My son served on the Bush as a Plane Captain for 9 months during it's maiden voyage when it was deployed to the Persian Gulf to support sorties over Iraq and Afghanistan.
I worked on assembling and testing the main propulsion turbines for the Bush, Ford, and Kennedy. I also had the opportunity to tour the Bush when it was about 80% complete.
@@johnhupp8444 I don't know if you served or not but thank you for your work on the most advanced propulsion system on any aircraft carrier in the fleet (at the time anyway). During the ship's shakedown cruise before deployment my son told me how amazing it was that for a ship of that size and weight the damn thing could reverse the turbines and bank to either side as it turned around while the engine was in full reverse. The one thing that sucked though is the new sanitation system that DIDNT work as well as expected while out to sea on its 7 month deployment. Constant problems with plugged up toilets (and not enough toilets)
@@michaelhlong3765 No I did not serve, but but my father was a WWII merchant marine who worked in the shipyard building liberty ships. I take great pride when I hear the name of a ship I helped to build in the news,
They are basically little Cities on the Ocean, with it's own System of Mini Government, & Mini Economy. It's amazing how Human Beings have this ability to work together, no-one truly understand how the entire System works, but we can all still contribute our part to the System, and at the end of the day, it works out. Obviously no System is perfect, but it's still crazy how you don't need to know the A-to-Z of anything, but, just contribute to your part of the System, and it'll end up working just fine.
Life inside is full of hardwork, accountability and uncomfortable situations that keeps one out of his comfort zones for quite a long time. Serving military is not easy but air force jobs are comparatively the easiest of all services.
I was on the Oriskany and Ticonderoga between 66 and 69. Both ships had one enlisted mess. I remember during non flight days, it was get in line all day long. 2000 or so crew members waiting to get fed in a 300 or so seating area. The new sailor has a sweet life on the carrier! Enough of complaining, I learned how to be proud of my navy days.
FIVE chow line options for E-5 & below on my Nimitz-class: The 2 main lines serving meal-of-the-day back aft, a line serving fried food & pizza up forward, a cold-cuts deli bar, and finally a "taco bar" (open 23 hrs per day). E-6 have the option of going to the First-class mess. Then there's the chiefs' mess and wardrooms...
Just to clarify: The carrier on the video is not a Gerald R Ford class carrier (as mentioned in the video's description). It's USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), which is a Nimitz class. Gerald R Ford class carriers are numbered 78 and up. Ship's classes are based on the first ship of its kind, hence the Nimitz and Gerald R Ford class. All ships after that will be called that class, until a new class is made. *Nimitz Class* USS Nimitz (CVN-68), USS Dwight D Eisenhower (CVN-69), USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) [the one on the video], USS George Washington (CVN-73), USS John C Stennis (CVN-74), USS Harry S Truman (CVN-75), USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), USS George W Bush (CVN-77) *Gerald R Ford Class* USS Gerald R Ford (CVN-78), USS John F Kennedy (CVN-79), USS Enterprise (CVN-80)
@@ElizaFabricius Good to hear you had a chance to work on both, Ma'am. I've only been underway on a Nimitz class (as part of the airwing embarked on the Stennis, and as ship's company on the Raegan). Fun times and not so fun times :)
My Pride and Joy our Military! I love you to the moon and back, my bucket list and my dream come true before my last breath to be up close and personal to see and touch our aircraft carrier just once! xxx from Long Beach, California 😍😊
We were fortunate enough to be invited for a Family Day Cruise on the Carl Vinson in 1995. We went out of Alameda, under the Bay Bridge then under the Golden Gate. Unbelievable. As we were going through the Bay, they’d lean the ship to the left so we could see the Embarcadero, then lean it to the right for a good view of Alcatraz. We were escorted by Firefighting “Boats” Spraying their water Cannons. It looked like that tower was gonna hit the Golden Gate. And as soon as we cleared it a lot of antennas folded up because the WOULD have hit the bridge. They took us out well beyond the Farallon Islands. That ship is FAST! I was thinking “You could pull a couple thousand skiers!” They had us all come down to the Hangar deck for Lunch. They had one A-10 Warthog to look at. While we were having lunch, they Arrested four Fighter Jets from NAS Lemoore. After lunch, we rode the Jet elevators up to the flight deck, where they commenced to put on one fine Airshow. Including breaking the Sound Barrier right over the deck. As we finally were docking at the end of a 15 hour day, the Captain thanked us for choosing “Bald Eagle Cruise Lines”. It takes a WHILE to park one of those. It was an unforgettable experience. Cheers.
@@doom8515 хорошо что ответил А теперь , Бендера не добитая,ходи и смотри на небо Не долго осталось! А Киев всё равно возьмём Такие долго не живут Такие долго мучаться Моё слово верное Да будет Так! ХУМН ПАК!
Served aboard the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman for 7 months and did 3 months out to sea with not hitting land. It wasn't the best experience but happy to have done it. This video focuses much on airplanes and training operations vs in depth information about the ship. There is much not talked about here but I get why not.
Watched the movie "The Final Countdown" in 1980 at theater and ever since that movie Aircraft Carriers are my favorite. In around 1991 or so I was denied entry in the Navy due to failing the physical, but I always had a desire to be and work on a AC. The ones now days look amazing, like a city on water. Great video 😄👍
7:47 Incorrect - F35B STOVL capability was developed to replace NATO Harrier Jets from the UK. The UK has purchased 27 of them. They are not exclusive to USMC. Singapore, South Korea, and Italy also have some.
A little different from when I served on a carrier back in '92-94 but it's good to see something like this put out there.👍 CVN -68.USS Nimitz. Purple Shirt. V-4 (flight deck fuels) "Purple Maze" if any of my old deck apes are watching.
AMAZING THAT ONE SINGLE NORWAY U BOOT SEND IN DEEP YOUR AIRCSAFT CARRIER. ONE GREEK U BOOT DID THE SAME SOME YEARS AGO !! of course iconic, NATO training. IN ONE SINGLE MINUTE.
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It really is amazing, the scale of this vessel. I also admire how a marine officer chooses to be a pilot. To me, a marine is the MOST PHYSICALLY TOUGHEST BRANCH OF THE MILITARY. BESIDES ARMY SPECIAL FORCES AND NAVY SEALS.
This is NOT a video of a Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier, but appears to be snippets of videos showing different Nimitz class aircraft carriers. What a croc!
I served on a carrier from 1988-1991. I was part of the Mar-Det (Marine Detachments). We give sailers a hard time but they work their sass off doing 12hrs on 12 hrs off work.
I believe the largest aircraft carrier was almost a 1/4 mile in length at 1300 feet. They also serve almost 18,000 daily meals. The thing I loved about my time in the Marines(I almost enlisted in the Navy)was that we never wore baseball caps and everyone from the buck private to the Commandant wore the same cover and uniform. They also had to qualify with the M16 no matter rank or gender as every marine is a rifleman first..
Harriers were the biggest mistake the United States ever made by purchasing these death traps from England, over 60 American pilots died from flying harriers because of sudden mechanical failures, ‼️
@@letsbeavenue of course not Bloody tea bags they were all American pilots, I'm a American Military historian, and a former commissioned officer in the United States, military, BUGGER Off , Go rent a rope so u can get a Good nights sleep 🤣🤣🤣♦️♦️♦️‼️
@@letsbeavenue The VTOL systems on Harriers are notoriously unstable and use all manual systems. Combine that with the rather restricting amount of weapons you actually mount on it as well and it's a rather poor jet. One of the F-35s main goals was to replace the Harrier and it is succeeding. Also to correct the other guy from what I know it's not all mechanical failures. I forgot the exact reason but it was something to do with the downdraft of the VTOL engines and the hot air from the engines getting back into the intake causing the jet to flip over onto the cockpit many times. I think his number of 60 is accurate but I can't confirm. I typed a full paragraph for this, not sure why though. I wasn't in the mood to reply to any of the defund the military people I guess.
@@davidstaudohar6733 I would be very interested in your source for this fact. I have been unable to find any information to substantiate your claim, I can find only a handful of cases where mechanical failure has resulted in pilot deaths, most have ejected and survived...most pilot deaths, as far as I can find out, have been as a result of flying conditions and pilot failure. Please share your source as I am genuinely interested
Yea, I had to go through shipboard firefighting training every two years, and (if I remember correctly) first aid training every year during sea duty (US Navy).
After watching a video about the RU aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, I can say that these guys are absolutely lucky to have the best in the world while at sea for months.
The Zumwalt-class destroyer fell short of expectations. The Navy requested their cancellation and Congress obliged. Only three Zumwalts were ever delivered.
The larger carriers are nucleair powered, which makes the vessel basically steam engine powered. They still up to date use steam catapults on several ships.
It seems a carrier could be used either way. It is a portable airfield. Assaulting and defending sometimes happen simultaneously. Reference to big battles between allies and Japanese in the WW2 Pacific. In some battles the carriers never saw each other while their aircraft were duking it out. (Battle of Midway)
I would like so much to hear from an expert what are Aircraft carriers and Manned Aircrafts needed for in the time of extraordinary practical and precise, satellite controlled Drone and Supersonic Ballistic Missiles era ??
Telling a country "I can bomb you anytime" does not quite have the geopolitical effect of parking 3 ships outside their waters with enough firepower to level them. This is what happened several years ago with North Korea, shortly leading to the peace talks between Trump and Kim. It's not the actual firepower that aircraft carriers are used for- they've been critical in diplomatic exchanges more often, without dropping a bomb.
@@jaimerhoda5399, These aircraft carriers, and it fleet of support vessels are now simply large slow moving targets with no cover to hide in, with the advance now of hypersonic missiles....
Although the USS Midway CV41 wasn't as advanced as the carrier in this video, I think that if it were still around today, it could still hold its own if war broke out today. Today's Aircraft Carriers are top notch though. The USS Midway CV41was my first ship, sailing out of Yokosuka Japan!
It would work sort of, they would clear the deck and use her to launch drones & her sister ships are the most advanced in the world &is literally like using a video game no avoiding that now! Glad your with us,Peace. Rick
I think they are sitting targets now. Countries are developing AI controlled missiles and have hypersonic missiles. It won't be long before aircraft carriers are useless. What can they do against a swarm of drones?? (even underwater drones) Why do we even need fighter jets when we can have much faster unmanned vehicles?
as a veteran pilot onboard the USS hornet cv-8 durring 2nd world war. i can confirm that the old one hasn't such a nice grocery store like this one. Go navy
Being a radioman on the USS Gurke DD783 following the USS Midway CVA41 around in the early to mid 70's this video shows me how far our ships have progressed. Increditable
God bless united state of America for wisdom and urge to build and create craft that seems to be difficult for other companies round the world to build, including my own country Nigeria, ON WARD TOGETHER
That is called a holdback bar and is supposed to drop, if it didnt drop then there would be a serious problem. ABEs in the Navy man that station during flight operations and they attack the Holdback bar into the jet and the catapult to hold tension. When the Jet is shot off, the ABE manning that position grabs the holdback bar and inspects it for damage, usually damage is done and on to the next jet it goes.
But are they efficient against a capable military? 7500 people will die if it gets hit and getting hit it will. You can't hide such huge thing and will be the first target.
@@sleepyjoe7843 For the most part nothing would be able to get close it and the defensive weapons are really effective. There is an enormous costs to maintain these systems which is a concern.
@@rockpadstudios For most part are smaller countries with average military capabilities like Iraq and Syria. Iran would probably be able to hit it let alone talking about Russia or China.
@@rockpadstudios It's good against smaller countries no doubt no one else has similar capabilities. But most countries invest in budget to protect their country.
Government of USA Please appoint me as a sweeper on your this aircraft carrier Thank you very much for attention and implementation on my humble request
سبحان الله وبحمده سبحان الله العظيم الحمدلله كثيرا ولا إله الا الله والله اكبر لاحول ولاقوة الا بالله استغفر الله العظيم واتوب اليه اللهم صل وسلم وبارك على محمد وعلى آله أجمعين
I don't know man. Still feels a lot safer here in a small town in the middle of nowherere. I'm pretty sure nobody's got any intentions of dropping bombs here ..
The protestant builders in Belfast said the same thing about their ship in 1912. "Not even God could sink her" so they said. Well, God didn't sink her. An iceberg did. The Titanic and this ship have one thing in common. They're made of iron. It goes one way if it's holed. South.
"as it is flown in the Royal Navy from the Queen Elizabeth and the Price of Wales A/C's."(sic) The Royal Navy has yet to stand up an operational F-35B squadron. The eight British F-35Bs that embarked aboard HMS QE for CSG 21 were from RAF No. 617 Squadron. The Italians are also taking delivery of the F-35B.
@@AA-xo9uw The British forces are integrated and have been for the past decade. This is due to defence cuts and therefore the squadron (617)of RAF aircraft you talk about are made up of RAF pilots and Royal Navy pilots who all operate from the British carriers. There is not currently and unlikely to be a Royal Naval squadron dedicated to the F35B.
All the people on this ship have my respect and are experts in their own category. Meanwhile the leader of the country couldn't even walk up some steers on this ship and don't even get me started at the last clown ^^ Just my personal opinion, take it with a grain of salt ;) Cheers from Switzerland
They can also be used as a sort of rescue vessels in times of serious natural disasters. They contain multiple full surgical hospitals, several methods of transporting injured people between ship and shore, and enough extra electricity generation capability to power a small town on land. Include the large food reserve usable for emergency feeding large masses of calamity impacted people on land. World wide communication capability is in there, too. There's much more to an aircraft carrier than throwing airplanes into the air.
that is any vessel? In ww2 America was smarter with its carriers than Japan was and it took theirs out and continued their island progression. It’s a lot more difficult to hit these than you can imagine.
Carriers, despite their size, are tiny in comparison to the ocean. They're just another spec out there and finding one is as much of a challenge as sinking one.
I'm a recently retired middle-school Science teacher. I used to take my classes through Archimede's Principle (which explains buoyancy) with various class demonstrations and construction of small 'boats' or things that would float and support a weight. But so help me, EVERY time I see a warship, let alone such a HUGE one, I am struck by a few simple facts: It is made of THICK steel, it weighs HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of tons, .....and yet it floats. SMH....
same way a bowl floats or a boat with a concrete hull. yeah i dont quite get it my self but i work on boats and we randomly get ones made of concrete. oh and i cooked on a aircraft carrrier and the fact of living on one blew my mind. 5,000 people on a boat?
"I'm a recently retired middle-school Science teacher." Amazing, such hero. Let me sucketh upon your peen sir, may I offer you a raise? Teachers love raises.
Read the entire speech carefully, particularly the following: "Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions."
Pienso a mi Poco saber que.es.un.arma y logro maravilloso,pero.solo.para.utilizarlo en areas donde no sea vulnerable a los ataques de la balistica de media y larga distancia de submarines y otros barcos de guerra.Que Dios siempre los proteja.Pipo de Texas
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
There is one thing wrong, the F-35B mentioned as being only used by the US Marine Corps, but the Royal Navy has them in active inventory as well for use with their Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. Otherwise great video with phenomenal footage.
The futuristic destroyer featuring a futuristic "tumble-home" hull design is not so futuristic, in fact the hull design is antiquated. Tumble home design was experimented with by the French navy in the late 1890s and was found to be unstable if breached by a small hit resulting in light flooding.
@@archstanton6310 I was just pointing out that the tumble home design was disproven generations ago and someone has forgotten the lessons learned. Like in so many instances : if you forget history, you are DOOMED to repeat it.
@0:53 "...about 250' in height" Is that figure a measurement from water-line? How many feet are below the water-line? How many feet are above the water-line?
