Chapter 345 Submarine Power and Propulsion System
Xu Xingchen got the power of this reactor of 68,000 horsepower, which is actually enough for surface ships such as aircraft carriers.
Just two have 136,000 horsepower, which can drive 40,000 tons of battleships to run 30 knots, and four have 270,000 horsepower, which is enough to make a 100,000 tons of aircraft carrier run 30 knots.
Nimitz originally planned to be four reactors, with larger redundancy and safer, and relatively low design difficulty, so there is no need for a hard-working single-stack power.
However, the men on Capitol Hill have been scared by the maintenance fees of eight core companies and firmly disagree with the birth of four piles of Nimitz.
The last Kennedy, the Kitty-Hawk-class, was originally planned to change its nuclear power, but was rejected at about the same time and continued to be completed as a conventional aircraft carrier.
Although Xu Xingchen basically doesn't need to consider maintenance costs, he is not ready to replace his ship girl with nuclear power...
Due to the huge deterrence of nuclear weapons, most people instinctively think that it should be very powerful when they hear nuclear-powered ships.
But in fact, nuclear power and nuclear weapons are not the same thing at all.
Nuclear-powered warships essentially use nuclear energy as fuel and replace fuel to burn boilers...
Nuclear power cannot directly improve combat capabilities, and it is impossible to throw fuel out as shells and weapons.
Their biggest advantage is actually their battery life.
According to Amelika's experience, the supply interval of nuclear-powered aircraft carrier formations is twice as long as that of conventional aircraft carriers.
The conventional aircraft carrier formation is replenished once every 7 days, and the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier formation is replenished once every 14 days.
This gap is of course very important, but it has not formed an order of magnitude crush, which may still be inconsistent with the perception of the conventional public...
The actual reason is also very simple. If the escort ship is not nuclear power, the escort fleet still needs to be replenished.
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier formation only saves fuel from the aircraft carrier itself.
Moreover, the larger the tonnage of the ship, the more fuel-efficient it is in proportion.
Two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers with less than 10,000 tons can consume fuel as much as a conventional aircraft carrier of 100,000 tons.
Going further, even if the full nuclear fleet comes directly, it still needs to provide supplies to personnel, and unlimited range does not exist on the earth at all.
At the same time, the maintenance time of nuclear-powered ships is much longer than that of conventional-powered ships, and an aircraft carrier will have one-quarter of its life to do maintenance...
So after early attempts, Amelika also gave up the full nuclear fleet and only maintained the nuclear power of aircraft carriers and submarines.
When it comes to Xu Xingchen's side, although the endurance cannot be said to be the least important for the ship girl, it is actually a very low priority.
Because the ship girl can restore the ship girl's state, it is too late to directly use the resources that are very easy to store, and obtain almost unlimited actual battery life.
In this case, considering some of the problems and dangers brought by nuclear power, Xu Xingchen directly thanked the nuclear power ship girl without any hesitation.
In this world, there may be only submarines that still have a demand for nuclear power...
So after Xu Xingchen saw it, he saved the reactor mark and prepared to replace and upgrade the 404 and the others in the future, and then came back to continue the analysis.
"The loot is being resolved..."
"Successful analysis: Obtaining the shaftless pump jet propulsion technology."
Seeing this new result, Xu Xingchen was overjoyed again.
The "axle-free pump spray" technology is also the standard configuration for the new generation of submarines. With the previous natural cycle reactor and the integrated all-electric system, the standard configuration technology for the new generation of submarines is directly complete.
Xu Xingchen was just thinking about whether to use pump spray technology to upgrade the submarines together, and now he will get it right away.
Natural cycle reactors improve internal noise caused by the operation of the submarine's reactor, while shaftless pump spray technology improves external noise caused by the propeller.
When the propeller rotates in water, it will cause noise. The key is that when the speed is high, it will also form a cavitation effect, resulting in a significant increase in noise.
The actual shaftless pump spraying technology actually has two internal stages.
The first stage is only "pump spray".
It is to install the propeller into the bucket and change the propeller that originally pushed water like a fan into a water pipe spraying mode, which is like a water pump pumping water outward, so it is called a pump spray.
Submarines that are currently in service can reach this stage at most.
In this way, the propeller is still there, and when the propeller pumps water in the barrel, it will be more difficult to clean up than the exposed propeller.
Only in the second stage will there be "axial-free".
At this time, although the propeller cannot be completely deleted, the propeller's shaft can be deleted.
Delete the spindle, and then install the blades of the propeller on the barrel outside the pump spray thruster.
Let the inner wall of the barrel rotate like the inner liner of the pulsator washing machine, and drive the water with the propeller to drive the water.
This design seems simple, but it is not easy to implement after amplification. The biggest difficulty is its transmission method design and the promotion of power improvement.
If mechanical transmission is used, the noise will not be worth the cost. Only electric transmission similar to chainless electric vehicle mode can be used and the reverse application is applied.
Make the barrel into two layers inside and outside, with the outer layer fixed and support, and the inner layer rotated to drive the blades installed on the inner cylinder, which looks the same as the pulsator washing machine.
However, the power increase of this electric transmission mode is very difficult.
The main reason is that the jet propulsion of the shaftless pump is different from the shaft propulsion, and the motor cannot be connected in infinite series on the large shaft inside the ship.
You can only concentrate the driving force of sufficient power on the barrel where the propeller is installed, in a very limited space.
So far, the propulsion method of completely shaftless pump spray has only been used in some small submersibles, and the main nuclear submarines have only used them on auxiliary thrusters.
At present, only some organizations have solved the pain points of difficulty in improving the electric transmission power of shaftless pump spray based on the medium-voltage DC integrated full-electric system.
Therefore, when submarines that have used the "new generation of submarines' natural cycle integrated nuclear reactors", "medium-voltage DC integrated power system", and "axial-free pump jet propulsion technology", they can achieve the same leapfrog overturn as the 055.
Xu Xingchen put away these things and waited for the next transformation to use them all for 404 and the others, and then immediately returned to the loot analysis interface.
After analyzing these times in a row, Xu Xingchen felt more and more that the analysis of level 4 loot is really good.
Of course, good things are relative. If these results are all produced by level five loot, it will appear to be a little influential.
As a product of level 4 analysis, Xu Xingchen is definitely worth it.
So I am in a good mood now and I am very glad that I did not fight the level 5 analysis.
Xu Xingchen continued to press the analysis button with a very happy mood, looking forward to some new equipment appearing.
As a result, in the next few times, several land-based missiles were launched in a row, including large ones: DF41, DF5C, and small ones: DF21D, DF26B, DF16, DF17.
The DF41 is a vehicle-mounted, solid-fuel strategic missile. Its advantages are its flexibility and launch preparation time, but its range is shorter and its load is smaller than that of the DF5.
DF5C is a heavy strategic missile launched by a silo and is liquid-fueled. The advantage is that it has a larger load and stronger penetration capability, but it cannot move and has a longer launch preparation time.
These two can be said to be complementary, so they will continue to exist at the same time and continue to improve, and are one of the highest deterrent forces.
The last three types are called "small ones", but they are actually relatively small compared to the previous two big shots.
In fact, as medium-range ballistic missiles, their size and weight are far greater than conventional carrier-based missiles, and their weight basically starts at ten tons.
DF21 is originally an improved model of Julang 1, and the D model is another specially improved ship strike model.
21 is the maximum speed of sound, the maximum range is 3,000 kilometers, and 26B is the maximum speed of sound, and the maximum range is 5,000 kilometers.
Let me tell you about lukewarm knowledge. The Yili River Valley and the Baltic Sea, two seemingly extremely distant places, are actually only 4,000 kilometers away, as far as Ili to Hu Jian.
The 26 series can cover the entire territory of Lucia, and you can poke Prussia with a little stretch, or cover the entire Nanyang area.
16 and 17 are considered sisters. 17 is based on DF16 and has added a hypersonic boost gliding warhead.
The speeds of both are ten times the speed of sound, but the maximum range is very different. 16 is 1500 kilometers, and 17 is directly increased to 2500 kilometers. This is the credit of the new warhead.
Of course these are all good things. If you take them and deploy them, you can directly improve the defense and strike capabilities of the entire archipelago.
However, these are all land-based equipment. Since the Ship Girl Star is larger, these strategic weapons designed for the earth's size are no longer enough to directly threaten their strategic enemies.
So for themselves, they have really become defensive weapons, so their actual purpose is not particularly large.
Especially since they appeared continuously, these few can form different strike combinations from far and near. If there are still such missile weapons behind them, there is no need to continue to draw.
According to your initial decision, if the continuous output is inappropriate, it is necessary to stop. Keep the spoils as much as possible and do a secondary analysis and core storage.
So after drawing DF17, Xu Xingchen hesitated and thought for a while, and with a little nervous mood, he pressed the fifteenth analysis,
"The loot is being resolved..."
"Successful analysis: Obtained the exclusive core of the 001 aircraft carrier Liaoning."
Chapter completed!