.When Mu Haoyang came to Dalian, he realized why Huang Zhibo reminded him of the research manager of the local shipyard.

Dalian is the most important shipbuilding base in northern China, and Dalian Shipyard is one of the most important shipbuilding yards of the Chinese Navy, standing side by side with Jiangnan Shipyard and Guangzhou Shipyard. Over the past few decades, Dalian Shipyard has built dozens of large warships and countless small ships for the Navy.

After Huang Zhibo became the deputy chief of staff, Xu Fantao, who served as the commander of the navy, proposed to re-plan the shipbuilding industry.

According to the new plan, the existing state-owned shipyard will be divided into two groups, north and south. Northern Shipbuilding Industry Group is led by Dalian Shipyard, including Huludao Shipyard, Tianjin Shipyard, Qingdao Shipyard and Lianyungang Shipyard. Southern Shipbuilding Industry Group is led by Jiangnan Shipyard, including Wuhan Shipyard, Fuzhou Shipyard, Guangzhou Shipyard and Zhanjiang Shipyard. Both groups have comprehensive shipbuilding capabilities and can undertake ship construction tasks from 100,000 tons of super aircraft carrier to 500 tons of speedboats, and have independent design units and supporting enterprises.

This plan is just to improve the competitiveness of the shipbuilding industry.

For example, the two leading shipyards have the world's largest dry docks and can build supertankers of 500,000 tons. In terms of military, they mainly undertake the construction of large warships with displacement of more than 5,000 tons, and can independently complete the construction of large ships such as aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, amphibious landing ships, dock landing ships, rapid comprehensive supply ships, submarine support ships, ocean-going surveying ships, large polar scientific research ships and other large ships.

In terms of secondary shipyards, the two groups are also on par.

For example, in the Northern Group, Huludao Shipyard mainly undertakes the construction of submarines, has a strong design team and construction team, can build attack nuclear submarines and strategic nuclear submarines, and can also build large conventional submarines. In the Southern Group, Wuhan Shipyard is the main submarine construction unit, and has built conventional submarines of models 039,040 and 041, but it is temporarily lacking the ability to build nuclear submarines.

For small and medium-sized warships, the two groups also have their own shipbuilding units.

Qingdao Shipyard and Guangzhou Shipyard are the main contractors of the Chinese Navy frigate, and have built dozens of ocean frigates in the 052 series.

Only by enhancing competition can the navy buy the best warships with the least amount of money.

Since it is competition, it is not limited to price.

As soon as Mu Haoyang got off the plane, he was hired by the shipyard research manager who came to pick him up. Although Mu Haoyang didn't recognize the logo with the English letter "b" on the front of the car, the car was big enough and luxurious enough, and it must be several levels higher than Huang Zhibo's car.

On the same day, Mu Haoyang moved into a hotel opened by the shipyard.

From the appearance alone, it is nothing special, it is more like a military guesthouse located in various places, but the decoration and decoration inside are very luxurious. The strange stone standing at the door is worth more than 30 million. As for the hotel waiters, not only are they all beautiful, but they are also very polite.

This made Mu Haoyang a little flattered, he was just a naval colonel.

Needless to say, dinner was eaten in the hotel, but Mu Haoyang couldn't remember the fancy names when the waiter introduced the dishes.

He only had one impression that the dozens of delicious dishes on the dining table would probably be worth the year's allowance.

Of course, this is definitely a conservative estimate.

At the dinner table, Mu Haoyang did not drink, so the research manager who accompanied the guests did not force him to persuade him. Although the research manager mentioned the issue of aircraft carrier transformation several times, Mu Haoyang did not respond.

He didn't even go to the shipyard and hadn't seen the "Huangdi". Why should he talk about the transformation issue?

After dinner, Mu Haoyang went back to sleep.

At night, the phone on the bedside table rang several times, but he didn't answer. If Huang Zhibo was looking for him, he would definitely send someone over and would not call the hotel.

The next morning, Mu Haoyang enjoyed a hearty breakfast.

When he was putting on his clothes, the research manager named Luo Weidong arrived. This made him wonder if there was a surveillance probe installed in the room.

If you have the chance, you have to ask Li Mingyang to send a few people to search.

The hotel is right next to the factory area, and it takes less than ten minutes to drive there.

The "Huangdi" ended its maritime training at the end of July, returned to Dalian Port on August 2, and then sent it to the shipyard to prepare for the upcoming second large-scale transformation.

As we all know, what I bought from Ukraine was just a hull without any additional equipment.

After five years of docking in Dalian Port, the "Huangdi" was towed onto the ship platform for the first large-scale transformation, installed a power system, modified the bridge and flight deck, adjusted the internal cabin structure, added radar and other electronic equipment, repainted the hull, and conducted the first sea test in 2011.

At this time, the "Huangdi" had completely changed.

For example, the twelve-tube heavy anti-ship missile vertical launch device installed in the center of the ship's head leap deck was cancelled, which enhanced the strength of the flight deck and increased the hangar area by hundreds of square meters. At the same time, it was cancelled, and four long-range air defense missile launch devices installed on the outside of the flight deck were replaced by the medium-range air defense missile launch system used on the 052c frigate, which increased the available area of ​​the flight deck by 10%. The biggest modification was on the bridge, reducing the area of ​​the occupied area by half, and installing domestic phased array radars, which made the flight deck more compact, and at the same time increased the area of ​​the flight deck by thousands of square meters. Additional were four sets of rapid-fire guns and four short-range air defense missile launch systems, as well as the equipped electronic jamming launchers, landing guidance assistance systems, etc.

After the first transformation, the "Huangdi" can be said to be a remodel.

Compared with the Kuznetsov, which has the same hull, the strike firepower of the Huangdi has been weakened, and the carrier capacity has been greatly improved.

Under standard conditions, the "Huangdi" can carry forty-six J-15 and twelve Z-8-level helicopters.

However, in 2011, the "Huangdi" did not form practical combat capabilities.

There are two reasons: one is that the J-15 was not developed successfully in time, and Russia closed the Su-33 production line, so there were no available carrier-based fighter jets; the other is that the power system was not up to standard, which seriously limited the tactical performance of the aircraft carrier and limited the combat capability.

In 2013, J-15 began mass production, and the second problem became the main reason for restricting the "Huangdi".

During the first transformation, the biggest problem was the power system.

Initially, the Navy proposed three solutions, one was to use nuclear power, the other was to use gas turbines, and the third was to use steam turbines.

The nuclear power plan was first eliminated because only nuclear reactors developed for 093 and 094 can be used. To drive an aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of more than 60,000 tons and a maximum speed of 30 knots, at least six nuclear reactors are required. Even if the cost is not considered, there is not enough space on the "Huangdi". More importantly, the "Huangdi" was originally designed as a conventional-powered aircraft carrier. If it is changed to a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, major changes must be made to the inside of the ship, such as canceling the flue and enhancing the protection of the reactor compartment, which will inevitably lead to a huge scale of the project and reducing the engineering efficiency. The final cost is likely to exceed the entire cost of rebuilding an aircraft carrier of the same class.

Subsequently, the gas turbine plan was also kicked out for only one reason: China does not have a suitable high-power gas turbine.

Now, the only thing left is the steam turbine plan.

It was around 2006 that the transformation of the "Huangdi"-class destroyer was purchased and large-scale steam turbines were obtained from Russia.

However, the steam turbines purchased from Russia are not up to standard.

In the sea test, the maximum speed of the "Huangdi" only reached 27 knots, which is 10% lower than the basic requirements proposed by the Navy. Although this speed is enough to meet the combat needs of carrier-based aviation, the aircraft carrier only needs to reach 26 knots, and the j-15 can skip and jump from the heavy-load takeoff point on the left with the maximum takeoff weight. However, in practical applications, the 27 knots will definitely not meet the combat needs.

The East China Sea conflict has proved the importance of speed.

In addition to the power failure, reliability is also a key issue. Since the first sea trial, in eight years, the "Huangdi" has been repaired at a port or shipyard. Every time it enters the port, the power system must be fully inspected to ensure that there will be no problems when going to sea next time.

Affected by this, the "Huangdi" has not implemented a full-time combat deployment in the past eight years.

According to the report submitted by the Navy, the longest time for the "Huangdi" to go to sea was only 37 days, which was far from the ninety days proposed at the time of design.

You should know that during combat deployment, US aircraft carriers often have to operate at sea for about half a year.

During World War II, the Enterprise also set a record for continuous deployment for one year and ten months.

With only 37 days of deployment, the "Huangdi" became an aircraft carrier that has not been far away.

It is undeniable that the "Huangdi" plays an extremely important role in the Chinese Navy, because it is the first aircraft carrier with combat capabilities in the Chinese Navy, and it is also a large aircraft carrier that can use conventional fighter jets. Through the "Huangdi", the Chinese Navy has learned about the aircraft carrier and is also familiar with the aircraft carrier. However, from the perspective of military value, the "Huangdi" is very similar to the first aircraft carrier of the Western maritime powers, that is, it does not have practical combat capabilities.

Without urgent combat needs, the "Huangdi" is likely to serve in the Chinese Navy for more than 30 years as a training aircraft carrier, and will not be honorably retired before the first domestically produced aircraft carrier reaches its designed maximum service life. There is no need for the Navy to carry out a second transformation.

It will take at least ten years to build a brand new aircraft carrier to gain full combat effectiveness.

Because the "Huangdi" was modified, I still encountered a lot of trouble when building my own aircraft carrier and still had to cross the river by feeling the stones. The initial construction scale would definitely not be very large. It is impossible to build ten first-class mature aircraft carriers in a row like the United States.

In this way, it is very necessary for the Chinese Navy to carry out a second transformation of the "Huangdi".
Chapter completed!