PLAN Carrier Strike Group and Airwing

Franklin said:

If you read the part that i highlighted in the article then you will know that the Vikramaditya was build with components from more than 200 companies from 13 different countries. Their rollerdex of suppliers for spare parts and maintenance for this ship must be longer than my arm.

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Jeff Head said:

The article also states that the Russians will be on site for a number of years, and will then support the Indians with the carrier for 20 years afterwards.

My guess is that the critical issues and perhaps major overhauls will be, by contract, covered by the Russians.

The Indians will then cover standard maintenance needs. They will, to that end, train their people and purchase and maintain some amount of the most necessary parts on site and warehouse them on some type of FIFO schedule to ensure they have enough in stock for some anticipated amount of time (probably measured in a 2-3 year time frame) at any one time.

That way, they will be covered, and can always fall back on Indian yards if necessary to cover unanticpated emergencies or in the event Russian-Indian relations go sour or the Russian shipyard fails.

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Could Harrier jets land and take-off from Forestall-class without damaging the deck ?

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asif iqbal said:

Got to say Jeff, Brits showing how it's done, looks like everything is so organised and working like clock work, maybe Newport News can learn something lol

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asif iqbal said:

Omg look at the comparison ours is so much better than yours!

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Hulls weren't touched other than bead blasting white in dry dock and re-primed and painted with red lead, haze gray and black boot topping. Also, hulls are rarely out of the water more than six months, whether in SLEP or ROH. Sometimes holes have to be cut in the hull to unship and rig out certain pieces of machinery (i.e. forced draft blowers for boilers, etc.)

How much does paint weigh? Well, I was chief engineer and executive officer in the lead ship of this class. I took her into a dry-docking overhaul in which the hull and superstructure were bead blasted white inside and out, and the bilges acid cleaned. With all of those layers upon layers of paint and grime removed, Brook weighed 800 tons less coming out of drydock than she did going in. 800 TONS!!!

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Nah, they just don't get too excited about keeping her pretty before they do a final blast and coat. I've explained this before, but when you keep the hull coated like you see with QE, you end up having to remove a lot of that to join sections. It's a fire hazard, a health hazard, and environmental hazard, etc., etc., etc. Now, it's a fair argument to say that it may not be any of those things, but in the evolution of ship building and repair in the US in the late-20th and early-21st Centuries, the Green folks and health and safety Nazis hold sway. So, to save on the money that would be spent removing the coatings just to do a joining process ("weld" to you and me), they just wait until they are all done before doing the coatings all at once.

Going by my past experience, the hull plating in Gerald R. Ford will be 7/8 inch HY-80 carbon steel. It's designed to flex and give to avoid self-propagating expansion joints (or "cracks" as we mere mortals call them) due to hogging and sagging. There will most likely be one inch of HY-100 plating around the magazines and steering gear. I don't know what is around the reactor compartments because I don't have need to know; but generally speaking, there's a lot of shielding there. Also, I am told there will be some kevlar here and there around some areas for defense against cheap mission kills. Finally, look at all of the double- and even triple-bottoms and floodable voids she has. She can take a hit; it's just a different way of going about it from WWII.

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