Chapter 201 Visiting the Northwest, placing gifts! Crazy? Should we just use the electromagnetic catapult?
This silence did not mean that everyone did not believe it. On the contrary, they even felt that it was very likely to be true and thus they fell into an intense brainstorming session.

In the end, all military fans came to a conclusion: "It is most likely an amphibious assault ship!"

After all, whether from the perspective of displacement or various layouts, if it is not a small aircraft carrier, then the only possibility left is "amphibious assault ship".

Otherwise, why would a destroyer or frigate have such a straight and long deck? Wouldn't that be unnecessary?

In other words, this thing is the first amphibious assault ship being built by Daxia?

however.

Many people have also raised some rebuttal opinions below.

"With this size and scale, it doesn't necessarily have to be an amphibious assault ship, right? Can't a flat deck with steam catapults be enough? Aren't those two covered horizontal lanes the location of the steam catapults?"

"Indeed, maybe we need to verify the steam catapult technology? I think this is the second 'small' aircraft carrier!"

"The displacement of France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier is just over 40,000 tons. This one looks like it could be over 40,000 tons. Why can't it be an aircraft carrier?"

"If it is just used to verify the steam catapult technology, I think it is very likely. If the verification theory is correct, then the next generation of aircraft carriers should directly use steam catapult technology, and the next generation can use nuclear power."

Especially regarding the two strange horizontal bars on the deck, they all thought that they should be "steam catapult" devices.

This is also a very likely guess. First, a small aircraft carrier will be built to verify the feasibility of the steam catapult technology. After the verification is complete, a conventional-powered aircraft carrier with a displacement of 60,000 to 70,000 tons will be built.

The last step is to finalize the aircraft carrier with nuclear power.

The 052B is an improved version at first glance, so only two have been built so far. Similarly, only three or four 052Cs have been built. This means that these are not the finalized missile destroyers, but theoretical verification ships built during the continuous iteration of technology.

Including the current "Varyag" aircraft carrier or the future second aircraft carrier, they are unlikely to be the final aircraft carrier of Daxia.

Once a certain advanced aircraft carrier is finally determined as the final model, the ships will be produced in large quantities.

Therefore, this "small aircraft carrier" may be just an iterative model to verify the steam catapult theory. The people in the forum are all old military fans, and they are already very familiar with this routine operation of Daxia.

However, the following reply from the original poster once again denied this speculation: "No, it is definitely not a small aircraft carrier. We don't need to build a small aircraft carrier and waste money."

"Even if they want to verify it, at least they should build another aircraft carrier of the same specifications, rather than building a smaller one that is obviously smaller."

In terms of the carrying capacity of carrier-based aircraft alone, this "ship" with a displacement of only 30,000 to 40,000 tons is completely inadequate to compare with a "medium-sized" aircraft carrier of more than 60,000 tons.

After all, your displacement is nearly twice that of others, and the carrier-based aircraft you can accommodate are also very different. It is even impossible for you to carry carrier-based aircraft with a slightly larger take-off weight.

This is a huge gap both in terms of practicality and combat effectiveness.

Why should Daxia waste money to build a small aircraft carrier that is of little use?
This point has also been recognized by many people.

"There is another aspect." The poster carefully circled the most important point: "The layout of this ship is not a conventional aircraft carrier layout. It does not have an angled deck at all."

An aircraft carrier deck with only one completely straight plane is basically only used for aircraft carriers that do not carry heavy carrier-based aircraft, but only carry helicopters or short-takeoff carrier-based aircraft in conventional aircraft carrier construction.

He then added: "And there is a very obvious dock position at the tail, which is the characteristic of an amphibious assault ship. I can be sure that it is definitely an amphibious assault ship."

"But why does the amphibious assault ship use steam catapults?"

You know, the entire device required for steam catapult is quite terrifying, weighing thousands of tons and occupying hundreds of cubic meters of volume.

Moreover, each catapult consumes a large amount of fresh water and steam. For an amphibious assault ship of about 30,000 to 40,000 tons, isn't that a waste of effort?

If the steam catapult is omitted, it will be able to accommodate more carrier-based aircraft, which is what an amphibious assault ship should do.

"Unless it is not equipped with a steam catapult, and does not need to occupy a lot of weight and space."

"That's why we use this catapult method to give this 'amphibious assault ship' greater combat capability, and even the possibility of carrying heavy carrier-based aircraft!"

After the poster made his confident conclusion, he decisively stopped responding to anyone's questions.

In an instant, the name of an aircraft carrier emerged in everyone's mind as they looked at the explanations!

【Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. 】

There is a technology on it that is very similar to the description of this OP.

That’s right, this is the electromagnetic catapult technology that the United States is preparing to use for its next-generation aircraft carrier. In terms of design, it is this front-penetrating electromagnetic catapult.

This device only takes up a very small space but has great kinetic energy, and can be carried on an amphibious assault ship.

"Don't you think you can't?"

"Our amphibious assault ships are going to be equipped with electromagnetic catapults?"

All the military fans had a look of shock in their eyes. They looked at the forum tremblingly and couldn't recover for a long time.

My goodness, what is our navy doing?
The technology that even the Eagle Sauce doesn’t use is actually arranged in one step?
Moreover, the first amphibious assault ship is equipped with electromagnetic catapults, so what does the second aircraft carrier want to do?
They dare not even think about it!

Meanwhile, a little earlier.

On the other side of the ocean, in the Pentagon, inside the Office of Global Security Affairs.

There was a knock on the door.

The assistant came in and put a document on the desk: "Sir, the information from Daxia needs your attention."

"Oh, put it over there first."

Kimi Andrew rubbed his sleepy eyes, took a sip of black coffee, and teased the assistant in front of him: “James, did you have a good weekend?”

Since the first two days were weekends, the entire Global Affairs Office was on vacation.

As for the supervisor, Kimi Andrew, he had been on vacation in Hawaii for the past two weeks and only hurried back to Washington yesterday.

"Everything is going very well." The assistant named James nodded: "However, this document requires your urgent processing."

“Hopefully the new month won’t be too bad.”

In a good mood as his vacation had just ended, he picked up the documents on his desk.

However, the smile on his face disappeared in an instant as soon as he picked it up.

On the cover of this document, the grade 'exigency' is written in red letters.

This was the most urgent alert, meaning he, as the head of global affairs, would handle it the fastest and submit it to higher authorities.

The first line of words that caught his eye was, as he had expected, the details of Daxia's sixtieth anniversary celebration yesterday.

First of all, the construction progress of the Varyag aircraft carrier has entered the final construction stage and is progressing very rapidly.

However, Kimi Andrew was apparently somewhat unconcerned about this seemingly 'shocking' information.

"The repair speed over there in Daxia is quite fast." He muttered, "It took such a short time to repair the broken ship to such an extent?"

The other side has been repairing the "Varyag" aircraft carrier, and there is no way these things can be hidden from them.

A huge ship of at least several hundred meters in size was parked at the dock. Not to mention the high-definition satellites in the sky, it could be seen clearly with the naked eye.

According to him, after the Varyag was purchased from Ermao, they had been thinking about its transformation.

The preliminary renovation even began as early as 05, and the repair work on the bridge and other parts officially started not long ago.

But he didn't expect that despite all the obstacles they had set, Daxia still managed to build it quickly, and in just a few months, the aircraft carrier had undergone earth-shaking changes. It can be said that they expected Daxia to repair the "Varyag" aircraft carrier, but the speed of repair was far beyond the Pentagon's expectations.

Then, Kimi Andrew quickly looked at the next message.

In an instant, his expression changed drastically: "A new type of bomber from Xi Da Xia? A stealth strategic bomber?"

There was also a picture and its code name attached, H-20'mn? ' with a question mark after it, indicating that they didn't know what the suffix meant.

As for the mini version speculated by Daxia military fans, it was not considered by the intelligence department at all. After all, it was too outrageous.

Even so, Andrew Kimi was extremely shocked: "They built a stealth strategic bomber? How is this possible?"

"Has our B-2 technology been leaked? Is there something fishy going on inside us?"

He looked at the assistant beside him with a look of surprise.

Assistant James shook his head decisively: "Northrop Grumman has already started an investigation, but this is unlikely."

After all, all the technology of the B-2 'Ghost' bomber has been sealed, and the production line has been stopped. Even if they want to develop the full set of technology now, it is not easy, let alone Daxia? Do they have God?

Hear this.

"How come they look so similar?" Kimi Andrew's eyes widened. "Could it be that Daxia got the B-2 bomber?"

As soon as this thought came to his mind, he denied it even more strongly in his heart.

This kind of thing is even more impossible. After all, there are only a few B-2s in the world.

Whether it was damaged, crashed, or under repair, all situations needed to be clearly reported to the Pentagon. How could one of them be acquired by Daxia? Then how come there wasn't even one missing from any of the air force bases?
However, when Kimi Andrew saw the last message displayed, he was completely stunned.

"Daxia is building an amphibious assault ship? An amphibious assault ship that is very likely to be equipped with electromagnetic catapults?"

"WTF? Did God really come to Daxia?"

The Air Force was already being chased by Daxia, and now is the Navy going to face the same hardship as well?

the next day.

In an ordinary residential building in Sichuan area.

Taking advantage of the rare National Day holiday, Zhang Wei was hanging out in various group chats and forums with his mobile phone.

However, this should have been a very relaxing moment, but his brows were always furrowed.

"What's wrong?" His wife saw his confusion and said, "Want to go fishing?"

"No, wife." Zhang Wei shook his head and explained, "I was offered a job recently. I was just hesitating."

"New job?" Weiwei was even more confused: "You're doing well, aren't you? Why do you want to change jobs?"

My husband has been working in this job basically since he graduated from college. He has been doing it for almost ten years now, and it has been very stable. Is there any need for him to change jobs?
After all, in Weiwei's traditional concept, a stable job is more important than anything else.

Listen to this.

Zhang Wei sighed: "Because they offer a higher salary, more than 5,000 yuan."

Although he did not graduate from a prestigious university, he graduated from a first-class university with a degree in engineering.

It's just that there were fewer job opportunities before, so he had been working in a local machinery factory in Sichuan. The salary was neither high nor low, just over 2,000 yuan a month, which was enough to support his wife and himself.

But now Weiwei has given birth to a baby, and he bought a house in Sichuan a few years ago. The combined salary of the two makes them very tight on money.

How much does a child's milk powder and diapers cost for a year? His future education will also cost a lot of money.

Therefore, in addition to working hard, Zhang Wei is also looking for job opportunities to see if there are any opportunities with higher salaries.

Now, a headhunter from a company found him and invited him to join the company as a developer in the hardware department of the Sichuan-Shu regional branch.

Even because Zhang Wei had ten years of experience in this industry, the salary offered to him reached more than five thousand.

You have to know that he is in Tianfu City, a second-tier city in China, and most white-collar workers earn less than 2,000 yuan. Even in cities like Shanghai and Yanjing, the starting salary is only 3,000 yuan.

In the summer of 09, a salary of more than yuan was already considered a very high salary.

"Which company is it?" Weiwei asked with some interest.

"glory."

"Honor? Why have I never heard of this company?" Weiwei frowned immediately. How come this company has no reputation at all?

She even checked on her phone but couldn't find any relevant information.
"This can't be a lie, right?" Weiwei said a little worriedly.

Currently, Zhang Wei's salary is close to 3,000 yuan, and he occasionally gets commissions. This has been stable for a long time.

If you rashly switch to an unfamiliar company, even if it offers a high salary, who knows how long it can survive?
"No, the headhunting company told me that this is a mobile phone division founded by Huawei." Zhang Wei shook his head and then said, "It's the company that created our router brand."

It’s not that the company doesn’t make mobile phones, but it mostly does OEM and OEM for telecom operators.

"Oh, this one." Weiwei nodded. She was familiar with this place.

"Wife, I want to try it." Zhang Wei's eyes were firm.

The machinery factory where he currently works basically manufactures OEM products with extremely low technical content. Not only are the profits meager, but once the foreign customers are dissatisfied, they will deduct money and come up with all kinds of reasons to make things difficult for them.

As a result, the things bought from their machinery factory for 100 RMB were sold for several hundred US dollars, and all the profits were taken away by these foreign capital companies.

Now, the company he is going to switch to is a startup, but it is a smartphone company.

But Zhang Wei is confident that smartphones will completely change the entire world in the future. This convenient mobile device will definitely have a revolutionary impact on all ordinary people.

Even though the software ecosystem of the current OS system is a bit weak, it is a complete dimensionality reduction attack on ordinary feature phones.

Especially for a girl like his wife Weiwei, being able to watch TV series online, chatting on QQ, and having a smartphone screen that is big enough, she can play as she pleases while lying in bed, and that is enough.

Therefore, the smartphone market, based on its ecological chain, will surely usher in an explosive growth, and the entire smartphone industry has a promising future.

As these thoughts kept coming to his mind, Zhang Wei called the headhunter just a moment later and replied flatly: "I'll go. I'll join the hardware department of Honor Mobile's Sichuan Branch."

The job is still in Sichuan and can also bring a better life to his family, so he has no reason not to take the risk.

And now, on the other side.

The puppet was also on a special plane, flying towards the Northwest Province.

This trip has two main purposes. The first is that at the invitation of Daxia, the "Great Wall Watch" organization will visit several areas in the Northwest Province.

The second, and Lu Ze’s most important plan, was to arrange a place to store the second gift to Daxia.

This great gift.

You have to be in the right place at the right time.

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