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FYI, the French Navy celebrated in December 26th its 32.000th "trap". It was an with Hawkeye returning from its patrol for the joint CdeG USS Truman deployment.
The average is 2,335 deck landings per year for CdeG
To be combared with
2,100 deck landings per year for Clemenceau
2,060 deck landings per year for Foch
Would be interesting to know the figure for a Nimitz class, I would guess you can easily add a zero at the end of the above numbers ?
Plus... a French Navy picture from the current deployment: A CH53D Sea Stallion... it brought USS Truman commanding officer onboard CdeG. I didn't know CH53s were routinelly onboard Nimitz class... I thought it was generally Seahawks only. (CH53 being USMC helicopters and all...)
I tried to gather all the pictures so far of this deployment:
The average is 2,335 deck landings per year for CdeG
To be combared with
2,100 deck landings per year for Clemenceau
2,060 deck landings per year for Foch
Would be interesting to know the figure for a Nimitz class, I would guess you can easily add a zero at the end of the above numbers ?
Plus... a French Navy picture from the current deployment: A CH53D Sea Stallion... it brought USS Truman commanding officer onboard CdeG. I didn't know CH53s were routinelly onboard Nimitz class... I thought it was generally Seahawks only. (CH53 being USMC helicopters and all...)
I tried to gather all the pictures so far of this deployment:
Looks like a newer that the Italians have three of themselves.An "unusual" flat deck in the making.
Italian shipyard Fincantieri launched Algerian Navy future amphibious ship (BDSL program)
Here's a pic of one of theirs:
That's after a major refit where they lengthened the deck, widened it, and took off what used to be a forward gun like the one for the Algerians.
Here's how the Italian vessels looked originally:
In addition, GREAT group of photos you put together on the Join Exercises. I really enjoyed them.
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asif iqbal
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Wow how did I miss this reading up on it now!
Jura The idiot
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Yes, popeye and NavyReco posted pictures of those exercises several posts earlier on this thread:
The Cavour is a very decent, 30,000 ton carrier. I have a page dedicated to it on my World-wide Aircraft Carriers site:
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A blast from the past. A really nice pic.
NATO Southern Region Exercise, Dragon Hammer - 1990. Five flattops together. Four carriers and one LHA.
Now, the Spanish Principe Asturias, the USS Saipan, and the Royal Navy's HMS Invincible have all since been retired. But the Principe Asturias was replaced by the Juan Carlos, the Saipan was replaced by the USS America, and the HMS Invincible will soon be replaced by the HMS Queen Elizabeth.
NATO Southern Region Exercise, Dragon Hammer - 1990. Five flattops together. Four carriers and one LHA.
Now, the Spanish Principe Asturias, the USS Saipan, and the Royal Navy's HMS Invincible have all since been retired. But the Principe Asturias was replaced by the Juan Carlos, the Saipan was replaced by the USS America, and the HMS Invincible will soon be replaced by the HMS Queen Elizabeth.
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I do not know what the figures for an average Nimitz class a year is but here are the lifetime numbers for Kitty Hawk. She was retired in 2009.
And cat shots..
Kitty Hawk was in service for 48 years...approximately 12 of those years maybe more were spent under re-fits.
Well, if you take the 407,511 traps and divide that by 36 years at sea, you come up with:
an average of 11,320 traps per year.
Now, during the year she may be at sea a total of six month...180 days at sea a year give or take (and that's probably more than she did). 11,320 divided by 180 means she is doing:
an average of 63 traps a day.
As to cat shots, you add up all four and come up with 448,300 total cat shots.Divide that by 36 and you get:
an average of 12,453 traps a year.
Divide that by 180 and you get:
an average of 70 cat shots a day.
These are all averages.
People may ask how you can catapult more off the deck more than you trap onto the deck?
Good question. Remember that every ship starts its mission with its whole air wing aboard, and then they all fly off at the end. It used to be that aircraft were loaded on the carrier by crane, and did not all necessarily fly onto the carrier. for this reason. As a result of numerous years of loading aircraft that way, it could easily average out to more cat shots than traps over all of those years.
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