asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Anyone notice now wide the carrier is it's got a huge huge deck space and with that kind of area really we are taking about serious air operations over a good stretch
Space is very valuable especially when you have a flat top space like this sometime it's hard to imagine that this carrier is actually going go have a ski jump it's design like a fully blown CATOBAR
Warship magazine reported last month that RN plans to sail the Queen Elizabeth in the 1st quarter of 2019 to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States to demonstrate for the first time ever the capability of rolling take off and vertical landing and USMC is going to be there to see the experience
RN really has a wealth of experience when it comes to VTOL and they are really doing the job with the configuration, set up and operations when it comes go the F35B and deck landings
Weight, speed, location on deck the handling of aircraft etc etc is all being planned on how to optimise the effectiveness of this warship and it's air wing
I bet many country's around the world who opt for the F35B will be sent to UK to see how RN operates F35B and how they can share their experiences
I can see RN training many many operators in this field
Space is very valuable especially when you have a flat top space like this sometime it's hard to imagine that this carrier is actually going go have a ski jump it's design like a fully blown CATOBAR
Warship magazine reported last month that RN plans to sail the Queen Elizabeth in the 1st quarter of 2019 to the Eastern Seaboard of the United States to demonstrate for the first time ever the capability of rolling take off and vertical landing and USMC is going to be there to see the experience
RN really has a wealth of experience when it comes to VTOL and they are really doing the job with the configuration, set up and operations when it comes go the F35B and deck landings
Weight, speed, location on deck the handling of aircraft etc etc is all being planned on how to optimise the effectiveness of this warship and it's air wing
I bet many country's around the world who opt for the F35B will be sent to UK to see how RN operates F35B and how they can share their experiences
I can see RN training many many operators in this field
asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
Bernard
Junior Member
Ok, I have a question. On another defence website on an article about the F-35B doing a fly-by at the launch ceremoney, a British person came on to defend against the nay-sayers of the reason Great Britain chose the F-35B for this carrier, he also mentioned that this was a "Stealth Carrier". Can anyone explain? This was in the comments section of the article website.
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asif iqbal
Lieutenant General
A lot of these "websites" have a lot of bigots and ignorants running around in them that actually have no clue what they are talking about if you want a good balanced discussion then SDF is best by far
The new carriers are being designed with "stealth features." This means great care is being taken to angle any straight surfaces (wherever they can) so radar does not bounce back directly to the source and therefore gives a reduced signature. It also means that they will take pains to try and use infrared and heat reduction by, for example making sure the heat coing out of the funnels is either deflected or somehow cooled to reduce its heat signature. Things like this are being done to reduce its signature.
Clearly, it is not however a radical design like the Zumwalt or something...but in terms of using stealth features and methodologies it certainly does that.
I would not be surprised to learn that the QE has as small or smaller a return as the Invincible Class...but I do not know this.
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TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
If I am not Mistaken Jeff I think that can also be seen on the Gerald Ford to.
Oh, absolutely, particularly on the Island.
And there is only one, and it is noticeably more stealthy than the Nimitz islands.
