And yes 91 years and impeccable ! looking forward for F-35B but you have a helo carrier and 20 surface combattants
Actualy 250 troops max i think Prince of Wales yet modified for more i have 900 troops and after QE ?
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And yes 91 years and impeccable ! looking forward for F-35B but you have a helo carrier and 20 surface combattants
Actualy 250 troops max i think Prince of Wales yet modified for more i have 900 troops and after QE ?
The intention is to keep both ships identically fitted, so modifications to one will be applied to the other as soon as possible. Some commentators out there seem intent on implying QE will be a 'carrier' whilst PoW will be just an LPH; absolute rubbish! I'll just take a while to get both ships fully fitted for all the missions they will be required to perform (Carrier and/or LPH as required). They will be in service for fifty years af6ter all and everyone expects them to spring to life from the shipyard fully mission capable. Perfection takes practice.
The two ships will alternate as the 'On Call' carrier for the RN, which does not mean there is only enough manpower for one ship and the other will be 'mothballed'. Both whips will have complete crews, one ship will be at lower readiness for sea which includes allowing the crew leave, training time, alongside maintenance and the like whilst the other is either readying for deployment at actually deployed at sea. It's a pattern the RN managed successfully for decades with only two Invincibles in service at a time, it's just this time we won't have the slack of a third ship held in reserve.
Just can't get enough.
Just as the RN will use the QEs to help back up the US Navy, the USN will help back up the Royal Navy whenever required..and we have plenty to do so with:
Can't wait to see the QE and the POW with a deck full of aircraft when they sail together too.
Just as the RN will use the QEs to help back up the US Navy, the USN will help back up the Royal Navy whenever required..and we have plenty to do so with:
Can't wait to see the QE and the POW with a deck full of aircraft when they sail together too.
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As Albions LPDs but with Ocean retired can change for these one 2 actives ?
And you confirm up to 900 troops for a QE ?
As I said any modifications applied to one ship will also be applied to the other, on the basis that when the capability is needed, the 'on call' carrier should have it whichever one it is. The Albions are a slightly different case, they are rotated between in service and reserve as a cost saving measure, one first practiced with their predecessors, the Fearless class LPDs. Amphibious operations are generally thought to need more notice than carrier deployments so keeping one in reserve unmanned is less risky, plus they are supplemented by the Bay class LSDs so unless a huge invasion force is required we can manage with just one. upgrading QE's troop accommodation from 250 to 900 will happen, but isn't a high priority at the moment so probably in the early 2020s. Ocean goes in 2019, POW comes on line in 2019, in the gap between we'd just have to make do with what we have. Not ideal but the best we can do in the circumstances.
Thank for answer but it took about 6 months for re activated the ships i have see recently long
ans ofc a CV is logicaly not used as a Ocean for Amphibious Assault so the logic is for 2 active Albion but I preach to a convinced
Reactivating a ship in peacetime and in wartime are two completely different things. In 1982 HMS Intrepid was in reserve, de stored, de fuelled and possibly awaiting sale (to Argentina!). No crew assigned, just a hulk. She was ready to sail for the South Atlantic in two weeks! Currently HMS Bulwark is the reserve LPD but if she was required for a major conflict an 8 month refit could be squeezed into just four weeks, so long as sufficient manpower (including reservists) could be assembled to make up her crew. 
With the carriers it's a different situation, keeping one unmanned and in mothballs just wouldn't work, too many specialist trades needed to keep the ship credible. This is relevant to earlier posts about the status of the USN's reserve carrier (very much a singular thing now Kitty Hawk is too be scrapped), keeping one 'on the books' may seem a sensible move, but realistically how much time would be required to bring such a ship forward from reserve to active duty? And in what circumstances? Kitty Hawk was reportedly in good material condition but JFK was 'Rode hard and put away wet' years ago. Best case scenario would see at least 18 months refitting to make her viable again, that's just dockyard time, not counting crew and air wing training, and I can't see that happening unless one of the active duty CVNs had been tragically lost in some kind of catastrophe. I hope the USN makes an effort to keep USS Nimitz in some sort of serviceable condition when she is decommissioned to maintain at least a credible reserve, which in all honesty I don't think JFK could be described as.
With the carriers it's a different situation, keeping one unmanned and in mothballs just wouldn't work, too many specialist trades needed to keep the ship credible. This is relevant to earlier posts about the status of the USN's reserve carrier (very much a singular thing now Kitty Hawk is too be scrapped), keeping one 'on the books' may seem a sensible move, but realistically how much time would be required to bring such a ship forward from reserve to active duty? And in what circumstances? Kitty Hawk was reportedly in good material condition but JFK was 'Rode hard and put away wet' years ago. Best case scenario would see at least 18 months refitting to make her viable again, that's just dockyard time, not counting crew and air wing training, and I can't see that happening unless one of the active duty CVNs had been tragically lost in some kind of catastrophe. I hope the USN makes an effort to keep USS Nimitz in some sort of serviceable condition when she is decommissioned to maintain at least a credible reserve, which in all honesty I don't think JFK could be described as.
Now each year about 10 retired and disponible
For CVN big problem impossible or almost coz nuclears propusion to put in reserve so Kitty Hawk again for some years was to be kept.
I have also old mag of 1980's with CV in reserve yes many with books and no internet at this time maybe 3 - 4 at this time ?
Very good Buddy and 4 weeks short but remains long if the need is there
For CVN big problem impossible or almost coz nuclears propusion to put in reserve so Kitty Hawk again for some years was to be kept.
I have also old mag of 1980's with CV in reserve yes many with books and no internet at this time
maybe 3 - 4 at this time ?
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