The plane roared past everyone's heads. General Cheng did not wait for the telescope, but just looked up at the sky with his hands on the awning.
"What type of aircraft is this? Why didn't I see it?" General Cheng really didn't see any familiar features, so he asked the people on the side.
"Oh, Chief, what just flew over was the Haihongqi II air defense drone." Before anyone else could speak, the comrade from the research institute who was standing guard on the side explained.
"Do you know this plane?" General Cheng asked curiously.
"I know a little bit. This is a new model that performs regional air defense missions. But I haven't flown it yet, so I don't know much about it."
"What? Are you still a pilot?" General Cheng was even more surprised. Pilots were sent to stand guard. This research institute is quite luxurious.
"I used to be a pilot. I am old and injured, so I retired a few years ago." The comrade on duty said a little secretly, but then his face showed joy again. "But the year before last, I
So I was transferred here, and now I am a drone pilot. I am also flying a plane, but here I am flying while sitting on the ground."
"Sitting on the ground and flying? Then how can we drive? Please tell me in detail." General Cheng became interested now and stopped looking at the plane. He pulled the former Air Force pilot into the duty room.
The duty room is air-conditioned. The temperature here is too hot. Almost all places have air-conditioning. This thing has basically become popular on this island now.
This former Air Force pilot has been a drone pilot for two years and is quite familiar with drones. In this duty room, he gave a detailed science education to this group of people.
Everyone listened with great interest, especially General Cheng. He now has a basic concept of drones, at least he knows what this aircraft is about.
After the phone rang in the duty room, announcing that the blockade was lifted, the group left and entered the research institute.
"Zhao Ye, I know you! Hahaha! I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. You just wanted to get it. You built an aircraft carrier for me quietly!" Zhao Ye was watching the pilot's operation at the console.
Whoever thought a group of people came in from outside, they came up and slapped him on the shoulder.
"Who are you?" Forgive Zhao Ye, let him have the ability to have a photographic memory, but he really doesn't know the person in front of him.
"Comrade Zhao Ye, this is General Cheng, who used to be our commander." Gao Mingyuan on the side gave the answer without letting Zhao Ye guess too much.
"Oh, it's Commander Cheng! Hello, Chief!" Before Zhao Ye could finish his polite words, General Cheng grabbed Zhao Ye's arm and said hurriedly: "Don't say these polite words yet.
, take me to see our aircraft carrier first!"
"Aircraft carrier? Where did the aircraft carrier come from?" Zhao Ye asked pretending to be stupid.
"Okay, don't act stupid in front of me, it's your aircraft recovery platform!"
"Hey, that's what you're talking about! What kind of aircraft carrier is that? What you just said shocked me." Zhao Ye said this in a pretentious manner.
"Okay, okay, don't worry about what it's called, take me to see it quickly." General Cheng stopped arguing with Zhao Ye. Anyway, no matter what it's called, it's always the same thing.
"Chief, come with me. This ship is parked at the ship repair yard." After saying that, Zhao Ye led everyone out of the research institute and took a car in the direction of the ship repair yard.
When the car arrived at the ship repair yard, General Cheng saw a large ship in the distance. As a man from the navy, he knew the approximate tonnage at just one glance.
The ship is currently undergoing demolition work, and some unused buildings will be cut off. Then new facilities will be built according to new functions and designs.
When General Cheng stood on the deck of the ship, he was no longer so excited.
The total length of this ship is only about 180 meters, and its full load displacement does not exceed 30,000 tons. It would be ridiculous to call such a "small ship" an aircraft carrier.
But what Zhao Ye wants is this kind of effect, low-key, low-key, low-key! It would be better to let those people regard it as a joke, so that no one cares about it, right?
Although this ship is a civilian ship, its foundation is still good. When this ship was originally designed, it should have been modified based on military ships, so in many parts, you can still see some of the warships
shadow.
This is also a big reason why Zhao Ye chose it. In this ship repair yard, Zhao Ye will turn it into a quasi-military ship bit by bit.
There is no need to think about completely changing it into a warship. If you really want to change it like that, it is better to just build a new one. Besides, there is no ability to build large ships here, let alone build warships.
However, the main structure of the hull cannot be changed, but the equipment on the ship can be changed! What technicians are currently working on is the design and construction of the ship island and the counterweight system of the entire ship.
The first thing to ensure for an aircraft carrier is stability. However, the material "aircraft" on the ship will move. Coupled with the consumption of fuel and ammunition, these will complete the imbalance of the static balance and dynamic balance of the ship.
For current technicians, how to ensure that the ship maintains a balanced state when these materials are constantly changing is the first element in building the ship.
After General Cheng saw the ship, he became silent. He was not disappointed, on the contrary, he saw and heard many things introduced by the technical staff present.
Aircraft carriers are really not that easy to build! I used to hear others say how difficult it is to build an aircraft carrier, but now I have seen with my own eyes that such a "fake aircraft carrier" is so difficult to build, let alone the real thing.
So, after being silent for a whole night and a day, the old general made a decision. He wouldn't leave!
After asking for a place to live on this island, the old general asked the guard to go back and ask him to help move his family here. He will live here from now on.
Before Zhao Ye felt anything was wrong, Gao Mingyuan was the first to become nervous.
Although the old general is no longer the commander, he is still the old leader! The old leader personally "supervises" the training of this detachment, which makes Gao Mingyuan, the detachment leader, not nervous.
The entire detachment currently has 7 ships of various types. Except for the larger 283 ship, the remaining ones include two submarine hunters, two gunboats, and two torpedo boats. The gunboats and torpedo boats are very small and can only undertake offshore operations.
patrol mission.
After several days of high-intensity training organized by Gao Mingyuan, he discovered that the old general spent almost all day at the ship repair yard and only came here a handful of times.
Now, it is Zhao Ye who is nervous!
It's not that the old general is difficult to serve. On the contrary, the old general is easy to talk to, but you can't stand him because of his many demands! In just a few days, the configuration plan of this ship has been changed three times by the old general.
"I said Yezi, what are you doing! Let me tell you, the primary task of an aircraft carrier is air defense. You don't even have an aircraft carrier with air defense capabilities, so why are you still fighting a hammer war? So you must add air defense types.
Carrier-based aircraft.”
"My old general! Where do we have carrier-based air defense aircraft? Let me tell you, we don't have any drones that can perform air defense missions at all! This is a drone, do you really want it to take over?
Shooting down the enemy's plane? This is simply impossible!"
"Hey? Why is it impossible? I see that the UAV Institute already has a fighter-type UAV! Just use that one!"
"Old General, you don't know, that aircraft is too heavy and cannot fly on this ship. Do you want us to add an ejection system? Besides, that type of drone is not meant for air combat.
It is just a missile launch platform. It has no ability to fight against the enemy!"
"Then why did you design that airplane?"
"Hey! This is what I thought. I would use the high altitude and high speed of this drone to throw cruise bombs at the enemy."
"Oh! Hey? Do you think it would be okay to replace that cruise bomb with an anti-aircraft missile? In this way, wouldn't it be possible to hit the enemy's aircraft?"
"Can you get air-to-air missiles?" Zhao Ye suddenly asked.
"Is there anything that can't be done? Isn't there an airport here? How can we have fighter jets without missiles?"
"But none of the fighter jets here are equipped with missiles." Zhao Ye said helplessly.
"That's it, then I'll think of a solution!" General Cheng didn't take it too seriously. He knew better than anyone the reason why there were no missiles here, so it wasn't difficult to solve it.
With this idea in mind, Zhao Ye began to study how to make the plane fly.
You know, this kind of aircraft is very heavy, and the runway of more than 100 meters really cannot allow such an aircraft to take off.
The reason why his ship is called a sea aircraft recovery platform is that their design idea is to allow larger aircraft to take off from the island and then land on the sea. In this way, they have not only trained the team, but also increased the aircraft's capabilities.
Combat radius, after all, there is no need to fly back again!
But the old general wanted this ship to be able to fly planes, which made Zhao Ye blind.
The total length of the ship is only over 180 meters. Even if some changes are made to lengthen the deck, it should not exceed 200 meters. Even if it is used as a launch runway, it is not enough!
In Zhao Ye's design, this kind of aircraft is only used to fly some small reconnaissance aircraft. Other aircraft should wait and be discussed later.
In fact, this has a lot to do with the starting point of the two people. Zhao Ye is considering using this ship to accumulate experience, patrol relevant sea areas, and at the same time provide reconnaissance information to the ships performing tasks below.
The old general considers the problem from the perspective of the military's mission. A drone aircraft carrier is also an aircraft carrier. You can't even fly a fighter jet, so you call it a hammer aircraft carrier?