Great Power Industry: You're a private company building an aircraft carrier?

A nuclear-powered aircraft carrier! For Laiyang Group, this is absolutely the most important project!

Next, Qin Chuan gave up all his work and devoted himself entirely to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier project. He lived and ate at the shipyard every day, and handed over all his other businesses to Yang Xue to manage.

Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are the backbone of a nation and its people!

The previous Type 001 aircraft carrier was conventionally powered and had steam catapults, which was an outdated product. The brand-new Type 002 aircraft carrier is nuclear-powered, has electromagnetic catapults and arrested landings, and will also carry advanced carrier-based aircraft. This is the future!

The keel was laid, and construction of the first section began. New sections were assembled next to it and then hoisted down. This 100,000-ton aircraft carrier was expanding at a visible speed, just like stacking building blocks. Within six months, two sections were completed.

Reconnaissance satellites swept overhead, and once the Americans were finally certain of the thing's size, they fell silent.

The White House.

"According to satellite photos, the hull is extremely wide, with a waterline width exceeding forty meters. If such a hull were used to build an aircraft carrier, the flight deck would reach approximately eighty meters in length, and the displacement would reach one hundred thousand tons." Tenet placed the latest data on the table and looked at everyone: "Gentlemen, the Easterners are developing supercarriers just like ours! Are we... prepared to respond?"

When the East first built its first aircraft carrier, people didn't think much of it, since its performance couldn't even compare to the Kitty Hawk-class, only slightly better than the Kuznetsov. But now? The appearance of this aircraft carrier means that the East has entered the first tier, and is even... more advanced than the American aircraft carriers!

"The East is just starting to build 100,000-ton aircraft carriers, while our navy already has ten. The East's aircraft carriers will not affect us," Rumsfeld said calmly.

"Yes, we have ten, but we have to take care of the whole world. No more than three will be allocated to Asia. Moreover, some of our ten aircraft carriers will be under maintenance and some will be under repair. Normally, only one or two can be used for deterrence. Although the Easterners have fewer aircraft carriers, they only need to show their presence in the Western Pacific. So... do you still think we have enough aircraft carriers?"

Tenet felt it necessary to describe the situation as dire to everyone. The military should have been demanding more equipment, not acting so arrogantly as if they posed no threat. This was not in line with the military's style!

"Right now, the Easterners have only started building the first few sections of their aircraft carrier, so we can't judge its actual performance. However, our satellites have captured images of their training ground at the Wasteland Village base, where the catapults don't emit white smoke."

Steam catapults will inevitably emit white smoke; this is determined by their basic principles. A catapult that doesn't emit smoke is...

"Electromagnetic catapult? Impossible, absolutely impossible. The East doesn't have that technology. Even we've only just begun developing electromagnetic catapults and have encountered all sorts of difficulties." Rumsfeld continued to shake his head: "I don't believe the East has that capability."

"Yes, I also hope this is a joke. By the way, the first ultra-high voltage transmission line with a capacity of 1,000 volts in the East has recently been successfully connected to the grid and is generating electricity. In this field, the East has already reached the forefront of the world."

"What? How is that possible? Countries all over the world have already abandoned ultra-high-voltage power transmission!" Someone immediately objected.

Areas rich in resources are often underdeveloped. For example, in the East, the areas that need electricity are on the coast, while the resources are inland, so the resources need to be transported out.

Transporting these resources by vehicle consumes a lot of energy along the way, so converting them into electricity and then transmitting them is the best solution.

For long-distance power transmission, the higher the voltage, the less energy is lost along the way. Internationally, the first high-voltage transmission was 220 kV, followed by ultra-high-voltage transmission of 330 kV and above. In the 1970s, countries began to make further efforts to develop voltages of 1,000 kV and above, which is called ultra-high voltage.

However, all countries failed. The United States began its research in 1967, but with the arrival of the oil crisis, it ran out of money. Private power companies allowed them to act independently and were unwilling to invest in research. As a result, the US power grid was actually second-rate. The fact that a cold wave hit Texas and paralyzed the entire Texas power system is a vivid example.

The Soviet Union tried it too, but as time went on, the Soviet Union collapsed!

Island nations and Italy have tried it too, but for such small places, it's simply unnecessary and not cost-effective.

Now, the East has succeeded!

"I remember that in order to withstand a voltage of 1,000 kilovolts, special ceramic insulation materials were needed on the transformers. A single transformer weighed 7,000 tons. How did the Easterners manage to do that?"

"Them? They found a special kind of insulating paper, and their transformers weigh only 500 tons. Oh, but that's not what I'm talking about. What I really want to say is... in the power supply system, the East is far ahead of us!"

When the Americans were developing the electromagnetic catapult, they encountered countless technical problems, the most critical of which was the technical approach. They used medium-voltage AC, while the East used medium-voltage DC. This was because the East had a huge advantage in the field of power transmission, and the East's technical approach was a generation ahead of the United States.

"You mean we can't do it, but Easterners can, and Easterners have more advanced technology than us?" Rumsfeld asked.

"That's right, Eastern technology has long been more advanced than ours, but unfortunately, we haven't caught up! Now..."

"So what kind of analysis did your CIA actually conduct?"

"This 100,000-ton aircraft carrier is most likely nuclear-powered, using electromagnetic catapults and electromagnetic arresting gear, and equipped with a fleet of stealth aircraft. Its overall combat capability is twenty years ahead of our US aircraft carriers."

Everyone's expressions changed.

It's difficult to get them to accept that the East has advanced technology, but the facts are right in front of them!

"Is there any way we can stop their power?"

“No, we can only watch. Ten years ago, perhaps we had a chance to crush Laiyang Group when it was just starting out. Now…” Tenet also knew that being a prophet was meaningless.

"Our best course of action is to shrink our defenses and coexist peacefully with the Easterners."

"No, that's impossible. We cannot afford to lose our strategic interests in the Far East. We must use every means to contain the rise of the East!"

"What other options do we have?"

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