Chapter 540 Data

What is the difficulty of making an aircraft carrier?

There are many!

But the most important thing is nothing more than the rise and fall of carrier-based aircraft!

That's right!

The main difficulty of an aircraft carrier is not like power, keel, etc. Although those are also difficult, the ranking is slightly behind the seemingly inconspicuous things like the take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft!

And why is the ups and downs the main difficulty?

Because the aircraft carrier itself is a ship, the runway must be much shorter than the normal runway, which means that the carrier-based aircraft cannot run fast enough to take off on the aircraft carrier!

As for the speed consequences of not being able to take off, it goes without saying that there is no other choice than falling into the sea!

But if there is a problem, there is a solution!

Therefore, the carrier-based aircraft catapult was born!

This kind of thing makes use of the principle of catapult. A catapult is installed on the aircraft carrier. When the carrier-based aircraft is about to take off, it is catapulted out to shorten the runway distance required for its take-off, so that the carrier-based aircraft can take off in a short time and within a short distance. Reach takeoff speed!

It looks simple!

But the technical content is very high!

In the world before Arthur crossed, the countries with this kind of technology could be counted in one palm, which was much rarer than the countries with nuclear bombs!

And again, because the runway is shorter than normal, a normal landing is definitely not possible!

In that case, the carrier-based opportunity would not be able to reduce its speed due to insufficient runway, and would directly hit the aircraft carrier!

However, there are also solutions to the same problems!

Thus, the blocking cable was born!

What is a stop wire?

In short, it's a rope!

The function of this rope is to hold the carrier aircraft and let it slow down when it lands so that it will not collide with the aircraft carrier!

But this rope is also very difficult to make!

First of all, the weight of the carrier-based aircraft itself is already very heavy, plus the additional force of the speed when landing, so this rope must be able to withstand the impact force of more than 100 tons!

Well, there are not many countries that can make ropes that can withstand more than 100 tons of impact force!

The problem is that the ropes used on the aircraft carrier are not ordinary ropes!

It has to be fine!

Because it is placed on the deck, if it is not thin enough, it may affect the normal rolling of the carrier-based aircraft when it lands, resulting in accidents and fatalities!

Moreover, it should not only be thin, but also have enough toughness!

After the arresting cable is hooked on the tail of the carrier-based aircraft, it must also follow the carrier-based aircraft to run forward and bend. If there is no toughness and cannot follow the bending, then the tail of the carrier-based aircraft is likely to be pulled off directly!

At that time, not only will it not be able to slow down the speed, it will also lead to the destruction of the carrier-based aircraft!

Therefore, this kind of blocking cable sounds simple, but it is very difficult to make!

Before Arthur's crossing, there were also only one hand counted countries that could be made!

The above are just the difficulties brought about by the ups and downs. In fact, there are many difficulties!

Say so!

Before Arthur crossed, there was no country that could make aircraft carriers without using parts from other countries!

Even if it is a so-called domestic aircraft carrier, only most of the parts and some key parts are domestically produced, and a small part does not have that technology, and uses foreign ones!

And in that highly technologically advanced world, it is so difficult to make an aircraft carrier, not to mention in this pirate world, if you want to actually make an aircraft carrier, it is simply outrageous!

But the strength is not enough, black technology to make up!

St. Martin has been going for so many years, and he has acquired a lot of black technology. It is not easy to make a simple version of the aircraft carrier?

Let's just say the main difficulty, about ups and downs, was easily solved here by Arthur!

Because, his aircraft carrier is not a carrier-based aircraft!

It's a steam mech!

Steam mecha, soar in place!

What catapult, what high temperature resistant material, what stop cable, no need at all!

The steam mech takes off by relying on the wind shells of the empty island. There is no problem with taking off and landing on the spot, and there is no high temperature, so the material of the deck naturally does not need to be resistant to high temperature! ——

After Arthur arrived in the valley, he was immediately greeted by a group of soldiers on the aircraft carrier in front of him.

At this time, hundreds of Saint Martin's scientists and workers have gathered on the aircraft carrier!

"See Your Majesty!"

Seeing Arthur's arrival, everyone on the boat saluted respectfully!

"Free gift!"

Arthur waved his hand.

"Your Majesty, this is the surprise I told you!" After Arthur finished speaking, Meck greeted him with a smile.

Hearing this, Arthur's eyes lit up and said, "You mean the aircraft carrier is a success? Can it be launched?"

Aircraft carriers have always been one of St. Martin's projects!

It has been developed for a long time, and the ship has been parked here for a long time, but it has always maintained a state of not entering the water, just parked in this valley and sea water.

Now, since Maker said so, it means that this boat can enter the water and can be used for real!

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Mek said with a smile, "Just now, we have conducted the last inspection, and now this aircraft carrier can be officially launched!"

"Great!" Arthur said in surprise, and then asked again, "What is the current data of this ship?"

The aircraft carrier has been under construction. Although Arthur has the data from when the aircraft carrier was originally designed, the current data is somewhat different from the original one because of the continuous addition of new black technology to the aircraft carrier behind!

Therefore, Arthur does not know the current data!

"Go back to Your Majesty, the general data has not changed!" Maker Shen Sheng explained, "The displacement is 30,000 tons, the length of the ship is 270 meters, the width of the ship is 40 meters, the deck length is 200 meters, and the draft is 8.5 meters."

Compared to the aircraft carrier in the previous life, this aircraft carrier can be described as inferior, but considering the average technology in this world, then this aircraft carrier is indeed not bad!

"In terms of power, I use the latest steam engine developed by me, the first steam pioneer, four, and add the tidal energy researched from the Kingdom of Tike to form a hybrid power!"

The aircraft carrier is very large and heavy, and the power required to drive it is very high, so using hybrid power is really no way!

Saint Martin has no nuclear power, and about tidal energy, only the fur has been researched. It can only convert 30% of tidal energy, which is not enough to drive an aircraft carrier. Therefore, only hybrid power can be used to achieve the start of the aircraft carrier. Power needed!

"As for the speed, it is normally 30 knots (one knot is equal to about 1.8 kilometers), but we have attached a lot of double wind shells around the boat, so when necessary, these double winds can be activated. Bei, speed up the aircraft carrier to reach a speed of 100 knots in a short period of time!"

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Listening to Maker's introduction, Arthur nodded with satisfaction, and then asked a key question, "So, how many steam mechas can this aircraft carrier carry?"