The deck is wide, and this aircraft carrier, no, is a heavy aircraft cruiser, is more than 300 meters long. Standing on the wide deck, you can feel how huge this steel sea monster is.

When a person stands on this, he will feel his own insignificance.

Mhamad looked at the leap deck in front and sighed in his heart that he almost transformed Pakistan's aircraft carrier into a leap deck. Now it seems that this is incorrect.

The jump deck almost started to rise from the middle of the runway, all the way to the bow of the ship, and was most tilted. In this way, the front end of the deck had no other purpose except for the aircraft taking off. Unlike the US aircraft carrier, the front end could be used as a tarmac. This is a huge waste of space.

In addition to this waste, another point is that the bridge of this aircraft carrier is very huge, almost twice that of an American aircraft carrier. Compared to the lower deck where there is no sunshine, everyone likes to live on the bridge on the upper floor, so most of the space on the upper floor is used to accommodate the officers on the warship.

If the bridge is reduced, at least two or three more aircraft can be left on the deck. You should know that operating the aircraft directly from the deck is much more efficient than using a lift to transport the aircraft from the lower hangar.

The standard displacement is 46,500 tons and the full load displacement is 61,300 tons. This aircraft carrier far exceeds the previous Kiev-class aircraft carrier and meets the standards of heavy aircraft carriers.

"How is Pakistan's Endeavour aircraft carrier, compared to ours?" Mhamad was sighing at the island, and heard Marshal Ogalkov's words coming from his ears.

Although this is just an ordinary greeting, it is still very inappropriate. Who can say that their equipment is poor? Although Pakistan's aircraft carrier is an old aircraft carrier, after several improvements, the displacement has only increased to 40,000 tons, but that is still the pride of the Pakistani Navy.

"This aircraft carrier has a large displacement, but there is no catapult." Mhamad said: "This will make it difficult for the fighter to take off."

Catapult! Of course, Mhamad has a proud place. Although Pakistan's aircraft carrier is old, it uses steam catapults! And the current Soviet aircraft carrier uses a leap deck.

The leap deck is a shortcut to laziness. When the British did not have enough financial resources to build large aircraft carriers, they decided to develop small aircraft carriers. The steam catapult was too bulky, so they came up with such a leap form to use leap for medium or even large aircraft carriers. Only the Soviets in front of them were there.

When Makarov heard Mhamad talk about the catapult, his eyes lit up. Makarov had been struggling for a long time because of the issue of the steam catapult.

"Our carrier-based aircraft can take off without using catapults." Just after Mhamad finished speaking, a technician said: "Our aircraft has an outstanding thrust-to-weight ratio. Just using a ski jump track, they can take off successfully."

Hearing this, Mhamad suddenly exclaimed in his heart that it was not good, no, he just said this, and as a result, he rekindled the internal conflicts between the Soviets.

In the world, only Americans have catapults. However, it is not that the Soviet Union could not develop it, but because of the smoke bombs released by the Americans.

Americans record the bad aspects of catapults, which are complex in structure and prone to failure. Steam consumes a lot of energy and is not worth the effort. Therefore, what Americans like is the British-style leap deck.

The Americans successfully fooled the Soviets. Within the Soviet military, there were many bricks who believed that catapults were not necessary to be equipped, mainly aircraft designers. They believed that if an aircraft used catapults to forcefully accelerate the takeoff, it would need to strengthen the aircraft structure. The powerful acceleration would allow the body to bear huge force. If strengthened, the performance of the fighter would be reduced and the failure rate of the aircraft would be greatly increased.

Even with your butt, you can think of what these people are thinking. They don’t want their planes to make large-scale changes, especially the Su-27! This type of aircraft has to lose weight due to the counterweight of the nose. Even the beam has been punched with holes. Let this type of aircraft be on board, and the increase in weight is enough to be a headache, not to mention taking off, and constantly strengthening it will make the body very bulky and greatly reduce the air combat capability.

In order to study aircraft carriers, the Soviets built a large carrier-based onshore simulation training system for onshore aircraft at Saki Air Force Base in the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine. It includes a T-1 ground sliding deck, a carrier-based aircraft landing blocking device, command and control system and other facilities. From the outside, it is exactly the same as the upper layer of the aircraft carrier. Moreover, in order to simulate the wind and waves encountered by the aircraft carrier at sea, the entire deck can also shake left and right under the action of the hydraulic cylinder on the lower layer. The entire system was officially put into use in 1982. The Soviets named this system "Nitka". It can be used to study technology and train pilots.

In later generations, the Soviet Union collapsed, and this system was naturally left to Ukraine. As a result, if the Russians wanted to train naval carrier-based aircraft pilots, they had to come here to rent them.

In order to develop an aircraft carrier, the Soviets also simultaneously began the development of catapults. In 1982, the booster equipment began to be developed. First, the 1:10 catapult model was manufactured. The first physical catapult was built in the mid-1983. In 1986, this booster equipment began to be installed on the "Nitka" aircraft carrier onshore test system, with the length of the ejection cylinder being 90 meters. After two years of testing, in later generations, in 1988, this catapult passed the state cross-departmental joint acceptance test, and the Soviets completed the development of the catapults.

It is now 1987, and the catapult is still being experimented with, and the arguments about the catapult are also endless.

Aviation personnel believe that their planes can take off without catapults. That thing is purely a burden, and pilots will feel quite uncomfortable when they eject.

The engineering and technical personnel of Black Sea Shipyard have gradually become more inclined to the opinions of aviation designers, believing that catapults are not needed.

But at the same time, the aircraft carrier designers and the military of the old Neva Design Bureau strictly refuted the "catapter useless theory". The two sides argued endlessly.

The military has a clearer understanding that catapults can enable carrier-based aircraft to have real combat capabilities, and ski jumping and takeoff is just a shortcut but reduces performance.

Even Gorshkov, who stepped down as commander of the navy in 1985, said: "If we do not provide our carrier-based aircraft with the ability to eject and takeoff, we will not be forgiven by history."

Unfortunately, the current Debis and the second Riga do not use catapults, and only the third nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Ulyanovsk" planned to equip two catapults on the oblique deck. Later generations ended in vain with the collapse of the Soviet building.

The person in front of him may be the leapfrog in the Black Sea shipyard or the aviation designer to coordinate the aviation issues on the aircraft carrier. Facing this person, Mhamad knew in his heart that if he wanted to convince them, he needed to speak with facts and data.

"We use catapults to make the Tomcat fighter fully loaded, that is, with six Immortal missiles, four Sparrow missiles and two Rattlesnake missiles, the aircraft takes off from the aircraft carrier with oil. It cruises for half an hour on the defense circle of 600 kilometers around the aircraft carrier. When returning, it can still have one-tenth of fuel. When we carry four Immortal missiles, our cruise time can be increased to forty-five minutes." Mhamad said: "Where is your leap deck? Can your carrier-based aircraft take off with oil and full load?"

Joke, the Su-27k, which was equipped with a 4-degree digital telex, has been added to the front canard. Although the external load of the Su-33 named it reached 6,500 kilograms, the maximum weight should be only 26 tons by taking off by the ski jump deck on the bow of the aircraft carrier. If the sea climate conditions are harsh, the takeoff weight will be reduced. Even if the takeoff weight of 26 tons is calculated, the Su-33 can only use a load of about two tons under the condition of 60% fuel, which is the weight of the 8 air-to-air missiles used for basic air combat.

The powerful body size of the Su-33 prototype was wasted, and it could not be fully oiled or fully loaded, which completely restricted the performance of combat effectiveness, shortened the time for this heavy fighter to stay air, and greatly reduced the weight of weapons carrying. Compared with land-based fighters, it was also incomparable.

"We can refuel in the form of companion flights." H?? Chernyakov, a technician from the Sukhoi Design Bureau, coordinated the construction of the aircraft carrier here. He faced the Pakistani president without any fright. If he wanted to increase the amount of ammunition, he could reduce fuel before taking off and hang more ammunitions. After taking off, he would use another fighter to carry all the fuel. After flying up, he would refuel his partner so that the fighter could have more fuel.

"Not bad." Mhamad nodded: "Ten fighters take off, five fighters, five refueling, half of your aircraft on this aircraft carrier are refueling aircraft."

After Mhamad said this, the other party's face felt embarrassed. This method can only be a way to take advantage of tricks. In actual combat, if this is the case, it is really inappropriate.

"Besides, the use of the jumping method has also seriously limited aircraft with insufficient engine performance, such as carrier-based early warning aircraft. Even if it can fly with a ski jump, the time to stay is greatly shortened. If you want to last, you have to refuel the tanker." Mhamad said the words "refueling" very seriously.
Chapter completed!