What to do With Used Aircraft Carriers? 

I remember that motorcycle, the Bajaj V15. I was tempted to buy it just for the cool factor of having a bike made from an aircraft carrier.

Because of their reactors the newest Supercarriers will probably never end up as a museum ship. In general its kind of sad that such a little amount of especially Battleships and Heavy Cruisers (from all nations) from WWII have survived as a museum. :(

Fun fact: The new Indian Aircraft Carrier is also named INS Vikrant. Im so happy You talked about the INS Vikrant. Had a privilege to get on the flight deck of the first INS vikrant when i was young!! So nice to hear you mention about how it was re incarnated.

Proud owner of v15 , my first bike . Still going strong ... Brilliant . Feels awesome even today riding it .

"As one might expect, art didn't pay the bills." Great line.

I'm gonna be visiting the USS midway in a week and I'm so excited. It's been probably 6 years since the last time I went and I can't wait to refresh my memory of how amazing the ship is

Still sad the USS Enterprise (CV-6) wasn’t saved and turned into a museum ship. If there’s a single ship in all of history that deserved to be preserved it was her. Unfortunately her little/ big sister USS Enterprise CVN-65 couldn’t be saved because she was nuclear powered.

Actually, the USS Card, a Bogue Class Escort Carrier, was sunk by Viet Cong commandoes in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) harbor in 1964. She was serving as an aircraft transport (AVT) at the time, but she was, in fact, "the last" American carrier sunk by enemy action. She was refloated and repaired and scrapped in 1971. You also miss the fact that the US nuclear carrier fleet (CVN's) need to be scrapped in a way completely unlike the conventional carrier fleet. Because the CVNs need to be defueled and certain sections are too radioactive to be safely preserved, they can neither be "saved" as a museum ship, nor "sunk" either in a "SinkEx" or as an artificial reef/diving wreck. They can't even really be towed to Brownsville for scrapping. So, with the passing of the (old) John F. Kennedy and (old) Kitty Hawk, we will not have a "new" or preserved carrier museum ship and as the Nimitz class (and beyond) come to their end they will all need to be disposed of at one of the Navy's nuclear ship deactivation facilities. It's kind of sad.

As a former crewmember of USS Enterprise (CVN 65), I always though decommissioned carriers should be repurposed as power plants and/or parking garages.

That bike concept was pretty good 👍

4:54 As a german i am surprised that the americans launched a carrier called "Bismarck Sea" during WW2. Kind of weird that they laid down a ship with the name Bismarck in it in 1944. :O Obviously it wasnt a very lucky name, since she got sunk so soon after beeing commisioned. F to those souls left on board. :(

Great job!👏 A phenomenal amount of work must go into these videos! I’d never seen the footage at 6:30 from the nuclear test, that was amazing!

Great Carrier Reef.. that's a great find! -)

I rode the USS Enterprise in 1987 and 1988, the USS Midway in 1988, and the USS Carl Vinson in 1990. Rest of the time I was riding amphibs, DD's, and other things. Good times.

Other navy ships: Precise measurements, efficient building, weapons testing Aircraft carriers: Ceremonies, take it or leave it

I managed to see the "Intrepid" in August 2019. I also have been on board the "Midway" twice. It's a shame no other countries keep their carriers as museums.

Love your videos keep up with the great work!

4:34 thanks for covering this.

I know a guy who worked on the intrepid during Vietnam, he’s pretty cool guy and helps me with model building every now and then.

Carriers could be converted into funky floating hotels.

No Matter how good, lovely or important you always be replaced as time passed- Video conclusion

Awesome

I have dove the Oriskany site. Awesome dive.

This channel is very addictive, you only want more ❤

You missed the USS Enterprise which sits at the docks awaiting its fate. There has yet to be a scrapped US nuclear powered aircraft carrier. Maybe you can do a video on the navy’s nuclear recycling program

Idk if they still do it but when I was a kid in Southern California one of the things the Boy Scouts did was spend a weekend on the Midway. You and ur dad went onto the ship, stayed a night in the crews quarters, eat at the cafeteria, it was pretty cool

As a child I would love to go to the city (45 minute drive in some cases) and see the Intrepid. Its always so cool to see planes and ordnance that are in the carrier. There is also a space shuttle in a tent towards the stern. On a side note USS New Jersey is also fairly close to New York (its in Camden) and was amazing to see. I recommend both to any history nerd

A cool experience would be to have an old sailer from one of the carriers tell you his story about living abroad them in a tour form ( while visiting the ship)

Now this editing is amazing not saying the 3d animation is bad but realistic videos is more like it!

When INS Vikrant went to war, the world map changed forever ;)

The Great Carrier Reef is awesome.

What did we learn? That every yacht with a helicopter landing pad is an aircraft carrier

nice

I saw the uss kitty hawk before. Sad to see it go :(

I saw Kitty Hawk at in the Puget Sound shipyard late last year. Was just from the road but it was still really neat and not something I had been anticipating.

As a former member of the USS enterprise (CVN 65), I'm surprised to hear they haven't made it into a parking lot or some powerplant.

I saw the Oriskany up close and personal when she was being prepped for sinking, moored at Pensacola.

You know that intro is brilliant

After being decommissioned and prepared, what a wonderful artificial reef. Placed end to end, this would be a massive reef providing an incredible refurbishing of aquatic environments.

If your interested in visiting old navy ships in the UK there’s the HMS Belfast (town class light cruiser) in London

Nice researched topic. ♥️🇮🇳

So it's not the Chakri Naurebet the smallest Aircraft Carrier after all. Thanks for the new learnings 😊

I SERVED INS VIKRANT DURING 1971 WAR THANKS FOR MENTIONING

You should do a video on the USS Ling. I found out about it when I was young and never knew what happened to it.

The Oriskany is such a hard dive because it's like 8 miles off shore and the tower of the carrier is 100ft down

50+ years lifespan for American super carriers. It takes 5 years to build each one. US navy have 11, ten in active service and 1 either entering or leaving service. 2 or 3 of the ten are undergoing minor or major refurbishment. So say 7 usable. The active 7 spend half the time on deployment IE can use immediately. Other half on replenishment of supplies or training. Deployable at a few hours or days. But might take days to get to the hot spot. The longest refurbishment is the mid cycle refueling and major upgrades about 6 months at the 25 year mark. The 2 latest carriers will bypass the refuelling cycle.

I saw the aircraft/space vehicles on display at Intrepid in 2016

@4:30 I never thought I would see this, but THE FRONT FELL OFF by Clarke and Dawe....

i want the person speaking in this video to tell me bedtime stories

Served on the America in 81, glad to see it sunk V3 division

my favorite is the USS Midway it is favorite because it was first to have an angled flight deck in US Navy it was also the first to have catapualt launching system and it also carried ...no it didnt carry F 14 for sure but F 18 C Legacy Hornets are not a small deal

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Sucks that the carrier that's the most deserving of being saved (imo) was scrapped

Without watching the video, I can say that I would happily buy an aircraft carrier if someone has one extra laying around.

Can you do a video on Amphibious Assault Ships? I think that'd would be really interesting.

I am so happy for saying india aircraft career

Know the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi. The pictures look nice but there's literal spots where the hull is rusted straight through. It needs a proper restoration.

I like my brain think that decommissioned aircraft carrier would scrapped and turn into one MEGACARRIER

These videos are interesting, you should take a tour on a nuclear submarine or aircraft carrier, when I did it was super cool!

Another fate that can befall a ship (though I don't know if any carriers were sold) is being sold to another navy to continue service. The most famous example of this is the USS Phoenix, which after surviving Pearl Harbor and WWII, she was sold to Argentina under the name ARA General Belgrado, which was lost during the Falklands War

Is it possible for a multi-billion dollar corporation to re-commission a retired aircraft carrier to a hotel? Or is it just too expensive compared to a cruise ship.

4:18 Thanks for mentioning Indian legend "The INS Vikrant" served country during 1971 indo pak war resulting Pakistan surrenders with 93,000 soldiers, it is till today largest after WW2 and eventually creating a brand new nation Bangladesh, The Vikrant is actually re-incarnates in 2022 but this time "Made in India". And please make more video about Indian military and specially about new INS Vikrant 🇮🇳 Love from India, watching you since long time ❤️

My grandfather served aboard both the USS independence & USS Saratoga aircraft carriers he was a SK A store keeper But he never served in Vietnam 🇻🇳 & the USS kitty hawk was my favorite aircraft carrier of all times Shalom dove 🕊️ of ☮️

I had a model of the Intrepid

I like the idea of them being used for either fish habitats or museums

Went on the yorktown museum once, the second deck has nearly as much space as the top deck, although below that feels like a submarine lol

an other nice example would be ITS Garibaldi Which, after serving as the first Italian aircraft carrier will be launching satellites into space near the equator

Rip USS Kitty Hawk. I remember seeing it in Japan.

I served on the Forrestal CVA-59 Tampa chose a merchant vessel over the Forrestal they said their Bay was too shallow. Right hmm? It was unceremoniously hauled off to a scrapyard.

I often felt older carriers could be used for humanitarian purposes.

USS America was used for target practice for almost four weeks. Holy shit.

Actually there was small armed riverboats , like those apocalypse now, that were fitted with a helicopter pad so technically that was smallest aircraft carrier.

You changed the thumbnail and name 99 times but the video was amusing

My response to the thumbnail is fired into space

ive been to uss midway!!!

Traditionally, aircraft carriers have some way to carry aircraft - not just a landing-pad. By the Baylander definition, the average frigate's a super-carrier.

Iv been on a aircraft carrier and my hat almost fell off the ship bc of the wind lol

06:42 besides all the radioactive material there’s also lot of oil to enrich the environment

Just watched the evolution of aircraft carriers

Owner of the Baylander: "So I own an aircraft carrier and turned it into a restaurant." People: "Awesome!" Owner: "Would you like to get on the ship?" People:"Yea!" The moment of pure disappointment when they see the Baylander.

Tacos and fries??? I´d rather end up "mothballed" like some of the carriers, than having that combination. :D

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minute 6:30, a Russian Kinzahl as antiship funktion with real warhead

Do private companies sponsor air craft carriers? Or is a different kind of sponsor? Great vid!

Surprised I'm this early

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I was near midway

The USS New Orleans was sunk in SinkEx 2010.

Meanwhile the fish underneat what have i done to you..??

In the recreation section, you omit the ex-Soviet Carriers, Kiev & Minsk who were sold by the Russians to China and they have been used as hotels & theme parks.

I wanna buy one lol

The carrier in the thumbnail is the now reefed uss oriskany

exactly not what you think

YHE LEXINGTON is at anchor in corpus cristi tx go see it

The Amount of carrier the US has Built is mind boggling

We have been summoned 🗿🇮🇳

Lovely video - is there a chance that you willsubtitle for older video? Cant really enjoy them without as a deaf, and autogenerated is weird

Wow, the shitty Kitty finally got it. I remember when my squadron was attached to this aircraft carrier when in japan. My welcome aboard package said “Welcome to Japan and Welcome aboard the USS Kitty Hawk. You’ll be proudly working on the F-14D Tomcat” but my orders said I was going to Lemoore CA and I was attached to the USS Carl Vinson. I was like WTF? That was because when I got my welcome aboard package, that comes from the command itself, they were still in Japan and hadn’t been informed that they were ditching their Tomcats, moving from Atsugi Japan to Lemoore CA, attaching themselves to the Carl Vinson and getting all new F/A-18 Super Hornet Rhinos. The ones with the big square intakes. It was absolute chaos the first few days I got to my command because they were launching all the tomcats and receiving the new F/A-18s. I was so excited to see a tomcat, the ones we all seen in Top Gun, but I only got to see them close up for a few minutes before they took off. Then i never saw one again in person. It was nice having brand new shiny jets though. Ones that didnt come with horror stories of how you tell if a Tomcat has been serviced with fuel and oil by looking to see if its leaking! LMAO!

My thought's are why not turn said ships into missile carriers. Replace the flight deck and hanger bay areas with missile tubes and centralize the bridge to the middle of the ships. Give the ships updated or enhanced radar and sonar capabilities. Think iron dome on steroids with the addition of ciws. Why scrap something if you can find a new way to use it. Imagine a wall of missiles times 10. Would an apposing air force, navy or both survive this kind of firepower?

Where is the Bay lander museum?