As a navy general, Mu Haoyang is most concerned about the navy.

At the end of 2045, Mu Haoyang asked Zhang Yuting to submit a report on naval fleet organization and mission planning, which made clear explanations on the combat use of the fleet.

This report opens a new chapter in China's naval shipbuilding project.

In terms of combat use, the fleet has three main missions: one is to seize air supremacy and sea supremacy, the second is to provide support to ground troops, and the third is to escort merchant ships. These three main combat uses are not consistent with the technical requirements for warships. The former requires the fleet to have strong air supremacy and sea attack capabilities, the second requires the fleet to have strong ground strike capabilities, and the latter requires the fleet to have strong anti-submarine capabilities.

Influenced by this, Mu Haoyang personally drafted the "Naval Platform Project" in early 2046.

According to his plan, in addition to aircraft carriers, the navy's large surface warships are mainly divided into two platforms, namely "large comprehensive platform" and "thousand-ton escort platform". The former combines the functions of cruisers and destroyers, and realizes functionalization by combining different mission modules, while the latter mainly replaces frigates and focuses on anti-submarine combat. In fact, these two platforms have great commonalities, but the requirements for displacement of anti-submarine combat missions are not very high and are not suitable for large platforms, so they are divided separately.

To put it simply, it is to reduce costs.

After the platform is generalized, not only can the design and construction costs be greatly reduced, because large-scale procurement of basic accessories can minimize the procurement price, but also reduce maintenance and use costs in later use, that is, reduce the difficulty of logistics support.

Of course, there are also extremely obvious benefits in tactical use.

For example, when the fleet performs sea control tasks and competes for sea control with the enemy fleet, the "large-scale comprehensive platform" can be equipped with air defense modules, focusing on fleet air defense operations, and providing strong cover for aircraft carriers. After seizing sea control power, it can be replaced with a ground strike module to replace the carrier-based aviation force to perform some strike tasks, and improve the fleet's combat efficiency and cost ratio in strike operations.

However, generalization also increases the difficulty of design.

It was not until the end of 2046 that Dalian Shipyard, Jiangnan Shipyard, Qingdao Shipyard and Guangzhou Shipyard submitted basic design plans. In addition, three private shipyards, including the Southern China Shipyard in Ningbo, the Northern China Shipyard in Weihai, and the China Shipyard in Zhanjiang, also participated in the competition and submitted design plans to the Navy before the four large state-owned shipyards.

Like the Air Force's combat aircraft program, private shipyards performed very positively but lacked experience.

In the end, Mu Haoyang chose the plan submitted by Guangzhou Shipyard and gave Qingdao Shipyard a contract to continue research and development as a backup plan.

The design plan of the Guangzhou Shipyard also adopts a trimaran, using a jh-44 reactor with a maximum speed of more than fifty knots and can continue to sail at a speed of forty-five knots. When equipped with different mission modules, the full load displacement is between 24,000 tons and 27,000 tons, and the standard displacement is between 21,000 tons and 22,000 tons. The basic weapon configuration is six sets of last-stage interception systems, a large-diameter solenoid cannon and a hangar that can accommodate three tilted rotary wing aircraft, and two rockets boost anti-submarine torpedo launchers. The standard electronic equipment is a three-coordinate to sea-to-air

Warning radar, a two-coordinate sea search radar, six sets of fire control radars in the final interception system and a comprehensive anti-submarine detection system. When performing air defense combat missions, it is equipped with two sets of air defense mission modules, carrying a total of 128 regional air defense anti-missile missiles and 128 medium-range air defense anti-missile missiles; in addition, an active and passive multi-mode air defense detection and guidance radar will be added. When performing strike missions, it is equipped with two sets of strike mission modules, namely two large-diameter coil electromagnetic guns, and 4,600 spare shells; in addition, a multi-task mode naval gun control system will be added.

According to this design plan, the construction price of the basic hull is 120 billion yuan, the procurement price of the air defense module is 28 billion yuan, the procurement price of the strike module is 26 billion yuan, and the procurement price of the two different task electronic modules is 17 billion yuan and 8 billion yuan respectively.

In fact, this is also a very expensive warship.

You should know that if you purchase it in a one-to-three way, you will purchase three sets of mission modules for each warship, and air defense and strike each account for half, and each purchase one set of mission electronic modules, the purchase price of a single warship is about 200 billion yuan, which is equivalent to three-fifths of the "Tarshan" class!

The result was that Mu Haoyang had to threaten the Guangzhou Shipyard and let it sell its design plan.

To put it bluntly, it is not built by Guangzhou Shipyard alone, but other shipyards are also allowed to join in and introduce competitive mechanisms in the construction environment.

The benefits of doing so are obvious.

According to Mu Haoyang's plan, in the future aircraft carrier battle group, each "Taishan" class will be equipped with four "large comprehensive warships", so the number of construction of the first batch of "large comprehensive warships" will reach 16. If all of them are built by Guangzhou Shipyard, not only will the construction period not keep up with the "Taishan" class, but the price will also be difficult for the navy to bear. Only by letting all shipyards join can enough warships be built in time.

You should know that any escort warship in the past could not cooperate with the "Tarzan" class combat because the speed was too slow.

At the end of June 2047, the Navy officially placed an order to purchase four ships from the Guangzhou Shipyard and the Qingdao Shipyard. Because Jiangnan Shipyard and Dalian Shipyard are the main contractors of the "Taishan" class aircraft carrier, the construction task is very heavy, so they did not receive the order. The construction contract for the other eight ships was awarded to three private shipyards. The result was that the quotation of private shipyards was 20% lower than that of Guangzhou Shipyard.

For this matter, the Guangzhou Shipyard also went to court with the Navy.

The reason is that the Navy's administrative intervention has disrupted the market economy and caused huge losses to Guangzhou shipyards, which violated the principle of fair competition.

In the end, the Navy reached a settlement agreement with the Guangzhou Shipyard.

Starting from the second batch, Guangzhou Shipyard charged design usage fees to other shipyards involved in the construction, and the money was eventually transferred to the Navy.

Of course, the Navy did not suffer any losses, because private shipbuilding yards have taken this opportunity to master the construction technology of large warships.

Later, when designing the second type of "large-scale comprehensive warship", the successful victory of private shipyards was not unrelated to participating in the construction work.

In fact, private enterprises have always done better than state-owned enterprises in terms of cost control.

This is especially important for the navy who is short of money.

Of course, this large-scale comprehensive warship named "Heilongjiang" class is itself an epoch-making warship, and has also elevated the Sino-US naval arms race to a new level.

You should know that compared with the Heilongjiang class, any kind of warship in the past seems to be behind.

First, in terms of speed, only the Heilongjiang class can accompany the "Taishan" class to combat, and the speed of other warships cannot meet the requirements. Secondly, in terms of comprehensive combat capabilities, the "Heilongjiang" class has been several times higher than that of the "Taiwan" class, and has stronger combat flexibility. Finally, in terms of logistics support, the advantages of the "Heilongjiang" class are also extremely obvious, and the ports that meet the basic requirements of the navy can be fully maintained.

At that time, the navy valued the most was combat flexibility.

When performing air defense missions, the combat effectiveness of the Heilongjiang class is four to five times that of the "Taiwan" class, mainly because of the installation of six final interception systems. The "Taiwan" class is limited by the power supply system, and can only drive two final interception systems even without using the main gun. When performing strike missions, the "Heilongjiang" class has three coil electromagnetic guns, with ammunition delivery capacity five times that of the "Taiwan" class, and the reserve ammunition volume is three times that of the "Taiwan" class, and the combat sustainability is far exceeding that of the "Taiwan" class.

In fact, the "Heilongjiang" level can be fully matched with combat modules.

In this way, the Heilongjiang class can adapt to almost all combat tasks, and its comprehensive combat capability is more than five times higher than that of the "Taiwan" class.

Compared with the increase in combat capabilities, the increase in cost is nothing.

In addition, the Heilongjiang class will replace the original Kunming class destroyer in a one-to-two way, thereby significantly reducing the difficulty of logistics support.

Judging from the situation at that time, the Navy had no second choice.

According to Mu Haoyang's plan, each "Taishan" class will receive direct cover from four "Heilongjiang" class, which is enough to cope with any intensity of naval battles.

The problem is that the "Heilongjiang" class did not build forty-eight ships at all, only twenty-four ships were built.

The main reason is that the Guangzhou Shipyard is firmly sting on design patents, resulting in the "Heilongjiang"-class procurement prices, forcing the Navy to order the second "large-scale comprehensive warship" from private shipyards after signing the second batch of eight purchase orders with the Guangzhou Shipyard.

As a result, after 2050, private shipyards became the main partner of the Navy.

At that time, the first batch of large comprehensive warships named "Han" class had as many as twenty-four, and a total of forty-eight were built. Not only were the "Taishan" class aircraft carriers fighting, they were incorporated into the amphibious fleet and became the largest large warship with the largest number of equipment in the early stages of World War III. In a sense, the "Han" class large comprehensive warships were the main pillars for the Chinese Navy to turn defeat into victory on the battlefield.

Of course, the Navy needs more than just aircraft carriers and large warships.

In many cases, small and medium-sized warships can be competent for many secondary tasks, such as escorting the fleet, so there is no need for the navy to purchase all large warships.

For the Chinese Navy, which has pacified the Indian Ocean, the importance of the escort mission has also been greatly improved.

It can even be said that whether the Chinese Navy can realize its value in the world war depends mainly on whether it can effectively protect the strategic routes in the Indian Ocean.
Chapter completed!