Rebirth of the Qing Empire

The First World War did not end as quickly as the participating countries expected when the war first broke out. Instead, as the war developed, more and more countries participated in the war, the scale of the war became larger and larger, and the scope of the war became wider and wider.

Yue Guang has entered the stage of a protracted war of attrition that neither party involved in the war is willing to accept. Unprecedented huge casualties, material losses and the destruction of civilization have made both parties involved in the war crazy. A real human catastrophe! How could they possibly care?

economy?!

But this war, destined to last for a long time and with the widest scope in history, had a huge demand for supplies, but it provided the Qing Empire, which was far away from the war in Europe, with a golden opportunity! After completing a series of external expansion operations

Later, the Qing Empire had a peaceful and superior domestic and international environment, which promoted its national economy to develop by leaps and bounds. The urgent demand for goods in the global market required continuous large-scale production by the Qing Empire, which promoted the development of the Beining area.

The basic industrial system has rapidly entered a mature stage.

With the development and utilization of abundant oil and natural gas in Heilongjiang Province, Nanhua Province, Indochina and other places, as well as the Tianjin Oilfield, Beining's petrochemical industry has developed tremendously, accelerating the maturity of internal combustion engines, automobiles, aviation, shipbuilding and other manufacturing industries.

The maturity of the industry has further promoted the take-off of basic industries. The take-off of basic industries has intensified the pace of improvement and development of infrastructure such as railways, highways, inland waterways, canals, navigation and aviation, radio applications, electricity, water conservancy, etc., and has rapidly formed a complete

The system has promoted the explosive development of various social undertakings.

The development of various social undertakings has become more and more dependent on science and technology. The Beining District, where many contemporary Chinese scientific and technological elites are concentrated, has experienced a blowout during this period, with a large number of cutting-edge technologies

The results are put into application batch by batch.

Moreover, universities located in several central cities such as Taiyuan, Beijing, Fengtian, Changchun, Harbin, and Jinan produce a large number of outstanding intellectual youths every year. These domestic university graduates, together with the intellectual youths who have returned from studying abroad,

Together, we have built a complete team of scientific and technological talents in the new era in Beining District, so that Beining District has always maintained its scientific and technological strength that ranks first in the world.

Relying on advanced scientific and technological strength and civilization, as well as modern political policies, Bac Ninh has become increasingly developed, and the people's material and spiritual life have reached the standards of prosperity in the contemporary world.

All this has given strong support to the defense undertakings in the Bac Ninh area. Various new weapons and equipment, as well as high-quality officers and soldiers who have received good cultural education or professional skills training, have entered the Bac Ninh military units in batches.

The Beining Army became a truly knowledgeable, professional, and modern army, irreplaceably responsible for the defense tasks of the entire Qing Empire's vast territory.

During this year, the ocean-going strike fleet planned by the Bac Ninh Navy began to take shape. The first three completed "Zhonghua" class aircraft carriers were named "Bac Ninh", "Shanxi" and "Heilongjiang". Construction started the latest

The late but first built "Bac Ninh" first joined the Bac Ninh Navy and began to conduct tactical training in the vast Pacific Ocean between Taiwan Island and Donghua Islands.

The "Zhonghua" class aircraft carrier is 260 meters long, 28 meters wide, and has a full load displacement of more than 35,000 tons. The straight-through flight deck is 270 meters long and 32 meters wide. It uses four new high-power marine fuel-fired boiler steam turbines to propel the main engine.

, 4-axis, with a total power of more than 160,000 horsepower, which can enable the aircraft carrier's top speed to exceed 33 knots and its endurance to 16,000 nautical miles/16 knots.

The reason why this kind of propulsion main engine is used is that the maximum power of a single machine of this kind of main engine can exceed 40,000 horsepower. It is a power level that cannot be achieved by high-speed diesel engine propulsion main engines used in ships. It can greatly reduce the number of propulsion main engines and simplify logistics work.

.And if you use a marine medium or high-speed diesel engine to propel the main engine, you will need 8 or more. In addition to other power devices installed on the ship, such as diesel engine power station systems, the number is even more prohibitive. This

It can be called a "disaster" in terms of logistical maintenance!

On the other hand, with the rapid development of the electric power and machinery industries in Bac Ninh, the design, development and production of high-power steam turbines for thermal power generation have become quite mature, and with the advancement of technology, a new generation of high-performance steam turbines have

It has been widely used and has a strong technical and industrial foundation for the development and production of this new type of naval steam turbine. Replacing advanced diesel engines with "old-fashioned" steam turbines may seem like a step back on the surface, but in fact, the "Zhonghua" class

The propulsion main engine used by the aircraft carrier is a completely new concept of naval steam turbine. Its steam pressure reaches 8 MPa, the steam temperature reaches 500 degrees Celsius, and the thermal efficiency exceeds 40%. Due to technical limitations of contemporary naval steam turbines, the steam

The pressure and temperature are both low, and the thermal efficiency cannot even reach 20%!

Another improvement is that steam turbines require a large amount of fresh water to operate. Therefore, the "China" class aircraft carriers are also equipped with seawater desalination stations using reverse osmosis seawater desalination technology and huge water storage tanks, which can directly convert seawater into

The fresh water is stored and used by the ship, which greatly enhances the ship's independent ocean combat capability.

The carrier-based aircraft of the "Zhonghua" class aircraft carrier can use its own powerful power to taxi and take off from the flight deck of the ship. At this time, the ship is traveling into the wind at a high speed of more than 30 knots to obtain a strong enough deck wind, which is beneficial to

The carrier-based aircraft takes off. When landing, the carrier-based aircraft can use the arresting hook installed on the tail of the aircraft to hook any one of the four hydraulic arresting cables installed in the aircraft landing area at the end of the flight deck of the ship, and then it can be landed in a short time.

Stop within a certain distance and complete the process of taking off, leaving the ship and landing back to the ship.

The "Bac Ninh" aircraft carrier that was first put into service can park all the aircraft of a complete carrier aviation group in the hangar below the flight deck and the parking area on the flight deck, plus the group leader, the planes of each squadron leader, and the backup aircraft.

, the number of carrier aircraft is 80. After all three aircraft carriers are completed and put into service, each aircraft carrier will carry a carrier aviation group, and there will be a total of 3 carrier aviation groups and a carrier aviation force of 240 carrier-based aircraft. The ship

Combining aviation and naval forces, it will be a sea and air force that can compete with the most powerful British Royal Navy fleet in the contemporary world.

Such an ocean-going strike fleet is also Kang Fan's ultimate dream.

The carrier aviation brigade is all equipped with the "Ben Lei" multi-purpose carrier-based aircraft. This multi-purpose carrier-based aircraft is an improved design based on the "Zhuifeng" fighter jet, with a wingspan of nearly 13 meters, a height of nearly 5 meters, and a length of

11 meters, equipped with a latest 18-cylinder radial air-cooled engine with a maximum power of more than 2,000 horsepower. The performance of this engine is very excellent and reliable, and it is being developed into a product with a power ranging from 2,000 to 3,000 horsepower.

series, together with the previous 1,000-horsepower engine series, constitute a complete piston propeller engine system for the Beining aviation industry. Moreover, the experience and technology accumulated in the process are simultaneously expanded to the fields of automobiles, shipbuilding, etc., and are shared with related industries.

We can learn from each other's strengths and make progress together with the results achieved.

After that, Beining Aviation Industry Research Institute began to increase its efforts to develop new concept turbojet engines and continued to make progress in the engine field.

The "Ben Lei" prototype equipped with a 2,000-horsepower piston engine has a top speed of more than 300 knots, a ceiling of 13,000 meters, and a range of 1,300 nautical miles. Due to the strengthened body structure, important parts have been added

Protective armor, so the take-off weight is greatly increased, exceeding 6 tons, which is more than twice that of the "Chasing the Wind" fighter. The aircraft has three models: combat, reconnaissance and attack.

The basic type, which is the attack type, has a crew of 2 people. The cockpit is a two-seater, with the driver in the front and the communications/navigator in the back. 2 machine guns are installed on each wing, for a total of 4 Type 10 machine guns. The installation position is on the machine.

The middle section of the wing is close to the wing root. The Type 10 machine gun is an improved performance version of the Type 07 7.62 mm aviation machine gun. The caliber is increased to 12.7 mm. The gun body structure, manufacturing process and ammunition are accordingly improved. The strike power is greatly increased. It is used to replace

Type 07 is a new generation aviation machine gun. This type of aircraft can carry an 800-kilogram ship attack torpedo or a bomb of the same weight under the belly. The two pylons under the wings can also carry bombs, air-to-ground.

Rockets or auxiliary fuel tanks are the main force used to attack enemy sea and land targets.

The reconnaissance version is equipped with a retractable radar antenna on the belly of the aircraft, and a radar operator's seat and control console are added in the cockpit. The crew members are accordingly increased to three people, namely the driver, communications/navigator and radar operator.

It is mainly responsible for enemy reconnaissance and air command tasks. It only retains two Type 10 machine guns on the wings and has certain self-defense capabilities.

The combat type has a single-seat cockpit, and the onboard weapons are still four Type 10 machine guns. In addition, auxiliary fuel tanks, bombs or air-to-ground rockets can be mounted on the pylons under the wings and belly. It is mainly responsible for protecting the fleet's airspace.

It is used for "Ben Lei" reconnaissance and attack escort missions. It is light in weight, simple in appearance and reasonable in structure. It is the model with the best flight performance among the "Ben Lei" multi-purpose carrier-based aircraft series.

Each carrier aviation group has a clear division of labor for its subordinate squadrons, which are generally divided into one squadron equipped with 18 "Ben Lei" combat aircraft, one squadron equipped with 6 "Ben Lei" reconnaissance aircraft, and 2 squadrons equipped with "Ben Lei" reconnaissance aircraft.

Each squadron is equipped with 24 "Ben Lei" attack aircraft squadrons. Each squadron works together to carry out over-the-horizon air strikes against the enemy fleet.

This novel set of naval battle tactics will be the main way for the Bac Ninh Navy to conduct naval battles with contemporary naval powers in the future. It subverts the traditional naval battle style of naval gun duel within visual range and will definitely bring another huge shock to the contemporary military world!

The pilots of the "Ben Lei" carrier-based aircraft are all outstanding ones selected from active army aviation and naval aviation pilots. They are the elites among the elites. They must undergo rigorous training at simulated aircraft carrier take-off and landing airports on land.

Only after passing the test can you carry out the final and most difficult shipboard take-off and landing training on a real aircraft carrier. It can be said that the pilot of the "Ben Lei" carrier-based aircraft is definitely the best pilot in the Qing Empire and the best in the contemporary era.

Great boys! Therefore, it is not surprising that they are pursued by many girls.

"I really envy them. If I were a few years younger, I would definitely become a carrier-based aircraft pilot." Kang Fan sighed.

Mei Xiang's eyebrows were raised again, "Look, you've become a father, but you're still so wild-hearted!"

Kang Fan smiled and said: "No matter how wild I am, I can't fly out of your hand."