Ship Girl: Start with an Aerospace Carrier

Chapter 31 Shinano's Choice

After listening to Jiang Ran's words, Shinano fell silent. She didn't rush to answer Jiang Ran, but meditated aside.

Seeing Shinano's current state, Jiang Ran was not in a hurry to urge her, but just sat aside and waited quietly for her answer.

To be honest, although I modified Shinano's hull according to my own wishes, it would be bad anyway.

After all, they are not real battleships, but living girls, ship girls with self-awareness!
Therefore, Jiang Ran must choose to respect their own choices.

Looking at Lingbo who was still playing with Nagato, from the perspective of the difficulty of transformation, it seems that only the little girl Lingbo is the easiest.

"That Shinano, why don't you think it through yourself first, how about I let Ling Bo reform first?"

"Well, yes, Commander." Shinano replied with a smile.

Anyway, the first transformation and the latter transformation are the same.

While talking, Ling Bo also lay down beside Jiang Ran very obediently, and began to look forward to the next transformation.

Jiang Ran opened the system and saw that there was a foreign ship girl management system on it, so she clicked on it to take a look.

Not only the hull data of the three heavy cherry ship girls are on the face, but there are also various foreign weapons that can be manufactured.

For example, the Tomahawk missiles, Harpoon missiles, Phalanx, etc. that were drawn before are all here.

At the same time, there are some top-level equipment that have not been lit up, such as the B2 stealth strategic bomber, the Tu-160 supersonic strategic bomber, the Zircon hypersonic missile, and so on.

It's just that Jiang Ran hasn't drawn the design drawings for the current weapons, so they are naturally unusable.

After exiting the system, Jiang Ran opened Ling Bo's hull, and finished the renovation quickly so that he could rest early.

Lingbo is the No. 1 ship of the Fubuki-class Special Type II destroyer (No. 11 Fubuki-class ship), with a standard displacement of 1780 tons and a full-load displacement of 2080 tons. The length of the ship is 118.41 meters, and the width of the ship is 10.4 meters.

Opening the hull conversion coupon, Jiang Ran directly chose the Arleigh Burke III guided missile destroyer with a full load displacement of 9558 tons for Ling Bo.

Originally, Jiang Ran planned to replace her with a frigate, but after thinking about it, since she wanted to transform it, she should try to give her the best one.

At the same time, she was equipped with the Aegis combat system, as well as various radar and ship electrical systems corresponding to the Arleigh Burke III destroyer.

In terms of weapons, Jiang Ran installed a 055 130mm naval gun on the bow of the ship, which has a slightly larger caliber than her original 127mm naval gun.

In terms of missiles, like other ships, all unused crew room and the like on the hull have been removed.

Then 224 general-purpose vertical launching devices were installed, including 100 Harpoon anti-ship missiles, 80 Tomahawk cruise missiles, and 44 Standard 2 air defense missiles.

As the close-range weapon, Jiang Ran did not choose the 1130 of the mid-range ships, but followed Arleigh Burke's original configuration.

Two MK-15 Phalanx close-in defense weapon systems, two MK-38 Mod1 25mm cannons.

In terms of torpedoes, due to the removal of the crew room, the space is much larger than before.

Therefore, Jiang Ran changed the original two triple-mounted 324mm MK-32 torpedo launchers into four.

As for power, Jiang Ran removed Arleigh Burke's original device and installed a fast neutron breeder reactor.

"The transformation plan is generated. The transformation time is 2:30:00, the consumption materials are 9000, and the scientific research points are 5000. Are you sure?"

"Shinano, have you made up your mind? Do you want to continue to be an aircraft carrier, or go back to being a battleship?"

After finishing Ling Bo's transformation, Jiang Ran turned to look at the silver-haired woman standing aside and asked.

"Commander, I thought about it, let's continue to be an aircraft carrier." Shinano looked at Jiang Ran with firm eyes.

After all, I have been an aircraft carrier for so long, and various tactics and combat skills have already been integrated into her bones.

If this is directly replaced by a battleship for her, she will be like a little buddy by then.

It took a long time to adapt to the new ship body and the new combat method, which Shinano, a trouble-loving otaku, couldn't accept.

Moreover, with the arrival of a large number of ships with missiles, Shinano can also feel that the role of battleships is getting smaller and smaller.

Not to mention the sisters here in the port area, it is the company of White Eagle. Before, no one had missiles and jets.

Whether I go out to fight Sirens and Deep Sea, or during exercises, I can firmly dominate the company, especially when there are at least three Sakura sisters in the fleet, the effect is even better.

But everything has changed since corporations evolved missiles and jets.

During the exercise, the company alone was able to destroy several fleets on its own side, but he was powerless to fight back.

This sense of powerlessness also deeply hurt Shinano and the other heavy cherry ship girls, but none of them on my side could defend against weapons like missiles.

"Okay, if you've decided, then let's start the transformation!" Jiang Ran looked at the silver-haired woman in front of him and smiled.

For the transformation of Shinano, Jiang Ran naturally chose the 10-ton Nimitz-class aircraft carrier as her hull.

After all, her original tonnage was already at the level of 8 tons. After the transformation, she must not be smaller than this.

As for the Kitty Eagle class, after having ship girls like Luanniao and Fu Wei, Jiang Ran is already looking down on her now!

At this moment, Shinano's hull is 332.85 meters long, with a deck of 76.8 meters and a waterline of 40.8 meters.

Among them, the flight deck width is 78.34 meters and the deck area is 18211 square meters.

In terms of the same power system, the original two Westinghouse A2W/A4G pressurized water reactors were replaced by two fast neutron breeder reactors, and other aspects remained unchanged.

Two electromagnetic catapults are installed, which are more efficient than the original steam catapult.

However, her maximum speed has changed from 30 knots to 35 knots, which can be regarded as a small improvement.

In terms of carrier-based aircraft, Jiang Ran put in the Super Hornet fighter jets he drew before, including 4 Growler electronic warfare aircraft.

At the same time, the 25 Lightning C-type stealth fighters and 3 E-2C Hawkeye early warning aircraft were also put in. In this case, Shinano should not be much worse than Fuwei in terms of carrier aircraft.

Compared with Fuwei, the only disadvantage of Shinano now is that there are no stealth drones like Attack 11 and Wudetection 8.

"The transformation plan has been generated. The transformation time is 10:40:00, 20000 materials are consumed, and 11000 scientific research points are consumed!"

After Jiang Ran pressed the confirmation button on the system screen, Shinano had already fallen into a deep sleep, and Jiang Ran was also relieved now.

"Okay, Nagato, it's your turn now!" Jiang Ran said looking at Nagato who looked a little bored on the side.

"Okay, Commander!" Nagato also replied sweetly.

(End of this chapter)