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With the development of society, China, as an industrial power in the world, will attract the attention of all countries around the world whenever there is a little wind and grass.
So if there is a war between China and the United States, will the United States adopt the mode of "dumplings" and build hundreds of aircraft carriers in minutes?
Is the U.S. Navy really so powerful today?
Once a war breaks out, the US Navy will immediately "dump its dumplings"! Can it build hundreds of aircraft carriers and warships in minutes?
If China and the United States go to war, the US Navy will not be able to build hundreds of aircraft carriers in minutes, and the US shipbuilding industry today is much worse than before, and it can be said that there has been a very obvious decline.
With the development of the times, the US Navy has gradually fallen from the position of world hegemon, even if the United States is not willing to accept this fact, but compared with the past, the shipyards of the US military are obviously a world of difference.
You must know that during World War II, the United States had already demonstrated very strong military industrial capabilities, and was able to build more than 100 aircraft carriers in a short period of time.
But now, it takes several years for the United States to build an aircraft carrier, and such a gap cannot but make people question the current shipbuilding strength of the US Navy.
The regression of the shipbuilding industry in the United States is mainly reflected in the aging of shipyard equipment and the loss of workers, and the reason why the shipyards of the American military at that time were able to survive was because they received a large number of orders from the US Navy.
The cost of building a warship in the United States is much higher than that of an ordinary civilian ship, so more shipyards are more than willing to build warships and get paid more.
Gradually, shipyards have seen a very serious involution situation, and the business of American shipyards has become more and more sluggish as the cost has been reduced.
The only ones that will survive are the shipbuilders who build the warships, and the others will face closure, but now the shipbuilding industry in the United States is basically wiped out.
And with the passage of time, there are serious problems with the aging of equipment in shipyards, like the United States, where private ownership is the mainstay, basically this situation is difficult to solve, because it is impossible for the state to pay for shipbuilders to replace equipment.
The aging of equipment day by day is obviously the biggest problem for the United States, and slowly the US military no longer cares about the power of building warships, but can use them.
However, the old equipment, the warships built are not destined to be strong, and the passage of construction workers has instantly plunged the American shipbuilding industry into a quagmire.
The loss of personnel and the aging of equipment have caused the shipbuilding industry in the United States to decline rapidly, and even fall into a dead circle that cannot be saved.
The US Navy is no longer brilliant
Seeing the strength of today's U.S. shipbuilding, and the U.S. military's shipbuilding strength during World War II is simply a world of difference, you must know that the U.S. military at that time built hundreds of warships in minutes, although it is a bit exaggerated, but the speed of the U.S. military building warships at that time was not slow at all.
However, with the continuous renewal of society, various countries also have high requirements for the construction of ships, and the reason why the construction is relatively slow now is that on the one hand, there is a lack of hardware facilities for shipbuilding, and there is a big difference between the current warships and the warships of World War II.
Judging from the tonnage of ships alone, the US warships during World War II were only 10,000 tons, and the current aircraft carriers have reached 80,000 tons.
Moreover, the tonnage of the US aircraft carriers in service now is larger, basically more than 100,000 tons, which is completely 10 times the weight of World War II.
The obvious difference can be seen from the tonnage alone, in addition to the size, there is also a very big difference in the technology of building ships, especially now that warships are equipped with advanced equipment, it is not at the same level.
Therefore, with the current requirements for building warships, the US Navy is not destined to build hundreds of aircraft carrier warships in a short period of time, as it did during World War II.
U.S. warship maintenance capabilities are also not keeping up
Judging from the current speed of ship construction in the United States, the United States today not only has a great regression in its shipbuilding capacity, but also cannot keep up with the pace of other countries in the ordinary maintenance of warships.
Now the U.S. shipbuilding industry is getting less and less, so the work of repairing aircraft carriers has become the top priority, according to the understanding of the current U.S. aircraft carriers have appeared in line for maintenance, although the United States has many aircraft carriers, but only one or two can really be used, and the others are still parked in the maintenance office queue.
If the United States has not realized the importance of maintenance in the future, then the next American aircraft carriers will be lined up for maintenance, but at present, the United States can no longer change the status quo, and can only find other countries to help repair American aircraft carriers.
However, if this continues, the U.S. shipbuilding industry will face even greater challenges in the future.
The speed of construction of China's aircraft carriers
Compared to the United States, the speed at which China is building aircraft carriers is a nightmare for them, in China we not only have our own large shipbuilding base, but also have more than 300,000 shipbuilders and professional shipbuilding technicians.
It only took 56 months to build the Continental Type 003 aircraft carrier, and the launch experiment has been successful, but there will be a more obvious increase in the speed of shipbuilding in the future.
This speed is also worrying the United States, you must know that China's shipbuilding technology and many Western countries have a very obvious gap, but in recent years, these gaps are narrowing little by little, and even now the mainland's shipbuilding level has reached the world's top technical level.
Moreover, the mainland also has its own shipbuilding base, and a large number of shipbuilders have well guaranteed the speed of construction, which is enough to prove that the mainland's naval strength is gradually approaching the United States, and it will certainly be able to break the monopoly of the United States in the construction of aircraft carriers in the future.
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Of course, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although the current military strength of the US Navy has declined, the United States still maintains a certain strength at sea by relying on its strong scientific and technological strength.
Nowadays, it will take about six years for the United States to build an aircraft carrier, and it is obviously unrealistic to say that the construction of a ship by the US military is like "dumplings."
In contrast, the mainland's shipbuilding technology is constantly improving, and perhaps at some point in the future, it will completely break the status of the United States as the maritime hegemon, so as to surpass the United States and become the most influential country in the world.
References
China Military Network - "The U.S. Navy Updates the 30-Year Shipbuilding Plan"
Xinhuanet - "US media: US Navy report recommends increasing the total number of warships to 373"
Global Times - "The Total Number of Ships Will Exceed 500? The U.S. Navy Engages in the "2045 Plan"