What the hell is a private enterprise?

Chapter 160 Children, it’s me
RAND Corporation.

After the official announcement of the small aircraft carrier, the CVX team was changed to the 011 team, which specializes in analyzing this aircraft carrier.

Several naval experts also joined in, thinking about the photos and limited information.

"The catapult is very short, which shows that their track airtightness technology is not good. Otherwise, it should be 55 meters. The two tracks on the 011 are completely copied from the BS4."

"There are only two small elevators on the right side, and no elevators or catapults on the left angled deck. It seems the improvement is very conservative."

"The island design is so outdated. They should at least read some aviation magazines, even if it means copying Midway's homework."

"..."

The atmosphere within the group was very relaxed. The origin of the aircraft carrier was the intelligence agency's business, and they were only responsible for analyzing the aircraft carrier itself.

For these experts and the Imperial Navy, they actually didn't feel much.

The overall evaluation of experts is that it is an enlarged version of the Melbourne, with very backward technology, and the Empire can only use helicopters and AV8B at most.

Even the 011 aircraft carrier has no carrier-based aircraft.

A few years ago, during the Peace Pearl Project, China sent its most advanced J-8II fighter jet to Xiaomi for upgrading, which is a bit embarrassing.

The Grumman experts who had already achieved pulse production could not have imagined that the parts of modern jet aircraft in the 80s were not universal in size, which almost shocked the group of experts.

Therefore, the Americans are well aware of the level of China's mediocre aircraft and their contempt is as low as it can be.

The J-7, J-7pro (J-8), the J-10 under development (not a secret), and the imported Su-27 were all defeated by the F-16, and even the F-4 Phantom could overwhelm them.

When discussing the carrier-based aircraft used by 011, the experts in the analysis team all smiled tacitly.

There is no carrier-based aircraft project in the country at all, and the improved existing models are just flying coffins.

Without carrier-based aircraft, an aircraft carrier is just scrap metal.

One expert even humorously said:

"Grumman should promote the F-14 again, now their customers have aircraft carriers."

Someone immediately shook their head and said, "Then they might split the F-14 in half and turn it into a single-engine fighter, but that probably wouldn't fly."

"No, no, no, you are all wrong. Grumman should have sold them the F4U Hellcat!"

There was another burst of cheerful laughter. Aerial photos showed a propeller plane on the deck of the 011 aircraft carrier, and photos were taken and sent back to the think tank immediately.

When the expert team saw these propeller planes, they quickly recognized them as antiques from World War II. Some people laughed so hard that they had a heart attack and almost died of laughter.

A World War II carrier-based aircraft, very nice. I don’t know which museum this treasure was bought from.

This news not only became a joke in the group, but also quickly appeared in newspapers and on television. The whole world knew that the Tokyo University's aircraft carrier was using American propeller planes from World War II.

It's not even the later F4U or F8F, but the old version of the F4F. Please, that's a relic from the previous version!

This not only caused widespread ridicule from Japan and certain individuals, but even the people in the country were beginning to lose their composure.

Although everyone knows that their own technology is backward, but the propeller...

The groundbreaking appearance of 011 was due to the fact that most of the enthusiasm for carrier-based aircraft was dampened. There was even a lot of criticism in the country, saying that it was useless for the navy to buy old aircraft carriers from World War II and it was a waste of military spending.

The navy is accustomed to being criticized, but it is much better than in previous years.

In the past few years, the Navy received not only donations, but also more importantly, pornographic films and even harsher criticism.

Now, they just want to make a fortune quietly and develop themselves.

The country is still remembering to be tolerant and give way to the economy, so it is really not appropriate to attract attention.

The actual effect is similar. The greatest pleasure of the 011 team every day is to deconstruct the aircraft carrier, and then find out that they are behind in every aspect, and spend their time in a sea of ​​victory.

"Gentlemen, the latest intelligence is that a new ship has appeared in the south." The door was pushed open by the intelligence officer. The expert with the most vicious smile coughed a few times and asked nonchalantly:
"The second Type 011? There's no need to be so nervous. I guarantee they won't have any usable carrier-based aircraft before 1999, and they won't have any usable third-generation carrier-based aircraft before 2005."

"No, not an aircraft carrier."

"A destroyer? Jiangnan-class or Jiangnan-II-class?"

The intelligence officer said nothing, but just posted the aerial photos on the whiteboard.

The experts looked over, and after a few seconds of silence, someone asked doubtfully:

"Sir, where did you find this high-definition color picture? I've studied the final battle of the Yamato for a long time, but I've never seen this angle before."

"Look at these three turrets... Oh, you should sort the photos and not mix them up.

This photo is valuable, keep it."

The intelligence officer poked the time watermark in the upper right corner with his finger and said expressionlessly:

"Three hours ago, a P8A drone clearly captured a formation of an unknown battleship, two Type 051s, and one Type 053H, heading north along the same route as Type 011 in the strait."

Dead silence.

After a long time, an expert looked at the calendar and said uncertainly:
"It's the end of October, not April Fools' Day, and I'm not that demented yet."

"Unknown battleship? Don't you kids even recognize Yamato?"

"The other boats do look very similar to the Jiangnan class, but this composite photo is definitely a spoof."

"That was a good prank."

Experts still refuse to believe it and would rather believe that someone is playing a prank.

It was not until the intelligence officer did not respond for a long time and his face remained serious that their smiles slowly froze.

"This, this, this is not true!"

……

The 001 battleship was dispatched in the afternoon, and because it was accompanied by three missile destroyers and frigates, it still aroused high vigilance from the outside world.

These three warships of the North Sea Fleet suddenly headed south at high speed half a month ago. At first, people thought they were going to escort the 011 aircraft carrier. Later, after no trace of them was found, the outside world has been paying attention to them.

At night, an F5 first saw the huge ship that looked like a small mountain in the strait. The pilot suspected that he was driving due to fatigue. He ignored the warnings on the radio and approached to observe. He escaped before the J-8II arrived, and then quickly reported to the Pacific Fleet.

After hearing the report, the Pacific Fleet angrily accused the F5 pilot of talking nonsense, but believed that the appearance of the three destroyers and frigates was worthy of attention. In the early morning, it dispatched a P8A to search, which almost made the entire crew suspect that they were in a state of time and space confusion.

The news about the P8A also annoyed the base commander, who suspected that they had taken too many hits and sent an F15J from the Self-Defense Forces. It was a long time before he had to admit the fact.

Even after layers of verification and with sufficient photographic evidence, this information was still met with skepticism when it was transmitted back to the mainland, and everyone who saw it would tilt their heads and make a black question mark face.

The Yamato appeared in the Todai-Haikai Fleet. This must be God's joke.

But the Japanese authorities were the most touched. The Maritime Guard and the Air Guard were confused for a long time, and finally organized an immediate investigation.

They had just been deployed once not long ago because of the 011 aircraft carrier, and now they are even more eager to see how the YAMATO legend is resurrected.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs didn't even dare to ask publicly, fearing embarrassment from being a prank.

Even the well-informed media couldn't help but frown. They showed no enthusiasm at all when reporting on the aircraft carrier, but instead kept confirming the source of the news.

When scattered news spread back to China, domestic netizens became even more skeptical.

They believed it when they heard about another aircraft carrier, but a battleship? Forget it!

(End of this chapter)