Aircraft Carriers II (Closed to posting)
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Don't know where your Informations are from.... i talked to a navy guy dureing a port-visit of Garibaldi in Triest.
And he told me, that Garibaldi is right now only backup for Cavour and if Cavour is available it serves as helicopter carrier together with the San Giorgio class LPD and San Marco Marines are embarked with there choppers!
That Information also matches the german Wiki entry for Garibaldi:
Translation:
Since 2012 the Garibaldi serves in ah new role as helicopter carrier for amphibious operations. Fixed-wing aircrafts are only embarked if the Cavour, comissioned 2009, is not available due to maintenance. In its new role the Garibaldi supplements the San Giorgio class and so the amphibious forces of the San Marco Brigade.
Great air planes french Rafale.
I understand all of this full well. I have been following it for many years...since the Italians initially came up with the plan and design for the Cavour.
That does not mean that the Garibaldi is incapable of operating harriers.
The Garibaldi was designed to operate the Harriers and still can. Therefore, as I said, the Italians operate two carriers capable of fixed-wing (Harrier) operations.
They can use their own aircraft, or they can cross deck others, and on occasion they have done so since the Cavour came online.
I understand completely the current tasking of the Garibaldi as a helicopter carrier...but that does not mean she is incapable of fixed wing operation. And in a crisis, she would.
Okay, so i misunderstood your initial post.
What i wanted to say is that they actually dont use it as fixed wing carrier, but you are right, if they want to use the Garibaldi as fixed-wing aircraft carrier, they are able to do so in case of crises....
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I really like that pic.An excellent juxtaposition with the Old Lady of the Sea, USS Enterprise, CVN-65, being dismantled, as the new Queen of the Sea, USS Gerald Ford, CVN-78, is being outfitting...right next to each other.
USS Enterprise was commissioned in November 1961 and then decommissioned in January 2012, over 51 years later.
Now that is naval enthusiast eye-candy if there ever was any.
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Nice picture of Enterprise - and you can locate the position of her eight reactors because of the maintenance spots on her flightdeck. I think, her
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