Chapter nine hundred and eighteenth aircraft carrier service
Twenty-six years after entering Qian Sheng, a fierce war atmosphere gradually emerged in the Daheng Empire.
When the Battle of Andoria first broke out last year, due to the official control of news and public opinion, the people did not actually understand the actual situation. The imperial officials gradually released relevant information to the domestic people and gradually guided the people's emotions to cooperate with the empire's comprehensive plan. War preparation.
In preparation for this kind of all-out war, the navies of the Daheng Empire and the Kingdom of Krul actually conducted many naval battles, but they were not the kind of super-large-scale naval battles involving hundreds of warships, but more small and medium-sized ones. naval battle.
Of course, the so-called small and medium-scale naval battles between the two navies would basically be considered large-scale naval battles in other countries.
In this series of naval battles, both sides mainly fought around the strategic node of the Andorian Islands.
The Krull Kingdom wants to continue to blockade the Andorian Islands and organize the Daheng Empire to continue building this sea base. The Daheng Empire Navy is doing everything possible to break through the blockade and transport personnel and equipment to the Andorian Islands.
Around the Andorian Islands, the navies of both sides frequently engaged in battles.
In the past half year, the losses suffered by both navies were not small.
Since the Battle of Andoria, the Daheng Empire Navy has had three more battleships sunk, many battleships injured, and other cruisers and destroyers have suffered even more losses.
Due to the relatively large losses of battleships on the front line, the Daheng Empire once again entered the wartime production system early.
The docks of every medium and large shipyard are filled with warships and transport ships that are being built or undergoing repairs.
In order to free up enough shipyards to build large-tonnage warships, the Daheng Empire even began to mobilize small and medium-sized shipyards on a large scale to undertake orders for cruisers, destroyers, patrol ships and other non-main warships.
After all, the hull construction of many one- to two-thousand-ton destroyers and three- to four-thousand-ton cruisers is relatively easy, and some medium-sized shipyards can also undertake it.
Some auxiliary warships with less demanding requirements, such as offshore patrol ships, minelayers, minesweepers and other warships, are simply built by some small shipyards.
The Daheng Empire's shipbuilding industry is behind other related industries, and it has fully shifted to a war production system.
This also led to the Daheng Empire starting to build a large number of warships and producing them at a very terrifying speed.
Especially for warships such as cruisers of three to four thousand tons and destroyers of one to two thousand tons, which have relatively fast construction progress, the order scale is in the dozens or hundreds.
The Daheng Empire's new generation destroyer Blue Lake City-class destroyer was officially launched in the 25th year of Qian Sheng's construction. The first batch of orders reached as many as 60 ships. Twenty-six years after Qian Sheng, the Navy added five more improved models. The order for ten ships brings the order for this ship to one hundred and ten ships.
Moreover, the construction progress is very fast. In less than a year, more than ten ships of this class have been put into service.
This is just one type of warship. In fact, the Daheng Empire has increased orders for various types of warships in the past half year.
In addition to this series of traditional artillery battleships, there is also a very special battleship, which is the Fairy-class aircraft carrier secretly built by the Daheng Empire Navy.
The construction of this class of ship was officially started at the end of the 24th year of Qian Sheng. It is a warship specially designed and built by the Daheng Empire to carry aircraft.
Many of the design concepts come from the emperor Lin Ziran.
Because of Lin Ziran's existence, this aircraft carrier has adopted a very typical aircraft carrier shape from the beginning, adopting designs such as an all-through deck, a right-side island, an internal hangar, an elevator, and even a specially developed hydraulic catapult.
In fact, the take-off speed of aircraft these days is relatively slow. Most aircraft can actually take off on their own if they rely on the deck wind. The reason why they still use catapults is actually to increase the efficiency of sorties, and also to take into account the heavier carriers.
bomber.
The Fairy-class aircraft carrier, judging from the design of the aircraft carrier itself, is already ahead of its time.
With a standard displacement of 23,000 tons, its maximum speed reached an astonishing thirty knots.
Of course, in order to achieve this speed, the ship's protection level is not very good, and it does not have any naval gun armament. It is only equipped with a 120mm anti-air and ship dual-purpose naval gun for self-defense.
Simply speaking from the tonnage and speed of this aircraft carrier, it can actually carry a series of carrier-based aircraft from the Earth's World War II period. If thrown onto the Earth's World War II battlefield, it would also be a proper fleet aircraft carrier.
But now, the Daheng Empire's carrier-based aircraft are not very advanced, and their actual combat effectiveness is naturally far from being comparable to the mature aircraft carriers during World War II.
The Daheng Empire began to experiment with seaplanes in the 23rd year of Qian Sheng. After refitting an old cruiser and conducting experiments on refitting an aircraft carrier, it was discovered that the aircraft originally developed for the ground air force were not suitable for ships even after certain modifications.
Aircraft needs.
For this reason, the Daheng Empire embarked on the path of developing specialized carrier-based aircraft.
This carrier-based aircraft includes seaplanes that are expected to be carried by cruisers, battleships and other battleships, and are mainly used for reconnaissance, shooting, and communication.
There are also deck take-off and landing fixed-wing aircraft specially developed for aircraft carriers, including three major types of fighter jets, torpedo aircraft, and bombers. These new carrier-based aircraft developed by the Daheng Empire are already as good in performance as aircraft from earlier years.
Very different.
Stimulated by the war, during the World War, the aircraft of various countries actually developed very rapidly. Because of the stimulation of the war, the fighter jets of the warring countries went from existence to non-existence, and then continued technological upgrading.
On the fierce front line of the Western Continent, the combat aircraft of the three major powers, the Krul Kingdom, the Kokel Empire, and the Varia Empire, were often upgraded within a few months.
If it is not upgraded, a certain type of fighter jet that is killing everyone in the summer may become the target of the enemy's new fighter jets in the winter.
In the past few years, all countries have quickly passed the primitive period of aircraft and entered a stage of relatively mature technology. The new aircraft of each country are technically good.
In the twenty-fifth year of Qian Sheng's reign, the aircraft technology of these warring countries had already caught up with and surpassed the Daheng Empire, which was the first to design and develop specialized military aircraft and put them into battlefields on a large scale.
However, the Daheng Empire's aircraft research and development and production have never stopped. In addition to focusing on its own research and development, it also constantly absorbs the design concepts and experiences of new aircraft from various warring countries.
It's just that the Daheng Empire did not have the pressure of large-scale air defense or competition for air supremacy in the intervening years. At the same time, the aircraft were upgraded too quickly in these years, and the aircraft fell behind after basically more than half a year.
Even if the Daheng Empire has money, it can't do this. Therefore, the Daheng Empire's aircraft are maintained in the mode of continuous research and development and small batch production of equipment.
Since the second half of the 25th year of Qian Sheng, the Daheng Empire has mass-produced various new aircraft.
This also includes the newly developed carrier-based aircraft!