When U.S. Secretary of the Navy John Lehman visited the Oriscani in Bremerton, he found the hull in an extremely "terrible condition".

After five years of mothballing, the Oriscani's wooden deck was twisted and uneven, with a two-foot pile of grass longer; Due to the limitations of the ship's hull and its facilities, the Oriscani is unable to take off and land F-4 fighters and A-6 attack aircraft, let alone operate F-14 fighters and F-18 fighters. Add to that the cost of repairing each Essex class at more than $500 million, making the rebuild plan impractical. Congress ultimately rejected the proposal, and the Oriscani remained mothballed.

The above statement comes from Baidu, but Huadong Zhixiong expressed doubts, even if it is not all-steel armor, but on the outside of the wooden deck, wrapped with a layer of metal, then it should have a certain thickness, five years, the grass growing inside the wooden deck below, can open the metal outside?

If it is a wooden deck, and there is no metal cladding on the outside, then how did this aircraft carrier take off jets during the Vietnam War, and was it not afraid of tail flames burning the deck?

Therefore, I personally feel that the Navy does not want to use this kind of aircraft carrier during World War II at all, and has long thought about replacing it with a new one, so it deliberately said that it was in a miserable condition, and then proposed a high repair cost, which finally made the Congress unable to do so.

Now, standing on the Oriscani, Nathan can see the metal deck of the aircraft carrier, where the previously sprayed anti-slip material is still there, and there is not much rust on the deck.

When the aircraft carrier is a metal deck, if it is not treated, then the metal deck will definitely be worn quite smooth after the take-off and landing of the carrier-based aircraft, so that the carrier-based aircraft and the vehicles on various decks will slip, and the personnel walking on it are more likely to slip and fall, and even the warship will fall directly into the sea after such a shake.

Therefore, it is necessary to spray some anti-slip materials on it, these anti-slip materials protect the deck, and there is no rust, as for the sides of the hull, there are indeed some rust stains, and under the erosion of sea water, rust is normal.

However, these rusts are all superficial, and as long as the rust on the surface is removed, the inside must still be quite new.

In later generations, our country acquired the Varyag, and that's it, as soon as the rust on the surface was removed, it was incomparably new, and the steel used for aircraft carriers was specially made.

"This aircraft carrier hasn't operated a Tomcat fighter before, right?" Suddenly, remembering something, Admiral John asked.

Isn't that for sure? This aircraft carrier was retired in 76, and the Tomcat fighter, which was only put into service in 72, after the service, must be equipped with a new aircraft carrier, this old aircraft carrier, previously operated, mainly F-8 This old aircraft, however, it can also operate A-7 attack aircraft and other fighters.

Now, its main task, of course, is to carry the Tomcat.

"Yes, it may not be able to carry the Tomcat at this point, but if we improve it a little bit and use our latest steam catapult, it will be able to operate." Oakes said.

Oaks is not lying, don't look at the displacement of this aircraft carrier is not particularly large, but the deck is long enough, as long as the catapult is updated, it will be absolutely fine!

The new aircraft carrier of the United States has four catapults, which can catapult four fighters at the same time, and the efficiency of sortie is quite high, while this backward aircraft carrier only has two catapults, although the efficiency is lower, but it can definitely be used, in short, no matter how bad it is, it is much better than the aircraft carrier that glides and jumps to take off like the Invincible, right?

"If you decide to take it, then it will be renovated in our shipyard and replaced with new catapults and blocking equipment, and the cost will not be particularly high." Oakes continued.

The aircraft carrier is provided to them for free, but if the aircraft carrier is upgraded, the United States will definitely not contribute additional funds, and if the British do not even want to contribute this amount of money, then don't talk about anything.

Of course, this money can be used to offset, for example, the privatization of the state-owned enterprises of the British, so that their own shipyards hold a little share, isn't everyone equal?

"Well, we need to think about it again." Admiral John said.

If you want to pull it back and use it directly, it is not enough, it must be improved here, and if you make such an improvement, you don't know how much it will cost, and it is easy to overspend, and Admiral John knows this.

Now, do they need to tow such an aircraft carrier back?

Rather than this, it is better to improve your own Ark Royal, increase the power of the catapult, so that the Tomcat fighter can take off on it, after all, the Ark Royal used to operate F-4 fighters, F-4, like Tomcats, are twin-engine heavy fighters.

Hearing the other party's answer, Nathan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he didn't fool the other party, for the British, it was actually beneficial to get these two aircraft carriers back, once the Falklands War started, they would not panic.

Let's not talk about whether the Third World War can be fought, at least in the distant South America, Argentina, the incident of fighting for the Falklands will definitely happen.

If the other side doesn't even want to pay for the modification, then expect the United States to give them the aircraft carriers in service? Even the Midway-class aircraft carriers were decommissioned after the end of the Cold War, and if the USSR had not collapsed, the Midway would have been retained, how could it be given to them?

According to the current trend, even these two aircraft carriers, maybe the United States will have to reopen the seal and join the sequence of the navy, and if they don't want it now, it will be gone in the future.

"Let's take a look at another one." Seeing the other party's state, Oakes also felt that the other party had concerns, anyway, his obligations were fulfilled, and then look at the one next to him.

The USS Richard, the Good Guy, is the fourteenth ship of the Essex-class aircraft carriers.

Compared to the current Oriscani, this aircraft carrier caught up with World War II.

Construction began in 1943, it was launched into service in 1944, and in 1945 it took part in the soon-to-end Pacific War. After the war, the Good Guy Richard was decommissioned and returned to active duty during the Korean War, where it conducted two Korean War cruises and was regrouped as an attack aircraft carrier. In 1953, the Good Guy Richard was modernized with an angled flight deck and remained in service with the Pacific Fleet.

After the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, the Good Guy Richard began to participate in the Vietnam War and made a total of six cruises.

Therefore, this aircraft carrier is more famous, it is the only aircraft carrier in the United States to participate in actual combat battles in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War at the same time. In 1971, the Good Guy Richard was decommissioned and has been mothballed ever since.

It's been sealed for a little longer, so it's in a worse state.

Sure enough, Admiral John was not satisfied with the state of the ship.

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