How big can we make an air craft carrier? Pretend the nature

>>43929638
>Could it be large enough to house a million soldiers?

If you made it super tanker sized or greater, yeah, sure. Be a fucking logistical nightmare, but if you had the economic base to support something like that then it would be well within our technical skills to build.

>Would it still fit through the panama locks?

Fuck no.

>If you could subtly indoctrinate your soldiers by inserting memories, what would be the ideal soldier construct?

Probably not much different than IRL special forces training and indoctrination. Over-conditioning would just fuck them up and lead to all kinds of psychological problems.

>>43930038
Where do our current super tankers go to trade between east coast usa and china?

>>43929638
>no longer obsolete
Not sure you know what the point of the aircraft carrier is, but whatever.

>>43930038
>>43930038
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>implying aircraft carriers are obsolete
The ability to park an airfield a few hundred miles off the enemy's coastline is FAR from obsolete. They're still the best form of naval force projection.

>>43930294
They go through the Suez if they can, assuming they aren't larger then Suezmax, most likely with a stop or two in Europe.

If they don't fit in the suez then they'll have to go around south america.

>>43931099
>South America
Or, South Africa, which is the more likely route. However, there aren't very many ships that go from China to the Atlantic coast that wouldn't fit in the Suez canal.

Also, why would an aircraft carrier be obsolete any time soon?

>>43931171
The notion is long range missiles and torpedos are too powerful to justify lumping all your power on the same thing.

Do you guys notice how whatever the Anglos go with for wars usually turns out to be the right move?

British being the first to ditch the bright uniforms in WW1, American aircraft carriers instead of battleships, capitalism, etc

What gives?

>>43929638
You wouldn't keep your soldiers on the aircraft carrier. You'd keep them on a troop ship and stick them in the same group. Carriers face all kinds of challenges which keep them from optimizing for troop space.

As a very rough measurement of what we could do with a massive troop transport, here's a U.S. troop transport that could hold 6'000 people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_General_W._F._Hase_(AP-146)

522'x71'x24'=889,488 Cubic feet. If ships were boxes, which they aren't. However, oil tankers are pretty close to being boxes.

Another measurement we could use is that it displaces 9'950 tons light. It'd be nice to have a gross tonnage, but we don't unless we do something harder then hunting on Wikipedia.

The largest ship ever was the Seawise Giant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawise_Giant

An oil tanker with a gross tonnage of 260,941'. It's light load displacement was only about 82'000 tons. And it had (If we pretend it's a box) a cubic capacity of 27,407,419.

So it displaces 8 times as much, and its (Completely inaccurate) capacity is 30 times greater. Which means we can figure it'll hold 30 times that amount of people. So, 180'000.

None of these figures are being done right, but it's still a far cry from a million. However, if you brainwashed fake memory troops that hot bunk in slave-ship berths, then you could probably fit a million.

>>43931374
Then where do you keep your airplanes when you can't trust any of the rats surrounding your target?

>>43931431
Because they're a savage and blood thirsty race always looking for the newest way to stick it to the continentals.

>>43931604
Steady on mate.
you sound like a butthurt continental

>>43931528
Hmm, I may be better off scaling down and turning it into an island hopping flotilla, put the 1 million number as all troops also stationed on the beaches it presides over. Brainwash the troops into ignoring there isnt enough ship to evac them all. Link it all through high speed internet bouys. Will probably give a better setting than one giant ship.

Ill probably have to enlarge Panama since the super carrier is one of a kind and has to preside over the Atlantic and Pacific.

>>43932475
Why the giant aircraft carrier in the first place?
I'd just build a bigger total fleet. Much more sensible.

>>43933915
Big Air Craft Carrier = Big Dick

Had to be large enough to house a stable population if cut off from the rest of the world for the foreseeable future. War is a concern, but day to day is shooting and bombing zombies. Also, at time of construction, they weren't good at scaling down fusion reactors so it was more feasible to make a fuckhuge ship to fit the fuckhuge reactor rather than to try and make the brand new energy tech fit an old ship.

>>43934157
Have the 'island' be a floating one with some means of propulsion. Have it be towed by the fleet most of the time, which use your magic energy reactor as a way to refuel. Have Panama and the Sinai *gone* because the super fleet destroyed them so that they could move around better.

Just figure out how much area you need for a million people.

>>43934658
>magic energy reactor
We literally just built a fusion reactor anon. It's not a far fetched sci-fi concept anymore.

>>43935321
Look man, you can't tell me the setting is about a million man ship that was built just so that they had somewhere to store their engine while they bombed zombies, and expect me to treat it with any sort of seriousness. Especially when the author does his research on 4chan.

>>43935363
>Especially when the author does his research on 4chan.
It's more important to feel believable than to actually be functional.