Romanian Eagle

The disputes between Romania and the Soviet Union abroad did not affect domestic construction in the slightest. As the Romanian navy, it still builds its own warships in an orderly manner.

Today, a strange-looking flat-topped ship is sailing on the Black Sea, and there are several destroyers escorting it around it.

Anyone who knows about warships will know that this flat-topped ship is a new aircraft carrier.

Speaking of the invention of the aircraft carrier without flying, this kind of machine that can fly freely in the sky has become an indispensable part of the military with its fast mobility since its birth. Naturally, the Navy will not turn a blind eye to it, so Navy personnel have always studied it.

On November 14, 1910, the American pilot Eugene Ely took off from the 253-meter-long, 73-meter-wide wooden platform installed on the front of the cruiser "Birmingham" in a "Curtis" biplane. On January 18, 1911, Ely piloted the aircraft and successfully landed on the platform installed at the rear of the parked armored cruiser "Pennsylvania" using the tail hook of the aircraft to hook the brake cable. These two brave practices confirmed the possibility of taking off and landing aircraft on the ship, marking the birth of the prototype of the aircraft carrier.

On May 2, 1912, Captain Gregory of the British Navy successfully took off and landed aircraft on the battleship. These successful practices led to the birth of the British Naval Air Force, and a new branch of arms began to appear in the naval sequence.

These are just new equipment that means that the aircraft can board the warship and become its reconnaissance and correction of the artillery school. In the First World War, the combat capability of submarines was increasingly revealed. In order to give full play to the unique reconnaissance and anti-submarine capabilities of the aircraft, the British navy first started the modification and development of the aircraft carrier. They first converted a coal carrier into an aircraft carrier and named it "Ark Royal".

Although on the surface, the "Ark Royal" can be called the world's earliest aircraft carrier, but strictly speaking, it is actually a "seaplane carrier". Because land planes took off and landed on the ship at that time, the danger was high. Therefore, the "Ark Royal" was equipped with seaplanes that could take off and land on the water. The lifting rods on the mothership lifted the aircraft to the surface and then Take off, the plane is recovered to the deck after the plane touches down on the water.

It is precisely because seaplanes do not take off and land directly on the ship that the decks on the original aircraft carriers were small. The take-off and landing method of carrier-based seaplanes is not only troublesome and time-consuming, but also inevitably damages the aircraft. So while using the above methods, people began to explore allowing aircraft to take off and land directly from warships. At that time, the aircraft were basically all biplanes, which were light in weight and had a short take-off and landing distance, which made it possible for the aircraft to take off and land directly on the deck of warships.

In 1918, at the end of the First World War, the British Navy dismantled the main turrets on the front and rear decks of a large cruiser "Rage", and covered with a wooden flight runway, bounded by the superstructure in the middle of the deck. The first runway is used for takeoffs, and the stern runway is used for landing. "Rage" thus became the earliest aircraft carrier converted from warships with aircraft take-off and landing functions.

In September 1918, the British Navy converted a passenger ship under construction into an aircraft carrier HMS Hundred-Eyed Giant with an all-pass flight deck. During the refit, all the original chimneys of the "Hundred-Eyed Giant" were removed and converted into a horizontal exhaust duct leading from below the main deck to the end of the bowl. Because the entire flight deck is very flat and empty, and almost no superstructure can be seen, this new model of aircraft carrier is also known as a plain-type aircraft carrier.

At this time, aircraft carriers were basically refitted from other warships, and it was not until the birth of Fengxiang that the first real aircraft carrier was born.

In December 1922, the Imperial Japanese Navy's first aircraft carrier "Hosho" was born. It was not refitted, but was built according to the design of the aircraft carrier from the beginning, so it is considered to be the first real aircraft carrier in the world.

With the advent of Fengxiang, many aircraft carriers such as the British Sports God and the American Lexington began to appear, and today there are many aircraft carriers in the world. And Romania, as a country in the Black Sea, the road to aircraft carriers has only just begun.

As the soul of later generations, Eder certainly knows the power of the aircraft carrier, but it is a pity that Romania's position puts the aircraft carrier in an embarrassing situation. Italy's Mussolini said that the Italian Bureau is the largest aircraft carrier. This sentence is that he does not have a clear understanding of the future. Then Edel said that the Black Sea can't hold an aircraft carrier, then it is the real situation.

In this Black Sea, which is 1,150 kilometers long from east to west and 611 kilometers wide from north to south, the role of aircraft carriers is minimized. The enemy's shore-based aircraft was within two steps of going out, and the consumption of the carrier-based aircraft and the shore-based aircraft was definitely a performance of the mind.

That's why the Romanian Navy is so obsessed with traditional warships such as battleships and cruisers. And Eder can't do the thing that the cow doesn't drink water and press the head, so Romania's aircraft carrier road has been delayed until now.

As for the Borchescu, it was also driven by Edel, and the navy was good at males in recent years, so it was rebuilt using a fast freighter.

With all the superstructures removed and replaced by thick solid wood panels, the unobstructed Borchescu is completely a plain-sized aircraft carrier. Although the Borchescu is a plains aircraft carrier, the modification of the interior space can carry 24 combat aircraft. Among them, 12 Haihao fighters were transformed from Goshawk fighters, mainly for strengthening the landing gear and installing tail hooks. There are also 12 Ripon carrier-based torpedo planes, which have not been developed in Romania before, so they were purchased from the United Kingdom.

This Ripon carrier-based torpedo aircraft, captain: 1120 meters, wingspan: 1367 meters, height: 391 meters, empty weight 1978, maximum takeoff weight 3350, can carry an aviation torpedo. Its flight performance is the maximum level flight speed: 179, the range: 660, the practical ceiling: 3050.

It is responsible to say that this aircraft is a product that is going to lag behind the times. But who told Romania to have not studied the torpedo machine before, so I can only use it to make up the number.

This time, there were several Peng carrier-based torpedo planes parked at the end of the deck of the Borchescu, which seemed to be for a test flight test.

"The wind is up and you can take off."

With the commander waving the yellow hand flag vigorously, the test pilot quickly started the aircraft. The plane jumped off the deck after accelerating.

"Success."

The naval officers and soldiers on the deck immediately cheered for this.

Subsequently, several planes were also released from the deck, which made the people at the scene cheer for it. Although they have seen planes take off many times, there are still not many fighters flying on the deck, which is worth their joy. Because it takes off on the deck, the requirements for the pilot are much higher. It is not an experienced pilot who has not been trained and cannot do this at all. And even veterans have made mistakes, so every successful flight is a test for the newly established naval carrier aviation.

No way, after all, the aircraft carrier is no better than the land, and its deck length cannot be compared with the land. Therefore, at present, the naval carrier-based aviation of various countries in the world is one of the best among them.

The captain, Major Fernandez, was also watching the flight. Fernandez is a rare aviation faction in the navy, but it is different from the naval aviation faction of other countries. Fernandez argued that the navy needed a large number of aircraft to ensure reconnaissance and artillery training to ensure that the Romanian navy was in control of the enemy's movements at all times. Of course, for him to make such a claim, the Black Sea is still too restrictive for aircraft carriers.

However, although he was not optimistic about the aircraft carrier in the Black Sea, when he took over the post of the deputy captain, he still devoted himself to it. During the day, he manages the training of officers, soldiers and pilots, and at night, he studies information on the use of aircraft carriers by other countries. In just half a year, Fernandez's understanding of aircraft carriers reached the highest level in the navy, as if he was the only one who was the captain of the aircraft carrier.

And this test flight is just the beginning of the aircraft carrier training, and a lot of training is waiting for them. Fernandez, on the other hand, needs to watch his officers and soldiers display the results of their training, but they still have enough time to train. It is believed that in the future Romanian carrier aviation will not be the only one.