Aircraft Carriers III

Roberto

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Anyone got any updates pics or info on the new INS Vikrant? Just been fruitlessly searching the net and it seems no one in India has either a camera, phone or internet connection based on the apparent blackout! Best I could find was this post launch pic of her alongside the fitting out berth:
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I have been wondering as well. You would have thought it would be close to sea trials time...
 

bd popeye

The Last Jedi
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Are we counting aircraft on the flight deck? .....Humm? Count these!

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An aerial view of various aircraft lining the flight decks of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS USS Independence (CV-62), top, and USS Midway (CV-41) moored beside each other at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (USA), on 23 August 1991. Midway was en route from Naval Station, Yokosuka, Japan, to Naval Air Station North Island, California (USA), where it was decommissioned on 11 April 1992. Independence travelled to Yokosuka to take over as the U.S. Navy's forward-based aircraft carrier.
Date 23 August 1991

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USS
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(AF-55) resupplies USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63) and USS
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(DLG-9) during a WestPac deployment, 1964.

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This photo is believed to have been taken on 6 November 1970, as USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63), with Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11 embarked, departed North Island, San Diego, California, on her 5th Vietnam War Cruise (6 November 1970–17 July 1971). USS
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(CVS-14) is astern of Kitty Hawk.

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(FFH-155) during a Fueling At Sea (FAS) evolution in the Persian Gulf, 21 April 2006. Ronald Reagan was deployed in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, as well as conducting Maritime Security Operations (MSO) in the region. U.S. Navy photo by PH3 Aaron Burden
 

Brumby

Major
The runway marking has the same width on all aircraft carriers, the sketches are partly wrong.
I agree that if there are errors it should be pointed out. You should note the different schematics are not to scale. Can you please be more specific as to why they are wrong. ,
 
Mar 28, 2019
Tuesday at 8:29 PM
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Navy to Congress: You Need to Let Us Retire Carrier Truman
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CNO Warns Forum of Challenges of ‘Great Power Competition’
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“What is more relevant for the future? Is it the Harry S. Truman or something else,” he said, noting that revolutionary technologies “are just around the corner.”

The CNO was responding to a question about the Navy’s fiscal 2020 proposal to retire the aircraft carrier Truman at midlife — rather than refueling her — to free up funds to develop the future technologies.
 

asif iqbal

Lieutenant General
New talk about joint European carrier strike group between France and Germany

A EU CBG would supplement the UKs two carriers

Reminds me of the European aerial tanker fleet for so long we were dependent on the Americans and then we got our own

Maybe European carrier reality is if Europeans all jointly join the programme

Even Dutch have some good amphibious assets to help form EU Amphibous ready group (ARG) with French LHD

Italy has some very good FFG for Air defence too

Amazing that UK did it alone

However UK no longer has the amphibious capability after selling off HMS Ocean

2 x Albion class and 1 x LHD backed by Bay class would form a decent ARG

To rely on a 65,000 full blown carrier for rotary wing is criminal
 
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