Chapter 1070: The Leap of Aircraft Carriers

Yangcheng Shipyard.

Liu Tao returned to the shipyard and held a meeting.

Various technical experts and naval representatives all attended the meeting.

This meeting was naturally a highly confidential meeting, and everyone signed a confidentiality agreement.

Liu Tao introduced the relevant information of the Type 003 aircraft carrier.

The Type 003 aircraft carrier is 332.85 meters long, 40.84 meters wide, 12.4 meters deep, with a standard displacement of 101,600 tons and a full load displacement of 112,000 tons. The flight deck is 332.8 meters × 78 meters, with a speed of 32 knots, self-sustaining food that can be stored for 90 days, 4,660 crew members, and 600 aviation personnel.

The Type 003 aircraft carrier uses a lot of new technologies and designs. Unlike the Type 002B aircraft carrier, Liu Tao redesigned the island superstructure and flight deck layout this time, emphasizing stealth, making the power plant more efficient and having stronger power generation capacity. The overall power system adopts a new power distribution structure, electromagnetic catapults, a new high-power integrated nuclear reactor belt power distribution system (a fully electric-powered warship), active phased array radar, J-11C and other carrier-based aircraft key ship-based high-tech, and increased the redundant design of the hull for future upgrades and renovations, and the overall combat capability of the aircraft carrier has been greatly improved.

In terms of hull structure, the front of the hull adopts a bulbous bow, which can reduce navigation resistance, increase the buoyancy of the bow, and reduce the longitudinal shaking of the bow, thereby making the take-off operation of carrier-based aircraft smoother. There is only a closed flight deck, which still uses a right-angle plus bevel flight deck combination to increase the deck use area. At the same time, the lightweight mast is made of composite materials, with strength similar to steel, but the weight is significantly reduced.

The island superstructure has been improved to make it closer to the stern, expanding the use area of ​​the flight deck, and the power unit has been moved back, the shaft system has been shortened, and the hangar area has been increased. In addition, full consideration has been given to vision, turbulence, command, flight control, various radars and communication requirements.

Because of the emphasis on stealth, relevant materials are used in the protruding parts to reduce the radar reflection area.

There are two electromagnetic catapults at the end of the right-angle and angled flight decks of the aircraft carrier. Two elevators are located in the middle of the right chord of the hull, and one elevator is located on the port side near the stern.

Electromagnetic catapults are used in catapults to replace steam catapults. Traditional steam catapults store a large amount of high-pressure steam produced by the reactor in a cylinder. When in use, steam is used to push the catapult shuttle that pulls the aircraft and launch the aircraft into the air at a speed of 270 kilometers per hour. A lot of losses will be generated during steam transportation. The cylinders storing high-pressure steam or the pipelines transmitting steam also require a large space. The heavy pistons, pipelines, valves and other parts of the high-pressure catapult system also suffer amazing losses.

The electromagnetic catapult does not have this problem. Its principle is that the current-carrying wire is subjected to force in the magnetic field, and the aircraft is launched into the air by using the induced electromagnetic repulsion generated by the huge instantaneous change of magnetic flux.

The reason why the electromagnetic catapult is 10 times more efficient than the steam catapult.

In terms of the power system, an integrated power system is adopted, that is, a digital power grid system that is all-electric energy, all controlled by computers, and fully information-based.

The entire Type 03 aircraft carrier is equipped with two high-power integrated nuclear reactors and a 13,500-volt power transmission and distribution system with a power supply capacity of up to 200,000 kilowatts, which can fully supply the power needs of the entire aircraft carrier. The core of the entire nuclear reactor has a service life of 50 years, so that the aircraft carrier can maintain normal power during its service life without returning to the dock to replace the core.

The weapon system, in addition to the J-16C fighter jets used as carrier-based aircraft, will carry 8 anti-submarine aircraft, 5 airborne early warning aircraft, 6 helicopters, and up to 75 F16C fighter jets.

In addition, the aircraft carrier will also carry a large number of unmanned combat aircraft and unmanned reconnaissance aircraft.

The aircraft carrier's own weapons are only 4 "Aegis" air defense missile eight-mounted launchers, 3 20mm 6-barrel dense array guns and several 12.7mm heavy machine guns. In addition, it is equipped with decoy missile launchers and torpedo decoy systems.

It can be said that compared with the 002B aircraft carrier, the 003 aircraft carrier is a huge leap.

It is not only a leap in tonnage, but also a leap in the material technology, nuclear reactor, catapult technology, etc. It is planned to officially start construction on December 25, 2002, launch on July 1, 2008, and officially deliver on July 1, 2010.

From now until the start of construction, we need to thoroughly understand the technology, build some supporting factories, verify some technologies, etc.

The Type 003 aircraft carrier will also be built in the Yangcheng Shipyard. At that time, a large dock will be specially vacated for the construction of the Type 003 aircraft carrier.

In order to keep it confidential, the Type 003 aircraft carrier will be built in an indoor dock, which means that this large dock will have to build a factory building and have anti-reconnaissance capabilities.

Liu Tao personally served as the chief designer of the Type 003 aircraft carrier, and then appointed 5 deputy chief designers and heads of various disciplines.

After the meeting, Liu Tao took a newspaper to read the news.

At the end of 2001, all fields in the world are summarizing the year 2001.

For example, the summary of international events in 2001.

If people were asked to make single choices, there might be only one international event in 2001, which was the September 11 attacks in the United States.

As for the Afghan war launched by the United States, it can only be ranked third.

It was on September 11 that the terrifying power of "unrestricted warfare" was fully demonstrated for the first time. The first use of "unrestricted warfare" was actually in the United States, and then it achieved remarkable results that attracted worldwide attention, causing huge casualties to the United States, and the direct economic losses alone exceeded 3 trillion US dollars.

This made many countries and forces pay attention to the "unrestricted warfare" and "asymmetric warfare" methods for the first time, and they were also studying how to deal with "unrestricted warfare" and "asymmetric warfare". Counter-terrorism operations have become the research object of major military powers.

The second major international event was the global financial black swan event caused by the September 11 event. More than 3 trillion US dollars of wealth evaporated from the stock market worldwide, and the US stock market has continued to fall so far.

The third major international event was the war launched by the United States against Afghanistan. The coalition led by the US military entered Afghanistan and demonstrated high-tech warfare in this land of Afghanistan.

In fourth place, the situation between Palestine and Israel deteriorated. Hardliners on both sides came to power, and the two sides were at loggerheads. War was imminent. If the parties had not held both sides down, the sixth Middle East war would have broken out.

In fifth place, Saddam made a tough statement, scolded the Americans, and together with Libya's Gaddafi, denounced the Americans' bias towards Jews, which further deteriorated the relations between Iraq, Libya and the United States.

In sixth place, the failure to normalize relations between Persia and the United States. After September 11, in order to punish the Taliban and the "jihadist organization", the US government thought about further easing relations with Persia, but as soon as the two sides negotiated, strong public opinion pressure broke out in the United States. The Persian side also asked for a high price, and the normalization of the two sides was once again terminated. Moreover, Persia also claimed to retaliate against the Americans. Many people speculated whether Persia would help Afghanistan and cause trouble for the Americans.

In seventh place, the South Asian War, a war involving millions of troops, lasted for three months. According to the public announcements of all parties, the two camps lost nearly 100,000 people, further affecting the situation in South Asia.