In the last 20 years after entering the new century, after retiring and selling the older medium-sized aircraft carriers in the past, the French Navy has always had only the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier. In addition to a wave of achievements in a certain country in North Africa in recent years and a long cruise on the Eastern Cloud, the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier has actually been active in the Mediterranean "bath" for almost 30 years. In fact, most of the time is Stay in ports and docks for various repairs and maintenance. Obviously, only one aircraft carrier is indeed not enough. Although the French Navy has long been not a navy that needs a global presence, having only one aircraft carrier is always more embarrassing. So from the beginning of this century, the French Navy proposed a plan to equip a second aircraft carrier. This plan was originally called PA2. It is a one-ship two-type aircraft carrier project in cooperation with the Royal British Navy. In fact, it is very similar to the difference between the Type 45 destroyer and the French Horizon class destroyer. It is a deformed aircraft carrier based on the British Queen Elizabeth class. Some people simply call it "Stupid White Level 2". The name
is quite vivid. Silly White 2 is also prepared to use a full row of 68,000 tons of ship hull; double ship island; full electric power mixed with gas turbine and diesel engine. But the biggest difference is that there are catapults and angled decks, using Rafale fighters; normal catapult take off, and then stop landing on the angled deck. Taking into account the huge flutter of the queen class and the total area of the flight deck. These deformations are relatively easy to achieve. And can continue to eject regular early warning aircraft. Compared with the current queen-class helicopters, it is obviously much stronger. Of course, in addition to the Rafale carrier-based fighter, the steam catapult and E2D early warning aircraft to be used still need to be imported from the United States; it is just to repeat the story of the E2C early warning aircraft and American C13B steam catapult currently used on the Charles de Gaulle class. Therefore, the original Silly White Level 2 is basically a combination of American technology and British technology, and there is basically no French "traditional technology". However, all kinds of strange water leakage and power failure after the Queen's service did make the French Navy also afraid.
The French Navy believes that the existing technology it has achieved on the Charles de Gaulle is not good enough, and it is also the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier outside the US Navy. So the second nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in France, the PANG class, which had been looking forward to for many years, finally landed after more than ten years of research. However, Hanhai Langshan (Xiongnu Langshan) believes that in this "Pang" class, many large pits that the French navy once fell into are still present in large areas; and it is very likely to jump into it for the second time! The first pit is the problem of insufficient captains. The length of the French carrier Charles de Gaulle has been criticized. Because even if the lengthened total length is only 260 meters, it is only 5 meters longer than the US Navy’s US-class two attacks. De Gaulle had just left the factory to test the early warning aircraft, and found that after intercepting and landing, the angled deck was too short to turn around. Therefore, the second return to the factory lengthened a few meters. Now that the tonnage of the second aircraft carrier is to be expanded to 70,000 tons, the total length is still slightly more than 280 meters. It is important to know that the total length of a general catapult carrier with a full row of 70,000 tons is mostly between 305 meters and 310 meters. The second pit of
is that the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier uses submarine stacks, resulting in insufficient steam production and slow aircraft carrier speed; this phenomenon has been manifested on the Charles de Gaulle is well known in the world. The Pang-class aircraft carrier still has to use French submarine stacks, which is really not modified. Third, the world knows that the electromagnetic ejection and arresting systems of the Ford-class aircraft carriers are currently unusable. The French actually want to introduce it in original form! Everyone can see so many pitfalls, why can't the French navy alone understand it? In fact, the reason is very simple. I really think that today's France has the same strength as some old superpowers and new superpowers. What kind of power is there if you want to use it? The catapult type can be chosen from one to the other, can it be developed by research and development? As a medium power, where is the total national power? What should people do better than people? How to shop around? The same goes for the country!
