At the turbulent moment of the current international situation, despite the epidemic crisis at home, the United States is still unswervingly promoting the research and development of new weapons and equipment. It is understood that the $13 billion "Ford" aircraft carrier will be deployed for the first time this year, and is currently in the final maintenance phase before deployment, which is expected to be officially deployed this spring. This move will effectively alleviate the problem of insufficient number of available aircraft carriers faced by the US Navy. Although the United States currently has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and dominates the seas, it is still relentlessly developing its maritime power and working to build the world's strongest navy.
It is worth noting that in recent years, the United States has been promoting the "uselessness of aircraft carriers" in the international community in an attempt to limit the development of other countries' maritime forces, but the fact is that the United States has never stopped the pace of building its own aircraft carriers, which can be described as a model of "double standards". From the point of view of global maritime power, the US Navy is unique in the field of aircraft carriers in terms of numerical and performance superiority, which can be called world-class. Compared with Russia, the "number one adversary" of the United States, Russia has only one aircraft carrier "Kuznetsov", and it is still in the repair stage, far behind the development of the United States in the field of aircraft carriers.
Nowadays, through the unremitting efforts of many scientific researchers on the mainland, the mainland has developed into a country with dual aircraft carriers, and its future development is also highly anticipated. However, while all countries around the world are striving to develop maritime military power, the outside world is rumored that the world's first major country with 20 aircraft carriers has appeared, almost avoiding the eyes of the world, this country is the United States, which has been playing up the "uselessness of aircraft carriers".
Relevant sources revealed that in fact, the number of aircraft carriers owned by the United States is far more than the 11 we can see, in addition to the aircraft carriers under accelerated construction, they also have 9 secretly retained "amphibious assault ships". These "amphibious assault ships" are called aircraft carriers because the U.S. Navy has given them the ability to carry F-35 fighters during the design process, which can be used as light aircraft carriers at any time in the future. Russian experts are even more blunt in saying that the United States has an unrivaled advantage in the field of aircraft carriers, which has been leading the world for 50 years, and it is almost impossible for other countries to catch up and overtake in a short period of time. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, the US economy has begun to decline, and it may only be a matter of time before other countries want to catch up in aircraft carriers and other fields in the future.