Aircraft Carriers III

F-A-18E Super Hornet launches from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson

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Jura said:

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Obi Wan Russell said:

My personal favourite:View attachment 43001 A New Dawn for Royal Navy's Carrier capability; I love the smell of Aviation Fuel in the morning!

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Trilateral naval aviation cooperation : new embarkation of Rafale M

The future return to the sea of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle during the release of the IPER / ATM No. 2 will be in a relatively new context since the HMS Queen Elizabeth will have started or will begin its first air campaigns while the CVN -78 USS Gerald R. Ford will have started his first year of service. It is in a context of inexorable reinforcement of the naval air links, in particular French-American, that it is a question of relocating the boarding of several Rafale M aboard a US aircraft carrier at the beginning of the year. 2018, as a prelude to the end of the overhaul of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.

The Chief of Staff of the French Navy (CEMM) - Admiral Prazuck - indicates that: "In early 2018, planes and their pilots will be sent to the United States to make their landing ranges. United have made available for this purpose one of their carriers for several days. " This would ensure the maintenance of operational qualifications while the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle should regain its element from the beginning of the second half of 2018
À défaut de "one thousand ships navy", la coopération trilatérale entre l'US Navy (2 600 000 tonnes (2016) et ses deux plus solides alliées navales en Europe - la France (281 000 tonnes) et le Royaume-Uni (407 000 tonnes) - s'est considérablement renforcée, tout du moins dans les textes. Le pendant géographique pourrait être le renforcement des liens entre les marines du Japon (325 000 tonnes) et la Corée du Sud (138 000 tonnes). Deux accords trilatéraux sont à relever :

Le Trilateral Maritime Talks document du 27 mars 2017, signé entre les chefs d'état-major des trois marines concernées, consacre une lutte coordonnée entre les trois marines en faveur de la sécurité maritime et, donc, contre les violences extrêmes. De manière plus opératoire, le document contient des dispositions particulières quant à la conduite d'opérations aéronavales par porte-avions entre les trois marines. Les effets attendus seront à observer au cours des prochains mois.
The Submarine Coordination Agreement immediately follows - 1 June 2017 - the precedent and aims to coordinate the anti-submarine activities of the three submarines in the area of the US Fifth Fleet, namely the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and a small quarter of the North Indian Ocean.

In practice, and even before the signing of these additional agreements between these three navies, naval cooperation had already been considerably strengthened in the area of the Fifth Fleet, while the development of the Rafale and the training of pilots in the United States. Rafale M, plus the maintenance of their operational qualifications allowed during the previous IPER / ATM by boarding a US aircraft carrier.
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Jeff Head said:

The best pics of the QE so far IMHO...with the HMS Dragon right there playing home plate for her.

A CSG made up of a QE class carrier, two Type 045s and two Type 23s (later the new Type 026s) accompanied by one or more Astute SSNs will be among the most power CSGs in the world.

I am looking forward to the day that we see a QE class with at least 24 F-35s accompanied by its full group with two Type 45s, two Type 23s, and an SSN.

Very modern vessels all, and all very capable.

A US Group with one Tico, two Burkes, and two of the up armed Freedom class or the new FFGs, accompanied by one or more Virginia class SSNs would be stronger because of the much higher defensive missile count and the larger and more diverse air wing and their Hawkeyes.

In this regard, the French group probably also excels because of its Hawkeyes and Rafaels...but they simply do not have enough Forbin class DDGs...they would hardly ever have both of them with the carrier, and so you would see one Horizon class DDG, two FREMMs, and a sub in terms of very modern vessels with the carrier.

I believe the overall UK group will be stronger.

The US, again because of its much higher defensive missile count and airwing is still far and away the strongest.

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damitch300 said:

I am on the Dutch Submarine tender A900 Mercuur.
We sailed past the QE and Dragon.
Beautiful carrier!
Got pictures in HD but cant upload them now so will do when i get home!
There where many merlins in the air.
Our sonar also picked up the QE

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