There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. Human beings are a kind of thinking creatures, different people will have different opinions about the same thing, and naturally they will have more opinions about a new thing that appears in people's field of vision for the first time. Therefore, when the navies of various countries look at the aircraft carrier quota in their hands, they will consider such a question, how to build an aircraft carrier!

What is an aircraft carrier? An aircraft carrier is a warship that can carry aircraft as the main combat weapon, and to put it bluntly, it is an active airfield at sea. First of all, it is a ship, and secondly, he has to provide a full service for the planes on it and have the ability to send them out, it's as simple as that. But there is still a long way to go if we want to build a perfect aircraft carrier in the minds of all countries.

The aircraft of an aircraft carrier is the main gun of a battleship! As a type of ship that is biased towards attack, the Americans believe that the first thing to ensure is the attack power of aircraft carriers! That is, how many planes can an aircraft carrier send out in the specified time! This involves the preparation of the aircraft carrier and the number of aircraft that can be deployed! Especially the latter, the Americans are more concerned, for the simple reason that the aircraft rearmament can be completed before the war, slow down, slower, endure it. But once the war starts, whether or not as many planes as possible can be sent out in the shortest possible time becomes the key to determining the outcome of the war!

In addition, there is another reason for the Americans to emphasize the attack power, because they believe that it is impossible to completely prevent an attack between aircraft carriers, and if it is assumed that the reconnaissance aircraft of both sides detect each other at the same time, then it will not be surprising. When one attacking group reaches the skies above the opposing fleet, the opposing group will attack you. And this kind of attack is very difficult to defend against and warn of! According to the current warning range, the fleet can detect enemy planes attacking from a distance of several tens of kilometers at most. And when the other side comes, the aircraft carrier will not be able to dodge. Because the planes are so fast, and with the current trend, the planes will be even faster!

"So what we're going to do is slap their butts before they slap our butts! Moreover, the aircraft carriers must be arranged separately, and they cannot be completely wiped out by the opponent in one wave! According to the deduction and assumptions of the Americans, in the end, Magiffen set such a tone for the future American aircraft carriers, that is, attack first! The first wave of attacks will be as full force as possible. As well as the principle of decentralized arrangement of aircraft carriers. The latter paraphrases an old Chinese saying, even if all eggs can't be put in one basket!

According to this principle, the American aircraft carrier must have a sufficiently large deck and at the same time be able to carry a sufficient number of aircraft! The benefits of a large deck are obvious. More aircraft can be scheduled to take off, while also allowing aircraft to be prepared on deck. As for how to carry more aircraft, the Americans are also racking their brains. The Americans have a more direct idea, that is, to make use of all the places where they can put airplanes. Naturally, the hangar must put the aircraft. The flight deck can also moether some planes in normal times, and these planes can also take off urgently if necessary, but this alone is not enough, and the Americans feel that they need to think more about it.

It is well known that if you take a box with a lid, the weight of the sand in the box will always be more than the weight of the stones, for the simple reason that there is always a gap between the stones. In the case of the same density, the stones must be less. Sand, on the other hand, can fill all the space in the entire chest. The Americans understood this truth, so the Americans thought about it, and when necessary, they could store some planes on the aircraft carrier that were disassembled into several major parts as a reserve aircraft.

So far, the idea of the Americans is very good, but when it comes to the actual design, there is a problem, that is, how to set up the hangar, whether to make an open hangar, or to make a closed hangar? Do you want to make one layer, or do you want to make two layers? For the former question, the Americans decided to make an open hangar after argumentation and practice, and they had the following reasons: First, the open hangar has a simple structure, to put it bluntly, it is to make a bunch of shelves and put a deck on it, and install a partition on the side. These structures do not count into the hull structure. Secondly, the open hangar can warm up the aircraft in the hangar, and open the next door to have enough air intake to supply the needs of the aircraft to warm up, saving deck area. Thirdly, even if it is blown up, it is relatively easy to repair, and some of the energy of the explosion will be released into the air through the gaps on the side of the guò, reducing the damage to the hull.

And on the issue of setting up several tiers of hangars, the Americans are also in trouble, double-decker hangars must have a larger parking area than single-decker hangars, and there is no problem with accommodating more aircraft. However, the height of the hangar may be lowered, and the center of gravity may be too high to affect stability. As a result, the Americans are struggling, whether to have a single-storey hangar with a larger area and a higher height, or a double-decker hangar, but the height may be smaller.

After struggling for a long time, the Americans found that if the space above the hangar is taken into account, it seems that the single-story hangar also has a way to obtain a larger aircraft capacity, and the first point that needs to be mentioned is that the upper part of the hangar is not completely a deck, because the aircraft carrier also needs to arrange anti-aircraft guns, and the anti-aircraft guns naturally cannot be placed near the waterline, they must be in the upper part, so a good deck in the upper part of the hangar directly needs to be arranged with a layer of anti-aircraft gun deck. That is, there is space directly on the top of the hangar and on the flight deck! And this layer is not all full. The Americans, who found out about this, thought they could take the spare plane apart into several large parts and hang it on top of the hangar, which is called a hanging ticket! In the end, the Americans' choice of hangars still went to the old path in history, with large decks, large single-storey hangars, plus hanging tickets!

As for protection? Because the two aircraft carriers started by the United States were converted from Lexington-class fast battleships, although the side chord could not use such thick armor, the Americans remade the 12-inch side chord armor originally prepared for the fast battleship into an 8-inch class. (This author looked at the information and did this with the armor of the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga.) As long as it can block the artillery mounted on the patrol, it doesn't require too much. The horizontal armor is arranged on the hangar deck, because it is also used the homogeneous armor originally prepared for battleships, so the two fast battleships that the Americans began to build also have strong horizontal protection, the hangar deck thickness is as high as 4 inches, and the ammunition magazine is higher. Of course, the flight deck is not armored! On top is a layer of steel plate and a layer of teak wood.

The Americans also did not hide it privately, and shared part of their experience with Britain at the naval technical exchange meeting within the Entente countries, because both countries have aircraft carriers converted with fast capital ships, and there are great similarities in the construction process and combat use. But the British demanded that the aircraft carrier must have adequate protection! There was a conflict between the American idea of emphasizing offensive power and the British idea of both offense and defense.

"The Royal Navy's definition of protection is not only to require the warship to be unsinkable, but also to preserve the combat effectiveness to the maximum extent and limit the damage to a certain range, the biggest difference between us and the United States is that we have less warships than the United States, and the replenishment capacity of the warships is also less than that of the United States. The Americans' aircraft carriers were damaged as long as they could go back. They could have sent a new ship to replace the void created by the injured carrier, but we can't! We don't have such a strong reserve force, and we have to make sure that every aircraft carrier can fight at sea for as long as possible. In particular, two large aircraft carriers, converted from Admiral-class battleships, would be the main force of the Royal Navy during the treaty period. So we have to increase the level of protection. "At the British Naval Conference, Thomas gave his opinion.

"To protect the combat power of an aircraft carrier is to ensure the availability of the aircraft carrier's hangar and flight deck. The Americans' design is just to ensure that the battleship is unsinkable, as long as the position of the hit bomb is better, maybe two bombs can completely deprive the American aircraft carrier of the ability to take off and land aircraft, by the way, there are fighters stored in the hangar. This design is nothing short of a crime! I don't want the battle patrol to be killed with one shot and the bold thunder to happen again on the aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy! This is our shame! Jericho then expressed his support for Thomas's idea, and the idea of equipping an aircraft carrier with an armored deck emerged, and the design of the world's first armored aircraft carrier began.

The difference between the British and the Americans about the aircraft carrier is not only whether there is an armored deck, but also the design of the hangar, the British have also abandoned the single-story hangar design of the Americans in favor of a double-deck hangar. The British thought so, first of all, from the point of view of defense, the smaller the defensive area under the same armor weight, the better. The area that can be used by a double-storey hangar is much larger than that of a single-storey hangar, so the area of the one-story hangar can be appropriately reduced to reduce the area of the armored deck. For example, a single-storey hangar needs 150*15, so theoretically, a double-storey hangar only needs to use 75*15. Then the armor protection area is also half smaller than the former, and a lot of weight is naturally saved under the same protection.

Another reason is that the British have to fight in the North Sea and the Atlantic, and their bad sea conditions will cause damage to the planes stored in the open air, and the planes belonging to the British Royal Navy are far inferior to the American Navy, which can change the aircraft as soon as it sees that the plane is not good, and the Royal Naval Air Force cannot get too many planes because of the Royal Air Force. It is not that British aircraft carriers cannot be installed, and with the carrier-based aircraft provided by the United States, Britain's aircraft carriers of the same tonnage are in no way inferior to those of other countries. The British aircraft carrier is not that it cannot be installed, but it cannot be installed!

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