Chapter 951: Marching into Iran

readx; The reason why the Jiulianshan-class aircraft carrier can become an epoch-making aircraft carrier is not because of its large tonnage, but because of its large tonnage; there are a large number of warships of 50,000 or 60,000 tons in the first 50,000 tons, and the Yandi of the Chinese Navy has an operational displacement of 50,000 tons, and the Tianshan and aircraft carriers also have an operational displacement of nearly 60,000 tons; the Midway-class aircraft carriers on the American side also have a combat displacement of more than 50,000 tons; although the Jiulianshan has a larger combat displacement, it is at most larger, and it cannot be called an epoch-making thing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info is not because of its beveled deck, the beveled deck has been tested and used on a large scale on the Qingshan class and Tianshan class, Jiulianshan is just inheriting the excellent design of its predecessors, and even other landing auxiliary equipment, elevators, but power systems, aviation command systems, radars, anti-aircraft guns, etc., these subsystems are almost all mature products, these things are not the first time to appear on the Jiulianshan.

And what really appeared on the Jiulianshan for the first time was a catapult, not a hydraulic catapult that the Chinese Navy has always used on a large scale, but a steam catapult. It was the first service of the official steam catapult that made the Navy have great expectations for the Jiulianshan. The reason why the Chinese Navy's jet carrier-based aircraft development has not been smooth is actually very simple, that is, it is too difficult to take off!

At present, China's largest production and the most mature jet engine is the FL43 series of Föhler Electric, the original thrust is less than 2,000 kilograms, and the later FL43-2 barely achieved 2,000 kilograms of thrust before large-scale equipment F12A fighters, as for another major domestic jet engine R & D manufacturer Chuzhou Aircraft Company, especially in the past few years, they have been focusing on the upgrading and improvement of 1,000 kilograms of thrust. As a result, their high-thrust engine development progress is somewhat behind.

It took a year to launch the 2,000-kilogram jet engine, and although it is said that the thrust reached 2,100 kilograms, it was only less than 100 kilograms larger than the FL43-2. In fact, by 1945, the two largest aero-engine competitors in the Chinese batch were already developing engines with higher thrust, such as Fule Electric was preparing to upgrade the FL43 to 2,300 kilograms of thrust, and Chuzhou Aircraft Company was even more ambitious to increase the thrust of the CZ40 to 2,500 kilograms. In addition to upgrading the existing engines, in fact, the two companies are also intensively developing engines with larger thrust levels, such as 3,000 kg and even 4,000 kg engines.

Of course, no one can say for sure what will happen in the future, the problem now is that China can take out its hands and let the engines used by the navy count on one hand, first of all, the FL39 series engine, which is also used in the F10 fighter, although the thrust is smaller, only about 1,200 kilograms, but its weight and volume are also relatively small, and the power used as a twin-engine fighter is still OK. In addition, the CZ38 series of Chuzhou Aircraft Company is also a small thrust, but Chuzhou Aircraft Company has been deeply developing small thrust engines in recent years, so their CZ38 series thrust has reached 1,300 kg of thrust, and it is much stronger than the FL39 series in terms of service life and reliability.

In addition to these two low-thrust engines, there are also two high-thrust engines, namely the CZ40 series of Chuzhou Aircraft Company and the FL4 series of Fule Electric.

The above four engines are basically the engines that China can now come up with. The Navy's carrier-based fighters either choose the mode of twin-engine small-thrust engine, or choose the mode of single-engine high-thrust, and both of these methods are far from the Navy's requirements for engine thrust, and although the hydraulic catapult in this year has been much stronger than many years ago, it still cannot meet the huge thrust needs of jet carrier-based aircraft.

Insufficient engine thrust and catapult thrust are the fundamental reasons why the Chinese Navy's jet carrier-based aircraft has not been officially put into service after many years of development.

And now that the steam catapult of the Jiulianshan is in service, it will be able to allow the Navy jet carrier-based aircraft to obtain sufficient take-off speed, and in this way, the large-scale entry of jet carrier-based aircraft into naval service has become a reality.

As a result, the Navy is already preparing to formalize the final prototype of the X11 program, and enter the stage of mass production for training pilots, and when the Jiulianshan is put into service, then the Navy hopes that the Jiulianshan can have real combat capability.

Even due to the successful development of the steam catapult and the imminent large-scale service of the F11 fighter, the navy sent the Tianshan and Wudangshan to the naval shipyard as soon as the war ended, dismantled the hydraulic catapult, and then replaced it with a steam catapult, and by the second half of 1945, China would have four large aircraft carriers that could fully carry and use jet carrier-based aircraft.

As for the original Aoyama-class aircraft carriers, they have also been determined and will be upgraded and modified in rotation, and the early modifications are mainly concentrated in the six straight-deck types that served in front of the Aoyama-class, and the Navy is preparing to refit them one by one, changing them to beveled decks, and by the way, replacing them with steam catapults, so that these Aoyama-class aircraft carriers also have the minimum requirements for taking off and landing jet carrier-based aircraft.

However, the Navy also knows that although these aircraft carriers of more than 30,000 tons are said to be the best tonnage for operating propeller carrier-based aircraft, they are still too small for jet carrier-based aircraft. A few years ago, the Chinese Navy began to plan to fully enter the era of jet aircraft, and this is also after the Chinese Navy determined the construction of the last four Wutaishan-class aircraft carriers, it completely stopped the development and construction of medium-sized aircraft carriers, and focused its main efforts on super aircraft carriers.

In addition to the Jiulianshan-class super aircraft carrier determined in 1941, in 1943, a larger super aircraft carrier plan was put forward as a follow-up ship to the Jiulianshan-class, and the preliminary design was completed in the first half of 1944.

Since this time, it can be said that the Chinese Navy has been developing towards a super aircraft carrier in an all-round way, of course, this does not mean that the Qingshan class and the five old aircraft carriers will be thrown away all at once, the huge threat of the Chinese Navy in these years is actually from the dozen or so Qingshan-class and five old aircraft carriers, which, together with the Tianshan class and two other light aircraft carriers, make the number of aircraft carriers in China's active fleet reach as many as 23. In 1945, six aircraft carriers will be put into service, and the number of aircraft carriers in the Chinese Navy will reach 29 by then.

And although this number seems to be a lot, it is actually not as many as the Americans, the Americans have more than 30 Essex class construction plans, in addition to a number of Midway construction plans, and then there are many Read-class light aircraft carriers, and in 1945, it is conservatively estimated that the US Navy has at least ten more aircraft carriers than China.

Limited by the scale of the domestic shipbuilding industry, it is irrational to fight with the number of aircraft carriers with the Americans, the Chinese Navy has collected almost all the shipyards in China that can undertake the construction of large warships, and it is only then that it can build 14 Qingshan-class aircraft carriers, but the Americans have placed more than 30 orders for the Essex class alone, and these orders will be completed by the end of 1945, and this kind of shipbuilding strength is incomparable to China.

So the Chinese Navy is competing with the U.S. Navy in a different way, that is, when the U.S. Navy is still using propeller aircraft, I have begun to use jet carrier-based aircraft, and then it will not be the distance in the number of aircraft carriers, but the distance between carrier-based aircraft, and because of the emergence of jet carriers, the role of a large number of medium-sized aircraft carriers will decline rapidly, and the core of naval warfare will be replaced by super aircraft carriers, and now the Americans are full of calculations only in the few Midway-class ships under construction, But no other super-aircraft carrier has already started construction and construction, so that China will have a huge advantage in the super-aircraft carrier, and the role of medium-sized aircraft carriers, which the Americans have in large numbers, will decline rapidly.

Of course, this is a matter of the future, and now, the outside world is not concerned about what jet carrier-based aircraft is not a super aircraft carrier, but China has transferred some of the active aircraft carriers to India and placed them under the jurisdiction of the Third Fleet, and by the beginning of 1945, the Third Fleet has the strength of six aircraft carriers, and the United States and Britain have the navy in the Indian Ocean.

When the situation in the Pacific is still tense, the Chinese navy has deployed a large number of troops into the Indian Ocean, which naturally makes people think about various things, such as whether China's strategic center of gravity has shifted southward and is preparing to take action against India. Or do you want to enter the Arabian Seas, enter Central Asia, or even enter the Mediterranean or even the Atlantic.

And when people think that the Chinese army is also increasing troops in the direction of Central Asia and Siberia at the same time, they all pat their chests and say that China is definitely going to take action against India and Iran.

In fact, their guess was not wrong: on January 17, the Iranian delegation came to Nanjing with a sad face, and then was forced to sign the Sino-Iranian mutual guarantee agreement under the intimidation and threat of Gu Weijun, a veteran of Chinese diplomacy.

Although the agreement ostensibly states that if either country encounters aggression by another country, the other side has the obligation and responsibility to provide assistance, including military force, the two countries have reached a de facto military alliance.

In reality, however, the agreement allowed China to formally gain military access and the right to garrison troops in Iran!

Taking advantage of this agreement, Chinese troops stationed in Central Asia began to enter Iran in bulk!

And China's move was immediately met with strong opposition from the United States, Britain and Soviet Russia!

Although China has intensified its infiltration of Iran over the past few years, and has almost completely controlled Iran's economy and military, Iran has maintained a military presence, and the Soviet Union, Britain, and the United States have not completely withdrawn from Iran.

Now that China is once again making an open foray into Iran, one has to worry about what China's next move will be. Will the Caucasus be going north to prepare for war against Soviet Russia, or will it be said to have crossed Iran directly into Iraq? Or do you simply enter the Turkish Dye Guide region?