Although there is more than 90% certainty, it can be predicted that the new 50,000-ton platform will be very different from the four 40,000-ton amphibious platforms that have been completed in the past. But before the installation of modules above the hangar, there is still obvious suspense. After all, the dry dock where this new platform is currently produced is being used for the first time. It is obviously not the same place as the 300,000-ton dry dock in the city that has been in continuous production for many years, so the volume of the dry dock itself, that is, the specific length, width and depth, and even the super gantry bridge erected on the dry dock, which is commonly known as the super gantry crane, are all new things after the upgrade, so the basic parameters that have been familiar in the old indoor dock in the past cannot be used to judge the basic size of the draft hull of the new platform. For example, in the past, the basic width of the dry dock in the city was about 88 meters. The new ship occupies half the width of the interior, which is about 44 meters. And if it occupies a third of the width, then it is between 29 and 30 meters.
In addition, in the past, the internal length of the dry dock was about 299 meters or 300 meters, and if the draft hull of a new ship occupies half of its length, then it is about 150 meters, and if it occupies two-thirds of the length, it is 200 meters. In the past, the four 40,000-ton platforms had a waterline length of almost 200 meters, and the flight deck part was longer because of the front and rear drifts. In short, the total length of the ship is about 225 meters, and the draft is about 33 meters to 34 meters wide, which is a relatively short and fat deep draft ship, resulting in a full load displacement of more than 40,000 tons. But the brand new dry dock, which has now been transferred to this new shipbuilding base on the outskirts, is noticeably wider and longer. This makes it difficult to accurately determine tonnage based solely on the width and length of the draft hull before the installation of the hangar and flight deck modules on the top level. I always feel that the proportion of the new platform in the new dry dock is the proportion of the volume of the 40,000-ton platform in the old dock.
It doesn't seem to be much different. However, in view of the fact that the internal length and width of the new dry dock itself are significantly larger, for example, its internal net width has been upgraded to at least 90 meters, then the width of the new platform will definitely be greater than the 33 meters of the 40,000-ton platform, at least between 35 and 36 meters, and the waterline length of the new platform is not easy to estimate, but it is very likely to be greater than 200 meters, between 215 and 220, so that the extra displacement can at least ensure more than 50,000 tons. By the time the uppermost hangar flight deck module began to be installed, it was finally confirmed that the new platform was at least 50,000 tons, and for the first time it was determined that there was a huge upper deck width, definitely not that the maximum deck width of the four 40,000-ton platforms was only 36 meters, but that it was determined that there were more than 45 meters, and it could eventually reach between 55 and 58 meters, because there was obviously a large amount of drift. Such a new ship type is definitely no longer a standard two-attack, but a medium-sized regular platform similar to the Charles de Gaulle class. The last 3 key points of observation are whether there is
The total length of the flight deck of the Charles de Gaulle class is 261.5 meters, and the maximum width of the deck is 64.36 meters, but the overall width of the flight deck is more than 50 meters. All in all, this is a regular Charles de Gaulle-class with an increase in tonnage of at least 10,000 tons, and an electromagnetic slingshot. The Gallic rooster dares to make a big splash all over the world with just one catapult platform, but the new platform of 50,000 tons belongs to a dozen 12 ships, and if you don't pay attention, it will go off the assembly line to more than 20 ships, which is called new quality productivity!