Chapter 1640 Exotic Dragon
How much does an aircraft carrier cost?
The cost of the Nimitz-class Nine ship Reagan was $4 billion, which was more than ten years ago. Now the cost of the Ford class has soared to $10 billion.
Rabbit's aircraft carrier is cheaper, with a soft coin of 20 billion yuan per ship, equivalent to about 2 billion US dollars. However, Rabbit's current aircraft carrier is only a medium-sized size of 50,000 tonnes. If it is a heavy size of 100,000 tons..., it is not as simple as one plus one equals two, and the cost will definitely be two or three times higher.
It’s not that Zhou Qingfeng cannot get a more complete Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, but it’s just a ragged ‘Stannis’ that is used to practice hands. It’s not that painful to mess it up.
It is logical that the reconstruction work is more convenient in coastal shipyards, but for safety and confidentiality, the elder of the rabbit decided to renovate this warship from different time and space in 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 to the sea in the future is a big problem. After all, the aircraft carrier is not a small inland gunboat, the sea is its stage.
When Ichiro Sakai decided that an aircraft carrier was built inland in Rabbit, he planned for the rabbit to transport the giant ship in the future. In his opinion, his thoughts were crazy enough, but in fact, the rabbit elders were crazy about him.
Because after some calculations by water conservancy and bridge experts, a plan that is bolder, crazier and more difficult, more investment, more lasting and more efficient than Ichiro Sakai was taken out to make a land voyage, and directly sort out the entire Yangtze River channel.
When the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge was built, no one in the flower planters could have thought that the country would develop into the dominant position of "sitting two and looking at one" decades later. At that time, it was already amazing that the cargo ship running 5,000 tons in the Yangtze River was already amazing, and no one dared to think about anything else.
As a result, many restrictions have appeared on the golden waterway, and the shallow water bridge is low and stuck the roads of large ships. For decades, more than one person proposed to simply blow up the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge to rebuild. Such people were lucky if they were not arrested to hang street lights.
But now that technology has developed, there are better ways to solve this problem.
In order to enable the "Stannis" to drive into the sea, no, no..., we are trying to enable the Golden Waterway to exert greater shipping capabilities, improve the economic development of the entire Yangtze River Basin, improve the living standards of the people in the west, and carry out a large project to drive GDP and solve employment problems.
Put the money saved from building an aircraft carrier into economic construction!
Just when Ichiro Sakai began to be interested in the giant sheds of a shipyard in the Yangtze River, the entire basin of the waterway began to rectify the waterways. The elder ordered me to dig downwards!
Every year, the Yangtze River has floods, so I'd just invest money to rectify it. Countless dredgers and dredgers began to run to the channel to dig hard. Anyway, the country has picked up a lot of "garbage" in the past two years, and the military expenditure saved in hundreds of billions of dollars is just enough to benefit the society.
Anyway, for the country, if money is not spent, it is really waste paper.
The dredging ships are insufficient, either desperately transforming or renting the whole world. The rabbit said that I have money anyway, so I just need to get the project done quickly. This kind of thing will benefit the entire country and nation, and no matter how much investment it takes, it will not be a loss at all.
The dredging and remediation of the entire Yangtze River basin cannot be completed overnight, and it may take more than ten years to complete. However, the aircraft carriers do not occupy a large area. First, dig a dedicated deep waterway dozens of meters wide in the river channel hundreds or thousands of meters, which is very fast.
But digging the waterway is useless, what should I do with the bridges along the way?
It's easy to deal with, just one word!
After the bridge is raised, the restrictions on navigable ships can be greatly increased. This is also beneficial and harmless. As for the technical difficulty... Nowadays, if rabbits say that they are the second most skill in building bridges, no one dares to say that they are the first.
Every bridge we have built over the years is a miracle!
As for an aircraft carrier that is sixty or seventy meters high, no matter how high the bridge is, it is not as high as this level. This is easy to deal with. Anyway, I have to be lifted, so I might as well move a piece in the middle of the bridge for the giant to pass through!
The bridges these days are not entire, they are all divided into sections. It is not a big deal to disassemble the bridge body and move it, and raise the piers to improve navigation capabilities.
So when a year and a half passed, the "Stannis" that had completed the initial transformation was unrecognizable and drove out of its dedicated dock, the whole world caused a sensation. The rabbit actually built an aircraft carrier in its inland without knowing it.
One hundred thousand tons!
The corner deck is!
‘Electric slingshot’!
No chimney, nuclear power!
It is not as good as the "Ford" class, but it is much stronger than other weak scum.
The heavy aircraft carrier was out of the dock, so I simply celebrated it in a big way. When the tight giant shed was opened, revealing the steel giant beast with red color inside it, Ichiro Sakai, who was mixed in the crowd in the distance, was tearful. He guessed it right, but it was a big shot.
The senior who was still mocking Ichiro Sakai, quickly contacted him to know more details. After all, the speed of the Rabbit's large building was too fast, unimaginable. But the deeply frustrated Sakai looked at the giant ship slowly entering the water and could only murmur to himself: "What else can I say?"
When the aircraft carrier was launched, more than a dozen tugboats pushed it into a specific deep-water channel like workers around the queen of ants and moved forward slowly. On both sides of the river were countless ordinary people coming to watch. Compared with the last time the domestic aircraft carrier was launched, there were hundreds of times more people watching the fun this time.
The towering giant ship is like a sailing hill. Looking up at it, countless people were shocked and screaming, full of passion. After all, in external publicity, this is considered a second-level aircraft carrier built by rabbits, with a strong deterrence!
Seeing this big guy moving through the rivers and having enough effort to build a medium-sized aircraft carrier, the corrupt country has to sigh. The BBC, who came to the interview, reported in a sour way: "The price of building an aircraft carrier in an inland river is too high, and we can't imagine how it will pass through a large number of bridges on the river."
How to pass through the bridge is a difficult problem that everyone is concerned about. BBC reporters went to interview the people of the flower planting family, hoping to hear some doubts.
But now the common people of the Rabbit family are happy and all said, "What's this? Since the government has built this thing, it must have a complete set of solutions."
How to solve it?
When the aircraft carrier came to a cross-river bridge, the answer was revealed that a specially made crane ship directly lifted up a section of thousands of tons in the middle of the bridge, carried it away, and gave way out of the channel.
This scene that is a world-famous scene that makes people dizzy and can be seen in a lifetime. The Rabbit Family is the best in building bridges and demolishing bridges. If you play infrastructure, no one will be our opponent. This situation has turned all doubts into vanishing, and bbc shut up and stopped talking.
When heavy aircraft carriers move slowly on the Yangtze River, one bridge after another makes way for it to open the way, like a ceremonial war to welcome the dragon into the sea. The world must be watched, and the sun and the moon must be snatched by it. This steel monster from the foreign land will be the giant dragon in our Huajia's house in the future.
No matter who it belongs to in the past, it will be its own in the future.
When some media asked how many ships this giant ship would be built, a senior rabbit official from the Navy said: "Well..., we do intend to build a few more ships in recent years."
"How many specific ships?"
"Just a few ships."
"How many ships are there?"
Chapter completed!