China's Liaoning aircraft carrier, how long it takes to fill up with fuel

Aircraft carriers are an important embodiment of a country's military strength and an important standard for measuring whether a country's navy is strong. The carrier is divided into conventional power carrier and nuclear power carrier, generally speaking a nuclear power carrier can be opened for many years. For example, the U.S. Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, a one-time range of twenty years.

Then the most conventionally powered carriers, itself is certainly the need to refuel. Our Liaoning and domestic carriers are conventional power carriers, how long do they take to refuel? You may not have finished refueling yet. Let's take Liaoning as an example, it can carry up to 7,800 tons of heavy fuel. Generally speaking if you just refuel, take the oil hose connection, the oil pump work.

All fill up almost ten hours, an average of about 780 tons per hour. And if there are other supplies to be replenished, it depends on the actual situation, a few days are possible. And after filling up in this way, the mileage of a voyage can almost reach about fifteen thousand kilometers, which can be sailed for quite a long time.

But in the case of nuclear-powered carriers, the need to replenish nuclear fuel after running out of fuel will require a major overhaul, and a major overhaul will take almost half a year. Nowadays, China has been able to build its own conventionally-powered aircraft carriers, and at the same time, its technology in nuclear power is also relatively mature. I believe that in the future, China's construction of domestic aircraft carriers will also have nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, which will save a great deal of fuel expenses.