The American aircraft carrier is the largest in the world, but their island is small and lovely. The reason why the US military dares to design such a small island is that the division of labor of the US naval fleet is clear; The second equipment optimization is well done. Third, the US aircraft carrier is nuclear-powered. It is the influence of these three reasons that can make the US military reduce the number of islands, increase the available area of deck and increase the capacity of carrier aircraft when designing aircraft carriers, thus increasing the combat effectiveness of aircraft carriers. As we all know, the higher the deck utilization rate of an aircraft carrier, the stronger its combat effectiveness. As early as the late 1940 s, the United States had designed an aircraft carrier without a ship island. But it turns out that the aircraft carrier must also have a ship island, because the ship island is more conducive to the navigation and command of the ships on the hull. The division of labor of the US naval fleet is clear; You know, the American aircraft carrier is only responsible for being used as a lifting platform for fighter planes, and it is equipped with some auxiliary weapons. Other defense work, all to other combat vessels in the fleet. On the contrary, it is a Soviet-made aircraft carrier, originally built by the United States, taking into account other aspects of work. It is called an aircraft carrier cruiser. In this way, the Soviet aircraft carrier equipped with more is huge. It was not until the eve of the disintegration of the Soviet Union that they finally designed a real aircraft carrier. The full name of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is the Ulyanovsk, but it was only a flash in the pan and was dismantled even before the construction was completed. Equipment optimization is well done; American military equipment is generally exquisitely designed, resulting in a small space occupied by various equipment on the ship island. Moreover, in view of these complex devices, the US military has invested considerable manpower and material resources in the integration and optimization of these devices. Such a highly integrated ship island is full of contrast, although solid but consistent. Atmosphere? Of course, the Soviet-style equipment on the island is much smaller. Nuclear power drive; Most aircraft carriers that only use conventional power need to design a large chimney pipeline system to exhaust the smoke generated by the power system. Moreover, if the chimney and the ship island are integrated, it is necessary to consider various isolation and redundancy designs such as heat insulation, which will inevitably greatly increase the volume of the ship island. The American aircraft carrier that uses nuclear power completely does not have these troubles, and the ship island can be designed to be extremely small. ?