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"I'm pretty sure that medium and long-range anti-ship missile launchers will be installed here soon, because only medium and long-range anti-ship missiles require such a large area to pitch and rotate."
Von Stagg: "Quite right, common sense."
"And then there's the towering bridge... OMG. Four surface structures of unknown texture, octagonal. I think it's a Chinese AN/SPS-33, what do you guys think?"
Von Stagg: "I also think this is a Chinese shipboard phased array radar."
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The next day, the Hughes company's "SFAR" project team sent people to look at the photos.
Von Stagg: "Joy, this is the 'Cruiser X' that China is building. We have already analyzed other aspects, conventional power, which is not as good as 'Long Beach'; there are only two missile launchers at most, this point Not as good as 'Long Beach'; at 180 to 190 meters in length, it's not as good as 'Long Beach' either. But we're a little worried about its radar."
SFAR is the main radar system developed by Hughes for USS Enterprise and USS Long Beach. AN/SPS-33 is actually one of the components of this system.Joey got the photo and looked at it intently for a long time.
"Why are their radars mounted at an angle?"
Joey said this first.In the cruiser in the photo, the main bridge rises from the raised platform, shaped like an eight-facade pagoda, and the side walls of the bridge are not vertical, but inclined by 8 to 10 degrees.
So the four octagonal tiles—the phased array radar front—are also inclined.
"Then why do their radars have a smaller front area than SFAR? About 60% of SFAR."
"Our radar is front, rear, left, and right, and the reference beam is in the shape of a cross; the four fronts of the Chinese cruiser are in the front left, front right, rear left, and rear right, in an X shape."
Joey muttered after watching for a while, and finally concluded:
"I don't know the performance of the radar on the Chinese cruiser."
Wade, von Stagg: …
"But this is indeed a planar phased array radar." Joey said, "Also, please pay attention here, here, here, and here are all target illumination radars, indicating that the anti-aircraft missiles on this warship are semi-active. Radar-guided, there are a total of 4 radars, which means that it can guide 4 or 8 anti-aircraft missiles at the same time, and attack 4 or 8 air targets."
Von Stagg: "Like four AN/SPG-4s on the 'Long Beach'."
Wade: "So to sum it up, this is a conventionally powered 'Long Beach'?"
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Joey asked the CIA clerk to copy the 7 photos with a copier, took them back to Hughes, closed the door immediately, and called the SFAR project team for a meeting.
"Guys, the radar on the Chinese cruiser," Joey said, "I have a strong feeling that this radar has surpassed SFAR in some ways, so please study these photos and find a way to reproduce it. .”
"Are we going to start spying on China just like the missile department?"
"It's no surprise that computers are behind missiles and radars."
"Two SFARs, the Navy awarded Hughes a $6500 million contract. Now obsolete?"
"Things should look on the bright side. If we can get inspiration from the Chinese radar and design the next generation of SFAR, we will get another 6500 million US dollars."
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It's easy to understand why their radars are mounted at a slant. In 1958 the Navy proposed to us, but we declined. "
The Radar General Design Department explained this.
"The Navy also suggested to us in 1958 that the radar should be installed at a slant, so that the upper part of the bridge of the 'Long Beach' would be smaller in size and weight, which would be more conducive to controlling the center of gravity of the warship. But we refused, because with an inclination angle, The angle correction calculations for the transmission and reception of radar waves are very cumbersome and take up a considerable amount of computing power of the radar signal processing computer."
Joey: "Okay, the first mystery is solved, we need better computers. Next one."
"With the X-shaped radar front, the radar signal directly behind will not be blocked and interfered. However, the X-shaped layout will make the internal space of the bridge very cramped, unless the total volume of the Chinese radar is very small."
"However, combined with the fact that the area of China's radar front is much smaller, I am afraid that they have indeed started the work of radar miniaturization."
Joey: "Will the Chinese radar reduce the effective detection range appropriately while reducing the size?"
"This is impossible to guess. But what puzzles me the most is that the Chinese radar does not seem to use the combination of AN/SPS-32+AN/SPS-33. In these photos, it seems that their front is single-band .”
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The Hughes Company studied the "Jiangsu" with great interest.
In the Shanghai Ship Design Institute, Xiao Jinguang and the naval staff were familiar with the combat performance of the Type 59 cruiser in advance.
"It is first and foremost an information hub at sea, and second, it is a base for projecting missiles to long-range targets."
"The general standards for the storage of ammunition for the vertical launch system have been unified. The first to enter the vertical launch system is the long-range cruise missile/anti-ship missile. The long-range ship-to-air missile was initially determined to enter the general vertical launch system, but it has not yet fully passed the test. .”
Li Fuli opened a new slide, showing the "Jiangsu"'s air detection capabilities and multi-target tracking capabilities.
The next slide is the range and height of the ship's missiles.
"In the middle and near seas, where there is support from aviation, the Type 59 cruiser can independently command fleet-level naval battles, not only surface ships, but also submarines, aircraft and other units entering the theater."
Xiao Jinguang: "After all, this is a 12000-ton cruiser, and when it reaches more than [-] tons, the Chongqing is only [-] tons."
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Leningrad, Zhdanov shipyard.
Sergey Gorshkov, Deputy Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, was present at the launching ceremony.
The hull of the lead ship of the Type 58 ("Kenda" class) cruiser "Grozny" moved slowly and slid towards the sea along the slide rail.The first guided missile cruiser built by the Soviet Union was born, but Gorshkov was not too happy.
Because this class of ship is called "Type 58 Destroyer" in the official documents of the Soviet Navy and the Ministry of Defense...
Missile fan Khrushchev was even more fascinated by various missiles after the Suez War in 1956.Two Soviet missile destroyers hammered the entire Israeli Navy and all troop carriers in the Mediterranean Sea. As long as there are anti-ship missiles, what kind of aircraft are needed, no, what kind of large warships are needed.
Khrushchev just asked the Soviet Navy to make the submarines and Type 56 destroyers neat, and they can be improved a little, no matter how big the warship is.
Gorshkov took great pains and made several reports before he approved the Type 58 project.
The reasons in Lao Ge’s report to Khrushchev include:
1. The P-5/P35 series of heavy anti-ship missiles cannot be installed on a Type 56 destroyer, and must be installed on a larger warship;
2. The Chinese comrades designed their Type 58 destroyer. They sent the brief introduction. The full-load displacement has reached 5150 tons. The American destroyer is also increasing, which shows that the large-scale destroyer is the direction of development;
3. General Secretary Khrushchev, this Type 58... yes, the Type 58 is not a cruiser, we call it a destroyer.
Gorshkov asked the design department to reduce the displacement of the Type 58 from 6500 tons to 5300 tons, calling it a destroyer, and Khrushchev approved it.Small is a bit small, but the number is quite large. From February 1960 to June 2, which is this month, all four ships started construction in more than a year, and the first ship is now launched.
The "Grozny" in front of me has large missile launchers on the front and rear decks, which can fire a total of 8 P-35 heavy anti-ship missiles in salvo, and there are 8 spare bombs in the ammunition depot.
The power of this super-large missile is not covered. The warhead weighs 1 ton, and even an Iowa-class battleship will lose blood after eating one shot.The range is 450 kilometers.
In addition to the P-35 anti-ship missiles, a set of Hongqi-4 medium/short-range air defense missiles, two 76 guns, four 4mm small guns, torpedoes, depth bombs...all of these are installed, Type 30 The battery life is only 58 nautical miles, which is really the level of a destroyer.