Why Does An Aircraft Carrier Take So Many Years To Build?

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When building an aircraft carrier, you are constructing a floating, moving airport that generates its own power and provides everything necessary to sustain habitability for 5000 souls for weeks at a time at sea, in all kinds of weather.

An aircraft carrier is roughly 350 yards long, 80 yards tall, 80 yards wide building made entirely of hardened metal.

It really does not compare with building an airport because, while both have planes taking off and landing, the similarities end there. It does not compare with building a skyscraper with similar square footage because each level is different in size, design, and function from the one above and below it. Both an airport and a skyscraper take years to build and bring to full functionality. Yet an aircraft carrier must do so much more than either.

In short, you are trying to build an airport, a nuclear power station and an extended-stay hotel for more than 5000 people, plus the restaurants, shops and medical facilities to keep them fed, happy and healthy for months at a time – then put all that on an island, with engines capable of pushing it to 33 knots or more despite weighing 100 000 tonnes.

Normally it could take five to seven years unless it takes ten to twelve. Why the disparity?

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