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11th May 2019 2:30 pm
adam
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Brilliant
CVN-69 Dwight Eisenhower ‘Mighty Ike’
I could watch videos on US Navy carriers all day
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11th May 2019 4:02 pm
kajtzu
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Yeah, they’re awesome to watch. Landings, too, but especially the takeoffs because of the hand signals and everybody working together on the deck.
11th May 2019 5:56 pm
RRSTDV8
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As the modern aircraft carrier is a British invention*, perhaps a view of British deck operations would a be good addition here. This was back in the 1970s which is the last time the UK had an aircraft carrier. Since then, we've only had "through deck cruisers". I wonder if we'll ever an aircraft carrier again. No, the QE-class boats are not proper aircraft carriers, they're just jumbo sized Invincibles.
Anyway, I love the hand signals given to the just landed aircraft as it clears the gear. Brakes, hook up, airbrakes away and flaps up, wings fold, taxi.
*Steam catapult, angled deck, mirror landing system, hydraulic arrestor gear.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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11th May 2019 11:16 pm
adam
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Great videos
HMS Ark Royal was small compared to the US carriers of the day so landing a Buccaneer or Phantom must have been character building.
The front undercarriage Oleo was jacked up on the F4K so it had a higher angle of attack to assist take of from the shorter deck of the UK carriers.
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12th May 2019 6:35 am
kajtzu
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The economics of a carrier are pretty bad unless you really must project force (in which case you don’t really care about the economics). Just like there was an age for battleships, there is an age for carriers and I think it’s ending soon.
Carrier battle groups are also vulnerable to swarms of missiles from someone who has them. Right now they’ve usually been used against nations who do not. As an example, the Iranians have a lot of anti-ship missiles.. of course, opinions vary whether their kitis effective or not.
I also think (it’s kind of obvious...) the future will be mostly unmanned drones in the air and under the surface. Lower amount of casualties, increased efficiency, etc.
12th May 2019 6:56 am
kajtzu
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It looked pretty hairy to strap the aircraft angled like that to compensate for lower catapult power (I think?) and a shorter deck.
12th May 2019 6:59 am
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An Aircraft carrier is more symbolic than anything else now. Fantastic feat of maritime engineering.
12th May 2019 8:12 am
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Interesting to see a Prowler, I though they had been retired.
12th May 2019 8:28 am
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There a black helo going your way Del, I think you’re about to be “retired” with all those military photos you’ve been posting recently.
12th May 2019 8:33 am
RRSTDV8
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The OP video is from 2012, the Prowlers were retired last year or early this year I think. Now replaced by the EA-18G Growler.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
12th May 2019 8:44 am
adam
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The last Prowlers were indeed retired by the USMC in March of this year.Now Golf GTI PP, 7 speed DSG.
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12th May 2019 9:10 am
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Phew, what I thought. And re black helicopters, just hope it was a bit more complete than the last heli I was in the back of.
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