Chapter 715 The destination of the Zhi-8 early warning aircraft
"There is no problem taking off without a load." Looking at the take-off scene, Duan Yi said: "We will continue to increase the weight to test until it is fully loaded. Now there is no deck wind. When we get to the real aircraft carrier , with deck wind, takeoff will be easier.”
"Yes, it should be no problem to take off with a full load on the ski jump deck. It can be experimented on the aircraft carrier later!" Delano said: "I hope that a complete early warning aircraft equipped with radar equipment will arrive as soon as possible to practice with our fighters. Coordinated tactics.”
With the take-off and landing solved, the existing 001 aircraft carrier can be used. Delano can't wait to demonstrate the tactics of the early warning aircraft.
After all, as a former U.S. Naval Aviation pilot, he was still used to fighting under the command of an AWACS aircraft. Without the AWACS aircraft, it was like missing a pair of eyes. Although there were no restrictions and he could fly freely, he still felt that he was not at ease enough.
"Leader Wu, will the development of our ship-borne early warning helicopter project be in vain?" A leader of the base said: "Currently, our base has just completed the ZhibaY collaborative exercise. This helicopter has already been It is planned to be used on our 001 aircraft carrier."
Zhiba Y is progressing faster. The last time Qin Tao saw it, this aircraft was already under development. Recently, this carrier-based helicopter conducted a drill at the Huangdi Village base. How to dock on the aircraft carrier deck and how to dispatch efficiently. The highest level, etc., these all require some exploration in the wasteland village on land before being deployed on the aircraft carrier. Although the suffix is an English letter Y, it is actually not English, but the first letter of the Chinese Pinyin of the Chinese word for early warning.
I just didn’t expect that the domestic early warning aircraft would develop so rapidly. Even before the Eight Ys were put on the ship, the Kongjing-600 would already be on the ship.
At this time, following the instructions of the base leader, everyone looked at a helicopter parked on the side of the island on the simulation deck. If it had not been pointed out specifically, no one would have noticed that it was an early warning helicopter. There is no difference in appearance from other helicopters. There is no big ball on the side of the Sea King, and there is no big fence under the belly of the Ka-31. Only when you go around the back of it will you notice the small cylindrical rotatable radar antenna.
Under Qin Tao's intervention, the Navy did not purchase the useless Ka-31, but the Navy's equipment is still progressing too fast. Doesn't even the Zhiba Y have room to play?
Leader Wu looked at Qin Tao: "Mr. Qin, what do you think?"
"Of course it was not developed in vain." Qin Tao gave a clear answer: "Even if this kind of Air Police-600 can be deployed on 001, it is absolutely impossible to carry four of them. That would take up too much precious space. The maximum number of aircraft Two aircraft are enough, but this will definitely not provide 24-hour uninterrupted air warning capabilities. During the breaks of the KJ-600, we still need our Z-8Y to provide early warning."
The 001 aircraft carrier did not remove the anti-ship missile launcher on the front. In the past, Qin Tao had planned to transform it into a supermarket, but it was still retained. Now with the development of supersonic anti-ship missiles and anti-ship ballistic missiles, that part of the space A special missile system must be installed. In this way, the hangar area below is very limited. In addition, a lot of area is wasted by the ship's bow flying to the deck. There is no way to dock carrier-based aircraft on the slope. This results in The carrying capacity of the 001 aircraft carrier is very limited.
Even if the KJ-600 can fold its wings, it still occupies a large area. It can be replaced with the J-15 on a one-to-one basis. If it carries one more KJ-600, it will have to carry one less J-15. Therefore, Too much is definitely not cost-effective.
Well, Zhiba Y occupies very little area, and the aircraft carrier definitely needs to deploy certain helicopters. Whether it is rescue, anti-submarine, transportation, etc., helicopters are needed.
Going straight up like this is also convenient for scheduling and maintenance. After all, the parts are universal.
Wu Shengli nodded, fully convinced of the plan proposed by Qin Tao.
"In addition to aircraft carriers, when we build more 10,000-ton destroyers in the future, we can also carry our Z-8Y early warning helicopters. In this way, when our **** formations perform missions, they can also provide low-altitude early warning capabilities. After all, Our aircraft carriers are limited in number and cannot appear anywhere. In ordinary combat missions, they are mainly driven by **** formations."
At present, there are two main types of carrier-based aircraft carried by destroyers and frigates: light warships are equipped with Z-9, which is small in size and light weight after all; heavy-duty warships or imported from Lao Maozi are equipped with Ka-27, this kind of helicopter is The ten-ton version can perform more tasks. The two helicopters cannot be mixed and matched because the former is longer and the latter is taller and the hangars are different.
Only supply ships and the like can carry Zhihachi, because this kind of helicopter is larger. The initial model had a take-off weight of more than ten tons. The later Zhihachi G developed to a take-off weight of 13 tons, and the later Zhihachi L was even said to be Reached a take-off weight of 15 tons.
The greater the take-off weight, the greater the load capacity, but at the same time, it also means that a larger deck area and a larger hangar area are required. Only 10,000-ton warships can carry it.
There are no domestic warships of this level yet, but there will definitely be in the future. By then, they will be able to carry this kind of Z-8Y early warning helicopter. A large 10,000-ton destroyer will carry out several other destroyer and frigate missions. It will definitely It is necessary to make up for the blindness at low altitude. At that time, Zhiba Y can be launched into the air, which will make it more convenient to perform the task.
So, Zhiba Y will definitely not be wasted.
"Yes, Mr. Qin is right." Delano spoke from the side to express his support: "Without a strong maritime aviation force, it would be impossible to protect the safety of our maritime formations. More than ten years ago, the British The battle fought at sea was due to the lack of the ability to detect low-altitude sea-skimming targets. No matter how high a warship's shipborne radar is, it can only detect such targets at a short distance. There is only one chance to intercept at most. Once it fails to intercept successfully, the consequences will be Very scary."
The U.S. Navy does not need it, because it has air supremacy. No matter where it goes, it will overwhelm others. Why does it need to build professional littoral combat ships? Isn’t it just to have confidence? If it were any other country, it would not dare to get close to the enemy’s coastline. Fight?
Other countries have to consider the ability to intercept low-altitude targets. The British feel the deepest. The method they use is to put a ball on their head. The higher the better. The lessons of that naval battle are too profound. They are afraid of being bitten by a snake for ten years. Jing Rope, had to do this.
Domestic air defense ships are still quite satisfactory, and the detection distance of low-altitude sea-skimming targets is not particularly far, so this kind of early warning helicopter is very important.
While speaking, the Air Police-600 had already circled the sky above the wasteland village, and then landed on the runway. It skillfully hooked the blocking cable and stopped smoothly. This time without Delano's command, the pilot still flew smoothly.
"This flight mission is over. Today's flight window is gone. Just wait for tomorrow." Wu Shengli said: "You must use a scientific attitude, try little by little, and constantly discover problems. Don't be too anxious. If If you find that you have reached your limit, don’t try again.”
“Yes.” Duan Yi nodded.
While Wu Shengli was talking to Duan Yi and others, Qin Tao strode towards the position of the blocking rope because he was surprised to find an acquaintance.
Ma Ming was communicating something with the operator of the blocking rope, recording it carefully in a notebook, and did not notice Qin Tao's arrival at all.
“Horseman, when did you come?”
"This morning, a routine return visit." After Ma Ming finished speaking, he raised his head. When he saw Qin Tao, he suddenly felt excited: "Mr. Qin, why is it you? I haven't seen you at the Huangdi Village base for a long time!"
"Well, I came yesterday. Wait, what do you mean by your routine return visit? Could it be that our blocking cable has been blocked by electromagnetic force?"
Although Qin Tao always talks about electromagnetic interception and electromagnetic ejection together when trying to fool people, in fact, the development of technology cannot be achieved overnight. In order to complete the development of ejection aircraft carriers, they first tackled electromagnetic ejection. Technology, as for electromagnetic interception, existed in imagination at the beginning.
At that time, Qin Tao was very interested in the electromagnetic catapult project. In the eyes of many leaders and experts who supported steam catapult, Qin Tao seemed to be a bit radical. But later, the electromagnetic catapult was successful, and everyone was very emotional. Mr. Qin Sure enough, he is really powerful, everything he sees correctly is correct!
But later, after the electromagnetic ejection was successful, Qin Tao got busy with other things and forgot about it. If it hadn't been for the Air Police-600 to test this time, Qin Tao would not have come to the Wasteland Village.
Now, he finally realized that in addition to the electromagnetic ejection, the electromagnetic blocking system has also been built!
“Of course it has to be built. After all, our 002 aircraft carrier uses electromagnetic ejection, and of course it must be equipped with electromagnetic arresting. If we don’t work hard now, when the aircraft carrier is built, will we still use the hydraulic arresting system to make up for it?”
Electromagnetic arresting and electromagnetic ejection are a perfect match, because it can not only adjust the strength of the arresting cable according to the landing weight of different carrier-based aircraft, but more importantly, it can convert the energy lost by the carrier-based aircraft during the arresting process into electrical energy and store it. Use it for electromagnetic ejection, which saves energy.
Just like some electric vehicles, they are forced to turn on kinetic energy recovery and cannot be turned off, so that they can achieve a relatively high cruising range. This is because they need to store any lost kinetic energy in order to extend the cruising range. User experience? They don't care.
“When was this thing made?” Qin Tao asked.
“It was installed at the end of last year and at the beginning of this year. It has been running smoothly. I come here every half a month and fine-tune the control program based on various operational data to try to make it run more smoothly.”
Qin Tao nodded. The construction of the aircraft carrier will take several years. These few years are enough for the electromagnetic arresting system here to be perfectly tested and improved through a large amount of data.
“Ma Gong, you are the biggest contributor to our 002 aircraft carrier!” Thinking of this, Qin Tao said with emotion.
"No, no, Mr. Qin, please don't praise me. You are the biggest contributor to our 002 aircraft carrier and the biggest contributor to our navy's construction." Ma Ming said: "Without your support, these projects would not be possible at all. Maybe we can do it."
While the two were complimenting each other, Wu Shengli and others came over and looked at the re-tightened blocking rope. Wu Shengli was also very emotional: "Currently, there are no more than five countries in the world that can produce this kind of blocking rope. We This is one of them, and this is the confidence of our great country."
The blocking rope has a lifespan and needs to be replaced after hundreds of uses. In this way, there will be a steady stream of profits, not to mention the original Mingzhou Group customers such as Football Country. Even Ah San would never have thought that they would never The blocking rope purchased by Lao Maozi was actually produced for them by Juli Company in the East.
Small blocking rope, with a big question.
“Our military research and development costs a lot, so it’s a good thing that we can sell it.” After Wu Shengli finished speaking, he looked to the other side: “Taozi, if there is a chance in the future, it would be great to sell our steam catapult.”
At the time of the bidding, relevant domestic departments also developed a steam catapult and conducted some tests. After the test, it was found that the performance of this catapult was simply not comparable to that of electromagnetic catapult, so it was abandoned.
It would cost a huge amount of money to dismantle it, and it might still be useful for other purposes, so the steam catapult was retained, and now a long shed has been erected directly on it to protect it from the sun and rain.
There is no need to use it for yourself, it would be great if it can be sold.
Qin Tao frowned a little: "There are not many countries in the world that have the ability to own aircraft carriers. Most of them directly use the ordinary ski jump take-off method due to lack of funds. Steam catapults are too complicated. At least they need to be on medium-sized aircraft carriers." There are too few international customers, so we can only wait for opportunities.”
Apart from the United States and France, are there other countries using steam catapult aircraft carriers? If the United States produces its own products and France imports them from the United States, they will definitely not come to purchase them from the East. The French are so arrogant, even if they are cheated by the United States, they still have to purchase them from the United States.
Therefore, it is too difficult to sell steam catapults. Qin Tao did not suggest it at the beginning, and now Qin Tao has no way to help clean up the mess.
“Yes, this thing is difficult to sell.” Delano said: “Even the U.S. Navy has begun to develop electromagnetic catapults. Steam catapults are indeed outdated and there is no market for them.”
Although he cannot leave in the East, Delano is also very concerned about the US Navy. He also noticed the electromagnetic catapult used by the US Navy's next-generation aircraft carrier.
“They are starting to develop electromagnetic catapults now?” Qin Tao was stunned. Isn’t this too fast?
“The East already has it, how can they lag behind.” Delano said: “Even if this project is launched in a hurry, they still have to get started. What’s more, this project has already started in the 1980s.”
This is the advantage of a former U.S. Navy pilot. He knows many secrets of the U.S. Navy, even if it is just hearsay. Now that he has been left in the East and cannot get out, of course he knows everything.
In fact, during World War II, the U.S. Navy studied it. The technology at that time was of course immature. In the 1980s, they finally started to work on it. For example, in 1988, they developed a 3.66-meter-long model and also carried out electromagnetic ejection. , braking and recovery tests.
After these tests, they felt that the technology was slowly maturing. In the late 1990s, they decided to use electromagnetic catapults on the new generation CVN21 aircraft carrier. It can be said that even without the stimulation from the East, Americans would still do it. Now, of course, they must speed up.
The East is starting to do it with great fanfare, and Americans certainly can’t lag behind! Now, they have approached General Atomics and Northrop Grumman to start research on electromagnetic catapults respectively. Then the contractor is selected through comparison. This is the advantage of the United States. The East needs to devote all its efforts to joint development, but others can choose the most suitable solution through bidding. Of course, even if it is a bidding, it will not be as good as the East, because The route is different.
“What technical route did they use?” Qin Tao asked.
“Medium voltage AC,” Delano said. “Same as ours.”
“Yes, it’s the same as ours.” Qin Tao nodded: “They are plagiarizing our products, we have to protest!”
Dongfang's electromagnetic catapult was manipulated when promoting it. In terms of technical route, it did not expose its medium-voltage DC route. It always said that it was medium-voltage AC, and it was already running smoothly. Therefore, the Yankees Nothing to say, just follow along.
Only when they develop a concrete prototype and carry out formal testing will they know how many problems this design has. Then let them have a headache! Qin Tao was secretly proud in his heart.
However, this incident also gave him a new reminder: with the rapid development of naval equipment in the East, some countries will be stimulated and will accelerate their development. However, we have no other way and we must seize the time. , to create a powerful navy, what others do is theirs, it is enough for you to do your own thing.
After saying this, Qin Tao continued chatting with Ma Ming with great interest: "Mr. Ma, you only come here occasionally. What do you usually do?"
"Currently our Golden Sun Motor Company is very busy." Ma Ming said: "We are developing electric vehicles according to your requirements. This will be the biggest source of profit for our Golden Sun Motor Company. Only when we make money can we invest funds. into military research and development projects.”
For many projects, the military will not allocate funds, or will not allocate funds in advance. It has to wait until the project is approved. The funds for advance research must be prepared by oneself. Therefore, Ma Ming has become more practical and has a very high demand for funds. high.
“There are also military research and development projects?” Qin Tao was very curious, and this curiosity even exceeded his concern for the electric vehicle project.
"Yes." Ma Ming said: "You have also mentioned this project before, which is the electromagnetic gun."
Electromagnetic gun?
Qin Tao found that he had been busy lately and failed to pay attention to many things in time. He actually forgot about such an important project!
“It’s getting late, let’s go have a meal.” Qin Tao said to the people around him.
He is very interested, but there are too many people here now and it is not suitable to chat in detail. After dinner, it is not too late to go to the conference room to chat again.
The wasteland village was very lively. After the Air Police-600 advanced to the hangar, other flight training began again, and the lively scene was restored. When Qin Tao and others went to eat, Delano did not follow him and continued to go. He has trained pilots, and he can also find some pleasure in the process of abusing pilots.
Wu Shengli couldn't stay here forever. He originally planned to stay only for one day, and then went back after watching the first flight of the Kongjing-600. However, he stayed for an extra day and watched the ski jump of the Kongjing-600. Then he really should go back. .
“Taozi, will you go back with me?” Wu Shengli asked Qin Tao during the meal.
Qin Tao shook his head: "I went to Huating Golden Sun Company with Ma Gong to see the progress of their electromagnetic gun project."
With no outsiders at the dinner table, it is much easier to talk.
When the electromagnetic gun was first proposed, many people despised it, thinking that this thing was only found in the science fiction world. However, after the electromagnetic catapult was developed, the electromagnetic gun was no longer a flower in the moonlight. Everyone can imagine that the electromagnetic gun is a smaller version of the electromagnetic catapult.
Qin Tao just hasn’t paid attention to it recently. Now that he’s heard about the progress of electromagnetic guns, of course he’s going to take a look.
"Then you should go back with me." Wu Shengli said: "After we go back, our navy will hold a hearing on electromagnetic guns. Your Mingzhou Group is the main builder of warships and is also eligible to participate."
“Okay.” Qin Tao nodded immediately.
Ma Ming was also at work, collecting recent data and optimizing related programs. When Wu Shengli and his team returned in the afternoon, he also got into the cabin.
Although Qin Tao really wanted to talk to Ma Ming about electromagnetic guns right now, it was inconvenient after all, so he had no choice but to change the topic and talk about electric cars first.
“Is our electric car making good progress?”
"Yes, the key motors, batteries, and electronic control systems have been developed. According to what you said, we use a large number of 18650 batteries. This thing is too complicated. We have also specially designed complex power control chips. If If there is a problem with one of the batteries, it will be disconnected in time to avoid affecting the other batteries." Ma Ming said: "The only thing missing now is the body, which we are not good at. At present, our idea is to let SAIC OEM."
Huating has an automobile industry, and the famous Santana was produced by them.
"Yes, we have to find a car factory specifically for the body. However, we should not cooperate with big manufacturers. We must have the power to operate independently." Qin Tao said: "Is there any car factory in China that is about to go bankrupt? Shall we acquire it?"
Qin Tao still likes to buy, buy, buy.
(End of this chapter)