Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

The military development of the University of Science and Technology was not too great. After five years of digestion, absorption and training, the Yandu aircraft carrier battle group, the only aircraft carrier of the University of Science and Technology, was formed and well-equipped to form a complete combat capability. It led the entire battle group to complete an escort mission from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean and directly to the Red Sea.

Although only three or four groups of ignorant pirates were killed in this trial operation, judging from the more than 2-kilometer round-trip voyage of actual combat training, the entire operation tested the true combat capability of the aircraft carrier and the effectiveness of the complete combat system!
Because during an offensive and defensive exercise of an escort fleet consisting of two destroyers that was escorting in the Red Sea without a director in advance, the aircraft carrier battle group crushed the Blue Army attack fleet, which included an advanced Luyang-class destroyer, with overwhelming advantage.

In the simulated combat plan, relying on the huge air superiority and the ability to detect and fire at the enemy first, the aircraft carrier battle group "sank" the two destroyers with almost no damage!
This simulation fully verified that aircraft carriers still play an irreplaceable role in naval battles.

Without an aircraft carrier as a carrier, no matter how large the destroyer fleet is, if it cannot provide air support, it will not be possible to provide timely guidance for combat tactics by relying solely on non-real-time reconnaissance tools such as satellites.

Facing the early warning aircraft, electronic warfare fighters and multi-functional carrier-based aircraft joint combat system on the aircraft carrier, the aircraft carrier battle group can detect the target hundreds of kilometers ahead of the enemy, and then blind the enemy destroyer's electronic system by means of electronic deception and electronic suppression. On the destroyer's radar, either densely packed "enemy" targets will appear, or nothing will be found at all, allowing the enemy's fighter jets to calmly launch air-to-ship missiles and leave within dozens of kilometers of the fleet!

The air defense system on the destroyer has almost no ability to resist such a situation.

With such a huge advantage, the Navy of Dongda University vowed to build another aircraft carrier at all costs to form a dual aircraft carrier battle group duty system!

After proving the reliability and effectiveness of the first-generation aircraft carrier, Dongda launched the development of the second aircraft carrier. In terms of most of the technical structure of the ship, the second aircraft carrier, Mingzhu, basically did not make any major changes. It only increased the displacement a little bit. The full displacement is more than 8 tons larger than the first one, making the second aircraft carrier reach the category of large aircraft carriers of tons!
The most direct effect of this increase is that the entire new aircraft carrier can have 10 more carrier-based fighters and 2 carrier-based helicopters, further enhancing the aircraft carrier's air control capability.

But this is not the biggest change. Due to the order of magnitude increase in computer computing power, the latest generation of aircraft carrier avionics equipment has been fully updated to the "Aegis" system supported by the new ARM11 computer computing power!
Of course, the current Aegis system is still in its initial prototype, and there is still a big gap from the main world's Aegis system. Currently, it has only been deeply optimized in terms of air defense detection. Combined with the role of carrier-based early warning aircraft, the air defense detection distance can be expanded to more than 500 kilometers.

However, in terms of ship-based air defense and anti-missile capabilities and ship-based air defense counterattack capabilities against enemy aircraft, the project team is still working hard to develop new long-range air defense missiles and continuously improve the effective counterattack range of air defense missiles.

However, the performance of radar detection calculations has been improved by geometric orders of magnitude, providing great convenience and accuracy for the processing of airborne early warning aircraft and shipboard electronic detection data. This greatly improves the anti-interference capability, making it possible to avoid the influence of simulated echoes emitted by the opponent by changing the wavelength for detection.

Compared with early radars, now with the powerful computer computing power, the performance has been improved by more than an order of magnitude!

The research on this new aircraft carrier is more like another round of replacement of naval equipment than the research on an aircraft carrier. After the successful research of this Aegis system, at least the two types of destroyers and amphibious assault ships of the Luhai-class and Luyang-class will have to undergo a comprehensive upgrade of the ship's avionics systems.

The Aegis system, developed using new scientific and technological means, can be redeployed on older large ships such as destroyers and amphibious assault ships to enhance their combat effectiveness.

After all, the University of Tokyo is still short of money, and military expenditures must be carefully calculated to ensure key points. Even though the current economic scale has developed to 6000 billion US dollars, the total increase in military expenditure is only about 90 billion US dollars, which is 270 billion in the local currency of the University of Tokyo. This amount is the result of the University of Tokyo's judgment that there will still be no major wars in the next ten years, and it has remained restrained. Of course, in terms of total amount, the increase in military expenditure is not small compared with the previous one, and the total amount has nearly doubled.

Relying on the relatively stable prices in Dongda, the purchasing power of this money is still quite strong. After all, at this stage, a Dongda carrier-based aircraft only costs more than 5 million yuan, a large destroyer is about 8 million yuan, and an aircraft carrier costs about million yuan (mainly because of the expensive nuclear reactor). The attack-type black fish costs about million yuan. In terms of hardware configuration, it costs about billion yuan in hardware to build an aircraft carrier battle group at this stage. With the current funds, it is of course very difficult to build a new aircraft carrier battle group.

After all, the navy is now huge and has to maintain hundreds of ships of various types (more than 30 Jianghai-class ships, more than 20 Luhai-class ships, more than 10 Luyang-class ships, 2 amphibious assault ships, 1 aircraft carrier, 5 large supply ships, more than 10 Qin-class nuclear submarines and Han-class nuclear submarines). Therefore, it is a bit difficult to configure an aircraft carrier battle group with new destroyers and nuclear submarines. However, we can choose to update the avionics and weapon systems of the relatively new Luyang-class and Luhai-class destroyers in the existing fleet and form a new aircraft carrier battle group with the new aircraft carrier. In this way, it will be enough to configure it with carrier-based fighter jets.

Now the Luyang-class destroyer is being updated and researched, and it is found that the most updated parts are the avionics equipment and weapon systems on the ship. Thanks to Ren Zhong's transfer of information from the main world, the first generation of vertical launch missile system has finally been successfully researched.

Such transformation factors were taken into consideration when the Luyang-class destroyer was first designed, so the four Luyang-class destroyers and two Luhai-class destroyers that served as the sword guards of the first aircraft carrier battle group took the lead in carrying out the transformation of the universal vertical launch missile system and the Aegis ship electronic system.

In this way, the combat effectiveness of the Luyang-class destroyer has been greatly increased in disguise. The introduction of the new vertical launch system not only greatly improves the combat response of the destroyer, but also allows it to carry more missiles after the modification, thus greatly enhancing the combat effectiveness of the entire destroyer.

Therefore, the transformation of other Luyang-class destroyers and Luhai-class destroyers should also be carried out step by step.

As for the navy, the five-year goal is to rebuild an aircraft carrier battle group and form a main combat organization of a dual aircraft carrier battle group. The current naval construction speed has undoubtedly shrunk a lot compared to the construction speed of the past decade.

However, considering that the navy's missile destroyer fleet is already a very strong team and has been ranked above second in the world of Bright Sword, and the current military expenditure allocated to the navy is also quite limited, it is not an easy task to operate and maintain more than 100 ships of various types.

There is not enough budget to build new destroyers and new amphibious assault ships at the moment, so the current strategy is to build new aircraft carriers and then use old destroyers and attack nuclear submarines to match them.

Now Ren Zhong is no longer worried about the staffing issues of the new aircraft carrier fleet. During the training of the first aircraft carrier, the carrier-based fighter pilots and the aircraft carrier's configuration personnel have been backed up. As long as the new aircraft carrier is built, it will be able to form combat effectiveness quickly, which is much faster than the first aircraft carrier.

The Northeastern University now has four military branches, the Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force, and it is not easy to favor one over the other. As for the Army, the new generation of Type 60 tanks and armed helicopters developed by the previous R&D department have been waiting for the rice to be cooked in recent years. It is not easy to squeeze out some funds every year to mass-produce and equip five brigade-level and above battle groups. In the overall situation of giving way to development, the Army only has enough time to equip one battle group a year.

I am in tears when I talk about this. If the Eastern Continental Army wants to fully equip the remaining combined brigades and combined divisions, according to the current progress, about 6 per year is the limit. It will take 120 years to equip the remaining 20 combat units!
There is no way, the current conditions are like this, not only the army is stretched, the air force is also a headache. J-9 has developed the next generation J-9B new fighter, replaced with a new radar system, the mounted weapon system has also been greatly upgraded, and the air-to-air missile has achieved a new 60-kilometer attack range. However, due to funding constraints, the number of new fighters added or replaced each year does not exceed 2 aviation regiments. That is to say, the demonstration and teaching function of the new fighter is guaranteed at the minimum level.

As for the Rocket Force, the new 15,000-kilometer mobile strategic missile has achieved a comprehensive breakthrough from heavy missile transport vehicles to the missile body. Now the latest generation of Dongfeng missiles has achieved the function of directly reaching most places in the world.

Coupled with the ability to maneuver freely on roads, the new Dongfeng has become Dongda's veritable trump card.

However, current economic conditions only allow the deployment of 3 to 5 missile battalions, and there is a lack of financial support for large-scale deployment.

Ren Zhong agrees with this result. After all, the world situation is improving now, and there is no risk of a large-scale war.

The big black fish that Dongda has revealed now has formed a strong deterrent to the two world powers. So far, no country has been able to catch up with Dongda's level in big black fish.

Even though the Rogue Eagle and the Big Bear have both launched nuclear submarines, neither of them can face the fact that this is the only technology of the East China University of Marine Science and Technology that can dive to a depth of 400 meters. In theory, the depth of a submarine is king, and the big black fish that cannot dive that deep is an unsolvable existence for the Rogue Eagle and the Big Bear.

It doesn't really matter if there are a little more or a little less, because this thing is just a deterrent and it will basically not be used, so as long as the opponent doesn't know the real number, the number is of little significance. From the deterrent aspect, the existence of Black Fish and submarine-launched missiles is enough.

Now in the military aspect of the University of Tokyo, research work is continuously updating new models according to the plan, but in terms of equipment, they update as much equipment as they have money in their pockets. The military expenditure of the University of Tokyo is limited, and it is impossible to achieve freedom of equipment standardization for the entire army with the current financial resources.

Fortunately, every piece of equipment now is far ahead of its competitors and has the advantage of quality. Even if the quantity is smaller, it is still very shocking to intimidate the opponent.

The J-9 has begun to decrypt some of its indicators and has participated in foreign air shows for military technology "exchanges." As the world's top fighter jet, the J-9 has new features every time it appears.

For the first time, the extraordinary maneuverability of a twin-engine heavy fighter was demonstrated, and the top pilots sent out showed what the Cobra maneuver is.

Then, two J-9s were sent out for the second time to demonstrate the tactics of dual-plane combat. The tactical coordination was so seamless that the foreign troops in the world of Bright Sword were once again shocked and stunned.

One plane dominates the sky, alone and without rivals, this is the true portrayal of J-9 in the world of Bright Sword.

At the same time, the rapid reaction forces trained and commanded by Li Yunlong have frequently appeared in special operations internationally, including the international cooperation Operation Blue Helmet. Every attack is like thunder crushing the opponent. Whether in terms of mobility, combat effectiveness or equipment, all are powerful beyond the comprehension of the world of Bright Sword!

Therefore, even though there have not been many new equipment added in the past five years and the number of personnel has not increased, the combat capability is still constantly improving. While developing the economy, we have also made both hands strong.

Occasionally showing off one's skills will make people remember it, and no one dares to look down on it.

As for the island construction in the South China Sea, the funds and projects are now being used for infrastructure construction. The largest expense is the self-propelled suction dredger with a full load displacement of 15000 tons. However, this ship was developed with the R&D expenses of Liming Shipbuilding. After it was developed and demonstrated its strong strength, a friendly partner in the Middle East paid a high price to buy two ships and earned back all the investment in R&D, including the manufacturing cost of the first ship.

However, not everyone can buy this important weapon. A capital group in the West wants to get one for research, but the export of this kind of equipment is currently restricted by the University of Eastern China. A Middle Eastern partner bought two of them, and they have to hire crew members from the University of Eastern China at a high price. The sensitive nuclear power on it is simply not accessible to people.

However, those friends who only have a piece of cloth on their heads also did not lose out. After having this big guy, not only the cost of their keen on building islands was greatly reduced, but the construction speed was also increased several times!
The World Island Project that failed in the main world was implemented many years in advance. With the assistance of Dongda's self-propelled suction dredger and the contracting of Dongda's infrastructure maniac, it progressed rapidly in the Bright Sword World. The first phase of the project has been completed. The super-large project that originally cost 160 billion yuan in the main world was expected to be completed in five years, but in fact it was not completed for 20 years and eventually became an unfinished project.

However, after the intensive development of the world of Bright Sword, over the past five years, more than 300 islands planned according to the world map have been built in a sea area of ​​nine kilometers long and seven kilometers wide. In terms of cost, each island was completed at an average of less than one million pounds, but the built islands were sold to wealthy businessmen in the world for between 3.5 million pounds and 20 million pounds. The people in the world of Bright Sword made a lot of money, and after these islands are developed in the future, there will be more later businesses that can bring them a steady stream of new income.

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