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

Li Zifeng continued reading while muttering to himself.

Sure enough, at the bottom of this design drawing, we can see the parameters of this power system.

In an instant, his brows furrowed even more.

He originally thought that no matter how low the thermal efficiency of this gas turbine was, it could still reach more than 3 horsepower.

But in fact, the number marked by Fang Yu was lower than he expected.

The power that such a gas turbine can provide for a warship is only 25000 horsepower...

It's almost half the size of a steam turbine.

With such weak power, even if its other advantages are excellent, it cannot replace the traditional steam turbine as a power source.

And to use this thing as the power core of this arsenal ship, and even to make this ship reach a speed of 30 nautical miles per hour, is even more of a pipe dream...

"Director Fang, please forgive me for being blunt..."

After reading the design drawings, Li Zifeng's face showed an expression of wanting to say something but hesitating.

He spoke with some stammering.

"This combustion engine is good in every way, but the power is just... so lame!"

"With only 25000 horsepower, even if it were on a 4000-ton warship, it wouldn't be able to reach 30 knots."

"How about we try to figure out a solution for the steam turbine? If we improve it, it might work..."

Who knew, after hearing what Li Zifeng said.

Fang Yu just chuckled and looked at the other person seriously.

Li Zifeng felt a little scared when Fang Yu looked at him. He couldn't help but look down at himself, feeling a little strange.

There's nothing special about my clothes except that they're a little dirty...

"Mr. Li, the gas turbine I designed doesn't really provide a lot of horsepower per unit."

"But did you notice his size and weight?"

"Volumetric weight?"

Hearing this, Li Zifeng was stunned for a moment, and then nervously glanced at the parameter column on the design drawing.

But, the moment I saw the volume column.

His whole body seemed to be petrified in an instant, and he just stood there in a daze.

"This, this, this... Director Fang, is everything written here true?"

"Does this gas turbine really weigh only 30 tons and occupy only 16 square meters?"

"This...how is this possible?!"

When Li Zifeng was speaking, he was so shocked that his eyeballs almost popped out.

Of course, it’s no wonder that Li Zifeng was so shocked.

This data is really scary.

Longguo's current steam turbine technology is inherited from the Soviet Union, and the biggest feature of the Soviet Union's heavy industrial products is that they are bulky, black and crude.

Therefore, the steam turbines used on Longguo’s warships now, together with the boilers, can weigh up to 150 tons!

The floor area is more than 80 square meters, almost as large as a two-bedroom apartment!

Precisely because this system is too large, this steam turbine power system can generally only be installed on large warships with a displacement of more than 6000 tons.

However, the huge size and weight of this system caused a lot of headaches for the shipbuilders of Longguo.

They also tried to improve the system and install it on ships with smaller displacement.

However, due to problems with industrial standards, repeated experiments failed.

But when I think about the fact that while it is large in size, it can also provide sufficient power to the warship, I can just accept it.

But now, the gas turbine designed by Fang Yu has given them hope, like a flash of lightning breaking through the dark clouds!

Don’t think that the horsepower provided by this gas turbine may be only half that of a steam turbine.

But its volume and weight are only one fifth of that of a steam turbine!

what does this mean?

In a power room of the same area, five such gas turbines can be installed at the same time!

Although a single gas turbine can only provide 25000 horsepower, five of them combined can provide 125000 horsepower!

What is this concept?

Let’s take the example of the Iowa battleship, the most powerful battleship in the world today.

It has a displacement of 40000 tons and only 21 horsepower.

In other words, the power allocated to every 10,000 tons of displacement is only a little more than 50,000 horsepower.

And if he really put five gas turbines on the Longguo arsenal ship.

This arsenal ship with a displacement of 1.2 tons has 12.5 horsepower!

It is 2.5 times that of Iowa!

With such abundant power, let alone allowing this arsenal ship to reach a speed of 30 nautical miles per hour.

Just don't take into account that excessive speed will cause unnecessary wear.

Theoretically, even a speed of 50 knots is not impossible to achieve...

Thinking of this.

Li Zifeng looked at Fang Yu again, but this time his gaze was completely different from before.

If we say that the look in Li Zifeng's eyes when he looked at Fang Yu before contained only courtesy and confusion.

This time, his eyes were full of awe!

No wonder he can remain so calm no matter what questions he asks.

It turns out that these problems had long been eliminated by him!

Crane lifting weight is not enough? 2000-ton gantry crane has been delivered.

Are existing warship power systems insufficient?

Gas turbine design drawings are here!

Don’t be fooled by the fact that these two things seem to be handed out lightly in Fang Yu’s hands and look insignificant.

But Li Zifeng knew that some scientists might not be able to fully understand any one of these two things in their entire lives.

And this shipbuilding plan seems to have been proposed by Fang Yu less than a month ago?

In other words, it took Fang Yulian less than half a month to design and manufacture these two things!

This incredible R&D capability has left Li Zifeng at a loss for words.

It was only at this time that Li Zifeng realized how accurate Mr. Wu's comment on Fang Yu, "a peerless talent in the country," was...

After the excitement, a feeling of gratitude suddenly arose in Li Zifeng's heart.

Originally, Li Zifeng was somewhat proud of his Dalian Shipyard.

I feel that even a strong R&D unit like the Great Wall Military Factory must cooperate with me in shipbuilding.

But now he realized how ridiculous his idea was.

With this 2000-ton gantry crane and this gas turbine technology, Fang Yu can completely build this arsenal ship in his own factory.

The reason they came to cooperate with me was probably not because they were impressed by the professionalism of my factory.

Instead, he deliberately came to support his own factory and give his Dalian Shipyard a chance to prosper.

Thinking of this, Li Zifeng's eyes lit up.

The person in front of me is not a comrade of the leader at all.

Isn't this definitely the God of Wealth coming to give me money...