Chapter 395 21956 Destroyer
“This sea trial will be successfully completed!”
Standing on the dock in St. Petersburg, Cole Millison said to Qin Tao confidently.
At this time, the two submarines, like big sharks, had begun to slowly move towards the outer sea. Because they were in a floating state, the water waves drawn by the propellers at the tail were clearly visible.
“Yes, we also look forward to the successful completion of the sea trial.” Qin Tao was also very emotional.
"Mr. Qin, do you want to go to our Ruby Design Bureau? We have completed all the designs of the new generation 636 submarine. This submarine is more advanced than the 877 submarine and will definitely become a better choice for you."
When I introduced it last time, I only completed the overall design without any details. Now, with part of the funds from China’s order for two 877 submarines, they have finally completed the entire design of the 636 submarine. I can’t wait to get it. Promote to China.
"Of course. Our navy intends to continue to order more submarines. The news I received is that eight submarines are ordered. These are all inside information. I hope you will not spread the word."
"Of course."
“If you continue to order eight submarines, I hope they will be built in St. Petersburg!” At this time, after hearing the exchange between the two, Vladimir, the director of the Navy Department Shipyard, said.
The two submarines currently undergoing sea trials are still improved Type 877 submarines. These two submarines were originally semi-finished products from the red Solmovo Shipyard in Nizhny Novgorod, so they cannot take them away. However, if If it is newly built, what else can be said? It must be built from the St. Petersburg Shipyard!
The city leaders of St. Petersburg were also present. After hearing the discussion here, they immediately spoke: "Yes, Mr. Qin, we in the city of St. Petersburg are looking forward to receiving your order. If you purchase submarines from us, It will not only save our shipyard, but also half of our city of St. Petersburg.”
“Eight submarines are enough for us to work until 2020!” Vladimir was very excited.
These people were talking a lot, and at this time, Rapilov, who came to see him off, was full of disappointment.
In the era of the Red Empire, their Red Solmovo Shipyard was specialized in building export ships. What about now? The Admiralty Shipyard actually took a fancy to this batch of orders!
However, he also knew in his heart that they could not rob the Admiralty Shipyard, because in this era, their red Solmovo Shipyard has long been marginalized and has no relationship network in Moscow. , Moreover, the design drawings of the 636 submarine are still in the Ruby Design Bureau. The Ruby Design Bureau and the Navy Department Shipyard are supporting, and they will definitely not be willing to give them the design drawings of the 636 submarine.
From now on, they will not get any submarine orders!
Taplov's heart was full of reluctance, but he also knew that this was fate. From now on, the main task of their shipyard would be to manufacture civilian ships.
That evening, Rapilov stayed in the guest house in St. Petersburg gloomily, thinking about the future development of the shipyard.
咚咚!
There was a knock on the door outside.
“Come in, the door is open,” Rapilov shouted.
Creak!
With a slight push on the door, Lapilov saw a familiar figure and stood up quickly.
“Mr. Qin!”
"Well, Mr. Factory Director, I'm very sorry to disturb you so late." Qin Tao said: "There is something I think I should inform you. You have the right to know."
"Speaking."
"People at the Admiralty Shipyard, as well as Severodvinsk Shipyard and Komsomolsk Shipyard are quarreling fiercely. They all want to get our order for eight submarines. I think you should know this. After all, our two submarines were launched from your shipyard."
"If they quarrel, let them quarrel. We have no interest in participating." Lapilov said: "Our shipyard will definitely be squeezed out. It will be impossible to continue building submarines in the future."
"Why? If you don't fight for it, how do you know there is no hope?" Qin Tao was happy in his heart, but he still had to put on an expression of regret on his face.
"The Ruby Design Bureau will not give us the drawings. They will definitely support the Navy Department Shipyard with all their strength. Moreover, the Red Empire is gone. This country cannot afford so many submarine shipyards. Our factory will wholeheartedly go out in the future. The road for inland river ships, this is what we, an inland river shipyard, should do."
Needless to say, just transporting submarines out is incomparable to these shipyards along the coast. Therefore, you can think with your toes that they will not be able to obtain submarine orders in the future.
“In this case, I wish you good luck. You will develop into a giant in the field of inland waterway ships in the future. The prospects are also very good.” Qin Tao said.
Zepilov nodded.
In fact, if there were orders for submarines, they would not want to build them. However, now he knew in his heart that this idea was impossible to realize, and they could only honestly follow their own path.
“So, the equipment for producing submarines in your factory should be useless, right? Do you want to package it and sell it to us? In this way, you can get rid of the burden and go into battle light.”
This is the real purpose of Qin Tao coming here!
As long as those equipment are available, Mingzhou Shipyard can start manufacturing submarines. This is also one of the few types of ships that Mingzhou Shipyard is not involved in.
Now, as long as we obtain the equipment for manufacturing submarines from the Red Solmovo Shipyard, especially the plate bending machine, we can start manufacturing submarines! It is not feasible for the Navy to continue to purchase from other countries. Kilo-class submarines are too expensive. If you build them yourself, you can build two of them for the same money!
When Qin Tao spoke, he was careless and could not let the other party see his true purpose.
In fact, the farewell at the dock today, and even the order for eight submarines that has been repeatedly emphasized from the beginning, are Qin Tao's psychological hints and foreshadowing.
The ultimate purpose is to crowd out the people in front of you and let them know that they will have no chance to build submarines in the future, and these equipment are no longer useful.
“Okay.” Rapilov nodded!
Taplov is unwilling in his heart, but he is also a person who can afford to take things and put them down. Since it is no longer possible to produce submarines, why do we still need all the equipment? It is better to sell it directly to the Mingzhou Group to make a sum of money, which can also be used as costs to produce new inland river vessels.
"Okay, then please transport all these equipment to St. Petersburg, and wait until our transport ship arrives, and then transport them away together."
Carry it away together?
At this time, Lapilov was still a little surprised. He didn't know what Qin Tao meant. Is there any transport ship that can transport two submarines together with the equipment for manufacturing submarines?
More than ten days later, the mystery was finally revealed. Lapilov’s face was full of surprise. Even everyone on the dock was surprised.
Even if they have built ships all their lives, they have never seen such a big thing!
“Is it probably three hundred meters long?”
“The width is also seventy or eighty meters!”
“I really don’t know how such a big guy floats on the sea!”
Everyone was talking about it.
“I think it can lift even an aircraft carrier!”
This judgment made Qin Tao feel a little emotional. This is his true purpose! There are indeed capable people here!
Next, there is a series of complex operations.
There are certain things to be careful about if you want to use the dock to bring the submarine back.
Before the Shenzhou floating dock arrived, a large number of semicircular docking piers had been fixed at the bottom according to the structure of the Kilo-class submarine. In this way, the floating dock only needed to move under the submarine, and then move the docking piers Aim at the Kilo-class submarine, float it again, and complete the docking operation.
However, this position is quite difficult to deal with.
The Shenzhou has its own lateral maneuverability, but it is not enough. In order to control the Shenzhou's actions more accurately, there are four tugboats outside, constantly and repeatedly adjusting the Shenzhou's position carefully.
It would be better if you only carry one submarine, but now, it is even more troublesome to bring two submarines back at once. If it is loaded horizontally, it is simply an impossible task.
Fortunately, the Shenzhou is long enough, and it is more than enough to carry two ships lengthwise.
At this time, on the dock, everyone was watching the operation process and talking about it at the same time.
"The 877 submarine has silencer tiles laid on the outside. Therefore, it cannot be placed directly on the steel docks like the previous steel submarines. Based on the submarine's keel position and other data, we designed 60 docks corresponding to the submarine's stress points. , the dock piers are paved with 10 cm wooden boards and 10 cm rubber, which will not cause damage to the anechoic tiles," Qin Tao said.
Every loading and unloading is very complicated. Anyway, this kind of floating dock only takes on one or two transportation tasks a year, so it is still bearable to deal with it once.
However, this has been going on for too long.
Up and down, left and right, I struggled for seven or eight hours, but still no success!
Qin Tao frowned, and then said: "Change the shipping strategy. Our dock will not move and let the tugboat tow the submarine to move!"
At this time, in the captain's room, Yang Xin was sweating profusely and giving orders. After hearing Qin Tao's arrangements, he couldn't help but sigh, Mr. Qin is too smart.
It is too difficult for them to accurately adjust the floating dock. After all, the Shenzhou is a 100,000-ton ship. If they adjust a submarine, they only need to adjust a 3,000-ton ship. The two are definitely not in the same order of magnitude!
"Mr. Qin, we need a tugboat to tow the submarine. Then, we need one on each side, one on the front, one on the left, and one on the left. The one at the front fell into the floating dock, how can we get out?" Lapilov was a little worried.
Don’t forget, we are a floating dock!
The new plan provided by Qin Tao greatly accelerated the loading and unloading progress. Two hours later, the first submarine was finally fixed. It was already dark, and the second submarine had to wait for the next day.
Although the ship has not yet been loaded, a grand thank-you banquet was held in St. Petersburg that evening.
Fine wines, delicious food, and a dazzling array of items are all brought here by the floating dock of the Shenzhou.
Qin Tao held up his wine glass and walked among the crowd.
"Mr. Qin, although there were twists and turns in our transaction, the final result is still satisfactory." Grishen also came. He raised his glass and said to Qin Tao: "I hope we can have more success in the future." More deals.”
"Yes, we are also very satisfied. The two 956 destroyers are also undergoing sea trials. They will be taken over when the sea trials are completed. We are quite satisfied with the warships built by Damao. We hope that we can have more in the future. More collaborative projects.”
Qin Tao didn't care about 956. Anyway, the technology on it has been almost studied by his own side, and the two Kilo-class ships are more important.
“You intend to order eight Type 636 submarines. I wonder if you are interested in continuing to order Type 956 destroyers? Like submarines, our destroyers will also be further modified.”
“Really? Then we can listen to the improvement plan of the Northern Design Bureau.”
In St. Petersburg, there are a large number of old shipbuilding institutions, and various design bureaus are scattered throughout them.
Hyundai-class destroyers are built by the Northern Design Bureau. The main job of this design bureau is to design various destroyers.
Since it needs to be renovated, it must be completed by the Northern Design Bureau.
Although this banquet is just a meeting to thank the submarine industry, many people from other units are also here. On the one hand, they want to become familiar with each other, and on the other hand, of course, they also come here to have a meal.
At this time, when Grishen heard Qin Tao's statement, he naturally pulled him to the head of the Northern Design Bureau.
"Mr. Qin, it's a pleasure to meet you." Shishkin stretched out his hand: "We see that you have put into service a professional air defense ship with a displacement of six to seven thousand tons, but this destroyer is mainly for air defense and anti-submarine warfare. and anti-ship capabilities are seriously insufficient, you need a more balanced warship with a larger displacement. We have developed a warship with more advanced performance based on the 956 hull, which will definitely gain your approval."
"Really? Please give us a brief introduction. I can bring your creativity back to China." Qin Tao said.
“First of all, following the most popular method in the world, we removed the naval gun from the tail of the warship and set up a helicopter landing platform and fixed hangar there.”
This improvement still makes Qin Tao very satisfied.
In this era, warship layouts with main guns at the stern are rarely seen. Most warships only have one main gun at the bow, leaving a wide space at the rear, which can be used as a helicopter to take off and land.
What about the modern class?
Because there are naval guns at the back, the helicopter can only go up to the second deck. (If you count, it seems to be the third deck.) The height there is higher, which means that the swing range is greater in bad sea conditions, which is simply not satisfactory. There are requirements for carrier-based aircraft to take off and land, and there is no fixed hangar.
Now, remove the naval gun and the problem is solved!
"In this way, the positions of the anti-ship missile launcher and the helicopter landing platform are freed up. We can arrange three groups of 12 vertical launchers here. Coupled with the improvement of the bow position, we can This warship will have 72 vertically launched Shikili missiles, and its air defense performance will be greatly improved."
When he heard this, Qin Tao felt his eyelids begin to twitch.
Isn’t this the 21956 destroyer plan in the fictional novel? Lao Maozi actually designed it?
“Where did you get the vertical launch device that can launch so many missiles?” Qin Tao was very curious.
"Thank you more for this, Mr. Qin. You coordinated with the missile research and development department and asked them to design a vertical launcher and install it on the anti-aircraft frigate you exported. Therefore, we just transplanted this anti-aircraft missile. Compared with the previous The single-arm launcher and the current vertical launcher make our warships look more modern. Moreover, the missiles are similar to those on the modern class, so if you purchase them, it will facilitate logistics and supply."
Qin Tao understood that he had to thank himself for helping them get this opportunity!
The 054, which has a displacement of less than 4,000 tons, can be crammed with thirty-two vertical launch missiles. It is natural for a warship with a displacement of seven to eight thousand tons to cram 72 missiles into it.
In this way, the modern-level air defense capabilities will be stronger.
“What about the power system?” Qin Tao asked.
"In terms of power system, we also found that oil-fired boilers have been eliminated, so we decided to use a combined combustion power unit, including two DA-80 acceleration gas turbines with a rated power of 26.7 MW and two 10,000-horsepower M-70 cruise engines. Using a gas turbine. A power unit with a total shaft horsepower of up to 92,000 horsepower. With this combination, the warship can reach a top speed of 33 knots."
“By the way, what about anti-ship missiles? Are you planning to launch anti-ship missiles too?”
It would be better if there were another vertical-fired anti-ship missile that could be loaded with club type missiles.
“As for anti-ship missiles, we have not considered it yet. However, there is an extended-range 3M80 anti-ship missile that can be installed for you.”
Sure enough, there is still a difference from 21956 in the fictional world. After all, Lao Maozi can't stuff the vertical anti-ship missile into it.
There is no version of the 3M80 with hanging hair, and the P-700 is a big killer for Lao Maozi, and it is impossible to stuff it in.
However, if you do it this way, it seems to look better than the specially modified Dauntless 3.
"President Qin, warships like ours will definitely become the most powerful warship in your navy!" Shishkin continued: "We believe that this warship will still become the main force in the 21st century, so, We named it 21956."
Qin Tao felt a chill in his heart. Sure enough, he still used this name.
21956 with advanced level in the 21st century? I guess it will always exist on the design drawings, right?
If it is just a simple improvement based on the Type 956, then it is still possible to build it, but such a major modification is too difficult.
Not to mention anything else, just the power system. If they want to use gas turbines, they have to import them from Ermao. In this era, Ermao is not peaceful either. It is very difficult to get advanced gas turbines, and the hull may not be good. Everything is welded, but the gas turbine is not delivered, and extra money is required for delivery.
So, just listen.
"Well, that's right. After you design it this way, the performance of this warship will be greatly improved." Qin Tao expressed his support verbally.
No matter how much contempt you have in your heart, you can’t express it with your mouth.
At this time, Shishkin was very happy to hear Qin Tao's words: "Mr. Qin, do you want to place an order?"
"Sorry, I'm not from the military. I can help convey your design plan to the military, but I personally don't have the ability to make decisions."
“So, didn’t you decide on eight 636 submarines?”
"Of course not. These submarines are just intentions. We will not place subsequent orders until we drive back the two 877 submarines and are satisfied with them in use. I think you have misunderstood."
Misunderstanding?
Those people at the submarine production plant are all banging their heads over the order, but it’s just an intention? At this time, Shishkin was very speechless.
However, if you think about it, arms exports are not so simple, and the sale can be concluded in just a few words.
"If you are in a hurry, you can go directly to our country with the design drawings and report to our navy." Qin Tao gave the other party an idea.
Shishkin’s eyes lit up, yes, why can’t he take the initiative to come to the door? Now they have to take the initiative to come to the door!
“It’s a pity that Ah San chose to build the Delhi-class destroyer by himself. Otherwise, our destroyer could have been sold to Ah San.” Grishin said aside.
For Damao, there are not many big customers who come to purchase. China and Asan are the two most important customers, especially Asan.
But now, Ah San can no longer fool around, because Ah San wants to develop it himself.
“Yes, for Ah San, the performance of this improved 21956 is good, but Ah San will not be satisfied. If you have an advanced warship with a four-sided phased array radar, you can sell it to Ah San.”
Although Asan’s industrial foundation is not very good, their vision is very high.
Although the Delhi-class destroyers have been manufactured, they are backward products. Therefore, the construction of the Delhi-class destroyers will stop after a few ships are built. By that time, China's Aegis battleships will also come out, and Asan's self-esteem will be severely affected. Huge damage, so they can't wait to build advanced warships with four-sided phased array radar!
If Lao Maozi did something like this, he could still fool Ah San.
But, is it okay?
Of course it’s impossible.
So far, the only thing Lao Maozi can use is the Sky Sentinel. This passive phased array radar antenna is very bulky and can only be installed on heavy-duty aircraft-carrying cruisers. There is even a saying that even if it is installed, Lao Maozi will not be able to use it. This radar has not been truly debugged, has not been actually operated at all, and does not have actual multi-target monitoring capabilities, etc.
Now, after hearing Qin Tao's suggestion, Shishkin and others looked embarrassed.
It’s hard for a clever woman to make a meal without rice!
In this world, what the Americans originally had, the Red Empire could have. However, with the collapse of the Red Empire, Da Mao was left with inheritance. It was too difficult to innovate on the basis of inheritance.
If equipment of this level could really be produced, what else is there to say? They would have installed it on 21956 long ago!
(End of this chapter)