The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 689 'Black Eagle' helicopter! ?
The layout of the '001-type' light aircraft carrier is the same as that of a conventional aircraft carrier. Its superstructure is concentrated on the starboard side, where the flight control room, various radar antennas, a closed main mast and two chimneys are arranged. Its flight deck is 168 meters long and 32 meters wide. There are 7 decks below the flight deck, and a hangar and 4 engine rooms in the middle. The hangar is 7.6 meters high, occupies 3 decks, and is 75% of the length of the ship. It can accommodate 20 aircraft, and there is an elevator at each end of the hangar. Electronic equipment on the right side is 1 air search radar, 1 sea search radar, 2 navigation radars, 2 fire control radars, and 1 hull sonar.

The ski-jump runway is used. The so-called ski-jump takeoff is to make the 27-meter-long section of the front of the runway into a gentle curve, which is tilted upward toward the bow. The tilt angle of this light aircraft carrier is 7 degrees. The carrier-based aircraft takes off through the ski-jump deck, which can increase the aircraft load by 20% without changing the runway distance, and reduce the runway distance by 60% without changing the load.

In terms of shipborne weapons, in addition to carrier-based fighters and helicopters, the air defense weapons include a twin-mounted "Aegis" medium-range ship-to-air missile launcher at the front end of the bow deck, and 1 "CIWS" 6-tube 6mm close-in defense systems, equipped with a decoy launch system, sea warning radar and hull sonar.

As for the early warning aircraft, the light aircraft carrier is not large enough to carry normal early warning aircraft!
Since it is a light aircraft carrier, it is impossible for it to be perfect and comprehensive.

In order to build the 'Type 093' nuclear submarine, 'Type 094' nuclear submarine and 'Type 001' aircraft carrier, Yangcheng Shipyard had to arrange the originally planned orders to Mawei Shipyard and other shipyards for construction.

After all, Yangcheng Shipyard’s orders for the next three years were already full.

If you want to free up the dock, you have to arrange other orders to other shipyards.

It can be said that starting next year, Yangcheng Shipyard will no longer focus on building civilian ships, but will focus on building warships.

From the perspective of interests, building warships is more valuable and more profitable after all.

The profit from building a 40-ton oil tanker is not as much as the profit from building a Type 022 missile boat.

As for the profits of the 'Type 001' aircraft carrier, they are even greater.

There is no profit in building warships for the navy.

This is also the reason why when the naval representatives came to the Yangcheng Shipyard, the employees of the Yangcheng Shipyard did not give them a good face. It was true that building warships for the navy was not very profitable, and sometimes they might even lose money to subsidize the navy.

Next, the entire 'Type 001' light aircraft carrier construction team began to get busy.

Guifei Group.

The entire 20 square kilometers has become a huge construction site.

From the initial land leveling to now, the hillsides in the area have been flattened and the land has been leveled.

There are another 5 square kilometers, which is the residential area, where dormitory communities, schools, hospitals, parks and commercial plazas will be built.

In addition, there is another 5 square kilometers, which is used as a backup site for Guifei Group.

Hundreds of thousands of workers and a large number of construction machines are busy here every day. Even at night, the construction site is illuminated by lights as bright as day, allowing workers to continue working.

The water diversion project will draw water from three large reservoirs and will be exclusively supplied to Guifei Group.

The power supply is also accessed from five power sources. This is to avoid power outage in one power source due to power line problems, which would result in power outage in the entire Guifei Group.

In such a large factory, the losses caused by a sudden power outage are very scary. A piece of equipment worth tens or even hundreds of millions of yuan may be destroyed, which may cause serious casualties.

Therefore, ensuring electricity safety is placed in a very important position.

The airport is currently building a high-standard runway, as well as a terminal building, command center, etc. It will take six years to complete the construction of this airport alone.

The residential buildings, hospitals, schools and shopping malls in the dormitory complex have already begun to build the foundations. Compared with other things, these are relatively simple and can be said to be not difficult at all.

The entire project was completed in six years!
In other words, by 1996, the entire Guifei Group was completed.

The total cost of the entire project, including supporting facilities, will be as high as 900 billion yuan.

It can be said that one project drives the development of an entire city.

Liu Tao came this time to develop helicopters and short take-off/vertical landing carrier-based fighter jets.

"How is it? Has the information been delivered?" Liu Tao asked.

"They have all been delivered!" Yu Ximing said. Yu Ximing is now appointed as the chief engineer of Guifei Group, responsible for technical aspects, and is also the director of the design institute.

Afterwards, Yu Ximing took Liu Tao to a place where there was a pile of information and a warehouse next to it.

These materials are all about the domestic imitation of the "Black Hawk Helicopter". Although the performance of the imitated Black Hawk helicopter is very average, it is still much better than Liu Tao starting from scratch.

Inside the warehouse is a complete set of parts for a replica of the 'Black Hawk helicopter'.

Liu Tao spent two days looking through the information, and then he and several technicians began to assemble the "Black Hawk Helicopter".

Developing the Black Hawk helicopter from scratch is unrealistic and too time-consuming.

It would be better to manufacture the 'Black Hawk helicopter' in this assembly form.

After some effort, a replica of the 'Black Hawk helicopter' was ready.

Liu Tao placed his hand on the helicopter fuselage, and a virtual panel appeared:
[Item: 'Black Eagle' helicopter]

【Manufacturer: Liu Tao】

[Item Level: LV1 (0/10) (Damaged, repairable)]

[Upgrade Points: 200]

[Item status: incomplete, analyzable]

Liu Tao looked at the word "incomplete" and was stunned for a moment, then he couldn't help laughing.

No wonder its performance is not as good as the original 'Black Hawk' helicopter, it turns out to be defective.

In this case, it would be great if the plane didn't crash.

Liu Tao wanted to fly the "Black Eagle" helicopter, but the others refused to let him. With Liu Tao's identity, how could he do such a dangerous thing?

There was no other choice but to let one test pilot from the test flight team fly the plane.

After confirming that there were no problems, Liu Tao flew the "Black Eagle" helicopter under the guidance of the test pilot.

Although it is a defective version of the 'Black Hawk Helicopter', its take-off and other performance are still fine.

Only after Liu Tao had thoroughly mastered the flying skills of the 'Black Eagle' helicopter did the others feel comfortable letting him fly alone.

But he still insisted on letting the test pilot follow.

Liu Tao didn't object either, to avoid trouble.

He only needed to gain experience by flying the Black Eagle helicopter, and it didn't matter whether there was someone else in the co-pilot seat.

Flying a helicopter and flying a fighter jet are two completely different experiences.

Fighter jets are fast and have extremely terrifying acceleration. They can perform many difficult maneuvers and can easily break the speed of sound.

Helicopters are different. Their climbing rate is low and their maximum flight speed is just so-so, which is far from supersonic speed.

Even in terms of ceiling, helicopters vary greatly.

Because the positioning of a helicopter is different from that of a fighter jet!

(End of this chapter)