mesbooks Chapter 276: Invitation from Hans Navy, is this an escort or a show of strength?
Chapter 276: Invitation from Hans Navy, is this an escort or a show of strength?
The service of the Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier filled the gap in the ancient country's lack of heavy aircraft carriers.
It has a full load displacement of 8.5 tons, with a deck length of 318 meters and a width of 76.8 meters.
The power system uses four steam turbines and heavy oil boilers, with a single unit power of 7 horsepower and a total power of 28 horsepower.
This also gives it a top speed of 32 knots.
The density of its ship's electronic equipment far exceeds that of the previous two types of aircraft carriers. It has three-coordinate air defense radar, air search radar, sea search radar, navigation radar and fire control radar.
There are 80 radar transmitters, 160 radar receivers, more than 70 radar antennas and more than radio stations of various types.
From these ship electrical equipment, we can see how high the degree of electrification of this aircraft carrier is.
It also surpasses the Midway-class aircraft carrier in terms of the number of carrier-based aircraft it carries.
As for the two Essex-class aircraft carriers, there is no need to mention them.
The day the two heavy aircraft carriers were put into service was the day when the two light aircraft carriers were taken to the shipyard for modification.
The heavy catapult aircraft carrier, which weighs more than 80 tons, can carry more than 89 carrier-based aircraft, reaching as many as .
其中包括了36架F-4鬼怪舰载战斗机、30架A-6入侵者舰载攻击机、E-2鹰眼预警机5架、EF-10B电子战机4架、SH-3反潜直升机8架、S-2反潜直升机4架，C-2灰狗舰载通用运输机2架。
Just from the size and quality of the carrier-based aircraft, one can know how powerful the fighter jets of this aircraft carrier will be.
The commissioning of these two aircraft carriers is of great significance to the ancient navy.
It also gave the ancient country's navy a real backbone.
Now, four more Qin-class aircraft carriers have been added to the Red Alert's slipway.
The Qin-class aircraft carrier is the naming rule for aircraft carriers within the navy.
The battleships were named after the Three Mountains and Five Peaks.
Battleships are like giant mountains on the sea, so naming them after the Three Mountains and Five Peaks is very appropriate.
The naming method for aircraft carriers will no longer continue to use the previous method of naming by province, but will instead use the method of naming by dynasty.
For example, the two heavy aircraft carriers currently in service are the Dynasty-class aircraft carrier, the first of which is the Qin Shi Huang, and the second is the Fusu.
In addition to these two Qin-class aircraft carriers, four new ones will be built.
These four aircraft carriers are used to replace two Essex-class and two Midway-class aircraft carriers.
The names of the subsequent four ships were named in order from the first Qin King who was given the title - King Zhuang of Qin.
From Duke Zhuang of Qin to Qin Shi Huang, there are more than 30 titles in total, so there is no need to worry about not having enough.
What's more, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, as a new generation of aircraft carrier, will be named Han class.
In addition to these six ships, Jiang Hua also plans to add two more.
However, these two ships were not built by the Red Alert base.
Instead, they were built separately by the two major shipyards of the ancient country.
He was using two heavy aircraft carriers to develop the ancient country's shipbuilding industry.
Especially the construction of such large aircraft carriers.
If the ancient country could fully master the construction technology of large aircraft carriers and open up the entire industrial chain.
Then the ancient country's shipbuilding industry can be said to have reached its peak and stood at the forefront of the world.
For a naval power, the shipbuilding industry is the core of the core.
Therefore, Jiang Hua also attaches great importance to shipbuilding capabilities.
Now the pattern of two large shipbuilding bases, one in the south and one in the north, has been initially formed.
This northern shipyard is located in Bincheng City, south of Andong Province.
It is also one of the most important coastal heavy industrial cities in Andong Province.
This city will become the ancient country's shipbuilding base, with the largest shipbuilding industry chain cluster in the north.
This southern shipyard refers to the Jiangnan Shipyard.
This was also transformed based on the original Jiangnan Shipyard.
General Motors has the qualifications to build military ships.
The Qin-class aircraft carrier is to cultivate their ability to build large aircraft carriers, and one Han-class aircraft carrier will also be built to cultivate their ability to build large nuclear-powered ships.
However, the ancient country's shipbuilding industry has now begun to take shape, and its shipbuilding equipment is also very advanced.
The number of shipbuilding workers has also reached a certain scale.
Building 10,000-ton ships is no problem at all.
However, building an 80,000-ton large aircraft carrier is by no means easy.
Because large aircraft carriers not only involve the shipbuilding industry.
It also involves ship power systems, electronic equipment, materials, machining, etc.
It is a very complex systematic project.
However, if the shipyard is large enough, it can build large aircraft carriers.
Given the ancient country's current basic industry and other hardware and software capabilities, it is not possible to build it.
It is precisely because of this that Jiang Hua did this.
As for battleships...there is no need for them.
After all, big ships and big guns have been eliminated by the times.
The existing six battleships plus the two 100,000-ton nuclear-powered battleships still on the slipway are more than enough for the ancient navy.
The two Yamato-class battleships, which were launched in the same month as the Qin-class aircraft carrier, were notified to the Hans Kingdom the day after they were launched.
The Hans Navy has been having a relatively good time recently.
There were eight S-21 submarines that were quietly transported back to Xizhou.
The remaining 10 S-21 submarines will also be returned to Xizhou within 35 years.
The Hans Navy's own submarine soldiers were responsible for driving the submarine back to Xizhou.
These batches of submarine soldiers have been training in the ancient country for quite some time.
However, these two Yamato-class battleships are different.
The head of state of Hans, Hilt, couldn't wait to welcome back the two battleships.
What's more, battleships and submarines are different.
Submarines travel underwater and cannot be seen by others, so there is no need for training.
But battleships are different. With so many Hans sailors standing on board, everyone would know what's going on.
Once John and Gaul knew that these two powerful battleships belonged to Hans, they would never let them return to Hans so easily.
So the solution they came up with was to ask the ancient navy to help them drive the two battleships back.
If the ancient navy came to Xizhou in the name of visiting Hans, John and Gaul would have no reason to stop it.
"I need our battleships to return to our country as quickly as possible, send an invitation letter to the ancient country immediately, and publish this news in all newspapers.
I want the whole world to see these two battleships that belong to us."
Führer Hilt said to Navy Commander August with eager eyes.
"Yes, as you wish, Your Excellency!"
August is also looking forward to this day.
The next day, the news that the Hans Navy invited the Ancient Kingdom’s Navy to visit the Port of Kiel was published in major newspapers in Hans.
This news spread across the entire Xizhou at an extremely fast speed and also set off the entire Xizhou.
Because it's hard to imagine.
The Hans Kingdom and the Ancient Kingdom had military cooperation, and this was impossible to hide from anyone.
For example, the news that Hans purchased 18 submarines and 2 decommissioned heavy cruisers from the ancient country was discovered by the intelligence agencies of John and Gaul.
The fact that Hans invited the ancient navy to visit at this critical juncture makes people think deeply.
"Are they going to form an alliance?"
This is the same conclusion reached by John and Gaul.
Because only this conclusion can best explain the behavior of the Hans Kingdom.
This also forced John and the Gauls to be alert.
The two countries then conducted close exchanges.
It's conceivable that they want to do something bad.
After receiving the response, the ancient navy quickly determined the size of the visiting fleet.
With Jiang Hua's permission, the lineup sent out by the navy this time was also exceptionally powerful.
Escorting two Yamato-class battleships was one of them.
The second is to flex muscles to the West.
Since you are showing off your muscles, you can't be too stingy.
Two Kunlun-class battleships, two Wuyue-class battleships, two Midway-class aircraft carriers, eight Boston-class heavy cruisers, sixteen Mitchell-class destroyers, three Lake-class comprehensive supply ships (Sacramento-class), and one large medical ship, totaling 34 ships of various sizes.
This time, the ancient country's navy dispatched half of its main warships to visit Xizhou.
Of course, it is also possible to describe it as showing off one's strength.
It is to show the muscles clearly in front of them and let them know that the ancient country is no longer what it used to be.
As for whether this would steal the limelight from the two Yamato-class battleships, that was none of Jiang Hua's business.
He could even imagine how much shock this fleet would bring to these arrogant Westerners when it appeared in Xizhou.
Not to mention the size of this fleet, just calculating by tonnage is scary enough.
The two Kunlun-class battleships have a full displacement of 14.1 tons, the two Wuyue-class battleships have a full displacement of 11 tons, the two Midway-class aircraft carriers have a full displacement of 13 tons, plus the two Yamato-class battleships have a full displacement of 14.4 tons.
The tonnage of the battleship alone reached 52 tons.
8艘波士顿级导弹巡洋舰满排11.8万吨、16艘米切尔级驱逐舰7.7万吨、3艘湖级综合补给舰满排16万吨、一艘大型医疗船满排4万吨。
The total tonnage of these ships is 39.5 tons.
Calculated in this way, the total tonnage of this fleet reaches 91.5 tons.
At that time, what was the total tonnage of the four major fleets of the Royal Navy of John's Empire?
118 million tons!
This is the total tonnage of hundreds of ships of all sizes in John's navy.
The total tonnage of this fleet was only 26.5 tons less than that of John's Imperial Navy.
This is equivalent to more than two-thirds of the total tonnage of John's Imperial Navy.
From this number, we can intuitively feel the gap between the current John Empire Navy and the ancient country's navy.
Now in the naval field, it is the turn of the West to catch up with the ancient navy.
The only shortcoming is that the ancient country's shipbuilding capabilities are not as good as those of the West.
But this is just a matter of time.
Half a month later, the well-prepared naval vessels of the ancient country assembled at the Bincheng military port and headed towards Xizhou, thousands of miles away.
The collective appearance of the ancient navies also caused a huge shock to the world.