Chapter 1640: Exotic Dragon

How much is an aircraft carrier?

Back then, the cost of the ninth ship of the Nimitz class, the USS Reagan, was four billion US dollars, the price more than ten years ago. Now the cost of the 'Ford' class has soared directly to ten billion dollars.

Rabbits are cheaper to build aircraft carriers, 20 billion soft sister coins, 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... then it is not as simple as one plus one equals two, and 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 doesn't hurt so much if it gets messed up.

It stands to reason that the reconstruction work is more convenient in coastal shipyards, but for safety and confidentiality, the elders of the rabbit decided to rebuild this warship from a different time and space in a certain 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, an aircraft carrier is not a small gunboat in an inland river, and the sea is its stage.

When Ichiro Sakai determined that an aircraft carrier was being built in the inland of Rabbit, he planned for Rabbit how to transport the giant ship in the future. In his opinion, his thoughts were crazy enough, but in fact the rabbit elders thought even crazier than him.

Because after some calculations by water conservancy and bridge experts, a plan that is bolder, crazier and more difficult than Ichiro Sakai, with a larger investment, but more lasting benefits, has been proposed. What kind of land ship is used to directly sort out the entire Yangtze River waterway? .

When the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge was built, none of the flower growers from top to bottom could have imagined that the country would develop to the dominant position of "sitting on two sides and looking at one" in a few decades. At that time, I felt that a 5,000-ton cargo ship in the Yangtze River was already amazing, and I dared not think about anything else.

The result is that there are many restrictions on the golden waterway, and the shallow bridges are short and block the way of large ships. Over the past few decades, more than one person has suggested simply blowing up the Jinling Yangtze River Bridge and rebuilding it. Such a person is considered lucky not to be caught hanging street lights.

It's just that 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 here to make the golden waterway exert greater shipping capacity, improve the economic development of the entire Yangtze River Basin, and improve the living standards of the people in the west. By the way, build a big project to stimulate GDP and solve employment.

Put the money saved by building an aircraft carrier into economic construction!

Just when Ichiro Sakai became interested in the giant shed of a certain shipyard on the Yangtze River, the waterway improvement work in the entire river basin began. The elder ordered me to dig down!

Every year the Yangtze River floods,

Just invest money in rectification together. Numerous dredgers and dredgers began to run to the channel to dig desperately. Anyway, the country has picked up a lot of 'garbage' in the past two years, saving hundreds of billions of military expenditures, which is just used to benefit the society.

Anyway, as far as the country is concerned, money is really waste paper if it is not spent.

There is a shortage of dredging vessels, and they are either desperately remodeled or rented all over the world. Rabbit said that anyway, uncle, I have money, so I just need to get the project done quickly. This kind of thing benefits the entire country and nation, and no matter how much investment is made, it will not lose at all.

The dredging and improvement of the entire Yangtze River Basin cannot be completed overnight, and it may take more than ten years to complete it. However, the aircraft carrier does not occupy a large area. First, dig a dedicated deep water channel tens of meters wide in the hundreds of kilometers of rivers, which is very fast.

But it's useless to just dig the channel. What about the bridges along the way?

It's easy to handle, just mention it!

After the bridge is raised, the restrictions on navigable ships can be greatly increased, which also has many benefits and no harm. As for the technical difficulty... these days, if the rabbit wants to say that he is second in bridge-building technology, no one dares to say that he is the first.

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 not reach this level. This is also easy to handle, anyway, I have to lift it, so I just temporarily move a section in the middle of the bridge to let this behemoth pass!

There is no whole bridge these days, it is all segmented one by one. It is not a big deal to disassemble the bridge body and move it, and to raise the pier to improve the navigation capacity.

So when a year and a half passed, and the 'Stennis', which had completed the preliminary transformation and was beyond recognition, was launched from its dedicated dock, the whole world was shocked.

One hundred thousand tons!

Angled deck!

'Electric Slingshot'!

No chimney, nuclear power!

It is not comparable to the 'Ford' class, but it is much stronger than other weak scum.

The heavy aircraft carrier is out of the dock, this kind of thing can't be concealed, so let's celebrate it. When the gigantic shed was disassembled to reveal the giant steel beast covered in red and colorful inside, Ichiro Sakai, who was mingling with the crowd in the distance and pretending to watch the fun, couldn't help but burst into tears. He guessed right, but it didn't matter.

The senior who was still mocking Ichiro Sakai contacted him quickly to know more details. After all, the speed of the rabbit's construction was too fast, unimaginably fast. But Sakai, who was deeply depressed, looked at the giant ship slowly launching and could only mutter to himself: "What else can I say?"

The aircraft carrier was launched, and more than a dozen tugboats pushed it slowly into a specific deep-water channel like worker ants surrounding the queen. On both sides of the river, there are countless ordinary people who come to watch. Compared with the launch of the domestic aircraft carrier last time, this time there are hundreds of times more people watching the excitement.

The majestic giant ship is like a sailing hill, looking up at it, countless people are startled and shouted, overflowing with pride. After all, in the external publicity, this is the second-level aircraft carrier built by Rabbit itself, which is full of deterrence!

Seeing this big guy moving forward in the river, the corrupt country that can only build a medium-sized aircraft carrier with all its strength must sigh. The BBC, who came to interview, reported with sour gas: "The cost of building an aircraft carrier in an inland river is too high. We can't imagine how it will pass through a large number of bridges on the river."

How to cross the bridge is a difficult problem that everyone is concerned about. BBC reporters went to interview the people who grow flowers, hoping to hear some voices of doubt.

But now the common people of the rabbit family are very happy, and they all say: "What is this? Since the government has built this thing, there must be a complete solution."

How to deal with it?

When the aircraft carrier came to a cross-river bridge, the answer was revealed that a specially-made lifting ship directly lifted a section of tens of thousands of tons in the middle of the bridge, lifted it away, and made way for the channel.

This scene, which can be called a wonder of the world, dazzles people, and it is rare to see it in a lifetime. The Rabbit family is now number one in building bridges and demolishing bridges. No one is our opponent when it comes to infrastructure. This situation made all doubts come to naught, and the BBC just shut up.

When the heavy aircraft carrier moves slowly on the Yangtze River, one bridge after another makes way for it, just like a guard of honor welcoming the dragon into the sea. The world will pay attention to it, and the sun and the moon will be dazzled by it. This steel monster from a foreign land will be the town house dragon of our Huahua family from now on.

No matter whose family it used to be, anyway, it will be your own in the future.

When the media asked how many ships of this type of giant ship would be built, a senior official of the Navy said: "Uh...we really intend to build a few more ships in the next few years."

"How many specific ships?"

"Just a few ships."

"How many ships are there?"

"Oh, why ask so clearly? A few ships are just a few ships!"