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Especially when Summer learned that Germany was developing a twin-engine bomber that could dive and possibly develop guided weapons, Summer already sensed a crisis. The result of the addition of these high-powered weapons is that even armored aircraft carriers may be powerless in the face of these tough killers. The so-called armored aircraft carrier, that is, in the upper part of the hangar has a horizontal armored flight deck. The rest of the area is still a light protection zone, and if it is hit by the opponent, it will definitely have a great impact on the take-off and landing ability. The armored deck only ensures the most basic take-off and landing capability, but how to define this basic? Is it to keep half of the release capacity or a third? It depends on where the other party's bomb lands. And even if there is armor protection on the elevator, but considering the weight, its level of protection will not be very high, anti-shrenaline can be, but if you want to block high-power armor-piercing bullets, it will be suspended. What's more, there may be a situation where the bomb does not penetrate, but the explosion disables the elevator. So armored aircraft carriers are not invulnerable.

And even if you are lucky, the opponent's bombs are thrown on your armored deck, it is debatable whether the armored deck can resist it, and the horizontal armor on the left and right can only guarantee to block the attack of 500kg level armor-piercing shells. When the opponent's attack aircraft carries out high-altitude horizontal bombing or large-angle dive bombing with 800kg armor-piercing shells, it has every chance to penetrate the armored deck, and it is not impossible to continue to increase the thickness. But only if you need to build an aircraft carrier very big. This was followed by a vicious expansion of construction difficulty, cost, and cycle. As a result, the cost performance is greatly reduced, and Xu Jie, as a traverser, also knows very well, even if you increase the thickness of the armor to the left and right, what can you do? Whether it will be able to block the attack of 1 ton of armor-piercing shells is still unknown.

In addition to horizontal attacks, the attack of aircraft with rockets on the flanks of aircraft carrier hangars could not be ignored no less. It's too exciting to imagine a 12-inch Tiem rocket weighing about 700kg whizzing through the fragile hull hull and plunging headlong into a busy hangar. Historically, except for the armored aircraft carriers of the British, which set up a layer of armor plates on the side walls of the hangar, the sides of the hangars of other countries were undefended. It is also unknown whether the British's 50mm to 75mm side armor will be able to withstand rocket attacks. In short, the reality is brutal. In this plane where technology surpasses history by a large margin, armored aircraft carriers must also learn to be human with their tails between them, otherwise they will be dropped by a 3,000-pound bomb from a twin-engine bomber who looks at you unpleasantly one day, and teach you to be a new man in minutes. Of course, in the aviation game, such a murderous scene usually does not happen, after all, everyone is mainly a single-engine aircraft, but if you encounter a land-based aircraft, it is not possible! Take a look at Bunker Mountain, which was seriously injured by a kamikaze in history, killed hundreds of people, and fought the fire for hours to survive. Xu Jie had to praise the Americans' level of damage management and luck! …

Faced with this dilemma, there was a heated discussion within the Chinese Navy, and some people suggested building aircraft carriers with larger tonnage and better protection, one of which was quite similar to the historical aircraft carrier Shinano. Because it was a regular aircraft carrier from the beginning, although its performance was similar to that of Shinano in all aspects, the tonnage was not as large as it was in history. According to the assessment of the Naval Design Institute. Less than 60,000 tons can be taken down. The defensive performance was even better than that of Shinano, and in order to protect against bomb attacks, the entire armored deck was about high in thickness and had a large coverage, and the armored deck was 210 meters long and 30 meters wide. In addition to this layer of horizontal armor, above the ammunition depot, there is a second layer of horizontal armor. The thickness is about 80mm. In other words, the main horizontal defense in the upper part of the ammunition depot is that this can basically block most of the bombs. It is also expected that 75mm armor will be placed on the elevator to defend against 500kg high-explosive or semi-armor-piercing shells.

And in order to protect against the attack of the torpedo with a magnetic fuse, the bottom of this supercarrier also has armor protection of about 50mm. And in some key areas, three layers of the bottom are used. The thickest part of the bottom of the ship even reached 2.5 meters, and the armor plus a certain depth had a certain defense capability even in the face of magnetic fuse torpedoes. The Admiralty considered such a level of defense to be quite capable of withstanding the blast of 250 kg of TNT explosives at the bottom of the ship.

Although the party making this proposal also admits that such a defense is still not able to cope with certain extreme cases. But at the same time, supporters believe that the battleship is absolutely capable of fighting more than 95% of possible attacks, at least guaranteed to be difficult to sink. Moreover, the large armored deck area also ensures that at least half of the aircraft take-off and landing capacity is left under air raids. After all, the planned aircraft carrier is 265 meters long and 43 meters wide. There are only unarmored areas of less than 50 meters in the front and rear of the deck. If the opponent really hits this area, then he can only consider himself unlucky.

On the other hand, the cost of such aircraft carriers is too high, and the number of super-large aircraft carriers built under the same budget is much smaller than that of ordinary 30,000-ton aircraft carriers, and the resources of 5 30,000-ton aircraft carriers may only be built in the end. Although super-large aircraft carriers can carry about 140 aircraft each. However, the overall aircraft carrying capacity is still very different from that of 30,000-ton aviation, with three super-large aircraft carriers having a maximum of 430 aircraft, while five 30,000-ton aircraft carriers can have at least 520 aircraft. (The single-decker hangar Essex can hold up to more than 110 aircraft, and the Huaxia double-decker hangar aircraft carrier has no reason to fit less than the Essex.) Although the tonnage of super-large aircraft carriers has increased, the deck area has not increased much, and the hangar area has increased limitedly, so 140 to 150 is already a lot. This aircraft capacity is still a reference to the original aircraft capacity of Midway, you know, Midway's defense is a coffee table, and the Midway deck is larger, which is enough to make up for the small area of a single-story hangar. ）

And this is only the difference in paper data, and the difference in attack power between the two sides is even greater when considering the ability to fly. The deck area of the three super-large aircraft carriers is not much larger than that of an ordinary 30,000-ton aircraft carrier, although it is nearly 7 meters wider, and each row can put one more aircraft, and the maximum number of aircraft released is only about 10 more than that of a normal aircraft carrier. If a normal aircraft carrier is calculated as 50 aircraft, then the ratio of the number of direct releases between the two sides is 180 to 250! This difference in attack power is really a bit large, and considering the scheduling difficulties caused by too many planes on an aircraft carrier, this figure may be even lower. So the opposing side thinks that the price to pay for a better defense is simply too great. After all, an aircraft carrier is an offensive weapon, and the best defense is to destroy the opponent, rather than relying on its own armor to resist.

Both sides have their own reasons, and the side that supports them believes that their aircraft carriers can survive the war, and slowly close the quantitative gap between the two sides through a long battle, so as to gain a double advantage in quality and quantity. The opposing side believes that the gap between the attack power of the two sides is so huge that no matter how good the armor protection is, it will not be able to protect itself, and it is difficult to imagine that a warship can run out of the battlefield at a speed of 30 knots and withstand the attack of dozens or even hundreds of aircraft. After all, even if the torpedo is prevented, it will cause water ingress. It's okay if you can carry one shot, try to hit you ten shots! What's the matter, it's all sinking! …

If the matter ends at this point, it will be nothing, nothing more than the two sides continue to quarrel over the issue of spear and shield. Su Mo won't take it too seriously, anyway, he is in charge of tactics, and the ship design has nothing to do with him, but then, someone put forward a more creative idea, that is, wouldn't it be better to use this kind of heavy aircraft carrier to fight with a medium aircraft carrier with light protection and large aircraft?

The core of this tactic is to place the heavy armored aircraft carrier in the direction where the opponent is most likely to attack, and the lightly protected medium armored aircraft carrier to the rear position. In real combat, heavy aircraft carriers are responsible for the release of fighters, while medium protection carriers in the back are responsible for the release of attack aircraft. When the opponent's aircraft group hits over, it will first spot the heavy aircraft carrier in front, and then launch an attack, and at this time, the defensive performance of the heavy aircraft carrier will be reflected. Coupled with its own direct guard fighters and fighters released on the rear lightly protected medium aircraft carriers, it was enough to repel the enemy's attack.

Subsequently, the personnel of the side supporting the heavy aircraft carrier also made a cost simulation, for example, if the other side has 10 armored aircraft carriers, then the side can build 4 heavy protection super large aircraft carriers and 5 light protection medium fleet aircraft carriers. The carrying aircraft of both sides are almost comparable. The cost is also relatively close, and if it is fought, the side with a super-large heavy armored aircraft carrier will obviously have an advantage.

Faced with this plan, Su Mo was a little moved. Judging from the deduction, it is indeed possible to give full play to the defensive advantages of the heavy armored aircraft carrier, and at the same time, the medium-sized aircraft carrier located in the rear is not much worse than the 30,000-ton aircraft carrier, and the cost is relatively low. It is indeed a good idea to compensate for the lack of attack power with a medium aircraft carrier.

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