Eight Hundred and Forty-Nine Unique Names
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"Admiral Raeder called and asked the head of state to name the two newly commissioned aircraft carriers." After reporting the news of the launch of the two aircraft carriers, the officer stated the purpose of coming here. The naming of German aircraft carriers has always been done by Accardo alone. He just randomly took the names of some battleships that appeared in German history to imitate cats and cats, and he has been fooled like this until today.
The navy’s experiment of taking off twin-engine fighter-bombers has almost been carried out, which also gave the German naval aviation the ability to take off and land aircraft at night. Although this kind of combat can only be regarded as a supplementary method that is better than nothing, it is already a leapfrog in this era. Developed black technology.
The German naval twin-engine fighter-bomber is a multi-purpose aircraft developed based on the German twin-engine night fighter. In fact, it is an aircraft transformed from the ju-88. The aircraft lost the competition for the German medium-range bomber to the active German medium-range bomber -217, and was eventually given to the multi-role aircraft for limited production.
At the beginning of the design, the performance of this aircraft was completely higher than that of -217. In the end, it was abandoned by the German army due to the problem of ammunition load. Use, and then the Navy ordered another batch of 2↓ as medium-range patrol aircraft.
After the war, British bombers frequently attempted to bomb important German Forte targets, and even attempted to bomb Berlin at some point. This put pressure on the air defense of the Luftwaffe, especially at night when the aircraft could not take off to intercept the opponent, and it made Catherine and Dick, who were in charge of the security of the local airspace, sleepless and sleepy. They urgently need a flying weapon that can fight at night to solve the trouble caused by being unable to stop the enemy's night bombing.
Although the Battle of Britain ended quickly, the collapse of the British Navy made it possible for the Germans to land in the UK. In the end, the battle for the British mainland also came to an end. is no longer so obvious.
However, the rigorous Germans did not give up their plan to strengthen their homeland air defense. They were still looking for a way to expel the opponent's bomber forces at night. Finally, an improvement in equipment allowed them to find a suitable weapon.
With the continuous development of German radars, a miniaturized radar was finally born in Siemens, Germany. This small radar was originally designed for the air-to-air surveillance of U-shaped submarines. Radar systems can be installed on weapons with limited volume and load such as aircraft.
Installing this kind of radar system, which is not too small in size, will definitely not work for traditional single-engine single-man fighter jets. In order to make room for the nose of the aircraft to install the radar antenna, and to accommodate radar operators, the German Air Force finally chose to use it. The twin-engine medium-sized aircraft carries the radar system and makes it a night fighter.
The -217 aircraft has reached the limit of a twin-engine bomber because of its volume.
Therefore, the flight performance is not as good as the faster and better ju-88. In the end, in the experiment, the improved ju-88 has completed the flight test very well, and it is more in line with the requirements of the navy in terms of volume.
As a result, a ju-88 twin-engine aircraft that was originally only used as a multi-purpose aircraft became a German night fighter. The production volume was required to be expanded by 100 times. Night improved 1100 and 780. Of course, this was only the order at that time, and more parts were added later, because of the air combat problems in Romania's oil-producing areas, Germany expanded its demand for night fighters.
It is also because night fighters and night fighter-bombers began to serve in large numbers that the German Navy began to experiment with the naval improvement model of this aircraft on the aircraft carrier. In order to take off on the deck of the aircraft carrier, Junkers reduced the weight of the aircraft a lot and reinforced it. The landing gear of the aircraft was removed and a large landing hook was installed. The wings were shortened and better engines were used, and the wings were even modified into a foldable structure. In the end, this aircraft has been modified and can be regarded as another aircraft.
After a series of modifications, the naval improved ju-88y of ju-88 finally took off and landed successfully on the aircraft carrier. For the first time, the German navy had the ability to fight at night-although this combat capability is very limited, it still has it. Night battles against enemy fleets possible.
It is a pity that the ju-88 is not a tailor-made aircraft for aircraft carriers. Although the improved ju-88y has undergone considerable changes in appearance, it is still not a perfect choice for sea aircraft. Therefore, the combat capability of the German Navy's aircraft carrier loaded with ju-88y has plummeted, and it can only serve as a protective umbrella and reassurance for the fleet at night, and can hardly participate in daytime operations.
Because of the size of the aircraft carrier's elevator and the load-bearing design, these naval night fighter-bombers can only be parked on the deck of the aircraft carrier, and they cannot take off if they are parked at the rear of the remaining length of more than ten decks. Therefore, if it is equipped with this kind of aircraft, the aircraft carrier can only store a small number of fw-190 fighter jets in the internal hangar, and these aircraft cannot be allowed to take off for combat in a short time.
In addition, although the ju-88y has good performance, it is too wasteful to participate in daytime air combat and bombing, and it is easy to be shot down by opponents because of its general performance. Therefore, the aircraft carrier equipped with this aircraft will not participate in daytime combat. Gaining the ability to fight at night has not changed completely. The progress of science and technology is often not as good as imagined at the beginning. This is the ups and downs that cannot be overcome in real life.
When Nokia was the first to launch a touch screen phone, due to the limitations of science and technology, it almost didn't use a capacitive screen. The phone with a capacitive screen overthrew the Nokia phone dynasty in one fell swoop. The current German Navy is at such an embarrassing critical point. The size of the radar is getting smaller and smaller, and it can eventually be used as a component of missile guidance. In the future, the aircraft carrier fleet will rely on guided missile destroyers to truly obtain night combat capabilities, equipped with radar Only after China's jet fighters boarded the aircraft carrier did the aircraft carrier itself have night combat capabilities, and these were not possible at the beginning of 1939.
Now the German Navy has launched two more aircraft carriers, expanding the number of aircraft carriers to seven. This is undoubtedly bad news for the United Kingdom and the United States. In the Atlantic Ocean, the British and American navies have only one main aircraft carrier, the Ark Royal, and it is obviously difficult to use it to deal with the German navy. Although the German navy seems to be huddled in the port recently and has no intention to come out to make trouble, but who can guarantee that this important force will not violently hurt people in the next second?
Germany's plan to form a Mediterranean fleet has touched the fundamental interests of the Italian Navy, and Turkey is not willing for the Germans to deploy a powerful fleet at their doorstep. Because of this, Mussolini has always held a negative attitude towards the German Mediterranean Fleet, so the aircraft carrier that Germany has just repaired has been on standby near the Strait of Gibraltar, and has never entered the Mediterranean Sea to participate in operations.
The current German Mediterranean Fleet only has two cruisers and five destroyers. Apart from fishing for a few mines laid by the British, it has no independent combat capability at all. Because of this incident, Akado is even a little annoyed. The status quo of pulling each other's legs made him a little upset, so that he was more and more inclined to kill an ally to make an example of the radical idea.
Therefore, the two aircraft carriers of the German Navy cannot be placed in the Mediterranean Sea for the time being, and there is no fuel for them to go hunting in the Atlantic Ocean. Royal Navy in any operation.
To put it simply, these two aircraft carriers are actually two ships that have no role in a short period of time. Akado's helplessness is that even if he knows that the United States will not come over for the time being, the United Kingdom has no ability to fight back, but he still has to continue Run that Atlantic Wall to prevent the embarrassing situation of fighting on two fronts again.
"Does the navy have any suggestions?" Akado thought of these helpless things, finally sighed, and asked, "Didn't Raeder give a few candidate ship names?"
"Uh..." The naval officer was stunned by Akado's question for a moment. Isn't the naming of the naval aircraft carrier always chosen by the head of state himself? Who would dare to give suggestions at such a time? Courting death is not the way to court death. You casually took over the power of the head of state, what do you want to do? How does the SS answer such a question?
"Okay! Wait a moment, I'll think about it. Since I don't have any suggestions, I'll just think of one...Call it...Blücher!" Akado said: "I hope this new aircraft carrier, May, like Marshal Blücher, bring glory and victory to great Germany!"
"That's a good name, my head of state!" The naval officer's eyes lit up when he heard the name, and he nodded, "What about the other warship? What's its name?"
Akado thought for a while, and then slowly said again: "The second aircraft carrier, I will name it, O... Evil Dragon, I hope this battleship will destroy our opponents like a huge dragon, Maintain the safety of the empire's waters!" He originally wanted to call it the Prinz Eugen, but considering Turkey's sentiments, he gave up the name and temporarily thought of such a weird name.
As a result, in the entire German naval fleet, the most unconventional named aircraft carrier was born. Because its name is completely inconsistent with other sister ships of the Zeppelin-class aircraft carrier, it has become an interesting entry point for future generations to study the German navy.
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