Eagle Sauce: The 055 destroyer was launched into the sea just after the founding of the country?

Fang Yu must build a boat.

But Fang Yu certainly cannot build a frigate like the 056.

Instead, they picked up a ship type that was once extremely popular but was later abandoned due to various problems.

Arsenal ship!

Arsenal ships are also called firepower ships.

It is a large surface ship plan proposed by the US Navy when formulating the 21st Century Warship (SC-21) plan. It is a "missile arsenal" floating on the sea and is known as the "first ship of the 21st century."

The vitality of the arsenal ship comes from its strong imagination in developing naval weapons.

In a sense, an arsenal ship is a surface ship between an aircraft carrier and a battleship.

After the end of the Cold War, countries generally cut their military spending, and the precision strike characteristics of missile weapons necessitated huge expenditures.

The practical value of ordinary large surface ships with large numbers of human operators is rapidly decreasing.

In order to resolve the contradiction between limited military spending and maintaining strong maritime military capabilities, and reduce the losses of carrier-based aircraft pilots in combat.

The Eagle Sauce was the first to propose the concept of "arsenal ship", which is to replace the large-caliber artillery on battleships and missiles launched by aircraft on aircraft carriers with ship-launched missiles.

According to the initial conception of the Eagle Sauce at the time, this arsenal ship was at least 244 meters long and had a displacement of more than 11900 tons.

In addition, there are 500 missile vertical launch units, which can be equipped with a variety of missiles, including Tomahawk cruise missiles, Standard ship-to-air missiles, Harpoon anti-ship missiles, and new missiles designed for theater missile defense and cross-shore fire support.

Other weapons and equipment on the ship include: two 155mm naval guns and 2400 advanced guided artillery shells, an anti-missile system, two ship-borne helicopters, one drone, two remote-controlled mine destroyers, two unmanned submarines, a certain number of torpedoes, communication sonar, communication system and combat command system, etc.

The ship has a double-hull structure with a very small superstructure. During combat, the height of the hull above the water is only 1.5 meters to minimize the reflection of radar waves.

The arsenal ship will be incorporated into the aircraft carrier battle group and rely on it to provide air cover and combat information. The ship only needs 20 crew members, but it needs to be accompanied by a supply ship to reload the vertical launch system in time.

If this type of arsenal is successfully developed and deployed on board, it will share some of the combat functions of aircraft carriers.

But having said so much, it is still not enough to describe the advantages of this arsenal ship.

This arsenal ship not only has super firepower that conventional ships do not have, but also has excellent stealth performance.

The most important thing is that it is highly automated.

A large ship weighing nearly 1.2 tons only needs 50 people to operate it.

The most important reason, and the reason why Fang Yu was determined to build this arsenal ship, was because it was cheap enough!

The research and development cost of this arsenal ship is much lower than that of other new weapons.

The research lasted for four years, and the R&D funding was less than $1 million.

Moreover, the unit price of this ship is only US$5.5 million.

You have to know that the 5.5 million US dollars here are US dollars that have gone through several rounds of inflation in the 21st century.

Converted into today's US dollars, it's only less than 100 million, which is well within the budget of the Dragon Kingdom Navy...

Of course, this ship is not completely without advantages and disadvantages.

Otherwise, it wouldn't only exist in the Eagle Sauce's plan, and there wouldn't even be an experimental ship.

Compared with the advantage of its super firepower, its certainty is also obvious.

That is because the security system is too complicated.

In order to ensure the combat success rate of the arsenal ship.

Reconnaissance aircraft, drones, airborne early warning aircraft, or ground-based search radars would all need to orbit the ship.

Any problem in any link will reduce the strike accuracy and even combat capability of the arsenal ship.

Moreover, because the arsenal ship is not intended to carry anti-submarine helicopters, its anti-submarine capability is far lower than that of other large and medium-sized warships.

Moreover, in order to maintain its stealth capability, the arsenal ship has a low hull and a short detection range of its onboard radar.

Therefore, the air defense capability of a single ship is very weak and does not have the "individual" combat capability.

At the same time, because the ship has a high waterline, the speed of travel in harsh sea conditions and the stability required for launching missiles are difficult problems to solve.

In addition, many military experts in the United States also believe that.

The combat cost-effectiveness of the arsenal ship is too low.

This means that every missile launched by the arsenal ship costs more than 100 million US dollars.

And such missiles need to be prepared more than 500 pieces, which converted into US dollars, is a full 5 million yuan!

It's like someone said.

I can afford a gun but I can't afford bullets...

In addition to their range, the power of these missiles may not be greater than the 406mm, two-ton shells fired by the Iowa-class battleships.

And this powerful artillery shell, which is enough to terrify the enemy, costs only $5000...

So, that's exactly why.

As a result, this planned arsenal ship will always exist in the plan.

However, this concept was later adopted by the Dragon Kingdom Navy.

Finally, after unremitting efforts, they built an arsenal ship that was almost the dream of the Americans.

That is the first Type 055 destroyer on the Blue Planet!

However, as the first industrial country on Blue Star, Longguo has corrected almost all the shortcomings of the arsenal ship.

Although it did not reach the terrifying 500 missiles, it still carried 128 powerful anti-ship and air defense missiles.

Even when necessary, 055 can even launch mushroom bombs...

But while its firepower was weakened, the 055 destroyer was equipped with anti-submarine helicopters that the arsenal ship did not have.

Both air defense and anti-submarine capabilities have been greatly improved.

It was even able to do what the Eagle Sauce arsenal ship at the time could not do, and destroy a country with one ship!

And just when Longguo began to mass-produce 055.

The United States, once the strongest country on the blue planet, has gradually declined.

Not only did they fail to produce a ship with powerful firepower like the arsenal ship, but they also produced a littoral combat ship like the Zumwalt, which is laughable!

Even in the face of the rise of the Dragon Navy, it can only drastically modify the Arleigh Burke-2 class destroyer to respond.

One cannot help but sigh that this chosen nation, after winning the Cold War with the Russian Bear, has fallen so quickly that it is truly unbelievable...