A real space carrier! It took the Soviet Union 20 years and 400 billion yuan to get to the door. How did it do it?

After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union, as the two countries with the strongest military strength in the world at that time, began a series of military competitions in order to compete for hegemony. During the formal cold war, the two sides competed with each other in all aspects of military affairs, and invested a lot of money in developing and manufacturing more advanced weapons in order to gain an advantage in the competition and severely hit each other in the face. Among many equipments, the aircraft carrier is undoubtedly the best choice for offshore equipment, especially in the United States, which has mastered this technology.

Later, the Soviet Union also successfully developed the first aircraft carrier with its own efforts, which greatly increased its morale. In order to seek new development, they even came up with a bold idea, which is to build an aerospace aircraft carrier. As we all know, the aerospace carrier only exists in science fiction movies at present. With the current technical level of human beings, it will not develop at all for a while, but the Soviet Union dared to put forward this idea at that time, which is enough to show their foresight.

However, before they developed the aerospace carrier, they developed the aerospace fighter, that is, the MIG-105 fighter. It adopted the very popular technology delta wing at that time. In addition, its wings can be folded at 60 degrees, which is flexible and convenient. This design is mainly suitable for the fighter to enter the atmosphere, and when it really becomes subsonic flight, the wing will straighten and increase greatly.

The engine of this fighter is also very special. It is a Kolosov RD-36-35K turbojet engine. Although its own strength is very strong, it relies on rockets and large bombers made in the Soviet Union. Because of this, MIG-105 is considered as an air fighter. Not only that, but after creating this achievement, Soviet designers also considered putting it into mass production many times.

The ideas of this group of designers are far more than these. Since they have space fighters, they want to design space carriers. It is not easy to build an aircraft carrier at sea, let alone an aircraft carrier that can be directly suspended in the air. Before the conventional power carrier construction technology is mature, considering the latter is tantamount to building castles in the air. However, although it can't be realized in a short time, they still put forward some ideas.

Their imaginary aircraft carrier can accommodate 15 air fighters and can carry multiple hydrogen bombs. It is estimated that the explosive equivalent is about 20 million tons, which is really a terrible figure. No wonder the Soviet Union misses it day and night. In the process of development, it will not be smooth sailing. First of all, the cost of research is prohibitive.

In order to design this space carrier, they spent 60 billion dollars, which is almost equivalent to 400 billion yuan according to the exchange rate and today's currency value. The most important thing is that this is not the real construction price, just research and drawing drawings. However, the money spent is still worth it. At least they got the hang of it. However, the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the 1990s did not realize this dream.

Until now, this kind of space weapon and equipment has not been developed, but the bee colony technology developed by China for UAV fighters can be regarded as the embryonic form of a space carrier to some extent. After all, hundreds or even thousands of drones are deployed at the same time, which is very similar to the role of aircraft carriers.