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STOBAR take-off . No cats , no bars and no blast deflectors , but they have some kind of wheel brake pads (I would like to know proper terminology for this) and you can see them from 1:36

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Jeff Head

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STOBAR take-off . No cats , no bars and no blast deflectors , but they have some kind of wheel brake pads (I would like to know proper terminology for this) and you can see them from 1:36
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Those are "chocks."

There are manual ones set in place by deck handlers to keep aircraft from moving, and then there are the stronger, automated variety used to hold the aircraft in place for launch, while their engines spool up. The Liaoning and Kuznetsov use similar devices.
 
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For those of us who have been paying attention to the 'mood music' coming from the RN and MOD for the last couple of years, this comes as no surprise at all, but is nonetheless welcome:

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In summary SecDef Hammond is saying putting the second CVF into full commission will cost £70million per year, and that's practically loose change. Elsewhere I've heard many asking how the RN will be able to crew two carrires, well we are crewing two now without difficulty.True whilst Illustrious' crew will be able to transfer to Big Liz on a one for one basis, HMS Ocean's crew are about half the number needed to man PoW, it means we only have to find a couple of hundred personnel to bring her to full strength. Not an impossible task by any means.
 
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Obi Wan Russell said:
For those of us who have been paying attention to the 'mood music' coming from the RN and MOD for the last couple of years, this comes as no surprise at all, but is nonetheless welcome:

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In summary SecDef Hammond is saying putting the second CVF into full commission will cost £70million per year, and that's practically loose change. Elsewhere I've heard many asking how the RN will be able to crew two carrires, well we are crewing two now without difficulty.True whilst Illustrious' crew will be able to transfer to Big Liz on a one for one basis, HMS Ocean's crew are about half the number needed to man PoW, it means we only have to find a couple of hundred personnel to bring her to full strength. Not an impossible task by any means.
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£70million per year? Do we believe him?
 
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delft said:
£70million per year? Do we believe him?
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Yes. On another forum, the published running costs for the Invincible class CVS over several years were averaged and adjusted for inflation, and they were at todays prices around £74million per annum. The QECs were designed to have running costs similar to the Invincibles (excluding cost of the air group), so the figure of £70 million sounds correct.
 
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just how do you extract spend nuclear fuel from nuclear power ship or submarine?
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In short, very slowly and very carefully! Remember the average reactor on a submarine is physically very small, about the size of a household dustbin, and the spent fuel rods themselves will only be a part of that reactor. It isn't an overnight job by any means, and often simply accessing the reactor will mean dismantling much of the infrastructure around the reactor, and doing so whilst some of this structure and pipework for example will itself be highly irradiated means proceding at a snails pace to avoid further contamination or risk to the workers involved.
 
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The 1st Russian Mistral Class LHD is coming along rapidly in construction and is almost ready to launch.

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MOSCOW, October 4 (RIA Novosti) — The Russian Navy will receive its first Mistral-class helicopter carrier from France on November 1, 2014, a high-ranking defense industry official told RIA Novosti on Friday.

The Vladivostok, which is being built at the DCNS shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, is scheduled to be floated out on October 15.

“Over the course of a year, the ship will be further equipped and undergo sea trials in order to be handed over to the Russian Navy on November 1, 2014,” the official said.

Russia and France signed a 1.2 billion euro ($1.6 billion) contract for two French-built Mistral-class helicopter carriers in June 2011.
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