Back then, the cost of the Nimitz-class ninth ship, the USS Reagan, was US$4 billion, which was more than ten years ago. Now, the cost of the Ford-class ship has soared to US$10 billion.
It is cheaper for Rabbit to build an aircraft carrier. One unit costs 20 billion yuan, which is equivalent to almost 2 billion U.S. dollars. However, Rabbit's current aircraft carrier is only a medium-sized aircraft carrier of 50,000 to 60,000 tons. If it is a heavy-duty aircraft carrier of 100,000 tons... it is not OnePlus.
As simple as one equals two, the cost will definitely double or triple.
It's not that Zhou Qingfeng can't get a more complete 'Nimitz' class aircraft carrier, it's just that a dilapidated 'Stennis' is perfect for practicing, and it won't hurt him so much if he messes up.
Logically speaking, it is more convenient for the reconstruction work to be carried out in coastal shipyards. However, for the sake of safety and confidentiality, Rabbit's elders decided to rebuild this warship from another time and space at a shipyard in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.
At the beginning of the reconstruction, how to move this 100,000-ton steel monster into the sea in the future was a big problem. After all, the aircraft carrier is not a small gunboat in the inland river, the sea is its stage.
When Ichiro Sakai determined that an aircraft carrier was being built in Rabbit's interior, he planned a way for Rabbit to transport this giant ship in the future. In his opinion, his idea was crazy enough, but in fact, Rabbit's elders thought better than him.
Even crazier.
Because after some calculations by water conservancy and bridge experts, a plan that was bolder, crazier, more difficult, larger in investment, and more lastingly beneficial than Ichiro Sakai was come up with - what kind of land-speed boat, just sort out the entire
Yangtze River waterway.
When the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge was built, no one from top to bottom could have imagined that the country would develop into a dominant position in a few decades. At that time, it seemed that the 5,000-ton cargo ships running on the Yangtze River had already
It’s so incredible, I can’t even think of anything else.
The result is that there are now many restrictions on the golden waterway, and shallow bridges are blocking the way of large ships. Over the decades, more than one person has proposed to simply blow up the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge and rebuild it. Such people are lucky if they are not arrested and hang street lights.
But now that technology has developed, there are better ways to solve this problem.
In order to allow the 'Stennis' to sail into the sea, no, no, no..., we are doing this to allow the golden waterway to exert greater shipping capacity, enhance the economic development of the entire Yangtze River Basin, and improve the living standards of the people in the west.
By the way, we will build a big project to boost GDP and solve employment problems.
Put the money saved from building aircraft carriers into economic construction!
Just when Ichiro Sakai became interested in the giant work shed at a certain shipyard on the Yangtze River, the work of regulating the waterways in the entire basin began - the elder ordered, dig down for me!
The Yangtze River floods every year, so we might as well invest money to rectify it. Countless dredgers and dredging boats began to run to the waterway and dig as hard as they could. Anyway, the country has picked up a lot of 'garbage' in the past two years, saving money.
Hundreds of billions of military expenditures are spent to benefit society.
Anyway, as far as the country is concerned, money is really just useless paper if it is not spent.
There are not enough dredging vessels, so they are either desperately renovating or renting them all over the world. Rabbit said that I have money anyway, so I just need to complete the project as soon as possible. This kind of thing benefits the entire country and nation, and no matter how much investment you invest, it will not be a loss at all.
The dredging and regulation of the entire Yangtze River basin cannot be completed overnight. It may take more than ten years to complete. However, the space occupied by the aircraft carrier is not large. First, a dedicated deep water channel tens of meters wide must be dug in the river course of hundreds or thousands of meters.
, this is very fast.
But just digging the channel is useless. What about the bridges along the way?
It's easy to handle, just one word - lift!
After the bridge is raised, it can greatly increase the restrictions on navigation ships, which also has many benefits and no harm. As for the technical difficulty... these days, if Rabbit wants to say that he is second in bridge building skills, no one dares to say that he is
It's number one.
Every bridge we have built over the years is a miracle!
As for an aircraft carrier being 60 to 70 meters high, no matter how high the bridge is raised, it will never be that high. This is easy to handle. It has to be raised anyway, so we might as well move it temporarily in the middle of the bridge to let this behemoth pass.
!
The bridges these days are not whole, but are segmented one by one. It is not a big deal to dismantle the bridge body, move it, and raise the piers to improve navigation capacity.
So when a year and a half later, the unrecognizable 'Stennis', which had completed its preliminary transformation and was completely unrecognizable, was driven out of its dedicated dock, the whole world was shocked - Rabbit actually built a large ship in his own inland without even knowing it.
aircraft carrier.
One hundred thousand tons!
It’s the angled deck!
It’s an ‘electric slingshot’!
No chimney, just nuclear power!
It's not comparable to the 'Ford' class, but it's much better than other weak scum.
When the heavy aircraft carrier came out of the dock, I couldn't help but celebrate it with a big celebration. When the huge and tight work shed was dismantled, revealing the red and colorful steel beast inside, Ichiro Sakai, who was mingling with the crowd in the distance and pretending to watch the fun, couldn't help but
Tears streamed down his face. He guessed correctly, but it turned out that he had no eggs.
The senior who was still mocking Ichiro Sakai quickly contacted him and wanted to know more details. After all, the speed of the Rabbit's construction was too fast, unimaginably fast. But Sakai, who was deeply frustrated, could only mutter as he looked at the slowly launching giant ship.
He muttered to himself: "What else can I say?"
When the aircraft carrier was launched, more than a dozen tugboats were like worker ants surrounding the queen, pushing it slowly forward into a specific deep-water channel. On both sides of the river were countless people who came to watch. Compared with the previous launch of a domestically produced aircraft carrier, this time
There are hundreds or thousands of times more lively people.
The majestic giant ship is like a sailing hill. Looking up at it, countless people are shocked and screaming, full of pride. After all, in the external publicity, this is regarded as the second-class aircraft carrier built by Rabbit, which is full of deterrence!
Seeing this big thing moving forward in the river, the country that had tried its best but could only build a medium-sized aircraft carrier had to sigh. The BBC who came to interview reported sourly: "Building aircraft carriers in inland rivers costs too much."
It's so big, we can't imagine how it would get across the vast number of bridges on the river."
How to cross the bridge is a problem that everyone is concerned about. BBC reporters went to interview people who grew flowers, hoping to hear some doubts.
But now the people of the Tu family are very happy, and they all say: "What is this? Since the government has built this thing, it must have a complete solution."
How to deal with it?
When the aircraft carrier came to a cross-river bridge, the answer was revealed - a specially-made crane ship directly lifted up a section of the bridge that was tens of thousands of tons in the middle, lifted it away, and cleared the waterway.
This scene, which can be called a wonder in the world, is so dazzling that it is rare to see it in a lifetime. The Rabbit family is now the first in building bridges, and is also the first in demolishing bridges. No one can be our opponent in infrastructure construction. This situation and scene
Let all doubts disappear, and the BBC simply shut up and stopped talking.
When the heavy aircraft carrier moves slowly on the Yangtze River, one bridge after another makes way for it, like a guard of honor welcoming a dragon into the sea. It will attract the attention of heaven and earth, and the sun and moon will be dazzled by it. This steel monster from a foreign land
, from now on it will be the house dragon of our flower gardening family.
No matter whose family it was in the past, it will be yours from now on.
When the media asked how many ships of this type of giant ship would be built, a senior official of the Navy said: "Well... we do intend to build a few more ships in the next few years."
"How many ships exactly?"
"Just a few ships."
"How many ships are there?"
"Oh, why are you asking so clearly? Just how many ships there are!"