The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

Dalian Shipyard.

Colorful flags are flying and flowers are everywhere.

Today is a special day, destined to be recorded as a milestone in the development of the navy.

Because today is the day when the first Type 054 frigate, Ship 0541 ‘Hong Kong Island’, is officially handed over for service.

As China’s first large surface ship that has reached the world’s advanced level, the commissioning of the ‘Hong Kong Island’ frigate is of great significance.

At this time, the ‘Hong Kong Island’ frigate is full of colorful flags, ribbons and red festive banners.

Two anti-submarine helicopters rebuilt on the basis of the ‘Black Hawk’ helicopter have been parked on the apron.

At 9 o’clock in the morning.

The leader’s motorcade slowly drove into the Dalian Shipyard and came to the berth of the ‘Hong Kong Island’ frigate.

At this time, all 200 members of the ‘Hong Kong Island’ frigate, wearing white naval uniforms, lined up and waited for the leader’s inspection.

"Good, good, we Chinese can finally build advanced large ships, and our navy finally has advanced large ships to defend our sea borders." The old man looked at the outstanding "Hong Kong Island" frigate and showed his joy.

Ten years of army, a hundred years of navy!

China's hundred years of suffering was opened by the powerful countries at sea with strong ships and powerful guns. The country naturally attaches great importance to the construction of the navy.

When the Republic was just established, China spent a huge price to import the four great kings from the Soviet Union.

Now, China finally has the ability to develop advanced large surface ships on its own.

This means that China's shipbuilding industry has reached a milestone. It is really a step up two or three steps in just a few years.

Liu Tao introduced: "Leader, after the ceremony, I will take you to see this frigate in person. The weapon system of this frigate is very advanced, and the electronic system is also very advanced."

"Good, good, you should take a good look." The old man seemed very happy.

Large warships are the most important weapon of naval strength.

It can be said that with the ‘Hong Kong Island’ frigate, the strength of the Chinese Navy will be greatly improved.

This improvement is not reflected in near-shore defense, but in the fact that the naval power can be projected in the sea area 2,000 nautical miles away.

If there are more supply ships and supply ports, the projection of naval power will be farther.

Subsequently, the commissioning ceremony of the ‘Hong Kong Island’ frigate was held.

The commissioning ceremony was very grand.

The highest etiquette of the frigate case was hoisted with full flags, and 200 people lined up neatly at the dock. In addition, there were also the main personnel involved in the construction.

The leaders highly praised the significance of the commissioning of the first ship of the 054-type frigate, the 0541 ‘Hong Kong Island’, and at the same time encouraged the naval officers and soldiers to devote themselves to various tasks with the standards of building a first-class force and with high morale and enthusiasm, to enhance the combat effectiveness of the navy and defend the borders of the motherland.

After the commissioning ceremony, all 200 officers and soldiers boarded the ship and arrived at their respective work posts.

Liu Tao accompanied the leaders on board to watch the frigate.

Liu Tao personally introduced the various weapons on the frigate to the leaders.

The weapons equipped on the frigate include air defense weapon systems, anti-submarine weapon systems, and anti-ship weapon systems.

The air defense weapon system consists of air defense missiles, 76mm guns, 20mm "Phalanx" short-range weapon systems, and two 6-tube jamming rockets.

The air defense missile is the "Aegis-2" air defense missile system, which is a ship-to-air missile with multi-target attack capabilities. It can effectively counter targets such as anti-ship missiles flying at sea. The maximum firing height of the air defense missile is 24,000 meters, the maximum range is 80 nautical miles, and the maximum speed is Mach 3. And this is just the basic version, there is also an extended-range version of "Aegis-2", with a range of up to 100 nautical miles.

The anti-ship weapon system is mainly composed of two types, one is the "Eagle Strike" anti-ship missile, and the other is a torpedo.

The anti-submarine weapon system consists of torpedoes and two anti-submarine helicopters, which can strike submarines at a depth of 600 meters underwater.

At a depth of 600 meters underwater, it can be said that almost all submarines in the world today are within the attack range.

Because the diving depth of more advanced submarines now is four to five hundred meters.

For example, the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine of the United States, which was commissioned in 1976 and ranked second in the world, has a standard diving depth of 450 meters and a maximum diving depth of 530 meters.

Looking at the neat and beautiful frigate, as well as various advanced weapons and the sci-fi screen, there are computers in the command and operations room.

"Can this computing power really reach 10 billion times?" The old man couldn't help asking.

"Yes, the computing power of this computer has indeed reached 10 billion times. And these personal computers, each of which has a computing power of 100 million times." Liu Tao said very affirmatively: "These are all specially built by us, and the computers built with the most advanced chips in the world, and the systems here are specially built."

"These must be highly confidential and must not be leaked, otherwise our losses will be very huge." Liu Tao said with emotion, "Computers will not be outdated for at least 20 years, such as this military personal laptop, which is a laboratory product."

The old man couldn't help but be moved.

A small desktop computer has the same computing power as the Galaxy supercomputer.

A portable military laptop can be easily carried around for work, and its computing power is also equivalent to the Galaxy supercomputer.

Liu Tao even specially built a software system for the Type 054 frigate to facilitate combat command.

Although the joysticks, buttons, and graphics and data on the screen are incomprehensible to the elderly, they look very advanced at first glance.

"In a while, we will ask the China Aerospace Corporation to launch a satellite, and then we can use the satellite to navigate the Type 054 frigate, so we don't have to worry about getting lost at sea." Liu Tao said.

The old man had some impression, "Is this the navigation satellite you mentioned before?"

"Yes, in the 1970s, the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force jointly developed a new generation of satellite positioning system GPS, which provides real-time, all-weather and global navigation services for the three major areas of land, sea and air through the satellite positioning system GPS, and is used for some military purposes such as intelligence collection, nuclear explosion monitoring and emergency communications." Liu Tao nodded and said, "Even the Soviet Union also developed the 'GLONASS Satellite System' in the 1970s, which is also used for similar purposes."

Liu Tao said, "In this regard, we cannot lag behind the United States and the Soviet Union. The satellite positioning system will play a big role in both the current military field and the future civilian field."

"In the military field, the Army, Navy and Air Force can all achieve many goals through the satellite positioning system. For example, the Army can understand the battlefield and the deployment of enemy forces at the fastest speed, and can even directly understand the mobilization of forces from all parties through satellites. Warships at sea, aircraft in the air, and missiles can all be guided by satellites." Liu Tao gave an example, "Satellite guidance is definitely an important means of precision guidance in the future, and will play an extremely important role in the military field."