If one day, the Taiwan authorities build their own "Haikun" and its sister boats and dare to block the car, they will be ruthlessly annihilated! However, we should remember the more than 10 countries and related companies involved in this matter!
Because what they have done has seriously damaged our country's core interests, don't expect it to be left ......
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1. Does the "Sea Kun" dare to block the car with its mantis arm? - Don't dare! People's proper treasure rush boat, 5 hours to the open sea!
2. From "Seven Nations Assisted in the Construction of Submarines" to "Ten Nations Alliance", why don't other countries have a long memory? Too much oil and water!
3. The leather bag company set up a grass platform team and made a big toy of "national defense independence" for Governor Cai? There is a lot of controversy on the island!
4. What is the stalk of "floating", "it dives down", and "it can float up again after diving"?
5. What does it mean to have a single shell, a cigar type, and an unapplied silencing tile? It is not resistant to hitting, it must sink, the resistance is large, and the noise is high, but it can be installed!
6. With the slamming of "sledgehammer 80 and small hammer 40", the phenomenon of "thin plate hull welding deformation" has indeed been reduced.
7. The construction code "1168" means "must be smooth all the way", I am afraid that only the other side dares to make it up!
After buying boats many times, the "Haikun" is really a model room for my country to understand the construction technology of multinational submarines!
On our blue planet, not to mention building submarines, even if you buy them, they are only a handful of countries. People let you build it and are willing to help you build it, but most of the money you give is enough and you can't build it well!
Regarding the matter of tossing submarines on the other side, it is not once or twice. After fleeing Taiwan in 1949, he saw that the People's Navy of China had formed "air, submarine, and fast", and in 1956, it built its own Type 03 submarine; In order to stabilize the hearts of the people on the island, the Taiwan authorities pleaded with the United States to assist the submarines, but to no avail. He purchased the SX-4D4 miniature submarine parts from Italy, and assembled the "Sea Dragon" and "Sea Jiao" with only 6 people in 1969. In 1973, the United States welded the torpedo tubes of the decommissioned "tench" class "Ribbon Fish" and "Single-fin Cod" and sold them to Taiwan, which later became the famous "Sea Lion" and "Seal". Taking advantage of the financial crisis of the Dutch shipyard, the other side purchased two simplified versions of the "Sailfish" class in 1987 and named them "Sea Dragon" and "Sea Tiger".
At present, these four submarines belonging to the 256th Sentai are stationed at the Mercury Wharf on the north side of Zuoying Small Port.
From 1995 to 1996, he made a fuss for independence and asked the United States to purchase submarines and refused reunification. Until 2001, George W. Bush approved an arms sale with a total value of $1.8 million, which included eight conventionally powered submarines in addition to the "Paladin" self-propelled artillery, the "Sea Stallion" minesweeper Patriot 3 missile, and the MK48 series torpedo. However, the Americans have long stopped producing diesel-electric submarines, so they prevaricate and say that they will buy them on their behalf.
It cost billions of NT$ and tossed for 9 years, but the purchase of a boat still yielded no results. It was convenient to launch the first "domestic submarine" program in 2010. In 2014, Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Japan were invited to participate in the so-called technical seminar. Therefore, there is the 2016 version of the "submarine national construction" plan. And invested in R&D and construction budget of 16 billion US dollars - the actual total investment is NT$400 billion (about 89.1 billion RMB), and plans to build 8 submarines by itself.
At present, the average price of a single boat is as high as 16$500 million. In comparison, the cost of Japan's "Soryu" class AIP submarine is only 45-600 million; The more expensive German 218SG type is 500 million euros, and the outside world believes that the cost of the "yuan" level is only 3300 million. Even according to Bloomberg, the cost of the "Virginia" class nuclear submarine reported by the United States to Australia is only $3.5 billion. Looking at the whole world, I am afraid that the only people who dare to be wronged like this are the other side and Australia. Australia had planned to spend 90 billion Australian dollars to purchase 12 improved French "Barracuda" class attack submarines, with a unit price of up to 487.2 billion.
This is because the Taiwan authorities' self-built submarines are expensive enough and have a lot of oil and water, so they can make money. The military industrial enterprises led by Britain and the United States finally came up with the strength to risk their lives to grab a piece of "Tang monk meat", so there was a farce that was jokingly called "the seven countries assisted in building submarines" by the outside world. In fact, talking about the "Seven Kingdoms" is only the tip of the iceberg. After Taiwan International Shipbuilding Group won the bid, it again sought help from Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy, but was refused. Referring to the Sea Dragon, the plant first proposed an IDS construction plan, and then tendered on the grounds that the details were not needed to assist in the design of the whole boat. In March 2018, the intended "Party B" was divided into three groups, namely three groups of the United States, two groups of Europe, and one group of India. Japan's Mitsubishi and Kawasaki Heavy Industries secretly participated in the form of retired engineers joining the "American group" in order to dissociate themselves. The countries that actually participated in the boat-building program on the other side of the strait include the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Canada, and India, which can be called the "ten-nation coalition forces," and also include 28 "applicants" and corporate entities from the United Kingdom, which is already more than seven countries!
They either provide design information, or key subsystems, or help build submarine production plants, and also provide various consulting services with retired naval officers or engineering and technical personnel. For example, the American Lockheed Martin provided the power and combat system, and the "Thor" used sonar; Qinetiq, a UK-based defense technology company, and BMT, a Canadian subsidiary of BMT, a nuclear submarine fleet contractor, to provide export licenses for components, technology or software; Five countries, including Australia, South Korea, India, Spain and Canada, provide submarine experts available to provide advice and guidance on the construction of submarines!
This directly or indirectly guaranteed that the construction of the first ship "Haikun" (ship number SS-711), codenamed "1168", began on November 24, 2020.
The world's most expensive miscellaneous conventional diesel-electric submarine is inevitably stumbling and corruption!
The "Sea Kun" is not only a prototype boat of experimental nature, but also the first boat of its class, and it is required to form a combat force by 2025. But in fact, this submarine is divided into three colors: "red, green, and yellow", of which red indicates that there is no research and development capability at all, and foreign aid is waiting; Yellow means that it is difficult to produce your own equipment. These two items involve almost all key systems such as the combat command system, sonar covers, periscopes, diesel engines, torpedoes, and missiles. Only green can be produced on the island. Moreover, Taiwan Shipbuilding Group itself admits that there are as many as 107 technologies that need to be imported from countries such as the United States, Japan and the United Kingdom, and it can only produce 85 components.
What's even more absurd is that this one, which has been tossed for 7 years, can be slaughtered by anyone who wants to be slaughtered, and is described as "the world's most expensive miscellaneous assembled submarine" and Governor Cai's "national defense independence" expensive toy, which is also the hardest hit area of corruption on the island.
Launched on February 26, the Sea Kun is said to have completed most of its mooring tests, but it will be moved into the water at high tide and will be tested on the 27th for watertightness, weight control, stability, and whether the ballast of each tank meets the expected design standards. In fact, as early as September 28, 2023, it was forced to "go into the water" once in Kaohsiung. This kind of thing of scooping up and going to water again is estimated to be comparable only to India's self-built aircraft carrier!
According to common sense, after the launching ceremony of a type of warship or submarine is completed, the next step is "outfitting - testing - acceptance - entering service", unless there are technical defects or mid-term maintenance and upgrading, there is no need to go ashore again. If the Indian aircraft carrier was launched three times in order to remove the dry dock seat for other ships, then why is the "Haikun"?
Looking back at the news five months ago, it is not difficult to find that the time on September 28 last year was mainly a political show, building momentum for the election campaign, and highlighting the "merits" of Governor Cai's "national defense independence", but in fact it did not have the conditions for launching into the water. The chairman of the Taiwan Shipbuilding Group said that the last "launching" naming ceremony did not directly put the "Haikun" into the water, but followed the shipbuilding tradition and let the boat simply "touch the water", and this time it can be regarded as really going to be launched.
In addition, there are technical problems with the processing of the boat, rather than the more difficult technical problems to obtain. Last year, some people found that the bridge shell of the "Haikun" had problems such as bulging bulges, installation dislocations, and gaps before it was put into use.
This "second" launch, of course, all walks of life are holding a magnifying glass to look at it. The appearance of the hull is indeed smoother than last time, and the original phenomenon of "welding deformation of thin plate hull" has also been greatly reduced. It is estimated that this is also the credit of "80 sledgehammers and 40 small hammers", and even re-welded the shell steel plate by the way, so it delayed a lot of outfitting work.
However, Ma Wenjun, a representative of the Kuomintang people's opinion, still discovered the problem of the lack of batteries and shell masts of the "Haikun". The periscopes, which were allegedly ordered from outside, did not arrive and could not be loaded and tested underwater until March. Therefore, some people have unabashedly pointed out that the "Haikun" is currently only an empty hull, and many equipment needs to be installed in the future.
Friends who are familiar with submarine technology also know that contemporary submarines will be covered with a layer of "silencing tiles" on the outer surface of the hull to reduce the noise of submarines, and it has become the standard configuration of submarines. The "Haikun" does not have it, and it is estimated that the "silencing tile" ordered by the company has not arrived, or other companies do not want to use such highly confidential components at all.
Even so, there was a collective orgasm on the island, ** exclaiming, "This submarine is floating!" "—Maybe it's not easy to float up......
The path of "nationally made submarines" is wrong! Why do you have to break up the secondary assembly if you can buy it?
If you want to build your own military ships, you will inevitably involve a series of issues such as special steel, power, various subsystems and integration, welding accuracy, and fault tolerance value. In addition, it also includes technology and talent reserves, as well as relevant construction experience. As for whether the Taiwan authorities have this capability?
There has always been controversy on the island. For example, Wang Zhipeng, a former instructor at the submarine training center on the island, publicly pointed out as early as December 2021 that the path of "nationally built submarines" was wrong. He believes that Taiwan is almost blank in terms of key technology and personnel for submarines; For example, don't break up all the cars because you can't buy the whole car, or go all over the world to buy parts and assemble them yourself. The performance of the assembled car in this way will not be the same as the original - not to mention that this is a submarine with a high degree of complexity?
In fact, although the other side has gradually broken through all the equipment export permits necessary for self-built submarines, will these various components from all directions be controlled by people in the future, will they be matched, will they be able to operate effectively, and will the "Haikun" be able to use it? The market has also been ridiculing that "the self-made submarine will sink when it is launched"...
In the author's opinion, the above views are all overly regarded or unfounded. In view of the current shipbuilding capacity on the island, not to mention assembly or self-construction, even a simple "sitting pier" after the ship enters the dry dock may not be able to be completed safely. For example, in 2022, its self-made thousand-ton patrol ship has experienced 3 "sittings"; It still did not prevent the hull from touching the "side pier" and causing tilting, resulting in damage to the propeller.
If you pay attention to the report of the "Taiwan United News Network", you will also find a piece of news that should not be news. The "Haikun" left the factory on the afternoon of the 26th in detail, and was moved from the Haichang factory of Taichuan to the CITIC No. 8 floating dock with a multi-wheeled board car; The next day, the process of moving to the dry dock of the Taiwan Shipbuilding by using the high tide can be called the transfer process of interviewing the baby in the maternity hospital, and it can even cause a lot of shock on the island; You can also get a glimpse of some of the actual capabilities on the island.
What is the condition of the "Sea Kun"? - Enough for escape!
Although diesel-electric submarines were put into actual combat as early as the First World War, it is still not easy to build self-built submarines from 0 to 1. For example, even with the full support of Swedish technology, Australia spent three years to build the "Collins" class. However, after entering the water, he fell into the nightmare of "testing unsmoothly - finding problems - additional funds - implementing improvements". Moreover, the cost of the "Collins" class is as high as $1.5 billion, which is twice as high as the original budget of 600 million yuan, and this has also allowed the Australian side to see the power of the "gold-swallowing beast" of submarines.
In this way, the launch of the "Sea Kun" is just the beginning. According to the published paper data, the boat is 70 meters long, 8 meters wide and 18 meters high; It is rumored that the displacement of 2,500,300 tons was already reached without all the equipment being put on board. Because the material is made of HSLA-80 high-strength pressure-resistant steel plate, its safe diving depth and operating depth are theoretically 50-80 meters more than that of the "Stegosaurus" class.
In terms of armament, the boat is equipped with six 533mm bow torpedo tubes. Theoretically, it is possible to launch the MK-48 Mod6 AT long-range heavy torpedo, or the submarine-launched UGM-84 "Harpoon" anti-ship missile. In the case of 6 pre-loading in the tube, the estimated total bomb load is not less than 24; It can also carry mines, giving it the ability to lay mines underwater.
From the point of view of design, hull structure and appearance, the yacht adopts the design of single and double mixed shells, cigar-shaped hulls, enclosure rudders, X-shaped stern rudder + horizontal stern rudder, which can be regarded as decent in appearance, and does not take the more popular "special-shaped" modeling route today. The X-shaped transom rudder of the Swedish "Sistolland" or "Gotland" class submarines uses a sickle-type 7-blade large side-inclined propeller that is conducive to noise reduction, but it does not use the pump-jet propulsion device that is currently being gradually implemented in the world's submarine industry. "Twice" into the water, but this time there was a dramatic scene where the propeller blades were larger than the last time!
It is known that the "Haikun" is not equipped with an AIP power system, nor is it covered with a "silencing tile" on the hull. The cigar-shaped hull, even if it is an elongated drop-shaped hull, the trapezoidal small protruding hull structure added to the upper part is definitely more resistant than the long drop-shaped underwater resistance, but the internal space is increased. It is used to install cylindrical array sonar (CAS), acoustic sensor kits for boats, etc. The protrusion of the top of the hull was also used for the acoustic interception of the mast-like arrangement of the ranging array. At the rear of the bridge, 24 sets of torpedo decoys were arranged.
Dynamic ranging sonar (PRS) is also located above the hull, and down is a scab-like flank sonar array. The side sonar protrudes from the hull and optimizes the acoustic "decoupling" from the hull itself, which is conducive to improving the contact classification ability. In addition, in the cross-section of the hull, hydrophones were arranged in a circle.
Still from the side of the hull, the large holes clearly visible on it expose the structural characteristics of the "Haikun" "double hull + single hull + double hull", that is, the front and rear double hull and the middle single hull pressure-resistant hull, which has a bit of the charm of the Dutch "Walrus" class. This design, while still premised on providing more interior space, also resulted in different overall hull diameters and therefore additional noise.
It is this structural advantage of increasing space, combined with the "abnormal design" of the middle cabin of the boat to vacate a large section of space - in fact, it is the middle single-hull pressure-resistant cabin! The outside world interprets the "Haikun" as a "transport submarine".
Another reason is that the submarine is not equipped with AIP, and the combat and firepower equipment supported by the United States and Britain and other countries is basically at the level of the late 90s of the last century, and its actual combat power cannot be compared with the cutting-edge submarines of the mainland or other countries, and it can only be regarded as satisfying the necessary "self-defense" -- this is not true, after all, the consistent style of the United States in arms sales to Taiwan is to make money while not excessively stimulating the mainland. Therefore, it is said that the main wartime function of the "Haikun" is to escape with the families of the first financial and high-level officials, so it has the nicknames of "treasure transfer boat" and "escape vehicle".
This interpretation is also related to the fact that Taiwan Island is surrounded by the sea on all sides and is less than 200 kilometers away from the territorial waters of the Philippines. If the "Haikun" can soar underwater at a speed of 20 knots, or 37 kilometers per hour, it will only take about five hours to "get out of danger." If there is a cover from foreign or other forces, it will definitely be easier than from the air or the water.
Of course, regulation is ridicule, sarcasm is sarcasm, and let's really don't take bean bags for dry food. It is necessary not only to despise the opponent strategically, but also to attach importance to the opponent tactically. Be extra careful of other countries' tricks of secretly stirring up the situation and handing knives behind their backs by taking advantage of the "submarine state-made" on the other side!
For example, the other side of the strait ran into a wall in negotiations with the Netherlands on a submarine hull patent; After retreating from the idea of making his own, there is no follow-up to the purchase of Japanese mothballed submarines - how can he now build his own "Sea Kun"?