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from the photo it can be seen that they have also modified the dashboard, they have created a terrace structure that can be used to contain the dashboard for controlling flight activities
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assuming iran wants to produce an aircraft carrier, what role would this object play in the construct puzzle?
1. I believe that this will primarily be a drone carrier that may also be able to be converted into an aircraft carrier. Similar to the Japanese landing ships or helicopter carriers, which are more similar to aircraft carriers in terms of their dimensions and design and could be converted into them within a short time.
The development of an aircraft carrier is a complex undertaking. It requires an enormous amount of capital, resources and industrial capacity, even for economically strong countries. Planning and construction often take years, if not a decade. On the high seas, an aircraft carrier is very vulnerable on its own, which is why it usually requires a large auxiliary, supply and escort fleet. American carrier fleets, which are usually referred to as task forces, have at least 4 to 6 destroyers and 2 missile cruisers, a fighter submarine and supply ships on board as escort ships. The purpose of an aircraft carrier, unlike destroyers, is primarily the power project of a state. A destroyer, on the other hand, is designed purely for practical use, while aircraft carriers are objects whose mere presence can influence an opponent.
There are two ways for a state to build an aircraft carrier:
First, it can acquire it or it can produce it itself. If you want to produce aircraft carriers yourself, it is not unusual to convert cargo ships into aircraft carriers in order to gain the necessary experience and produce a pure aircraft carrier directly on this basis. This is what almost all aircraft carrier producing nations did in the beginning. India and China initially bought and converted their carriers. Britain and the U.S. initially converted cargo ships into aircraft carriers before producing full-fledged aircraft carriers before World War II and again during World War II.
It would not be unusual in the case of Iran to produce aircraft carriers in this way in the future to gain the necessary experience. As already mentioned, an aircraft carrier requires a lot of resources and is associated with enormous costs, so it would not be wrong to first build models with which one can gain experience at low cost. If a nation like Iran wants to build its own aircraft carriers, then a nation like Iran cannot afford to implement a project worth billions of dollars that is fraught with errors due to a lack of experience. The path that Iran is currently taking is the most difficult and expensive of all variants because it takes a lot of time. It would be simpler to buy a carrier and convert or modernize it according to its own needs. But this way is the most sustainable and the way to gain the best practices experience.
Many people speculate that this ship could be a drone carrier. I would see it that way as well, because I find the ship's bridge very disturbing. In terms of length (240 meters) and other dimensions, the ship would certainly be suitable for accommodating at least 20 fighter aircraft.
Even if this ship is certainly declared as a drone carrier, I still believe that the planners of this project have the construction of an aircraft carrier in mind and will pursue this goal in the next steps. I suspect that this ship could probably be completed by 2024 and then be tested on the high seas for 1 or 2 years and in 2026 the construction of an aircraft carrier can be started. If there are no planning difficulties. Building an aircraft carrier is a very complex undertaking and in practice has taken between 8 and 12 years. (8 years for the Americans and British and 12 for the Indians). Presumably, an Iranian aircraft carrier would be completed in 2035 if such a project were pursued.