Rebirth of the 1980s: The Military Industry Empire

Qin Yang really wanted to take Nie Xiaoqian out for a trip, after all, Nie Xiaoqian had been very busy recently, helping him deal with various matters. People can't always be tense, they need to relax when it's time.

However, after arriving, Nie Xiaoqian didn't wander around with him. After getting off the plane, she made a phone call at the airport, learned about the situation here, and decided to come here first. Qin Yang could only smile helplessly, and then brought his wife over together.

Arriving at the shipyard, the sky had already darkened. Zhao Guodong and others had already arrived in advance. He leisurely followed the shipyard's reception staff. As soon as he got on the ship, he heard someone sighing on the deck, so he took over the conversation.

"Dreaming?"

If someone else said this, everyone would definitely be very unconvinced, but seeing who was speaking, no one dared to complain, and they all looked at him excitedly.

"President Qin, you're finally here!"

"Yes, President Qin, we thought you would have to wait a few more days!"

"By the way, President Qin, you don't think much of this catapult?"

"If our J-6s and J-7s want to get on the ship, this catapult might still be useful, but what we're putting on the ship now is the J-11. This kind of catapult is just child's play. Have you ever seen a missile launched with a slingshot?"

China had never had heavy fighter jets before. The J-6 and J-7 weighed less than ten tons, so this kind of catapult would be okay, but considering the terrible take-off and landing characteristics of these planes, forget it.

"This catapult's catapulting ability is indeed not high, but if we study its structure and enlarge it for use on our own aircraft carrier, wouldn't that work?" Zhao Guodong asked.

Although the ski-jump take-off method has been tested, it doesn't conflict with catapult take-off. For example, catapults can be installed on angled decks.

"Study what structure? This catapult's structure is different from the American steam catapult structure. Is there any point in you guys referencing it?"

To the layman's eye, the most advanced American C-13 steam catapult and the earliest British BS-4 catapult are no different, except that the steam pressure is a little higher and the cylinder track is a little longer?

Even if it's just a little higher pressure, is that the same? Of course not. If the steam pressure is high, how should the tank that stores the steam for the catapult be designed and manufactured? Many foreigners are pessimistic about the East, thinking that the East can't produce advanced catapults, one of the reasons being that the East can't build this tank for storing high-pressure steam.

Not to mention the cylinder. The cylinder must be sealed, and it must also be attached to the carrier-based aircraft outside. This requires an opening, and the opening must be sealed. Early catapults used zippers to seal, and later catapults used filler strips to seal. The current catapult is of no use to us except for opening our eyes.

Hearing Qin Yang's analysis, everyone gave a thumbs up. President Qin is amazing, he knows these things so clearly!

"So, even if we survey this catapult and solve the processing problems, it still won't have any meaning for our catapult事业," Zhao Guodong concluded.

"Yes, we'll just make do with ski-jump take-off for now, and when the technology reaches a certain level in the future, we'll directly use new catapult technology."

"New?"

"Electromagnetic catapult," Qin Yang said casually, "We use linear motors to drive the carrier-based aircraft to take off, and there's no need to seal anything. This kind of steam catapult is a product of the steam train era. We have to use a high-end electrified train to replace it."

Everyone was a little incredulous. Can this linear motor drive a carrier-based aircraft? How big would that be?

Qin Yang doesn't support the development of steam catapults. On the one hand, it requires various precision processing technologies and the development of materials science, which we really don't have the ability to do. On the other hand, it's also because it's not necessary.

"This arresting gear, if it's complete, can be used as a reference," Qin Yang said, "We can enlarge it and use it in our Wasteland Village base to conduct arresting landing experiments for carrier-based aircraft."

He sneers at catapults, thinking that ski-jump take-off is enough, but landing still has to follow the old routine.

A carrier-based aircraft weighing twenty or thirty tons needs external force to take off from a runway of hundreds of meters. At the same time, a carrier-based aircraft with a speed of two or three hundred kilometers per hour needs a special method to land steadily on a small deck in a range of more than one hundred meters.

Back then, after jet aircraft were put on ships, the landing of carrier-based aircraft was very difficult. The US Navy killed thousands of carrier-based aircraft pilots before finally finding the most scientific landing method.

The Americans have paved the way, and we can cross the river by feeling the Americans. Of course, we also use Fresnel lens lights and arresting gear for the landing of carrier-based aircraft.

Carrier-based aircraft are very dangerous when landing. Ordinary aircraft have to decelerate when landing, but carrier-based aircraft must accelerate when landing. If the landing fails, they have to go around again. This landing process is almost like crashing onto the deck. After going up, use the tail hook to hook the arresting gear.

As long as it's hooked, it's a success. The arresting gear will forcefully pull the carrier-based aircraft to a stop.

Although it looks like just a rope on the deck of the aircraft carrier, there are actually a lot of devices under the deck, with many oil cylinders that convert the kinetic energy of the landing carrier-based aircraft into heat energy and dissipate it.

Qin Yang only agreed to help develop the arresting gear, not the entire arresting system. Now, although the current aircraft carrier only operates A-4 attack aircraft and other such stuff, the arresting gear is still complete.

The Australians didn't dismantle the arresting gear when they dismantled it. These things are all iron lumps and can't be dismantled at all. The most tiring job on the aircraft carrier deck is to be responsible for the arresting gear, usually carrying thick arresting gear back and forth. If it breaks, the arresting gear will be pulled off, and this thing will sweep across the deck like a whip, and it will also break people's legs.

They also didn't think that the Orientals could copy this thing, so they generously left it to the East as scrap.

Everyone came to the back of the aircraft carrier, looking at the rusty but unbroken arresting gear, with smiles on their faces.

"President Qin, can you use this sample to copy more advanced arresting gear?"

"No, this kind of rope can only pull fighters of more than ten tons. We have to develop completely new and more advanced arresting gear."

Now we can only do it ourselves. If it were later generations, a private company could handle it.