Don't underestimate Huaxia's ability to learn. When the old aircraft carrier is in the hands of the Chinese, it will become a scientific research project. For example, the aircraft carrier "Fuxi" in Gaul was bought by Brazil and renamed "São Paulo", and since 2011, Huaxia has helped them repair the ship, and then Huaxia's aircraft carrier pilots have trained on this ship.

The most crucial point is that this ship is equipped with an American-made steam catapult, regardless of its age! Although it is an old-fashioned towing catapult, the only country in the world that can build a catapult is the Stars and Stripes. Now that Huaxia's electromagnetic catapult has been designed, what is the connection here is worth pondering。。。。。。

Is it okay to dismantle the old aircraft carrier without considering recycling parts? Uh, it still doesn't work! There is still a big problem here!

There is another important problem why aircraft carriers are difficult to dismantle, and that is environmental pollution!

In '96, the Gallic State took the initiative to contact Huaxia and wanted to give Huaxia a 'Clemenceau' aircraft carrier, which was really a free gift! This 'Clemenceau' aircraft carrier was the only medium-sized aircraft carrier in the world that could take off fixed-wing aircraft! This was an aircraft carrier with outstanding military achievements, and almost all the wars in which Gaul participated in it, such as the Gulf War, took part. And because of the use of Stars and Stripes' technology, it looks very similar to the large aircraft carriers of Stars and Stripes. Gaul is going to give it to China!

To be honest, let alone give it away, it's cost-effective to spend more than a billion dollars to buy this aircraft carrier and the carrier-based aircraft on it, right?

But Huaxia rejected the matter. At that time, the reasons were as follows: the Gallic government put forward the condition that it must purchase radar and communication equipment from them, and in view of the maintenance costs after the purchase and the diplomatic factors at that time, Huaxia finally did not agree to this "good thing" sent to the door, and considering that the conditions were not ripe at that time, there were not enough escort formations, so the matter had to be abandoned.

Facts have proved that this is an extremely wise choice made by Huaxia!

In the end, after the 'Clemenceau' aircraft carrier was rejected by the Chinese side, he began his difficult decommissioning journey:

After decommissioning, France sold them to Spain, and according to the agreement between the two countries, the ship was supposed to be dismantled from the ship's necessary equipment in a port in northern Spain and shipped to a shipyard in Asia for destruction.

However, Spain did not dismantle the necessary equipment, as stated in the agreement, but directly sold the aircraft carrier to Turkey, intending to make a profit. So the Gallic side intercepted the ship and sent it back to the port of Gallic Land. Not sold to Spain anymore. As a result, this act caused the 'Clemenceau' to fall completely into the hands of the Gauls.

The reason is simple, this aircraft carrier was built with a lot of asbestos!

Because asbestos fibers can cause a large number of diseases such as asbestosis, lung cancer, pleural mesothelioma, gastrointestinal cancer, etc., it has now become a building material that most countries avoid, but the "Clemenceau" used asbestos as a flame retardant material when it was built!

Now it's a big problem.

The Gallic state wanted to sell the ship again, but Greenpeace and other environmental groups rejected it. No one wants to take over this aircraft carrier, and they can't stand it when a group of people march and demonstrate on the streets every day, can they?

However, other countries did not dismantle the aircraft carrier, and in the end, only the three countries of India were willing to accept and destroy the aircraft carrier. How could the three people who were hanging on the seal be afraid of the little asbestos? Isn't it asbestos? Can we also use asbestos?

So, in 2005, escorted by the French Navy, the 'Clemenceau' left the port of Toulon and arrived in the three countries of India after a long two-month journey.

Why didn't the Gauls destroy it themselves? Because the Gaul countries basically have the highest standards for dealing with asbestos in the world, and if they want to dismantle the 'Clemenceau' according to the safety standards, they will have to invest at least billions of dollars, and they really can't afford to dismantle it, so they just throw this poisonous substance to India III.

The Gauls thought that this was the end of the matter, but who knew that the ship would not be able to be dismantled when it arrived in India III! They wanted to dismantle it, but Greenpeace refused to let it. Because according to the Basel Convention, the decontamination of this toxic substance is regulated. It's not that you can buy it if you want to, this asbestos pollution is not right in other countries, and it is not good to pollute India III!

So the members of the environmental groups went to India to demonstrate. In the end, these environmental groups are not vegetarians, and they went directly to the Supreme Court of India to sue the merchants of India 3, well, the Gallic government. In the end, the Supreme Court of India III ruled that India III could not buy the ship, and in the end it could only be brought back to Gaul。。。。。。

The journey back to Gaul was even more miserable because Egypt had come out again, and when the aircraft carrier crossed the Suez Canal, it was illegal to cross the Suez Canal with toxic substances under the Basel Convention. In the end, the Gauls paid a large sum of money to Egypt to transport the ship to India III, and now it is not another large sum of money to come back? What if the ship is detained there again? You know, the cost of the tugboat towing the aircraft carrier is 45,000 euros a day! That is really a waste!

In the end, the Suez Canal did not leave, and went directly around the Cape of Good Hope, and circled around Africa for more than two months, before the "Clemenceau" was towed back to Gaul. It is necessary to go to the city of Brest to dismantle the 'Clemenceau'.

Because the 'Clemenceau' was built in the city of Brest, it is most appropriate to dismantle it here. There is a beginning and an end!

As a result, when we arrived in Brest City, the mayor of Brest City stood up and directly refused to allow the 'Clemenceau' to enter the harbor, and the reason was also very good: You polluted us once in the past, and now you have to pollute again? Things are getting bigger and bigger, and in the end, it was the Eagle Country that took the right time, accepted this big trouble, and helped dismantle the aircraft carrier. Exactly how much money was taken from the Gallic state is unknown.

Incidentally, Brazil's São Paulo is exactly the same aircraft carrier as the Clemenceau, and whether there is a pollution problem in it is anyone's guess.

Therefore, how to deal with old aircraft carriers is a worldwide problem, and there are several ways to do it: either they are left there to pay for berthing fees, management fees, dock fees, etc., and they rust, or they are used as museums, like the 'Intrepid' aircraft carrier in Manhattan, New York, or they are sold to civilian dismantling companies for one cent and let them do their own work, like the aircraft carriers 'Forrestal' and 'Saratoga'; or they are scuttled and made into artificial reefs, like '' Otherwise, it will be sold to other countries to continue its service, such as the "Liaoning" and "São Paulo".

Don't ask the Stars and Stripes why they don't sell aircraft carriers, the laws are restricted, and the Navy can't export retired aircraft carriers, so it can only seek domestic shipbreaking yards to recycle them, and no one has bought this big thing yet, so as long as they sell aircraft carriers to recycling plants, the price will be one cent。。。。。

Well, speaking of which, there are two most domineering ways to deal with decommissioning, one is the method of the Stars and Stripes: to be a target ship! For example, the 'American' was bombed indiscriminately for 25 days before it was sunk, and the other 'Independence' aircraft carrier was even more domineering, and it was directly hit by a nuclear bomb。。。。。。

The other is the practice of the polar bear country, which is to give it away directly for nothing! In those days, Emperor Pu directly gave India and San an extremely modern aircraft carrier 'Admiral Gorshkov' for nothing, which shocked the Chinese people.

As a result, the sum of various modification fees and maintenance costs was more expensive than building a new aircraft carrier in Huaxia。。。。。。

And the funniest thing is that due to the loss of asbestos, the Polar Bear State modified the 'Admiral Gorshkov' for India III

(now called Vikramaditya), Yin 3,000 told Wan to let the asbestos that the polar bear has been used for heat insulation on the aircraft carrier be changed into refractory bricks, but in the sea trials, seven of the eight steam boilers were burned, and the responsibility must be put on Huaxia, saying that it is not possible to say that the refractory bricks produced in China are not good. Well, anyway, the polar bear is very happy about this result----- and it is another maintenance fee!

Therefore, the handling of this aircraft carrier after its retirement is a headache for all countries with aircraft carriers in the world------ except for India III.

You must know that when the aircraft carrier is in service, it is the country's heavy weapon, and all kinds of high-tech equipment on it, many things are top secret and cannot be sold to the outside world, so after decommissioning, no matter what it is used for, the high-tech equipment on it will basically be dismantled; and when the aircraft carrier is built, it must be how strong and durable it is, which also increases the difficulty of the dismantling work; and in order to achieve some special performance requirements, the steel of the aircraft carrier is not ordinary steel, and a variety of different materials are applied.

Yin Sancai is generous, and never considers what parts are recycled, environmental pollution and other issues. If the high-tech equipment is blown up, it will not leak secrets! Isn't it just the dismantling of the aircraft carrier? What's so difficult about this?

Just like their famous 'Vikrant' aircraft carrier, that is, the 'Hercules' that the Eagle Kingdom half sold and half gave them away, it is definitely the three meritorious aircraft carriers of India, and in the Indo-Pakistani War that year, this aircraft carrier played a key role and made great achievements.

But today, after all, it has been in the water for more than 70 years, so how did Yin San deal with it?

It was not converted into a museum, nor into a hotel or anything like that. Because it's 'not economical', it costs five billion rupees to renovate like that! Who pays for it?

But after all, this 'Vikrant' has also shed blood and made meritorious contributions for India III, and it is the first aircraft carrier of India III, with a special status, and it cannot be taken lightly!

But the three of them were able to come up with a brilliant idea, and a company bought the aircraft carrier for a high price of 10 million US dollars. The officials of the three Indian countries were also very happy when they saw it, and not only were some people willing to dismantle it, but they also paid a high price of 10 million US dollars! The three Indian navy were almost unable to find the north, so they hurriedly sold the ship to that company.