What if someone made a small carrier, that can dock with other small carriers and conbine into a bigger carrier?
If anything happens to one of the ships, other can come and replace.
I guess the ideal size would be 1/4 of current aircraft carrier. Something around 170x40m of size.
They could combine into several formations, depending on the type of aircarft that is needed.
The standard would be 4 small carriers combining into a single big one of 340m x 80m. It would have two flight decks.
Or it could combine into one single line, making it a huge 680m flight deck.
One torpedo blows and destroys one ship, no problem, just have another take its place.
It would be the revolution on the sea battles.
>towing and side-by-side refueling is hazardous enough, but you propose as a feature ramming a replacement carrier in and locking it?
>can't assemble at sea unless you design a ram-resistant carrier with godly speed control and steering (good fucking luck)
>fuel storage and transfer becomes stupidly complex and labyrinthine
>munitions storage too
>how the fuck do you transfer aircraft from the front of meme supercarrier after it lands to the back before it can take off again?
>how the fuck would you arrange the elevator systems
>engine room is less armored and centralized on each mini carrier than on one normal carrier
>four conning towers reducing usable deck space instead of one, and they'd all have to be in the same location if any carrier wants to replace any damaged carrier
>painfully complex catapult assembly to make two catapults line up perfectly so it's usable across the entire length
>mfw
Stop watching so much mecha anime.
>>27934098
Didn't someone have plans for a huge floating, modular airbase like this? Probably China. It would have used quite a lot of different modules though, while yours sounds like it would repeat one 'universal' type that could operate badly on it's own.
>>27934274
>conning towers
Derp, make that superstructure/island, but the point still stands.
>>27934274
Gattai is the best gimmick.
wait
so they build ships out in the open?
not in a hangar?
Speaking of /k/arriers, Which country besides the US, Russia, Japan, France and the UK can make /k/arriers? Either nuclear powered or standard?
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>>27934392
>building largest warships to ever grace the oceans
>hang on guys we need to build a giant hangar first and we can't add any support beams because that's where the ship is going to be
>sees absolutely nothing wrong with this concept
>mfw
>>27934300
The U.S. did during ww2 according to history channel Doctor. So maybe
>>27934435
how do they build in the rain, snow, or wind?
>>27934457
They build when the weather allows and they don't when the wind is bad. A little rain or snow won't hurt a ship.
>>27934457
By not being fucking babies.
>>27934434
China is taking off the training wheels and building their own, India has plans but currently needs to design a toilet room which is an impossible burden, Brazil has fever dreams about it too but spent all the money on mega-stadiums that are now legally annexed by the Germans following their futball game.
>>27934098
you do know that the sea is not calm right? there is no real way of making the decks straight without going all wavy when it hit the currents
>>27934435
>building largest warships to ever grace the oceans
It's smaller then any US supercarrier.
That said, you aren't wrong that they build these things outside. While you could, theoretically, built an enclosed assembly building for large ships doing so would be a huge undertaking and the building would be so large that it would produce it's own internal weather anyway.
>>27934098
>>27936761
>buildings 1000 feet long have their own weather
uh huh
Every fucking super market is bigger than what you would need to shelter the carrier
>>27936761
The stupid in this post burns
>>27936806
Hot enough to make its own weather?
>>27936805
>Thinks one dimension is enough to give volume.
Yeah, the utterly flat line there would have an internal volume of zero and thus have no odd atmospheric effects. You don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
>>27934098
>Overengineering: the post
>>27934434
Spain makes their own ones and the Malaysia's one is Spain made too.
>>27934098
Because we don't need something like that, especially if it's just gonna get outdated in 20 years anyways.
>>27934098
This thread is proof that /k/ is swamped by 12 year-old cod kiddies that have no understanding of the complexity of the real world.
>>27934098
>literally the 3rd rehashed thread in 3 days about "why R carriers big guise?!?!"
how many people need to tell you that US carriers are the size they are because it is the size necessary to be effective?
>>27937032
All these threads should just be answered with this.
http://blog.usni.org/2009/08/27/the-monster-myths-of-the-cvl-concept
>>27934392
they build them in sections in sliding hangers then use the massive crane to put them together
>moving part of the QE out of a shed at Govan in Scotland
>>27936761
>built an enclosed assembly building for large ships doing so would be a huge undertaking and the building would be so large that it would produce it's own internal weather anyway.
NASA Assembly building says otherwise, and it has it's own micro-climate
>>27934098
do you dome up with a retarded Idea a day or what?
>>27934457
The ship is built in chunks which are moved into place, sensitive stuff is added later. It's an ocean going warship: if the structure can't stand sitting half-built in a dry dock how's it going to survive in the open ocean in shit weather for months?
Subs are a different matter; those need covers for properly building the stealth stuff and for security.
>>27934098
Don't ever go full retard again, OP.
>>27934098
How high are you right now?
