In the first years of the 21st century, the Varyag aircraft carrier, after a long drift, finally entered the Dalian shipyard and was ready for modernization. This ill-fated Soviet giant ship will usher in his new life in China.
At that time, European countries were paying great attention to the progress of the refit of the Liaoning aircraft carrier, but the United States, on the other side of the ocean, was leisurely about it. Soon, several American journals published their research on the Liaoning.
Several American experts swore that an aircraft carrier like the Liaoning was completely behind the times, and that the Liaoning was not equipped with a blocking cable, and that the aircraft carrier was a huge piece of broken copper and iron, and that it would not be possible to play a role in future naval battles.
However, what no one expected was that the slap in the face would have to block the cable, and a few of them appeared on the Chinese aircraft carrier, which made the United States very embarrassed, so they claimed that this must have been secretly sold by Russia to China.
Unexpectedly, China categorically said that this was our own research and development, and the research and development time took only a few days, which can be said to have made the United States angry enough.
The aircraft carrier is one of the greatest inventions in the history of human naval warfare, and in addition to being a ship, an aircraft carrier is also an aircraft take-off and landing platform at sea, which undertakes the important task of air defense operations. For any carrier pilot, they are more proud than their counterparts on the ground, because their work is more dangerous and more technical.
Compared with the runway on land, which is often thousands of meters long, the deck of an aircraft carrier is only 300 meters long, and the aircraft carrier pilots face a higher risk factor when landing. Therefore, landing an aircraft carrier is called a game for the brave. If there is no successful forced landing on land, there is a high probability that there will be a chance of a go-around.
But if you are at sea, if you are not careful, you will rush off the runway and fall into the sea to feed the fish, which can be said to be quite a dangerous job, but there are still many pilots who enjoy it.
Under such a dangerous situation, the British were the first to invent the aircraft carrier blocking cable, and the United States ridiculed China for not being able to build an aircraft carrier blocking cable, but the slap in the face came too suddenly. The aircraft carrier arresting cable, as the name suggests, is a steel cable, and its main function is to make the aircraft stop faster.
When the carrier-based aircraft lands, a tail hook will be extended from the tail end, and then it will be connected with the blocking cable on the aircraft carrier, so that the aircraft can be hooked and the plane can stop faster.
This is an epoch-making invention that makes the landing of aircraft carriers much easier. Later, because this invention was so practical, some land airports also began to be equipped with arresting cables, so that land planes could also land easily.
Arresting cables have become a standard tool in the aviation industry, but not every country can develop them. In the 21st century, even the British, who invented the barrage, had to buy the barrage from the United States.
Although France has developed a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, it needs to buy it from a foreign country to block the grommet. It can be seen that the process of blocking cables is very complex, because such an inconspicuous thing requires extremely strong toughness and corrosion resistance.
The requirements for the metallurgical industry are very high, and the blocking demand needs to pull hundreds of tons of force instantly, which requires this steel bar to have a strong enough deformation ability.
At that time, China also wanted to buy a blocking cable from Russia, and after hearing that Russia offered a sky-high price of more than 10 million yuan a cable, and the fact that a blocking cable can only be used dozens of times, it had to give up and decided to deal with the aircraft carrier blocking cable by itself.
Chinese researchers immediately began to conduct joint research and development with a number of enterprises. In the beginning, our scientists really thought about this matter too simply, and wanted to directly move the blocking cable that could be used on land to the aircraft carrier.
However, after several tests, the arresting cable used at land airfield is longer than that used at sea, and its toughness and sturdiness are far inferior, and it cannot be appropriated at all. This frustrated many people, and many researchers worked overnight, but still did not get the essentials, and the project almost fell into a bottleneck.
Everyone thinks that the development of the arresting cable will be a work that will last for several years or even more than ten years, and China really cannot develop the arresting cable, so it will have to spend a lot of money to buy the Russian one, which is certainly not a good choice for a long time.
The United States also published an article at this time, ridiculing China, saying that with China's technological level, it is simply whimsical to want to develop an aircraft carrier arresting cable. The investment of other countries in the steel process in order to develop aircraft carrier blocking cables is something that the Chinese dare not imagine.
If China can easily crack something that other countries have worked so hard to come up with, won't the United States be very faceless?But I didn't expect that the United States would soon lose face. The aircraft carrier blocking cable could not be studied, and Chinese scientific researchers were anxious.
However, at this moment, a researcher suddenly had an idea, since the aircraft carrier arresting cable requires extremely high toughness and strong corrosion resistance, can we directly transplant the steel cable of the cable-stayed bridge to the aircraft carrier to give it a try?After all, the steel cable of the cable-stayed bridge must also meet these two requirements.
As soon as these words came out, people immediately opened their mouths, and everyone quickly found the steel cables of the cable-stayed bridge for experiments. As the most advanced country in the world's bridge engineering, China has built a lot of cable-stayed bridges, but I didn't expect that under a test, everyone was overjoyed, and the performance of these cable-stayed cables was much better than that of the real aircraft carrier blocking cable.
Subsequently, on this basis, China began to develop its own aircraft carrier arresting cable. When the aircraft carrier arresting cable on the Liaoning appeared, the Americans were dumbfounded, they did not know what kind of magic China used to develop the aircraft carrier blocking cable in such a short time.
And the Chinese can finally drive their aircraft carriers with their heads held high and sail the oceans with their heads held high. It can be said that the research and development of the aircraft carrier blocking cable this time is also God's blessing to China.
Without this scientific researcher, the aircraft carrier blocking cable may have been delayed for a few more years. We have to pay tribute to the Chinese technicians, whose wisdom is truly unparalleled.