novelaction Chapter 310: Navy Refit, Strategic Intercontinental Missile Test
Chapter 310: Navy Refit, Strategic Intercontinental Missile Test
An aircraft carrier battle group is a mobile strike platform at sea.
Among them, the aircraft carrier is the core of the strike group, but the assistance of other ships is also extremely important.
After the navy's replacement, the cruisers were replaced with Long Beach-class nuclear-powered cruisers.
The destroyers were replaced by the 8000-ton Hille class and the 6000-ton Koonds class.
Now the base has unlocked a new generation of ships, which will further increase the navy's combat capabilities.
Of course, Jiang Hua would not directly retire these ships, as doing so would be a waste.
The correct way is to put these ships into the shipyard, renovate and upgrade them according to the needs of the navy, and then put them into service.
Future naval fleets will feature a mix of ships.
The cruiser will be replaced with the last generation of nuclear-powered cruisers of the United States - the Virginia-class nuclear-powered missile cruiser.
Although this type of cruiser is not as large as the Long Beach class in tonnage, its full load displacement is only over 1 tons.
But as the last generation of nuclear-powered cruiser that was put into service in 75.
It surpasses the Long Beach class in terms of ship electronics, air defense, anti-submarine, anti-ship and other aspects.
Therefore, the new generation of Virginia-class nuclear-powered missile cruisers will become the new leader in escorting aircraft carrier battle groups.
The Long Beach-class nuclear-powered cruisers will gradually enter the shipyard for modernization.
The Navy currently has a total of 12 Long Beach-class missile cruisers.
Therefore, there will also be 12 Virginia-class nuclear-powered cruisers.
Among them, the Shilae-class destroyer leader will be included in the combat sequence of missile cruisers after upgrading and modification, and will no longer be used as a destroyer.
In this case, the number of cruisers will exceed 40 and reach nearly 50.
This number is fully capable of meeting the needs of various naval fleets for cruisers.
The Shilae-class destroyer leader was transformed into a cruiser, leaving a large gap in the destroyer supply.
The Spruance-class guided-missile destroyers will replace the Hilley-class destroyer leaders and enter service in the Navy.
This destroyer is also the first ship to adopt an all-fuel combined power system and the first destroyer to adopt a modular design.
The power system it uses is the famous LM-2500 gas turbine, with a single unit output power of horsepower and a total power of horsepower for four units.
Its full load displacement of 7700 tons also allows it to carry a variety of advanced weapon systems.
Compared with the Hilley class and the Koonds class, its performance is undoubtedly more advanced.
The Spruance-class guided-missile destroyer will also become the main destroyer in the fleet.
The Navy is now considering designing and building a new generation of missile frigates on its own.
With the improvement of the ancient country's shipping capacity in the future, and the fact that the imaginary enemy is either in the New World or in Xizhou.
They all need to cross long sea routes, so a large number of escort ships are needed to ensure the safety of shipping routes.
Therefore, missile frigates with smaller tonnage are the best choice for the navy.
The choice of self-design and construction is also a test for ship research institutes.
After all, this is the first ship designed and built independently, which is of great significance.
In addition to surface ships, the navy's mysterious and unusual nuclear-powered ship force will also undergo a major replacement.
It is said to be a replacement of equipment, but in fact it is an upgrade of the Hurricane-class attack nuclear submarine.
Just drag it to the shipyard, spend some money, and wait a while for it to be completed.
After the upgrade, the Hurricane-class attack nuclear submarine became the second-generation Hurricane-class attack nuclear submarine.
Its performance has been greatly improved compared to the previous generation.
The tonnage has been directly increased to 7000 tons of underwater full load displacement, and it can also launch submarine-launched anti-ship missiles.
So here's another new Red Alert weapon unlocked.
Its name is anti-ship missile, and Jiang Hua named it the Sea Eagle series anti-ship missile.
This series of anti-ship missiles includes four models: submarine-launched, land-based, ship-launched and air-launched.
There is no doubt that its performance is more advanced than the air-launched anti-ship missiles currently in service in the navy.
As for strategic missile nuclear submarines, there are no new models, so there are still no changes.
This time the navy's equipment replacement is very large. Not only will a large number of new ships be put into service, but a large number of ships will also be sent to shipyards to queue up for upgrades and renovations.
The production capacity of Bincheng Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard is somewhat insufficient.
This also gave birth to the ancient country's third large-scale military shipyard, named Suizhong Shipyard.
The shipbuilding base is located in Hulu City, south of Jinchuan and north of Yuguan.
The main business of Suizhou Shipyard is to build small and medium-sized ships.
For example, destroyers, frigates, submarines, etc.
The main business of Bincheng Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard is the construction of medium and large ships.
The first generation of missile frigates designed by the Navy will be built in the Suizhou Shipyard in the future.
The navy took big action, directly changing the equipment in one go.
The Air Force and the Army adopt a phased, small-scale equipment replacement approach.
Batch after batch of troops are rotated to reduce financial pressure.
At the same time, it also gives military industrial enterprises a certain buffer time for research and mass production.
Not to mention the research, it also takes time to replace the factory's equipment.
These military factories will carry out large-scale equipment upgrades.
Replace with more advanced computer numerical control machine tools, automated precision machining centers, multi-axis linkage CNC machining centers, etc.
Among these devices, there are those from the United States, Siemens and Japan. Anyway, just use whichever one is good. It is a low-cost and barrier-free purchase.
In addition to various CNC machine tools and machining centers.
There are also various 10,000-ton die forging hydraulic presses.
Among them, there are 1.5-ton and 3-ton types, and the largest is the Soviet-made 7.5-ton type.
It was not until modern times that the University of Tokyo produced an 8-ton die forging hydraulic press, surpassing the Soviet-made 7.5-ton press.
If the CNC machine tools are updated on a large scale.
It can be predicted that the ancient country will usher in a large-scale industrial explosion in the next five years.
In addition to industrial updates, scientific research hardware can also be updated on a large scale.
The core of these is the supercomputer.
Currently, the ancient country has built a total of ten supercomputing centers.
They are located in Harbin, Shenzhou, Shangjing, Tianjin, Jiangzhou, Shanghu, Chengdu, Yangcheng, Hongdu and Chang'an respectively.
These ten supercomputing centers use the CDC6600 supercomputer produced by CDC, which was born in 64 and has a floating-point computing capacity of 300 million times per second.
Now, supercomputers have a better option.
This is the Cray-1, the world's first supercomputer built using integrated circuits instead of transistors.
Its floating-point computing power reaches an astonishing 1.6 million times, which is 6600 times that of the CDC53 supercomputer, and its size is much smaller than the CDC6600.
The increase in computing power by 53 times is quite exaggerated.
This also means that the hard power of scientific research will be accelerated at a rocket-like rate.
In addition to supercomputers, various new types of small and medium-sized computers will be introduced into scientific research institutes and even universities.
Jiang Hua also plans to miniaturize the computer and then sell it to the civilian market.
Because only by making money by selling to the market can we have money to continue research and development and upgrades.
In this way, it can rely on its own capabilities for upgrades and replacements, rather than relying entirely on the base.
After all, he didn't know when the next base upgrade would be.
To unlock the last level of the base, which is the highest-level commander, the ancient country's comprehensive national strength needs to reach the top in the world.
With the monster of the United States in front of us, it is not so easy to surpass it in all aspects.
As for whether it will lead to leaks or something like that, there is no need to worry at all.
The West hasn't even figured out vacuum tubes yet. After they figured out vacuum tubes, there are transistors, and after transistors there are small- and medium-scale integrated circuits, and then large-scale integrated circuits.
So there is no need to worry about the Western world stealing our ideas.
If the ancient country was afraid here and there, there would be no need for it to develop.
As long as we ensure that the ancient country's development speed far exceeds theirs, we don't have to worry about being stolen.
Even if they learned from us, their development speed was not as fast as that of the ancient countries, so they could not pose a threat to them.
What's more, the outbreak of a war that will cause a major reshuffle has become inevitable.
All we have to do is completely defeat the West in this war of major reshuffle.
This would not be a big problem for the ancient country today.
However, after this change of equipment, a small incident occurred on the army side.
The rifle currently equipped by the army is the AKM assault rifle, an upgraded version of the AK-47 assault rifle.
This assault rifle is the complete AK-47, which solves the shortcomings of the AK-47 assault rifle such as large recoil, large ballistic dispersion area, and severe muzzle jump.
So when the AKM assault rifle entered service, the army gave it rave reviews.
The AKM assault rifle is also among the replacements this time.
It was replaced by the smaller-caliber AK-74 assault rifle.
This assault rifle uses a small-caliber rifle bullet of 5.6x42mm.
The problem lies in this small caliber bullet.
In terms of power, the 5.6mm bullet is definitely not comparable to the 7.62mm intermediate power bullet.
However, small-caliber rifles also have their advantages.
For example, it is light in weight and easy to carry, has small recoil, high initial velocity and great lethality.
When hitting a person, whether it is 7.62 mm or 5.6 mm, there is basically no big difference.
After all, in this era, soldiers from various countries do not have things like bulletproof vests, tactical vests and bulletproof plates.
Within a range of 300 meters, in terms of firepower density, small-caliber rifles are definitely stronger than 7.62mm rifles.
What's more, the development of modern military has proved that the trend is towards smaller caliber rifles.
It was not until the emergence of various high-strength bulletproof vests that small-caliber rifles became less powerful.
However, there is no need to worry about this problem within half a century.
The army was somewhat reluctant to switch to AK-74 assault rifles, and Jiang Hua understood that.
But he understood the future trend, so when the army brought the case to him, he also spoke out.
“It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it can kill the enemy, it is a good cat.
So if you want to know whether a weapon is good or not, you can wait until you use it before commenting on it, rather than relying on your subjective judgment to decide whether it is good or not. "
Jiang Hua is a replacement for supporting small-caliber rifles.
Therefore, the opposition from the army was suppressed.
The replacement of AK-74 assault rifles was then carried out.
At the same time, the Type 34 general-purpose machine gun was also replaced by the more advanced PKM general-purpose machine gun.
Since then, the army's individual weapons and machine guns have basically achieved full Soviet mechanization.
The Air Force and Navy are fully American-equipped.
For example, the army's tanks will be replaced from T-62 to T-72 main battle tanks, a typical representative of the third-generation main battle tanks.
Infantry fighting vehicles, helicopters, etc. will all be upgraded.
On December 36, 12, heavy snow fell in the north of the ancient country, covering the entire country in white.
On this day, Jiang Hua arrived in Chang'an, the largest industrial city in the northwest region, on a special plane.
He came here to watch the event of the century.
This event of the century was initiated by the Strategic Rocket Force.
In a remote area of Chang'an, there is a highly confidential nuclear missile launch base.
There are four nuclear missile silos in this base, which can launch four silo-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles in a single round.
This was also the first time that Jiang Hua came to observe the interior of the launch silo.
It is still very shocking to look at this ballistic missile with a height of more than 17 meters from the bottom of the launch silo, which makes people feel like they are looking at the sky from the bottom of a well.
Jiang Hua was well aware of the performance of this missile.
Because this silo-launched ballistic missile was chosen by him.
The LGM-30F silo-launched intercontinental ballistic missile also has a famous title - Minuteman 2.
This missile is also the most advanced silo-launched ballistic missile of the current Strategic Rocket Force.
Its three stages all use solid rocket engines, and the total weight of each one reaches 33 tons.
It has a maximum range of up to kilometers and a maximum flight speed of nearly Mach 20.
Its warhead is a W-200 warhead with an equivalent of 65 million tons.
This is also the mushroom bomb tested this time.
It was also the first mushroom bomb experiment conducted by the ancient country.
For this test, the Navy’s Second Fleet and some auxiliary ships were also dispatched.
For example, space measurement ships are used to monitor the flight paths of ballistic missiles at sea.
The test site is an uninhabited sea area in the southern Pacific Ocean.
There is not even an island within 300 kilometers around here, so it has a high level of confidentiality.
The Strategic Rocket Force has been preparing for this day for nearly a year.
And today is the time to test the results.
After inspecting the launch silo, Jiang Hua accompanied the leadership of the launch base to the launch center.
The launch center is located underground and has a thick protective layer.
Dozens of electronic devices are neatly placed in the launch center which covers an area of more than 300 square meters. Hundreds of soldiers and officers in camouflage uniforms are busy with preparations before the launch.
"The temperature in the launch hall is a bit high. Isn't there central air conditioning?"
When entering the launch hall, Jiang Hua immediately felt the temperature rising.
The director of the launch center explained: “Yes, we have installed high-power central air conditioning and ventilation equipment to dissipate heat.
But the electronics in these transistors dissipated too much heat.
In addition, our launch control center is 30 meters underground, so the effect is not particularly obvious.
But the President can rest assured that we can overcome this difficulty and remain at our combat posts."
This is a technical problem, and this major technological advancement should be able to solve it, so Jiang Hua just nodded and didn't say much.
Instead, they sat in their own seats, waiting for the launch to begin.
He is also very much looking forward to the ancient country's first nuclear test, which is also a nuclear test at sea.