has publicly stated that it has 3 medium and large aircraft carriers, meeting the minimum configuration standards for using carrier-based aviation. The main task in the future is to equip these three active aircraft carrier with sufficient carrier-based , and finally upgrade the first 10 years to the full combat power that meets the highest design standards. However, there is a new factor that needs to be fully considered during this period, that is, these three aircraft carriers are all "new", one is "brand new" that has just been launched; the other is accurate and new, which has just formed combat power. Although the other ship is externally purchased and self-constructed, it has a good foundation and is very successful in upgrading and transformation. In principle, it will be fine for another 30 to 35 years to use. Considering that the three ships are conventionally powered and will not be subject to the safety life of radiation. Therefore, the two ships built by themselves can be used until 50 years later. In this way, these three ships can be fully utilized between 2055 and 2075. Contemporary aviation technology is developing very rapidly. The current carrier-based aircraft,
, will basically completely stealth within 5 to 10 years, and all non-stealth carrier-based opportunities will gradually retire from active service. The first flight of the land-based 6th-generation fighter will definitely take place within 5 years, and it will take place within 2 to 3 years. It will definitely enter mass service in 10 years, and the carrier-based aircraft will be rapidly upgraded to the sixth generation. Therefore, the first generation of stealth carrier-based aircraft currently used actually has only one transition period of no more than 15 years. When this iterative effect is inevitable, the first ski-jump aircraft carrier will be in the era of 6th generation aircraft on board for 20 years, and the other one ski-slide plus one electric bomb will even have a 40-year service period during the 6th generation aircraft or even the 7th generation aircraft. The time between 20 and 40 years is actually not short. Even if we don’t consider the future 7th generation aircraft first, just for the 6th generation carrier-based aircraft, can the current three current aircraft carriers fully meet the requirements for the 6th generation aircraft? If it cannot be satisfied, wouldn’t it be that the
platform itself is eliminated by the supporting aircraft just 10 years later. In fact, the existing three aircraft carriers basically do not need to worry about the cooperation with the sixth-generation carrier-based aircraft in the future; on the contrary, the 10 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers currently in service in the superpower and the four planned Ford-class aircraft carriers are highly suspected of being completely eliminated by the sixth-generation carrier-based aircraft! The reason for saying this is: Although there is no absolutely accurate statement about the 6th-generation fighter jets in the world today, there are a few points that can be affirmed in advance. This means that the 6th generation aircraft is no longer a single type of aircraft formation combat, but aerial network combat between large manned fighters and and multiple high-performance unmanned fighters, and a more advanced network is carried out between different units. Therefore, the 6th generation aircraft will inevitably include large manned aircraft and high-performance drones. The 6th generation manned aircraft has huge dual-engine thrust, pursuing a larger combat radius and greater ammunition load. Therefore, the maximum take-off weight of the land-based version of the 6th generation manned aircraft should also be between 40 tons and 45 tons. The takeoff weight of high-performance drone;
in the 30 to 35 ton class. The air weight of the same generation of carrier-based aircraft is definitely larger than that of land-based aircraft. Therefore, the sixth generation of unmanned wingmen basically started at a 35-ton class; the limit of manned carrier-based aircraft is likely to be close to 45 tons; it is about 12 tons higher than the maximum take-off weight of the largest manned carrier-based aircraft in service. However, the take-off tonnage of the 6th generation aircraft is large, mainly because of the larger oil and ammunition load, and its instant weight of interception and recovery can still be generally controlled within the 23-ton level. The current three active aircraft carriers can stop landing normally. The ski jump take-off mode does not care about the take-off weight of the aircraft itself, and is only sensitive to 's thrust-weight than . Therefore, for ski jump aircraft carriers, even if the carrier-based aircraft takes off is as high as 50 tons, as long as the thrust is sufficient, it can ski jump take-off safely 105 meters away from a short distance. Therefore, the two ski jump aircraft carriers in service can take off and land and recover any large 6th generation manned aircraft as usual, including all high-performance drones. And there is an existing conventional catapult platform. Its maximum electromagnetic catapult capability is in the 4X ton class, and there is no problem with
to normally eject 6th generation manned carrier-based aircraft above 40 tons.A larger platform will be built in the future, with a maximum electromagnetic catapult capacity of more than 50 tons, and it will be more than enough to eject any 6th generation aircraft. For comparison, the maximum maximum ejection capacity limit of all 10 Nimitz-classes is only 33 tons, and it is still possible to use it to eject the sixth-generation drone. The sixth-generation manned aircraft that are more than 40 tons completely exceeds the design indicators and is at risk of bounce into the sea. As for the Ford-class electromagnetic catapult . Over the past 20 years, no matter on land or on aircraft carriers, there has never been an electromagnetic catapult of 30 tons. None of them can be bombed in the sixth generation of manned aircraft or drones!
