Rebirth in 1989: Building a Chinese Technological Empire

The Chinese Internet is very lively, and there are discussions about aircraft carriers. Many official media accounts have also joined in the fun.

For example, the Chinese East China Sea Fleet posted a cartoon. In this cartoon, there are two large aircraft carriers, four small aircraft carriers, and a bunch of other fleets.

And it also has a caption: Yes, everything will be there, our future is the stars and the sea!

This picture has caused netizens to discuss again and start to over-interpret. What does the East China Sea Fleet mean? These two large aircraft carriers look very big. From the shape, they should be nuclear-powered, just like the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers of the United States.

Damn, what does this mean? Does this mean that the East China Sea Fleet will have two 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in the future, plus four two-stage attack ships of more than 50,000 tons?

This lineup is powerful. If the fleet has it, should the South China Sea Fleet and the North China Sea Fleet also have such a configuration?

Is this a signal sent by the official to tell everyone that China's next generation of aircraft carriers will be nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, and they will be equipped with six, with two for each fleet.

Lively, extremely lively.

China has sent out many signals, all of which indicate one thing, that is, China's navy is going to expand its military on a large scale.

"Xiao Sheng, can the United States believe our nonsense?"

At Huayun Shipyard, Xu Huasheng and a middle-aged man were sitting in the car, talking as they walked.

"Uncle Shi, someone in the United States will make them believe it. In fact, it doesn't matter whether they believe it or not. Our nonsense is just to give them a reasonable reason. The national defense of the United States has long been kidnapped by the military-industrial complex. Haven't they been promoting the theory of China's threat in recent years? This time we will give them a legitimate reason to expand their military and build aircraft carriers. The more aircraft carriers they build, the better. It doesn't matter whether they build 20 or 30. We build aircraft carriers to strengthen them, and they build aircraft carriers to compete in an arms race..."

Xu Huasheng's words made the middle-aged man laugh.

Yes, China builds aircraft carriers to strengthen them, because China doesn't have them and needs a certain number of aircraft carriers. But it is absolutely impossible to have as many aircraft carriers as the United States.

So many amphibious assault ships are being built now because they can be transformed into drone carriers later.

China will not build too many real nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. It's not that they can't afford them, but that they don't need to. China knows best what weapons it has.

When hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missiles come out, large ships like aircraft carriers will be live targets and can be destroyed by a few missiles.

At that time, it will be useless for the United States to have more aircraft carriers. Even if there are 100 aircraft carriers, how many missile attacks can they withstand. That thing can't be intercepted, and one missile is enough to paralyze an aircraft carrier.

Excluding the United States, other countries can't come to the table at all. Let alone a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier, the current fleet composed of amphibious assault ships can solve it.

Moreover, China also has super arsenal ships, and aircraft carriers are needed, but not too many. According to the current plan, each of the four major fleets will have a 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

However, the US fleet is equipped with two amphibious assault ships. When the aircraft carrier is under maintenance, the amphibious assault ship can carry vertical take-off and landing aircraft for combat readiness.

Now China's strategic level is different from that of the United States. One is already in the sky, and the other is still on the ground.

Drones, unmanned boats, hypersonic weapons, space-based weapons, etc., these things are what China is working hard to develop.

"I hope the United States can build more aircraft carriers!"

The middle-aged man laughed happily. Build them. The more you build, the more military expenses you spend. The cost of an aircraft carrier battle group is quite large.

The cost of construction is sky-high, and the cost of each fleet every year is even more sky-high.

Yes, the United States is rich this time to cut off Europe and make a lot of money. But these are all dollars. To put it bluntly, it is ill-gotten gains. There will be no next time.

After the United States jumps into the pit in the Middle East, it will fight for another ten or eight years. When the US economy is not good and the economy collapses, these troops and aircraft carriers alone can eat up half of the United States.

The military-industrial complex has kidnapped the economy. It will be impossible to get rid of it. Whoever wants to get rid of it will die. Because the military is the one who benefits, from the military-industrial complex to officers and ordinary soldiers.

This is a super blood-sucking worm. No one in the United States dares to offend it, and no one dares to reduce military spending. If they dare to reduce it, death will be waiting for them.

In a few years, when the United States comes to its senses and looks again, what they have in their hands has already become like scrap metal. It can threaten small countries, but threatening China will be destroyed in minutes.

The car stopped at a huge dock at the Huayun Shipyard. Xu Huasheng and the middle-aged man and others got off the car. After entering the dock, they sawA big guy was undergoing the final inspection.

Seeing this big guy, the middle-aged man was happy.

Nuclear-powered polar research ship, displacement of 48,000 tons, of course, this displacement is empty, full load displacement, close to 60,000 tons.

The power used by this ship is the fourth-generation nuclear power, thorium-based molten salt reactor power. Although it is less than 60,000 tons when fully loaded, the power of this ship has reached a terrifying 280,000 horsepower, while the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the United States has only 260,000 horsepower.

The hull of the entire ship is made of special steel plates. It is said to be a civilian ship, but this thing is completely built to military standards and is very strong. And many places are built according to the highest standards, so that the thick ice in the polar regions can be broken.

Looking at the superstructure of this ship, it does not look like a polar research ship at all. Whose polar research ship is carrying a bunch of big balls? In addition to the big balls, there is also an integrated mast. The most terrifying thing is that there are four huge active phased array radar antennas on the mast.

That's fine. Have you ever seen a base research ship carrying a vertical launch device? This ship has one. Although it is only equipped with a vertical launch device with 112 vertical launch units, it is still exaggerated.

However, here, this is not called a missile launcher, but an icebreaker rocket vertical launcher. It is used to launch icebreaker rockets, not missiles. As for why this vertical launcher is the same as that on Chinese warships, it is because this icebreaker rocket looks like a missile.

In the back half of this ship, there is a straight-through deck. The huge deck can park many research helicopters. But with such a large deck, it should be no problem to put the vertical take-off and landing S-14 on it.

This thing will go to the Arctic in the future and go through the Bering Strait. It will be exciting at that time.

Moreover, this thing is nuclear-powered. The nuclear fuel on it can be used for 30 years at a time. This thing is carrying a bunch of balls and wandering around the Arctic Ocean. Let's not talk about other places. Anyway, Alaska will definitely have no secrets in the future. It's exciting to think about it.