Aircraft Carriers III

TerraN_EmpirE said:

Jura is being a bit jaded.

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. Sometimes as a alternative to buying F35Cs for use with Navy CVNs. It may be possible for use by the wider LHA ops.
The main issue is however the size of the deck. U.S. LHA decks are smaller then the British Queen Elizabeth class.

What part of carrier operations is not pretty dangerous?
You are taking a multi million dollar aircraft strapped to a rocket chair with a armored transparent shell over your head. Have to take off from a deck to short to actually let you build up proper speed so you are either flung down a rail by steam, electromagnetic forces into the sea with the hope that you will build up enough lift to fly as opposed to splash into the sea.
or trying to generate vertical thrust more then your weight well riding off a ramp or balancing in the Air with out a net supported only by thrust.

You fly your mission and return to try and land by either being caught on a thin wire well in a stall and basically crash into the deck with engines at full throttle and hoping that the tail hook is not ripped from the bird.
Alternatively you try to either zero your speed and balance on in essence a cloud and gently drop to the deck or you use counter thrust and roll to a stop.
Mean time the guys on the deck are working around high explosives, fuel, rain, frost, snow, wind landing aircraft, taking off aircraft, debris from damaged aircraft, flying wires that would break bones if they snapped from trying to stop a 30 ton jet speeding into the deck. Or boiling steam and flying catapult shuttles, heavy tools and drone time to time spinning blades that threaten to suck them in.
I mean hell, the infantry guys at least get to shoot back when attacked.

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Jura said:

... and
US aircraft carrier Truman will sail in huge NATO exercise

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Obi Wan Russell said:

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bd popeye said:

HMS Queen Elizabeth has arrived in New York City!! Magnificent!..as a former USN sailor I am envious of these young people arriving in a port that many had only dreamed about. New York City...What a wonderful experience!

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Jura said:

Oct 9, 2018
kinda related is

"For the first time in nearly 30 years, a U.S. aircraft carrier entered the Arctic Circle Oct. 19 to conduct operations in the Norwegian Sea."

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Harry S. Truman Strike Group Enters Arctic Circle, Prepares for NATO Exercise

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Story Number: NNS181019-03Release Date: 10/19/2018 8:43:00 AM

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