The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 685 New Nuclear Attack Submarine

Major international media outlets are analyzing whether the Iran-Iraq War will continue.

After all, Iraq's last wave caused huge losses to Persia.

This would lead to a deadlock between Iran and Iran with no possibility of reconciliation. Given the vengeful nature of the Persians, it would be almost impossible for them to swallow this humiliation.

Military experts and international affairs analysts have all made clear analyses and believe that the Persians will not give up and will definitely continue to fight with Iraq.

But after waiting for a long time, both sides were just engaged in a war of words and no fighting broke out.

Under such circumstances, the international crude oil price fluctuated around US$30 per barrel and tended to stabilize.

At this time, after several months of hard work, with the help of Gold Finger, Liu Tao finally mastered the complete set of nuclear submarine development technology.

For him, the appearance and structure of the submarine are not a problem. Silent design is also his strong point. The real difficulty lies in the nuclear reactor. After all, this is a completely new field for Liu Tao.

The original Type 091 nuclear submarines and Type 092 nuclear submarines are not enough for the new type of nuclear submarines, because the new type of nuclear submarines to be built require larger and more advanced nuclear reactors!

The 719 Institute seems to be much busier than usual today.

The troops were on alert and the soldiers were fully armed.

High-level military representatives attended the meeting, and a team of scientific and technological elites mobilized from across the country gathered here. Many of them were experts who participated in the development of Type 091 and Type 092 nuclear submarines, and each of them was full of honors.

In the conference room, everyone was whispering.

When they arrived here, they were told that this meeting was about the new nuclear submarine project.

This makes many people curious.

In fact, the demonstration work on new nuclear submarines has never stopped. The six naval research institutes are all working hard to develop more advanced nuclear submarines based on the Type 091 and Type 092 nuclear submarines, so as to ensure that China will not lag too far behind in the field of nuclear submarines.

However, due to the limited technical team, they have never been able to come up with a new nuclear submarine plan.

At 9 o'clock, Liu Tao and the Navy Commander walked into the conference room together. Everyone's eyes turned to the two of them, especially Liu Tao. Many people felt relieved when they saw Liu Tao.

Liu Tao developed a new type of 039 conventional submarine with excellent performance, which made Liu Tao a top expert in the field of submarines.

Even now, many people have not fully studied the Type 039 conventional submarine.

There are several Type 039 conventional submarines currently in service in the Navy. The excellent performance of this conventional submarine has been fully demonstrated and has been highly praised by the Navy.

But they still didn't believe that Liu Tao would participate in the development of new nuclear submarines, because although nuclear submarines are also submarines, there are huge differences between the two.

The nuclear reactor alone is enough to determine the performance of a nuclear submarine.

Liu Tao went straight to the front of the conference room, and then connected the laptop in his hand directly to the projector in the conference room and plugged in the power cord of the laptop.

The big screen showed a model of a nuclear submarine. Everyone who could come to this conference room had been tested for a long time, and there was no possibility of leaking secrets.

"The Type 093 nuclear submarine is positioned as an attack nuclear submarine. It is 138 meters long and 12.2 meters wide. The hull structure is a single-layer shell, which is built with special high-tensile steel plates. The maximum diving depth is 610 meters. The surface displacement is 7600 tons and the underwater displacement is 12140 tons. The power system is a 1 horsepower, 55000 diesel propulsion system, using a single-axis jet propulsion system. The maximum speed on water exceeds 1 knots, the maximum speed underwater exceeds 20 knots, the self-sustaining capacity is 35 days and nights, and the crew is 85 people."

"The main armaments include eight ship-mounted torpedo tubes, which can launch corresponding torpedoes, anti-ship missiles, cruise missiles, mines, etc. The radar system uses a new type of plane search radar, the sonar uses a new type of sonar system and a close-range high-frequency active sonar, the combat system is an underwater combat system, and there are also torpedo decoys, etc."

Liu Tao introduced the basic parameters of the submarine. Because of the larger space, the sonar system, radar system, etc. of the nuclear submarine were upgraded by Liu Tao based on the Type 039 conventional submarine. Even the periscope was upgraded.

Everyone couldn't help but gasp.

The nuclear submarine with an underwater displacement of more than 1 tons has a surface displacement of thousands of tons more than the Type 092 strategic nuclear submarine, and an underwater displacement of more than 4000 tons more.

There is also a nuclear reactor, which is not a very large reactor, but can output such a large power.

And the self-sustaining ability that lasted for 85 days is simply incredible.

Liu Tao didn’t say anything more in-depth.

The purpose of gathering so many elite teams here this time is to let them participate in the construction of the Type 093 nuclear submarine.

Because the Yangcheng Shipyard has never built a nuclear submarine and does not have the ability to build a nuclear submarine.

The technical team of Yangcheng Shipyard does not have the technical level to build nuclear submarines.

It's impossible for Liu Tao to stay here forever.

Therefore, the country needs to mobilize elite experts in this field to take the lead, and Liu Tao will give them technical briefings.

In order to maintain confidentiality, experts in a certain field should only study that field and do not need to know about other fields.

For example, he spent a lot of effort on the silent design here, and took great pains to improve its silent performance to a very high level, which makes this nuclear submarine have a relatively large advantage in terms of silence. The entire ship structure adopts high-precision processing, which is simple and smooth, reducing fluid resistance and noise. The configuration and sound insulation of the engine are also considered. The outside of the hull is covered with rubber sound insulation tiles that can reduce its own noise and reduce enemy sonar echoes, and even uses active noise reduction and shock absorption technology. The nuclear reactor has a very complex circulation loop system with a self-circulation ratio of more than 40%, which means that the dependence on the booster pump is greatly reduced, which increases the silent speed without turning on the circulation pump.

In this regard, the world is at an advanced level, and this part of the technology only needs to be mastered by top experts in the field.

There are also sonar and electronic systems, which are also the areas that Liu Tao focused on tackling and upgrading. They are absolutely top-notch in the world.

For example, the periscope here is equipped with an electro-optical detection kit and a 12-megapixel high-resolution lens that can provide a 360-degree full-focus view or capture high-resolution images in real time. In addition, a new infrared thermal imager that does not require cold cutting is integrated for night use, and the submarine control room will also be equipped with a rear-end color flat-panel display and control and display software.

It can be said that such an attack nuclear submarine is enough to ensure that China has a relatively strong deterrent force in the next thirty or forty years.

At least this is the case with the current development speed of nuclear submarines in the world!
It is precisely because of the importance of nuclear submarines that those who can attend this meeting are elite teams and top experts. Each of them must not only have strong skills, but also be able to withstand the test and be loyal enough to the party and the country.

For example, more than 60% of the people in the conference room are hiding their identities, and the outside world knows nothing about them.

(End of this chapter)