Chapter 380 Voices of Opposition

"Since it's a new ship I bought, why can't I go to service immediately?" There are many people asking such questions.

Some people also asked this question among the members of the Central Political Bureau, including those of the pro-Leaf Department.

After all, not many people know about aircraft carriers. Even when Ye Kai had not directly contacted the Varyag before, he only thought that the aircraft carrier was a relatively large maritime platform and had no deep understanding, let alone these old men who were busy with government affairs all day long.

"Even a big ship, sailors cannot get familiar with it immediately. It always takes a process." Ye Kai replied, "And aircraft carriers are even more complicated. Even if an active aircraft carrier is already in use, it will take several years to train a team that can control it. This is just like the Americans' attitude towards fighter pilots. When they encounter danger, the first thing they think of is to preserve the safety of the pilots, and on the contrary, our first idea is to protect the aircraft. Although there are factors of economic strength, fundamentally speaking, this is also caused by the fact that we attach far enough importance to professional and technical talents."

Then Ye Kai began to literate them and talked about the issues of the aircraft carrier system.

"First of all, it is the problem of carrier-based aircraft models. The ultimate goal of aircraft carriers is to serve as a platform for carrier-based aircraft, and the Varyag is no exception. Carrier-based aircraft on aircraft carriers is like Lieba and Eagle, which is an important means for aircraft carriers to attack. However, from the current situation, we do not have a suitable aircraft model, so we can only purchase or introduce Russian and Ukrainian carrier-based aircraft and related technologies, refer to or imitate some advanced foreign technologies, and develop our own carrier-based aircraft technology."

"At present, I am preparing to purchase the Su-33 prototype from Ukraine and prepare to develop my own carrier-based aircraft on this basis." Ye Kai said, "This is also to avoid the embarrassment that the Varyag aircraft carrier will not have carrier-based aircraft available in the future, but in the long run, we still need to develop our own carrier-based aircraft."

"In addition to carrier-based fighter jets, early warning aircraft are also an important part of the aircraft carrier. We originally considered the Y-7, but the Varyag lacked its necessary ejection launch, so it is basically impossible to choose this plan. After research, we considered equipping the Varyag with the independently developed Z-8 early warning helicopter."

"Zhi8 early warning helicopter?" Comrade Jiang Cheng asked after hearing this, "Is there already such a thing?"

The domestic early warning aircraft has always been in a blank state. Although senior leaders do not have enough understanding of this kind of thing, it is impossible to say nothing. After all, the military is also interested in purchasing large early warning aircraft from abroad, but it has not been able to do so.

"It's just a concept for the time being, but there is no big problem with the success of the transformation within one year." Ye Kai was very sure of this.

The Shenyun Base in East China has been authorized for military production and high-tech research and development, and will become the first private military enterprise. Therefore, Ye Kai’s statement that the transformation of Z-8 as an early warning helicopter is not unfounded. In fact, he has obtained a lot of good things from Ukraine, and there is no shortage of this aspect.

To build an aircraft carrier battle group, the choice of aircraft carrier-based early warning aircraft cannot be avoided.

The carrier-based early warning aircraft of the US aircraft carrier is a fixed-wing e-2, which takes off with a catapult, and the radar antenna is arranged in a disc-shaped manner on the fuselage. The fixed-wing carrier-based early warning aircraft has the advantages of a large load capacity, and the performance of which can carry heavier radars will naturally be improved. In addition, there are many mature solutions to arrange radar antennas on fixed-wing aircraft.

Unfortunately, the Republic's Navy cannot follow the US military's actions, because the US military's e-2 takes off by catapults, and the Republic neither can buy catapults, nor has the confidence to build them on its own. You must know that the former Soviet Union has not built them.

Moreover, even if there is a way to create a catapult, it is far from easy to build a carrier-based fixed-wing early warning aircraft that can be put into actual combat.

Since the fixed-wing carrier-based early warning aircraft is not accessible, there is only another way to find another way. The Soviet Navy and the British Navy did not build fixed-wing carrier-based early warning aircraft. They built two early warning helicopters, Ka-31 and Aquaman, respectively. They are both cheaper than the e-2. What is more important is that the helicopter-type early warning aircraft can take off and land vertically, and there is no need to use catapults. In addition, the Soviet Su-33 can ski jump and take off and the British Sea Harrier can take off and land vertically, which makes both Soviet aircraft carriers completely avoid the catapult problem.

However, these two carrier-based early warning helicopters also have a serious disadvantage, which is that their performance is too poor. For example, the Ka-31 has a maximum detection distance of 250 kilometers to the sea and a maximum detection distance of 150 kilometers to the air, which is significantly lower than e-2; the performance of Aquaman is similar to that of Ka-31, which is also significantly lower than e-2.

The load weight and aircraft content of these two helicopters are not as good as those of fixed-wing aircraft. Their low load weight leads to the lighter early warning radars they carry and naturally have lower performance. Their aircraft content is smaller, which makes it inconvenient to install radar antennas.

However, the United States has expressed concern about the acquisition of the Varyag by the Republic. Some private military magazines have published a series of observer articles, believing that the Republic's first aircraft carrier is just a pile of waste. The article expressed its own views on the capabilities of the Republic's first aircraft carrier, the Varyag aircraft carrier, in all aspects, saying that it is far behind the US aircraft carrier in all aspects and is not afraid of it.

This is exactly in line with the US side's attitude towards the Varyag. When the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff also said that having an aircraft carrier is completely different from effectively deploying it. He said that it is possible to understand the huge symbolic meaning it contains, but sometimes there is a huge gap to transform from symbolism to actual capabilities.

Aside from the strategic contempt used by the US military, how to locate the Varyag is also a question.

"The question of how the Varyag will be used is very sensitive," Comrade Jiang Cheng said. "No matter what, although it is a good thing for us to have this thing, it also makes some problems sensitive, so the use of the Varyag must be planned well."

"Although the Americans can only use the Varyag as a training aircraft carrier, we should know it in our own minds." Ye Kai replied, "Any weapon, whether it is poor in performance, modified or older, cannot be used to examine the combat effectiveness and power based on the existing or modified performance. The first aircraft carrier is actually a combat aircraft carrier, although its capabilities may not be strong."

Regarding the ship-based weapon system, the East China Shenyun Base has made a plan, planning to install two sets of fl-3000n and two sets of 730 close-defense guns on the left and right sides to provide the Varyag with sufficient short-range air defense firepower and transform it according to the standards of starting from actual combat, making it a ship that can go to sea to fight.

"What you said makes sense, but what can an aircraft carrier do? There are so many American aircraft carriers. We want to form so many aircraft carrier fleets that can compete with the Americans. I am afraid that the economy will go bankrupt." Premier Yun expressed his doubts.

Premier Yun’s views also represent the views of many people at the top.

"In the Western Pacific, the main threat to the security of the Republic's naval is the navy of the United States and Japan. As Prime Minister Yun said, the number of aircraft carriers in the Republic is of no use to the US military if it is built, and it can only become their key target. Once the Republic's aircraft carrier is sunk, it will cause great losses to our military morale and will cause a comprehensive passiveness in naval warfare." Prime Minister Yun said, "On the contrary, if we sink the US aircraft carrier, it will make the US military passive. Therefore, we should focus on developing how to attack aircraft carriers."

"For small neighboring countries, it is mainly the South China Sea countries. It is of course good to deal with them with aircraft carriers, but if they don't have aircraft carriers, they can win, but they just have to work harder. The reason why we can't let go of them and seize the Nansha is not that we can't beat them, one is the United States factor, and the other is that we are now seeking stability with our neighbors. In such a big situation, building an aircraft carrier can only scare them, but not fight, but destroying the overall situation with our neighbors. Isn't this harmful and no profit?" A member of the Central Political Bureau also said, "As for the further ocean, there are no major conflicts of interests with us, and the possibility of fighting for those places is extremely small. Secondly, what is needed to fight in those places is the ocean fleet, not just aircraft carriers, but our horoscope is not yet a single word."

"Then shouldn't our navy develop? The answer is of course no. Who is the most powerful navy today? It's the United States. As long as we defeat or have the strength to defeat the US Navy, then that country dares to cause trouble for us? This is called defeating others without fighting. Therefore, we must build a navy with the goal of how to defeat the US Navy."

"So how can we defeat the US Navy? We are obviously not an opponent in the fight against aircraft carriers. The US Navy is centered on aircraft carriers, so to defeat the US Navy, we have to focus on how to fight aircraft carriers and focus on developing weapons and equipment for aircraft carriers."

Finally there are still so many oppositions.

After hearing this, Ye Kai simply frowned because he knew very well that the voices of opposing the construction of aircraft carriers have always existed. Even if he paid for the construction of aircraft carriers himself, many people in China still opposed it because doing so would be very unfavorable to them.

First of all, there are many spokespersons for the interests of Britain, the United States, Japan and other countries in China. It can be seen from the fact that their property and family members have already gone overseas. Secondly, the investment in building aircraft carriers is quite large, with a budget of tens of billions of yuan. The profits in this kind of project are extremely large. Now that Ye Kai plans to build an aircraft carrier, it undoubtedly blocks their way to make a fortune. Naturally, many people are unhappy.

However, the development of aircraft carriers is a necessary means to protect future maritime interests, and Ye Kai ignored so much.

Therefore, for these different voices and opposition voices, Ye Kai must point out their mistakes mercilessly and resolutely strike them.

Sometimes, slapping in the face must be timely and merciless, otherwise they will not know how big the mistake they have made and think that everyone is drunk and I am awake alone.

"Your strategic thinking is wrong, and you don't have a view of the overall situation, and you don't understand the international situation. Just expressing your opinions rashly is like playing the piano!" Ye Kai accused him unceremoniously.

"Ah?!" Everyone was stunned and looked at Ye Kai incredibly.

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