The bright moon is clear and magnificent, illuminating the magnificent Charlottemberg Palace in Berlin like silver yarn.

In front of the wide desk, Qingying was looking at a battleship design drawing in front of her with a smile. On the light blue paper, Italian letters were everywhere in the notes. As time went by, the magic smile at the corner of his mouth became stronger and stronger. After a while, he finally patted it on the desk and made a smile full of joy.

According to the news from relevant departments, the Italian Navy has officially restarted the modification project of the Caracio-class battleship, and the final result of its modification is the drawing in Qingying. From any perspective, this is a battle patrol that best suits Fisher's original intention, designed to hunt enemy cruisers. The hangar and aircraft at the stern of its ship have completely become an accessory to avoid the treaty. If it were not for the title of "aircraft carrier", the Italians would not have wasted their precious weight at all!

In the original idea of ​​the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was to try to lead aircraft carriers, which were also new, to the traditional artillery warfare level in the second decade of the 20th century, while aviation technology was still in full swing, laying a solid foundation for the German Navy to occupy the commanding heights in the future. What he did not expect was that the Italians were so advanced that they directly created such a freak on the body of their high-speed battleships. If there were any ships in history that were similar to it, only the two aviation battleships transformed by Japan in the late Pacific War were ≡∽long≡∽∽Wind≡∽Wild≡∽Wild≡∽Wild≡∽Wild≡∽Wild≡∽Wild∽Wild≡∽Wild∽

Once this form of aircraft carrier emerges, its huge advantages over traditional cruisers in firepower and speed will inevitably arouse high attention and follow-up from all countries. Even if a very small number of people have extraordinary sensitivity and foresight towards the future trend of this type of ship, it is believed that aviation power is its main force. However, in the context of the trend of the times, it is still indispensable to equip aircraft carriers with enough cannons!

Compared with the Italian artillery-fighting design, the test aircraft carrier that Germany started construction in November 1915 was much shabby. On the design drawings that were about to be named "Black Swan", the strongest firepower was four 88mm anti-aircraft guns, which were as weak as a machine gun installed on the chassis of the mouse tank. In terms of appearance, the Black Swan also changed the previous style of German warships trying hard to control the size of the ship to save structural weight, but became unprecedentedly elegant and ostentatious. The ship's total length is more than 230 meters, and its width is 24 meters. The slenderness of the body is second only to the high-speed torpedo boats in the German Navy!

Almost all designers were puzzled by Qingying's ship-type design. Because if he wanted to achieve the 30 knots speed he required, there was no need to pull the warship so long; not to mention that he also had three fluid-drawing artifacts, such as bulbous bow, large tail, and tail plate. Even to meet the needs of take-off and landing aircraft, this length was large and unreasonable: Based on the experience gained from his predecessor, the Black Swan also used a full-purpose deck running through the head and tail, and its length reached a huge 220 meters. Whether it was take-off or landing, this length seemed too luxurious for the current aircraft.

However, Qingying's actions obviously have deeper considerations based on later generations. For an aircraft carrier, the most important thing is to have sufficiently powerful sea and air attack capabilities and a long enough flight deck. This is the key to achieving this principle. Although Qingying's understanding of barbaric aircraft carriers is far less than his attainments in orthodox gunboats, he is also aware of some basic knowledge: a longer flight deck can allow the aircraft carrier to be placed more on the deck when launching attack waves.

The aircraft can drive, which greatly improves its combat effectiveness. According to the situation during World War II, if the flight deck length of an aircraft carrier is only 200 meters, it will only be able to arrange the aircraft released in the attack wave at a deck length of about 80 meters behind. If this length is increased to 220 meters, the length that can be used to arrange the aircraft will be greatly increased to 100 meters, which is a quarter of the ability to release fighter jets than the former!

In addition, the higher requirements for takeoff distance by bombers and torpedoes also give aircraft carriers a more considerable marginal effect in the length of the flight deck. Since only bombers and torpedoes pose a direct threat to enemy fleets, these aircraft should theoretically be dispatched more when attacking seas. Since these aircraft are more flight distances, this undoubtedly makes aircraft carriers with sufficient flight deck length have a much better attack power than short aircraft carriers. Similarly, compared with the previous deck length, a 200-meter-long aircraft carrier has only about 40 meters of rear space to arrange bombers and torpedoes, while a 220-meter-long aircraft carrier is 60 meters, which is 50% more than the former! This is undoubtedly a decisive advantage for aircraft carriers with aircraft as the only attack weapon.

In fact, as long as the take-off distance is the factor of the aircraft carrier's deck length, the factor of the aircraft carrier's deck length always has a considerable marginal effect in attack power. If a new aircraft with a larger take-off distance is replaced, this effect will continue to intensify. Therefore, Qingying abandoned the traditional design style and instead pursued the slender appearance and the open deck on the aircraft carrier. In addition to the reason of releasing fighter jets, creating a larger hangar for the aircraft carrier is also the intention of Qingying to make the ship larger; if the traditional battleship configuration is maintained, then the only aircraft that the hangar can accommodate is only a handful of!

In terms of protection, the Black Swan naturally took the protection from the air as its only key. Because German designers have achieved accelerating fluid checking under the guidance of Qing and Ying, they can save a considerable amount of power weight for protection than the 30 knots of power under normal circumstances. This is also a key factor in the German warships having stronger performance than other ships. The horizontal deck in the ammunition depot area of ​​the ship reached 50 mm, which can ensure that the warships are not directly penetrated by a bomb; while the power section can only run naked due to weight limitations, hoping to avoid being hit by enemy bombs, which will be the only hope for the sailors working in this area to survive in battle.

Due to the air strikes and torpedo aircraft, the volume reduction caused by the power system due to the fluid opening was also due to the reduction in volume of the power system. After Qingying arranged the three-layer cabin, he erected a 35mm thick high elastic homogeneous steel for it. For a less powerful aerospace torpedo, this TDS level can barely maintain the water inlet after the lightning in the warship. If it is hit by a torpedo launched by a submarine or destroyer, it can only be expected that its hit position is not fatal enough, or that the damage manager can make the most effective response.

It is worth mentioning that the Black Swan is also the first German warship to use armor to integrate into the hull on a large scale. Before this, in order to save weight, Qingying had already used this method on the Bavarian-class and Hannover-class treaty heavy patrols, that is, the part no longer exists simply as armor weight, but integrates it into the hull and participates in the structural strength calculation of the warship. On this experimental aircraft carrier, Qingying turned this method into almost all

And the large-scale promotion of armored parts: In addition to the 35mm TDS, the ship was also used in the horizontal armor and waterline armor of the ammunition depot. The waterline part of the core cabin of the Black Swan is a light armor 2 meters high and 30mm thick, which is integrated into the hull structure together with the upper and lower parts; when subjected to near-blast attacks, this light armor can block most of the bomb fragments outside the ship, thereby greatly reducing the difficulty of the loss-of-duct troops in drainage and plugging leakage.

In order to provide technical reserves for ships to be built in the future, the ship is also preparing to implement a process innovation in replacing riveting in some non-important parts. Compared with traditional docking with rivets, welding achieved in molten metal can undoubtedly greatly save structural weight: Although the overall design level of the German Bismarck-class battleship in history is relatively low, the structural weight reduction brought about by the large-scale use of welding is also one of its few highlights. In the adverse situation of building a hull that is significantly larger than its tonnage, this proportion is almost the lowest among new battleships in various countries!

Within two years, this full-time aircraft carrier, Black Swan, will be completed and put into service, and the German Navy will enter a new aviation era. Feeling the changing years, Qingying couldn't help but feel emotion. Although time has a mysterious delay or even stopped passing in the body of his time traveler, the push for this era is still unchanged: the orthodox cannon ship he loved is about to enter the evening, and it is time for him to study aircraft carriers and the new sea and air combat in the future.

The moon was clear and the stars were shining, and scattered gray clouds were floating quietly in the sky. Qingying put away the intelligence drawings on the table, pushed open the door and walked towards her living room. Due to the delay in this matter, she worked several hours later than usual. Sunnya's greedy princess creature should have been waiting in the room for a long time, right?

While reminiscing and smiling, Qingying suddenly found a small figure flashing by at the corner of the corridor ahead. Although the time was very short, he still recognized his daughter Elena at a glance. Seeing this scene, Qingying felt very surprised. It was already after 10 o'clock in the evening. Where else would she go when she was already asleep? (To be continued...)

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