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Jeff Head

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Great video fly around of the newly floated Royal Navy, HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier:


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Notice the four nuclear subs off of the port forward quarter of the carrier.
 
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Jura The idiot

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Jeff Head said:
Yes.

Abosultely, Jura. I would love to, but I have not found a company that makes any Italian or Spanish models of modern warships in 1/350 scale.

But I would love to have an Italian group centered on the Cavour and their Horizon escorts, a Spanish group centered on the Juan Carlos and their F-100 AEGIS frigates, and an Australian group centered on the Canberra and their new Hobart destroyers.

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I wish you the models became available soon! :) and since you mentioned Italian carrier/escorts:
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Obi Wan Russell

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Jeff Head said:
Great video fly around of the newly floated Rolay Navy, HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier:



Notice the four nuclear subs off of the port forward quarter of the carrier.
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Those four boats are the Resolution class Polaris SSBNs, awaiting disposal once their Reactors have cooled down sufficiently. Older SSNs were stored at Rosyth too, though they appear to have been relocated to make room for the carriers.
 
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Jeff,
Don't you mean S-2T?
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That's what I thought: S-3 is the legendary Viking and these planes never flew from any other carrier than those of the US Navy. Maybe some crossdecking was ever done but I don't recall any visits to foreign carriers.
 
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delft said:
Jeff,
Don't you mean S-2T?
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Yes, absolutely. The S-2T Tracker and not the S-3 Viking.

My bad, I will fix my post.

In 2010 Brazil cut a deal with Marsh Aviation to convert four S-2T Trackers to an Airborne Early Warning configuration, and to upgrade four Grumman C-1 Traders for tanker purposes. I think they are all scheduled to be operational on the Sao Paulo by 2015.

As I say on
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, the Sao Paulo air wing, right now, ideally consists of:

20 x A-4KU fighter/bombers
03 x TA-4kU tankers
02 x S-2T AEW
02 x S-2T Tankers
06 x S70-B Seahawk ASW/SAR

When they get the Sea Grippens, I expect this will change to something like this:

14 x Sea Grippen
06 x A-4KU fighter/bombers
02 x S-2T AEW
02 x S-2T Tankers
06 x S70-B Seahawk ASW/SAR


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That's what I thought: S-3 is the legendary Viking and these planes never flew from any other carrier than those of the US Navy. Maybe some crossdecking was ever done but I don't recall any visits to foreign carriers.
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It is in fact the S-2T. And I know that...just a mistake.

I worked on the S-3 Viking while at Vought Aeronautics many years ago. Vought built the tail section.

Finding 1/350 scale S-3 Vikings would have been easy...Trumpeter makes them. Finding S-2Ts was not. But I did find them
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and purchased four of them for the carrier.

By the way, the last of the S-3 Vikings were retired in 2009...and retired early. Sad thing. The carriers lost their only long range, persistent ASW platform and it should have, IMHO, never been taken away. Events of the last few years are proving this. Luckily, a large number of them (about 90 I believe) are being maintained in mothball status. Those particular aircraft still have something over 9,000 hours left on them.

South Korea however is looking to potentially purchase several of the mothballed S-3 Vikings.
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it was proposing to refurbish a number of mothballed Vikings, which it will offer to the RoKN as a maritime patrol aircraft and for anti-submarine warfare.

Lockheed is also proposing
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, for both COD and tanker duties.


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Australia’s Canberra Class LHDs

July 15/14: Defects. If recent reports are to be believed, Canberra’s 6-7 month construction delay isn’t the result of “go-slow” industrial action (q.v. May 15/14), so much as low productivity at Williamstown shipyard, poor skill levels, and a shortage of trained supervisors. In other words, the normal consequences of preferring a less competent local industry to the original manufacturer’s workforce.

Recent reports use the figure of 14,000 defects, but it’s worth remembering that only a percentage of the variances found are serious enough to need fixing. One unnamed defense official is quoted as saying that “Electrical and systems work planned for and conducted in Australia have been the main cause for the delay,” which fits reports of problems on the 1st shakedown cruise (q.v. June 4/14). So do unaligned propulsion pods, but leaking seals, and corrosion in propellers have also been cited.

Sources: The Australian, “New warship’s 14,000 defects” (subscription) | China’s Xinhua via Shanghai Post, “New Australian warship has 14,000 defects: media”.
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Then in service for 2015 ?
 
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The models of Carriers from various countries you made are just great Jeff. You are a professional & an experienced ole salt who knows a lot about various kinds of Carriers and their aircraft (and keep yourself updated). Same too with Popeye. Obviously, as both of you would have served on board when on active duty with the USN and have the necessary contacts.
 
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