The aircraft carrier is a landmark ship of a powerful navy, and the large giant aircraft carrier with more than 80,000 tons is a patent of the world-class navy. For a long time, large and giant aircraft carriers have been monopolized by the superpower navy.
After 2020, another big country also built a large aircraft carrier with more than 80,000 tons for the first time, and it is the most advanced electromagnetic ejection and electromagnetic blocking method. This is equivalent to inducing a new wave of aircraft carrier construction on a global scale.
However, the craze is a craze, but the aircraft carrier is not a popular electronic consumer product that can be bought at 65,438+20,000. Although there are ten or eight coastal countries preparing to launch aircraft carriers, few of them really have the financial and material resources and corresponding technical capabilities to develop and build new aircraft carriers.
As for the aircraft carrier projects that reach 80,000 tons or more in the design scheme, there are even fewer. Therefore, a large aircraft carrier of more than 80,000 tons is still a direct manifestation of the strength and comprehensive national strength of the world's two major powers surpassing other second-and third-rate powers.
In the aircraft carrier planning or implementation plans of various countries, France's new Pang-class aircraft carrier should be the closest to the strength of large and giant aircraft carriers in the world's two major countries.
The design tonnage of this aircraft carrier is 70,000 to 75,000 tons, and the standard of a large aircraft carrier with a distance of 80,000 tons is already on the threshold. More importantly, Pang-class aircraft carrier is nuclear-powered, ready to install at least two electromagnetic catapult, and reserved the location for installing a third electromagnetic catapult.
If it is really built, it can definitely rank at least third in the global aircraft carrier classification by country.
The strangeness of the matter is not that there is any big problem in the planning standard or equipment capacity of this 70,000-ton Pang-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, but that the implementation time of the Pang-class aircraft carrier construction plan is very strange.
Pang-class aircraft carrier is not ready to start detailed design drawings yet, but it is very clear that the first steel plate of the hull will not be cut until 2035.
And it is planned that it will not be officially delivered to service until around 2045.
The planned service date of Pang-class aircraft carrier is 23 years later, at least one generation later.
The new aircraft carrier schemes of major military powers often have nuclear weapons from big to small. However, it is clearly mentioned that only 1 ship was built and put into use more than 20 years later.
So why did France push the production and construction time of this new aircraft carrier so far?
The first is that the French navy has no urgent combat mission. The only de Gaulle-class nuclear-powered medium-sized aircraft carrier is idle most of the time. He has served for more than 20 years and only used it once in actual combat. It was in the bathtub in the Mediterranean that I bullied a dying madman in North Africa.
Today, there are few territorial sovereignty disputes in France's global overseas territories. Therefore, the goal of the French navy's ocean-going operations is not clear. This has led to the fact that the new aircraft carrier plan is actually dispensable.
Second, France's economic development is very general, and the lack of military spending is also a long-term problem; Orders for super submarines could have been used to supplement military spending, but they were cut off by Britain and the United States. Insufficient budget is the direct reason why Pang-class aircraft carrier can't start work.
Third, there are no marine reactors suitable for 70,000-ton aircraft carriers in France, and electromagnetic ejection and electromagnetic blocking technologies need to be developed or imported from scratch, while the superpowers have no ready-made and reliable products. Under such a comprehensive background, the Pang-class aircraft carrier project naturally belongs to painting cakes to satisfy hunger!