The HMS Queen Elizabeth is in a state of high alert: smoke is billowing from a life buoy seen floating in the ocean, indicating that there could be a man overboard. From the Series: Rise of the Supercarrier: Do or Die bitly.com/2l55Tk0
Well it's actually the safest relatively speaking. In peacetime it is the safest. In wartime no other place would be safer than the military base, outposts, or ships except perhaps defensive bunkers.
@@ggurwlcom420 i am not sure how you find a super strategiec warship. Capable of air support and therefore being tge main target of enemy attacks. Is more safe than a cabing in the woods or on the mountainside ages away from the closest city not only a low population zone if for some reason civilians turn to Targets. Also a not super strategiec target to send out a force to Capture. "Sir we have taken the mountain". Yes and what do we prevent the enemy access to. "Well sir. They can't reach their cabins anymore. Atleast 30 civilians have been taken out" is that it? "Afraid so sir" 😂
@@elementalgolem5498 well in the event of all out war civilians would have no access to military resources be it shelter, rations, or even intel. Sure you'll be minced meat once you're ordered to the front but other than that you'll be kept fed, save and updated not to mention organized. You can argue that cabin in the woods would be saver than urban who might became target of retaliation but is it really ? Once the lawlessness taking over is it really saver than a military base ? I doubt that.
@@ggurwlcom420 Yes. History shows this. Did Britain send its evacuee children to military bases for safety? Of course not. Those where the main targets of the bombings they where trying to escape. They sent them to the countryside, with no factories, air strips, or military bases so they wouldn't be bombed like in the cities
It's called a ski-jump. It allows aircraft to takeoff at lower airspeed and therefore using less fuel or carrying more payload. The effect is enhanced on vertical takeoff and landing aircraft like the Harrier or F35B. The British have been using them since 1944, but they've never caught on in the US. Infact, the US and France are now the only countries with flat carrier decks left. The US has stuck with flat carrier decks as it marginally improves turnaround time between launches, and US carrier doctrine is still very much based around a WW2 pacific theatre concept that favours being able to launch the entire air-wing in as short a time as possible. Arguably its a very out of date doctrine in the modern era. The French use flat decks because they don't know what they are doing, and these days their beleagured aircraft carrier is little more than an expensive and ineffective white elephant.
@@RandomNickyDee2 I think you misunderstand the function of STOVL ships. The CATOBAR carriers are by no means out of date, and France certainly knows what they are doing with their designs. CATOBAR does tend to have quicker turn around times than STOVL ships, but the point is launching and landing heavier aircraft. Such as fixed-wing AEW/AWAC, EW aircraft, and fighters with heavier payloads.
Certainly CATOBAR is not a dated technology - but steam catapults certainly are. As others have pointed out EMALS has proved much trickier to implement than expected. So until the gremlins have been ironed out the ski jump is the only game in town.
this was no drill or fake when a nav buey is deployed it is an emergency that means someone is in the water and is going to die. Every time one of those canisters is dropped it should be treated as an emergency.
@@PabloGonzalez-hv3td in the german Navy it is normal that we got on station when MOB starts, mostly in a time of roughly 5min we knew if Somebody is missing. And that also at midnight where we mostly take this exercise.
@@HaloNeInTheDark27 I mean like, it's entirely plausible it wasn't. These documentary crews would stay on the ship for at least a couple weeks I'd say, if not more. The chances of something interesting happening in that window certainly isn't slim.
@@wargcaptain It's neither General Quarters or Battle Stations, it is Action Stations. Though it used to be Battle Stations during the world wars, and we haven't used General Quarters in the Royal Navy since the time of sails and wooden hulls.
@@eyalgreen8285 Not quite the same. HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH is an aircraft carrier. RMS Queen Elizabeth is a cruise ship. YUGE difference. The planes on the flat deck kinda give it away.
When my Dad was a young sailor the RN (1940's just post WW2) he was told the story of a very unpopular PO who apparently fell overboard in a storm one night. Strange thing that also missing was a deck locker. These were steel lockers full of ropes etc, with large holes in so they did not fill with water. The rumour was he bullied the wrong man who banged him on the head in the dark put him in the locker secured it and pushed over the side. Dad served with a lot of WW2 vets. He said they could be a hard lot. They had seen and experienced too much! Too many convoys, too many bodies!
QE is a lovely ship. She and her sister Prince of Wales will be a great help taking pressure off a very overextended US carrier fleet. Hope you guys push forward with building a sufficient number of destroyers, frigates and support vessels to operate a fully functioning battlegroup. Without a doubt we will be happy to lend some of our fleet for that purpose until it happens, but I'm still cheering on the expansion of the Royal Navy. You've a proud tradition on the seas and the world is a better place when the RN is strong.
Still wish we had the 2-1 rule where our navy used to be as strong as the next two largest combined, just wouldn’t be viable in the modern age of warships unfortunately
"Commence Operation Tea-Time ... Load all bread pieces with slices of cucumber ... jam all scones and boil all tea pots ... muster fore & aft for Tea Time Inspection ... This is not a Drill, I say again, this is Operation Tea-Time"
It's specifically designed to have a small crew. There's a fully automated munitions transport system. That said, this was done before it was during trials and didn't have a full crew onboard. You can tell this by the date, but also by the significant presence of BAE staff onboard (one of the companies that helped design and build the carrier).
The Destroyer could launch her helicopter because it; A, wasnt their crew and B were likely further away when they launched the helo. The reason we didnt see QE launch any of her planes likely stems from the fact that the crew was assembling themselves for role call and due in part to the fact that likely the search and rescue teams *(atleast from what I know about the RCN [proud Canadian here])* are much more readily available with their Rigid Inflatable high speed craft than spooling up a helicopter which takes a few minutes longer than a RHIB, and in a man overboard scenario, minutes are everything.
Most modern military ships do have infrared cameras on them. The issue is that especially in high seas swells can block sight of a person while the camera is pointed at them. So you have to scan all areas slowly thoroughly and repeatedly.
Wouldn't it make more sense for them all to have a device on them and when the CO calls the command to make sure they are accounted for, everyone just clicks a button and it tallies the numbers
We always have chemlights or sea markers worn on us while on flight decks ops, does no good when ppl just take everything off to sneak off with their girlfriends at night or commit suicide.
That’s why we trained for all eventualities... North Sea staff transfers midnight rough seas , Gemini tipped along side us (HMS Dovey) two guys in water. Had them out in less then five minutes ... used their Gemini to go and get them after is righted it self
How many Yanks can say they were aboard one of Her Majesty's warships when they unexpectedly ran a fire drill? Sitting in the enlisted mess knocking back a warm ale when the PA said (slow and droll) *_"Fire drill, fire drill, fire drill. Fire, fire, fire..."_* and everyone went running with the only instruction given me: STAY HERE. I guess they abandoned ship & left me to burn up! :-) Way to go HMS Battleaxe.
The Queen is not the Queen of England that is a myth the Queen is the Queen of Britain / commonwealth with many other countries. Also queen Elizabeth class carrier is named after the Queen Elizabeth class battleships not the actual queen!
Merlin MK2 Helicopters (Which are onboard this ship and the other Type 23 frigate seen in this video) have something called a Wescam. Basically a very powerful camera has infared and heat signature capabilities. It's the Armed Forces, they have everything.
' this commanding officer man name is jerry kyd at 036 to 042 / 154 to 157... jerry look alike on TV show Colin Andrew Mochrie is a Scottish-born Canadian actor
We were held in bunkers after a mortar attack for about an hour because they could not find one person. They finally found him, the alarm went off , he rolled off his bunk and then rolled under his bunk, and fell back asleep. War is fun :)
i mean...if you gonna drop into the water by accident,may as well do it next to a military vessel. they always got someone looking out,there are a lot of people to see you even while walking around, they got fast boats, trained personnel and if you are lucky seals with choppers on board
Idea: when it is possible that someone went overboard, let every crewman log into a terminal (for example by scanning a card or reading a chip in your dogtags). These terminals can be placed on strategic places on the ship, so that every crewman has acces to one in, say, three minutes. And then, after a set period of time, say 5-10 minutes, the software of the terminal can automatically call out the names of people that have not logged in through the ship's intercom, with an urgent request to log in. I think this might make things a bit more efficient.
@@tams805 okay, so add a keypad where someone who has lost his card can sign in with his service number. The breaking down part is not a valid argument, because then you could never use any digital system for anything, cause everything can break down. You might as well scrap the entire carrier, including airplanes.
Problem is your suggestion is massively complex in design an implementation. A single terminal failing to report logins would cause confusion if it announced 50 or 60 people missing who aren't particularly if someone is actually missing as it will hide them in the noise. Your entire system could be replaced with agreed muster points and a register on a clipboard
It was a practice run. Then they edited his words out of context for dramatic effect. At the end he said ''we were on top of the lifebuoy within two minutes.''
I noticed as they retrieved the search boat the life ring was not in it. Why wouldn't they retrieve it & not leave it to decieve other mariners? Perhaps the helecopter picked it up.