() Following this legendary young captain, Liu Fu came to the aviation control room at the top of the bridge. Here, Bevans introduced Liu Fu to the aviation commander, landing commander and flight wing.
Wing commander and other senior officers. As a man carrying 10
For a small maritime city with more than 00 people and dozens of aircraft, there are countless officers from ship commanders to flight wing commanders. Liu Fu's interest is not in getting to know these officers, but in understanding the capabilities of this level of aircraft carrier.
Performance and treatment of naval officers and soldiers.
Regarding the King-class aircraft carrier, whether it is the ship operators or the commanders of the flying wing, they give completely opposite evaluations. Most of the carrier operators are from the naval force. In their minds, except for the federal-specific
In addition to the submarines of the submarine force, only warships like the Continental-class heavy cruisers are considered warships. Although this kind of aircraft carrier has undergone many exercises and successfully
They destroyed the "enemy" warships outside the visual range, but in their opinion, it was very unsatisfactory and unmanly, so their evaluation of the "King of Heaven" aircraft carrier was: it is a thin-skinned ship that can float.
A large airport. The relatively valuable comments also focus on issues such as how to make the mothership's armor thicker and increase its firepower. However, in Liu Fu's view, these issues are not worth mentioning.
Compared with those more conservative naval personnel, the officers and soldiers of the Naval Air Wing carried on the mother ship have more positive comments about the mother ship. They are full of desire and determination to use aircraft to sink enemy warships, especially large warships.
, they believed that they and the naval torpedo attack aircraft they flew would completely change the mode of naval warfare, and they were proud of it. Their excessive praise made Liu Fu feel that these young men in the naval aviation believed too much in this
There are no super-era weapons that have been tested in actual combat.
The most rewarding comment for Liu Fei came from a unit that Liu Fei had least expected: the ground crew of the aviation wing. These officers and soldiers who have been responsible for maintaining aircraft on the mothership for a long time paid great attention to the facilities on the mothership.
The attack power of the mothership is much higher than the guess of the mothership's attack capability. They put forward many suggestions for improvement, which all made the
Liu Fei was refreshed by what he heard. For example, a landing officer suggested that lights could be used to direct the takeoff and landing of aircraft at night. In this way, the aircraft carrier could participate in battles 24 hours a day, instead of being the same color every day as now.
If it is dark, all planes must be put away, and it becomes a big target floating on the sea.
There is also a ground service soldier who proposed that if the bottom of the aircraft is changed from the current blue to gray, it will further reduce the distance at which the aircraft is detected by ships below. This is because he has long been engaged in providing semaphore command for aircraft landing on the deck.
work, so after long-term observation, he found that naval torpedo attack aircraft with blue bottoms and white wings are more likely to be caught in advance than other naval reconnaissance aircraft that sometimes land on the mothership.
Discovery. After carefully analyzing the painting of the aircraft, he discovered that because the reconnaissance aircraft carried on the heavy cruiser was modified from an Air Force aircraft, its painting was still light gray, and this color was very unpleasant in the sky.
It is easy to be discovered by people below. The navy torpedo attack aircraft is painted in a sea blue color. Although it looks much more beautiful, it is relatively easy to be discovered by people below from a long distance, especially in clear weather.
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After listening to the suggestions of many officers and soldiers, Liu Fu couldn't help but feel that no matter how creative the scientific research and technical personnel are, some things can only be discovered by the front-line personnel with actual contact over a long period of time. For these feasibility
It is recommended that Liu Fu ask the housekeeper to accompany him
Ministry security personnel recorded it in detail, and handed it over to the Naval Research Institute for further analysis and processing. Liu Fu also asked Lieutenant Colonel Bevins to represent himself on behalf of the Navy to ask for credit for these officers and soldiers, and asked the Navy to
Give these officers and soldiers rewards consistent with the suggestions they put forward.
While Liu Fu was scurrying around on the aircraft carrier, the "Growth" aircraft carrier, accompanied by six destroyers, had slowly sailed out of the Keelung Military Port, along the southeastern waters of Taiwan, towards the
Driving to Cam Ranh Bay in southern Annam Province.
The total distance from Keelung to Cam Ranh Bay is less than 1,000 nautical miles. Since it is not wartime, the carrier formation only travels at a cruising speed of 20 knots and can reach its destination in about two days. Considering that the aircraft carrier is carrying the federal president, it is difficult.
These ship operators and air wing pilots and ground crews were recruited in order to show the President the capabilities of the aircraft carrier.
ng capabilities and the power of aircraft. In the past two days, the mothership formation rushed to Cam Ranh Bay while holding three exercises. One was an emergency takeoff during the day plus a torpedo aircraft formation attack exercise, and the other was the entire formation at high speed.
The anti-submarine drill was carried out during the maneuver, and finally, with rain falling on the sea, a torpedo plane takeoff and landing drill was conducted in bad weather.
Although it was an exercise, everything from the mothership formation to the takeoff and landing of aircraft were carried out in accordance with wartime standards, so Liu Fu enjoyed watching it. What impressed him most was the simultaneous launch of more than 20 torpedo attack aircraft on the deck.
Get up and wait to enter the runway and take off. The roar
The sound of the engines and propellers cutting the airflow seems to put people into a very excited state. If the security personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs hadn't been holding Liu Fei alive, the federal president would have boarded a two-seater reconnaissance plane.
, go and fly around with the torpedo attack aircraft formation.
After being reminded by the security personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Captain Nevins did not dare to seduce the president to watch any exercises. He could only take Liu Fu to continue to visit some special facilities on the mothership. On the King-class aircraft
On the mothership, many of the Federation's leading technologies are reflected, such as radar and analog computers that coexist with electronic tubes and machinery.
Speaking of radar, many people will think of the advanced instrument in the movie that clearly displays the opponent's position, direction of movement, speed, size and even rough outline on the screen. However, the radar of this period was not that comprehensive. It was just a
A simple electronic instrument that uses a fixed antenna to transmit signals to the surroundings at fixed intervals for the radar operator to identify the relative position and distance of the target.
It's said to be simple, but this thing is federal government
Fu's research institute has started research more than 10 years ago, and it is only now that it can be put into practical use. Due to the relative backwardness of contemporary technology, although the Federal Research Institute uses many electronic devices from the fishing boats that traveled through time with Liu Fu,
, the electronic tube was quickly copied, but many materials and equipment needed to be developed from scratch, which was very labor-intensive and time-consuming. In fact, the radar sample appeared in the secret factory of the institute very early, but because there was no
There is a suitable CRT display to display the amplified echo image, making this high-tech radar a device that can only be listened to by the ears. The technology of the display is constantly improving, and 2 years ago, the radar was mothballed for several years.
The advanced equipment has been rejuvenated. After many improvements and debugging, the size has been reduced, the power consumption and heat generation have been reduced, the resolution and detection range have been increased, and it has finally become a practical high-tech equipment.
Radar alone is not enough. The amount of real-time data it transmits is too huge. It is impossible to obtain accurate values ​​​​by just relying on human brains and hands to calculate. Therefore, another device that has been studied for many years was asked to be researched.
Therefore, after improvement, it became the radar's right-hand assistant, that is, the computer.
In fact, computers have existed hundreds of years ago, but they are not the electronic computers we see in later generations, but hand-cranked mechanical computers. This kind of computer uses punched cards to store data, and it was already in use at the end of the 19th century.
The number of operating digits was increased to 40. In the early 20th century, this kind of computer was widely used in finance, budgeting, census, etc., and successfully solved the problem of slow operation speed of human brain and hand.
