"The ship is 308 meters long, 72 meters wide, has a standard displacement of 58,000 tons and a full load of 71,000 tons. Four-axis propulsion, maximum speed 30 knots. 82 standard carrier aircraft. ...... "Without Xin Yixin, the deputy chief engineer in charge of the construction of the Kunlun aircraft carrier, explaining, Meng Xiang muttered a series of data.

When this aircraft carrier was designed, it was Meng Xiang who quoted some concepts from later generations, and it was finally finalized, and Meng Xiang still remembers the approximate data.

All the data of the Kunlun is still based on the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier and modified it.

The base can now also be built with the Kitty Hawk, of course, the original version, not after repeated upgrades in later generations, but the performance is still invincible. It's just that the price is just as amazing.

When the base was first upgraded, Meng Xiang had the idea of fighting the Kitty Hawk.

But before the base was upgraded again, the enhanced version of the Kitty Hawk was 400 million US dollars, and the bare basic version was 265 million US dollars, which was not discounted at all, which directly made Meng Xiang hide his face and retreat.

It's not that there is not so much money in the base account, but if it is invested, it may affect the production of other weapons, and such a large amount of money, if it is replaced by an Essex-class aircraft carrier, even if it is just to form an aircraft carrier formation and send people out, Meng Xiang is also confident that the Americans will be soft when they see it.

Between production and non-production, Meng Xiang hesitated for a long time, and then thought of the hidden dangers of the base, but he still didn't have a hot head.

Huaxia has built a strong base that has always been a castle in the air, supporting Huaxia's shipbuilding capacity, and truly owning Huaxia's own warships is the king.

If it is safe, it is more cost-effective to have a combination of the USS Midway and the base aircraft carrier, and under the large-scale riot, it is enough to drag Britain and the United States to death.

Meng Xiang put his mind at ease and finally chose the base to issue drawings. Build on your own.

With the improvement of base intelligence. The price of the drawings has shrunk to between one and one-tenth of the physical goods.

Although the price of the most detailed drawings and one-tenth of the description is still in the tens of millions of dollars, this is a long-term deal, compared to the production of an aircraft carrier. A little bit of dismantling and research is much more convenient, and the technological improvement brought to Huaxia related fields is also huge.

The drawings of the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier in triplicate were transported truck by truck to Shanghai, Tianjin, Dalian, Yantai, Hangzhou, Fuzhou, Guangzhou and other ship research institutes, under the research and revision of the newly grown young Chinese ship experts. Coupled with some suggestions from Meng Xiang for more advanced concepts, it has finally become what it is now.

Since Huaxia looted 15,000 tons of hydraulic presses and other equipment from Germany from the Japanese, placed in Tianjin, with the support of the Germans, Huaxia also has the ability to produce large-thickness forging parts, plus a series of high-performance equipment purchased from the Germans in the past two years, plus shipbuilding experts from Belgium, the Netherlands, France and other European countries earlier, Huaxia has the ability to build 60,000-ton warships.

Coupled with the help of the base, although the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier still has many difficulties for China. But some standard aircraft carriers with a little lower performance can already be manufactured in Huaxia.

Before the capture of Australia last year, Meng Xiang, who expected the deterioration of relations with Britain and the United States, officially launched the plan to build a Chinese-made aircraft carrier.

Relying on the teaching of foreign experts and the study of a large number of overseas students. Huaxia already has a large number of ship talents. In terms of the level of civil ship building and management, it is no longer inferior to some maritime powers.

Even in terms of warships, Meng Xiang is constantly providing opportunities for the nascent Chinese shipbuilding industry to practice.

In the era of the Pseudo-Qing Dynasty. Huaxia was able to build warships, and once created the glory of the 2,150-ton offshore defense ironclad ship Pingyuan. Although most of them are small in tonnage, at least they have trained a construction team.

In the era of the Republic of China, maintaining the army was a headache for any government, and the cost was huge, and no one was willing to maintain the navy, which was not cost-effective. The construction of warships is basically less than 800 tons, which can only keep those warship shipbuilders at the point of drinking porridge, and there is not much progress. The same Pinghai, which is more than 2,000 tons, was also cobbled together on the basis of the introduction of Japanese drawings and Japanese equipment.

Without grinding, it is impossible to improve skills.

After several years of training, the Chinese shipbuilding talents need to be sharpened in practice.

Although the base is more cost-effective, Meng Xiang still spends a part of the funds every year to be handed over to major shipyards for internship and training.

Since 38 years, under the pretext of repairing the Ashigara and Canglong, the vanguard army has cultivated a team of ship talents, including the later generations of Niu Xin Yixin, Zhu Tianbing, Wu Jingying, Wang Gongheng, Shen Yuerui, Zhang Wenzhi and others, and even Yang Junsheng, the director of the Great China Shipbuilding Machinery Factory, was dragged into the water by Meng Xiang.

Huaxia now has nine large-scale shipbuilding bases in Shanghai, Tianjin, Dalian, Yantai, Ningbo, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Nanjing. In addition to those fishing boats, merchant ships, cargo ships and other civilian ships, they also began to repair and dismantle various warships, and gradually honed a shipbuilding team.

With the cheap manufacturing and maintenance capabilities of the base shipyard, Meng enjoys the confidence to produce a variety of today's mainstream warships, and even some post-World War II cross-era warships, for training and teaching.

If there is a problem that cannot be solved by dismantling and repairing a warship, it can be directly handed over to the base for repair. It doesn't matter if it's all demolished, there is a base recovery function, and it can also partially protect the principal.

It can be dismantled and dismantled repeatedly at any cost, and I am afraid that workers in the United States and Germany rarely have such opportunities. The outstanding advantages and creative concepts of various warships have also enabled Huaxia's engineers and experts to learn from others and gradually improve their horizons and level.

"Tear it down!" It is worthy of the praise of foreigners, and the imitation ability of Chinese people who follow the footsteps of the world in the difficult situation is extremely prominent.

In just a few years, Huaxia has gone from dismantling and analysis to imitation construction, and can produce its own warships.

From the imitation of the German S-class torpedo boat in 40 years, to the imitation of 2 Scotts in 41 years, and then to the imitation of Yangyan-class and Qiuyue-class destroyers in 43 years, the production level of warships in China has been continuously improving.

Even large warships, the experience gained in refitting the Deutschland-class pocket battleships and the aircraft carrier Midway, etc., as well as the experience of some relevant talents following the Germans, have reached the level of efficient imitation.

The talent of the Huaxia ship is not just imitating, a new destroyer based on the American Keeling-class destroyer, modified and built, is already under construction 2.

Even large warships dared to break through.

The new light cruiser, which began to be built in '43, is now almost complete and ready for service, and the performance is even stronger than the two originals.

Of course, although Huaxia is constantly catching up in large-caliber naval guns and power systems, there are still some gaps, but there are Germans and Americans around to trade, especially the Germans who are stuck in the war, and are opening up a series of high-level technologies to Huaxia.

Meng Xiang has also collected a lot of technology from Europe over the years, such as in terms of steel, and has been able to produce high-performance steel by itself.

For example, the 1930CA, which was acquired from the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom, which is one of the best side armor of warships in the world in World War II, and even another equally good German KCn/a has been obtained.

Germany's WH steel, which can be called the best warship horizontal armor in World War II, and Germany's ST52, which is the best steel for warship structure, have also reached Meng Xiang from the secret recipe to a series of key equipment.

Among them, not limited to trading and purchasing, the biggest clone spy ace in Meng Xiang's hands also played a huge role.

For example, the MK.16 naval gun that the Americans intended to equip with the De Moine-class had just been developed, and the core secrets were stolen by the clone spies, and another American MK.32 double-linked 127 mm high-level dual-purpose naval gun has become the cornerstone of the breakthrough of the Chinese naval artillery.

The same is true in terms of power, although Huaxia's manufacturing capacity is still a little worse, and it can only afford the level of destroyer scale, and it is very difficult to power warships of more than 10,000 tons, but the power technology of Germany and the United States is being integrated in the hands of Huaxia Power, and it is gradually sharpening the heart of a powerful Huaxia Dragon.

Of course, Meng Xiang, who couldn't wait for time, had already exchanged weapons for power equipment, and got a batch of large diesel engines and steam turbines and related accessories and equipment from the Germans, and used them first.

It's just that because the Germans were a little deficient in some of the power of the steam turbines, on the new Kunlun, Meng Xiang finally played the way of exchanging the tanuki for the prince, and got two sets of power core systems of Iowa-class battleships from the Americans.

When everything is in place, the Kunlun aircraft carrier in China will also be released.