Vol 2 Chapter 2620: Melbourne problem

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Melbourne’s current problem is actually not small. Melbourne’s biggest problem now is caused by her catapult. In fact, this problem is very big for Melbourne. It’s just that Melbourne’s cover is better now, but in the eyes of a tall fat man, That's it.
Melbourne’s catapult is a steam catapult. The catapult has been introduced earlier. The early catapults can be said to be diverse. The steam catapult is a major contribution to the development of aircraft carriers in the UK. It is relatively mature before the steam catapult. It is a hydraulic catapult. The steam catapult turns hydraulic pressure into steam. The efficiency has been greatly improved and it can also eject heavier carrier-based aircraft.
The steam catapult is simply steam propelling the cylinder. The cylinder is connected to the aircraft to achieve the effect of ejecting the aircraft. The source of the steam is the power system. Because the power system of the warship in the era when the steam catapult was proposed is mainly steam power, steam comes from the power system. Yes, this is a big problem with this ejection method and the biggest problem currently facing Melbourne.
The steam of the steam catapult comes from the power system, and the lack of steam in the power system will affect the speed of the battleship. This is a big problem caused by this ejection method. The US super aircraft carrier Nimitz class aircraft carrier comes Say, when the speed of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is 30 knots, the speed of ejecting eight carrier-based aircraft will drop from 30 to 22 knots, and the speed of ejecting twelve aircraft will drop below 20 knots. For aircraft carriers, speeds below 20 knots in the combat zone are dangerous.
Melbourne’s biggest problem now is this. The Skyhawk and S2 anti-submarine aircraft are indeed excellent, but both carrier-based aircraft need to be ejected and taken off. Melbourne was originally an emergency aircraft carrier built during the British war. Melbourne’s original plan was post-war. The existence that can be dismantled in three years, and many commercial ship standards were used in the construction process, which is a big problem.
The US Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Not to mention that it was planned to use a steam catapult when it was first designed, but Melbourne never thought of using a steam catapult at the beginning. There is no problem with installing a steam catapult, but you should pay attention to Melbourne. The original design speed was 25 knots. After this world has been transformed, Melbourne's speed has been improved. The power system has also made great progress, but the Melbourne power system after the transformation does not take into account the steam catapult at all. problem.
This makes an attack wave in Melbourne, like those aircraft carriers in history, basically consist of eight aircraft. If there is more Melbourne, the speed will be too slow. Therefore, under normal circumstances, an attack wave in Melbourne is eight aircraft. Only in emergency situations. Ten planes will take off, which makes Melbourne's attack power drop a lot, because in the past, Melbourne's carrier-based aircraft used to attack waves but 20 went up. The tall fat man actually didn't understand Melbourne's behavior.
The tall fat man clearly knows that an attack wave in Melbourne does not need to be just an airplane. The speed of Melbourne is actually not slow. The world's catapult airplanes are different from history. In fact, it is not a problem at all for Melbourne to eject more than ten airplanes at a time. Fatty didn’t understand Melbourne’s behavior at first. According to Melbourne’s view, frequent changes in her speed would make it impossible to adapt to the large number of corvettes that escorted her. Gao Fatty’s argument is okay, but this requires a process. Aircraft carriers need to be escorted, but because Because of the steam catapult, Melbourne’s speed changes very frequently. This must be coordinated with the warship that escorts her, so Melbourne has been coordinating with the big numbers during this period of time. Melbourne will do it after this matter is resolved. Out of adjustment.
In fact, the big numbers have just been adapted before, because Melbourne’s steam catapults are not new. After the first awakening, Melbourne has steam catapults, but now the catapult has changed with the change of carrier aircraft. The Skyhawk attack aircraft is much heavier than previously used, which makes the catapult aircraft require a lot more steam.
In fact, before the second awakening, Melbourne did not use catapults much, because for her, those carrier-based aircraft are very good and can take off without catapults. Only when taking off and landing at the same time will the catapults be used. But in this case It is relatively small, and it is different after the second awakening. After the second awakening, the carrier-based aircraft is heavier and must use a catapult to take off.
The tall fat man still knows Melbourne very well, and it is basically not a problem to guide the glorious ship mother. The glorious ship mother is clear about the speed changes in Melbourne, but she really does not know the situation of the Melbourne catapult~ EbookFREE.me~ After knowing this, the glorious ship mother felt that Melbourne was like that, because the situation in Melbourne destined her to have a lot of attack wave carrier aircraft. This is Melbourne’s biggest problem, more than ten ships at a time. The plane was completely sufficient in the world before the fat man crossed, but it was not good in this world. There were a dozen planes per attack wave, which was too small.
After being enlightened by the tall fat man, she felt better in her heart. In fact, there is still a gap between her and Melbourne. She knew that Melbourne is now a SS-class historical battleship, no matter how SS-class history is. Warships are more powerful. This is evident from the bravery of the glorious ship mother, because bravery is like this. In fact, bravery and glorious are the same in terms of hull and carrier aircraft, but because they are SS-class historical warships. It makes brave is stronger than Glory. There is no way for this glorious ship mother, but brave is her sister Glorious ship mother who doesn’t care about this, but it’s not like that for Melbourne, because glorious ship mother and Melbourne are not sister ships. On the one hand, the glorious ship's lady had an idea in her heart.
Brave's enlightenment to the Glorious Ship Niang is actually talking about rage, but rage is when the long-term plan appears. It’s hard to say that it’s hard to persuade the Glorious Ship Niang, but when the Brave learned about the Melbourne catapult from the Glorious Ship Brave suddenly became confident. Before being brave, I was not confident in facing Melbourne. Although they are all SS-class historical battleships, there are differences between SS-class historical battleships. Brave is not strong among SS-class historical battleships. Brave always feels that Melbourne is better than her, but after learning about the situation of Melbourne's catapult, Brave feels that Melbourne is like that. Too few attack wave carrier aircraft is a big problem in this world.