At present, the country with the largest number of aircraft carriers in service in the world is the United States, and the country's aircraft carriers are all nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, compared with conventionally powered aircraft carriers, the overall performance of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers is more outstanding, and correspondingly, its cost is bound to be more expensive.
Although China's aircraft carrier started relatively late, compared with other aircraft carrier owners in the world, China's aircraft carrier development speed is very fast, and at present, China has become one of the few "dual airlines with mother countries" in the world, and its naval strength has improved by leaps and bounds since China has owned an aircraft carrier.
The carrier is flooded with rats
However, what many people don't know is that whether it is the STAFF of the US aircraft carrier or the staff of the Chinese aircraft carrier, they are all troubled by a problem, that is, there will always be a rat flood on the aircraft carrier. Let's take a look at the different approaches taken by China and the United States and the ultimate results.
America's solution to the rat infestation
The United States was very troubled after finding rats on the aircraft carrier at that time, because whether it was laying rat poison or placing a mousetrap, there was no way to solve the rats, so the United States finally sacrificed the best rat exterminator in their minds - cats. On American warships, cats are actually relatively common.
Unfortunately, most of today's cats are raised as pets, and they have long forgotten how to catch mice because of their comfortable lives, and sometimes even cats are afraid of mice. This has led to the rat infestation on the US aircraft carrier has not been effectively solved, but some US warships will still have cats, which may be to give themselves a psychological comfort.
China's solution to rat infestation
After China developed its first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, did not consider the rat infestation problem at first, but over time, the aircraft carrier staff inadvertently found that several rats appeared in the cabin of the aircraft carrier, and there were traces of rat bites on some other pipes, which made the staff quickly vigilant.
You should know that there are many pipeline lines on the aircraft carrier, and if it is destroyed by rats, then the aircraft carrier may face some use problems. So the staff also began to try to use rat poison, but when the effect was found to be poor, the staff began to consider other ways to deal with the rat infestation.
Because the aircraft carrier did not need to return to port for maintenance after a period of time, the staff simply took this opportunity to find all the caves on the aircraft carrier, and then blocked them one by one with special tools. Don't look at this method is a bit stupid, but the effect is surprisingly good, and it is also very curative, and the rat plague on the Chinese aircraft carrier quickly subsided.
supplement
In fact, the rat infestation is only a small problem during the aircraft carrier's voyage, compared to the rat infestation, the shells attached to the bottom of the ship and other marine life are more headaches after the aircraft carrier returns from each trip. At present, there is no way to avoid these small marine creatures from getting entangled in the aircraft carrier.
Every time the aircraft carrier enters the port for maintenance, professional maintenance personnel will carry tools and high-pressure water guns to treat the shells on the bottom of the aircraft carrier to minimize the corrosion of the bottom of the aircraft carrier by these marine organisms. Compared with rat infestations, the handling of these attached marine organisms is obviously a little more troublesome.