Chapter 1187: Fill the vacancy of the frigate

For the navy, everything is lacking, even if it is a frigate, the navy is going through quite difficultly.
The most difficult thing was ten years ago. At that time, the Navy repeatedly proposed that due to the lack of frigates, it hoped to arrange overhauls of more than a dozen old frigates.
Without the ability to request new ships, the only way to ask the superior to arrange for these old warships to be repaired.
However, repairing these warships is not easy.
The hulls of these frigates are seriously corroded, and the main engine models are all different brands. It is difficult to overhaul. After the repair, the speed cannot reach the original target, only about 12 knots. Moreover, the period of overhauling a ship is about 2 years, and it will cost at least 3 million yuan. The total cost of overhauling all dozens of ships is estimated to be tens of millions.
At the same time, the only shipyard that can be repaired is the Jiangnan Shipyard. People can't take care of it. The shipyards are also expensive to repair.
Therefore, the old minister of the Naval Equipment Department proposed the idea of ​​"building instead of repair" to solve the long-term construction of naval frigates.
That's right, it is better to build new ones to repair these broken goods. After various preparations, the task of building a new frigate was handed over to Hudong Shipyard.
This is the 053H class frigate, nicknamed Jianghu class in the West. A total of 14 ships were built. It took 6 years from the start of construction of the first ship in February 1975 to the delivery of the last ship in December 1980.
The construction of these frigates greatly eased the navy's embarrassment at the time. However, it is conceivable that the mission of these frigates was anti-ship.
The mission of the frigate is to protect the fleet, either air defense or anti-submarine, but these are blanks in the country. The weapons and equipment on the 053H frigate are mainly ship-to-ship missiles, supplemented by small and medium caliber artillery and short-range anti-submarine weapons. There is a mine track for mine-laying operations.
Its two most powerful swing-type twin "Upstream-1" ship-to-ship missile launchers are located at the center line of the upper deck before and after the chimney, with a 100mm main turret each at the bow and stern. As the development of the new dual 100mm automatic gun was hindered, the 1947-style artificially loaded and operated antique gun designed by Xiong Guo had to be used. It was not until the early 1970s that the newly built 053H1 frigate was equipped. The new Type 79 twin 100mm automatic naval gun.
The air defense and anti-submarine weapons on the ship are relatively weak. Four manually operated twin 37mm cannons act as air defense. The anti-submarine weapons include five-tube anti-submarine rocket launchers installed in the bow, four depth-water bomb-bore launchers installed in the stern, and two large-scale depth-water bomb release racks, together with an intermediate frequency hull sonar. Conduct close-range self-defense anti-submarine operations.
Therefore, although a number of these frigates have been built, for the navy, the current role is very tasteless. If you participate in this naval battle between the silver country and the cattle country, they will definitely be hit on the first day of the war. Sank.
General Zhao mentioned the issue of frigates. In recent years, it is impossible to have new destroyers in the country. After all, the military expenditure is tight, but frigates can always be available if they think of a way.
Hearing General Zhao's words, Qin Guan was also an exciting spirit, yes, the frigate, it should have started long ago.
The Type 053 frigate is a general concept. There are a number of Type 053 before and after. The combat effectiveness in the later period has undergone a completely new change.
Soon, Qin Guan sorted out his thoughts: "Our C801 missile is much smaller than the upstream missile No. 1, and a quadruple launcher can save enough space."
That huge anti-ship missile is really a waste of space.
With this change, the space will come out.
"Then, we have to deploy our own air defense missile system." Qin Guan said: "Our Hongqi 61 missile, I don't know how it is going, and our imitation standard missile. In short, choose a ship."
The current Hongqi 61 is different from the historical Hongqi 61. After all, it has acquired the technology of the sky flash missile. On the basis of this missile, it is improved and a booster is added. It is just like the sea sparrow used by the Eagle State Navy. Average.
Since the performance of the AIM-7 Sparrow missile is not bad, the Navy of the Niu State has long planned to transplant it to ships and become the Sea Sparrow missile.
The first-generation sea sparrow required manual control of the fire control system, so it had a long response time and poor low-altitude performance, and could not deal with anti-ship missiles. In 1967, RIM-7E entered military service. And started endless improvement.
Soon, it developed to the RIM-7H model, which uses a lighter MK29 eight-unit launcher, a new MK-91 digital fire control system and a new radiation guidance antenna. The total system weight is only 12 tons. It can be installed on small ships such as speedboats.
The performance of this type of missile has been greatly improved, but it does not yet have the ability to deal with sea-skimming supersonic cruise missiles, and its hit rate under strong electronic interference is also very low.
In 1978, the Eagle State Navy independently developed the AIM-7M to further improve and enhance the performance of the Sparrow air-to-air missile, and naturally it also had its ground counterpart RIM-7M advanced sea sparrow.
Due to the use of an inverted monopulse receiver with a digital signal processor, the anti-ground clutter capability of this type of projectile is greatly increased. For the first time, it has the ability to look down and shoot down, which can effectively deal with anti-ship missiles flying in the sea.
In addition, it uses a new type of digital computer, autopilot and fuze. The autopilot enables the RIM-7M missile to fly according to the optimal trajectory. Only when the target is maneuvered out of a certain range, the missile will maneuver to save energy. Our Hongqi 61 air defense missile, of course, must reach this level, and, more importantly, remove the huge launch box and replace it with a compact 8-gang MK29 box launch system.
At the same time, the general vertical launch system can also be used in the future to launch.
In later generations, when I first saw the 053H2G frigate of the Chinese Navy, I was all surprised by its huge six-pack cylindrical launcher, thinking that it should be a big killer.
In fact, the Hongqi 61 ship-to-air missile is placed inside, but the wings of this thing cannot be folded, so it needs such a sky-defying launch tube. It seems that there are anti-ship missiles inside. .
Improved according to the standards of the sea sparrow, this is much more reliable than the sea rattlesnake.
These thoughts gathered and formed in Qin Guan's mind little by little.
"Behind, we will add a helicopter hangar." Qin Guan continued: "Our own ship-based helicopter project has already started, and our frigates must also be able to carry ship-based helicopters. In this way, air defense, anti-submarine and anti-ship. It's all balanced."