Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

When World War II ended in the original time and space, the U.S. Navy had become the strongest maritime force in the world, with a total of thousands of military ships of various types, and the number of aircraft carriers reached an astonishing more than 150. Among them, there are 27 large fleet aircraft carriers, 11 light aircraft carriers, and 117 escort aircraft carriers. Large-scale attack missions in naval battles are undertaken by large fleet aircraft carriers, while escort aircraft carriers are responsible for escorting merchant ships and transport ships. As a substitute for fleet aircraft carriers, light aircraft carriers can conduct anti-submarine, air defense, and ship-to-ship attacks.

If you want to enhance the combat effectiveness of an aircraft carrier, you need to make the aircraft carrier's hull larger. The larger the full load displacement, the more carrier-based aircraft it can carry, and the stronger the aircraft carrier's combat effectiveness will be; in other words, the space of the aircraft carrier is an important factor affecting the number of carrier-based aircraft. If the aircraft carrier does not pursue the number of carrier-based aircraft, the aircraft carrier will lose the meaning of its existence.

With the end of World War II, aircraft entered the jet age. The United States is the first country to try to move jets onto aircraft carriers. (However, this is obviously a bit tricky. The newly born jets have problems such as poor performance, complex structure, and high maintenance difficulty. The U.S. Navy has also spent considerable efforts. Cost. From the late 1950s to the early 1960s, the U.S. Navy had more than a thousand fighter planes crash into the sea during training alone. The pilots also suffered heavy casualties, but it also allowed the U.S. military to quickly accumulate experience and create a complete system. Later generations The strength of the U.S. Navy is largely due to its initial losses.) To this end, they also specially built a "Forrest-class" super aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of more than 80,000 tons. The United States is very concerned about the research work on this class of aircraft carriers, and applied all the shipbuilding technology at that time to this class of aircraft carriers. This class of aircraft carriers is also the pioneer of a large number of super aircraft carriers in the United States in later generations.

The "Forrest-class" aircraft carrier has many firsts. For example, it is the first aircraft carrier built specifically to carry jet carrier-based aircraft. It is also the first aircraft carrier in the world to use steam catapults. In addition, the "Forrest-class" aircraft carrier is an aircraft carrier that the United States has decided to adopt an angled deck layout from the beginning of its design, which is of great significance to the development of future aircraft carriers in the United States or around the world.

The "Forrester-class" aircraft carrier uses a fully enclosed flight deck. This class of aircraft carrier has absolute all-weather combat capabilities. The aircraft carrier uses four elevators, three of which are located on the right side of the flight deck and one on the left side of the flight deck. Due to the great progress made in the previous work of converting the straight-through flight deck into an angled deck, and the realization that the angled deck is more suitable for the flight scheduling of carrier-based aircraft, the "Forrest-class" aircraft carrier has been From the beginning of construction, the design concept of angled deck and straight deck was adopted. Four steam catapults are installed on the deck, which also greatly increases the efficiency of carrier-based aircraft takeoff for this class of aircraft carrier.

When it comes to steam catapults, we have to say that the heritage of the old empire cannot be underestimated. The three treasures of modern aircraft carriers, the oblique triangular deck design, steam catapults and optical lens assist landing systems are all invented and developed by the British. The catapults among them are no exaggeration. It is said to be a revolutionary creation. Although there were flywheel ejections, hydraulic ejections, and rocket-assisted ejections before, the ejection kinetic energy was very small and there were great safety risks. It was not until the British invented steam ejection in 1950 that jets were able to be mounted on aircraft carriers. Take off from the extremely short carrier deck.

Steam ejection is the most efficient, safest and most economical ejection method. It has become the only ejection method for modern aircraft carriers since World War II. Although the "Ford" aircraft carrier, later known as the world's No. 1 aircraft carrier, adopted a more advanced electromagnetic catapult, it suffered from frequent failures in practice. Many areas need to be improved, and its reliability needs further verification.

Under normal circumstances, the "Forrest-class" aircraft carrier relies on four steam catapults and can take off eight carrier-based aircraft at the same time in one minute. Coupled with the assistance of 4 powerful elevators, this level of aircraft carrier can fully carry out take-off work for 32 carrier-based aircraft within 4 minutes. This kind of take-off efficiency also makes the "Forrest-class" aircraft carrier The overall combat power has been greatly improved.

The principle of steam ejection seems to be very simple, which is to use the powerful thrust generated by the thermal expansion of water vapor to push the aircraft out. But this seemingly simple technology will only be fully mastered by the United States in later generations. The Soviet and Russian aircraft carriers use ski jumps to take off. The British aircraft carriers have a special preference for vertical take-off and landing aircraft and do not need catapults. The French aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle" uses the American C-13 catapult purchased at a large price. Other countries Most aircraft carriers either use ski jumps to take off, or simply carry vertical short take-off and landing aircraft such as Harriers or helicopters. Only the United States uses steam catapults on a large scale.

Although the principle of steam catapult is simple, it has very high requirements on manufacturing process and materials. Its core component is the ejection cylinder. Each section of the ejection cylinder is about 4 meters long. It is manufactured in sections and then fixed on the cylinder rail and connected. There are sealing grooves at the interface. If the materials and manufacturing technology are not up to standard, it will cause ejection failure. And this Just a small part of the steam ejection equipment.

All Yannick could give was the principle. It took German engineers six years of hard work to solve various technical problems and create a steam catapult that could eject jet fighters.

Now that steam catapults are available and super aircraft carriers are under construction, all that is left is jet fighters that can board the ships.

There were very few carrier-based aircraft for Yanik to choose from. As we all know, the 1950s was the beginning of the Cold War, and the two sides launched a fierce arms race. However, what is interesting is that the U.S. Navy focused on researching aircraft carriers, while the Soviet Navy focused on researching submarines until the 1970s. Only then began the development of aircraft carriers. Therefore, the only thing that Yannick can use as a "reference" is the US Navy carrier-based aircraft in the original time and space.

As the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier-based fighter jets enter the jet age, a number of experimental jet carrier-based fighter jets have emerged, represented by FJ-1, F2H, F6U, F7U, and F9F. Many of these models are They are directly modified from land-based models, and most of them are subsonic jets. For example, the short-lived FJ-1 carrier-based aircraft is the sea-based model of the F-86 "Saber" fighter jet. During this period, the U.S. Navy's carrier-based fighter jets were not equipped in large quantities, and only a handful left a deep impression on people.

After picking and choosing, Yannick couldn't choose a satisfactory model, so he simply ordered the engineers to convert the MiG-15 and F-86 into carrier-based aircraft. After all, this first-generation naval carrier-based aircraft is just a transitional model, and it will only shine from the second generation.