Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 211 Conception of a New Aircraft Carrier

The seminar will last for five days, Zhong Cheng is not in a hurry to speak.

He wants to hear the thoughts of these experts, scholars and technicians. These people come from different fields, and there are many ideas worth learning. This is a rare opportunity.

In the process, he also improved his plan by the way, and he didn't want to just talk about it.

He hoped that his plan would be adopted, and he also had the confidence to do so.

He wanted to do his best to build an ultimate weapon, completely dispel the idea of ​​other countries competing with China in terms of military power, and quell military disputes among human beings.

It's just that his idea is a bit radical, and he worries that people won't be able to accept it for a while.

9 month 23 day.

In the afternoon of the fifth day of the seminar, hundreds of people gave speeches and proposed hundreds of proposals.

But in the end, it seems that the nuclear fission-powered aircraft carrier proposed by the Jiangnan Research Institute has the least opposition.

Some people have also proposed a nuclear fusion-powered aircraft carrier, but because of its large size and heavy weight, it has also aroused strong opposition.

Zhong Cheng saw that everyone who had to speak had finished speaking, so he raised his hand to ask for the floor.

Dean Chen enthusiastically invited Zhong Cheng to the podium. Out of Zhong Cheng's request, he did not introduce Zhong Cheng's identity, but only said that he was a scientific researcher from the military industry system.

Standing on the podium, Zhong Cheng calmly looked at the hundreds of experts, scholars and technical staff in the venue, and said:

"In the past few days, everyone has expressed a lot of ideas about aircraft carriers. I think I am the last speaker. Before I express my thoughts, I would like to ask everyone a question!"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what Zhong Cheng wanted to do.

Zhong Cheng asked in a deep voice, "What is the purpose of our building an aircraft carrier?"

There was a trace of restlessness in the venue, and someone replied impatiently: "Of course it is for the strength of the country's military power!"

Someone added: "It's for the safety of the country's territorial waters!"

Zhong Cheng paused, seeing that no one was talking, he asked instead: "Is our military power not strong enough now, who dares to enter our territorial waters from foreign navies?"

The participants heard the words and discussed a lot, but they all agreed with Zhong Cheng's opinion. In recent years, China has equipped with seventh-generation fighter jets, and its conventional military strength has surpassed other countries.

China's territorial security has indeed been strongly guaranteed.

Someone asked loudly: "Comrade, do you mean that there is no need to build an aircraft carrier?"

The faces of many people, including Dean Chen, changed a little. Does China really not need an aircraft carrier?

The dreams of generations will be in vain?
Zhong Cheng raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, he raised the volume and said loudly:

"It's not that we don't need an aircraft carrier, but we need a new type of aircraft carrier that far exceeds the technical level of modern aircraft carriers."

"Change the current world military structure once and for all, make China's military power completely above all countries in the world, and permanently eliminate wars between major powers!"

"Buzz!"

Zhong Cheng's words stirred up thousands of waves with one stone, and the conference room became a mess.

Some people agreed, some people doubted it, and more people thought that Zhong Cheng was talking empty words, who wouldn't speak big words!
Seeing that the groundwork was almost done, Zhong Cheng entered the shape of the aircraft carrier he envisioned on the optical brain.

I saw an aircraft with the shape of an eagle flying high above the podium.

Judging from the comparison of the size of the Suzaku fighter jets and Bi Fang fighter jets hovering around this aircraft, this is an extremely huge aircraft.

The wingspan is more than 600 meters, the front end has three parallel noses, and the fuselage length is more than 200 meters.

All the participants gasped, and the shock was beyond words, so that the conference room fell into a state of silence for a while.

Zhong Cheng continued to introduce: "This is a real aircraft carrier with a self-weight of 12 tons and a maximum take-off weight of more than 20 tons. It can carry all the fighters of three full-staffed air divisions."

"All fighter planes are parked inside the aircraft carrier's wings. The aircraft carrier has 72 flight entrances and exits. It can put 10 Suzaku fighter jets into air combat within 243 minutes, and 1 Jingwei unmanned fighter jets into air combat within 1944 hour."

"The new aircraft carrier will be equipped with three nuclear fusion generator sets, one for working, one for standby and one for maintenance, which can ensure that once the aircraft carrier goes to the sky, it will not be lowered back to the ground until it is decommissioned."

"The new type of aircraft carrier is powered by a super-large Zhurong electric propulsion, which can maintain a long-term global strategic cruise mission in the stratosphere at an altitude of 3 meters at three times the speed of sound."

"Once something happens, you can rush to any place on the earth within 5 hours to resolve a high-intensity war!"

(PS: The current international law does not have exact regulations on the altitude of a country’s airspace. It is generally believed that the airspace should be the highest point where aircraft such as airplanes and balloons rise. This altitude is generally believed to be around 3 kilometers.)
"Wow!"

As soon as Zhong Cheng finished his speech, the applause in the conference room gradually rang out, and finally resounded throughout the audience.

No matter how Zhong Cheng implemented this plan, the idea of ​​an aircraft carrier capable of flying into the sky still convinced most of the participants.

If Huaxia has this new type of aircraft carrier patrolling the sky, then there will be no worries about the country's security.

After the meeting, President Chen approached Zhong Cheng and said that he hoped to hand over the construction of the new aircraft carrier to Southeast Shipyard.

Zhong Cheng said that this matter has not yet been settled, and he will recommend it to the country at that time.

On September 9, Dean Chen and Zhong Cheng went to the capital together.

At the scientific and technological seminar that month, President Chen submitted the selected aircraft carrier plan to the meeting for discussion.

The participants were also shocked by Zhong Cheng's plan.

At this meeting, Zhong Cheng explained in detail the technical plan of the new aircraft carrier, including the core material used - Taiyi alloy.

He sincerely pointed out the only problem with this plan, and also the biggest problem, that the cost is too expensive.

He conservatively estimates that the cost of a new type of aircraft carrier is around 6000 billion. If the intention of strategic deterrence is to be achieved, at least five such new types of aircraft carriers must be built, with a total cost of around 5 trillion.

This does not include carrier-based aircraft and the cost of weapons and equipment on the aircraft carrier.

The cost of the Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the United States is less than 1000 billion.

Zhong Cheng's final cost budget made the participants fall into silence. The things are good things, but such a price is really prohibitive.

Finally, the meeting made a decision to entrust Zhong Cheng to carry out the preliminary research and development work, and try to find ways to reduce the cost.

At the same time, relevant departments will conduct project evaluation to decide whether to build a new type of aircraft carrier.

Although Zhong Cheng was disappointed by such a decision, it was reasonable. If the cost was reduced several times, it would definitely pass.

3 trillion, how many factories and real estate can be built?
Is it worth it to build five "big planes"?
(End of this chapter)