British aircraft carrier went to the United States for flight tests

The newest British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth went on a campaign to the east coast of the United States, where he will conduct a series of flight tests with fifth-generation fighters Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. In addition, the US Marine Corps will take part in the tests, reports Foxnews.

According to the command of the British Navy, it is expected that a total of X-NUMX F-138B fighters will be involved in flight tests. Earlier, the aircraft carrier completed large-scale drills with Chinook Mk 35 and Merlin Mk 5 helicopters.

It is noted that at present the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has not yet reached its full operational capacity, the first deployment phase is planned for next year, and full deployment is planned to be achieved in two years.

HMS aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth (R08) is the lead in a series of two Queen Elizabeth class ships, intended to replace the now-excluded light aircraft carriers of the Invincible class. It has a length of 280 meters and a displacement of 65 thousand tons, the crew of the ship is 679 people. The fifth-generation Queen Elizabeth will be the fifth-generation Lockheed Martin F-35B fighter. The staffing of the aircraft carrier aircraft group in the “oceanic” version will be 24 F-35B fighter jets, 9 Merlin anti-submarine helicopters and 4 or 5 Merlin helicopters in the AWACS variant. In addition, the aircraft carrier can take on board army helicopters aviation - AH-64 Apache, AW159 Wildcat and even CH-47 Chinook of various modifications.

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[Thrall]

I already thought that the British Flying Ship built

British aircraft carrier went to the United States for flight tests

Well, Friday, guys!

[Thunderbolt]

Quote: Thrall

Well, Friday, guys!

Since Friday the 13th, perhaps, because here it was enthusiastically argued that the boat gave them a leak, and the Penguins are a dead end of military thought. And you know what happens after a work test of all systems - a trip to Mediterranean and working out overland with British "air".

[Jerk]

Khan to the Jews?

[Friday]

Quote: Thrall

Well, Friday, guys!

How everyone loves me here, nice.

[Aaron Zawi]

For the curious.

excerpts from interviews of F-35 pilots of different years (YouTube)

... How is the F-35 different from the F-22? First, the F-35 is a flying computer with the widest array of sensors. The F-22 is an aircraft that can operate mainly only in the radar spectrum (radar with AFAR) and use radio communications, and the F-35, in addition to radar and radio communications, has optoelectronic, infrared, and laser sensors. It has significantly wider and deeper coverage than the F-22. That is, the situational awareness of the F-35 is significantly higher.

... F-35 is a new generation in the network center. This aircraft made the network centric very reliable and stable, can receive a lot of information from external sensors, and can itself transmit a huge amount of information, turning into an advanced observation post, invisible to the enemy.

... The F-35 is truly a revolutionary aircraft. This aircraft is based on the plug and play principle, it can control drones and integrate breakthrough types of weapons. This aircraft will not become obsolete in the next 20-30 years.

... F-35 will be the most modern fighter in the 2030 year. There is no plane in the world that can surpass it by this time. Every year, F-35 builds the capacity of surveillance systems, software and weapons.

... Of course, the F-35 in terms of its flight characteristics is not the most outstanding aircraft in comparison with some fourth-generation fighters. But will you show me a plane that can fly with overloads up to 9 g and a stable angle of attack of 50 degrees, stealth at the F-22 level, an unsurpassed extensive array of sensors and internal weapons? F-22 is designed to destroy enemy aircraft, and F-35 can fulfill not only this role, but also strike functions, and the capabilities of a reconnaissance aircraft with a very effective data transmission system for ground troops, aircraft and ships, and an invisible air command post.

... the F-35 has a very small combat radius and range? Is its range and radius no larger than the early F-18? This is completely wrong. People don't understand what a real combat range and radius are. Recently in Wisconsin, F-35 and F-15C fighters flew to bomb targets in one of the distant ranges. The planes completed their mission and returned to base. True, the F-15C had outboard fuel tanks, while the F-35 did not. What's the matter? The frontal resistance of the F-15 with PTB, container targeting station and hanging bombs is very large, hence the increased fuel consumption. And the F-35 had integrated onboard sensors and weapons in the internal bays, and the capacity of the internal fuel tanks was twice that of the F-16, which has approximately the same geometric dimensions. I must say that people are mistaken, and the F-35 really has "very long legs" (range and radius).

[ANCIENT]

Aron, it was necessary to write "for advertising rights" I look, in your pantheon a new god appeared the great and terrible F35 god of death for the destruction of primitive natives !!!

[Aaron Zawi]

Quote: ANCIENT

Aron, it was necessary to write "for advertising rights" I look, in your pantheon a new god appeared the great and terrible F35 god of death for the destruction of primitive natives !!!

Um. The original interpretation.

[Tusv]

Quote: Aaron Zawi

Um. The original interpretation.

And really. Does NATO have consumer protection? What you wrote is 350 lyam apiece, at least but at the price of a hundred. Alarming

[Tusv]

Quote: Aaron Zawi

... The F-35 is truly a revolutionary aircraft. This aircraft is based on the plug and play principle, it can control drones and integrate breakthrough types of weapons. This aircraft will not become obsolete in the next 20-30 years.

Aaron. Firework. This Plag & Play is an interesting thing. Sent what nid byaku, the onboard system will shrink and go to reboot. Beauty Or hang on-board computer nafig the simplest code.
Network centric is what? Yes, an ordinary computer network, like free Wi-Fi in Moscow transport, is only of a higher level, but with all the consequences ... In general, it will become obsolete very quickly if you fly to our borders more often
And so, TK is compiled at the highest level. How are you doing in metal?

[Charik]

in Russian Hackers were able to break the US elections that they what that F35

[Charik]

and the F-35, in addition to radar and radio communication, has optoelectronic, infrared, laser sensors. Xa OLS on the Su27 in the past century was installed. An invisible air command post - "You called me a dreamer" - invisible only in Golivut films and in Russian fairy tales and in the minds of amers, "very long legs" can be cut to the very head

[sabakina]

Aron, you tortured with your beloved F-35! Kiss with him in a hickey! And then the topic is about the Anglican pre-carrier ???

[Tusv]

Quote: sabakina

And then the topic is about the Anglican pre-carrier ???

So Glory. Arm this vessel with Penguins. In addition, he identified a pain point. Zhezh earned a medal

[igorka357]

Vyacheslav, are you sure that it’s under-air? Our "Kuzya" is under-air, because it’s just an aircraft-carrying cruiser, and they have a real aircraft carrier!

[Grigory_45]

Quote: igorka357

and they have a real aircraft carrier!

Thailand also has a real aircraft carrier Not a cruiser)) Ask what kind of yacht "Chakri Narubet"

[Grigory_45]

yes ... with this approach, magazines will soon not be popular with girls, but with the F-35 in different "poses" .. Cleaner will act))

[Mih1974]

My cry from you Let your penguin tell our A-100 bike about his invisibility or to the S-300/400 radars "that's when we will laugh"

[Proton]

Somehow the headline sounds "by psaki"
Yes, and with fighters, my God, this is some kind of “death star”.
Maybe all the same tests are “decked” which thread.

[kefan]

The big ship has a big torpedo.

[ANCIENT]

You can laugh, you can be ironic, but Russia needs atomic carriers, and at least 4 pennants!

[Fungus]

Just do not need. What for? Soon rockets will fly anywhere in minutes. And to build such reinforcement and drag it to where that in order to strike will not be relevant.

[Grigory_45]

Quote: Fungus

Just do not need. What for?

exactly. In general, the fleet is not needed. And the tanks too. And aviation. We have the great Satan ICBMs and soon there will be a Sarmat. The whole world is in dust if that! Nah something else to have? In general, an army other than the Strategic Missile Forces is not needed

[igorka357]

Need strike ships of the first rank, not necessarily aircraft carriers!

[Grigory_45]

first-class attack ships without air cover will go to the bottom after the enemy’s first strike

[Reserve buildbat]

HERE! This is not a bast shoe! The great shaven even fly aircraft carriers! Who is there against joining the "friendly family of civilized peoples" !?

[san4es]

... The F-35B, which will land for the first time on the HMS Queen Elizabeth, will be owned by the F-35 International Joint Operational Test Group.
Most of the F-35Bs that will be used during marine trials will be owned by the Americans, but controlled by British pilots.
Weapons of the world
Posted Aug 17 2018 ...

..Bunkering in the North. The Atlantic
Royal Navy ........................ Jun 21. 2018 year

[sabakina]

Sanya, I'm sorry, why did you post it? So we get scared?

[san4es]

Quote: sabakina

... so that we get scared?

... Are you so shy? .. Do not look then, by no means.

[sabakina]

Yeah, right now! You do not know my life story! Do you want to tell how to survive after a meeting with a Chechen Kazakh at 2 a.m. on the night of March 8-9? It's so interesting!

[san4es]

.. And why are you asking then? ... I am, however, more "pieces of iron" are interested in ... not politics.

[igorka357]

Stop throwing hats already, it’s no longer funny!

[2329 Carpenter]

Quote: ANCIENT

You can laugh, you can be ironic, but Russia needs atomic carriers, and at least 4 pennants!

For what damn purpose are you needed? In order to be your own targets? Here the "arrows" will rejoice! ..

[Grigory_45]

Quote: Carpenter 2329

With the goal of being your own goals?

in order to cover the forces of the fleet. Or you’re on the principle - our planes don’t fall! Why? So good - And we do not have them! Still would. How about that stupid song? And the wife will not go to another if you do not have a wife)

[2329 Carpenter]

Quote: Fungus

Just do not need. What for? Soon rockets will fly anywhere in minutes. And to build such reinforcement and drag it to where that in order to strike will not be relevant.

Stealth these aircraft carriers will be. There was - and disappeared. From everywhere. And from the radar screens, and from the payroll ...

[2329 Carpenter]

Aron, really high-quality advertising F-35. Many will agree that this is also a good plane.
But the wunderwaffe, any, is a temporary quantity. For everything and always there was a "thing with a screw". There is also a device for this miracle.

[Aaron Zawi]

Quote: Carpenter 2329

Aron, really high-quality advertising F-35. Many will agree that this is also a good plane.
But the wunderwaffe, any, is a temporary quantity. For everything and always there was a "thing with a screw". There is also a device for this miracle.

F-35 is not a child prodigy, but just a good plane. It will be shot down, it will fall due to technical problems, but the main thing is how effective it will be. If it is true what the operators from different countries say about him, then more than.

[Grigory_45]

Quote: Aron Zaavi

If true, what operators from different countries say about him

keyword if. If you critically read your laudatory opus, then many lie like a gray gelding. But you won’t notice it - the deity’s brilliance blinded and the mind turned off completely ..

[XXXIII]

British aircraft carrier went to the United States for flight tests

so already had to fly ....

[Thunderbolt]

Quote: Thunderbolt

Quote: Thrall

Well, Friday, guys!

Since Friday the 13th, perhaps, because here it was enthusiastically argued that the boat gave them a leak, and the Penguins are a dead end of military thought. And you know what happens after a work test of all systems - a trip to Mediterranean and working out overland with British "air".

Or, as before, we’ll drown them with one missile. Be sure, with one missile --- such a missile is not clearly presented, and the British airship drifts quietly to America in order to shred the headquarters of the Syrian TD later. Waiting for the article --- the divisions were not ordered to defend .An initiative is an air missile attack massed from the sea ---- who will do --- an avik that has flowed, or yet an avik followed by a clone, doubling Britain’s naval power /// no matter how I see it, Neptune...///

[sabakina]

British aircraft carrier went to the United States for flight tests

Considering that right now in Russian, the letter "e" and the letter "e" are one and the same, I do not exclude that this aircraft carrier can fly ... well, I think MI 6 has once again been licked up in our cartoon ...

[2329 Carpenter]

Quote: Aaron Zawi

Quote: Carpenter 2329

Aron, really high-quality advertising F-35. Many will agree that this is also a good plane.
But the wunderwaffe, any, is a temporary quantity. For everything and always there was a "thing with a screw". There is also a device for this miracle.

F-35 is not a child prodigy, but just a good plane. It will be shot down, it will fall due to technical problems, but the main thing is how effective it will be. If it is true what the operators from different countries say about him, then more than.

Is "more than" effective? Well ... A lot of technique is very effective. Each sample has its own tasks. Or - a lot of tasks. I think that the Su-34 will also be "more than" effective when attacking, for example, an airfield, command post or a convoy of military vehicles. When performing their tasks i.e.
In general, the effectiveness, as well as the vulnerability of any aircraft (ship, tank, etc.) can be shown only by the real combat situation.
In which we have not yet seen this stealth novelty.

[voyaka uh]

"show only real combat situation." ////
----
Since January 2018, F-35s have been doing sorties. In the air defense zone, they strike at ground targets. Conducted strategic reconnaissance in the depths of the enemy countries.

[Grigory_45]

A total of 138 F-35B fighters will be involved in flight tests

where will they pick them up so much, poor fellow? The aircraft is mainly available in the most simple modification - F-35A

[voyaka uh]

A typo, of course. You're right. The Marines have 38 F-35Bs.