Aircraft Carriers III
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Jura The idiot
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... and I think if they didn't stop, they would make it bad (up to the Shinano 1944 bad)
... but since nobody is going to tell us what exactly is the protection I asked about
and since nobody is going to tell us what's the procedure, I'll leave it, and you may have the last word here
The exact nature of the underwater defences incorporated into the designs of US Supercarriers since the 50s is a closely guarded secret, to the extent they are very particular about who gets to scrap the ships when they are disposed of and what photographs can be taken of the structure. What is known is that the ship's hulls have in excess of 1000 watertight compartments and void spaces designed to absorb and minimise any damage caused by Torpedoes and Mines.
When the ex- USS Coral sea was scrapped, halfway through the company involved ran into sever financial difficulties and tried to sell the hulk to Chinese interests, but the US Government intervened and would not allow even a half scrapped hulk to be towed to China where undoubtedly it would be examined in great detail as other nations carriers had been. And that ship's hull and underwater defences had been designed during WW2, a generation before the Supercarriers.
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Btw CV-16 is a massive carrier !
Jura The idiot
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"The Navy continued to work on its new class of aircraft carriers, pushing through ongoing delays on the first-in-class Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) that was supposed to commission this year. The Navy discovered in 2015 that its , one of three major technological advances in this new class, needed to be redesigned. with the proposed solution at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, and in October Commander of Naval Sea Systems Command Vice Adm. Tom Moore told reporters the tests were going well. The Navy and Newport News Shipbuilding , but the ship will not be ready to deliver and commission to the Navy until the AAG problems are worked out. , from March to the summer to September to November, the Navy has now declined to estimate when the ship might be ready for delivery. The service also said it , opting instead for something closer to the proven Mk 7 MOD 3 hydraulic arresting system in the Nimitz-class carriers."
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The Nimitz class, in addition to the ASW escorts and all of the decoys and electronic warfare ASW capabilities, are all having an active ASW weapon system added to them.this:
makes me wonder how a Nimitz is protected right from below, in the middle ... would it be by a double bottom, triple bottom, empty/filled arrangement(s), huh?? ... no need to tell me it's classified
Essentially it is a fast moving anti-torpedo, torpedo.
Yep...you heard me right.
Jura The idiot
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Jura The idiot
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oh I think you're talking about ACTIVE defense, but I asked about PASSIVE defense after I had challenged the claim from Thursday at 6:16 PM:
and I'm not going to go back to that claim, especially because the final answer
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/aircraft-carriers-iii.t7304/page-154#post-431428
seemed to confuse the compartmentalization with for example multiple bottoms or any other means how to absorb the shock wave etc. etc. (yes, I've done some reading about Battleships' underwater protection, now will just quickly borrow from Lezt
:if a hull didn't have the bottom protected as shown above, a basketball-field-sized hole would be ripped through it by a heavyweight torp and, whatever the ""compartmentalization" above would be, several thousands tons of water would be taken in quickly)
now I just tried to clarify what each of us was probably talking about, is all