Alien Arms Empire.

In order to ensure the precious naval aircraft carrier pilots trained by themselves, the aircraft carrier designers of the navies of various countries have used a lot of brains.

There are always some striking similarities in history. For example, some countries think that the chimneys and thick smoke on their aircraft carriers will block the pilot's view of takeoff and landing, so they made the chimneys in a style that can be put down.

When the information about this thing first appeared on the desk of Tang Mo, the emperor of the Tang Empire, he was almost amused by the photo in front of him.

Next to him, Leo didn't know where Tang Mo was laughing. He could only watch his emperor laughing while holding the photo, but he didn't know why.

Frankly speaking, Tang Mo didn't know if this design of knocking down the chimney would be useful, but it was unlucky for him.

What is the difference between designing this kind of chimney and naming one of your destroyers Yukikaze?Aren’t they all just planting flags and causing great injustice?

In addition, some countries deliberately designed the bridges of aircraft carriers to the left and right sides of the aircraft carrier deck. According to their thinking, this design can ensure that the aircraft carrier can be easily contacted and dispatched when it is in formation.

And this design also came from the combined fleet of a certain country's navy. Tang Mo suddenly felt dumbfounded when he saw it.

Don't tell me, sometimes the weird ideas of the group of people who have a good life are really easy to get people's attention.

In addition, countries have also made many interesting innovations when building aircraft carriers: many countries have installed main guns of about 200 mm on aircraft carriers, endowing aircraft carriers with a certain degree of "self-defense capability."

It's just that this ability seems a bit tasteless, and these artillery can't fire at all when taking off and landing carrier-based aircraft.

Some countries have tried double decks on their aircraft carriers. The lower deck is used to take off aircraft, and the upper deck is used to land aircraft...

It was later proved that this segmented aircraft carrier deck was not easy to use at all, and the hangar area and height were wasted. In the end, the aircraft carrier was transformed into a normal aircraft carrier, which was a detour of the Akagi aircraft carrier.

Interestingly, because I have visited the aircraft carrier of the Datang Empire, almost all the first-generation aircraft carriers designed and built by countries around the world adopt a semi-open side structure.

This structure can reduce the tonnage of the aircraft carrier and lower the center of gravity, which has many benefits.Of course, this design also has disadvantages, that is, poor anti-sinking performance and slightly lower armor protection level.

Another problem is that adopting a similar structure will affect the use of ships in areas with relatively large wind and waves.However, in most areas of the endless sea, the wind and waves are not particularly serious, so there is no problem with this design.

In addition, because of the backwardness of the aircraft carrier's navigation system, countries around the world tend to be conservative in the selection of carrier-based aircraft.Some of them chose to purchase the Stuka of the Datang Empire, and some purchased the more backward and slower Swordfish. In short, everyone chose the relatively backward and slow carrier-based aircraft.

Even in the choice of fighter jets, they have purchased single-seat fighters such as Zero, Sea Spitfire, Sea Hurricane, Pirates, Wildcats, and Hellcats, but the navies of these countries insist that single-seat aircraft are not suitable for the Perform combat missions alone at sea.

Tactically, the navies of all countries believe that it is safe for escort fighter jets to perform expulsion missions over the fleet, because their own fleet is under their feet, and they do not need to care about navigation issues.

At this time, the performance of the fighter is the key to competing for air supremacy, so the fighter must be a high-performance, single-seat fast fighter.

When attacking, the single-seat fighter escorts the attacking aircraft force, which is actually in a state of accompanying flight.They also don't need a navigator, they just need to fly with the attack aircraft group.

As for the attack aircraft, there must be a navigator.In the vast sea, having a co-pilot, or even an extra bombardier, would do more good than harm to search and flight.

I don't know who first put forward this statement, but it is very popular among navies of various countries.Therefore, multi-pilot aircraft such as Stuka, 97 Ship Attack, Dreadnought and even the outdated and backward Swordfish have become the first choice for the air forces of various countries to purchase.

The navy with no money uses Zero fighter jets, the rich uses F-6F Hellcat; the navy with no money uses Swordfish, and the navy with money goes directly to the 97 ship to attack...

In terms of carrier-based aircraft, all countries in the world have naturally been greatly influenced by the pioneer of the Tang Empire Navy. More than half of the countries hope to purchase general-purpose attack aircraft such as the Stuka, which can use both bombs and torpedoes. Convenience and simplicity.

Everyone doesn't like special-purpose aircraft very much, and they don't want to distinguish between torpedo attack aircraft and dive bombers like the lighthouse country.But in fact, the Tang Empire was the outlier. In World War II, both the United States and Japan were equipped with two or more types of attack aircraft on the Pacific battlefield.

It's a pity that Tang Mo adopted a substandard "German style" in the selection of carrier-based aircraft, and used San Dezi's helpless move as a classic handed down from generation to generation: No way, whoever made the competitor's level so poor that Stuka This kind of carrier-based aircraft can shine...

Ever since, all countries in the world have become superstitious about general-purpose carrier-based aircraft, and everyone hopes to be equipped with a "good aircraft" like the Stuka that can carry both torpedoes and bombs.

As for the extremely slow speed of the Stuka carrier-based aircraft, and the unprofessional torpedo attack and other defects, they were selectively ignored by the commanders of navies around the world.

In the eyes of these people, flying slowly equals safe take-off and landing, flying slowly equals attack precision, flying slowly equals ease of piloting... In short, there must be a reason for flying slowly.

They never believed that the carrier-based aircraft of the Datang Empire was a helpless move because the technological iteration could not keep up with the choice, and they never believed that the weapons and equipment selected by the Datang Empire were actually poor.

Being educated by the weapons and equipment of the Great Tang Empire all the way to the eyes of the senior military leaders of various countries in the world, what the Great Tang Empire chooses must be the right thing!

Due to the limitation of the length of the aircraft carrier's deck and the performance limitations of the carrier-based aircraft, all countries believe that the jet fighters of the Datang Empire cannot be used on the ship.

In other words, although there is an absolute gap in performance among land-based aircraft, the most advanced fighter jets of the Datang Empire cannot be put on board.

This statement is not groundless. On the one hand, it is because the take-off and landing distances of jet civil aviation passenger planes lined up by airlines from various countries have indeed increased, which is much longer than the Type 47 civil aviation transport aircraft that everyone used in the past.

This fully shows that as the speed of the aircraft increases, the take-off and landing distance of the aircraft will increase.Therefore, the Datang Empire was unable to take off and land high-performance jet carrier-based aircraft on an airstrip less than 300 meters away.

Another reason for the misjudgment of weapons experts from various countries is that someone stole some design information about the 262 jet fighter from the Poplar Empire.

Although the information is not detailed and many technologies are missing, it somewhat explains some problems: while jet fighters emphasize speed, their take-off and landing performance has indeed declined.

The take-off distance of the new aircraft obviously exceeds that of the propeller aircraft. Jet fighters of the 262 level really cannot complete the take-off and landing operations on the aircraft carrier.

After confirming this matter, the navies of all countries breathed a sigh of relief.This shows that their fleet is at the same level as the Datang Empire in terms of aircraft performance for a while, and they should be able to fight against the Datang Empire with their numerical superiority in the decisive battle of the fleet!
Even though the Tang Empire has an absolute advantage in "missiles", countries also have certain advantages in the number of battleships and cruisers.

As long as everyone unites to prevent the Datang Empire from landing across the sea, then the next war can definitely be won in a dangerous situation and break the myth of the Datang Empire being undefeated!
In any case, except for the Datang Empire, which is preparing to launch three modern aircraft carriers in one go, other countries are building their own aircraft carriers.

Moreover, their construction speed is not slow. The country with the largest number also started construction of three aircraft carriers in one go, in order to expand their own naval fleet.After all, aircraft carriers in this era have wooden decks, and the performance of carrier-based aircraft is not so exaggerated, so the technical standards are actually not high.

If the Datang Empire really relaxes the export restrictions on some special steel products and is willing to provide some technical support, all countries in the world can still play the game of dumpling from the aircraft carrier.

Frankly speaking, if the performance gap of carrier-based aircraft is not considered, the aircraft carrier strength of these countries is actually not weak.After so many years of accumulation and competition among these countries, the shipbuilding industry has basically reached or exceeded the level of the British Empire before and after World War I.

These countries all have some strength in building battleships, cruisers, and World War II-level aircraft carriers.

Except for the Ice Empire and the Poplar Empire, which did not start building aircraft carriers because of the war, the remaining countries can have a large aircraft carrier fleet in the future.

If we count the additional aircraft carriers that may be built in the future, the Datang Empire may not even maintain an absolute advantage in the number of aircraft carriers.

Don't you see, the Chu State has already started to build their new domestic aircraft carrier under the guidance of the engineers of the Tang Empire?
Don't you see, Qin, which just annexed Shu, has already laid the first keel of their Qin aircraft carrier at the southernmost shipyard of Shu?

Even Qin, a landlocked country in the past, has begun to build its own aircraft carrier. How can other naval powers in the world not build their own aircraft carriers?
In short, a new round of naval arms race started by the Tang Empire quietly kicked off, and the shipyards in the Eastern Continent were very lively for a while.

Only a few countries were lucky enough to escape this money-burning arms race: the Ice Empire and the Poplar Empire, which were really out of money, and the Sussus Empire, which had no navy at all...