Aircraft Carriers III

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HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH ARRIVES AT MAYPORT 4 OCTOBER 2019.

QNLZ has finally arrived at Mayport Naval base in Florida USA today, up to a few hours ago. Great stuff. Well earned break before things get interesting.71651423_10162313066225627_4067030869045411840_n.jpg
QNLZ IN MAYPORT NAVAL BASE, FLORIDA, USA DOING THEIR DEFENCE DIPLOMACY ALREADY WITH LOCAL PRESS 4/10/2019

Some great shots of Merlin, the Hangar and deck areas of QNLZ. Defence Diplomacy is in full swing showing her off to press FOX 30. Liking the Cerberus boxing gym.... ASAC IS ON BOARD....ISH. Great to see lots of ships in Mayport as well.
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COMBINED OT-1 LOGO FOR 17 & 617 SQNS

With the imminent arrival of U.K. F35B Lightnings and personnel from both 17 & 617 Sqns - it emerges they have embroidered gear and patches specially created (by Dave Gaskill) for the very first 5 week Operational Trials phase (OT-1)
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Meanwhile QE's sailors have been unleashed on Mayport. May the Lord have mercy on your souls!
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And the view of QE at sea from the bridge of a Type 45, HMS Dragon:71587949_10156394369086481_2579326031039037440_n.jpg
 
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RAF MARHAM & THE UK JLF LAUNCH 3 F35B LIGHTNINGS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC BY AAR VOYAGER TO JOIN WESTLANT19 AND R08 HMS QE

AOC 1 Gp Twitter post copying through from Stn Cdr Marham on the Twitter link below announcing the departure of 3 UK Joint Lightning Force (JLF) F35B Lightnings on 9 Oct 19 to join up with 3 F35Bs from 17 (T&E) Sqn initially at USMC AS Beaufort N Carolina. Personnel from both 207 & 617 Sqns are involved from Marham. This will mean there will be 6 UK F35B minimum for the imminent UK F35B QE Carrier Qualifications and first UK Operational Test Phase (OT-1). The package the Gp Capt refers too also includes F35Bs form the Integrated Test Force (ITF) from Patuxent River NAS and also form VFMAT-501 - the USMC Operational Conversion Unit based at Beaufort. Up to 11 F35B from both nations are expected to operate from R08 HMS Queen Elizabeth during the OT-1 Phase planned from 14 Oct 19 for up to 5 weeks.

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HMS DRAGON ARRIVES 8/10/2019 IN CHARLESTON CAROLINA.

Dragon was with the US carrier fleet, but is now doing a port call. Weather a bit wet. UK style. She leaves on Friday. News story for further info below.
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here's my rant Jun 9, 2019
yeah I'm no expert, but I would've thought the elevators speed hadn't been limiting combat ops!

I'm not in the MIC Conspiracy though I think ridiculously fast elevators which don't work is an example of creating over-engineered and overpriced 'solutions' to make the Pentagon pay even more;

the companies sure have teams of spin-doctors who come up with fancy 'products' like LCS mission modules concept, so called stealthy 16k-displacing Zumwalts and other game-changers, for example recently the USN asked for like 3b for unmanned 'fleet' without having ConOps! I don't believe it's Admirals creating this type of nonsense, I think it's marketing departments and their consultants in action, selling EDITED

Wednesday at 3:15 PM
and here's the news:
Carrier Ford Will Only Have Two Weapon Elevators Ready When it Leaves Shipyard
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Later this month, USS Gerald Ford (CVN-78) will depart Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding, cross the James River and report pier-side to Naval Station Norfolk, Va. The carrier will then begin preparation for an anticipated deployment in 2021.

While the carrier will work through the remaining tasks to certify aircraft for the new launching and recovery systems, test radars and other systems, the service will still be exorcising the gremlins from the Advanced Weapons Elevators aboard Ford. The carrier will be short nine certified weapons elevators as the service works to integrate the new technology into its next generation of aircraft carriers.

The AWEs are based on the same technology that powers high-speed magnetic levitation trains. The system eschews cables found aboard most standard elevators for high-powered permanent magnets that are computer-controlled. The Navy believes the underlying concept is sound, the problems now being corrected are rooted in integrating the elevators aboard the carrier.

“Due to the concurrent nature of development and construction, the shipboard AWEs have been test beds for identifying many of the remaining developmental and production issues for this first-in-class system, including issues with producing the tight tolerances required for the impacted doors and hatches,” Navy spokesman Capt. Danny Hernandez told USNI News in a statement.
“These issues have required physical adjustments and software refinement to make AWE operations sustainable and reliable.”

Correcting and debugging the AWEs have become a time-consuming problem for the service as it hustles to prepare Fordfor sea.

Earlier this year, USNI News reported the year-long post-shakedown availability (PSA) for Ford was extended by three months to correct the issues with the elevators and problems with the ship’s nuclear propulsion.

“All three of those causal factors – making the adjustments to the nuclear power plant that we noted during sea trials, fitting in all of the post-shakedown availability workload and finishing up the elevators – they’re all trending about the same time,” James Geurts, assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition
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Geurts said at the time that there would still be some elevators not operational when Ford returned to Norfolk.

The elevators are one of several new technologies that were inserted in the first-in-class carrier that were included in the design that would reduce the crew size while increasing the amount of aircraft that could be launched and recovered.

However, continued delays in delivery and a cost increase to $13 billion have made Ford a popular target for criticism in Congress.

“The Navy entered into this contract in 2008, which, combined with other contracts, ballooned the cost of the ship to more than $13 billion without understanding the technical risk, the cost or the schedules, Senate Armed Services Committee chair Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.)
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“This ought to be criminal.”

Earlier this year, Secretary of the Navy Richard V. Spencer told an audience at the Center for New American Security that he had made a handshake agreement with President Trump on the sidelines of the Army-Navy football game.

“I shook his hand and said, the elevators will be ready to go when she pulls out or you can fire me,” Spencer said in January.

In a statement to USNI News, a Spencer spokesperson said he, “remains fully committed to USS Gerald R. Ford, to her crew, and to the technology employed aboard the ship. He looks forward to seeing Ford underway later this month. The Navy and ship’s crew have diligently tackled issues and will continue to do so. All are eager to demonstrate Ford’s capacity to deliver combat power. There is more work to do, but the crew and ship are ready to go to sea, and the Secretary is proud of their efforts.”

In May, the Navy announced it was building a land based test site for the AWEs that would be completed in 2020.

“The Navy and shipbuilder are also completing a full digital twin co-located at the shipyard facility in Newport News that will be complete in Fall of 2019. Both systems will allow the Navy and shipbuilder to mature the technology and aide in troubleshooting,”
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John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) and Enterprise (CVN-80), it won’t come online in time to help correct issues on Ford.
 
I've now read a Russian translation (
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[국감]최재성 "한국형 경항모, 중형 항공모함으로 변경해야"
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well anything might get lost in translations, anyway the message is building of an aircraft carrier is under consideration in South Korea
optimize

(captions of these models: displacement and dimensions are obvious; followed by crew size; number of aicraft (fixed-wing / rotary-wing); price in trillions of wons)



perhaps 'NavyReco' can find out?
 
two intermingled the Lincoln-related stories:

F-15s, air defense systems and thousands of U.S. troops heading to Saudi Arabia
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("The force increase comes as the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln is nearing the end of its deployment in the region. Should that deployment not be extended, the number of forces in the region would drop by nearly half.")

Pentagon Hasn’t Extended Carrier Lincoln Deployment as More Troops Headed to Saudi Arabia
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but I'm guessing no body cares here, so post just the links
 
I was critical about her so now should take a look hahaha:
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The aviation-centric
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assault ship USS
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LHA6 working up 8 Oct off the Southern California coast carrying 13
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Corps F-35B
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Joint Strike Fighters of VMFA122. The ship will transfer this fall to Japan
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