There is a widely circulated and enduring topic in the circle of military fans, that is, should we "resurrect" the battleships that have gone into history? When this question was first raised, it actually brought a lot of romantic thinking of "giant ships and cannons", in a word:Giant ships, cannons, multi-riveting, steaming, giant mecha tracks, airborne one-punch Man, loyalty ......It's all a man's romance!
Then, with the "Wu'an Protector of the Electromagnetic Manifestation of the True Monarch" Academician Ma Weiming, who led his team to make a series of breakthroughs in the field of electromagnetic technology, the discussion of this issue gradually had a hint of realism and technical imagination. Of course, in my personal opinion, the answer to this question is obviousIf we just take the battleship in the traditional definition, that is, the high-tonnage naval combat ship with large-caliber artillery attack (strong output) and heavy armor protection (strong protection), and rigidly apply it to the modern era, equipping it with modern **, power and electronic systems, without at the same time innovating the concept, then I think this behavior is just a conceptual regression under the guise of technological progress.
I know,For ship girl gamers,Everyone does generally like battleships and aircraft carriers,Mrs.、** big sister with umbrella and hand eater, etc.,It can be described as "like a number of wives",Fully exposed the XP system of your LSP。 But let me tell you, if you like it, you must also follow the basic law of realism, and it is unlikely that your "wives" will really be resurrected
Therefore, I think there is only one point worth discussing this issueThat is, will this kind of battleship-class high-tonnage combat ship have any place in future naval battles? First of all, we must understand that in the foreseeable period, the role of missiles and carrier-based aviation will still be enormous; the former is far faster than aircraft and can be used to carry out air defense and antimissile and land-to-sea attacks; the latter can compete for air supremacy in the theater; and carrier-based early warning planes can not only coordinate with warships and carrier-based attack planes, implement A-launch and B-missile tactics, and expand the strike range of formations, but also be able to go forward for reconnaissance, so as to avoid the tragic fate of the "radar sentry ship" in World War II from befalling the commanders and fighters of the People's Navy again.
Speaking of which, I will talk about it by the way, the operation of the Nanchang ship reported by the official media not long ago was said to be a "confrontation" with a foreign aircraft carrier battle group, which is not a big problem, but later it was rumored that the Nanchang ship became a "heads-up" foreign aircraft carrier battle group, which is not rigorousOur 055 is indeed strong, but it still can't break away from the system and confront the enemy's entire aircraft carrier battle group, which is likely to cause the Nanchang ship to be attacked by the enemy!
From this, we conclude that on this kind of hypothetical high-tonnage warship, missiles are still one of the main operations to undertake the fleet's air defense, anti-missile and opposing strikes, and this kind of combat ** still cannot replace the position of aircraft carriers in the navy, but should be used as a member of the aircraft carrier formation to enhance the strength of the entire formation. So, is there a possibility of replacing destroyers and frigates in aircraft carrier battle groups for this ** positioning in the fleet?
I don't think there's a standard answer to this question yet, but one thing is for sure, and that is that this giant ship, which could be tens of thousands of tons, will have higher firepower than the destroyers and frigates that accompany it. The reason, of course, is that the ** of this battleship class has an obvious feature, that is, large!Forehead ......Don't think crookedly, I'm talking about large tonnage and large size. The size and tonnage of military ships are an important indicator to consider their comprehensive capabilities, and a 10,000-ton combat ship will naturally be able to carry more advanced ammunition and fuel than a 2,000-ton combat ship, as well as more advanced and more powerful electronic systems, because this large-scale power supply capacity is usually stronger.
Once the nuclear power system is to be installed, the speed of the 10,000-ton large ** must not be lower than the 1,000-ton **, a typical example is the US military's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the maximum speed is not less than 30 knots, which is equivalent to about 556 kilometers per hour, which is comparable to the Burke-class destroyers, the Nimitz-class can even run at a maximum speed of 33 knots.
From this, we can determine two pointsFirst, the power supply efficiency of the power system of such a future giant ship in the envisaged future will be higher than that of contemporaneous destroyers and frigatesIn this way, this giant ship can be equipped with advanced ** systems with stronger lethality and a larger strike range, but it is still in the experimental stage. As we all know, the electromagnetic gun, as a cutting-edge ** that is being studied and tested, will most likely not be absent in the future construction of naval equipment. As for the effect of the curvature of the earth on the strike accuracy of the electromagnetic gun, in fact, there is already a solution.
In 2021, researchers from the 710 Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd. and other institutions published an article titled "The Hazards and Protection of Strong Magnetic Field on the Fuze of Electromagnetic Launching Ammunition", which analyzed the harm of the strong magnetic field environment to the fuze of electromagnetic launch ammunition, and proposed that the position layout and flexible magnetic material shielding method can provide effective protection for the moving parts and circuits in the fuze. Since experiments have shown that it is feasible to install electronic fuses in electromagnetic launch munitions, it is also feasible to install guidance devices for them.
In November last year, the Journal of the Naval University of Engineering also published a report entitled "Design of an Integrated Satellite Navigation System for Ultra-high-Speed Guided Missiles".The research team designed an integrated satellite navigation system based on the use environment and characteristics of ultra-high-speed guided projectiles. I won't post the specific content, if you are interested, you can go to CNKI** to learn.
In short, the problem of electromagnetic cannon artillery shell guidance has been difficult for China's military scientific researchers, and these technologies will lay the foundation for the practical application of the electromagnetic system in the future, not only electromagnetic guns, but also the future ship-based missile launcher, which may technically optimize the ship's firepower channel and launch more missiles per unit time. Of course, not only electromagnetic, but also lasers and high-power microwaves that are being studied may also be deployed to sea boats at that time.
And the second point I want to talk about is that the power system of this giant ship is very likely to be a nuclear power system, because only nuclear power can produce surging energy that is enough to propel the giant ship itself to sail at high speed, as well as the advanced systems and electronic systems of the whole ship to operate at full load. This is actually beyond doubt, because the current reality has proved that nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are indeed superior to conventionally powered aircraft carriers in terms of performance, and the navies of various countries have not chosen to build an all-nuclear-powered fleet only because of supply and cost problems, not because this technology is not advanced enough, and I will not talk about the rest.
In fact, in August last year, Academician Ma Weiming and researcher Lu Junyong of the Naval University of Engineering put forward the idea of a similar ship, and they called it a "super ship."It is a new type of maritime attack and defense integrated combat system that integrates electromagnetic energy and nuclear energy integrated power system, air defense, anti-submarine, anti-missile and land-to-sea precision strike tasks It can be competent, and this kind of ship is also equipped with air, surface and underwater unmanned information system, integrated satellite network, can achieve a larger range of situational awareness and information sharing than previous naval surface ships.
In addition, we know that there will be a large number of unmanned attack units in future wars, and the current world powers are also competing to study the software, hardware and tactical tactics of UAV "swarm" operations, and because the industrial production capacity of some countries is really amazing, it has greatly reduced the manufacturing cost of UAVs, so in the future, this UAV "swarm" will cause a relatively large threat to larger targets, such as various ground facilities and **Unless it is able to cause a large number of kills to the "swarm" in a short period of time, and the aforementioned laser** and high-power microwave** can do this,The former is easy to understand, no matter how fast the drone is, it can't be faster than the laser, as long as it sweeps fast enough, or launches multiple laser beams at the same time, it can kill and injure a large number of incoming drones. And the latter, let me put it another way, it is also called electromagnetic pulse**, can you understand?
The deployment of these two kinds of cutting-edge ** on the "super ship" can play a role in short-range defense, and compared with the current close-in defense artillery, their advantage is that the destruction of electronic equipment is more efficient, and they can operate as long as there is electricity, eliminating the space occupied by the ammunition rack. If the ship itself can provide more energy, then it is theoretically feasible to use laser ** air defense, anti-ship or even anti-missile, but the full system of this high-power laser may occupy a large internal space of the hull, which depends on how the ship designers and engineers at that time made a choice.
In the end, I opened a "brain hole" along the idea of "electromagnetic pulse". Throughout the history of human warfare, the development of the first will be accompanied by the upgrading of defensive equipment, the so-called "armor and bomb confrontation" is the spiraling historical development trajectory, and our army has an electromagnetic pulse, others must not have it? So how to defend against this type of **, an attack on our army's "super ships"?
When I went over the knowledge network, I really found a related **, called "Low-temperature plasma for high-power microwave protection research", the author is the research team of the State Key Laboratory of Pulsed Power Laser Technology of the National University of Defense Technology, according to its research results, the incident high-power microwave will cause the plasma parameters to change drastically, especially its electron density will increase sharply, so that the plasma to the incident high-power microwave shows metal-like electromagnetic characteristics, Finally, the effective protection against incident high-power microwaves is realized.
It's relatively easy to understand, so I don't think there's a need for translation, right? In short, everyone just remember the last sentence, we can resolve the attack of high-power microwave ** through low-temperature plasma, which is equivalent to installing an invisible shield on the "super ship", which is becoming more and more sci-fi. So let's think about it from another angle, if we can install the nuclear fusion device on the "super energy ship", then can we use some technical means to achieve the restraint of high-temperature plasma (usually thousands to millions of degrees Celsius), so as to achieve the blocking effect of physical ammunition? The principle of confined high-temperature plasma has been applied to the current research on controlled nuclear fusion, and perhaps this will really become a precursor technology to the reality of the "energy shield" setting in science fiction movies.
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To sum up, high-tonnage naval combat ships with tonnage reaching the battleship level can theoretically have a place in future maritime operations, but the prerequisite is not only to achieve great development in protection technology, but also to adapt the relevant operational theories to future requirementsAt the very least, its appearance should be able to play a significant role in optimizing the coordinated command system of all ships in the aircraft carrier formation. But we also have to face the reality, the current technical conditions are unable to support the existence of this kind of "super power ship" and its combat theory, if you want to obtain a basic model of this large-scale **, you may have to wait until the controlled nuclear fusion technology begins to be commercialized.