Aircraft Carriers III

Now sure a problem definitely known after not also important as one other CVN have recently about 12 or more months of delays but confirm 11 CVNs is a more comfortable number.

When the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle meets the British amphibious assault ship HMS Ocean

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She's looking good as she prepares for sea trails:

PALS calibration tests for CVN 78.

HMAS-Adelaide with CH-47 and NH-90TTH soon Tigre.

Landing a Chinnok on a naval platform is not a easy job it's a big heavy helo with lots of downwash which blows things away even on the deck of the ship they have to tie down everything including containers for this one

Add in a number of chinnoks and you have a job on your hands

RAN moving quick with these units

asif iqbal said:

Landing a Chinnok on a naval platform is not a easy job it's a big heavy helo with lots of downwash which blows things away even on the deck of the ship they have to tie down everything including containers for this one

Add in a number of chinnoks and you have a job on your hands

RAN moving quick with these units

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Australia has been operating Chinooks off naval ships for a few years now, even going back to the RAAF CH47C operating off the centre flight deck on Tobruk, now that was tight. I imagine those pilots would appreciate the extra room of the LHD's

CVN-78 does it's nuclear reactor need RCOH and if so after how many years ?

Justely not RCOH reactor get same service life as the Ford 50 years.

Jeff Head said:

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The main reason for the cost and schedule overruns for the project in a single photo