After returning to the Navy Department, Huang Zhe immediately reported to Shang Jinfeng and other senior naval personnel about his communication with Zhang Zhi this time when he went to the aircraft R&D team, and also mentioned the test flight of the seaplane.

Sure enough, after hearing this, Shang Jinfeng and other senior naval personnel immediately became quite interested in seaplanes. After all, reconnaissance capabilities are also one of the important factors in war. In the past, when several modern warships were present, they did not actually participate in the war. They mainly provided command, shooting parameter calculation and reconnaissance early warning. Now all modern warships have been retired, and everything can only rely on the technology of this era. Therefore, the aircraft research and development team developed seaplanes, which can indeed improve the reconnaissance capabilities of the naval fleet.

Zhang Zhi also promised to ensure that the carrier-based aircraft needed by the navy was developed, which also solved the biggest problem in aircraft carrier construction. Others such as blocking cables, torpedoes, etc. are actually easy to solve.

So Shang Jinfeng immediately asked Huang Zhe to modify the shipbuilding plan and add two aircraft carriers and 30 seaplanes. The seaplane carrier was modified with the navy's transport cargo ship, so it was not included in this shipbuilding plan.

Huang Zhe revised the naval shipbuilding plan overnight and also mentioned the plan to transform the seaplane mothership. Huang Zhe chose two transport ships, the Fuqing and Fuquan, for transformation. These two transport ships were British transport ships captured in the Far East War. One was a standard displacement of 13,320 tons and a load of 5,800 tons; one was 12,180 tons and a load of 5,200 tons, and the ship was in good condition, which was very suitable for transformation into a seaplane mothership. Huang Zhe planned to demolish the excess buildings on the deck, install two crane towers, and open the warehouses under the deck to reinforce, so that each seaplane mothership could carry 12-15 seaplanes and fight with the fleet. In addition, the newly built battleships and large armored cruisers were arranged to carry two flight-mounted aircraft.

When the discussion was again the next day, everyone had no objection. In fact, during the first discussion, everyone had no objection, not to mention that two aircraft carriers are added now. I was just worried that after the two aircraft carriers were added, the East China government's shipbuilding capacity could complete this plan within five years. With the current production capacity of the four major shipyards of the East China government, it is indeed difficult to complete this plan, but the scale of these four major shipyards is still expanding. Therefore, in the later stage of the five-year shipbuilding plan, the scale of the four major shipyards will be almost the same.

So the Admiralty submitted the plan to the Executive Yuan for approval. It took not long, and the Executive Yuan's approval results were also released. In addition to the two aircraft carriers, other shipbuilding plans, including 30 seaplanes, were approved and approved.

Of course, the Executive Yuan did not disapprove the two aircraft carriers, but only required that the construction plans of the two aircraft carriers be listed separately, and then the plan was re-formulated, including carrier-based aircraft and related weapons and supporting equipment. At the same time, it was required that the Navy Department take the lead and Huitong Aircraft R&D Group, Arsenal and other departments establish an aircraft carrier construction plan team to jointly formulate this plan.

Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng, and Xiao Jianjun are all naval soldiers, so they naturally know the role of ships and air carriers. If the navy wants to develop aircraft carriers, they will naturally support them. However, aircraft carriers are a complex system comprehensive project. Even if in this era, the technical level of aircraft carriers is lower than that of battleships, but their comprehensiveness is higher than that of battleships. Because aircraft carriers are a complex of ships and aircraft, the construction plan of ships and air carriers must be carried out at the same time as carrier-based aircraft, and they must communicate and negotiate with each other, and never work behind closed doors or do their own affairs. Of course, it is not something that the Navy can decide. After all, the aircraft R&D team and the Navy are not the same system, so they can only be coordinated by the Executive Yuan.

After the shipbuilding plan was reviewed, the Navy immediately organized a construction plan team for the aircraft carrier, with Huang Zhe as the team leader, and Zhang Zhi also joined in the aircraft R&D team, and the arsenal also sent representatives. All parties first negotiated and determined some unified standards, and then they each designed separately.

Of course, the Navy was responsible for designing the hull of the aircraft carrier. Huang Zhe had already made preliminary design plans, so based on the original plan, he modified and deepened it, and soon came up with the formal design plans.

The newly designed aircraft carrier adopts a straight-through deck, which is 215 meters long and 30 meters wide, with head and tail retracted inward and 27 meters wide, and is generally in the shape of a waist drum. A 6-degree upward leap deck is set at the head of the deck to help the carrier-based aircraft take off. At 1/3-1/4 of the tail end of the deck, three blocking cables are set to assist the aircraft landing. The command center is set on the right side of the deck, and the mast and chimney are formed to form the island, which is 36 meters long and 4.2 meters wide. A side lift is set up in front and back of the island.

This type of aircraft carrier does not have an oblique deck, which is mainly because the technology of the oblique deck is too complicated. Because the aircraft must maintain a certain angle with the aircraft carrier when landing. In this era when there is a lack of guided aircraft landing equipment and the aircraft performance is not perfect, the technical difficulty of this landing method is relatively difficult, so the design of the Syrian corner deck was abandoned. Although in this way, the takeoff and landing of the aircraft on the aircraft carrier cannot be carried out at the same time, as the first aircraft carrier of the East China Government, it is better to be more conservative. After all, the design of the oblique deck only appeared in the late stage of the war in the old time and space.

There are only three blocking ropes, not before crossing. The usual four blocking ropes of aircraft carriers are because the speed and weight of fighter jets in this era are far lower than before crossing, so three blocking ropes are completely sufficient.

The hull adopts a U-shaped cross-section, which is not a common V-shaped cross-section for warships built by the East China government. This is because the center of gravity of the aircraft carrier is relatively high and needs to take off and land aircraft, so the stability requirements are higher. The U-shaped cross-section is more conducive to navigation stability. At the same time, a slosh fin is also installed at the bottom of the ship, further improving the stability of the hull.

The waterline of the hull is 192 meters long, 25 meters wide, 9.5 meters draft, and a length-to-width ratio of 7.7:1. This aspect ratio is naturally conducive to high-speed navigation. The bow of the ship adopts fly shear shape and has a ball-shaped nose underwater; they are also designed for high-speed navigation, because this type of aircraft carrier mainly takes off with the power of the carrier-based aircraft itself, so high-speed navigation is needed to form a stronger deck wind to assist the aircraft.

The power system of this type of aircraft carrier uses 4 steam turbines and 32 water pipe boilers, with a total power of 96,000 horsepower, so the maximum speed can reach 27-28 knots. Although it is less than 30 knots, in this era, this speed is quite considerable, but the price is the engine, and the boiler occupies a lot of in-ship space, so the maximum range is 12 knots and 5,500 nautical miles. In this era, it can only be considered as free and powerful enough. However, the main ocean range of the East China government is still in Southeast Asia, and there are not many opportunities for ocean navigation.

Although aircraft carriers will not participate in the war directly, and after the aircraft carrier is in service, the People's Army Navy will definitely use aircraft carriers as the core of surface ships' combat, rather than battleships. Therefore, aircraft carriers must be under heavy protection from other surface ships, but things on the battlefield are unpredictable, so necessary armor protection is still needed. The armor of this type of aircraft carrier is: 50 mm of horizontal armor on the deck, 50 mm of horizontal deck armor on the hangar, and 120 mm of main armor on the waterline, and 60 mm of secondary armor.

Although the main offensive weapon of aircraft carriers is carrier-based aircraft, a certain number of self-defense weapons will also be equipped on the ship, mainly for air defense. Although the aircraft carriers do not have strong air defense requirements, after all, other countries do not have aircraft carriers, but it is still necessary to assemble a certain number of self-defense weapons, and aircraft carriers of other countries are not a few years later.

The ship-based weapons designed by Huang Zhe for the aircraft carrier are: 4 dual-mounted 100mm caliber artillery, arranged on the central axis of the ship island; 12 dual-mounted 75mm caliber artillery, arranged on the lower end of the flight deck on both sides of the head and the stern of the ship, and 12 dual-mounted 50mm caliber artillery, arranged on both sides of the flight deck in the middle of the hull. These weapons can basically ensure the air defense requirements of the aircraft carrier, but unlike the artillery installed on other warships, the artillery installed on the aircraft carrier requires that the shooting elevation angle must exceed 45 degrees. On the other hand, ammunition, whose 100mm and 75mm shells are mainly shotguns, and scattered shrapnels are used to form barrage, so that the air defense effect can be achieved. Therefore, the arsenal needs to redesign and manufacture the aircraft carrier.

The strong combat effectiveness of an aircraft carrier depends on the performance of the carrier-based aircraft on the one hand, and on the other hand, it also depends on the number of carrier-based aircrafts that can be carried. The hangar of the aircraft carrier is located on the first floor under the deck, 4 meters high, 23 meters wide and 165 meters long. 25-30 various aircraft can be parked in the hangar, and 15-20 aircraft can be parked on the deck, with a total of 40-50 aircraft being carried.

Calculated in this way, the standard displacement of this type of aircraft carrier is 22,000-24,000 tons, full load displacement of 25,000-27,000, and about 900 crew members, but not including aviation and ground crew members.

Judging from the design level of this type of aircraft carrier, the overall standard of the early World War II in the old time and space was reached. It was only because of the engine sailors of this era that the aircraft carrier's speed was less than 30 knots and the tonnage was relatively small, so there was no oblique deck. In addition, due to technical reasons, no catapults were installed, otherwise it could even reach the level in the middle and late stages of World War II.
Chapter completed!