readx; In addition to sending six divisions into Europe again, China has also increased the strength of its navy and air force in Europe, and once again transferred several wings of air force units from several major air forces in China to join the Eighth Air Force, so that the Eighth Air Force has 12 combat wings, more than 1,000 F12A\B series jet fighters, more than 800 F5E series and more than 600 F6D series, and more than 300 B11 bombers and 200 B16 bombers. The www.biquge.info of the Pen, Fun, and Pavilion has formed a total of about 3,000 combat aircraft, of which the F12A\B jet fighter is naturally used as the main air supremacy, and the F5E is used as a fighter-bomber to carry out ground support missions in normal times, and when necessary, it has to be carried out as a long-range escort for strategic bombers. The F6D, on the other hand, is a very pure fighter-bomber, performing only ground support missions. The B11 and B16, on the other hand, were used to bomb important military targets such as transportation hubs in the rear of enemy troops.

The above more than 3,000 planes sound like a lot, but in fact, in World War II this number is still very small, the US Air Force is now engaged in the European war of tens of thousands of aircraft, and the Chinese Air Force is not unable to come up with more aircraft, the Chinese Air Force is now in service tens of thousands of aircraft, but Europe is not currently needed so much, after all, the Chinese Air Force's temporary mission is to provide support to the army, not to carry out large-scale bombing of Germany or something, It is enough to demand air supremacy and ground support over the Balkans.

On the Navy's side, the Navy assigned the two aircraft carrier battle groups that had just been deployed in the Persian Gulf region to the Seventh Mobile Fleet, and the original two Qingchengshan-class light aircraft carriers of the Seventh Mobile Fleet had been on combat duty for more than two months, and China did not have a decent port maintenance base on the Mediterranean side, so the maintenance of these two aircraft carriers and other warships had to be carried out back to Bandar Abbas in Iran.

As China's only large-scale naval and air base in the Middle East, Abbas Military Base has complete port facilities after years of intense construction, and can carry out maintenance work and necessary battle damage repairs for medium and large warships.

In fact, the navy transferred two light aircraft carriers from the Mediterranean, and in addition to maintenance reasons, the more important thing is that with the increase in the number of medium-sized aircraft carriers such as the Qingshan-class aircraft carriers and the Wutaishan-class aircraft carriers of the Chinese Navy, among the six old aircraft carriers that were in service before the thirties, except for one that was sunk in battle, the other five are basically in a state of semi-decommissioning, and are currently mainly used for training tasks in China. Although these two Qingchengshan-class light aircraft carriers are still very new, and the age of the ships is only six years, due to congenital limitations, their hulls are relatively small, and the carrying capacity is very limited.

In fact, not only China has done this, but the Americans have also done this, and they have also converted some of the Reading-class light aircraft carriers into training ships, or transferred them to Britain, and the current US Navy has formed a fleet with all Essex-class aircraft carriers as the core.

So if nothing else, after the two Qingchengshan-class light aircraft carriers returned to Bandar Abbas from the Mediterranean Sea for initial rest and maintenance, they will cross the Indian Ocean and return to China, and will continue to serve in the First Fleet for a short time, but their mission will also be changed to serve as training ships to train more carrier-based aircraft pilots for the Navy, and as for the main force of naval warfare, it will be undertaken by large aircraft carriers and super aircraft carriers.

The real reason for the withdrawal of many old aircraft carriers from the front line by the Chinese Navy in 1945 is that the last two Wutaishan-class aircraft carriers were put into service in the first half of 1945, bringing the number of large aircraft carriers in the Chinese Navy, including the Qingshan-class and Wutaishan-class, to as many as 18. The first ship of the super aircraft carrier Jiulianshan-class will also be officially commissioned in June this year, and the second ship will also be commissioned next month, when China's super aircraft carrier plus two Tianshan-class ships will reach four.

In the first half of the year, after many months of intense construction and replacement of steam catapults, the Tianshan has accepted an F11A jet fighter squadron and has become the first aircraft carrier in the history of the Chinese Navy to be officially equipped with jet carrier-based aircraft.

With the smooth progress of the Navy's jet program, the two Tianshan-class super aircraft carriers and some of the modified Qingshan-class and Wutaishan-class aircraft carriers will be successively replaced with jet carrier-based aircraft.

At this time, as an epoch-making super aircraft carrier, Jiulianshan finally ushered in its official service after years of construction.

On June 13th, Shanghai Jiangnan Shipyard docked a huge battleship on its dock!

It is a whole circle larger than the largest warship known in the world, the Tianshan-class aircraft carrier, the Jiulianshan was expected to have a standard displacement of 55,000 tons at the beginning of the design, but in the course of many years of construction, the design details were constantly changed, and after the completion of its standard displacement has reached 58,000 tons, exceeding the original design of 55,000 tons. Its normal combat displacement has reached 76,000 tons, and its full load can reach as much as 80,000 tons.

Such a huge warship makes it deservedly take over the crown of the Tianshan-class aircraft carrier and become the largest warship in service in the world today.

The Jiulianshan has a total length of 332 meters and a width of 40 meters, while the widest flight deck is an astonishing 78 meters, which is a full circle larger than the Tianshan class. The huge hangar and wide deck are enough for the Jiulianshan to operate smoothly, and the speed and tonnage are more large, and the navy is designed to allow the Jiulianshan to carry more than 90 jet carrier-based aircraft.

In order to propel this massive warship, the designers equipped it with four steam turbines with a total horsepower of 250,000 horsepower, so that the Jiulianshan could achieve a maximum speed of 32.5 knots.

In terms of protection, in addition to the inherent armor protection of the hull, the more important thing is naturally the air defense weapon system, the ship is equipped with the Chinese Navy's latest twin 75 mm anti-aircraft guns six, in addition to twelve quadruple 40 mm anti-aircraft guns, the above two anti-aircraft guns are fully automated air defense systems that can be guided by fire control radars and automatic fire, which can be regarded as the best system of artillery air defense in the Chinese Navy at present.

However, although the air defense system is advanced, the number of air defense weapons is much less than that of other aircraft carriers in the navy, you must know that the five Shan-class aircraft carriers, 75 mm and 40 mm anti-aircraft guns combined, the total number of tubes has reached more than 120 tubes, which is only less than the Yandi-class battleships. It can be said that the battleships of this year, no matter how big or small, are hedgehogs full of anti-aircraft guns.

However, in many tests and studies of the Chinese Navy, it has been found that in the future, as carrier-based aircraft become more and more advanced and their penetration capabilities become stronger and stronger, the effectiveness of artillery air defense will be greatly weakened, and the future fleet air defense tasks will be handed over to carrier-based aircraft to perform, and as for the anti-aircraft firepower of the warships themselves, the existing artillery air defense system can only be regarded as a minimum of self-protection, and the Navy has now learned from the experience of the Air Force in successfully developing the S1 air defense missile, and is preparing to develop and equip the Navy's own air defense missile. Moreover, anti-aircraft missiles of various levels have been developed in the far, medium and near distances.

At the naval development meeting, he once again stressed to Navy Marshal Guan Shijie that the future mode of naval warfare is bound to continue to change, and in addition to the drive of carrier-based aircraft jets, the development of missiles will also change the mode of naval warfare in the future.

Since the reunification of the Chinese Navy, it has never been a conservative navy, in the eyes of naval colleagues around the world, the Chinese Navy is a sword-like and adventurous navy, when countries are still building battleships, the Chinese Navy is putting all its energy on aircraft carriers, so that by the forties of World War II, the number of Chinese battleships was the lowest among the British and American countries, and it was not even much stronger than France, Italy and Germany, but it relied on aircraft carriers. In World War II, the Chinese Navy laid the foundation of the world's first-class navy and achieved the status of equal to the US Navy.

The adventurous Chinese Navy's innovations are reflected not only in aircraft carriers, but also in a range of military equipment, such as radars, fully automated air defense systems, oxygen torpedoes, dive bombers, television-guided bombs, and steam catapults. , beveled decks, etc., were first proposed and used by the Chinese Navy, and then the navies of various countries quickly followed up after discovering them, and now they have to add a whole new generation of combat weapons such as anti-ship missiles and anti-aircraft missiles.

Just as the Air Force likes to use more advanced aircraft to maintain the generation gap with the air forces of other countries, the Navy also hopes to use various innovations to achieve the generation gap with the navies of other countries, and this generation difference is not only the difference between one or two weapons, but the generation difference of the entire combat system.

The most obvious manifestation of this is the service of the Jiulian Mountain!

In order to inaugurate the largest warship ever built and commissioned by China in the history of the world, Chen Jingyun specially traveled from Nanjing to Shanghai to attend the service ceremony.

On the morning of the 13th, on the dock of the Jiangnan Naval Shipyard, which was heavily guarded, Chen Jingyun took a ticket of high-ranking military and political officials to the Jiulian Mountain through a temporary elevator.

"Back then, how could we have thought that we would be able to build such a huge warship now!" Navy veteran Sa Zhenbing walked beside Chen Jingyun and sighed as he looked at the huge battleship.

Yes, when he followed Chen Jingyun for the reconstruction of the navy, the Chinese navy was so weak, the two Xingshang heavy cruisers and several light cruisers and destroyers ordered from the United States were all the belongings of China when it was just unified, and it took more than ten years for the Chinese navy to have the scale of four battleships and become one of the world's naval powers in the twenties, and at that time, the Chinese navy was still far behind by the navies of Britain and the United States. It was not until the naval aviation faction represented by Guan Shijie vigorously developed aircraft carriers with the support of Chen Jingyun and invested heavily in World War II that the world's most powerful aircraft carrier battle group fleet was created.

If you count the time of naval reconstruction in the former Qing Dynasty, then since the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Navy has been working hard for 50 years to re-emerge, which is half a century, and it has taken several generations of naval personnel to achieve today's results!

Chen Jingyun can build a huge army of 10 million in just a few years, but in order to obtain the navy in front of him, China has paid for it for nearly a hundred years!