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What about without skilled sailors and pilots? This is less of a problem.

Because what we have to control now is not the high-tech weapons full of futuristic sci-fi atmosphere in the 22nd century, but only old antiques from a hundred or two hundred years ago.

Since in the era of World War I and World War II, those conscripts who had not received much education could be mastered in the military training of catching ducks on the shelves. When compulsory education became popular, the rate of college enrollment was over 70%, and there were various advanced simulators to assist them. Today, it is theoretically not impossible to train a sufficient number of sailors and pilots within a year or so.

And even if it is impossible, human beings can only put all their eggs in one basket, because what people on earth are facing is not an upgraded version of "World War I" and "World War II", but a hundred times more terrifying than "World War III". The battle of destruction, the battle of havoc, the battle of doom.

People on earth cannot just watch monsters ravage the ocean and cut off the sea lifeline of the global economy without doing anything.

You can't sit still and wait for the anti-gravity organs in the monster's body to evolve more and more mature. One day, it will be enough to support the monster's huge body and enter the land.

At the juncture of the life and death of the entire civilization, the loss of personnel and materials caused by insufficient training and rushing into battle, no matter how much it is, is within the tolerable range—anyway, the essence of "low-tech warfare" is that ants kill more elephants, and " The casualties of "ants" were foreseen long ago.

"Within one year, mobilize all the steel, oil and heavy industry resources in the world, build 500 aircraft carrier formations, and protect the safety of global maritime transportation lines!"

According to this guiding idea, the Earth Army threw out such a frenzied slogan.

The formation of five hundred aircraft carriers sounds like a wild fantasy with no military common sense at all.

However, careful calculation shows that under the premise that human civilization is at stake, global resources can be controlled, and the best workers, engineers, soldiers, and commanders can be recruited and mobilized at will, there may not be 1% hope of realizing it.

The most important thing is that the requirements for the "five hundred aircraft carriers" are not too high, and it can even be said that there are no requirements, as long as the propeller fighters and the first-generation jet fighters can take off and land.

As early as 1917, more than two hundred years ago, the British converted a passenger ship "Kajilin" under construction into the first aircraft carrier "Hundred-eyed Giant" with a full flight deck in human history. The standard displacement reached 14,450 tons, can carry 20 aircraft.

By 1918, the British began to build the first real aircraft carrier "Hermes", with a length of 182 meters and a full load displacement of 13,200 tons.

It can carry 20 fighter jets, but because of the pioneering technology, a lot of experiments are required, and the construction progress is slow, and it was not completed and put into service until 1923.

At this time, the Fusang people came from behind and successfully built the "Fengxiang" aircraft carrier.

The Fengxiang ship is 165 meters long, has a displacement of 10,600 tons, and can carry 21 fighter jets. It was completed and entered service in 1922, and the entire construction period was just over two years.

You must know that at that time, Britain was still the hegemony of the sea, and Fuso was also on the road to rise, but neither of these two countries was the world's largest industrial power at that time.

Especially Fusang, after its rise, its resources and industrial accumulation are quite poor, and its average annual steel production is probably not as good as that of a county in the east.

So, how does the real global industrial hegemon perform in terms of the speed of building aircraft carriers?

Only twenty years later, in the Second World War, when the real global industrial overlord was bitten by Fuso and determined to go all out, in just over four years from 1941 to 1945 , a total of 147 fleet aircraft carriers, light aircraft carriers and escort aircraft carriers have been produced. In many shipyards, four to six aircraft carriers are being built day and night at the same time, and one aircraft carrier can be launched every two weeks. The terrifying torrent of steel can crush it all the way with a destructive attitude.

These examples fully demonstrate that, even with the technological level, industrial strength, and global explored resources at the beginning of the 20th century, building hundreds of aircraft carriers within a few years is an achievable goal.

Not to mention, with the advanced technology of the 22nd century and unparalleled industrial strength, we will integrate global resources to build hundreds of aircraft carriers similar to "Hundred-eyed Giants, God of War, and Fengxiang".

This is because, the waves behind the Yangtze River pushed the waves ahead. In the 50 or 60 years after the Second World War, another even more terrifying super industrial overlord from the East was born!

Even at its peak, the Western industrial overlord in World War II had a population of only 130 million and an annual steel output of only 81.32 million tons.

In the new era, the eastern industrial hegemony had an annual steel output of more than 100 million tons at its peak, and its monthly production accidentally exceeded the peak annual output of the western hegemony in World War II. This number is far from the limit—it is not that it cannot produce more, Rather, there is no need to produce more.

Just looking at the ratio of industrial population to steel production, it is not difficult to imagine that when the eastern industrial overlords of the 21st century are fully fired, they will unleash a military readiness potential that is many times stronger than that of the western industrial overlords during World War II.

And indeed it is.

There are two shipbuilding peaks in the modern military history of mankind.

The first is the Western industrial overlord during World War II, who built nearly 150 aircraft carriers in just four or five years.

The second is in the middle of the 21st century, when the era of disasters has not yet come, human beings have fallen into the brink of the "Third World War" due to the escalation of the comprehensive commercial war.

At that time, Western powers still had military superiority, especially maritime military superiority.

In order to bridge the military gap at sea, the Eastern Overlord has built and served all the warships required by more than 20 aircraft carrier formations in just ten years!

You must know that the aircraft carrier in the middle of the 21st century is not an old antique like those merchant ships that were casually modified a hundred years ago, and the decks can take off and land propeller fighter jets, and their defense is almost zero.

It is the ultimate decisive weapon with nuclear power, electromagnetic ejection, supersonic heavy fighters that can take off and land, and advanced electronic warfare capabilities. It is the crystallization of human civilization, technology, industry, wisdom and courage!

Of course, with the advent of the Era of Calamity, natural and man-made disasters on a global scale have plunged all human beings into catastrophe, and they have forcibly interrupted the confrontation between the East and the West.

A hundred years later, the Earth Alliance was established, and the conflict between the East and the West was at least superficially eliminated, and they were able to bring together each other's industries, technologies, and resource integration capabilities, and join forces to deal with the most terrifying enemies—including, But not limited to monsters.

In this regard, it is not the construction speed of the shipyard that is holding back, but the training speed of sailors and pilots-although as long as you can fly propeller fighters and first-generation jet fighters, it is enough to fill up a full five hundred aircraft carrier formations , but also to continuously replenish the cruel battle damage, which still exceeds the limit of the full capacity of the Earth Army.

At this moment, while all the shipyards in the world are firing on all cylinders, there are already hundreds of aircraft carrier formations cruising on the ocean.

Most of these so-called aircraft carriers are converted from civilian transport ships, accommodating the most classic aircraft carrier design in human history, and then optimizing it with the advanced technology of the 22nd century. In terms of the radar system, it may be even worse.

If it is used to deal with "real aircraft carriers", such as the models designed and produced by the Eastern Overlord in the middle of the 21st century in response to World War Three, I am afraid that it will be a nuclear-powered electromagnetic ejection super aircraft carrier equipped with fifth-generation and sixth-generation aircraft. , These brand-new antiques, together with the propeller fighter jets parked on their decks and the first-generation jet fighters, will be dried to death. Until death, these brand-new old antiques, together with the sailors and pilots with limited training and rushing into battle, will never be able to touch them A hair down to the "real carrier".

However, it was monsters that had to be dealt with now, and using these brand-new old antiques was just right.

Because the technical content of these so-called aircraft carriers is so low that the military is too embarrassed to call them aircraft carriers.

Therefore, in public propaganda, these behemoths are often referred to as "large flat-topped ships, special fishery administration ships, ocean-going fishing ships, offshore fish processing plants, and scientific research ships" or something.

Another point to consider is that these "special fishery administration ships" will never have a low loss rate in a cruel war. Now they are publicized according to the caliber of "the military produces 500 aircraft carriers a year", which certainly boosts morale. But what if one day a bloody battle with a monster overturns a dozen or twenty aircraft carriers, how should it be publicized?

Therefore, in order to avoid being slapped in the face in the future, let's keep a low profile for the time being, let's just say "special fishery administration ship". The "big fish" that has never been seen!