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  • October 24, 2011 at 12:53 pm in reply to: CVF Construction #2031456
    StevoJH
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    Ask the guys who have had their live saved by this textile !!

    I was more thinking, how the hell do you weave a textile into 2.5″ thick blocks? 😀

    October 22, 2011 at 3:20 pm in reply to: First trials of F-35B on USS Wasp! #2031523
    StevoJH
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    Slightly off topic, but are those tie-down points visible on the flight deck? or something else?

    October 22, 2011 at 3:09 pm in reply to: CVF Construction #2031526
    StevoJH
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    the US CVNs are built to full military standards and important areas are protected with 2.5 inches of Kevlar armour also if I remember correctly the Nimitz class also have an armoured belt.

    I thought Kevlar was a textile…..:D

    September 20, 2011 at 9:19 am in reply to: Navies news from around the world -IV #2033659
    StevoJH
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    Good looking. That high bow, waistline, 30mm behind the 76mm etc giving sort of the new Gepard class feel to it.
    Any export orders?

    Looks like it would make a nice Yacht for someone. 😀

    September 13, 2011 at 9:43 am in reply to: Strength of the RN with QEC #2034347
    StevoJH
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    @ppp
    OK, I won’t list what we get, but as a matter of interest who do you think gets “more” than us (apart form US, France and China who spend more)

    One Word: Japan

    August 24, 2011 at 10:51 pm in reply to: CVF Construction #2035720
    StevoJH
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    It might not be deep enough at any tide then. 😀

    remember that the depth of the hull block would have to be taken into account PLUS, the depth of the lift ship beneath. I assuming you are probably talking up to 10-15 metres depth required?

    August 24, 2011 at 1:05 pm in reply to: CVF Construction #2035732
    StevoJH
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    Thats what I was thinking, saying that it took 2 weeks to secure her for sea, so I assume it will take some time to unsecure her for floating. I just dont get why they arn’t doing this from inside the dockyard!

    Might not be deep enough at low tide. They may plan to float her off the ship outside the basin and then push/pull it in with tugs and from the shore.

    August 24, 2011 at 12:28 pm in reply to: CVF Construction #2035753
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    Just to keep you all updated, the AMT Trader is still sitting outside the main entrace to the dry dock. I cant see any activity on or around her but thats not to say there isn’t any.

    I will post as soon as she starts moving;)

    Wonder what the daily charter fee is for a semi-submersible heavy lift ship. It wouldn’t be cheap.

    August 24, 2011 at 5:05 am in reply to: 1942 design light fleet carrier Vs. Independence class Light carrier #2035761
    StevoJH
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    The Dedalo (ex USS Cabot) was scrapped in 2002. When she was first transferred to the Spanish Navy, she was operated as an ASW helicopter carrier until after 1972 when Spain started taking deliveries of Harriers.

    She was replaced by the locally built STOVL carrier Principe de Asturias (R11) (based on the USN’s 1970s Sea Control Ship design) in 1988 and was struck by the Spanish Navy in August 1989, again operating Harriers and ASW helicopters as well as other helicopters from the Spanish Army or Air Force as well as Navy depending upon the mission.

    Umm, are you trying to make a point?

    August 23, 2011 at 12:08 pm in reply to: Navies news from around the world -IV #2035832
    StevoJH
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    Let’s be honest the only people that want only 1 properly fitted out is the treasury.

    Thankfully its not really their decision.

    August 21, 2011 at 3:41 pm in reply to: 1942 design light fleet carrier Vs. Independence class Light carrier #2036025
    StevoJH
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    The RAN Majestic class had Sea Venom & Gannet followed by A4, Tracker & Wessex/Sea King.

    August 20, 2011 at 12:24 pm in reply to: Rebuilding UK Carrier Strike after a decade's gap #2036142
    StevoJH
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    Well, from not only that article, but also other things I’ve read, it seems the RN is basically deciding not to “re-invent” a unique British way of handling flight deck ops, but rather to copy as closely as possible the way the USN is doing things (with an eye on the French for anything they do better).

    A lot of the procedures will carry over from Illustrious and Ocean anyway, its only the CATOBAR specific processes that will need relearning. Aka. Catapult Launch and Arrested landing procedures.

    The RN still has the Dummy Deck at one of the RNAS’s along with at least a carrier load of retired Sea Harriers to practice on.

    August 20, 2011 at 12:22 pm in reply to: 1942 design light fleet carrier Vs. Independence class Light carrier #2036144
    StevoJH
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    The only advantage the Independence class has was that they were faster.

    The 1942 light fleets were wider, longer, could be refit with angled decks and could carry more aircraft. These advantages result from the 1942 Light Fleets being specifically designed as aircraft carriers from the start, from memory the bass hull of the Independence class was a cruiser design (Cleveland class?).

    August 20, 2011 at 12:16 pm in reply to: CVF Construction #2036148
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    What will be interesting to see is if they add the angled deck now to QE as presumably that would be fairly easy to do now, and extremely expensive to do after completion?

    If you look at her deck layout, it might be as simple as repainting the lines on the deck. You realise the Nimitz class is only 3-4 metres wider then QE at flight deck level and that QE is 9 metres wider then de Gaulle right?

    August 16, 2011 at 11:38 am in reply to: CVF Construction #2036456
    StevoJH
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    Both names have multiple battle honours and deserve to be reused.

    This will be the 8th Prince of Wales and 2nd Queen Elizabeth. Remember that she is to be called Queen Elizabeth, not Queen Elizabeth II. So theoretically she is being named after the first Queen Elizabeth, not the current one.

    HMS Queen Elizabeth History.

    HMS Prince of Wales History.

    If PoW doesnt want a ship, they can always call it the Duke of Edinburgh. 🙂

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