Eight hundred and forty-eighth chapter steam turbine is available
The Guanglin-class destroyers and their improved models are the main destroyers mass-produced by the Daheng Empire in the past four or five years. Currently, more than 20 ships are in service, and the total number of orders has reached more than 60 ships.
There are multiple sub-models involved, and several types of firepower configurations have been tried successively, starting from focusing on rapid-fire naval gun firepower, and then focusing on lightning strike capabilities.
Therefore, there is nothing special about the Guanglin class and its improved destroyers. Even ordinary people abroad know about this cutting-edge destroyer of the Daheng Empire and even know many details about it.
However, the Anxiao destroyer, which is similar to the Guanglin-class destroyer in other aspects, is different internally.
Because the ship is equipped with a steam turbine!
Of course, pure oil boilers are also indispensable, which are already used in all new warships.
The Anxiao's power configuration is a steam turbine paired with a pure oil-fired boiler.
This kind of power configuration is definitely top-notch on Blue Star. The navies of other countries are not even building it, and they don't even have relevant research plans.
The Daheng Empire began secretly developing steam turbines several years ago under the auspices of Lin Ziran. In order to keep it secret, the project has always been kept top secret.
A few years ago, the steam turbine project actually went through shipboard testing, but unfortunately that shipboard test failed and the steam turbine did not achieve the intended results.
The subsequent steam turbine project team will continue to tackle key problems.
In the process of research and development of steam turbines, the imperial industry has also solved a lot of technical difficulties, especially in the field of processing and manufacturing. In order to successfully produce steam turbines with acceptable quality, several related companies have solved the problem.
There were a lot of technical issues.
For example, in order to manufacture the core component of steam turbine cylinders, Jingzhou Machinery Company, which is responsible for the production of cylinders, made targeted purchases and developed a large number of high-precision equipment in order to meet the high-precision requirements for casting cylinders.
The research and development and manufacturing of steam turbines is a huge challenge for the basic industry of the Daheng Empire.
Compared with previous steam engines, steam turbines have higher working environment requirements, higher material performance requirements, and higher processing accuracy requirements.
And these are not things you can just draw a blueprint and then make.
In fact, the core design drawings of the steam turbine were produced seven or eight years ago. The core of the work of the steam turbine project team over the years is not to design the steam turbine, but to figure out how to manufacture the steam turbine.
During this process, if you encounter some technical problems that cannot be solved, you need to find ways to change the design to reduce the difficulty of manufacturing.
So the current steam turbines are very different from the steam turbines seven or eight years ago. Doesn’t this mean that the current steam turbines are better? In fact, the current design has worse performance indicators than the original design.
No way? In the process of continuous research and development, the project team has actually been constantly lowering the requirements in order to manufacture it.
Otherwise, if you impose high requirements, it will be useless if you can't make it.
But even though the performance indicators have been continuously reduced and the technical requirements have been reduced, this is still a major challenge for the Daheng Empire's industrial community.
Although the outside world doesn't know it, and even some manufacturers responsible for the research, development and production of parts don't know it? But the person in charge of the project team knows it. In order to develop the steam turbine? Throughout the empire, at least 200,000 to 300,000 people researched
personnel directly or indirectly involved.
However, except for a few leaders in the project team, none of these people knew that they were working on the steam turbine project or had provided help.
Even in most cases, these technological research and development are not required by the project team, but are carried out by the company for other projects. The steam turbine project team is just searching for top technologies across the country, and then seeing if they can put what they have into
The necessary parts are just produced.
For example, a certain machine tool production machine may be a high-precision processing machine tool developed for other industrial markets, but is this thing? It can be used not only in the field of gasoline engine manufacturing, but also in the field of steam engine manufacturing? It can also be used in steam turbines.
Some parts are produced.
The same cylinder sealing material, maybe the manufacturer only developed it for use in steam engines at the beginning? But it can also be used in steam turbines.
There are also special screws, etc., how wide are their applications? Steam turbines are only one application direction of these products or technologies.
So? The steam turbine project team is actually not large in scale, with only a few hundred people, and they are not dedicated to solving the technical problems required in the manufacturing process themselves.
After all, if you ask a group of experts who study steam turbines to study new materials, precision machining, sealing materials, etc., it would be nonsense. They are not professional at all.
The main job of the steam turbine project team is actually to search for and integrate the industrial power of the empire to manufacture the steam turbine. As for the equipment and materials needed to manufacture the steam turbine, that is the matter of other companies.
It can also be seen from this that in fact, the production and manufacturing of steam turbines is definitely not done independently by the steam turbine project team. It is the joint efforts of the entire Daheng Empire's industrial community that can turn steam turbines into a new era of industry.
Flowers are created.
However, neither the external companies involved nor the experts knew that their research results and product equipment were used in the top-secret project of steam turbines.
In fact, in the entire empire, there are only a hundred or so people who know about the steam turbine project, and most of these hundreds of people only know clues, and only a dozen or so people know the full picture.
Even within the Daheng Empire Navy, few people know the complete picture of the project. Many people at the level of senior ministers and middle ministers only know that the empire is developing a new type of power system.
As for what this power system is, they don't know.
This kind of secrecy is what makes the steam turbine project. Although parts of the steam turbine project have been leaked over the years, some foreign intelligence agencies also know that the Daheng Empire is secretly developing a new type of warship power system, but they don't know what the specific power system is.
I no longer know.
And this kind of secrecy has kept things like steam turbines out of sight of the foreign scientific research community.
At least, Lin Ziran has not learned anything from the scientific community or intelligence agencies about the existence of similar projects in foreign countries, or even the corresponding concept.
However, now, the Daheng Empire has manufactured a steam turbine and put it on the test piece Anxiao.
The prototype of the Anxiao, the Guanglin-class destroyer, had a maximum speed of only thirty knots, and it paid a huge price to achieve this speed.
However, during the secret test, the Anxiao easily reached an ultra-high speed of thirty-four knots.
This also officially announced the arrival of a new power era for the navy!
The most important thing is that other countries on Blue Star, including the Kingdom of Krul, still don’t know anything about it!