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Ask the Russians, they have the most experience with broken wires.
Aircraft Carriers III
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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Jura The idiot
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wondering if F-35Bs will be grounded after the crash today
(in case you didn't know yet:
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter News, Videos and pics Thread 19 minutes ago
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On the 'Gators', they have an 800ft deck to play with... and fully loaded they need about 750ft to get off it on a rolling run. Even then, there's always a slight 'drop' when you clear the deck, somewhat scary in rough seas when you're only 60ft from the briny. It's one of the main reasons the USMC pilots want the ski jump, safety: their own! A Gator with a ski jump would only need a 400ft deck run to get the same aircraft off the deck fully loaded. The first two America class were supposed to be more aviation oriented compared to their older sisters, and I think a case could be made to modify those two ships with ramps at least to see how much difference it makes.
Ok you've all been chomping at the bit for this, Enjoy!
None of it is CGI! Ladies and Gentlemen, the future has arrived!
Note the new badge on the tails of the aircraft and the QNLZ ship ID!
None of it is CGI! Ladies and Gentlemen, the future has arrived!
Note the new badge on the tails of the aircraft and the QNLZ ship ID!
Some more:
And yet more! It's like Crimbo came early this year!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAnd some more:
It's not for lack of trying on the part of the RN that we haven't had a large carrier class until now, in WW2 we designed the Malta class to be on a par with the USN Midways but they were cancelled at the end of the warm and we had to make do with two of the three Audacious class instead as our main strike carriers. Then there was the '1952' class of carriers which would have been in the same size range, but lack of funds aborted the programme, and ten years later the CVA-01 class was yet another stab at the big carrier game.
The Invincibles weren't small because we decided small carriers were better than large, but because small carriers were infinitely preferable to no carriers, which was the stark choice on the table. At the start of the CVF programme, the designers consulted with amongst others, the primary users of the decks, the FAA pilots (then flying Sea Harriers), and the one thing they all agreed on was the next generation of carriers had to be BIGGER! The only metric by which the Invincibles could be judged deficient was size, they were too small and cramped to operate an effective number of aircraft, though as stated earlier, some are always better than none, as proved in the Falklands.
And as you can see the 'Twin Island' concept is hardly new...