Aircraft Carriers II (Closed to posting)

You know Equation before the US was using nuclear powered carriers The Us and the British were operating on a global scale with steam boiler and Steam turbine powered carriers. We just tanked them up when they needed it like any other ship, and Then on the other side there is the De Gaule who is a nuclear powered carrier but comes up as a poorer one. all one needs is the logistics too stretch for it too enable unlimited range.

"The decisions made by these European navy planners, along with choice of conventionally powered new aircraft carriers, means that they intend to be regional powers with expeditionary & force projection capability, but they don’t intend on being the global policemen"

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TerraN_EmpirE said:

Then on the other side there is the De Gaule who is a nuclear powered carrier but comes up as a poorer one. all one needs is the logistics too stretch for it too enable unlimited range.

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The CdeG teething problems didn't prevent him to sail almost yearly to Indian Ocean to conduct exercises with the Indian Navy, to conduct missions in A'stan and to train with UAE in the Persian Gulf.

CdeG actually deployed more often to Indian Ocean than Atlantic, Mediterranean, or Africa

Work to begin so new carriers can enter Portsmouth 3 November 2011



"MAJOR works to prepare Portsmouth Harbour for the arrival of the Royal Navy’s biggest ever ships will start in the coming weeks.

The first of two 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers being built for the navy is due to arrive in Portsmouth in 2016. The second will be here in 2018.

But areas of the harbour will need to be made 3ft deeper to accommodate the huge £6bn ships before they can come to the city.

Preparatory work, which involves drilling 400 holes in the Solent sea bed, will begin next month ahead of a major dredging programme in 2014.

It comes after the Ministry of Defence signed a £5m deal to start environmental impact studies for the £120m project.

Portsmouth Naval Base commander, Commodore Tony Radakin, told The News: ‘This has been talked about for years and years, but Portsmouth Naval Base is now spending money for the first time in preparation for the new carriers coming in.

‘We are now on that path, and it’s a physical path, for the first new ship to come here in 2016. It’s hugely exciting.

‘We are talking about ships three or four times the size of the navy’s last carriers.

‘We need to dredge an additional 1m deeper down – that’s a lot of dredging that needs to be done.

‘However, to do that there’s lots of environmental work that needs to be done first.’

More than 400 boreholes will be drilled in the harbour during the next 12 months.

Cdre Radakin, who took over from Cdre Rob Thompson as head of the naval base last month, said: ‘We will be taking samples in order to understand what it is we are dredging. Then we can decide what we are going to do with it – whether we sell it as gravel or if it’s mud whether we can move it from one part of the Solent to another part.’

Once the drilling and environmental impact studies are completed, it is planned that engineers can begin dredging the harbour in 2014.

The dredging project, which will cost £120m in total, will be finished in time for the arrival of the first supercarrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, in 2016.

At the same time as the dredging, hundreds of thousands of pounds will be spent on reinforcing the jetties in Portsmouth Naval Base so they can cope with the weight of the carriers when they are tied up alongside in the base."

I've read people on this board in the past discussing the various inside configurations of the different types of aircraft carriers.
Here is a good video of the way aircraft are handled on/in Charles de Gaulle CVN and also a few shots of the inside of the hangar.

Excellent video navyreco!! Very similar to an USN CVN in movement of aircraft. Those French sailors apper to be very professional. The aircraft directors are not as animated as directors (aviation boatswains mates).

I think I'll watch it again!

Once again excellent video!

Video of the USS John C Stennis CVN-74 flight deck directors in 2009.."they be stylin' and profilin'"..that's how they roll..

[video=youtube;tGIbEJk4EJk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGIbEJk4EJk[/video]

Hey popeye, just a question:

From the vid we can see the deck hands wore different BDU pants in the same scene - I saw at least jungle and desert pattern, even those of the same duty crew.

Does USN have so kind of guidelines for that, or now things are unified after the introduction of the navy pattern BDU?

Does USN have so kind of guidelines for that, or now things are unified after the introduction of the navy pattern BDU?

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Nope..

The reason for all the different trousers you see is that the USN is given hand me down BDUs etc to be worn on the flight deck and hangar deck so as not to ruin the real USN working uniform. This started because years ago when sailor wore dungarees the dungarees did not stand up to the work environment of Naval Aviation.

Shipmates working in naval aviation get extremely dirty. Especially those working on the catapults and arresting gear.

However eventually all sailors will have to wear the new USN working uniform on the flight deck. Don't look for that to happen any time soon.

JMSDF Hyuga DDH 181

PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 4, 2011) The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter destroyer JS Hyuga (DDH 181) prepares to turn from a formation of U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships during Annual Exercise 2011. Annual Exercise is a bi-lateral field training exercise designed to practice and evaluate the coordination procedures and interoperability elements required to respond to the defense of Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Adam K. Thomas/Released)

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JMSDF Hyuga DDH 181

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That's a great pic! Escorted by a JMSDF AEGIS DDG in the background.

I like this one in exercises with a US Nimitz class



Also, the Japanese have already launched and commissioned the second Hyuga class, the DDH 182 Ise. Heres a picture with both of them in port at the same time.