In addition, there is another reason for the Americans to emphasize attack power, because they believe that it is impossible to completely prevent an attack between aircraft carriers, and if it is assumed that the reconnaissance planes of both sides detect each other at the same time, then it is not surprising that when one attack group reaches the skies over the opposing fleet, the opposing aircraft group will also attack you. And this kind of attack is very difficult to defend against and warn of! According to the current warning range, the fleet can detect enemy planes attacking from a distance of several tens of kilometers at most. And when the other side comes, the aircraft carrier will not be able to dodge, because the plane is too fast. And according to the current trend, the speed of the plane will be faster!

"So what we're going to do is slap their butts before they slap our butts! And the aircraft carriers are to be arranged separately. You can't be completely wiped out by your opponent in one wave! "According to the deductions and assumptions of the Americans. In the end, Magiffin set such a tone for the future American aircraft carrier. That's attack first! The first wave of attacks will be as full force as possible. As well as the principle of dispersed arrangement of aircraft carriers, the latter paraphrases an old Chinese saying, even if all eggs cannot be put in one basket!

According to this principle, the American aircraft carrier must have a sufficiently large deck and at the same time be able to carry a sufficient number of aircraft! The benefits of a large deck are obvious, allowing more aircraft to take off, while also allowing aircraft to be prepared on deck. As for how to carry more aircraft, the Americans are also racking their brains. The Americans have a more direct idea, that is, to make use of all the places where they can put airplanes. Naturally, the hangar must be used for aircraft, and the flight deck can also moored some aircraft, and these aircraft can also take off urgently if necessary, but this alone is not enough, and the Americans feel that they need to think of more ways to ..........

It is well known that if you take a box with a lid, the weight of the sand that can hold in the box will always be more than the weight of the stones. The reason is simple, there are always gaps between the stones, in the case of the same density. There are certainly few stones, and sand can fill all the space in the entire chest. Americans understand this, so Americans think about it. When necessary, some aircraft disassembled into several large parts can be stored on the aircraft carrier as a reserve.

So far, the idea of the Americans is very good, but when it comes to the actual design, there is a problem, that is, how to set up the hangar, whether to make an open hangar, or to make a closed hangar? Do you want to make one layer, or do you want to make two layers? As for the former question, the Americans decided to make an open hangar after argumentation and experimentation, and they had the following reasons. First of all, the open hangar has a simple structure. To put it bluntly, it's a bunch of shelves and put a deck on top of it, and a partition on the side. These structures do not count into the hull structure. Secondly. The open hangar can be used to warm up the aircraft in the hangar, and the opening of the adjacent door can have enough air intake to supply the needs of the aircraft to warm up, saving deck area. Thirdly, even if it is blown up, it is relatively easy to repair, and some of the energy of the explosion will be released into the air through the gaps in the side, reducing the degree of damage to the hull, so why not? …………。

And on the issue of setting up several tiers of hangars, the Americans are also in trouble, double-decker hangars must have a larger parking area than single-decker hangars, and there is no problem with accommodating more aircraft. However, the height of the hangar may be lowered, and the center of gravity may be too high to affect stability. As a result, the Americans are struggling, whether to have a single-storey hangar with a larger area and a higher height, or a double-decker hangar, but the height may be smaller.

After struggling for a long time, the Americans found that if the space above the hangar is taken into account, it seems that the single-story hangar also has a way to obtain a larger aircraft capacity, and the first point that needs to be mentioned is that the upper part of the hangar is not completely a deck, because the aircraft carrier also needs to arrange anti-aircraft guns, and the anti-aircraft guns naturally cannot be placed near the waterline, they must be in the upper part, so a good deck in the upper part of the hangar directly needs to be arranged with a layer of anti-aircraft gun deck. That is, there is space directly on the top of the hangar and on the flight deck! And this layer is not all full. The Americans, who found out about this, thought they could disassemble the spare plane into several large parts and hang it on top of the hangar...... It's called a hanging ticket! In the end, the Americans' choice of hangars still went the old way in history, with a large deck, a large single-story hangar, plus a hanging ticket! …。

As for protection? Because the two aircraft carriers started by the United States were both converted from Lexington-class fast battleships, although the side chord could not use such thick armor, the Americans remade the 12-inch side chord armor originally prepared for the fast battleship and made it an 8-inch class. (This author looked at the information and did this with the armor of the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga.) As long as it can block the artillery mounted on the patrol, it doesn't require too much. The horizontal armor was arranged on the hangar deck, because the homogeneous armor originally prepared for the battleships was also used, so the two aircraft carriers converted from the two fast battleships that the Americans began to build also had strong horizontal protection after all. The hangar deck is up to 4 inches thick, and the ammunition magazine is higher. Of course, the flight deck is not armored! On top is a layer of steel plate and a layer of teak wood.

The Americans also did not hide it privately, and shared part of their experience with Britain at the naval technical exchange meeting within the Entente countries, because both countries have aircraft carriers converted with fast capital ships, and there are great similarities in the construction process and combat use. But the British demanded that the aircraft carrier must have adequate protection! There was a ......... of conflict between the American idea of emphasizing offensive power and the British idea of attacking and defending.

"The Royal Navy's definition of protection is not only to require the warship to be unsinkable, but also to preserve the combat effectiveness to the maximum extent and limit the damage to a certain range, the biggest difference between us and the United States is that we have less warships than the United States, and the replenishment capacity of the warships is also less than that of the United States. The Americans' aircraft carriers were damaged as long as they could go back. They could have sent a new warship to replace the void created by the injured aircraft carrier. And we can't! We don't have such a strong reserve force, and we have to make sure that every aircraft carrier can fight at sea for as long as possible. In particular, two large aircraft carriers, converted from Admiral-class battleships, would be the main force of the Royal Navy during the treaty period. So we have to increase the level of protection. "At the British Naval Conference, Thomas gave his opinion.

"To protect the combat power of an aircraft carrier is to ensure the availability of the aircraft carrier's hangar and flight deck. The Americans' design is just to ensure that the battleship is unsinkable, as long as the position of the hit bomb is better, maybe two bombs can completely deprive the American aircraft carrier of the ability to take off and land aircraft, by the way, there are fighters stored in the hangar. This design is nothing short of a crime! I don't want the battle patrol to be killed with one shot and the bold thunder to happen again on the aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy! This is our shame! Jericho then expressed his support for Thomas's idea, and the idea of equipping an aircraft carrier with an armored deck emerged, and the design of the world's first armored aircraft carrier began. …………。

The difference between the British and the Americans about the aircraft carrier is not only whether there is an armored deck, but also the design of the hangar, the British have also abandoned the single-story hangar design of the Americans in favor of a double-deck hangar. The British thought so, first of all, from the point of view of defense, the smaller the defensive area under the same armor weight, the better. The area that can be utilized by a double-storey hangar is much larger than that of a single-storey hangar...... Then you can appropriately reduce the area of the hangar to reduce the area of the armored deck. For example, a single-storey hangar needs 150*15, so theoretically, a double-storey hangar only needs to use 75*15. Then the armor protection area is also half smaller than the former, and a lot of weight is naturally saved under the same protection.

Another reason was that the British had to fight in the North Sea and the Atlantic. Its bad sea conditions will cause damage to the aircraft stored in the open air, and the British Royal Navy's aircraft are far inferior to the American Navy, the latter can change one when the plane is not good, and the Royal Naval Air Force cannot get too many aircraft because of the Royal Air Force, this is the same as in history, purely belongs to the arms competition, look at the Royal Air Force that is strong enough to organize a thousand aircraft bombing. If you look at the tragic carrying capacity of the British aircraft carrier, you can imagine it. It is not that British aircraft carriers cannot be installed, and with the carrier-based aircraft provided by the United States, Britain's aircraft carriers of the same tonnage are in no way inferior to those of other countries. The British aircraft carrier is not that it cannot be installed, but it cannot be installed! . …。

The second is more ~~~. The three-day double change promised by the side has been realized~~, and it has not been recommended for two consecutive weeks, and now the side can only rely on the support of all book friends~~~. (To be continued).