Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion
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Did she bring any additional HC4s?
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No doubt that's why the RAF keep Typhoons down there and the navy a ship.ArmChairCivvy wrote:Oh, you mean the armed pensions , at 0.85% of the GDP?Ron5 wrote: Argentina is down there
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Which bottomless pit of Helicopters should they come from. There is a major exercise in the Med as well as this one.Max Jones wrote:Did she bring any additional HC4s?
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That would be the limiting factor but they have hangars for 3 and auxiliaries are expected to carry them in the future so as far as simulating future CSGs goes, it seems plausible that it might be done if possible. The Amphibious force in the med also isn't embarking any major airborne assets aside from a couple wildcats. Not a lot of LPHs around now to carry Merlins and even Argus is busy in the Caribbean.bobp wrote:Which bottomless pit of Helicopters should they come from. There is a major exercise in the Med as well as this one.Max Jones wrote:Did she bring any additional HC4s?
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Max Jones wrote:That would be the limiting factor but they have hangars for 3 and auxiliaries are expected to carry them in the future so as far as simulating future CSGs goes, it seems plausible that it might be done if possible. The Amphibious force in the med also isn't embarking any major airborne assets aside from a couple wildcats. Not a lot of LPHs around now to carry Merlins and even Argus is busy in the Caribbean.
Dont forget POW starts her Helicopter trials soon and some are needed for that obviously.
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"Some angles" doing some pretty heavy lifting thereTimmymagic wrote:There could even be a training version that looks wonderfully like a Victor from some angles..
Curious if anything more has come from AgustaWestland (Leo) on their Project Zero concept:
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It's more the wing which is a crescent.Jensy wrote:"Some angles" doing some pretty heavy lifting there
Project Zero did a couple of tethered hovers unmanned. Then that was it. It was a tech demonstrator only but they were at one point looking to improve it so that it had enough flight time to transition to forward flight mode. Doesn't appear to have progressed though, nothing heard in 5 years now.Jensy wrote:Curious if anything more has come from AgustaWestland (Leo) on their Project Zero concept:
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Watch out for pics later today...think today is when the CSG is fully together..
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Nice pics of Fort Vic doing a RAS with QE on twitter..
There's still a part of me that wants them to take a SeaWolf VLS system from a T23 getting upgraded to Sea Ceptor and stick it on Fort Victoria...just so they can say they did it..
There's still a part of me that wants them to take a SeaWolf VLS system from a T23 getting upgraded to Sea Ceptor and stick it on Fort Victoria...just so they can say they did it..
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More from STRN...and someone has spotted the USS The Sullivans astern of Fort Vic..
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So far I think we've only seen the gun pod, AIM-9X and 500lb GBU-12 on US aircraft onboard QE (both the USMC and ITF a/c). Wonder if they've bought any 1,000lb JDAM with them?bobp wrote:More things that go bang.....
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Not that soon as far as I know.Max Jones wrote: With so many tied up on QE, could POW be sailing soon?
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Some CSG pics are emerging on Twitter:
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Great pics. Reminds of back in the day when you'd get murky pics of some latest Soviet creation and have to identify it.
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Makes you wonder if a massive wooden box on top of the radar mast would give em a fright.
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Ft Victoria looks great. Guess it's far too late to save Ft George from the Turkish breakers yards?
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Yeah....Dahedd wrote:Ft Victoria looks great. Guess it's far too late to save Ft George from the Turkish breakers yards?
http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/F-Ships ... e1993.html
Massive mistake, reckless and unforgivable
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20/20 hindsightPoiuytrewq wrote:Yeah....Dahedd wrote:Ft Victoria looks great. Guess it's far too late to save Ft George from the Turkish breakers yards?
http://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/F-Ships ... e1993.html
Massive mistake, reckless and unforgivable
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1,000lb bombs were brought (not sure if they were JDAM or Paveway) and AMRAAM as well.Timmymagic wrote:So far I think we've only seen the gun pod, AIM-9X and 500lb GBU-12 on US aircraft onboard QE (both the USMC and ITF a/c). Wonder if they've bought any 1,000lb JDAM with them?bobp wrote:More things that go bang.....
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No and a good pic. But it makes me think that nothing has been learnt from the past build a plane without a gun then down the line it needs a gun pod started with the Phantom and there we are 60 years doing the same oh wellBlueD954 wrote:Was this posted before?
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The “Nothing has been learnt from the past” is not the really a matter of whether guns are in pods or not, but rather in the failure to acquire and use the “podded guns”.