In the equipment planning after 2045, the Navy occupied the majority, and the Navy's problems were the most prominent.

Although before the outbreak of the Second Indian Ocean War, China's four major shipyards had twelve super-ship platforms and could start construction of twelve super-aircraft carriers at the same time, this advantage was not obvious, and even no advantage, because by the end of that year, the United States had built 14 super-ship platforms, and two were under construction, and 16 super-aircraft carriers could be built at the same time.

More importantly, the construction cycle of naval ships is longer. [bsp;   Taking the C3 aircraft carrier as an example, after the project was established in 2027, it took eighteen years to officially start construction and will not be expected to be put into service until 2050. Even if human factors are excluded, the cycle of the C3 aircraft carrier from the project establishment to the first batch of completion and service will be more than ten years.

Fortunately, slow work produces meticulous work.

The first ship, named "Tarzan", is a new type of warship that is completely different from any previous aircraft carrier.

In terms of ship type, the C-3 class adopts a three-body structure, that is, on both sides of the main hull, there is a stable body with a length of about two-thirds of the main hull. The biggest advantage of the three-body structure is that it improves stability, so that the aircraft carrier can control the pitch within three degrees and the roll within two degrees under the sixth sea conditions. In addition, the attitude control thrusters on both sides can operate normally even in the seventh sea conditions. You must know that any of the previous aircraft carriers could only operate normally under the fifth sea conditions, and could not perform combat tasks under the sixth sea conditions.

Thanks to the trimaran type, the "Taishan" class adopts a new flight deck layout, that is, an oblique deck with an angle of 11 degrees is set on both sides of the direct take-off deck in the center head, and an electromagnetic catapult is placed at the front end of each oblique deck, increasing the total number of catapults to four. The biggest benefit of this design is that it solves the problem of aircraft carrier recovery capacity being lower than the dispatch capacity in one fell swoop, and can recover two fighter jets at the same time and recover 60 fighter jets within half an hour, while the "Kunlunshan" class can only recover thirty at the same time.

After the flight deck has been completely changed, the arrangement of the elevator has become more reasonable. All four elevators are centrally deployed in the center of the main hull, that is, between two oblique decks, and directly behind the deck. Thanks to this, the utilization efficiency of the elevator is much higher than that of the arrangement on both sides of the deck. More importantly, after the elevator is no longer arranged on both sides of the deck, a fully enclosed hangar can be used, and thicker protective armor can be installed on both sides of the hull, which greatly improves the hull structure and the ability to deal with electromagnetic warfare.

The changes followed were also the hangar under the flight deck. The entire hangar was divided into two parts, located between the main hull and the two sides of the stable bodies. The middle was separated by the cabins of the officers and soldiers set up inside the main hull, command center and communication center, ensuring that when any side was shot, the other side would not be affected, greatly improving the anti-strike capability of the aircraft carrier. In addition, the sea is below the deck of the hangar, and a comprehensive loss pipe system is deployed on the outside, which can maximize the efficiency of the loss pipe. It should be noted that in previous naval battles, the most prone thing for aircraft carriers to have problems was the hangar, and the entire ship was destroyed due to the uncontrollable fire in the hangar.

Of course, this design is not without problems.

The first batch of four "Tarshan"-class islands were set at about one-third of the captain from the stern of the ship. Three of the four elevators were at the front end of the island and one behind the island. As a result, the islands became the biggest obstacle to aviation operations and affected aviation operation efficiency. From the second batch, the islands were reduced by one-third and moved to the rear of the No. 4 elevator, that is, near the stern of the ship. This problem was solved.

Compared with the "Kunlun Mountain" level, the displacement of the "Taishan" level has increased by more than 50%.

Its standard displacement reached 144,200 tons, full load displacement exceeded 177,000 tons, and the second batch reached 188,600 tons.

Fortunately, the huge displacement did not have a serious negative impact.

With two jh-44 fusion nuclear reactors, the total output power of the power system of the "Taishan" class reached an astonishing 1,400 megawatts, and the propulsion power of the four main electric thrusters was 1.3 million horsepower. Thanks to the low-resistance three-body structure, its maximum designed navigation speed is as high as forty-five knots, and it can continue to sail at a speed of forty knots. During the trial sailing, the maximum speed exceeded forty knots. When sailing for forty knots, the remaining power of the "Taishan" class was as high as seven hundred megawatts, which can provide electricity for all electronic equipment on the warship and eight sets of last-stage defense systems while driving four large electromagnetic catapults. Even at forty knots, the remaining power is more than 500 megawatts, which can ensure the normal operation of eight sets of last-stage defense systems.

Starting from the second batch, the jh-44 was replaced with the jh-44b type, with a total output power of 1,600 megawatts, and the propulsion power of the propulsion system increased to 1.5 million horsepower. Due to the increase in displacement and the draft depth, the maximum navigation speed did not significantly increase.

In fact, the "Tarzan" class is also the first warship to adopt a controllable fusion reactor.

It is precisely with such a strong power system that Chinese ship designers dared to adopt such a bold design and used a large number of advanced equipment. For example, the "Taishan" class electromagnetic catapult can eject carrier-based fighter jets with a maximum take-off weight of 50 tons, which is 50% higher than the "Kunlunshan" class. In the last defense system, the "Taishan" class took the lead in using medium-caliber coil electromagnetic guns, increasing the interception distance from ten kilometers in the past to twenty kilometers, and increasing the interception efficiency by four to five times.

Without sufficient power supply, it is impossible to be equipped with so many power-consuming equipment.

Of course, the biggest change is still the speed.

Before this, most warships had a speed of about thirty knots, and only the maximum speed of the "Free" and "Independent" class coastal combat ships in the United States reached 45 knots. The emergence of the "Tarzan" class was equivalent to directly increasing the speed standard of large warships to 45 knots.

It can be said that this is also the most unique requirement of the Chinese Navy.

The reason is very simple. When the fleet is not as large as the US Navy, the Chinese Navy must increase the speed of warships so that the fleet can quickly transfer before various battlefields, rather than wasting more time during the transit process, so as to improve the combat efficiency of the fleet.

In addition, several naval battles participated by the Chinese Navy have proved the importance of speed.

In a sense, warships with fast speeds can often gain favorable positions and take the initiative.

This was very obvious during the Second Indian Ocean War, that is, the aircraft carrier of the task force is significantly higher than that of the Indian fleet, and therefore has the initiative. Imagine that if the task force is not most of the main warships with nuclear power and can continue to sail at the highest speed, but like the Indian fleet, it would have to replenish fuel every two or three days, I am afraid the result of the "Maldives Naval Battle" will be completely different.

At that time, it was Mu Haoyang who proposed that the continuous speed of the C3 aircraft carrier must not be less than forty knots, and the maximum must be 45 knots.

In fact, it is this performance indicator that has had a decisive impact on the "Tarzan" level design.

You should know that before 2040, the C3 aircraft carrier was only a comprehensive improvement type of the "Kunlun Mountain" class to a large extent, that is, to solve the problems existing at the "Kunlun Mountain" class, rather than starting from scratch and designing a new aircraft carrier with completely different structures.

Because if an ordinary ship model wants to reach a maximum speed of 45 knots, the output power of the propulsion system is more than twice that of the trimaran, the designer adopted the trimaran, and thus produced the design method of double angled decks, central ship islands, and central elevators.

Similarly, when the number of carrier-based fighter jets is not less than 100, the displacement of the aircraft carrier cannot be less than 120,000 tons, so the output power of any fission nuclear reactor does not meet the performance requirements, so a more powerful fusion reactor has to be used.

Of course, the direct result is that the "Tarzan" level construction price is ridiculously high.

Including the research and design funds, the construction unit price of the first four "Taishan" class ships was as high as 370 billion yuan, two to four times that of the "Kunlunshan" class. Even if the research and design funds were excluded, it reached 280 billion yuan, and the construction price per unit displacement was 20% higher than that of the "Kunlunshan" class.

This growth rate is definitely not small.

In fact, it was precisely the high construction costs that limited the number of purchases of the Navy, and the number of construction in the first batch was reduced from six to four.

Even if it is divided into three batches, the total number of construction is only twelve.

You should know that the "Kunlun Mountain" class built ten ships when its technology was not mature enough. As an aircraft carrier that took eighteen years to design, there was an urgent need for world wars, especially the US Navy's shipbuilding plan, it is definitely not reasonable to build only twelve ships of the "Tarshan" class.

If there is enough funding, the Navy will definitely not buy only twelve ships.

For the Chinese Navy, the biggest problem is that there is insufficient funding.

The construction of four "Tarshan"-class ships would cost 22% of the Navy's total equipment budget in 2045, and also include the war budget. In fact, the Navy did not spend the war budget at all, with about 780 billion yuan in savings. Without this savings, it would be impossible for the Navy to start building the "Tarshan" class in 2045, and it would have to be postponed until 2046.

The "Tarzan"-class aircraft carriers are not only affected by funding.

At that time, almost all of the Navy's equipment plans had insufficient funds, otherwise they would not have cooperated with the Air Force for several years on the "j4" project.

In this way, the Chinese Navy faces a completely new problem: how to build a fleet with more powerful combat power with less money.

Obviously, the original development model is no longer working.
Chapter completed!