Warship of Great Power

Newport News Shipyard, USA.

This is the only shipyard for US Navy aircraft carriers. It not only builds aircraft carriers, but also refits them.

For an aircraft carrier that has a lifespan of more than 40 years, it needs to enter the dock for modification in about 15 to 20 years to upgrade many outdated equipment on the aircraft carrier. If it is nuclear-powered, the deck must be cut open and the nuclear reactor inside must be replaced with fuel, which often takes one or two years.

Currently, the only aircraft carrier being built at Newport News Shipyard is the Ford, and there are two or three aircraft carriers being refitted. Among them, the Kennedy is the most conspicuous, because there is a long row of sheds on its deck, which is as long as 150 to 60 meters!

The Kennedy aircraft carrier started construction in 1964, was launched in 1967, and entered service in 1968. It has been nearly 40 years since then. When it was built, it was originally planned to use nuclear power, but later it was felt that nuclear power was not mature, so it switched to heavy oil boilers.

Therefore, it is the last conventional-powered aircraft carrier. Some say it is Kitty Hawk class, while others say it is a modified version of Kitty Hawk class. In short, this aircraft carrier is already old and should be retired.

No one thought that the US Navy would use this aircraft carrier as a test ship for modifying the electromagnetic catapult. When the news came, the people of General Atomics suddenly felt a wave of tension.

They have been testing for several years at the Navy Lakehurst Air Force Engineering Station, and there have been constant problems. There are still so many problems that have not been solved. Now they are actually going to move the electromagnetic catapult onto the aircraft carrier!

This is simply forcing the duck to the shelf!

"Sulich, you must speed up the time. The Navy can't wait." George Sulich, the person in charge of the electromagnetic catapult system, was busy in the long iron house on the deck, and then heard a voice.

He looked up and saw Rolf Barthes, the project manager of the USS Ford, walking in with a heavy heart: "The Navy hopes to use this aircraft carrier for experiments first and complete the electromagnetic catapult experiment as soon as possible, so that when our aircraft carrier is equipped, we can have successful experience to learn from."

Originally, it was planned to equip the Ford, but unfortunately the progress was too slow, so the Navy decided to use the old ship for modification and testing.

"Installation on an aircraft carrier is a big project, and you are unwilling to give us a dock. We can only moor on this dock. The slight shaking of the deck may cause serious errors." Sulich said: "Even a millimeter of installation error will cause the catapult to be scrapped. We must be safe."

Sulich quickly found a reason.

The dock was emptied of seawater, and the aircraft carrier was fixed. On the dock, even a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier will have a slight shake. This is inevitable. It doesn't matter at ordinary times, but if the catapult is installed, it will cause serious interference.

The electromagnetic catapult requires very high precision.

"In other words, the electromagnetic catapult on our Ford must be installed before launching?" Bartez asked.

"No, after you weld the hull, you must launch it first, outfit it for a period of time, let the stress on the hull be released, and then drive it back to the dock and let us install it."

This is not a joke. The welded hull will have residual stress. After launching, the hull will deform. It has no effect on normal use. For the electromagnetic catapult that requires constant improvement, it was originally installed, but after launching, it was found that the original straight line became a twist, and it had to be started again!

"That's impossible. You can't go back to the dock after launching. Our dock is very precious."

For any shipyard, the dock is a valuable resource. The Indian aircraft carrier was launched many times just to free up the precious dock. Bartez asked to launch it and then return to the dock?

The last aircraft carrier went down, and the next aircraft carrier should come in!

"That's absolutely not possible. When the Orientals installed the catapult, they didn't see them going back to install it."

"Only the earth knows how the Orientals did it." Speaking of this, Suliqi was very helpless. He didn't know that his own research and development was earlier, but he got up early and caught up late, and his progress was far behind the Orientals!

"By the way, I heard that the electromagnetic catapult technology suddenly appeared in the hands of the Russians. This technology should be from the East. Our intelligence personnel should have obtained the technology."

"Really? Where?"

"Here." At this moment, a voice came from outside.

Michael Rand from a department of the Naval Aviation System walked in with a USB flash drive in his hand: "We have obtained some technical content, which can be handed over to you, but..."

The intelligence was obtained by the relevant departments, and General Atomics is a private company. It is said that this kind of intelligence should not be handed over to the other party. However, now there is only this company in the United States that is researching electromagnetic catapults. In order to make our electromagnetic catapult mature as soon as possible, it must be handed over to the person in front of us.

"But what?"

"You must ensure that the electromagnetic catapult is installed and tested within one month!"

One month? Are you kidding? One year is enough!

But...if he disagrees, then Rand will probably hand over the information to other companies and start another competition.

"Okay, one month is one month." Suliqi nodded: "Give me the information."

Before Rand handed the information to Sulich, Bartez on the side spoke up: "You have been installing for three months, and you have only installed about 20 meters. Next, how can you ensure that the remaining 100 meters will be installed within a month?"

You can't just talk nonsense. You just said you wanted a dock, and now? It will take another month to install it. In short, the dock will not be given to you. Don't push the responsibility to us when the time comes!

You can't use the dock whenever you want! The dock arrangement of the shipbuilding company is often determined one or two years in advance. If he uses it, the rest will be a mess.

"We will use half a month to install all the modules, and after they are all installed, we will make precise adjustments at one time." Sulich said.

They are now installing and debugging one by one, and they are dragging their feet. In fact, it is mainly because they know that the technology is not mature. After installation, they have to test it, and they have no confidence. There will definitely be problems when they are installed and tested.

It's better to just dawdle here.

Now, with the technology from the East, it's easy! Get the technology first, then use the technology of the East to conduct research, compare with our own to find problems, and soon make our electromagnetic catapult mature!

So, in order to get the technology, he is willing to make any promise.

"Okay, as long as you can do it!" Rand handed the information to the other party.

Bartez understood: these guys have been dawdling before, and now they have hope and start to work seriously, shameful, pitiful, and sad!

After receiving the information, Suliqi quickly plugged it into his notebook and opened it.

"Hey, why can't this file be opened?"

"What format is this?"

"You need to use Loongson computers. Our computers have different instruction sets from their computers." The subordinates quickly responded.

Now, computers are also divided into different camps. Loongson computers rely on super high performance to beat other products. They are already the mainstream products in the world. However, in order to avoid leaks and accidents, the United States continues to use Intel computers. The instruction sets are incompatible and the programs are incompatible. Now they have been marginalized.

Even in the United States, most people like to use Loongson. Only special departments will use Intel computers to avoid leaks.

"Change the computer!"

Soon, the USB flash drive was plugged into a Loongson computer for entertainment, and the file was finally opened. Suliqi studied it carefully.

The technical principle of the electromagnetic catapult is not complicated. It is mainly composed of linear motors, energy storage systems, frequency conversion control systems and power supply systems.

The first thing to look at is the linear motor part, which is to spread a motor directly and turn rotation into translation.

The technical route adopted by the Orientals is exactly the same as ours, but why did they succeed, and ours repeatedly had problems?

Suliqi continued to read, and then saw the frequency conversion control system part.

Outsiders always think that the linear motor is the key. After all, the power of this linear motor is tens of megawatts, and the instantaneous power can even reach hundreds of megawatts. The temperature can soar to hundreds of degrees at the moment of power on.

However, frequency conversion and control systems are more important!

The Americans use a medium-voltage AC system, and the linear motor is also an AC motor, but in order to make the linear motor work, high-frequency AC is required, so a frequency converter is needed. It is not a simple matter to power a motor of tens of megawatts.

The inverter only works for a dozen seconds, but the power is super strong when it works. Even if the power consumed by the cooling system alone is as high as more than 500 kilowatts.

For the Americans, this system is very important. They have been keeping it secret. Even if they take photos of other systems to show to the outside world, they have never shown this system.

For Suliqi and others, this system is also the most difficult, but I don’t know how the Orientals solved it?

Suliqi opened it, and there were densely packed circuits inside, some of which he had never seen before.

"Take this USB drive back to our company, and then translate it, and let everyone in the company come to study it." Suliqi knew that he could only take a rough look to determine whether the technology inside is true or false, and finally let the company's people see it.

They definitely can't use Loongson computers, they have to use their own Intel computers. Although they are not compatible now, it's just that they haven't done it. In fact, Intel has invented special translation software to facilitate the data transfer between the two computers, but it just takes time.

"Yes." The subordinate took the USB drive and went to work.

He didn't know that when the USB flash drive was plugged into their own computers, their technology was no longer a secret.

Dongfang.

"Boss Qin, everything went smoothly." Xu Zhengyang said, "They attach great importance to our technology. They took the technical information back to their company and started to translate it. Before their computers finished running the translation program, all the information in their computers had been sent to the server we designated."

"Well, they didn't notice anything?"

"Yes, our electronic technology has far surpassed theirs. It's too easy to do this. If it weren't for the fact that they were using an intranet, we would have needed to build a bridge and would have gotten their technology long ago."

"Okay, then give all these technical information to the Russians."

"Don't we keep a copy?"

"It's useless for us to keep it...Okay, let's keep a copy and study their weaknesses."

Our own electromagnetic catapults have matured, and there is no need to use the Yankees' immature electromagnetic catapult technology. However, it is also possible to study why the Yankees were unsuccessful.

The Yankees' skills are mainly given to Lao Maozi to make money from Asan. After all, we can't hand over our real skills to them!

Ah San has already headed to Damao in a hurry.

Tomsk State University is located in Tomsk, which is the most famous education and technology center and university town in the country. As for this national university, it has a long history, which can be traced back to the Tsarist era in 1878, when it was called Imperial University.

Now this university is also one of the top four national universities in Malaysia.

When Alex came here, he was somewhat worried. After all, Ah San had been fooled many times. Will he suffer the same treatment as last time in the UK when he comes to Damao this time?

"Ordinarily, Da Mao has hardly invested in R\u0026D in recent years. Therefore, if they have technology, it can only come from the East. We need to be smarter this time. We must get access to real information to make sure that Da Mao has this ability, and then talk to them cooperate."

"That's right!" Raja, a famous motor expert in Asan, nodded: "I can't understand the others, but when it comes to motors, I am the most professional!"

Since the electromagnetic catapult is essentially a linear motor, of course this team needs to find motor experts. When they cooperated with the British, it was Raja who led the team. In the end, they learned nothing. Now, they will definitely not be fooled a second time. !

While talking, everyone entered the conference room. At the entrance of the conference room, there was a scaled-down electromagnetic catapult model.

If it were before, they would have gathered around to see what was going on, but now, they have been tricked once and are no longer interested in models. After all, they can make models themselves.

"Everyone, welcome to Tomsk State University. We are very happy to introduce to you the technology in the field of electromagnetic catapult." Wo, the person in charge of the Damao electromagnetic catapult project and the dean of the School of Electrical Engineering of Tomsk State University Erkov spoke.

There was a round of applause.

"Really? That's great, we want to know the real technology!" Alex said.

"Everyone, what we are going to introduce is the real technology. We know that the power of a normal linear motor is only a few hundred kilowatts, but if you want to use it on an electromagnetic catapult, you need 30 megawatts. With such a powerful power, how can Heat dissipation is a big problem,” Volkov said: “We will now introduce the progress we have made in the field of linear motors.”

The projector was turned on, and a structural diagram appeared on it. When he saw it, Raja took a deep breath.

This structural diagram is very detailed! Every detail is so realistic, especially the professional electromagnetic shielding and heat dissipation structure. This is definitely not something to fool people, it is a real research project!

The electromagnetic catapult not only needs to dissipate heat, but also generates a strong magnetic field when it is working, which requires a special electromagnetic shielding mechanism. Otherwise, when it is working, the magnetic field generated is equivalent to detonating an electromagnetic pulse bomb, and the entire ship will have to shut down. .

"Okay, let me introduce it now from the stator part of the linear motor..."

The meeting lasted for more than four hours. Volkov said that a group of Asans below were taking notes very seriously. However, even so, by lunch time, they felt that they had only scratched the surface.

This must be true, Da Mao must have obtained the full set of electromagnetic catapult technology from the Orientals!

During lunch, Raja answered in the affirmative.

"If Da Mao really has this kind of technology, then we can definitely get the technology from Da Mao. Anyway, our technology comes from Da Mao and has nothing to do with Orientals." Alex deceived others.

"Yes, if the technology is complete, we will definitely be able to manufacture the electromagnetic catapult ourselves, and we don't even need to jointly develop it! I just don't know how much money Da Mao will ask us."

They were stabbed by the British and were very angry, but they had no choice but to learn from the experience. Now, how would Da Mao wield the sword?

After dinner, we continued to the conference room in the afternoon, but we no longer explained technology.

"Mr. Volkov, we want to buy all the technology you have developed in the electromagnetic catapult. I don't know how much it will cost?"

No need to beat around the bush, just say what you need to say.

"One billion." Volkov said: "As long as one billion, we will hand over all the technical information to you. You should know that the ones we introduced this morning are just superficial, and the real technical information is as high as 8G!"

"You already have all the information?"

"Of course, we will hand over the money with one hand and the data with the other. We guarantee that we will not be like the British, where you spend money but still cannot get the technology."

Lao Maozi asked for one billion, which is well-founded. After all, Asan and the British jointly researched and developed, and it also cost one billion, and the deposit was paid, but the technology was not obtained. We have all the technologies ready.

"We hope to pay you a deposit of US$200 million first, and then you will hand over all the information to us. We will verify the authenticity of the technical information before we give you the final payment."

"How is that possible? The whole world knows that you Indians will not get back the balance. We are not as stupid as the French." Volkov said, "However, we can divide the information into four parts, each worth 250 million US dollars. You pay first, and we will give you a corresponding copy of the information."

"Okay."