Chapter 145 The Type 055 Destroyer Twenty Years Ago

The 055 Chang Haonan is talking about is naturally not the behemoth of later generations with a displacement of 12,800 tons and a 112-unit vertical launcher. It is an 8,000-ton general-purpose guided missile destroyer that was developed in the mid-1970s and is required to have air defense, anti-ship and anti-submarine capabilities at the same time. ability.

According to the plan, the combat effectiveness of a single 055 ship should at least exceed the combined combat effectiveness of a 051 and a 053K.

In this project, China's aviation industry system made the first attempt to put an aeroderivative gas turbine on board a ship.

In 1974, the Haojing 430 Factory improved a marine gas turbine with a maximum power of 16MW based on the turbojet 8 (power of the H-6), preparing to be used as the power plant of the Type 055 destroyer, and prototypes were carried out in the following years. Trial production and improvement.

However, based on my country's industrial level at that time, even if this kind of gas turbine was improved, it would still be difficult to be directly used on an 8,000-ton naval ship.

It just so happens that the British Rolls-Royce company is willing to sell Oprins TM3B gas turbine to my country. Although this model is not advanced in the world, its technical route is compared with the modified combustion model of turbojet 8. It is a relatively easy target for reference and learning for the Chinese gas turbine industry, which already has initial experience in development and production. Rolls-Royce has not been aggressive in technology transfer.

But similar to many projects of that era, just when China and the UK had completed program selection and technical negotiations and were preparing to enter the substantive delivery process, General Electric, which was competing with the UK for the world's ship gas turbine market, suddenly intervened. feet, indicating that it can provide the LM2500 gas turbine with more advanced performance.

Our country finally accepted the solution provided by General Electric.

The story that followed was just as unexpected as it was unexpected.

The LM2500 was completely out of reach for China back then, and it had no ability to digest and absorb it.

Subsequently, the Turbojet 8 was discontinued because it lost the technical reference for improvement, and the development route of self-developed gas turbines was forced to be suspended, resulting in the fact that the gas turbine power units of naval ships can only rely on the United States.

In the end, with the latter's ban, the source of China's gas turbine power was completely cut off.

If Chang Haonan had not made earth-shaking changes to the Turbojet 14, causing it to be put into use nearly ten years ahead of schedule, and coincidentally attracting Lin Qing's attention, then the Chinese Navy would have to wait until the next ship to obtain gas turbine power. The Type 052B destroyer that entered service in 2004 is No. 168.

The GT25000/DA80 obtained from Ermao was an industrial gas turbine used for power generation or pipeline compression drive during the Soviet period. It was never considered for ship power. It can be said that it has no merit except that the maximum power reaches the standard. Even though it was later domestically produced The technological improvements are only barely usable, which has to be said to be a huge regret in the original timeline.

The reason why Chang Haonan mentioned the old 055 story to Lin Qing at this time was to emphasize that the turbojet 14 refueling project must not make the same mistake again.

After hearing Chang Haonan's words, Lin Qing showed a surprised expression at first, probably because he didn't expect that at his age he would be so familiar with the affairs of Old 055, and then quickly nodded heavily:

"Don't worry, Comrade Xiao Chang, times have changed."

"As long as I am still in the position of chief model engineer, I must continue to push this project forward. Your aviation engine has proven itself on the aircraft, so I think what domestic gas turbines need most is trust and Chance."

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Although the heavy traffic jam during the day lasted until three o'clock in the afternoon, so that many foreign exhibitors who came from Haojiang missed the entire flight show, the incident caused a considerable sensation after all, and the news broadcast in the evening It also spent a lot of space on special reports, so by that night, everyone who should know the news already knew almost everything.

However, compared to the joy and various chain reactions in China, the performance of the J-8C caused much less waves abroad, especially in the West.

For them, this is just a second-generation modified fighter after all, and it doesn't seem to have much value worthy of attention.

It can also be said that in 1996, the Western world did not feel that China could bring any threats or challenges to them from the bottom of their hearts.

At this time, in the eyes of most Westerners, China was basically just a market with great potential.

Only some people in the aviation industry or air force research, as well as reporters who originally struggled to know how to devote enough space to reporting on this air show, were more concerned about this.

While Chang Haonan was attending the dinner, the foreign exhibitors and reporters who had been traveling all day were finally sent back to their hotel in Haojiang.

A man returned to the room, threw his backpack aside, and then leaned back on the bed.

It was clear that he was very tired from the day that had just passed.

A few minutes later, the door was opened again, and another person walked in carrying the same style of equipment bag.

"Alex, how was your harvest today?"

The man lying on the bed pushed himself up with difficulty and asked his companion.

"Too bad, our car didn't take us to the air show until two o'clock in the afternoon. Everything was over, the opening ceremony, the air show, I missed all the parts worth writing in the report."

The man named Alex was obviously in a state of panic. He held his brown curly hair with one hand and his face was full of annoyance:

"What about you, Allen? If you can't take any pictures, I'm afraid we will be talked about by the old woman in the editorial department again..."

"Thank God, my driver is very good and delivered me to my destination on time." Allen said, rubbing his sore legs:

"So I was lucky enough to take photos of the entire flight show of the Chinese aircraft, but my camera memory was full at the end, and I really regretted not bringing a traditional camera that uses film..."

"It doesn't matter, as long as there is a flight display process, it is enough."

Alex moved his arms and shoulders. He had been sitting in the back seat of the car that was not spacious for almost the whole day. He felt that his body was almost no longer his own:

"I heard on the way back that China's official news today was specially extended by twenty-five minutes to cover this air show, especially the flight display after the opening ceremony."

"Well...the photos and videos I took are all in the bag. You can take them out and take a look." Allen pointed to the equipment bag he had just placed on the ground:

"To be fair, as far as a second-generation fighter jet is concerned, the overall performance of that aircraft is quite good. In some aspects, it is not even weaker than the Russian Su-27."

"So I think, for the Chinese people, this aircraft should be really important, just like... just like our mysterious fighter jet back then."

The mysterious IIC is the second jet fighter designed by France after World War II. It is also the first fighter with performance as good as that of its American and Soviet counterparts. It has a milestone significance for the development of the French aviation industry after the war.

Obviously, Chang Haonan's little trick worked very well and successfully caused the French reporter to slightly misjudge the J-8C's flight performance.