But then again its only the State who wanna throw their weight around
So even though Russia and China have joined the carrier club it will be a few years until these assets can really became an effective tool though the way things are going out here I can see China sailing it around a few contested areas very soon.
Russia have been "members of the carrier club" for years, it was launched in the mid 80s but wasnt operational for a further 10 years accoridng to wikipedia. needless to say due to Russian build quality in the 80s and a lack of money for upkeep, its now very tired.... it was around Scotland late last year sheltering from storms in the North Sea
Got told by my local STD clinic that I had been tested positive for Hermes.I replied, dont you mean Herpes and they said, no, your the carrier....
Sounds like a load of old Bulwarks to me
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I was staying on the sea front in Palma [Majorca] last summer when the USS Enterprise tied up, we later flew over it on our way back home
**** me! that is some size
Enterprise has eight reactors onboard - TJ would've had a fit if he'd seen her 😉
Apparently to have one aircraft carrier you need three.One on station, one in refit, and one on the way from one to the other. So those nations with less than three don't really have any!
(I read that on the internet.)
What I read in a magazine was that conventional wisdom is that you need 3 because one will be in refit, one can be deployed and one will be needed to train pilots in the tricky job of landing on something considerably smaller and more crowded than a traditional runway.
The UK however discovered that training pilots to operate STOVL aircraft from carriers is far easier than training them to operate traditional CTOL aircraft from them. So that was the original thinking behind why we had 3 Invincible class carriers but will only have 2 Queen Elizabeth class carriers. But then we switched from the F-35B (STOVL) to the F-35C (CTOL), and back again, and lost one of the carriers on the way - or will we be getting it again? So I'm not sure what the thinking is now, except for "oops, we're broke!"
