Aircraft Carriers II (Closed to posting)

asif iqbal said:

Still not as big as the following picture which contains 26 warships

I see CVN-73 plus both Hyuga Class flat tops from the JMSDF and one Osumi Class that's four flat tops plus two submarines and scores of Arleigh Burke Type DDG from both JMSDF and USN

Shows the readiness of the JMSDF who can put to sea both LHD together, when the two larger Izumo Class are commissioned I would not be suprised if they put to sea all four flat tops plus a few more Osumi Class flat tops

A very large naval Amanda taken during Keen Sword 2013

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Air Force Brat said:

I think that may be a still from a video, if that is the bird I'm thinking of, they get Really, Really wet, but keep on truckin, gives "scattered showers" a whole new meaning.... brat.

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After publishing the article, we’ve received the following email by Derek Gordon who explains:

“The photo is…well…parts of two photos. As bizarre of a coincidence as this is, I actually put it together in Photoshop when I was a JO in 123 while on cruise in 2006. It was originally for a prank on one of our Dept Heads at the time and we later used it during foscle follies. The cat shot of the E-2 was a photo I took during work ups and I took the one of the waves crashing over the bow during our transit through the Indian Ocean. If you look closely you’ll see in the merged photo that the E-2 and steam trail from the catapult track actually don’t line up with the catapult track beneath it.”

Therefore, the image is Photoshopped. Still, these things happen as others have written and as proved by this video:

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bd popeye said:

Apparently some years ago an C-1 Trader(COD) did this off USS Ticonderoga (CVS14)..unbelievable!..

Personally.. I just don't believe it.

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thunderchief said:

I doubt it for two reasons :

1. Minimum takeoff speed of C-1 is somewhere near 90 mph (over 140 km/h) . At those speeds water is almost like concrete . Granted , this is water mixed with air , but still I think propellers would be heavily damaged (almost like bird strike)

2. It is not unusual to have water washing over deck , but in this particular case sea looks calm and in entire length of the video it happens only once .Frequency of ship pitching is once in 7-8 seconds . Therefore , you would have "wet deck" at least one more time in the video .Something like this below :

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World MAritime News said:

The UK's future flagship now stands 56 metres (183ft) tall – higher than Nelson’s Column – after the enormous Goliath crane lifted the 8.4-tonne long-range radar into place on top of the carrier’s forward island.

The radar – similar to those fitted on the Type 45 destroyers – safely arrived in Rosyth with its support, the mast cap, from Hengelo in the eastern Netherlands back in September.

Since then feverish work has been going on around Queen Elizabeth to complete her hull (finished earlier this month [NOV] with the addition of her ski ramp).

With the addition of the mast cap and black slab – officially an antenna, despite its size (32m2 or 344ft2) – all of the ship’s main structure blocks are now in place.

The radar, which provides a three dimensional, long-range picture not just of the skies around Queen Elizabeth but also the waters, sits 27 metres (88ft) above the flight deck, 50 metres (164ft) above the sea.

And that’s still not the highest point on Queen Elizabeth. When the communications pole mast is fitted next year it will be 70 metres (230ft) from tip to keel – which is almost as long as a River-class patrol ship.

As for the radar, it can track up to 1,000 contacts up to a range of 400km (250 miles) from the ship.

So, if fired up in Rosyth it could track every aircraft in UK skies as far south as Birmingham and Nottingham.

Or from Queen Elizabeth’s home base of Portsmouth (arriving over the winter of 2016-17) the radar’s eyes can see as far north as the Lake District, as far south as Nantes and as far east as Brussels.

It now falls to the weapon engineering department and Aircraft Carrier Alliance technicians to mesh the radar and the data it will gather in with the rest of the systems aboard.

It’s the first time the civilian and RN engineers have worked side-by-side on a shipbuilding project; traditionally, shipwrights complete the installation of kit, then hand over the finished product to the Navy.

In a ship’s company of 50 at present, the WE department is 21-strong – and will slowly rise to a full strength of 94 by 2015.

Given the size of Queen Elizabeth and complexity of her systems – billed as the Navy’s ultimate engineer challenge – the engineers (marine and weapon) are keen to encourage their branch brothers and sisters to join them on the Forth

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The French Navy announced its carrier battle group (CVBG) just deployed for Operation “Bois Belleau”. The group is center on the French Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91). Its escort is consists in the Horizon class AAW Destroyer Forbin (D620), the Georges Leygues class anti-submarine Frigate Jean de Vienne (D643), the Durance class replenishment oiler Meuse (A607) and Rubis class SSN (nuclear-powered attack submarine)
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Focus on French – US maneuvers

The French Navy likely named the Operation “Bois Belleau” (Belleau Wood, a famous WWI battle that took place in France and involved the US Army and US Marine Corps) because some major joint Marine Nationale (French Navy) – U.S. Navy maneuvers and exercises are planned. According to the French Navy, operation Bois Belleau will enable the French and US navies to reach the highest level of cooperation to date. The U.S. Carrier Battle Group formed around the Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier USS Harry S. Truman, will be present in the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf at the same time. There will be a joint deployment and close cooperation for five weeks between the two CVBGs. France and the United States are leading strategic partners and the only nations to deploy nuclear-powered aircraft carriers capable of projecting massive fire-power.

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navyreco said:

Great news for all carriers fans

French Aircraft Carrier deploys to Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf, will train with U.S. Navy

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I hope there will be cross decks, side by side formations and what not... (and of course, I hope we get tons of pics and vids of it all)

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