If you look down from the satellite cloud image, you can see this spectacular scene, in a corner of the base, one warship after another, neatly arranged, especially the supercarrier with a straight deck, it looks so clear.

And if you look at it from the ground, you can see the tall chimneys of the warships, and you can see the masts of the warships, just like a forest.

During the Cold War, the United States did not abandon its warships, most of them were sealed, including the old ships one by one, and the entire warship cemetery was so spectacular.

Now, the group is here, it is still early in the morning, the sun rises in the east, sprinkling soft sunlight into the cemetery, and the sea behind it is sparkling.

"There are a total of five aircraft carriers mothballed here, all of which are Essex-class aircraft carriers." Since the superiors have agreed, the person in charge of the base, Oakes, also accompanied him: "However, some of them have been sealed for a long time, and such aircraft carriers may be re-sealed, which will cost more money." ”

With his introduction, you can already see those mothballed aircraft carriers from a distance, and the deck of one of them is green.

"What's going on?" Admiral John asked.

"That's the Shangri-La." "It's been sealed for more than ten years, and we didn't reopen it during the Vietnam War, and you can see it, it's moss." ”

This aircraft carrier, also a World War II aircraft carrier, was later decommissioned with a beveled deck, although it was also refitted with a beveled deck, and at the same time, its deck was still a wooden deck.

That's right, the deck of the aircraft carrier, and the wooden one.

In the beginning, the aircraft carrier was made of a wooden deck, which was simple to manufacture, carried a large number of carrier-based aircraft, and could also act as a buffer when landing.

However, the protection performance is poor, and once attacked, shells or bombs can easily penetrate the wooden flight deck, fall into the hull and explode, destroying the aircraft carrier.

However, this was not suitable for the United Kingdom, which was prone to storm damage due to the harsh weather in the Atlantic. Moreover, the changeable weather made it highly likely that British aircraft carriers would be attacked by German land-based bombers or attack ships.

At the same time, the geographical location determines that the British aircraft carrier is covered by powerful land-based fighters, so there are not many requirements for the attack capability of the aircraft carrier. This situation made it necessary for British aircraft carriers to have a closed bow and strong horizontal armor, and it was okay to have a small number of carrier-based aircraft.

Therefore, after 1941, Britain's newly built aircraft carriers were all sealed hulls, with an armored flight deck as thick as 78 mm, which could resist 250 kg of aerial bombs, but the number of carrier-based aircraft was only half of that of American aircraft carriers of the same tonnage.

This aircraft carrier of the British with a steel armored flight deck gradually became a trend, but the US Navy definitely did not follow suit.

For the United States, a steel deck is not necessary, for them the best defense is offense. There are many aircraft carriers on the carrier, and you can kill the opponent in one sortie, although it is easy to be sunk, the opponent has no chance at all! Why do you want a steel armored flight deck! So the aircraft carriers built by the U.S. military in World War II were all wooden flight decks.

These retired aircraft carriers, also some of which are wooden, looking at the deck of this aircraft carrier that has begun to grow moss from afar, several people are embarrassed, such an aircraft carrier, it must not be wanted, if you go back to refit, it is definitely an astronomical amount, and it is even more expensive than a new one!

In fact, they don't know that other Essex-class aircraft carriers, which have been improved, are actually wooden decks, but on wooden decks, they are wrapped with another layer of metal.

(The information was found, I don't know if it's true or not.) ）

"In front is our Oriscani, everyone should be familiar with this aircraft carrier." "It also sailed in formation with ships from the British Navy, and it only came here three years ago," Oakes said. ”

The USS Oriscani, the seventeenth ship of the Essex-class aircraft carriers, is also unofficially the seventh-ship of the long-hull Essex-class. In honor of the Battle of Oriscany in the American Revolutionary War, it is already the third warship of the same name.

It is relatively new, having begun construction at the Brooklyn Shipyard in New York in 1944 and launched two months after the end of World War II.

Due to the end of World War II and the advent of the jet era, the warship was postponed from service, and even part of the superstructure was dismantled, and it was improved one after another until 1950.

After the reconstruction, the Oriscani briefly served in the Atlantic Fleet before joining the Pacific Fleet and participating in the Korean War. After the Korean War, the Oriscany continued to serve in the Pacific Fleet, and in 1959 it was rebuilt with the SCB-125A with an angled flight deck and enclosed bow.

At this time, it has become what it is now.

In 1965, the Oriscany began its participation in the Vietnam War and cruised the western Pacific eight times during the war until the war officially ended in 1975. As an old ship, it has also participated in many battles, and even had many accidents, especially the fire of the flares, which almost dragged the captain down.

After the end of the Vietnam War, in 1976, the Oriscani was decommissioned and began to be mothballed in the reserve fleet.

Now, it has only been sealed for three years, and it can be pulled out at any time.

Admiral John and Rear Admiral Woodward both knew about this aircraft carrier, and now, they were in high spirits and stepped on this aircraft carrier, on the wide flight deck, there was still a part of the special anti-slip coating left, and the entire aircraft carrier did not show too many signs of rust.

"Looks like it's been well preserved." Admiral John was delighted.

"Yes, this aircraft carrier was originally our reserve force, in fact, the top management is not very reluctant, so if you decide, come and drive it away as soon as possible, in case the top management regrets it, I'm afraid it will not be done."

After all, this is a free gift, and as soon as Nathan urged like this, the other party was even more tempted.

In fact, the preservation of this aircraft carrier is not good, and the general storage of aircraft carriers is handed over to special shipping companies to do, but the retirement of this aircraft carrier is a period when the Vietnam War ended and military spending was reduced.

Now the time is still short, it can't be revealed, and in later generations, after Reagan came to power, he planned to revitalize the Navy and pull out this aircraft carrier, but it turned out that it was impossible to use it at all.