This Melbourne is definitely famous.

Born in World War II, construction began on 15 April 1943 at the Baroo Vickers shipyard in England and was launched on 28 April 1945. This big guy with a full load displacement of nearly 20,000 tons and a total length of more than 200 meters actually belongs to the role of an escort aircraft carrier, but it has not caught up with its own glorious era, and it has not yet been outfitted, and World War II is over.

After the end, Britain's national power was greatly weakened, and it could no longer maintain a large fleet, so the warship was stopped, and after a few years, it finally found a buyer and continued to build it.

Due to the rapid development of aircraft carrier technology after World War II, although this warship was built during World War II, the straight-through deck during World War II has been converted into the iconic oblique landing deck of modern large and medium-sized aircraft carriers, with the addition of steam catapults, new blocking devices, and "Fresnel" landing mirrors to help pilots land on the deck of aircraft carriers.

It can be said that this is a modern aircraft carrier, and after joining the Australian Navy, it became the flagship of the Australian Navy, but the glorious deeds of this warship have slowly kicked off since then.

In 1957, while driving in the port of Adelaide, it suddenly collided with the battleship "Blue Card", setting a precedent in the history of collisions. This time the loss was not very serious, but a few years later, it became a troublemaker in the eyes of everyone.

In 1964, while the "Melbourne" was sailing in formation, it actually crashed into the middle of the Voyager destroyer that escorted her, cut off the destroyer, and split the destroyer in half at once, this time it was serious, there were 82 people on the destroyer, and they were killed instantly.

After this incident, it stayed honestly for another four or five years, and in 1969, when the aircraft carrier "Melbourne" was conducting a joint exercise with the US destroyer "Evans," it collided with the warship again, and the "Melbourne" pierced the destroyer's hull like a giant knife. This time, 73 people died inside the US ** ship.

The Melbourne ended its exercise mission and hit another "Malu" ship when it returned to Sydney for air repair; In 1970 another ferry was touched, in 1972 the Melbourne caught fire after two years of silence, and in 1974 the ship crashed into a passenger liner in Sydney......

This aircraft carrier is definitely an out-and-out troublemaker, since it was put into service, it has been constantly causing trouble, and after repeated times, the Australian Navy also collapsed and decided to upgrade this aircraft carrier, who would have thought that after the upgrade, the boiler would blow up, and several of its own soldiers would be killed.

When it was time for the sea trial, the newly reinstalled radar antenna actually fell into the sea! They salvaged back and forth in the sea for several days, but they did not find it, which shows that even the radar antenna knows that the Melbourne is not authentic and does not want to be with it.

The Australian Navy was also tired, and in 1982, during the Falklands War, they saw that the aircraft carrier was vulnerable in front of modern anti-ship missiles, and the Australian Navy did not have advanced air defense ships, so they decided to retire the warship.

After retiring, of course, it was sold for money.

Warships are mainly made of steel, and if you disassemble them, you can sell scrap steel, but why doesn't Australia dismantle them yourself? This is because dismantling is also labor-intensive, and in the Western world, where labor costs are very high, the profit from dismantling ships and selling scrap steel is not even comparable to the wages paid to workers, so ship dismantling is generally in developing countries.

In many later generations, this is deliberately done by the Chinese Navy, the Chinese Navy has set up a leather bag company, bought it from Australia, just to study the above technology, this is simply a misunderstanding, in fact, this is completely ordinary business dealings, and the Navy has nothing to do with it, and even, the Navy did not hear about it until the Melbourne aircraft carrier was towed back, so it quickly organized experts to investigate.

They organized a lot of experts in ship design, and as for aviation experts, they were also invited, after all, it is not enough for an aircraft carrier to have ships, but also fighters!

Everyone came in a hurry, and the ship's experts were close, so they came first, and the aviation experts were far away, and if the train was very slow, the plane did not have a direct flight, so the navy simply dispatched a helicopter and came on a special flight mission to pick them up.

In the golden sunlight, the group stepped off the plane, bumped around in the 212 car at the pier for a few minutes, and then came to the head of the aircraft carrier.

"Everyone is very welcome." The person in charge of greeting was a naval general, Qin Feng didn't know him, only Song Lao and Tu Lao shouted: "Old Ma, thank you very much, we went up." ”

The two of them couldn't wait to get on the deck.

If you come to the aircraft carrier for the first time, you will definitely be shocked by its vastness, the deck of this aircraft carrier is more than 200 meters long, 25 meters wide, and the ship island is concentrated on the right side, so that standing on the deck and looking at the space like a football field, people will have a special feeling.

This is the aircraft carrier, the most massive war machine of the Navy.

When the United States is faced with a conflict, the first thing the US president says is to ask, where are our aircraft carriers? And every war, the United States aircraft carrier is also in the vanguard, the most recent time, is the United States to strike Libya Golden Canyon operation, although the Air Force's F-111 long-distance attack, people are very surprised, but the real strike force, or the Navy, the United States Navy sent three aircraft carriers, took off a large number of carrier-based aircraft.

It was a large aircraft carrier, and now, only a small aircraft carrier was seen, and even so, it looked extremely surprising and enviable.

The warship with the largest displacement in the Navy is only a brigade class of 3,000 tons, and in front of it is an aircraft carrier with a full load of 20,000 tons!

"Can you refit it and use it as the first aircraft carrier of our navy, even if it's a training ship!" Qin Feng couldn't help but let out a sigh.

Hearing Qin Feng's exclamation, General Ma, who followed behind, sighed: "Impossible, when this warship drove out, all the equipment was destroyed, some of it was destroyed by explosions, and even the rudder at the tail was welded to death, and it is probably more difficult to renovate it than to build a new one." ”

This warship has only one ending, that is, it is dismantled, and there is no possibility of re-commissioning at all.