Aircraft Carriers III

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Jura, I appreciate all your news worthy post!

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BREMERTON, Wash. (April 6, 2020) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) prepares to depart Dry Dock 6 after spending 14 months undergoing a Docking Planned Incremental Availability period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility. (U.S. Navy photo by Scott Hansen)

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PHILIPPINE SEA (April 9, 2020) An F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft assigned to the Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced) taxis after landing aboard amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). America, flagship of the America Expeditionary Strike Group 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Rufus Hucks)

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EAST CHINA SEA (April 9, 2020) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Micah Callwood, from New Haven, Connecticut, signals aircraft on the ship’s flight deck during flight operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jonathan Berlier)

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PHILIPPINE SEA (April 9, 2020) A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter assigned to the Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced) prepares to shut down after flight operations aboard amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6).(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jonathan Berlier)

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EAST CHINA SEA (April 9, 2020) An F-35B Lightning II assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced) prepares to take off from the flight deck of amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jonathan Berlier)

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PHILIPPINE SEA (April 14, 2020) Sailors and Marines aboard amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) conduct flight operations with an MV-22B Osprey assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced). America, flagship of the America Expeditionary Strike Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit team, is operating in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability with allies and partners and serve as a ready response force to defend peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photos by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Rufus Hucks)

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PHILIPPINE SEA (April 14, 2020) An F-35B Lighting II assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265 (Reinforced) launches at night from amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Rufus Hucks)



U.S. Navy Ensign Tony Squires, from Stockton, California, poses for a studio portrait aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (74 CVN) in Norfolk, Virginia, Oct. 7, 2019. Squires served his first tour aboard the John C. Stennis from 2008 to 2013 as an aviation boatswain’s mate (handling) before returning in 2018 as a commissioned officer serving as the ship’s air bos’n. The John C. Stennis is in port conducting routine operations in support of Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic. (U.S. Navy photo illustration by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Grant G. Grady)

Jun 5, 2019

Jura said:

"Members of Congress want to make it illegal for the U.S. Navy to accept delivery its next Ford-class aircraft carrier, the future USS John F. Kennedy, unless it can launch and recover

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. But the proposal highlights something that is perhaps more damning, that the

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cannot deploy those stealthy aircraft in its present configuration."
etc. etc.:
Navy's F-35C Stealth Fighters Won't Fly From Troubled New Ford Class Carriers For Years

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related is (dated April 22, 2020)

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this is funny (it's inside )
:
"Speaking about aircraft carrier parts beyond elevators, Downey said that if the Navy got into an “critical situation” where it needs parts for the Ford, it could raid part stockpiles from the next three Ford-class carriers under construction."

V22 is great bit I love the mighty heavy Sea Stallion

asif iqbal said:

V22 is great bit I love the mighty heavy Sea Stallion

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I'm 110% with you here Brother! Nothing beats the big Sikorsky! V-22 is OKAY, but it ain't a HELO! its a kinda morphadite bird of some stripe???

noted

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