The rise of great powers: starting from military industry

The layout of the ‘Type 001’ light aircraft carrier is the same as that of a conventional aircraft carrier. Its superstructure is concentrated on the starboard side, where a flight control room, various radar antennas, a closed main mast and two chimneys are arranged. Its flight deck is 168 meters long and 32 meters wide. There are 7 decks below the flight deck, and a hangar and 4 cabins in the middle. The hangar is 7.6 meters high, occupies 3 decks, and is 75% of the length of the ship. It can accommodate 20 aircraft, and there is an elevator at each end of the hangar. Electronic equipment on the right: 1 air search radar, 1 sea search radar, 2 navigation radars, 2 fire control radars, and 1 hull sonar.

A ‘ski-jump’ runway is used. The so-called ski-jump takeoff is to make a 27-meter-long section of the front section of the flight runway into a gentle curve, which is tilted upward toward the bow. The tilt angle of this light aircraft carrier is 7 degrees. The carrier-based aircraft takes off through the ski-jump deck, which can increase the aircraft load by 20% while the runway distance remains unchanged, and reduce the runway distance by 60% while the load remains unchanged.

In terms of ship-borne weapons, in addition to carrier-based fighters and helicopters, the air defense weapons are a twin-mounted "Aegis" medium-range ship-to-air missile launcher at the front of the bow deck, and 6 "Phalanx close-in defense systems, equipped with decoy launch systems and sea warning radars and hull sonars.

As for the early warning aircraft, the light aircraft carrier is not enough to carry a normal early warning aircraft!

Since it is a light aircraft carrier, it is impossible to be perfect and comprehensive.

In order to build the "Type 093" nuclear submarine, the "Type 094" nuclear submarine and the "Type 001" aircraft carrier, Yangcheng Shipyard had to arrange the originally listed planned orders to Mawei Shipyard and other shipyards for construction.

After all, the orders for the next three years of Yangcheng Shipyard were already full.

If you want to free up the dock, you have to arrange other orders to other shipyards.

It can be said that starting from next year, Yangcheng Shipyard will no longer focus on building civilian ships, but on building warships.

From the perspective of interests, building warships is more valuable and more profitable after all.

The profit from building a 40-ton tanker is not as good as the profit from building a Type 022 missile boat.

As for the profit of the ‘Type 001’ aircraft carrier, it is even greater.

There is no profit for warships built for the navy.

This is also why the employees of Yangcheng Shipyard did not give a good face when the navy representatives came to Yangcheng Shipyard. It is really not profitable to build warships for the navy, and sometimes they may even lose money to subsidize the navy.

Next, the entire ‘Type 001’ light aircraft carrier construction team began to get busy.

Guifei Group.

The entire 20 square kilometers has become a huge construction site.

From the beginning of land leveling to now, the hillsides in the area have been flattened and the land has been leveled.

There are also 5 square kilometers, which is a residential area, where dormitory communities, schools, hospitals, parks, and commercial plazas will be built.

In addition, there is another 5 square kilometers, which is used as a backup site for Guifei Group.

Hundreds of thousands of workers and a large number of construction equipment are busy here every day. Even at night, there are lights that illuminate the construction site as bright as day, allowing workers to continue construction.

The water diversion project is connected from three large reservoirs and will be supplied exclusively to Guifei Group.

The power supply is also connected from five power sources. This is to avoid a power outage in one power source due to a power line problem, which will result in a power outage in the entire Guifei Group.

The losses caused by sudden power outages in such a large factory are very scary. A piece of equipment worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions may be destroyed, which may cause serious casualties.

Therefore, ensuring the safety of electricity use is placed in a very important position.

The airport is building a high-standard runway, a terminal building, a command center, etc. It will take six years to complete the construction of this airport alone.

The residential buildings, hospitals, schools, and shopping malls in the dormitory area have already started to build foundations. Compared with others, these are relatively simple and can be said to be not difficult.

The entire project was completed in six years!

That is to say, by 1996, the entire Guifei Group was completed.

The total cost of the entire project, including supporting facilities, will be as high as 90 billion yuan.

It can be said that one project has driven the development of an entire city.

Liu Tao came here this time to develop helicopters and short-range/vertical take-off and landing carrier-based fighters.

"How is it, has the information been delivered?" Liu Tao asked.

"All delivered!" Yu Ximing said.

Yu Ximing is now appointed as the chief engineer of Guifei Group, responsible for technical aspects, and is also the director of the design institute.

Afterwards, Yu Ximing took Liu Tao to a place where there was a pile of information and a warehouse next to it.

These materials are all domestic imitations of the "Black Hawk helicopter". Although the performance of the imitated Black Hawk helicopter is very average in China, it is much better than Liu Tao starting from scratch.

In the warehouse, there is a complete set of parts for a replica of the "Black Hawk helicopter".

Liu Tao spent two days looking at the information, and then began to assemble the "Black Hawk helicopter" with several technicians.

It is not realistic to develop the Black Hawk helicopter from scratch, as it is too time-consuming.

It is better to manufacture the Black Hawk helicopter in this assembly form.

After a lot of effort, a replica of the Black Hawk helicopter is ready.

Liu Tao put his hand on the helicopter fuselage, and the virtual panel appeared:

[Item: ‘Black Eagle’ helicopter]

[Manufacturer: Liu Tao]

[Item level: LV1 (0/10) (incomplete, repairable)]

[Upgrade points: 200]

[Item status: incomplete, analyzable]

Liu Tao looked at the word ‘incomplete’, was stunned for a moment, and then couldn’t help laughing.

No wonder the performance is not as good as the original ‘Black Hawk’ helicopter, it turns out to be incomplete.

In this case, it’s good enough not to crash.

Liu Tao wants to fly this ‘Black Eagle’ helicopter, but others won’t let him. With Liu Tao’s identity, how can he do such a dangerous thing?

There is no way, so he can only let a test pilot from the test flight team fly it.

After confirming that there is no problem, Liu Tao drove the ‘Black Eagle’ helicopter under the guidance of the test pilot.

Although it is a defective version of the ‘Black Hawk helicopter’, there is still no problem with take-off and other performance.

Only when Liu Tao completely mastered the flying skills of the ‘Black Eagle’ helicopter did the others feel comfortable letting him fly alone.

But he still insisted on letting the test pilot follow him.

Liu Tao did not object, to save trouble.

He only needed to fly the ‘Black Eagle’ helicopter to gain experience, and it did not matter whether there was someone else in the co-pilot seat next to him.

Flying a helicopter and flying a fighter are two completely different experiences.

Fighters are fast, with extremely terrifying acceleration, and can perform many difficult maneuvers, easily breaking the speed of sound.

Helicopters are different. The climb rate of helicopters is low, and the maximum flight speed is just so-so, far from supersonic speed.

Even in terms of ceiling, helicopters are still very different.

Because the positioning of helicopters is different from that of fighters!