Facing the Chinese aircraft carrier "Xiajiaozi"

Facing the Chinese aircraft carrier, the United States plans to build two aircraft carriers in the same dock!

As we all know, China's first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, was delivered to the People's Navy in February 20 12, and China's first domestic aircraft carrier, Shandong Ship, was officially launched in Dalian factory in April 20 17. China's third aircraft carrier, Fujian 003, with a full displacement of over 80,000 tons and equipped with electromagnetic ejection to prevent the ship from landing, was launched in Jiangnan factory in June 2022.

This is obviously not enough. Considering the construction period and launching interval of the first three aircraft carriers in China, the fourth aircraft carrier in China should have been in service for 1-2 years. In addition, according to the model of No.20 nuclear-powered aircraft carrier exhibited by CSIC for a major event, China's 654.38+ 10,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is also on its way.

Therefore, in the face of the Chinese aircraft carrier construction speed approaching Jiaozi, the US Navy obviously felt the pressure. It is necessary to know that the 003 aircraft carrier Fujian ship was launched in June 2022, and the first sea trial was conducted around June 2023. But there are always many military fans who think the speed is too slow.

The US Navy's Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier John Kennedy was launched in February 20 19, and then docked at the port for outfitting and mooring. It has been launched for more than three years. The outfitting and testing of the aircraft carrier Kennedy has not been completed, and the overall progress has only been completed by 76%, and the delivery time to the US Navy has also been postponed to 2025.

Under this circumstance, in order to update the first batch of Nimitz-class aircraft carriers that have been in service for nearly 50 years more quickly and increase the number of aircraft carriers to 12, the United States will maintain its advantage over other countries in the world in terms of the number of aircraft carriers. Newport news Shipyard, a subsidiary of Huntington ingels Industries, adopted a new model to build Ford-class aircraft carrier Enterprise No.3 and Doris Miller No.4. ..

Because the United States still adopts the traditional tower construction method in aircraft carrier construction, instead of the more advanced general section construction method like the Queen Elizabeth class of Britain and the Fujian Ship of China 003 aircraft carrier. This makes the construction period of the American aircraft carrier in the dock as high as 3-4 years, and an aircraft carrier occupies the dock for a long time, which leads to the subsequent aircraft carrier not being built in time.

The dry dock of newport news Shipyard 12, which is responsible for building the aircraft carrier, is 662 meters long, while the total length of Ford-class aircraft carrier is only 337 meters. Therefore, newport news Shipyard intends to build the Ford Class 34 by building two aircraft carriers at the same time in a dock.

The sluice of dock 12 is divided into two parts, one large and one small. After completing most of the hull construction in the dock, CVN-80 will release water into the dock, move CVN-80 outside to continue construction, and then start construction of CVN-8 1 in the dock. Newport news Shipyard adopts the construction method of building two aircraft carriers in one dock at the same time, which is somewhat similar to the way that Dalian Factory built 4-5 destroyers 052D and 055 destroyers in the same dock before.

However, when the destroyer was transshipped in Dalian factory, it was propelled by a multi-wheeled flatbed, which was more advanced in theory, instead of dragging the water into the dock by tugboats like newport news Shipyard. Generally speaking, although the United States plans to build two Ford-class aircraft carriers in a dock at the same time, it can speed up the construction of aircraft carriers to a certain extent, but the slow shipbuilding speed in the United States is mainly due to the gradual expansion of the shipbuilding industry.

Newport news Shipyard is the only shipyard in the United States that can build a large aircraft carrier, while China has at least two shipyards, Dalian Shipyard and Jiangnan Shipyard, and the technology for building aircraft carriers is more advanced. Therefore, although the United States wants to compete with us to build an aircraft carrier, the industrial capacity of the United States to build an aircraft carrier is very different from ours. What we lack now is mainly the ability to design an aircraft carrier and nuclear power technology.

If a mature 654.38+ million-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier can be designed, it is not impossible to play tricks on the aircraft carrier.