Homo sapiens.

Chapter 317 Malacca Class
22, April 9.

Bandon Island.

The third shipyard.

In the fully enclosed dock, more than a dozen employees stood in the console at the top, looking at the behemoth under their feet.

Designer Yinuo, engineer Huang Weida and others are in the console right now.

Huang Weida watched the water level in the dock rising, and the hull was slowly floating on the water surface. He showed a gratified expression: "The construction of the Malacca is finally completed."

"Is the first ship really going to be used as a transport ship? It feels like a pity!" Ino was also delighted with the giant ship he designed.

Huang Weida shook his head: "There is no way, the company has enough warships now, and with the production capacity of major shipyards, there is no need to build up warships at all costs."

The warships currently in service of Homo sapiens are:
3 Pacific-class battleships.

There are 13 large Luzon-class amphibious assault ships.

There are 11 Luzon-class amphibious assault ships.

There are 57 Manila-class frigates.

There are 32 Tuna-class attack nuclear submarines.

6 Orca-class strategic nuclear submarines.

另有苏门答腊鳄级登陆舰8艘、虎蟹级气垫船30艘、蓝鲸级补给舰35艘、蓝鲸级特种舰21艘，海犁号航道疏通船1艘。

This scale is already very large, and Homo sapiens will still build 10 to 15 ships every year in the next 20 years or so.

This shipbuilding speed has actually temporarily withdrawn from the wartime mechanism. If the previous wartime mechanism is still followed, the scale of shipbuilding will increase by more than ten times.

After all, Homo sapiens has applied too many new technologies and materials in shipbuilding technology, resulting in a fast shipbuilding speed.

After research and discussion, the headquarters believes that it is necessary to adjust the current production tasks. It is not possible to continue to focus on warships, but to take into account the civilian field.

This is the new ship under the feet of Yinuo, Huang Weida and others-the Malacca.

The Malacca is the first ship of the Malacca class. This ship is a 10-ton container carrier, about the size of a Pacific-class battleship, equipped with three small thorium-based molten salt nuclear reactors.

That's right, the Melaka class transport ships are nuclear powered.

The reason for engaging in nuclear-powered transport ships.

On the one hand, it is to reduce the consumption of oil and natural gas and reduce transportation costs.

On the other hand, in order to reserve enough spare ships for warships, the hull of the Malacca class uses a lot of new materials. Although it is not equipped with armor, its overall performance is still 20-30% higher than that of the aircraft carrier hull.

In other words, Homo sapiens can completely transform the Malacca-class transport ship into a Malacca-class amphibious assault ship, armed escort aircraft carrier, special warship, etc. when necessary.

The purpose of doing this is to reduce the size of warships that are too large to maintain during non-war periods.

At present, the first batch of Malacca-class transport ships has built a total of 4 ships, two of which are launched today, and the other two will be launched in the middle of next month.

After Huang Weida saw that the hull had stabilized, he picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "The test team is starting to move in."

"receive."

A crane hoisted a specially-made personnel cabin to the deck, and 15 test team employees walked out of the personnel cabin and entered the cockpit of the transport ship.

The other 5 groups of testers also boarded the Malacca one after another.

Soon the dock gates opened.

Two of the three nuclear reactors are operating, with the other serving as a backup.

With the surging power of the reactor, the Malacca slowly left the fully enclosed dock and sailed to the open sea along the waterway.

At this time, inside the Malacca, each group of testers was busy testing whether the ship conformed to the design.

In tests such as driving and energy saving, there is actually no big difference.

But on the Malacca class, the New Luzon Shipbuilding Company recently put forward a new design concept, that is, the tools should be humane, rather than anti-human.

What anti-human designs are there on traditional transport ships?

In Homo sapiens' view, the most anti-human aspect of traditional transport ships lies in their long voyages, especially for ocean-going cargo ships, where the crew spend several months at sea once they go to sea.

It is boring and tasteless, and it is difficult for ordinary people to feel the discomfort, and long-term separation is likely to cause emotional problems between husband and wife, which in turn leads to psychological problems among employees.

Although Homo Sapiens has biochips that can prevent cheating, the company's management also believes that the prevention and treatment of biochips is only a temporary solution, not the root cause. It is too depressing and will still cause mental illness in employees.

Therefore, the company headquarters asked the New Luzon Shipyard to solve this problem in the new generation of transport ships.

The designer of Eno and more than a dozen other ship designers, after several revisions, decided to use the nearly 6000 tons of load saved by the new material hull, and use 3000 tons of it to improve the living facilities of the crew.

At the same time, the New Luzon Shipping Group also stated that it will increase the proportion of female crew members on transport ships to ensure that both husband and wife can be on the same ship.

At this time, one of the testers was testing the living facilities on the ship.

Including kitchen, dining room, refrigerated warehouse, vegetable greenhouse, satellite Internet room, small cinema, infirmary, gym, sauna room, chess and card room, and gun room.

Inside the gym.

The testers did not find barbells and the like, mainly because the interior of the ship is very bumpy during sea voyages, and equipment such as dumbbells and barbells are easy to hurt people.

The sports facilities here are mainly indoor rock climbing, squash courts, stationary treadmills, single pole and double pole and the like.

Several testers tested these sports facilities at the high speed of Melaka.

By the way, since the Malacca itself is designed as a spare warship, its speed is very fast. Its maximum speed is 35 knots, and it can still maintain a high speed of 25 knots under full load.

After all, if nuclear power is adopted, the speed will naturally increase, and low speed is not economical for nuclear-powered ships.

According to the design, Malacca will be equipped with four departments, namely: deck department, engine department, affairs department, and security department.

Among them, the deck department includes the captain, first mate, second mate, third mate, radio operator, boatswain, carpenter, and sailor, totaling 15 people;
The engine department includes the chief engineer, first engineer, second engineer, third engineer, electrician, chief engineer, nuclear power maintenance personnel, coppersmith, and machinist, with a total of 20 people;
The affairs department includes psychological counselors, chefs, second chefs, waiters, medical staff, and life warehouse managers, a total of 15 people.

The security department includes security captains, security officers, and emergency communicators, a total of 12 people.

There are also 10 to 15 interns.

The entire ship has about 70 to 80 crew members, which is 3 to 4 times that of other large shipping companies.

But Homo sapiens can afford so many employees, so it doesn't need to worry about wages and benefits.

In the future, as Homo sapiens vigorously develops other regions, the ocean transportation industry will definitely need a large number of nuclear-powered carriers.

It is also a good thing for the crew to fully promote the Malacca-class transport ships.

In fact, the reduction in transportation costs of the Malacca class can basically offset the improvement of labor costs and living facilities.

After all, Homo sapiens' thorium-based molten salt reactor uses thorium rods with a concentration of 92%, which can be used for decades after being loaded with fuel at one time.

Moreover, Homo sapiens' nuclear fuel refining process is different from the traditional centrifugal separation method, the cost is very low, and other parts are also self-sufficient.

The total cost of the three thorium-based molten salt reactors on the Malacca-class transport ship is only 420 million gold dollars, which is much cheaper than burning oil.

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