The island of Kuznetsov is huge because it has various electronic equipment and the residence cabins of the main officers.

There are about 2,000 people in an aircraft carrier. In addition to naval soldiers, there are also officers of all levels of all levels. The middle and senior officers will never agree to live under the deck. Therefore, on the huge island, a group of officers were stuffed into the living compartment of a group of officers. The upper floor has a wide view, the air is fresh, but the lower floor is crowded. Although there is exhaust equipment, there is always a smell of motor oil that cannot be dissipated, which is enough for the sailors to live there.

According to Iraq's proposal, the locations of the two rows of anti-ship missiles were opened and become hangars. The locations of sailors originally arranged next to the anti-ship missiles would also be transformed into hangars. In this way, the living environment of personnel began to be crowded. Now, they still want to compress the ship island. Do you want officers and sailors to sleep with the hot shops that only submarines can have? How is this possible!

So, this design was immediately rejected by Anikiev and Belov. An outsider, who made an opinion was really an outsider. Do you think you were building blocks when you were pointing it out like this? You made such a joke.

"The island only needs to accommodate important warship operations, fleet commands, commands of aircraft carrier combat groups, as well as fire, medical, communications, radar departments. Only by freeing up the deck can we park more aircraft on the deck. The more aircraft can be parked on the deck, the stronger the combat effectiveness of our warships and the more quickly we can have. Therefore, the most important deck area on the aircraft carrier must be met as much as possible. This is related to the efficiency of the use of aircraft carriers." Kusai said very persistently.

When Korsai heard what he said, Gorshkov's eyes lit up a little. Because Korsai's ideas were very similar to his!

Gorshkov has always advocated that the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers lies in carrier-based aircraft. He has long advocated super-large aircraft carriers equipped with steam catapults. In the 1970s, he instructed the Neva Design Bureau to design the 1153 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, but unfortunately it was rejected by the senior management.

Kusai’s proposal to expand the hangar and add catapults is completely in line with his ideas. The deck area is also a very important place. He has always hoped that the Soviet aircraft carriers are like this.

"But there will be at least three hundred to four hundred sailors and officers' member cabins that cannot be solved," Bellov said.

No matter what the reason is, those people are really unable to be placed.

I originally thought that this sentence would make the other party embarrassed and unable to place the crew cabin. Is it impossible to change the bridge? Unexpectedly, the improvement suggestions put forward by Kusai were even more bold and made them even more unimaginable: "Then add another layer."

Add another layer? None of the personnel from the Neva Design Bureau understood the meaning of Kusai.

"The hull of the Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier has ten floors (some say the deck is also one floor, then eleven floors) and our aircraft carrier has only seven floors in total. Therefore, we can add a two-meter-5-meter-high middle layer in the middle. With this floor, we can arrange additional crew living compartments, and we can use additional space to arrange some living and entertainment facilities." Kusai said.

The standard displacement of the Kitty Hawk class is 60,000 tons, while the standard displacement of the 11435-type second ship Varyag is 57,000 tons, but compared with the two, it is obviously more reasonable for the Kitty Hawk.

The bottom of the "Kitty Hawk" aircraft carrier is the fuel silo, freshwater silo, weapon silo and turbine silo, the 5th to 6th floors are the crew living silo, the food silo, the restaurant and administrative office, the 7th to 8th floors are the carrier-based aircraft maintenance rooms, the maintenance personnel's living silo, and the 9th to 10th floors are the hangar, the combat duty room and the pilot's restaurant.

The upper four floors of Varyag have been occupied by carrier-based aircraft, and there are only three floors below to place other things, which will naturally lead to a serious shortage of people's living environment. Therefore, Kusai proposed to add another layer.

Add another layer? Hearing this sentence, Bellov almost sprayed out a mouthful of water. Do you think this aircraft carrier is built with building blocks? Seven layers are not enough, so add another layer. If this happens, you will have to make large-scale changes on the drawings of Varyag. No, it is simply a brand new design of an aircraft carrier!

"This will cause the entire warship to move upward, the risk of navigation will greatly increase, and the increase in displacement will lead to insufficient power." Although Annikiev also sighed in his heart that this is an outsider, this proposal is very good, but it is a bit whimsical!

"So, we need to significantly reduce the volume of the island. In this way, if the island is reduced, the center of gravity will naturally move down. Only one member compartment is added below, with a height of less than 2.5 meters. At most, the two will offset each other? Moreover, the increase in displacement will not be too much, which can ensure that the original power is sufficiently used." Moreover, if we add a layer to the lower part, the floating outside on the upper will be larger, which means that there will be a slightly expanded deck area and will make more parked fighters..." Kusai talked freely, as if he was the designer of this aircraft carrier, but it is almost the same. The aircraft carrier was built for Iraq, so he naturally needs to put forward his ideas.

Kusai is an amateur, but he firmly believes that what he proposed is right, heavy-duty cruiser? Although this statement is very nice, it is still more realistic to be an orthodox aircraft carrier! Iraq has only obtained such a valuable opportunity after spending high prices and even signing some stolen terms. Kusai will not leave any regrets.

Bellov didn't say anything. Although these proposals were a bit whimsical, he felt that such a plan was feasible. However, in this case, it would not only be necessary to change some of the drawings of the Varyag, which was almost the same as a redesign.

"Are there any other requirements?" said Bellov.

Kusai shook his head and said he had no other opinion.

"In this case, it will take at least three months to six months before our design bureau can complete the drawings of the heavy-duty cruiser ordered by your country," said Bellov.

"We can wait, and our designers will also join you to help you speed up the design progress." Kusai said, this is something Gorbachev agreed. In fact, foreigners are not welcome from top to bottom of the design institute. They have worked closely together.

However, when the Iraqi people came and gave each designer a Swiss watch, the atmosphere began to ease.

"There is another aspect." At this moment, Anikiev said: "I suggest that you can use the method of sliding over and taking off without installing complex steam catapults."

The idea that Kusai originally proposed was that the first one still uses a leap deck, but on the oblique track, two catapults were used.

An aircraft carrier without catapults cannot be called an aircraft carrier, because the jump deck is always a temporary measure. The jumping Su-27 cannot maximize the load capacity and cannot exert all its combat effectiveness. Only with catapults can it not only take off carrier-based fighter jets, but more importantly, it can take off fixed-wing aircraft, such as early warning aircraft and anti-submarine aircraft.

After many developments, the Soviet Union finally adopted the form of this steam catapult on the final nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

In terms of deck layout, Kusai proposed it, which is similar to the latest Soviet design of the heavy-duty cruiser Ulyanovsk.

However, unexpectedly, the chief designer of the design bureau actually asked Kusai to give up this catapult.

Could it be that a thought flashed through Kusai’s mind: Is the Soviet Union’s steam catapult still not up to standard?

In later generations, only the United States, and even France purchased American steam catapults on the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, because the technology of making steam catapults is very complicated.

The principle of a steam catapult is very simple, it is a pair of open cylinders and large pistons. However, it is only mastered by the United States because the technology is very complicated. Of course, there are many statements about how complex the method is, for example, the processing accuracy of the catapult is very high, and for example, the sealing of the catapult is difficult to solve. Some bricks finally said that it is a high-pressure container tank welding technology.

However, no matter what technology it is, it can always be overcome by Soviet technical experts, because the Soviet naval military-industrial institutions are now serving the pride of the Soviet Navy and the aircraft carrier industry. Since the Ulyanovsk that has been designed uses two catapults, it has solved this problem.

In later generations, when the short-lived aircraft carrier was dismantled on the ship platform, two already-made catapults were installed in the training center in Ukraine.

Now, the No. 2 ship of 11435 (some say it is called 11436, that is, order 106) is about to be on board, and the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of 11437 has begun to weld components. Kusai believes that the problem of this catapult has been solved in the Soviet Union. So, what does this chief designer mean? Do you want to restrain Iraq in this regard? This is absolutely not possible, because he has already negotiated with Gorbachev, and the purchase of this time cannot be a shrunken cargo.

"Our aircraft carrier must be equipped with catapults, which is very important for us in Iraq. Our agreement has been reached. Could it be that the great Soviets cannot create qualified catapults?" Kusai asked back. Kusai did not intend to say that, but in order to prevent these guys from using this reason, he could only use this provocation method. You can't say that you don't have the skills yet, right?

Hearing this, Gorshkov also frowned. Could it be that his catapult has not passed yet? This is a project he focused on.

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