"It's a big ship." When Yan Boxun came to the Armstrong shipyard and saw the huge hull of the Hao, the same class ship of the Hood-class fast battleship, he couldn't help but let out a sigh of admiration. "It's a good hull, and we've helped your country build it into the best aircraft carrier of its time." Looking at this behemoth with a waterline length of 262 meters and a width of 33 meters, Yan Boxun said.

Huaxia finally decided to help the British complete these two aircraft carriers improved by admiral-class fast battleships, although this led to the outflow of some of Huaxia's design concepts, but after careful consideration, Huaxia believed that it was worthwhile to exchange limited advanced ideas for actual design and construction experience, and more importantly, Britain would be the main force to resist the eastward advance of the Allies in the future, and the interests of Huaxia and Britain were the same on this issue. The arrival of Yan Boxun and others finally made the original design plan of the British almost repeated.

"The strongest attack, the strongest defense, the best battle hold! Moderate speed, strong endurance! At the first meeting of Chinese and British designers, Yan Boxun wrote these English words on the blackboard. Then began his following speech, which has influenced the history of aircraft carrier design for more than ten years!

"There is no doubt that the attack power of the aircraft carrier is reflected in the number of aircraft that are reconditioned and released at one time! So we need a huge hangar, we need a huge deck, thank God, the embryo that your country has provided us with is very suitable for building a perfect aircraft carrier, he has just laid the keel, a huge part of the superstructure and the hull have not been built, we have a blank sheet of paper to play to our heart's content! For this. In our opinion, in order not to waste the huge hull of this aircraft carrier, he had to have at least a length of 270 meters. A huge deck with a width of more than 35 meters! The size of this deck will be somewhat larger than that of the American aircraft carriers! ”

"We have a lot in common when it comes to hangars, starting with a double-decker hangar, with the upper hangar set at 6 meters and the lower level at 5.5 meters. This allows us to have ample altitude for aircraft maintenance. In terms of specifics, I think the hangar area on our aircraft carrier should be at least 170 meters long and 24 meters wide! The width of the lower hangar can be smaller, between 21 and 22 meters. A huge hangar will provide the aircraft carrier with ample air force to maintain every conceivable aircraft. ”

"Oh my God, with such a large deck and such a huge hangar, it's hard for me to imagine any aircraft that would require such a luxurious configuration now. Whether it's a torpedo machine. Or maybe heavy bombers in the future, this hangar is too big. A British naval designer said. He is right, this hangar area can already rank second in the world on a double-decker aircraft carrier, you must know that this is not a lift area. The hangar area used purely to park the aircraft. Historically, in addition to the BT of Shinano, the upper hangar of Taiho was only 150 meters by 20 meters. The width of the lower level is only 18 meters.

"Actually, I don't know why Boss Xu wants such a huge hangar." The British technician's words in private reached Yan Boxun's ears, and Yan Boxun was also very puzzled by such a design that now seems to be too extravagant. And Xu Jie didn't explain much about this, because even if some things are explained, they are equivalent to explaining in vain! After all, there is still a 20-year technological gap between them!

Xu Jiefei's purpose in insisting on such a huge hangar is actually to prepare for the future twin-engine aircraft to take on the field, well, in addition to the air raid from Shangri-La in World War 2 in history (that is, the retaliatory bombing of Tokyo by American bombers after Pearl Harbor. There is no record of a large number of twin-engine aircraft taking off and landing on aircraft carriers, and even this attack can only be sent but not received, and because of weight restrictions. The B25s dismantled almost everything that had nothing to do with the bombing, even all the self-defense machine guns.

Historically. The absence of twin-engine planes on ships does not seem to have much effect on the war. Well, for the Japanese and German navies in history, the US imperialists can pinch to death no matter how they pinch it, after all, where is the strong national strength, but on this plane, in the face of the German fleet and other Allied brothers who are almost equal to the strength of the US Navy, if you don't give the British some support beyond the times, I'm afraid the result is really difficult to say. So what benefits can the arrival of a twin-engine aircraft bring to the British?

A larger bomb load? A more powerful attack aircraft? The Entente doesn't seem to need it, according to the current development of technology, the technology of this plane is more than 4 years ahead of history, that is to say, if there are still 2 wars at the same time as history, the Americans' A1 Sky Raider attack aircraft will definitely be able to catch up with the battlefield, this thing can be loaded with a maximum of 3 to 4 torpedoes, as the last piston samurai, this Dongdong one was used in the Vietnam War! Enough to prove its success.

Aircraft carrier night combat aircraft? It doesn't seem to be necessary, because there are also single-engine night combat aircraft in World War 2, such as the F6F and F4U with radars on them. (Here I worship the technical superiority of the horrors of the 2nd World War of the US imperialists.) What is really needed for twin-engine aircraft is anti-submarine electronic warfare and air alert. (This is true for the United States, and if you want to get two or three torpedoes from an airplane with German technology, you have to have a twin-engine plane.) ）

At the end of World War II, the American standard aircraft carrier anti-submarine mode looked like this. Three planes formed a formation, one equipped with radar and sonar buoys or other detection equipment, the other aircraft equipped with self-guided torpedoes, and the third aircraft armed with depth charges or rockets. (I can't remember the author here, if there is a mistake, please correct it.) If you look at the weight alone, one torpedo with a mess of sonar buoys or bombs doesn't seem like much, at least not heavier than four torpedoes. Theoretically, A1 should be able to take on this task. And the number of pylons in the latter is also quite enough.

It is indeed possible purely from the point of view of load capacity, but the operation of the radar requires people! In addition to installing a sea search radar on the aircraft, it is necessary to arrange 1 or 2 people to operate this radar, which can also be used on the body of the AD, but in this case it is really too difficult to install a bunch of weapons, anyway, history has not done this, even after the 2 World War, before the S2 anti-submarine aircraft entered service, at least 2 aircraft are needed to perform anti-submarine missions, one is responsible for searching the depth of the snorkel with radar, and the other is responsible for attacking. And the tactical flexibility of such a crew is obviously a little worse, and 2 single-engine aircraft will certainly occupy a larger deck area than a small twin-engine aircraft.

As for AWACS? Historically, there have also been single-engine aircraft equipped with radar to change to early warning aircraft, but these single-engine aircraft that can only hang the radar on the belly of the aircraft themselves are space-tight, and the radar below will be affected by sea surface clutter. So in the end, it was replaced by a twin-engine aircraft, and the first twin-engine carrier-based early warning aircraft in history was modified from the S2 anti-submarine aircraft.

So now the last question is whether such an aircraft can take off on an aircraft carrier, the answer is very easy, even according to historical technology, the American Midway uses the H4-1 hydraulic catapult to eject a 28,000-pound aircraft at a speed of 71 knots, coupled with the synthetic deck wind, the propeller aircraft can easily take off, and the power of the S2 anti-submarine aircraft in history is not high, it seems that it does not even have 1800 horsepower, which is enough to prove that this aircraft is still very friendly to aircraft carriers. As for landing? It's not a big problem either, because the S2 is not very heavy, and the propeller aircraft has a low landing speed, which is okay to land on such a large carrier.

And whether it is anti-submarine aircraft or early warning aircraft or electronic warfare aircraft are quite important in future battles, after all, the strength of this plane whether it is the Entente or the Allies is not comparable to the Axis powers in history, if China wants to go further, it must be fully prepared for war, of course, and think more about potential allies. Although Xu Jie thought a lot about the British, he still kept a lot of it after all, and the cat taught the tiger to know how to keep a hand, not to mention that it was the British who were treated!

"Dear General Yan, I would like to ask, in your plan, is it too little that the Fury-class aircraft carrier is only equipped with 2 elevators? As far as I know, the Americans have 3 lifts for their aircraft carriers, and we are larger than their aircraft carriers both on deck and in hangars, can two lifts maintain such a large number of aircraft scheduling operations? "If the British could understand a large hangar as more aircraft, then it was quite surprising that the elevator was so laid out.

"First of all, two lifts are basically enough, if in actual combat, the first wave of attacks should be completed before the day, and a wave of attacks in one night is completely enough, one less lift is not a big problem, and the role of the elevator is actually a communication hangar and deck, less than 1 minute can complete a lift, the bulk of the preparation time is to replenish fuel and ammunition and warm up. It doesn't take much time to improve. Therefore, the number of lifts is not very related to the length of maintenance time. Yan Boxun explained. Historically, the aircraft carrier Dafeng was also two elevators, and the maintenance speed was not much slower.

"And what about the benefits of one less lift? First, it can save a lot of hangar area, the size of our elevator is about 15 * 15 standard, this is 225 square meters, and you are still two floors, this is 450 square meters, plus the waste of corner space, and the middle elevator has a bad impact on the defense layout of the aircraft carrier and the maintenance of combat power, since this gentleman talked about this problem, then we can first talk about the rage-class aircraft carrier and defense and how to maintain combat effectiveness" Yan Boxun led to the next topic.

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