If the guys in the German Army only had time to look at their new toys after the war, then the bigwigs of the German Navy returned to the inner lakes of Germany to study new things before the war ended. In this war, Vice Admiral Raeder was not busy with anything else, everything he did was centered on perfecting the German aircraft carrier tactics. Although in the eyes of outsiders, Raeder does not belong to the line of Earl Spee. But the Count still fully supported his work, and even handed over one of the largest aircraft carriers of the German Navy, the Europa, to Raeder, yes, you read that right, even at the height of the war, even when Rear Admiral Count Luknall was overwhelmed by Sumer and lacked a combat fleet, Count Spey still did not put this capital aircraft carrier under the jurisdiction of the former, but still left it to Raeder, so that his work could continue, so that even Raeder was very moved, On several occasions, he told Count Spee that he could start other work first, and that the ship's tests could be carried out later.

"Raeder is still capable, maybe worse in terms of operations, but his organizational and coordination skills are still quite strong, and he seems to have a kind of magic that can bring all kinds of people together. Such talent is rare in the German Navy, which has a large number of proud soldiers. When asked why he valued people outside of a faction so much, Count Spee replied. And this high-spirited expression also made the relationship between the various hills within the German Navy much more harmonious, and of course, the most important thing is that Raeder did make something!

First of all, Raeder divided the entire new naval attack aircraft test team into two teams, the first team is the shipboard team, and the main task is to study the operation process of the new aircraft on the aircraft carrier, which includes the maintenance of the aircraft carrier, deck arrangement, and containment. It can be said that in addition to the release of a large fleet of aircraft and landing, the rest of the ship's work is involved. Don't think it's simple, aircraft carriers have a limited deck area, and how to use them effectively is always a worldwide problem, and even now it is still the case, not to mention the fact that the Germans have to park twin-engine aircraft on narrow decks! Then, according to the simulation experiments of the deck operation, the Germans organized it into several schemes, and then handed it over to the second group to simulate on land, because it was on land, so it could simulate large-scale fleet take-off and landing operations, and when the latter passed the land test, it would return to the aircraft carrier for testing.

"This doesn't seem to be difficult, at most it's a little crowded on the deck, right?" Ordinary German naval officers thought so, even Count Spee, but when Raeder compiled a large amount of data and submitted it to Count Spee, the latter realized that the Germans were starting to think too simply, and they were facing too many problems! Even the world's first-rate aircraft carriers, such as the Europa, are somewhat stretched. Although the USS Europa has a double-decker hangar with a net length of more than 160 meters and a width of 24 meters (the lower hangar is slightly smaller. But when it comes to cramming more than 100 aircraft of all kinds, including about 25 twin-engine aircraft, such a huge hangar is not enough.

You must know that even if the bomber converted from the BF110 twin-engine aircraft can fold its wings, its area is still much larger than that of the German BF109 and FW190. The modified BF110 fighter has a length of 12.8 meters with the wings open. The width of the wing is 16 meters. Even with the wings folded, the total width of the aircraft is still about 8 meters. (Wings can only be folded from the engine.) And the height of the plane after folding the wings is close to 5 meters! Compared to the FW190, the latter is about 4 meters shorter. The FW190 is only 10.5 meters wide with the wings open. After folding, it is reduced to about 4 meters! The height is just over 4 meters! The BF110 is almost a behemoth in the hangar! What's even more surprising is that the BF110 can only be placed in the upper hangar, and the lower hangar can't be placed, because the wings of the BF110 are folded upward, which means that only the height of the hangar on the upper deck is 5.5 meters. The hangar height of only 5 meters on the lower level is difficult to put down. Then, such a large thing was directly blocked between the upper and lower hangars. And it's not one, the hangar is going to put down a squadron!

Since the hangar is a little insufficient, let's throw him on the deck, but throwing such a large thing on the deck has already caused difficulties for scheduling. A deck of 270 meters by 34 meters is large enough for an average aircraft carrier, but it is still a little nervous for a twin-engine aircraft. After all, when you fly, you don't put 1 or 2 planes, but at least one squadron about 18 planes! And an airweight is larger than the FW190 air superiority and full load weight of the aircraft want to move on the aircraft carrier is indeed a bit laborious, Raeder has tested, the same number of ground crew, the time to prepare 1 BF110 aircraft can be made out of 3 FW190 aircraft! Among them, the time to locate the aircraft is about 4 times longer than that of a single-engine aircraft!

"Why don't we remove the wings of the spare twin-engine aircraft and throw them in the lower hangar, anyway, we won't normally need so many torpedo planes in the first attack." Raeder eventually had to compress the number of twin-engine aircraft in the first wave. All 25 or so twin-engine aircraft were divided into standing and standby groups, the first group of 18 aircraft in standing and responsible for the first attack, while the second group was to lift the BF110s with half of the wings removed from the lower hangar after the first group was launched, and then install the wings on the upper hangar or deck. At the same time, Raeder also optimized the way the hangar aircraft are stored, and the order of security aircraft in the upper hangar from bow to stern is fighter, single bomber and twin-engine aircraft. In this way, the aircraft can be directly lifted up to locate nearby. And the aircraft tethered on the deck were also divided into two parts, and the fighters used for reconnaissance and direct guard operations were pushed to the front of the deck and took off with catapults. (After all, even fighter jets generally need a glide distance of more than 90 meters, and Japanese eggs will be shorter, but the FW190 with smaller wings will have a larger glide distance.) In this way, a large area in the middle of the work area can be freed up to optimize the layout.

As a result, when the deck was turned upside down, the German Navy suddenly had a hint of an epiphany on the design of the aircraft carrier! It was they who found out that the almost rectangular deck of the aircraft carrier did not seem to be the best shape of the aircraft carrier! Because they found that no matter how wide the foredeck is, it can't be used to park the plane, after all, you need to taxi when you take off. The piece is empty. And no matter how wide it is, the planes will take off one after another. After a certain width, it is almost useless. Only the aft deck is practical for parking and reconditioning aircraft. The average width of the current Europa aircraft carrier is about 34 meters, and if the width of 100 meters on the foredeck is reduced from 30 meters to about 22 meters, and then increased to about 40 meters, then the deck utilization efficiency will be much higher!

The Germans had a simple idea, first of all, they found that the maximum role of the foredeck in real combat was for aircraft to take off. The wingspan width of an airplane is only about 11 meters, and the width of a twin-engine aircraft is only 16 meters. If there is 3 meters on each side, as long as the driver is not drunk, he will not rush into the sea! So the width of the front deck is 27 meters sufficient. In the first 100 meters of the deck, in addition to the temporary maintenance of aircraft, everyone uses the middle and rear decks to swing the aircraft, whether it is flying or mooring. If the deck area of the aircraft carrier remains the same, if the 100 x 7 meters of the front deck are placed in the back, the widest part of the middle and rear decks will become about 38 meters. This extra 4 meters of width allows the aircraft carrier to put an extra row of FW190s! If you convert 100*7 to 170*4.1, then you can release 16 more FW190 fighters with this change! 16 of them! A squadron up! With the same deck area, the increase in the engine ability can be described as a subversive increase in combat effectiveness!

And the benefits are not only that, after all, 34 meters is the maximum deck width, and it is impossible to be so wide everywhere, so if you consider twin-engine aircraft, it is impossible to have 4 aircraft in a single row. (Wingspan of more than 8 meters.) And after adding this 4-meter width, the maximum width of 38 is conservatively calculated as a width of 36 meters. It became possible to lay down 4 twin-engine aircraft. It's even more flexible! Although in history, the flight deck of various aircraft carriers at the front was relatively narrow and the rear was relatively wide, for example, the bow deck of the Xianghe aircraft carrier was 18 meters at the narrowest point and 29 meters wide in the middle. But this is influenced by the type of ship. And for the first time in the design of an aircraft carrier, like the Germans, the maximum width of the middle and rear parts of the hull was deliberately strengthened.

Of course, such a big change will definitely not work on the Europa, which has already been completed, but this epiphany had a great impact on the later aircraft carrier construction plan, so much so that Xu Jie exclaimed after hearing about it, the Germans almost completed the leap from the Nine Yin White Bone Claw to the Nine Yin True Scripture Internal Strength Method! Even Xu Jie felt a chill down his spine when he thought of these things. I even had a few nightmares because of it! Because as a traverser, he knows that such a shape is very similar to the beveled deck of later generations, and from the perspective of appearance, the aircraft carrier after the 2nd World War is also a slightly narrower front deck and a wider rear deck! Except for the return of the plane, which the Germans did not expect (that is, after the plane failed to land for the first time, it taxied directly from the deck and took off. In addition to diagonal take-off, the Germans' understanding of aircraft carriers is very close to later generations, and if necessary, just draw a few diagonal white lines on the deck layout, and then do some training to find ideas, this NM is also terrible!

Later, when Xu Jie was fine, he also thought about it, why did the Germans go so far in the design of aircraft carriers? There won't be a traverser on the German side, right? Of course, this thought also flashed through the air. Xu Jie believes that the most likely reason is that the strong national strength advantages of the United States, Britain and France have brought too much pressure to the Germans. Moreover, the Germans attached great importance to the navy, which was not the importance of Kaiser Wilhelm as a toy before World War I, but as an indispensable and important part of the implementation of national strategy. This is similar to Japan, if it is fair to say that Japan's plan to attack Pearl Harbor with six aircraft carriers is indeed a miracle tactically, and the more than 400 aircraft on the six aircraft carriers completely swept the battleships into the dustbin of history. The situation in the German Navy has many similarities with history, and it is understandable to come up with these methods!

The beveled deck was first made by the British, but in fact, structurally speaking, the Germans went faster and farther than the British in history! You must know that in history, when the British began to conduct inclined deck tests in 1952, they only used white lines to draw two go-around areas on the deck with an inclination of about 10 degrees, and there was no change in the structure at all, which is more like an optimization of scheduling than an improvement in the technical level of aircraft carrier construction! Even the test itself can only get the plane back in flight, not the plane in the beveled deck area! And the aircraft carrier that really has a beveled deck is the Essex-class Antietam! (CV36) In this way, the concept of the Germans is more than ten years more advanced than in history! Isn't that scary!

As soon as he thought of this, Xu Jie's evaluation of the combat effectiveness of the German aircraft carrier fleet increased directly from 70 points to 85 points! Then look back at the strength of the US-British aircraft carrier battle group, in addition to the Fury-class aircraft carrier that Huaxia helped to build, if the Shanghai Shangzhu is counted, the simplified version of Fury that the British then made - the Royal Ark is worse, and the Americans' aircraft carrier deck flight capability is indeed NB, but the defense is really brittle in the face of the German bombs that generally jump from 500KG, which is really brittle and paper! Coupled with the backward carrier-based aircraft, Xu Jie was even less optimistic about the situation of the Allied Navy. Of course, it was very late when Xu Jie knew all this, the new generation of German Emperor-class battleships had already started, and even the sooner Frederick the Great had almost completed the hull construction and was ready to be launched and outfitted. Xu Jie wanted to help Meiying, but it was a little too late.

As a result, when Raeder sent the relevant report to the Count of Spee, the admiral was also shocked! The so-called intentional planting of flowers does not sprout, and unintentionally planting willows and willows into the shade. The Earl never imagined that letting Raeder be in charge of tactical arrangements and aviation training would eventually lead him to drumble into shipbuilding! A group of naval aircraft carrier technical officers and a group of aviation personnel actually came up with such a suggestion by virtue of their own exploration! This was unexpected, but after listening to the shipbuilders and other technicians, Count Spee believed that the plan was still in progress, that is, to increase the width of the aft deck to a certain extent, and to reduce the size of the foredeck would help to improve the efficiency of the use of the deck of the aircraft carrier. Of course, in Raeder's letter to the earl, in addition to this good news, there is also bad news, that is, the aircraft carrier version of the JU88T based on the JU88 is too big. Even the current Europa class is difficult to operate efficiently!

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