11.19.2015...FN carrier Charles de Gaulle(R 91) has sortied from Tulon FR to deploy to the eastern Mediterranean to strike IS.
Aircraft Carriers III
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Jura The idiot
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I think it happened yesterday:
... found on Twitter (should be from today's morning):
a source said 28 airplanes were on board
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Between Europe there should be four carrier strike groups
And also six amphibious ready groups
2 x CSG from UK and France
1 x MEU from UK
2 x from France
1 x Italy
1 x Spain
1 x Germany
And also six amphibious ready groups
2 x CSG from UK and France
1 x MEU from UK
2 x from France
1 x Italy
1 x Spain
1 x Germany
Might it be that Adm K expects to be rarely more than two or three weeks away from a port where she can exchange replaced engines for newly maintained ones so the space to store engines would be less than the space needed for an engine shop and for the people working in that shop?Look at that fantail.. no jet shop. No sailors enjoying some fresh air..or smokin' and cokein' (drinking soda) ..or skylarking..
Hey, what do those Russians do if an engine FODs out or is in need of serious repair? Do they have spares aboard or what????
I've stated it before and I'll say it again...the ship is devoid of action.
Now this is a fantail of a carrier..Check out the hi-res.. 'nuff said!
ANDAMAN SEA (Feb. 5, 2010) Rescue swimmers test the currents before an early morning swim call for Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class John Philip Wagner Jr./Released)
Could be. I really am not familiar on how Russia operates it lone CV. But what I have seen of the Russians is a carrier operated in a very slow operational tempo.
It must have been part of the specification. They didn't leave the engine shop out just because USN has them. Has anyone any information about this matter?