Warship of Great Power

Soon, both gas turbines started up.

Richard was very satisfied as he watched the normal power supply being restored: "There will be no more power failures this time!"

The previous power failures can be understood as insufficient power. After all, it is necessary to support the navigation of warships, the operation of search radars, and air conditioning!

They have tried many times in the Atlantic Ocean without encountering any problems. That is naturally because they do not need to turn on the air conditioner. After entering the Mediterranean, it is too hot here and they must turn on the air conditioner, which increases the power load.

If I had known earlier, I would have turned on two gas turbines directly to save trouble!

In the sailor's cabin.

"Jack, is the sea water delicious?" a sailor joked.

"Damn it, when you ran out, you were no slower than me!" The guy named Jack was naturally not happy about the teasing, and muttered: "It's just that when you got to the side of the ship, you didn't find the swimming ring!"

"In fact, if we were more relaxed at that time, we should have known that there was no attack. We must learn a lesson. By the way, this air conditioner is really comfortable."

In the past, warships did not have air conditioning. It didn't matter if they were shirtless or disheveled in hot weather. They were all men at sea, and it was okay to wear only shorts.

However, in the later period, with the need for nuclear, biological and chemical protection, the interior was fully enclosed, and the heat dissipation problem had to be considered. The warship was an iron shell, just like the iron house on the construction site. In the summer, it would be so hot that people would definitely die inside, so air conditioning was necessary.

If it could not be cooled in time, the people inside might faint or even die because of excessive sweating.

So, in the later period, warships had to be equipped with air conditioners. Anyway, there had to be a full-ship overpressure three-defense system, and air conditioners could be hung in this system.

However, this is similar to a large shopping mall. Even if you have an air conditioning system, you still have to see if others will turn it on. If they don't, it will still be hot.

"Our captain was too stingy before and was reluctant to turn on the air conditioning for us. In fact, as long as we turn on the air conditioning when we go out to sea, we will be comfortable all year round!"

"Yes, how much oil can be wasted? I really don't know what the captain thinks. The saved oil money will not reach his pocket..."

Before he finished speaking, click!

The whole ship lost power again!

At this moment, everyone was a little confused. What happened? The gate was tripped again?

Fortunately, with the previous experience, no one ran away.

"Wait, the power will be back soon!"

"There is a problem!" Some people also started to think: "This frequent gate tripping, could it be that there is something wrong with our warship?"

"What can be the problem? Our warship is the most advanced!" Jack said: "We use the most advanced power units and the most advanced integrated power systems in the world. How could there be a problem?"

At this time, the same question was raised on the bridge.

"Now, the two gas turbines are working at full power, and there is no possibility of insufficient power supply. Therefore, if the switch is tripped again, there must be something wrong!"

"In previous tests, there has never been a similar situation. The biggest difference from the past is that the air conditioner is turned on this time. Is it caused by turning on the air conditioner?"

"Yes, it is very likely. Turn off the air conditioning system, restart the engine, and try again this time!" Richard said.

"If the air conditioner is turned off, the sailors may not be able to bear the heat."

"You have to bear it even if you can't bear it! Look at our tank soldiers. When they fight in the desert, the weather is often 50 or 60 degrees. They don't have air conditioning, but they still stick to it?"

This is not wrong.

The British Challenger tank is also a wonder. When other countries' tanks are developing comprehensively, their tanks focus on protection, so that the Challenger 2 has been tinkered with into a big guy of more than 80 tons, but the engine remains unchanged, and it is still the original 1200 horsepower engine.

Such power is not enough to drive a tank of more than 50 tons, let alone an 80-ton tank. Therefore, their tanks are not equipped with air conditioners, which consumes precious electricity.

Originally, fighting in Europe was not a big deal, after all, it was warm, but when they arrived in the desert, they were dumbfounded. The weather was often 40 or 50 degrees, and the tankers had to wear liquid cooling vests to go in. If they sweated too much, it would cause electrolyte disorder in the body, and they even needed to hang a bottle of saline.

Even so, the British did not add air conditioning to their tanks.

If the tankers could accept it, what could the sailors not stand?

A few minutes later, the engine restarted.

"It's restarted again." Jack said, "It seems that we don't have to run out, just wait, wait, why is the air conditioning not turned on?"

"It's too hot, how can we stand it! Otherwise, let's go to the deck to cool down for a while?"

"Will this violate discipline?"

"Who cares, it's better than dying of heat."

When they went up, they found that there were already quite a few people on the deck.

The military has strict regulations. There are at least two or three hundred people on the destroyer, and most of them are not qualified to go on the deck. After getting on the ship, they have been working in the cabin until they come back.

Like an aircraft carrier, although the deck area is large, ordinary people cannot go up there for nothing, so they stay in the cabin.

But now, there are too many people in the cabin, so sailors wearing large shorts with a cross pattern appear on the deck, forming a beautiful scenery.

"Wait a few more hours, the sun will go down, and it will be cool then." Richard stood on the bridge, looking at so many people on the deck, and did not stop them. After all, he also knew that it would be too hot without the air conditioner.

Fortunately, the sun was about to go down.

Without the air conditioner, the machine should work normally now, right?

But not long after, with a snap, it tripped again.

This time, Richard was angry.

"Damn it, what's going on? Why is there always a problem with the integrated power system of the whole ship?" Richard said angrily: "We are a warship, a combat machine, and this kind of accident has occurred before we enter the war zone!"

Richard was very angry, and the others were very puzzled.

What's going on?

Obviously nothing was done, just like before, it was fine in the Atlantic, why did it go wrong when it entered the Mediterranean?

"Did someone use electrical appliances illegally, resulting in excessive power load?"

This is nonsense. Each cabin has a special air switch. Even if someone uses high-power electrical appliances, at most their own cabin will trip, and it is impossible for the main switch to trip!

"Okay, check the cabins one by one, check our power supply lines. Our system is still not smart enough. It would be great if it could self-diagnose and isolate the problematic cabins!" Richard nodded.

So, the technical officers on the warship searched everywhere in the cabin with flashlights, but found nothing in the end.

However, the sun had set and the temperature outside was gradually decreasing. In the evening, Richard gave another order: "Restart the engine!"

Everyone looked at the cabin lights above their heads in fear, hoping that there would be no more accidents of the brakes falling. It would be dark soon, dark inside and dark outside. How could they survive?

One minute, two minutes, half an hour, one hour... The power supply system is very stable.

"It seems to be just an accidental failure. I hope this failure has disappeared automatically." Richard said: "Next, we need to speed up and reach the cruising area as soon as possible!"

"Captain, in order to avoid similar accidents, should we drive slowly, just in case..."

"No, I believe in our warship! There will never be such an accident again!"

Rodney had no choice but to nod, after all, he was not the captain.

The night was filled with darkness, and the gas turbine made a cheerful sound. Except for the staff on duty, everyone else fell asleep comfortably. However, there would always be someone who would suddenly open his eyes and look at the light that was still on above his head, and then he would feel at ease and continue to sleep.

The next day.

Richard yawned and returned to the bridge.

"Did anything happen last night?"

"No, our power system is normal, no accidents!"

"It seems that we just ran into evil yesterday. Let our military carpenter do a ritual to exorcise the evil."

"Yes."

Soon, a young carpenter appeared in every corner of the warship, chanting a gibberish spell, holding a special staff in his hand, and tossed it thoroughly from front to back.

"Okay, our warship will be protected by the earth!" said the carpenter.

As soon as the voice fell, click!

The brake was tripped again!

Everyone was dumbfounded.

Why did the fault occur again?

Then troubleshoot it!

Richard looked at the chart and saw that the target was still 500 nautical miles away. For safety, they should not approach. Without power supply, their warships would be lambs to be slaughtered. They should wait for repairs.

The problem is that if they want to repair, they must first find the problem. They don't know what went wrong at all!

After another day of trouble, the fault disappeared again magically at night.

In the cabin, the sailors continued to discuss.

"This is definitely not an accidental fault. I bet that the fault will appear again tomorrow!"

"The guys on night shift are miserable. During the day, when they want to sleep, the fault occurs!"

"It's strange. What is the fault?"

"Who knows? Let's see those technical officers. We don't understand these things."

In the conference room on the bridge, everyone was serious.

"We must find out the cause of the failure!"

"This may be difficult. After all, we are not a design department. I think the best way is to drive the warship back and let the design unit check it."

"Drive back? We are on a mission now! We are the advance team and we have to leave before we reach the other party's door. If this is reported back, won't the whole world laugh at us and think that we are cowardly!"

If it is a general action, it's fine, but it's not possible now. Now they are going to fight and find trouble! As a result, they ran away halfway, and the colonel didn't know how to be happy.

"Yes, we must not go back like this. We need to find the problem first!"

How to find the problem? Everyone was at a loss again.

At this time, a young technical officer spoke up: "The failures in the past two days are regular. They appear during the day and disappear at night, so..."

"Is this a virus attack? Someone opened a backdoor in our warship's system and buried a virus?"

"No, no, I mean, is it related to temperature? When the temperature is high during the day, the failure occurs."

"Temperature? How is it possible! We are in the Atlantic..."

"The temperature in the Atlantic Ocean is low, so the fault has never occurred. But here, when the temperature is high, problems are prone to occur. I did some comparisons and found that the fault should occur when the outside temperature is higher than 25 degrees Celsius."

"Why is this happening?"

The technical officer shook his head: "I don't know."

It would be great if he could find the fault point. Why did the fault occur? Only God knows!

At the same time, the East, the capital, the TV station.

"Hello, everyone, welcome to this episode of Zhang Zhong's program. As we all know, the world situation has changed a lot recently. However, in this episode, Zhang Zhong does not want to analyze the world situation, but just wants to Analyze the Type 45 destroyer Valiant which entered the Mediterranean for the first time.”

The expression on Zhang Zhong's face was very calm, but he was very excited in his heart. Thanks to Mr. Qin's analysis, he suddenly realized what a serious malfunction the Type 45 destroyer had!

It must be broadcast, and the fig leaf of British technology must be torn apart. The British are already far behind the entire world, and anything they create has serious flaws!

"This warship is the British Navy's first modern air defense ship. It has an active phased array radar and a vertical launch system. It is considered the most powerful warship in the British Navy. However, we found that since entering the Mediterranean, its actions have been very... Weird."

A picture appeared on the screen, and it looked like it was taken from space.

"Shortly after entering the Mediterranean, the warship suddenly stopped. We can also zoom in and see what? Someone is diving on it! We don't know if the British Navy has the habit of diving to celebrate when it enters a new ocean, and Not just once, because not long after, they dived again!”

The video displayed on the screen is very funny. Although it was shot from space, it is precisely because of this perspective that the big ball on the top is very obvious. Therefore, any expert can identify it: if it is fake, it is 45 Type destroyer!

So, why do those people dive?

"If we look carefully, the wake of the warship has disappeared, and the radar antenna on the top has stopped rotating. This shows that the sailors jumped because there was a huge malfunction on the warship, which led them to think that the warship was going to sink. So , What is the fault? In this case, Zhang Zhong boldly guessed that it might be a gate failure. "

"Damn, how did he know?" Later, this video was transmitted to the Type 45 destroyer. After all, it was related to this warship. After the British intelligence agency got it, they responded immediately.

"They have been watching us, waiting for us to make a fool of ourselves, or in other words, this failure is their fault!"

Richard gritted his teeth: "Hmph, when the mission here is over, we will go to the east..."

At this moment, on the screen, Zhang Zhong continued to analyze.

“The design of the Type 45 destroyer is extremely unscientific, especially the power system. We know that destroyers often use a combination of diesel engines and gas turbines, using diesel engines at low speeds and gas turbines at high speeds. These are nothing, but the diesel engine of the Type 45 destroyer only has four megawatts. The total power in watts is too small!”

"This kind of power can only allow the Type 45 destroyer to reach a cruising speed of about ten knots at most. You cannot turn on any high-power electrical appliances at this time, otherwise the power supply will definitely not be enough. As a warship, you must turn on the radar at least when cruising, right? Therefore, diesel engines are useless, and gas turbines are still needed for normal cruising.”

"This can be compared with the 052C produced by Dongfang. The diesel engine used for cruising has a power of 8840 horsepower, which is 6.6 megawatts. Two units are 13.2 megawatts. Only this kind of power can meet the needs of cruising."

"Because the diesel engine power is insufficient, the gas turbine must be started frequently. The Type 45 destroyer uses a WR21 gas turbine, with a single unit of 21 MW. The power is still insufficient. You must know that our 6,000-ton displacement gas turbine has a power of 26.7 MW. But that’s not the main thing. The most important thing is that this gas turbine uses the most useless intercooling and heat recovery system!”

"The idea of ​​this system is very good. It brings the exhaust gas back and then outputs it to the middle section of the gas turbine to preheat the gas in advance to improve efficiency. It may be fine in the cold Atlantic Ocean, but it will be a problem in the tropics! If the technology is really Well, why didn’t Westinghouse use it and instead sold this technology to the British at a high price?”

"Is there something wrong with our gas turbine?" Richard looked at his men: "Do you think this analysis is reasonable?"

"Yes, it makes sense, it makes sense!" The technical officer who had just proposed the high-temperature theory responded: "That should be it. Our gas turbine has an intercooling heat recovery system. In tropical areas, what is sucked in is hot air. Heating, it will overheat, so the gas turbine will malfunction, thus reducing the power output, and may even reduce to zero in extreme cases! And our power consumption is certain, because of overload, the integrated power system of the entire ship will be damaged. The gate has fallen!"

"At night, when the air outside becomes colder, this fault will naturally disappear!"

Everyone sighed with emotion, the Orientals are so powerful, and we haven’t found the reason yet, but the Orientals actually found them through the air!

But how to solve it?

East.

"Mr. Qin, even if we really know the reason, we shouldn't tell the British, right? Let them find it by themselves. It may take a long time." Xu Zhengyang said with some curiosity.

"Yes, it would be best if they built a few more, and then if they found a problem with the warship, they would replace them all at once, which would cost a huge amount of money." Qin Tao said, "I shouldn't have been nosy, right?"

"No, you have your own intentions."

"Then what do you think my intentions are?"

"I don't know."

"Do you think the British will admit it or not? If they don't admit it, will they let the Type 45 destroyer continue to go up and die?"

Xu Zhengyang understood instantly.

With the arrogance of the British, they will definitely not admit it. They will announce to the outside world that the Type 45 destroyer has no technical faults. How could the main warships produced by the UK have such technical problems?

In order to prove it, the Type 45 must go up, and as long as it goes up...then don't come back. What's the use of a warship that frequently drops the gate? It's better to just sink it!