As a proud Brit, it's so wonderful to see our American cousins are pleased to see us back on the scene. Difficult times have stifled out navy, but with some effort, we will be side by side with out American allies once again. Rule Britannia.
@@user-gp9vk8he5g Probably, it's not exactly ideal, but at least the armed forces we do have are trained to a world class standard. With some luck, we might be able to rebuild our military.
HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales are pure class. The first decent thing my government has spent defence money on. Along with of course the phenomenal F-35B's. If we could put the money into another carrier of this class that would be brilliant! But, sadly I doubt that would ever happen.
I still would have liked to see EMALS cats and traps on the new class, which would give us more flexibility in the planes that it can use, but it's still awesome to see the RN having Aircraft carriers again!
It actually has the space in the deck & superstructure left vacant to add electromagnetic catapults / arrestors & route the necessary electrical connections to the generators, it was simply decided that it would be more effective to launch the class as-is & add that capability once the technology was more refined/efficient.
@@CtrlOptDel I read somewhere that it was down to cost. The design was meant to support it, and during construction the Mod asked BAE to revert to cats and traps and the cost to do the conversion was hugley expensive.
@@kieranholland1048 Well, that was stupid & short-sighted (probably a consequence of civil servants getting involved & overruling the admiralty) if it was done, but it can still be changed back much cheaper if the modification was a bodge job like it sounds… 🙄
Iam glad she is well escorted this time around. Durning w/w2 british lost alot great battleships like the legendary HMS HOOD. My dad's father served on hood. But was on shore leave, when it took that fatal direct hit. It was huge lose hood had the finest crew.
I used to do the ARRs on the Connie & Coral Sea. I just wonder now WHAT IS THE FMC/MC of the F-35s on board!!! For sure they should have at least 2 HANGAR QUEENS!!! Another area I’d like to know is the percentage of ROTATABLE POOL ASSETS THEY HAVE FOR THE F-35s.
The pool is quite good and they used the USMC deployment during QE's sea trials and home waters Ex's to test that out in a more live environment. EG: The USMC / DoD currently owe the UK an engine. Overall it was found that the supply chain and interoperability between the two forces worked slightly better than anticipated although there were a couple of area's identified where things could be improved. tbh that is sort of the whole point of these things so that they weren't having to learn them whilst CSG21 was half way around the world and supply chains are more stretched.
@@MetaView7 "Borrowed"? No. We own them (not that many yet, but take that up with Lockheed Martin who aren't delivering the aircraft we've already paid for). Also, 15% of the F-35 is British technology & British made, with the pedigree from the Harrier, not an exclusively American aircraft. Yes, the Queen Elizabeth launched with US Marines & US Navy F-35s aboard, but that wasn't because the Royal Navy begged America for some aircraft, it was because it was a mutually-beneficial information exchange (& also allowed the US Marines to do some training exercises that they otherwise would've needed to wait for the Gerald R. Ford to be finished to do).
@@sonacphotos The other ship, HMS Prince of Wales is currently in Gibraltar for a quick port visit after completing basic carrier sea trials off the south coast of Britain 👍
@@sonacphotos This ship is currently being used by USAM's (Not leased, it is Built, owned, run and crewed by Royal Navy). It's about to perform joint operations between UK+USA in the South China sea. You can even see the USAM's Aircraft. The carrier is purely designed for F35B's, VTOL, SVTOL and Helicopters, so UK, USA and Nato allies can jointly use it at the same time with their F35B's. UK does not have it's full complement of F35B's so to kill two birds with one stone USA has temporary plugged the gap with their equipment and crew during the joint operation. The sister ship HMS POW is currently finishing trials at Gibraltar.
@@sonacphotos She will be in legal international waters... Jingping can moan all he likes (which is the professional way of explaining you have a problem instead of threats)... just like Putin had no say when HMS defender sailed past in a international shipping lane. They threatened with action but HMS Defender just carried on sailing with it's guns covered but on standby. RN+USN will conduct legal freedom of passage in international waters... if they are hampered in anyway... they wont hesitate to act in accordance in world recognised laws. However, Jingping is in fact more calmer than Putin when it comes to military intervention.
not possible with the manning aspect plus the left wing morons in this country would scream NHS and dont get me wrong i love and appreciate the wonderful girls and guys who work for the NHS but you know and i know Labour would use it as a beating stick and if they came into GOV they would sell the ships
@@mariacornwallis1602 All it needs is a bird ingestion in the horizontal fan or one of the 137 moving parts for vertical landing to fail and, well, how does our £220 million aircraft land (without getting wet)..? There’s no backup for that and it happens on all catapult/arrestor a/c carriers often, what’s our backup plan⁉️😳☺️ Because TTBOMK, we ain’t got one… 🤔🤯
@@Delta2D2 Oh ye of little faith.... Anyway it's cheaper to lose one plane then spend countless mllions on rebuilding the entire ship to house an arrester wire system..... and then there's the reliable British invention of the ejector seat to save the pilot..... Don't worry about it sonny,, everything would have been sorted out in the planning........ Do you also think there should be a catapult in case the engine fails on take off?
@@Delta2D2 If you are so concerned just write a letter to the Admiralty, I'm sure i know what they will do with it... I am also sure that the brains behind the F35 and the two Queen Elizabeth class carriers know more than a little school boy like you....
@@Delta2D2 + Don't talk nonsense, it doesn't happen often on CATOBAR, ask the yanks. Falklands 1 FRS.1 crashed after take off, unsure of cause, 1 GR3 crashed Port San Carlos with partial engine failure, 2 from the 9 lost were mechanical failure, that was war fighting pace mucker, I know I was just 18 on a frigate. You are always going to get losses, in this job, worry not your sat at home.
I am out in an hour. Which way.? Connect to Hawaii for the best option. Do not rush. Today is important this is serious. I don't know. It's a silent killing how do you work regarding this matter sir?
The biggest problem the RN has had over the past 20 years is the pathetic defense policies, if they even deserve the name policies, that have gutted the Military and the Navy in particular. The Elizabeth's are the exemplar, compromised from the beginning. On top of that we have arrogant clueless politicians putting sailors in harms way due to great power dreams . Who can forget frigates sent to patrol off the coast of Libya with only 4 Sea Wolf missiles to defend themselves with or the Type 45 destroyers that have had continual problems? Stay away from Russia's major Black Sea navy base or be sunk. Seems simple enough even for Morris Johnston to figure out. But who knows?
@@gazza7uk646 you do not have nuclear carriers as my comment alludes to.... they are better then conventional carriers and using your logic conventional carriers are a "waste of money"
@@ThatCarGuy not so they suit the UKs needs, our theatre of operations will be mainly the Atlantic, North sea and the Med plus our carriers can dock in multi ports where as many nations do not allow nuclear ships in
@@gazza7uk646 You have no idea where war will be... Hence training all over. Nuclear carriers can dock in 99 percent of allied ports, with New Zealand being the outlier. I can literally list more ports it can go to, then you can list they can't. Nuclear does everything better. Australia allows them. "tourism Minister, Mark McGowan today welcomed more than 5,000 senior officers and crew aboard USS NIMITZ (CVN-68) to Western Australia." Italy? They allow them... "For years a dozen Italian seaports have been decrying the risks they run as bases for nuclear powered or nuclear armed U.S. warships (submarines, aircraft carriers): Augusta, Brindisi, Cagliari, Castellammare di Stabia, Gaeta, La Maddalena, La Spezia, Livorno, Napoli, Taranto, Trieste, Venezia." Germany? The UK? France? "Nimitz conducted her second abnormally dangerous navigational detail of the deployment as she transited the English Channel (with its high volume of shipping) en route from Wilhelmshaven, West Germany, to Brest, France." Japan? "Ronald Reagan made five deployments to the Pacific and Middle East between 2006 and 2011 while based at Naval Air Station North Island. In October 2015, Ronald Reagan replaced USS George Washington as the flagship of Carrier Strike Group Five, the only forward-based carrier strike group home-ported at Yokosuka, Japan, as part of the United States Seventh Fleet" South Korea? "U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Michael D. White, the commander of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 11 and Rear Adm. William McQuilkin, the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Korea, pose with local dignitaries aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) in Busan, " India? "The carrier departed North Island for its thirteenth deployment on 2 April 2007 to the Arabian Sea, relieving USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in support of OIF. It anchored off Chennai, India on 2 July 2007 as part of efforts to expand bilateral defense cooperation between India and the United States." 25-29 May 1991: Nimitz anchored at Dubai 11-12 Mar 1993: Nimitz sailed through the Strait of Malacca 18 Jun 1993: Nimitz sailed outbound through the Strait of Hormuz into the Arabian Sea 13-14 Feb 1998: Nimitz anchored off Port Suez, Egypt, and passed through the Suez Canal 21-23 Apr 1985: Nimitz anchored in Augusta Bay, Sicily, to turn over to Dwight D. Eisenhower.
We already have nuclear submarines (Vanguard class), and we're building more (Dreadnought class); all using British technology, the Vanguard using an exclusively British Rolls-Royce reactor design, the Dreadnought using a Rolls-Royce built derivative of a General Electric design that is itself a development of the reactor from the Vanguard. I.e. we could've made the Queen Elizabeth class (& the Invincible class before it) nuclear powered, it would've just not been cost-effective to do so given the intended roles & theaters of operation.
@@plonker92 Yeah that's the point. The ships have been on order for how long? The fact that they are in service without an air-group is a joke, 5 F35 aircraft is not an air-group. The ships air group is only going to be 12 F35 aircraft anyway so just how useful will that be in an actual war, say with Russia. The Invincible s could operate that many Harriers so why build a 75000 tonne ship at all? Why not do what the Italians did with the Cavour? Too bad the Chinese have more of a clue about what an aircraft carrier should be, particularly the third carrier they are currently building. Far superior to the Royal Navy compromised efforts. As for the yanks, without them and the Russians, all of Europe would be speaking German now. Who knows, maybe will be doing so in the future anyway.
On the F-35B, the Aft Fuselage (Everything from the trailing edge of the main wings back,) The Swivel Nozzle, STOVL Main Lift Fan, STOVL lift ducts, Electrical Power management System, Weapons Bay Door Drive, In Flight Refuelling Probe, Electro-optical targeting laser, Ejection Seat, Pilot flight equipment, Life Support System, Fuselage remote interface and more are part of the British Contribution.
