How much does it cost to build an aircraft carrier? How much does it cost to build an aircraft carri

It depends on your criteria. Just like configuring a computer, the good ones are a little more expensive, and the ordinary ones are cheaper. The same goes for an aircraft carrier, in fact, its shell is not expensive, but it is the various electronic systems, sensors, etc. on its ship.

In general, a light aircraft carrier (with a displacement of less than 30,000 tons) will cost about $3 to $500 million, and a medium aircraft carrier (with a displacement of 30,000 to 60,000 tons) will cost about $10 to $1.5 billion; Large aircraft carriers (displacement of 6 to 80,000 tons) cost about $2 billion to $2.5 billion, and ultra-large aircraft carriers (displacement of more than 80,000 tons) cost about $3 billion. Of course, what I'm talking about is ordinary, if the nuclear-powered ones are built, and all kinds of electronic instruments, command systems, communication systems, and automated network systems on the ship are integrated into informationization, then it will be even more expensive. Taking the USS Bush, the last aircraft carrier of the newest "Nimitz" class, as an example, because it adopted a digital design and installed an information system, its cost reached an unprecedented cost of more than $7 billion.

This does not include the price of carrier-based aircraft and escort fleets equipped for it, which will reach at least $13 billion or more.

1. The ** of the hull:

Hull (electronic instruments, ** equipment, power equipment):

According to the standards of 700 million for the modern class (8000 tons) and 052C (7500 tons) 6-700 million, 100 million are needed per 10,000 tons of hull. The 60,000-ton hull of the 001A aircraft carrier requires at least $100 million.

2. Carrier-based aircraft**:

Russian news network reported that the number of aircraft that China's first aircraft carrier "Liaoning" can carry has reached 36, including 4 Z-18J early warning ***, 6 Z-18F anti-submarine ***, 2 Z-9C search and rescue *** and 24 J-15 fighters. (Anyway, 001A is similar to the Liaoning carrier-based aircraft, let's use the Liaoning carrier-based aircraft to make a deduction).

Four Z-18J early warning ***, we use the 100 million of the Ka-31 early warning aircraft as an analogy. Approximately 100 million dollars.

Six Z-18F anti-submarine aircraft. There is no such machine**. According to the pricing of its civilian AC313*** 11 million US dollars (80 million yuan), plus appropriate anti-submarine equipment, we will give a basic ** of 20 million. That's about 100 million dollars.

ps, there is news that the MH60 Sea Hawk anti-submarine aircraft is at least 70 million, and we are bigger than him, let's count 70 million, so 100 million

Two Z-9C search and rescue ***, this one is very cheap, and it has been exported, about 10 million US dollars. After all, the tonnage is in the **.

A total of $20 million.

Twenty-four J-15 fighters. (According to the calculation of about 100 million US dollars for Su-35 and about 100 million US dollars for F16), let's give an average price of 100 million yuan. That's $2.4 billion.

Carrier-based aircraft total $3.0-3.3 billion (depending on carrier-based aircraft**).

A total of $8 billion

According to different tonnage, the internal configuration is different, such as the United States nuclear-powered aircraft carrier costs almost 8 billion US dollars, while Thailand's light aircraft carrier is much cheaper, and China's Vlague is only tens of millions, so the gap is very large.

Approximately: $6 billion for aircraft carriers, $4 billion for fighters, $4 billion for maintenance, $100 million for personnel training, ......Escort warships for $10 billion

The times are developing, science and technology are advancing, so the first-class equipment is becoming more and more advanced, but the ensuing R&D and manufacturing costs are also rising. This also leads to the fact that if a country wants to achieve independent research and development of first-class equipment, it will not work without a certain economic strength.

The cost of a heavy aircraft carrier (displacement of more than 60,000 tons) is about 3.5 billion US dollars, the formation of a formation (4 frigates, 4 destroyers, 2 anti-submarine, 1-2 submarines) is about 3.5 billion US dollars, and the carrier-based aircraft requires about 3.5 billion US dollars. A total of about 10 billion, medium-sized aircraft carriers. (30,000-60,000 tons) The cost of the aircraft carrier is about 1.5 billion US dollars, and the formation is about 1.5 billion US dollars.

Carrier-based aircraft are about 1.5 billion. A total of about 5 billion.

Light aircraft carriers. (within 30,000 tons) the cost of the aircraft carrier is about 500 million US dollars. The formation is about 700 million US dollars. Carrier-based aircraft about 5 clothes. A total of about 2 billion.

Taking the Kitty Hawk battle group in Japan as an example, the US Hawk battle group in Japan spends half a year training and half a year resting and maintaining. The cost of maintenance is 80 million US dollars, the cost of ammunition, fuel, food and medicine for training is 100 million US dollars, and the total number of seafarers in the battle group is about 300 million US dollars per year. A total of 100 million, an average of 1.8 million per day.

Of course, this is a peacetime expense.