Why Does Aircraft Carrier Take So Many Years To Build
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- Опубліковано 2 лип 2024
- In this episode, we would like to analyse the question that might buzz our mind “why does an aircraft carrier take so many years to build?” Anyway, to answer this question, stay tuned and watch this video till the end!
When building an aircraft carrier, it is essentially building a floating, moving airport that generates its own power and has everything it needs to keep 5000 people alive for weeks at a time at sea in all kinds of weather. An aircraft carrier is a hardened metal structure that is approximately 350 yards long, 80 yards tall, and 80 yards wide. Additionally, it is impossible to compare it to the construction of an airport since, while both involve planes taking off and landing, the similarities end there. It does not compare with building a skyscraper with similar square footage because each level is different in size, design, and function from the one above and below it. Both an airport and a skyscraper take years to build and bring to full functionality. However, an aircraft carrier must do so much more than either. Then, how long does it actually take to build an aircraft carrier?
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Simply put, you are constructing a city.
China can build a city within a month.
@@deltaboy2011 There is a difference between a aircraft carrier and a city that is on even ground.
@@jamescar8085 thats why china made a fullscale battleship and place it on the ground, and not the sea😂
@@JupiterVortex But can a Chinese be taught to use capital letters and end sentences as any 1st grader can? Nope ... Now there are battleships? Nice delusion.
No, just a boaT as long as any high rise buildingS, skyscrapers?
While the cost, size, amount of material needed are definitely reasons, we cannot forget that there is not the pressure of wartime conditions/needs that are driving the need for an all out effort. These projects are stretched out by the contractors that are doing the actual work in order to keep the money coming in and their workforce employed for as long as they can stretch it out.
I worked in government contracting for years and its depressing how often jobs go 100-300% over budget. I once met a team of guys who each specialized in different loopholes to justify change orders. The sad thing is the military knows this and sets things up that way. I once worked on a small cafeteria and there was a $5000 because the army insisted on have a total of 10 people minimum for a simple inspection for a fire extinguisher: electrician, fire marshal, electrical inspector, cafeteria manager, army core of engineers dude, general contractor project manager, army project manager, actual engineer, electrical inspector, and architect. FOR A FIRE EXTINGUISHER! The change order was because everytime 1 person canceled the electrician had to coordinate with everyone else and bill that time out. The $5000 was just for the electricians times and didnt count anyone else's. For a frame of reference the electrical work started out as a $10,000 bid and that was just some of the change orders, the final cost of the electrical ended up over $50,000. A private sector job would only need a fire marshal and electrical inspector and their inspections would be done at different times and cost around $100 and take half an hour to schedule
I've been stationed at the shipyard where aircraft carriers are built. Those guys are in no hurry to get things done. Also we used to find all sorts of crap on the ship they leave lying around. 💉 you hope were just used for insulin, Cig butts, garbage...... They don't give a crap.
@@foxtrotdeltausn4757 Agreed most are woke cowards hiding behind fake names so they can get away with being lazy sheeple. I could build better then the weak to very weak US military in my backyard.
100 percent CORECT.
@@MrFlatage what?
I think mentioning how many are in active service for each class would be painting a much better picture of their capabilities and how deployable they are too. Having 1 versus 10 makes a huge impact on how effective a piece of equipment can be.
Yes and no because how aircraft carriers work is different from say battleships they work by themselves with support ships not typically with other aircraft carriers but destroyers submarines and such
And yet in world of warships you get unlimited planes, unlimited pilots and unlimited fuel.
WG: IDK man seems historically accurate to me...😐
Add immune to fire as well
and instant boiler start ups lol
And the planes are made out of paper
Just remember the the things the carrier holds, not just 90+ fighter jets set on the runway of the carrier! It must hold large silo or service tanks that can accommodate millions if gallons of fuel! It also holds supplies like aircraft engines, and need space to test them.
Definitely one of the largest moving vehicles on earth.
*not millions
I served on the USS NIMITZ CVN68 in 2003 while it was stationed in San Diego, Coronado Island. When I seen it for the 1st time after A school in Pensacola, I remember thinking this is the largest man made moving object I ever seen.
Proof of Service please.
@@MrFlatage u want his dd214?
@@full-timepog6844 What are you talking about? I asked for Proof of Service. If you do not know what that is outside of your commie realm where people hide behind fake names then you have no right to speak. I am in fact using my civil right to ask. The reply under the Bill of Rights and US Constitution is mandatory. Proving you never read those. Why I took an oath to my flag, the mighty red, white and blue to uphold people's rights and freedom. Sorry if that triggered you like it does Xi and Putino.
@@MrFlatage ...... I don't know where to start on this...
I remember when I reported to the Washington, it was night so I didn't get the full effect from sight. I got it from walking the length of her.
Tq for tips, i will definitely remember all this during construction of my aircraft carrier
The length of time it takes is directly proportional to the amount of money being spent on labor. During wartime we would need dozens of every kind of ship so shipyards would be running three shifts seven days a week. We would also be building scaled down versions that could launch VTOL aircraft only.
Honestly if the world went to war we'd be fucked
im pretty sure in times war the time to build the carrier will be shorter
No
Yes
I remember watching the island of CVN-75 being put on flight deck and the keel of CVN-76 with Ronald Regan writen on it... This video brings back so many memories... Thanks again!!!!
It takes a lot of time and skill to custom color match all the bidets that they need to install to that grey color the Navy uses.
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There is a history video recently put out here on YT about the small town of Vancouver Washington and their WW2 Keizer shipyards where they built 50 escort carriers in 16 months. Those built were from scratch, not converted ships. The current timelines seem crazy.
Ig the main thing is what situation the country is in.
War - get the ships out asap
Peace - laze around and milk the government for money
I thank you for subtitles in my native language Uzbek, and many other languages. Great job!
8:16 I don’t know what you mean by “official” but China now has 2 aircraft carriers in 2021 (the original Type 001 from Russia, and the Type 002 (Shandong) that was built by China and modeled after the Type 001), with a 3rd (Type 003) under construction. The Type 003 flattop is closely patterned after US aircraft carriers, shape-wise. I don’t know what the dimensions are or if it’s even nuclear.
Da da comrade your Soviet era design cruiser magically turned into an aircraft carrier, lmao! Tell Putino NO! Then go back to Xi's cave. You can edit propagands but not the facts.
003 is 100% non nuclear propulsion
003 is not unclear powered for sure, but it will have electromagnetic catapult and weights about 80000 tons or more.
type 003 is i think , smaller than the ford carriers.
@@112313 According to ... ? You? You do not even know how to use capital letters, lol.
Just put a highway on a ship deck and that's it it will be an aircraft carrier
Just put a bunch of aircraft on the ship and that's it, it's an aircraft carrier cause the ship carry aircraft
Highways take even longer to build😂😂😂
@@OhNoNotAgain42 nah repairing a broken roads are longer
Iran: Yes what he said is true
In ww2 aircraft carriers are realy what you say
Could you tell me what BGM do you use?
the music is so cool that I would like to listen!
Peace Time VS War Time. in Peace there is a general sense of no need to "Rush it" Also Carrier s Today is a lot diffrent, to the Carriers of WW2. in War Time Losing one or two Carriers would make whole lot of difference if it would happen. I would say they would hire more ppl in War time to keep building Carriers, but I also think even if a Carrier Would be Launched in a War Time, it still would take few more months to be, small sense to be classified as an Active Carrier. Modern & Future Carriers are like a Small City of our Standards, so you need to make sure the Carrier is not only Strong for War & Peace, but also able to provided Services aboard the Carrier, as u have a Very Large Crew.
The wiring harnesses take one year to design. Another year to make them ashore. Finally, another year to install in the aircraft carrier. As an example of complex manufacture.
All i needed was the the first 16 seconds. Thank you lol
What about the Venator-Class (Battleship/Aircraft Carrier hybrid)?
It looked great in Star Wars Rebels I guess?? You are off topic tho.
Acclamator
That is more on par with a lightly armed Liberty-Class ship, @@Fearless1247…
You forgot cvn65 enterprise. Bigger than QE class, longer than Nimitz but not as heavy. Pretty sure it was closer to Nimitz displacement, at least more than 65000. But I did not look it up before commenting.
Also of note it was the first nuclear carrier, but budget cuts left it the only one in it's class as the 2 next ships were conventional variants of the kitty hawk class. Enterprise was launched after the first 2 kitty hawks and before the last 2.
Sea trials was a blast also!!!!!
Why do the other countries have that ski jump in the front, but the American carriers don't? Good video.
When comparing construction times, this video compared apples to oranges.....
Wow Amazing I love U.S.A. ❤️🇹🇭🤟
If you take all the pipe in a aircraft carrier and you stretch it out laying it end to end, it will go around the world 7 times. I know this because I was a pipe fitters in the Newport News Shipyard and worked on CVN 71, 72, and 73. They are big and they take a long time to build.
Because its an aircraft carrier? Video title made me laugh, just like the "Why are submarines so hard to find?"
True or even better why do people die in combat like lol it is the size of a fucking sky scraper and contains a fucking nuclear reactor and some of the most advanced military systems in the world
I thought the same! Submarines are hard to find because the ocean is really big and submarines are very small and quiet and underwater. Aircraft carriers take a long time to build because they are really, really big.
Yeah, immediate thought was "Because it is goddamn huge"
@@nickcher7071 Nothing compared to any ship that could just lift 3 US carrier out of the water really. US carriers are pretty small. But they always have those fleets of strike groups spread out around that. Satellites are not blind to that really. Accoustics of such a fleet makes them even easier to find without any size playing a role. Thats just sound based really. There is even a App to locate US carriers. 5000+ US sailors who need their smartphones with tracking enables. Not smart at all but it is what it is.
@@vladtheimpalerofficial Agreed and every sailor on a US carrier has taken the oath to defend against people who F bomb and violate the 1st in the US Constitution. Like every 1st grader can end a sentence and Chinese cyberagents cannot.
Im sure you could make them build it faster during wartime.
Only if you can prove your claim as a fact. Else your just spouting BS. So ... about the evidence? Your next comment right? Looking forward to it. A real man stands for his words.
@@MrFlatage work 24/7 in the dockyards and have less trials. This would not help their quality but their quantity
@@dragonic8403 Nice BS but it would be humanly impossible to work 24/7. You see I have an education. This allows me to pass a written test by ending sentences. Which you would fail as your comment proves. See what happens if you skip trials? You make an excellent point. Just not behind your sentences, lol!
@@MrFlatage i didnt said that one human should work 24/7. If you are so educated you would know that i meant to work in shifts but that there are humans building the carrier 24/7. Furthermore I didnt said to completly skip the trials but shorten it in terms of duration. I hope I made it clear for your educated mind to understand
@@dragonic8403 I quote 'Michel Platteeuw work 24/7 in the dockyards'. Yea I know for a proven fact that this is complete BS. I know you made zero mention of the word 'shifts' so we now know you are spouting more BS. Now untill someone posts evidence you can enjoy raging at a screen all you like. I will wait for the OP to respond with my Onus Probandi.
Video could have ended in the first 20 seconds. Answered well!
Hopefully in the near future a three level aircraft carrier wil be built with 1st and 2nd level for taking off and top level for landing😁😁
Allow me to explain
Ehem…it’s fucking massive :)
We could build them faster really. But then the workers would be out of work 1-2 years sooner
What’s the name of the music used?
On going improving design 👌
Because taking years is the most cost-efficient way to do it
The event of worsening international relations or war they could be built much faster by having the shipyards work 24 hours
The shipyard already works 24 hours.
It seems like even if it was necessary in an emergency or time of war it wouldn't be easy to quickly increase building aircraft carriers. I imagine there are limitations in terms of drydock and construction space, as well as adequate numbers of increased workers with the experience and skills. How many drydocks and shipyards are there that are big enough for an aircraft carrier?
2:32 A water-based turbine arresting gear? This is the first I’ve heard of it. Tell me more!
Its just steam, fancy talking but its just from the highly pressurized steam from the boiler room.
@@DOI_ARTS lol water-based
Liaoning is a Kuznetsov-class and smaller than the Type 002 class as are all Kuznetsov-class
Is the top (runway) asphalt or concrete?
I dont know
how about ,shear size and mass
why does the city of Los Angeles take so many years to change a street light bulb?
To put it simply, the thing's absolutely humongous chungus in size.
Here in Vancouver Washington a population of 6000 build over 30 aircraft carriers in 16 months during the Second World War
Well, seems to me commisioned or not, the CV starts it life once it hits the ocean
And it an advanced weapons or balistic system can take one down in seconds...
Can anyone explain is it possible the Ford class is built with the island is entirely built under the runway. The runway is wide open . Is it possible
We haven't allocated the full 5 naval dockyards to them
All them revisions.. you start with 1 print, but they have changed 3 times. Then you have cut it out and replace with different lay out.. also they don't make in changes in the print after QA looks at with correct blueprints.
350 yards long 80 yards tall and wide?
Of course it takes years to build.
The people building it need to figure out wtf a yard is..
NARRATION DATA ERROR ALERT: The first ship of this class (Nimitz) was put into service in 1975. Newport News Shipbuilding started building this ship in 2003. So, unless this ship traveled back in time, like the Final Countdown movie ... Now, if you're talking about the last ship in its class, CV-77, George H.W. Bush, started in 2003, completed in 2009, I would go along with that.
I was on a carrier (jfk) for two and a half years and still don't understand how they install everything, wiring, piping, AC, forced air, water tight doors,etc
A fully fledged military airbase is a much better term to explain aircraft carrier than compare it to building a skyscraper or a hotel or an airport.
I wonder at what level of build quality there is for an Aircraft Carrier that takes two or three years (despite being smaller), versus eight plus years?
I think not so much. Because you can build it in less time, but it cost more, u need more employee and good Infrastructure. I think you need so long for an ship is mostly for saving „money“ (it‘s cheaper because of all the factores above) and jobs for the construction workers.
And also there are political factors and economy factors that I not mention
Takes time to build but it takes no time when the chef's forgot to turn off the kitchen.
In a few years during WW II the US built some 120 carriers.
It's funny how the British invented the carrier. Passed on the plans and notions to its good friends the US. And both countries deploy carriers in completely different builds and designs. World leaders at their finest.
They probably lied and editted their BS propaganda rant. I bet the Brits cannot prove it.
@@MrFlatage prove what?
@@freedom14639 Sorry I asked you to prove your words and claim like only a real man can. Then you editted and changed your words. Meaning you will never be able to prove anything. Very funny. Luckily proven fact history shows the evidence who did build the first ever aircraft carrier. Because history doesn't hide like you do behind your fake name. Why the UK has a Constitution that forbids such communist tactics. When facism tried it the UK defeated them so that only leaves you.
Technically the French did but you guys had the first unobstructed flight deck
americans were the first to build aircraft carrier , they launched hot air balloons from ships to attack , and till now they have built a total of 99 aircraft carriers including the ford class
Huh? I don't know why.. *Probably not because it's bloody massive!*
Also this is not WWII where we made carriers a fraction of the size in like 2 days
艦船の建造っていうより海を移動する空軍基地を建築するみたいだね
Because of the unions and the permit process
Because it's a floating city with its own nuclear power plant, command and control center, and airport?
Its a city in those ships as far as i remember
What if I were say that not all carriers have same internal design
Strange that they did this, during WW2, in a few moths! Sure the carriers were smaller, but frankly more than 2 years is truly pushing IMHO! So yeah, I agree with others saying that this is what the contractors want! They are actually like a car driving while the breaks are engagaged -.-
Interesting, but the background noise is too loud, too repetitive.
As a former infanty man:if you dont have any ships ,the
opponent cant sink them!
just stay on land
*During WWII the U.S. could bang out a fully functional ACC in less then 20 months* Less then 15 months in some cases. Anything can take 5-10 years to build if u allow it too. I been working on a few silly azz custom tool carts for years 😂 If I wanted/needed them done tomorrow though, they certinly could be.
No stretching it out get it built period
A whole lot of steel to scare the hell out of those poor fish😂😂😂
A wise Asian man once said....its an amazing machine
Litteraly a swimming city man. Gotta figure out its circuits plumbing fuel rods. Communication lines. Interior architecture. And I am not even mentioning the fact fact it's a fuckint warship and has to fit in a fuck ton of military equipment.
basically a fallout shelter at sea
Size? Complexity? Just guessing, but that seems blindingly obvious.
Can be summed up with one word... Bearacracy
They have amusement park rides that are directly comparable to an electromagnetic launch systems. They have been around for decades.
Yeah, but the EMLS on an aircraft carrier is much larger, and has to make the much heavier aircraft go much faster, much quicker, without damaging it. And, it has to be essentially perfect in execution, every time, even in combat conditions. If any problem that takes decades to solve looks as simple as "why not just plug in this existing appliance," it's because you probably aren't aware of all the complicating variables that made it take a decade to solve.
@@magisterrleth3129 Westinghouse had an EMLS system in 1946, but it was never used because the most significant advantage fine control of launching forces wasn’t available yet. The basic technology have been around for many decades, but the huge advantages haven’t become available until the last couple of decades with those much finer controls.
Im scared of those monsters whenever coming. Brace yourself it means trouble coming i remember respect it n those destroyers too
In current context stealthy strategic bomber taking off from far away island is better than a aircraft carrier.
Yes. But people don’t understand that stealth is only meant to destroy radar stations and communications infrastructure. Theyre always going to send the conventional planes off of aircraft carriers once the stealth aircraft have knocked out those targets so they can take out more important infrastructures like electrical, water, bridges and military targets. Stealth was always meant to destroy radar and anti aircraft so that conventional aircraft could come in after without the risk of being detected or shot down
"Why does it take so long to construct an aircraft carrier? Because they're fucking ginormous."
There, saved you the trouble of watching the video. :D
thats a stupid question. the sheer size, complexity and technology made aircraft carrier one of the most complex ships ever built by man
The title is a stupid question. How long does it take to build the residence for 6000 people and to build an airport?
Size?
WTF?! Did you just measure an aircraft carrier by “yard”?!
The ford isn’t in service yet to my knowledge but I could be wrong.
To be honest it's the one of most silly question
Building a Carrier isn't same same make road or big house, just ask engineers they know their stuff
Why?
LOOK AT THE DAMM SIZE OF IT!
Tell me again.. what's a yard?
me explaining why I get no homework done in time.
It takes so long to make one of them because it is nukler
Russian's and China's arcraft carrier actyally build impressively fast. 2-3 years till it completion is consider fast in my opinion if compared to other modern aircraft carrier like G.R. Ford (10-y till completion).
Type of ships besides aircraft carrier that I know that can be build under 5-y is destroyer & cruiser. By that, if both China and Russia have a stable economies and pleanty of resources, they can mass produce aircraft carrier that can match US naval forces.
Scary!
"Why do aircraft carriers take so many years to make"
Me whose tired of life: TGO7GOUG7RZD75GIUGKUCUTGIUGUG FUCK GOO-
grt rept but sailors not solders
In case of war it will take a lot less. Probably the US will need 2 years to build a Ford-class carrier with several months of testing.
You can build an aircraft carrier in a week. You can even erect a building in under a day. You can also build a bridge in just 2 hours. The pyramid was built in just over 2 days.
An aircraft carrier is not made entirely from hardened metal.
Pretty sure a 4 mile stretch of new highway takes longer these days. Yet they built the Golden Gate Bridge in under 3 years. 🤦🏼♂️
Now imagine how long a starship would take to build.
@Alliance Imagine building 160+ aircraft carriers in 3 years! Oh wait no that is what the US was able to do when it had real men working. Else'd they'd be speaking Japanese.
@Alliance Let’s fact check this with math and facts!
ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV:
Displacement: 57,000 tons
Laid down: 1 April 1982
Launched: 6 December 1985
That’s a delivery time of 1,345 days.
USS FORD:
Displacement: 100,000 tons
Laid Down: 14 November 2009
Launched: 11 October 2013
That’s a delivery time of 1,428 days.
So Russia is 83 DAYS FASTER than the US.
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!
Consider displacement. The Admiral K is 57,700 long tons full. The Ford is 100,000 long tons full. So the Ford is 75% heavier (more massive) than the Admiral K (100,000-57,000/57,000). If we factor mass into build time, then it would have taken Russia 75% more days, or 2,354 days to build a 100,000 ton ship like the USS FORD (1,345 days x 1.75). Alternatively, it would take the US 43% FEWER days, or 814 days, or more than 2 years faster to build a 57,000 ton ship like the Admiral K.
@Alliance you seem to be the one who’s triggered by a fact check, so maybe you need to chill lmaooo
@@ohroonoko lmao bru made him look so stupid
China can build it in a month.
all in one word: *big*
Funny how a single small town built about 18 escort class carriers in a year in ww2
Why? Because military contractors and their MIC companies, corrupt politicians and admirals all "need" their "share" of the budget allotted for building aircraft carriers. Hence why it takes several years to build new military weapons systems and why they are always late and overbudget. Can anyone name any single weapon, vehicle, hardware, etc. any system, project, or procurement that was actually completed and delivered on time and didn't go over their projected budget?
Yeah there is one: Perry class frigate. Only thing I can think of didn’t ran over budget after the establishment of MIC.
Why don't they just pay the premium currency to skip the long wait times?