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  • February 15, 2013 at 6:21 pm in reply to: Navies news from around the world -V #2005639
    steely dan
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    Museum ships cost a lot to keep.

    true. the US is really the only nation that has bothered to spend the money to preserve a decent amount of its 20th century capital ships as museums:

    USS Hornet – Essex class Aircraft carrier
    USS Intrepid – Essex class Aircraft carrier
    USS Lexington – Essex class Aircraft carrier
    USS Midway – Midway class Aircraft carrier
    USS Yorktown – Essex class Aircraft carrier

    USS Alabama – South Dakota class Battleship
    USS Iowa – Iowa class Battleship
    USS Massachusetts – South Dakota Class Battleship
    USS Missouri – Iowa class Battleship
    USS New Jersey – Iowa class Battleship
    USS North Carolina – North Carolina class Battleship
    USS Texas – New York class Battleship
    USS Wisconsin – Iowa class Battleship

    February 15, 2013 at 3:18 pm in reply to: Global list of all flat tops in service #2005650
    steely dan
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    ^ ok, i’ve gone ahead and moved it to the amphib category.

    great pics too, that first one really shows off the substantial size difference between cavour and garibaldi.

    February 14, 2013 at 6:24 pm in reply to: Global list of all flat tops in service #2005733
    steely dan
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    The Giuseppe Garibaldi already took her new role as LHA,

    So the Garibaldi will act as gap filler between the Santi LPD (to be progressively decommissioned in the next years) and the future LHDs.

    Currently the Garibaldi is entering at Taranto naval base a major maintenance and update program which will last for 510 days. So it is not very correct to state that she has no long term future, since the amount of the works.

    Maybe it would be more correct though to list the ship as amphibious assault carrier and not as an Aircraft carrier on the first page of this thread – thank you for your excellent work, steely dan.

    so Garibaldi is now officially an LHA? will she never operate harriers again?

    if so, then yes, i would be inclined to list as an amphib carrier on the page 1 list.

    February 13, 2013 at 8:01 pm in reply to: Global list of all flat tops in service #2005813
    steely dan
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    ^ fixed.

    thank you for the correction.

    speaking of italian carriers, with the retirement of principe de austurias, i’m wondering what the long-term prospects of ITS garibaldi might be considering she’s a similar small deck STOVL carrier of roughly the same vintage?

    February 13, 2013 at 5:46 pm in reply to: Global list of all flat tops in service #2005821
    steely dan
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    i’ve edited the list on page 1 to reflect the fact that Spain’s Principe de Austurias was officially decommissioned on Feb. 6th.

    so long,

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/SNS_Principe_de_Asturias_%28R11%29_during_Dragon_Hammer_92.jpg/1280px-SNS_Principe_de_Asturias_%28R11%29_during_Dragon_Hammer_92.jpg
    source: wikipedia

    December 3, 2012 at 3:40 pm in reply to: Global list of all flat tops in service #2008569
    steely dan
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    i’ve edited the list on page 1 to reflect the news from saturday that USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was taken out of active service after 51 years and that the planned 3rd ship of the Ford class carriers (CVN-80) will now be given the hallowed name of USS Enterprise.

    August 21, 2012 at 8:26 pm in reply to: INS Vikramaditya: Steaming towards Induction #2012898
    steely dan
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    One carrier is often no carrier. If you think you need one, then you really need two.

    so true, and yet we so many navies make the same single carrier mistake – brazil, russia, india, france, etc.

    why do they all make the same mistake? a navy should have at least two carriers or no carriers.

    June 27, 2012 at 5:52 pm in reply to: INS Vikramaditya: Steaming towards Induction #2015210
    steely dan
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    when will she see her first aircraft?

    June 21, 2012 at 9:34 pm in reply to: INS Vikramaditya: Steaming towards Induction #2015615
    steely dan
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    ^ great pics!

    the bow ramp extension still looks a tad out of proportion to my eye, but overall, a very nice looking ship. it’s hard to believe that after however many decades, she’s now finally ready to act like a real carrier. no more of that soviet “heavy aviation cruiser” nonsense.

    June 21, 2012 at 8:18 pm in reply to: Global list of all flat tops in service #2015627
    steely dan
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    ^ LOL!

    yeah, the crappy PS job does make the QE look like she’s ominously floating over the the ford. in the early days of naval aviation, the brits always were at the forefront of aircraft carrier developments, so perhaps the royal navy is once again ready to drop a game changing innovation on the world once again. brilliant!

    in seriousness, i was trying to find a rendered image of america’s and britain’s new carrier classes to get a sense of what a photo-op sail together might look like sometime towards the end of this decade, and, coming up empty, i tried my hand at making one.

    i probably should have left well enough alone. 😉

    June 20, 2012 at 8:50 pm in reply to: Global list of all flat tops in service #2015657
    steely dan
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    edit.

    June 19, 2012 at 8:00 pm in reply to: Global list of all flat tops in service #2015797
    steely dan
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    About names: Are the new RN carriers named after the current people or past title holders?

    I believe they’re both named in honor of the former Royal Navy ships that bore those names (HMS Queen Elizabeth 00 & HMS Prince of Wales 53), but one of the brits here will have to confirm or refute that.

    June 8, 2012 at 2:43 pm in reply to: Global list of all flat tops in service #2016629
    steely dan
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    ^ a fair point. to my ignorant american mind it’s more along the lines of “what’s the difference?” ;), but i’ll go ahead and change that for accuracy’s sake.

    June 7, 2012 at 9:13 pm in reply to: Global list of all flat tops in service #2016695
    steely dan
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    with the news that USS America (LHA-6) was launched this past monday down in Pascagoula, i’ve edited the list on page 1 to reflect the change.

    http://www.coltoncompany.com/LHA_6.jpg

    May 17, 2012 at 5:56 pm in reply to: Kuznetsov upgrade. #2018727
    steely dan
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    from wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt:

    In April 2010 it was announced that by the end of 2012 the ship will enter Severodvinsk Sevmash shipyard for a major refit and modernisation. The report states that the refit will include upgrades to the obsolete electronics and sensor equipment, installation of the new anti-aircraft system and increase of the air wing by the removal of the P-700 Granit anti-ship missiles. Upgrades might also include exchanging the troublesome steam powerplant to the gas-turbine or even nuclear propulsion and installation of catapults to the angled deck.

    source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_aircraft_carrier_Admiral_Kuznetsov

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