How to Build an Aircraft Carrier

Building a float city also known as an aircraft carrier is hard as hell to do because the numbers are basically unfathomable . A basic aircraft carrier is made of 60,000 tons of sword , 4.5 acres of non - skid surface with four 325 - animal foot catapults . The whole matter press 200 million Irish punt and takes five years to ramp up and — get this — cost $ 5 billion at the very least . It ’s a massive task .

Science Channelgives a abbreviated overview on the construction operation of an aircraft bearer . It ’s like playing with Lego brick , if Lego bricks weighed 1.8 million pound and you needed to weld 161 of them together , The video also covers the cool boast an aircraft carrier has , like the arresting wire and the jet blast deflector . It ’s not quite enough info to build up your own aircraft carrier . But hey , if you ’ve got $ 5 billion lying around , this video is a good head start .

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