The advantage of a large hull is that there is plenty of room to squander, and with the huge hull brought about by the huge tonnage, the Lexington has a better ability to release aircraft than the Enterprise. To take a more extreme example, for example, the largest aircraft carrier in World War II, the Shinano, even if Shinano did not even remove the gun ring that was prepared, it could place a hangar up to 200 meters long, and it was covered with thick armor! That's the cost for a large battleship, and it doesn't matter if it's a little wrong. Therefore, the United States and Britain can directly use large aircraft carriers to join forces, although the tonnage is wasted, but the difficulty of building a good aircraft carrier is still very low. However, in order to make full use of the tonnage, Huaxia must start with a small aircraft carrier.

"The first aircraft carrier is for training, the displacement is limited to about 16,000 tons, I set the following requirements, you look at it, first of all, it must be a double-decker hangar, secondly, the ammunition depot and power equipment must have a certain amount of protection, and the third is to have a deck as large as possible, the speed is not required to be high, 30 knots is enough. This is the first stage of combat aircraft carriers designed by Huaxia, and I hope you can learn something from it. Although Xu Jie is a loyal supporter of large armored aircraft carriers, in the face of the actual situation, Xu Jie still decided to start from scratch step by step, and there is a reason why he finally chose such a tonnage as the starting point.

First of all, if the tonnage is smaller, then the aircraft carrier has almost no combat effectiveness, and no matter how small, it not only limits the aircraft carrier capacity, but also greatly weakens other performance, such as defense and speed. First of all, let's talk about attack power. For ordinary people, they may think that a 220-meter and 250-meter aircraft carrier is not much different, but in fact, the gap in attack power is quite large. It can be described as a grade worse. This can be proved by a hypothesis, for example, if the take-off and taxi-run distance of a fighter is 120 meters, the take-off distance of a dive bomber loaded with a bomb is 160 meters, and the take-off distance of an attack aircraft loaded with a torpedo plane is 180 meters, the length of an aircraft is 10 meters and the distance between the front and rear. Calculated based on the width of the aircraft carrier that can accommodate 4 aircraft (with folded wings). Then the engine capabilities of the 220-meter aircraft carrier and the 250-meter aircraft carrier are as follows.

On the deck of a medium-sized aircraft carrier of 220 meters, minus the 120-meter glide distance, then the actual take-off distance that this aircraft carrier can use is 100 meters, and 4 rows of aircraft can be parked from 120 meters to 160 meters at the front of the deck. There are a total of 16 fighters, 8 dive bombers can be parked from 160 meters to 180 meters, and then from 180 meters to 220 meters, there are up to 4 rows, which is 16 aircraft. That is, such a layout takes off up to 40 aircraft in a wave, (without taking into account the problems of the superstructure and the change in the width of the tail, as well as the question of how the rest may occupy space, otherwise it will be too troublesome.) Of course, the planes at the back of the line can be swapped. For example, you can make more bombers. There are fewer torpedo machines, but there are up to 16 torpedo machines, and no more, otherwise the take-off distance is not enough. Up to 24 bombers and torpedo aircraft were responsible for sea attacks

And if it is replaced by a large aircraft carrier with a deck length of 250 meters, from 120 meters onwards, this aircraft carrier has a distance of 130 meters to arrange aircraft, and if it is full, it can be arranged with 54 aircraft, in terms of quantity. There are 12 more aircraft carriers than the 220-meter medium-sized aircraft carrier, but the gap in actual combat power will be even greater. Because only attack aircraft and dive bombers on aircraft carriers can pose an effective threat to warships, while large aircraft carriers can take off and land attack aircraft and bombers in the back can reach 36 units! The sea attack power is 50% higher than that of medium aircraft carriers. And it has more flexibility, for example, bombers can carry heavier bombs, for example, in the case of a certain total engine volume, the number of torpedo planes can be larger.

And this is only part of the advantage, for example, if the aircraft is changed, the new fighter requires a longer take-off and glide distance, and the new attack aircraft has a larger bomb load and requires a longer glide distance, then this gap will be further widened! And even if the aircraft is not changed, if the fighter needs to take on the air defense combat mission over the fleet for a long time, then there must be auxiliary fuel tanks, and the increase in weight obviously requires a longer glide distance, so for a medium-sized aircraft carrier, the impact on the batch of aircraft released is much greater than that of a large aircraft carrier. Of course, if someone says catapults, then it's a different story, but what needs to be supported is that even American aircraft carriers with catapults generally take off by taxiing, and the factor takes off faster. The biggest advantage of a large deck aircraft carrier is the change in the number of take-offs of heavy-duty aircraft, rather than the number of light-deck aircraft taking off.

As for defense, you can refer to the 17,000-ton Feilong and the 25,000-ton Zuihe, the former belongs to the kind of core cabin that may be seriously injured if it is slammed by a general armor-piercing bullet, while the latter's defense standard for ammunition depots is 800KG. IN TERMS OF TORPEDO PROTECTION, THE ZUZURU REACHED A STAGGERING 450KG OF TNT EXPLOSIVES. The two brothers, Xianghe and Zuihe, survived many naval battles not only by luck, but also by defensive power brought by strong tonnage. Of course, because Zuihe is not an armored deck aircraft carrier, high-explosive shells are the same for the decks of Wyvern and Zuihe. This cannot but be said to be a regrettable thing.

As for Xu Jie's reason why he had to choose a tonnage of about 16,000 tons, it was because all aircraft carriers in history that could be called to have a certain combat effectiveness were above this tonnage. Xu Jie's standard for having a certain amount of combat effectiveness was designed in this way, and the size of the deck reached the level of a flying dragon in history. At the same time, it has a speed of at least 30 knots, (if the speed is too slow, the take-off distance of the aircraft will increase.) At the same time, for the ability of the fleet to maneuver quickly. After all, if 30 knots is the actual speed, then it will definitely be discounted in actual combat. Double-storey hangars ensure the carrying capacity and curb area. (Huaxia's requirements for the maintenance of aircraft carriers are that both hangars and decks can be maintained, but they are generally maintained on decks.) As for the protection of the core cabin in the end, it is placed in a secondary position, after all, if you want to achieve strong protection, 20,000 tons can't be stopped! Compared with aircraft carriers like Ruihe and Dafeng, the company is also a crispy skin. As for the aircraft carrier, if it is bigger, it is not to accumulate experience, the first time to build an aircraft carrier is possible to have all kinds of problems, although Huaxia has money, but it can't spend it indiscriminately!

For the double-decker hangar, Xu Jie's reason for insisting is similar to that of the United Kingdom, in order to accommodate the aircraft as much as possible, and at the same time increase the operating area under the condition of a certain volume, after all, even if the number of planes is solved by using the ticket, but the aircraft cannot be used immediately, let alone prepare for operations. There is also the meaning of preparing for armored deck aircraft carriers. Of course, the double-decker hangar also has a very strict problem in the eyes of the traverser, that is, the arrangement of the side-chord lift, even if people who don't understand military affairs can see from the picture, a lift of more than ten meters by more than ten meters also occupies a large area, so the side-chord lift of Essex is considered an important progress, but the double-decker hangar aircraft carrier because the lower hangar is too close to the water, if a side-chord lift is opened, there is a danger of seawater pouring in, and for this problem, Xu Jie solved it this way.

The aircraft carrier will be designed to have two lifts, one of which is located at the front of the battleship, which runs through the two hangars, and the other is a side-chord lift, which only communicates with the upper hangar. In fact, this is enough, generally speaking, an aircraft carrier can release less than half of the aircraft carrier, the aircraft tethered on the deck and the aircraft in the upper hangar are enough for the first wave of attack, and the lower hangar is generally used for the maintenance and maintenance of aircraft, and is rarely used in battle. (I don't know if you have noticed, the aircraft carrier duel of the 2nd World War is generally even if it is a matter of two large waves, and the battle is basically resolved.) After the first wave is released, it is also too late to ascend from the lower hangar. Anyway, the first wave hit the rear upper hangar with a leftover, which allows the rear side chord lifts to lift, while the front lifts are responsible for lifting the aircraft from the lower hangars.

The upper hangar on the double-decker hangar was designed as an open hangar for warm-up operations, the lower hangar was designed as a closed hangar, and the horizontal armor was arranged on the floor of the upper hangar. Some people may say that the double hangar will cause the height of the hangar to be too low and then the maintenance is inconvenient, how to say this, generally speaking, the double-layer hangar is indeed lower than the single-layer hangar, but it is not absolute, for example, the Chicheng aircraft carrier, this guy is strictly said to be a 2-and-a-half-story hangar (the lower hangar is relatively small. The upper hangar is 5 meters, the middle hangar is 6.5 meters, and the lower hangar is 5 meters. Of course, there is a relatively large factor in the hull of sincerity, but after precise design and appropriate reduction of the single-story hangar area, an aircraft carrier still has space to put down a double-layer hangar with sufficient height. Of course, if you want to get a ticket again, you should forget it. As for jets? Xu Jie hasn't thought that far ahead, not to mention that the British Eagle 2-level large aircraft carrier in history is also a double-decker hangar, and in the end, isn't it still equipped with F4 and other jets? As for the question of the plan to install a carrier-based aircraft like the F14? Let's just say that this is 50 years later! Therefore, as far as the current situation is concerned, Xu Jie still prefers a double-storey hangar.

As for the hull structure, Xu Jie hopes that the first-class aircraft carrier will adopt a staggered layout of power to prevent a single torpedo from destroying all the power. It doesn't matter even if you add some tonnage as a result. Because Xu Jie knew that many of the aircraft carriers in World War 2 were disposed of by their own warships because the power system was destroyed. The staggered arrangement of power reduces the likelihood that the ship will lose all power. As for the underwater protection system, Xu Jie can only try to be as high as possible, after all, an aircraft carrier of less than 20,000 tons can maintain a double-layer hangar, and under the condition of certain protection for the core cabin, it must have a speed of more than 30 knots, and the weight that can be left for TDS is really not much!

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