Carriers replenish at sea at least once a week and more often if required, typically every three to four days, so only having a week's worth of jet fuel is no handicap per se.
Aircraft Carriers III
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Brumby
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No dispute with how fine tuned the replenishment process and frequency that routinely happens generally during peace time. However I would ask whether you hold the same conviction of "no handicap" in a conflict situation between long vs short replenishment cycles. Military ships are specs for conflict and not peace time operation even though the ship might never engage in any conflict situation in its lifetime.
Replenishment cycles is an important consideration in any design. For example,
Source : France Wants To Retain Its Carrier Edge, AWST Jun 5, 2019
Jura The idiot
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you can estimate in your head (and I know, because I botched this estimation in my head Jun 23, 2019 LOL! by confusing gallons with pounds)
about two and a half thousand tons of aircraft fuel is needed for one week of flying one-hundred hours daily;
this favors large carriers in an obvious way, and is one of the reasons I said Friday at 8:29 PM
"I think Japan should leave the rest to the US 7th Fleet" ("the rest" here could be evicting some unit from the Senkakus)
about two and a half thousand tons of aircraft fuel is needed for one week of flying one-hundred hours daily;
this favors large carriers in an obvious way, and is one of the reasons I said Friday at 8:29 PM
"I think Japan should leave the rest to the US 7th Fleet" ("the rest" here could be evicting some unit from the Senkakus)
Jura The idiot
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HMS Prince of Wales:Written question - 275141
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Asked on: 09 July 2019
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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the HMS Prince of Wales will be placed into the service of the Royal Navy.
and I'm wondering if also this thread has been abandoned and nobody will click the answer at
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(North Durham)
Asked on: 09 July 2019
Ministry of Defence
HMS Prince of Wales
275141
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether the HMS Prince of Wales will be placed into the service of the Royal Navy.
and I'm wondering if also this thread has been abandoned and nobody will click the answer at
Jura The idiot
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Jura The idiot
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last Friday Aug 16, 2019
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American F-35B jets could soon be flying from Japanese ‘helicopter destroyer’
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"Minister Iwaya also reiterated that the warship would not be an “attack aircraft carrier” capable of offensive military operations, although it’s hard to see how that distinction can be made."
(what would be a "non-attack", or perhaps "defensive", aircraft carrier??)
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American F-35B jets could soon be flying from Japanese ‘helicopter destroyer’
:
"Minister Iwaya also reiterated that the warship would not be an “attack aircraft carrier” capable of offensive military operations, although it’s hard to see how that distinction can be made."
Brumby
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If I was the JSDF I would just call it a multi purpose destroyer when the F-35B is able to operate aboard the ship. Those who have a beef against Japan operating carrier borne fighters will attack it regardless.
As to the idea of offense vs defense, it is a descriptive term of the intended action of the operator and not the platform. A warship is a benign instrument and only becomes offensive or defensive depending on the nature of the actor operating it. This principle applies whether it is a gun, a submarine or a fighter. I don't see why it is somehow a unique issue to aircraft carrying platforms.
No question, the USMC will deploy the F-35B aboard the Izumo's......
and here we are missing the "Whole Point?" defending against what?????
For the first time since World War II, China has an offensive Naval, Air, and Army capability against Japan, so every means necessary are "constitutional" for the first time! lots of small minded thinking here gents, get over it....
and Jura, if you were making the decisions, the F-35A, F-35B, and F-35C would NOT be available to defend Japan, even you should be beginning to see where that would leave us my friend, in a piss poor place overall!