Chapter 1073 The sugar-coated bullets of the United States (first update, please subscribe)
There are aircraft carriers, destroyers, and landing ships in Nanyang... There is a sizable navy. In terms of strength, it is the same in the world. Can be ranked high.
But there is a joke - Nanyang has never built a warship, even if it is a submarine, it is an assembly of German Type 21 submarine parts.
While Nanyang has built 200,000 tons of merchant ships, Nanyang has not built a single warship. Is this possible?
Of course it's impossible - because the nuclear-powered submarine on the slipway of Chang'an Shipyard is also a warship.
However, it's not finished yet.
So, Nanyang really has not built any warships. The reason is - too much US aid and a lot of British aid. When the United States still used World War II warships as the main force there, Nanyang Naturally, there is no motivation to build new warships.
Of course, the most important thing is that there is no money!
According to the current cost of warship construction, the cost of a destroyer per ton is more than 4,000 US dollars, and a 6,000-ton destroyer leader requires at least 24 million US dollars. Even the Fletcher class, which has the largest number of U.S.-aided destroyers, has a standard displacement of 2,100 tons and a full load of only 3,050 tons, which costs US$10 million.
Don’t think it’s expensive. A few years ago, Tangshan signed the June 4th Agreement and purchased a large number of warships from the Soviet Union. Among them, 4 were about to be retired and 4 Soviet Type 07 destroyers were purchased at a high price equivalent to 68 tons of gold. Their standard The displacement is only 1660 tons, and the full load displacement is 2040 tons. In other words, each ship was equivalent to 17 tons of gold at the time. Each of these old ships, which had been in service for more than ten years, was worth about US$19 million. According to a secret telegram sent to the country by the deputy commander of the Navy at the time, "the Soviet Union not only sells scrap copper and iron, but also charges extremely high prices."
It can be seen that in the international arms market, the price of warships has always remained high.
So, in terms of warships and auxiliary ships alone, Nanyang has indeed made a lot of money from the United States in recent years. Not to mention, just 27 destroyers are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. . Coupled with the USS Franklin aircraft carrier given by an old friend, this wool is really fragrant.
Although Nanyang relied on the warships aided by the Yankees to build a navy that was the fifth in the world after the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and France, the assistance from the United States restricted the development of Nanyang's navy.
“U.S. aid is poison!”
Once again, in the Naval Ship Administration Office, Satoichi, a naval engineer, loudly expressed his theory that U.S. aid is harmful. .
"It is precisely because of the US aid that we have no experience in building ships to this day!"
As a naturalized citizen, Satoichi, like many of his colleagues in the department, are of Japanese descent. , this is normal in the shipbuilding industry. At first, Changan Shipyard relied on hundreds of engineers and skilled technicians brought back from Japan. Later, a wave of technicians were brought in from Germany. However, in comparison, Japanese engineers and mechanics more. This has nothing to do with anything else, just because... I want to empty Japan of its shipbuilding power.
In fact, in the past ten years, Nanyang has almost wiped out the talents in the Japanese industry by introducing talents. Not only did Jiro Horikoshi, who designed Zero War, come to Nanyang, but also the less famous Erlang Shizuo Kikuhara and others are also the designers of Nanyang-style large boats.
These aviation engineers have already achieved great success in Nanyang, and the achievements of Nanyang's aviation industry in recent years have more or less been influenced by them. In contrast, these ship engineers feel like they are "disrespecting their talents".
Because there are no ships to build - although in the past few years, they have completed the construction of super merchant ships such as 50,000-ton oil tankers and 100,000-ton oil tankers, and even built 200,000-ton ships at Chang'an Shipyard Supertanker drawings.
But all they built in the past were civilian ships. Warships... they really wanted to build warships.
"Have you heard? The Navy seems to be preparing to apply for US aid again, including destroyers..."
As soon as Satoichi finished speaking, someone said over there.
“There is no other way. If you can get cheap second-hand goods, it is always cheaper than making new ones.”
“It’s not that it’s cheap, but it basically costs nothing!”
"U.S. aid is cheap, but they have ulterior motives. When we wanted to build an aircraft carrier, they sent Franklin. Before we even thought about building destroyers, they sent a few more. What is this? There is clearly an ulterior motive!"
"Indeed, the Americans have bad intentions!"
"They are simply providing us with warships to attack our warship manufacturing capabilities."
< br>"That's right, it's just the weasel who wishes the chicken New Year's greetings. He's uneasy and kind." For a while, the office was full of words, but the complaints only lasted for a while. Soon, they continued their previous work-designing warships. Although the Navy does not build new warships, it puts forward new requirements every year, and all they need is to complete the work on the map, draw the drawings, and test the new ship type.
Although the Navy is not building new ships, the experiments and designs that should be carried out have never stopped. Moreover, it is also ahead of the world in the design and use of many subsystems.
But what they didn’t know was that just as they were complaining about the “ulterior motives of US aid”, in the naval headquarters, Karl Otto Saad, the chief designer of the Naval Ship Engineering Office Le, looking at the sketch in front of him, asked.
"This is..."
"This is your Excellency's sketch of a new destroyer. You can learn from it."
Lin Zhiyuan then continued to introduce.
"According to your wishes, the tonnage of the new destroyer is about 7,000-8,000 tons. It is to be used as the main force of the aircraft carrier battle group. The hull design must be further improved to meet the high-speed requirements of the aircraft carrier formation. At the same time, you particularly emphasized that although the weapons The equipment focuses on various types of missiles, but the mission requirements under low-intensity combat missions must also be considered, so it needs to be equipped with at least one 127mm main gun. "
The reason why Li Yian emphasized this is because. A few years later, the "missile omnipotence theory" became popular, and many aircraft and warships fell victim to it. Warships equipped only with missiles did not have any naval combat capabilities and were unable to support landing troops with firepower. Even ship surveillance was as low as Even the intensive combat missions cannot be completed. Before there were naval guns, their only way to attack the sea seemed to be that our ships were ordered to ram you!
So the wrong path cannot be taken. The omnipotent theory of missiles has turned a number of warships of the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom into waste. It has greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the fighter jets of the United States and the Soviet Union. At the same time, it has also directly sent my British aviation industry. Everyone is already playing with missiles, who is still playing with airplanes?
Of course we cannot make the same mistake, so while giving some guidance, Li Yian also drew a new ship shape. It looks somewhat similar to the modern-class ships of later generations, with two single-seat ships at the front and rear. gun, two sets of twin missile launchers.
The biggest difference is the loss of the two iconic quadruple "Sunzhi" anti-ship missile launchers.
According to Li Yi'an's idea, Nanyang's anti-ship missiles should be similar to Harpoon and Flying Fish. It is best to be directly integrated into the twin cantilever missile launchers. This will not only ensure the tidiness of the deck space, but also effectively reduce the radar reflection area. , and can also pave the way for future integration into vertical launch systems.
"Then this location is?"
Carl pointed to the platform behind the chimney and asked,
"Helicopter hangar, this is the helicopter landing platform."
"Destroyers should be equipped with helicopters?"
Karl said in surprise.
“Yes, the core of anti-submarine warfare for future surface ships is anti-submarine helicopters. The new destroyers will be equipped with two general-purpose helicopters for personnel transportation and anti-submarine warfare.”
No one is better than myself He knows more about modern warships. Li Yian can brag about this. After all, he has witnessed the development path of post-war warships in the United States, the Soviet Union and European countries. He even specifically pointed out not to use aluminum alloys to reduce weight - - This is a deliberate design of post-war warships. In order to ensure the stable performance of ships during ocean voyages, the superstructures of warships in various countries have adopted lighter magnesium-aluminum alloys, which can reduce weight by more than 30% compared to steel under the same conditions. However, aluminum alloys are much less resistant to burning than steel and are more likely to melt or catch fire if hit by a missile.
During the Falklands War, the superstructure of the British Navy's "Sheffield" sank due to a fire caused by being shot. This trial and error took as long as - 30 years! After the Falklands, the superstructures of warships in various countries have been rebuilt with high-strength steel.
In fact, the sketches drawn by Li Yi'an are just like the others, they are guiding opinions. In the end, it is up to the engineers of the Carl Ship Engineering Office and various companies in Nanyang to realize it. Of course, it also has Some subsystems that need to be imported, such as the MK42 naval gun, not only have a rate of fire of up to 40 rounds per minute, but more importantly, a very fast rotation speed, coupled with an advanced radar fire control system and a high-efficiency radio proximity fuze, it can be called It is the leading target of anti-aircraft naval guns.
As for anti-submarine weapons, we chose the US military's MK4 torpedoes, and in the future we will choose Asrok anti-submarine missiles. They are the best anti-submarine equipment of this era. The introduction of sub-equipment will help reduce military expenditures, which is also an advantage of the Western world. Every country has several weapons and equipment with excellent performance. They don't need to be like the Soviet Union. Even if it is a pistol, they need to invest in developing it themselves and then provide the blueprints to their allies. Such greed for more and more is essentially a waste of resources. While wasting limited resources on subsystems, it also stifles the industrial creativity of allies and damages their economies.
The United States has done a good job in this regard, focusing on the large and letting go of the small. The majority of the equipment is American, and subsystems can be purchased from the entire Western world. While reducing military costs, it also helps to enhance cooperation with allies. The relationship between them can also balance trade, and also promote technological development between allies.
Nanyang, who is in the Western world, will naturally not give up this advantage, and even continues to use this advantage to introduce more advanced technologies.
After all, Nanyang’s technology has achieved its current development through continuous introduction and absorption.
(End of this chapter)