Aircraft Carriers III
- Thread starter Jeff Head
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Another of the RNs flat tops... sort of. RFA Argus, despite her conversion to 'Primary Casualty Reception Vessel' (Hospital ship), still retains her original role as an Aviation Training ship, and provides valuable at sea experience:
Jura The idiot
General
am wondering if they can be folded?
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
Long ago in a magical time called the 1980’s Boeing shopped to the USMC a variant of the AH64 called the Sea Apache. The Marines chose not to buy.
When the British were shopping for what would become the WAH64 Mk1 Apache. They like the Marines needed it to be amphibious. Boeing designers came up with a folding rotor mast kit for the Apache. Which can be seen in this image being pulled from a C17
TE rule of thumb if it fits in a C130 or C17 it fits in a carrier.
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asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
has there Ford Class launched any aircraft from its EMALS?
if not when is it expected
and when is Ford Class going to launch F35 using EMALS?
the island of the John F Kennedy has been lifted into place its 90% done
this is the 2nd Ford Class
if not when is it expected
and when is Ford Class going to launch F35 using EMALS?
the island of the John F Kennedy has been lifted into place its 90% done
this is the 2nd Ford Class
TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
The Answer is YES.
First it has to enter the fleet. Last I read plans were sometime next year F35C will start to appear on Nimitz class boats.
NAVAIR has to iron out the logistics issues of the F35 for carrier ops. Then comes a certifying F35C for carrier EMALS.
If all goes well then by the time she is done EMALS and F35C will be ready for each other.
I did post this pic earlier in the thread showing an Army Air Corps AH-64D Apache with rotors folded being loaded onto the forward lift of HMS Ark Royal R07:
See also on this thread...
Brumby
Major
I have been aware of the issue of needing to build classified space to accommodate the ISR data that are vacuumed by the F-35 sensors. It was in the context of coalition AOC where not all countries or personnel have access to certain classified materials. Essentially the ISR results within the F-35, or at least a portion of it, is classified at high level and compartmentalised for security reasons, both within and among nations. This also pertains to specific F-35-derived ISR results. Hence, sharing this information outside the F-35 environment to support Air C2 – ISR integration will face security classification restraints or could, in some cases, even be prohibited outside a Special Access Program Facility (SAPF) or Secret Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). I would suspect the carriers would have to build SAPE or SCIF like facility. Operationally it will be a bigger problem. In order to safeguard information security, consideration must be given in creation of any gateway, cross security domain solution or relay solution that facilitates sharing F-35 originated ISR results. This in turn may be in direct conflict with the need to the real-time distribution of ISR results and sharing of situational awareness within a coalition AOC and other units to support enhancing Air C2 – ISR integration.