Rebirth of the Military Industrial Overlord

"Zhenhua, according to your statement, the completion of the "Varyag" is equivalent to a stress test of the entire shipbuilding industry and related supporting fields. This is a good thing and will help us develop a larger tonnage aircraft carrier in the future. Good foundation, but I don’t fully agree with the other question you mentioned."

"What Director Zhu said should be the mass production of aircraft carriers such as the "Varyag"." Tan Zhenhua said: "Actually, I haven't finished what I said just now. In my vision, "Varyag". The aircraft carrier needs to be greatly improved. The former Soviet Union’s aircraft carrier design philosophy is completely heretical. The most important capability of an aircraft carrier is the carrier platform. It can carry as many aircraft as possible, especially fixed-wing fighters, and maximize the dispatch of these aircraft. Rate is the core indicator of an aircraft carrier. Anti-ship missiles and the like shouldn’t appear on the aircraft carrier at all. Even area air defense missiles are not necessary. The aircraft carrier only needs to be equipped with some progressive defense weapons and has certain self-defense capabilities. That's enough, medium and long-range area air defense, that's what destroyers in the aircraft carrier formation should do."

"I thought that you had bought the "Minsk" ship in the first place, so you are also a supporter of Russian aircraft carrier combat thinking." Zhu Yingfu breathed a sigh of relief: "Now that I listen to you, I am relieved. "

"I bought the Minsk ship for an emergency, and it happened that we had suitable carrier-based aircraft available, and it didn't cost much, so I only suggested that at the beginning, but it doesn't mean that I would like Maozi's aircraft carrier model." Tan Zhenhua He smiled and said: "I have to admit that in terms of the development of weapons and equipment, the "strong enemy" does have unique characteristics, and all the countries in the world together, there is no "strong enemy" with rich experience in using aircraft carriers. In this regard, we have to resolutely touch Mi Di and cross the river. Maozi’s equipment development ideas have too many brain holes, and we can’t just fall into the hole.”

General Liu joked with a smile: "You said Mao Zi has many and big brains, but I think you have a lot of furry goods in your security company."

Tan Zhenhua falsely made a crying expression and said: "Then what can be done? Who makes us poor? Anyhow, the hairy goods can be used, and he is cheap!"

"cut!"

Regarding Tan Zhenhua’s crying poverty, everyone in the house raised a **** to him, expressing deep contempt...

"But Director Zhu, I have one more suggestion." Tan Zhenhua continued, regardless of everyone's glare at him, and continued: "I just said that the "Varyag" has a displacement of about 60,000 tons and uses a ski jump to take off. The aircraft carrier is convenient for large-scale manufacturing under special circumstances, but I do not agree with the continued use of the high-pressure steam turbine model for its power system."

Zhu Yingfu nodded and said: "This is the truth. Although the technology of steam turbines is relatively simple, it is not convenient to manufacture and deploy. The biggest problem with steam turbines is that they are too troublesome to dispatch. For example, when the engine is started under cold conditions, it has to boil about 60 tons of water in its 4 boilers. Each time before going out to sea, it takes 10 hours to boil the water alone, which is equivalent to combat deployment. Unfavorable. Moreover, due to the presence of high-pressure steam in the entire power system, corrosion will inevitably occur, which puts forward high requirements for maintenance, which causes the maintenance, use and maintenance of this ship to be more expensive Gao, if it weren’t for China’s accumulated experience in maintaining marine steam power systems in the maintenance of the South China Sea Fleet, it would have been a lot of trouble to get this ship."

"So I think that after the "Varyag" is built, if we plan to build another ski jump aircraft carrier of the same level, we should replace the power system." Tan Zhenhua said astonishingly: "Promote a "Varyag" The aircraft carrier with a displacement of 60,000 tons reaches a maximum speed of 30 knots and requires a total output power of about 100MW. Among the gas turbine projects being promoted by our "Huaxia Shuguang Power Group", there is a 27.5 jointly developed with Wukelan Shuguang Design Bureau. MW-class GT125000 gas turbine project. The prototype of this project has been delivered for testing and has reached the maximum output power. However, this gas turbine is currently an onshore model. If it is to be converted to marine use, there is still a lot of improvement work to be done. To do this, I have consulted the main technical personnel involved in the development of this model. They clearly stated that it can be changed, but it will take some time."

When he said this, Zhu Yingfu immediately became interested, and hurriedly asked: "How long?"

Tan Zhenhua thought for a while and said: "It is estimated that it will take 8 to 10 years from now, because this type of gas turbine itself cannot be considered a fully mature model, so it will take a long time."

Zhu Yingfu nodded, and silently calculated for a while before saying: "Even if it takes 10 years, it is worth the wait. The biggest advantage of gas turbines is that they start up very quickly, and they can go as long as they say they are. In this way, the total output of 4 GT125000 To reach 110MW, it should be enough for a "Varyag" class ship, and maybe..."

He stopped abruptly, but Tan Zhenhua smiled and took the conversation and said, "Maybe, by then, our all-electric propulsion solution will be mature, right? Director Zhu?"

A moment of surprise flashed across Zhu Yingfu’s face, but then he was relieved—from the first day he met Tan Zhenhua, he knew that this little fellow has an extraordinary grasp of technological development, especially the big technological direction. He’s keen intuition, from the time when he invested in a bunch of materials projects of the Iron and Steel Research Institute, he knew that paying attention to the direction and foundation is that he can always find the key points of the problem quickly, and propose it at the right time. The root cause of the proposal that cannot be rejected.

Moreover, Tan Zhenhua deliberately brought the topic to the gas turbine, which immediately ignited an unstoppable ambition in Zhu Yingfu's heart!

"Zhenhua, you know, an aircraft carrier is never just a problem of a ship. It is a fleet. You may also have heard that since the launch of two 052 ships, because of the supply of LM2500, we cannot Continued production and developed a steam-powered 051B. This ship is now under construction. Compared with previous models, the displacement has passed the threshold of 6000 tons. This is a huge improvement, but this ship is still just A transitional model is a measure of equity, and gas turbines are king."

Well, Director Zhu keeps pace with the times. He can even blurt out words like "kingdom", yes, praise.

"Director Zhu is thinking about the GT2500," Tan Zhenhua said with a smile: "Today I give you a guarantee that within 2 years, you will be able to see a suitable ship machine, so I don't need to remind you what to do! "