Chapter 1563 Borneo super aircraft carrier (third update, please subscribe)
There is no upper limit to the development of civilization!
Because there is no upper limit to the development of science and technology itself, there are no limitations to development.
"But civilization will go backwards!"
On the way to Taiping Shipbuilding Industry Company, Li Yi'an's tone became deeper.
"Every time when barbarism conquers civilization, civilization will fall into regression. The Germans ended Rome, the Mongols conquered the Song Dynasty, and the Manchu Qing ended the Ming Dynasty. These are all examples of barbarism conquering civilization."
While talking about these examples, Li Yian kept looking out the car window, looking at the city and passers-by outside the window. When looking at them, what Li Yian thought of was the Romans in the Roman era, the Lin'an people in the Song Dynasty, and the people under the Ming Dynasty, enjoying a peaceful and prosperous age and enjoying unimaginable prosperity.
At that time, the economy was prosperous, the people were wealthy, and the world was peaceful.
Could they have imagined at that time that just a few decades later, civilization would be conquered by barbarians and all life in the world would be in ruins!
Just like the people here, when they were immersed in this peaceful and prosperous age and obsessed with the prosperity of the prosperous age, have they ever considered that one day danger may come and barbarism may conquer them?
“To a certain extent, we should be grateful that today: there are strong enough forces in the world to maintain a basically peaceful world order; this world order is protecting the foundation of the civilization on which it emerged; this civilization’s Expansion is dominated by the dissemination and penetration of the basic principles that constitute it, rather than the expansion of a certain subject's force, although the latter can be a means."
When listening to your Excellency talking about civilization, Zhang Zheyuan thought about it and said:
"Your Excellency, civilization needs to be protected! It must also be protected."
"Yes!"
Nodding, Li Yian said:
"Civilization needs to be protected, and it needs a strong enough force to protect it. Otherwise, what awaits civilization will definitely be decline!"
Then, looking away from the car, he sighed:
"But this kind of guarding power is not just about force. After all, as I said, the era of force expansion in this world is over, and the power of science is no longer something that can be defeated by barbaric brute force. , but..."
When the car entered the shipyard, Li Yian pursed his lips and said:
"Sometimes, barbarism or ignorance will erode civilization in another way, so we must be vigilant."
It is necessary to be vigilant. Although it is impossible for barbarians to conquer civilization after the Maxim machine gun, they will change their way, just like the greening of Western European countries in another world.
It is precisely because of this lesson that Li Yian has been paying attention to some issues.
Essentially, this is for guarding. What he guards is not just the safety of SEA, not just the stable lives of the people.
There is also civilization.
Guard the civilization here from being conquered by barbarians!
Today is a big day.
From every angle, today is a big day.
Today is the day the "Borneo" is launched.
From Borneo to Borneo.
The former is the giant cruise ship Normandy, and the latter is the island. What about the "Borneo" launched today?
It's an aircraft carrier!
It’s SEA’s super aircraft carrier!
After three years of intense construction, this super aircraft carrier has a standard displacement of 61,523 tons and a full load displacement of more than 82,000 tons.
It’s finally time to hit the water!
It is the world's largest conventionally powered aircraft carrier by displacement.
"...Although it is only a few hundred tons larger than the American Kitty Hawk on the surface, it is different from the Kitty Hawk in that in addition to using two Westinghouse steam turbines with a total power of 140,000 horsepower, it also uses four The latest LM3000 gas turbine has a total power of 140,000 horsepower.
Compared with traditional steam turbines, gas turbines are lighter and have no boilers. The overall weight is reduced by several thousand tons. Therefore, although the "Borneo" is only a few hundred tons larger than the "Kitty Hawk", its actual size But it is slightly larger than the Kitty Hawk..."
Zou Tongjie, who is a veteran of the Navy, looked excited when introducing the aircraft carrier. After all, this aircraft carrier was what he had always longed for.
"In short, in terms of performance, it is definitely the most advanced conventionally powered aircraft carrier in the world."
The most advanced conventionally powered aircraft carrier... Although nuclear power is good, the reactor is expensive!
One "Enterprise" directly made the wealthy U.S. Navy vomit blood. The cost of one ship can build two conventionally powered aircraft carriers. In this case, what should be chosen is not too simple.
"State of the art..."
Li Yian just kept nodding. Of course he knew this, because the aircraft carrier uses steam-combustion hybrid power, which was his suggestion. The former is time-consuming and laborious from ignition to full power operation, and takes up a lot of tonnage. As for the latter, although the power Powerful and lightweight, but requiring a large amount of air and unable to provide kinetic energy for steam catapults, this style of "hybrid" aircraft carrier was eventually launched.
It not only meets the needs of a steam catapult, but also can start quickly. Although this hybrid power seems a bit "heretical", it is definitely the best option in terms of the times.
The only problem is... because the technology is somewhat radical, the No. 2 aircraft carrier originally planned to be built in Dongning has been delayed. After all, this is the first time a hybrid aircraft carrier has been built in the world. If problems are encountered during use, That’s quite a few E’s!
Under this situation, Navy would rather postpone it for a few years, but also build a ship and try it out for a period of time.
This is undoubtedly a relatively safe solution.
In fact, after two decades of development, the Navy has been prepared both in terms of talent reserves and funds, and even SEA is also prepared. After all, aircraft carriers cost a lot of money.
"One billion!"
Li Yian said:
"We spent a total of one billion to build it!"
Zou Tongjie quickly explained:
"Sir, in terms of cost, it is 10% cheaper than the Kitty Hawk. The cost of the Kitty Hawk is US$450 million, and based on the exchange rate, the Borneo is just over US$400 million. Of course, This is also directly related to the fact that our materials and labor are cheaper than those in the United States..."
While explaining, he also emphasized:
"But in general it is still very cheap. Even Australia is interested in the aircraft carrier we built. Of course, they are not interested in this super aircraft carrier, but in the light aircraft carrier. After all, their overall national strength There.”
"Light aircraft carrier?"
Zhou Tongjie's words made Li Yian immediately interested. After all, he has been committed to entering the international arms market. After all, selling arms is really a very profitable business. It is also helpful to reduce the country's weapons research and development costs. In the past few years, in addition to ordinary light and heavy weapons, sea has also exported fighter jets, submarines, and warships.
Just like France, the weapons produced by Sea have always been famous for their high quality. Of course, the price is definitely not cheap.
As for its price being higher than that of similar weapons in the United States, that is because the United States has various restrictions on exporting weapons. However, Sea exports weapons basically adheres to the principle that as long as it is not a hostile country and has money, it will be fine.
Therefore, after more than ten years of development, Sea is now almost the third largest arms exporter in the world.
The weapons produced here appear in various hotspots around the world, contributing to world peace.
But although so many weapons have been exported, aircraft carriers have never been exported. Zhou Tongjie's words actually made Li Yian interested. After thinking about it, he said:
"If the Australians are interested, you might as well talk to them. It is not impossible to export aircraft carriers to them.
After all, we import hundreds of millions of tons of various minerals from them every year, and they make a lot of money. It is natural to purchase some of our weapons and balance trade. ”
Although Australia's iron ore belongs to Margaret, importing iron ore is essentially a left-hand to right-hand game for the company, but from a trade perspective, Australia is indeed a country with a trade surplus.
Tens of millions of tons of iron ore and nearly 100 million tons of coal are exported every year, plus a large amount of copper ore and other minerals are exported.
Today's Australia is definitely a rich country sitting on a mine cart, and it suddenly becomes wealthy.
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If you don't do business like this for the nouveau riche, you would be really sorry for yourself and for sending them such a huge trade surplus every year.
Besides, it’s an aircraft carrier!
How many countries in the world have exported aircraft carriers?
Your Excellency's decision made Zhou Tongjie a little confused and said:
"Your Excellency, do we still need to build small aircraft carriers?"
"Of course we don't need to specifically design a light aircraft carrier, but we can design an amphibious assault ship with similar performance!
With a displacement of about 30,000 tons, military aircraft of this tonnage can basically meet the needs of the Australians. ”
After listening to your narration, Zhou Tongjie thought for a moment and retorted:
"But Your Excellency, if the amphibious assault ship is not equipped with a catapult, it cannot take off and land fixed-wing fighter jets. It can only take off and land helicopters. In this case, how can the Australians buy our amphibious assault ship?"
"Fixed-wing aircraft? There is no problem with this at all. I heard that the UK is developing a fighter jet that can take off and land vertically."
It's the Harrier fighter. If I remember correctly, this famous fighter should have been in service in the past year or two.
The naval chief of staff standing next to him quickly answered:
"Vertical take-off and landing fighter jets? Sir, they seemed to have flown it last year"
Li Yian nodded and said:
"In that case, let's design an aircraft carrier like this!"
Selling an amphibious assault ship as an aircraft carrier may be quite novel in this era, but this will not be uncommon in the future, and it has been actively transformed in the past.
"The Navy can do some research. After all, we have a real need for amphibious assault ships. Let's see how we can bring in the Australians to develop them with us. This can reduce the cost of development."
For the multi-island SEA, amphibious assault ships have always been a realistic need. Just relying on an assault ship modified from an old World War II aircraft carrier simply cannot meet the needs of the military. Therefore, starting research in this area now is completely No problem.
"Moreover, amphibious assault ships can also be used as a powerful supplement to aircraft carriers during wartime. I think it is necessary to build them!"
It can be an amphibious assault ship in peacetime, but during a war, it only needs slight improvements to turn it into an aircraft carrier. Can such a "quasi-aircraft carrier" be used without a head start?
While they were talking, the launching ceremony of the "Borneo" aircraft carrier soon began. After the naming was announced, Li Yian personally broke a bottle of champagne on the bow of the ship. The moment the champagne was broken, the crisp sound was like a victory. The horn echoed in every corner of the dock.
Under the gaze of countless eyes, the "Borneo" slid solemnly and slowly towards the sea. Its bow is decorated with huge colored balls, which have been opened in the festive atmosphere. The colorful pieces are like cheerful elves, flying and hovering in the air.
"Look, it moves!"
someone shouted excitedly.
"Yes, I have waited too long for this moment."
The people next to him responded with emotion.
At the same time, the fireworks that had been prepared on both sides of the dock were lit at the same time, and colorful fireworks bloomed in the sky. Military music also sounded at this moment, and the passionate melody reverberated in everyone's heart, making people excited.
"It's really spectacular, it's like a big mountain!"
Some people looked at this giant aircraft carrier and couldn't help but admire it.
Amid the farewell sounds of fireworks and gun salutes, the aircraft carrier "Borneo" slowly sailed into the embrace of the sea. When its hull completely touched the water, a huge splash appeared on the sea surface, as if the sea was applauding and welcoming this new member.
“It’s so hard to finally get into the water.”
Some people shed tears with excitement.
"Yes, this is the pride of all of us."
People in the dock stared at the aircraft carrier, their eyes flashing with excitement.
At this moment, all the hard work and waiting paid off.
Just like that, on this day, with people watching, the aircraft carrier "Borneo" was launched...
(End of chapter)