Chapter 301 Battleships and Aircraft Carriers.
Musashi and Shototsu, who received the news from Yamato, immediately came with other ship ladies from the United Fleet, and Xu Xingchen began to make overall transformations for them one by one.
The first one to come up was of course Musashi. She followed Yamato's method and applied the overall transformation plan and then made some detailed modifications.
Continue to maintain the difference in the decorative style between Musashi and Yamato designed by Xu Xingchen. Yamato is a relatively traditional oriental restaurant, and Musashi is a modern hotel.
So Musashi's transformation was very fast, and it was done in a few minutes, and then the transformation of Nagato-level and Kyukang-level.
Nagamon-class battleship, with a prototype ship placing 3272 tons, a modified standard placing 39120t tons, and a full load displacement of 42850 tons.
The main weapon is a four-seat dual-mounted 410mm naval gun, with a power system power of 80,000 horsepower and a maximum speed of 25.3 knots (26.3 knots before the transformation).
She can be regarded as a Queen Elizabeth-level enhanced version. The appearance of the two is similar, the tonnage of the Nagato hull is larger and the diameter of the ship gun is one inch larger.
The speed achieved the ideal state of queen-level 26 knots, and the queen-level 26 knots, which is actually only 23.5 knots...
The Nagato-level situation in World War II was similar to that of the queen level, and was in a very embarrassing place where it was neither up nor down, and might even be worse than the queen.
The five Queen-class warships of the Royal Navy are not very important, and they can basically be used casually without any effort, and the number of five can even be used in a separate fleet.
There are only two ships at the time of Nagato, and the other hand, IJN is reluctant to let go of it and use it casually. After all, it is a fleet glory of twenty years.
Before the end of World War II, I don’t know what Yamato was, they only knew that Nagato was the flagship.
Compared with the Nelson-class and Colorado-class, which are also the Seven Navy Holidays, although Nagato has two more speeds, it is not enough to open up a substantial gap.
In the end, like other sevenths, they were at the peak of glory during the interwar period, but they did not play any role after the war started.
What can be compared within ijn is that all four King Kong-class flagships were sunk in the war, but Nagato became the only Japanese battleship that survived after the war. Muro might have survived if he didn't blow it up by himself, and then he was taken to the experiment by Amelika...
The King Kong class is an old-fashioned battle patrol that started before World War I. The initial standard platoon was only 26,000 tons. After two large-scale renovations, the standard platoon reached 32,000 tons, with a full load of 36,600 tons, which was still a big loser than the Nagamen class.
Compared with Nagato, the smaller Vajra-level protection, firepower, ship age and other positions are at an absolute disadvantage. The Vajra-level advantage is only one, that is, after the second modification, the Vajra-level speed reaches 30 knots.
It is this point of the 30th quarter that allows the King Kong class to not only follow the aircraft carrier formation, but also attack separately as a fast battleship. It is completely fine to fight with cruisers. Therefore, it has become the busiest Japanese battleship in World War II, so it can go out to send people to their heads in various ways...
Kirishima doesn't want to use a 356mm naval gun to deal with the 406 super-heavy bullets from Nanda North Carolina. The cannon is one inch larger than it can kill people. It's two inches, but they can't do anything else.
The ship girl in the world of ship girls will also transform herself and will try to make up for her shortcomings. However, under the limitations of the original technical level, it is difficult to make a subversive breakthrough.
It is impossible for them to allow old warships to meet all data requirements such as protection, speed, firepower, etc. while maintaining the tonnage of the hull, otherwise they would not have been constantly designed in history.
Therefore, the speed of the Changmen that appeared in front of Xu Xingchen had increased to 27 knots after upgrading the boiler. Other performances remained basically unchanged, barely meeting the requirements of the high-speed warship.
The main gun of the King Kong-class was also replaced by 410mm, but like the reputation level, there are only three double-mounted turrets and six cannons. It can be seen that it is very barely because the Japanese system does not have an intermediate 381mm cannon.
The transformation Xu Xingchen gave them also continued to adhere to Yamato's transformation ideas, improve and improve their combat capabilities, and retain their respective characteristics as much as possible.
The Nagato-level dual-mounted 410mm 45-caliber naval gun was replaced by a dual-mounted 420mm 60-caliber Pioneer cannon. The firepower pattern is still four double-caliber turrets, and the overall appearance of the hull has not changed on a large scale.
10 boilers and 4 steam turbines are replaced with eight more lightweight gas turbines, with a maximum of 320,000 horsepower. They are distributed with a comprehensive power system to ensure that other ship-based equipment can easily run to more than 30 knots while using electricity.
The hull of the King Kong-class is narrower than that of the Longmen-class. There are only three turrets equipped with 410s. There are only two turrets installed with Xu Xingchen's 420mm Pioneer Cannon.
After a simple consideration, Xu Xingchen equipped her with four double 320mm automatic cannons, restoring the initial posture of the four turrets.
Although the caliber of the main gun has been reduced, its actual power is far greater than her original 356, and it is not much better than the original Japanese version of 410.
The number of cannons in his fleet is quite large, so there is no need to force the ship girl who is in the battle patrol in the Warring States era to fight gunboats above 406 mm.
Then slightly strengthen the defense and reach a level close to the long gate level, increase the speed directly to above 33 knots to be a real high-speed battle patrol.
Other ship-based equipment other than the main gun, such as anti-aircraft guns, radars, fire control systems, etc., are basically the same between large and small ships. The difference between them is only in terms of quantity, just copy Yamato’s transformation plan directly.
After finishing the several gunboats on the scene, Xu Xingchen began to deal with the transformation of the aircraft carriers.
Compared with battleships, aircraft carriers are more obvious in homogeneity, and their appearance is very concise. Whether traditional or modern, the optimal design is highly convergent.
The traditional aircraft carriers in the early stages of World War II were quite limited in size compared to modern aircraft carriers, with the main fleet aircraft carriers of more than 20,000 tons at that time.
Xianghe, Ruihe and Ruihe are loaded at 32,000 tons, Dafeng is loaded at 34,000 tons, and the full load is loaded at 36,000 tons after the renovation of the King Kong grade.
The displacement of Akagi and Kaga is slightly larger, with a full load of 45,000 tons, but that is a sequelae of the transformation of the battleship and the war patrol. This displacement is weak.
Moreover, this difference is mainly in the part below the waterline, which is not a battleship that many people take for granted. The armor of the battleship will not inherit the battleship and the armor of the battleship.
Most of the modified aircraft carriers have re-drawn and redesigned the entire structure of the hangar to the deck above the waterline, and are completely re-designed.
As for the "armored aircraft carrier", it is not the same as the battleship's normal side main armor, but is equipped with additional flight deck armor, which is available in modern aircraft carriers. This layer of armor will not affect the carrying capacity and hull size of the armored aircraft carrier.
Therefore, Xu Xingchen gave Akagi and Kaga two modified aircraft carriers, both native aircraft carriers such as Shohe and Ruihe, and armored aircraft carriers such as Dafeng. The transformation plan is basically the same.
Basically, it is to copy the design framework of the 707 aircraft carrier, and then add or reduce the equipment according to the specific hull size, mainly to shrink the double-layer hangar into a single-layer.
However, since Xu Xingchen can adjust the structure of the hull and repair the overall linear shape of the hull, the battleships and patrol ship bottoms of Akagi and Kaga were completely carrierized during the transformation process. After the tonnage of the two ships was naturally reduced to the Shoki-level level.
The aircraft are remade directly with the Strong 5-to-Three-Turbo Fan. This is the most used aircraft in the Marshal's Mansion and of course the most common one.
The Qiang5, which has been optimized and upgraded many times, has excellent performance and reliability, which is already enough. Moreover, their hull size is limited, so they cannot use the heavy J-15 modification.
A little bit special is Shinono.
For the remodeled aircraft carriers such as Akagi, Kaga, and Lexington, there is a redesigned aircraft carrier hull above the waterline. This transformation can be regarded as a complete transformation.
As a rush-to-work product, Shinono's aircraft carrier modification is not thorough, so compared to other modified aircraft carriers, Shinono's displacement is more "empty".
Shinono's standard displacement is 62,000 tons, and the full load displacement is as high as 73,000 tons. It is larger than that of Forlester and Kitty Hawks.
Therefore, when ordinary people simply look at the tonnage, they may think that Shinno can reach the level of Forrest by doing a comprehensive transformation, and even become a super modern aircraft carrier of the Kitty Hawk level.
In fact, Shinono was just fat. Her hull was not big and was 18 meters shorter than Midway Island.
Shinono's waterline length is 256 meters, the total length is 266 meters, the Midway waterline length is 274 meters, and the total length is 295 meters (before the beveled deck modification).
Before the renovation of Midway Island, like Shinono, it was a traditional direct-deck aircraft carrier. The standard displacement at that time was 45,000 tons and a full load of 60,000 tons.
Moreover, Shinno's tonnage is not only very "deficient", but also very "deficient".
The hangar area of Shinono, which is 266 meters long and 36 meters wide, is 4,200 square meters; while the hangar area of Shotoki, which is 257 meters long and 26 meters wide, is 5,600 square meters, which is one-third the difference.
It has tonnage at a glance, and its actual capacity is completely inconsistent. It is not unreasonable to say that the original Nobuo is a tofu project...
The 707 aircraft carrier girl special remake designed by Xu Xingchen, the waterline length of the hull is basically the same as that of Shinno, both 256 meters. However, the waterline width of the 707 is slightly narrower than Shinno, but the hangar area is an outrageous 12,000 square meters, almost three times that of Shinno...
Therefore, the transformation Xu Xingchen made for Shinno was basically copied from the special version of the 707 Ship Girl, without the need to reduce it like the previous Shohe and Dafeng.
After thorough structural adjustment and linear repair, Shinono directly lost 18,000 tons of excess weight, and the full load displacement directly dropped to 55,000 tons.
But she obtained an unprecedented huge hangar of 12,000 square meters and turned into a slightly fatter 707 aircraft carrier, and of course, her combat effectiveness also soared across the board.
Xu Xingchen completed all the adjustments and pressed the confirmation and transformation button. Looking at Shinono who was in dormant, she felt that her mind should be smarter after waking up...
After the transformation of the main battleship is completed, the transformation of the Kaohsiung-level heavy patrol, the highest-level light patrol, the Agano-level light patrol, the Yangyan-level destroyer, and the Shimafeng-level destroyer.
These ship girls have appeared in the Admiral's Mansion. Xu Xingchen can directly copy their transformation plan and upgrade the equipment to the latest ones.
The idea is still the same as Yamato, without thorough modernization of appearance, nor the limit of weapons accumulation.
Even, Kaohsiung and Superior, which originally had five main guns, Xu Xingchen reduced to four.
Because Xu Xingchen thought the five turrets looked bad, the two backrest arrangements in front and back of the bridge were the most beautiful...
Xu Xingchen does not have 155 and 203 mm naval guns, and both of them use modern-class ak130.
The anti-ship missiles given to them by Xu Xingchen, like Yamato and other battleships, were installed on the deck with an inclined launch frame instead of being inserted into the drift well.
They will concentrate on being frigates in the future and will not make do with the main battleships anymore, so they don’t need to do that.
As for Agano, who can carry such a small light patrol, the hull cannot even be equipped with the ak130 naval gun, he can only use the dual 100mm cannon optimized by Xu Xingchen.
Destroyers such as Yang Yan and Dao Feng have been replaced with the latest twin 76 guns, and the main gun is used to prevent air defense.
The torpedo is impossible to retain. The location of the torpedo is just right for the missile launcher.
After finishing Yang Yan, who had finally undergone the transformation, and watching her enter dormant state, Xu Xingchen stood up and stretched, looked up at the window, and found that it was already bright.
Chapter completed!