British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives in USA

The newest British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrived in the United States, where the crew will conduct one of the most important tests, namely, it will test fifth-generation F-35B fighters for “compatibility with an aircraft carrier,” Warspot reports citing the Royal’s press service fleet.

The British Royal Navy refused to use catapults on their newest aircraft carriers, and instead of deck fighters F-35C, designed specifically for the interests of the US and British Navy, they decided to purchase F-35B with vertical takeoff and landing.

The British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth will spend three months off the American coast, during which it will test the F-35B on its deck. In total, it is planned during this time to make about 500 takeoffs and landings on the deck of an aircraft carrier, while only four British pilots will participate in the trials. The aircraft will be tested for compatibility with the aircraft carrier in various modes of operation. Earlier it was reported that the aircraft carrier was tested for compatibility with helicopters, the tests were successful.

HMS Queen Elizabeth - the lead ship of a series of two of the newest British aircraft carriers. It is planned that after bringing the aircraft carrier into full combat readiness in 2020, its wing will consist of 40 fighter-bomber and Merlin helicopters with the possibility of expansion to 70 units. The base wing will count the 12 F-35B.

Comments

[lucul]

The British Royal Navy refused to use catapults on its latest aircraft carriers

Here it is. And liberals proved to us that catapults are super know-how on an aircraft carrier. )))

[dr.star75]

Catapult is both super and know-how, especially electromagnetic. That's not all can do it. Unfortunately, so are we.

[lucul]

Catapult is both super and know-how, especially electromagnetic. That's not all can do it.

What can Israel do?

[dr.star75]

Maybe: start at Tel Aviv, springboard at Lebanon. there the whole country is the size of an aircraft carrier

[voyaka uh]

Can not. We do not have such technologies.

[lucul]

Quote: voyaka uh

Can not. We do not have such technologies.

So is Israel a backward country?

[Magic archer]

Catapult is a necessary thing, but technology is only being introduced, plus the British did not like the price

[voyaka uh]

Right. The British immediately wanted the electric, it was not completed by the Americans,
in the middle of the test. Therefore, they made a springboard. And with planes the same story.
They planned the F-35S, but in those years it got stuck in the alterations of the chassis and hook. And only from the end of this year will receive combat readiness. And they chose the F-35B, which received the initial combat readiness before all versions ..
A place for an electro-catapult on an aircraft carrier is provided (next to the springboard). Although in the installation you need to invest, of course, a lot of money. It is unlikely that they will be given.

[dr.star75]

This aircraft carrier for Britain is like a suitcase without handles. By inertia they did, but why is it not clear. The Lord of the Seas is already not young. Now the United States and China will play the OCEAN.

[Andrey Yuryevich]

I like this video more about the "aircraft carrier", by the way ...

[voyaka uh]

Uh ... if a small war like the Falkland War breaks out, then with two small aircraft carriers of 12 F-35B each, Britain will feel more confident than, as then, with one aircraft carrier with the Harriers. Still, the F-35B is a full-fledged supersonic vertical with an excellent radar. And takeoff / landing - on a computer, unlike the heroic hand landings of the Harriers.

[dr.star75]

This is with whom Britain plans to hack? Well, for example?

[Avior]

Before the Falklands, they also said that.
The aircraft carrier is now the basis of the fleet.
If the Turks are building them and the Spaniards, Italians, even Egypt got a couple of UDC, then God himself ordered the British.

[voyaka uh]

The world is dynamic. And not always towards peace and progress. Therefore, most countries are forced to maintain armies "just in case". The very fact that the country has combat-ready armed forces can deter potential bugs from the temptation to "check for crap."

[Lara Croft]

Quote: dr.star75

This aircraft carrier for Britain is like a suitcase without handles. By inertia they did, but why is it not clear.

It is clear that you do not understand. But the British admiralty is understandable.
In total, the British plan to have two similar aircraft carriers in their Navy (HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales), which will successfully fight together with 6 URO destroyers and 13 URO frigates, as part of the Northern Atlantic PAG against Russian SSBNs / PLARK / PLA, as in the past years of the ХV.
The British Navy is the largest among European countries of NATO countries and is a good addition to US military preparations ....

Now the United States and China will play the OCEAN.

Well, everything is clear with the United States, it has not played out for a long time, but controls all communications of the oceans, and as for China, where does this information come from? The construction of the PRC aircraft carrier (second) and the purchase of another one from the landfill of the Russian Federation, does not yet speak about the possible hegemony of the PRC and at its waters ...
Neither the Russian Federation nor the People’s Republic of China possess the technologies for building multipurpose aircraft carriers similar to those of American and English. Neither we nor the Chinese are armed with a single 5th generation aircraft, especially GDP ...
So I don’t understand what forces of the PLA in your opinion will play the Ocean ....

[Avior]

In addition to the Americans, only the French have a catapult aircraft carrier.
and something they have a lot of problems.
An aircraft carrier without a catapult and a finisher is much easier to operate. and cheaper, with the same equal.

[Thrall]

- Fly to us on Misty Albion.
- No, it’s better you swim to us

[dr.star75]

Well, why do they need it? Nostalgia?

[Examenatornick]

Half a foot under the keel to you))) on the video if on 0:19 second stop straight Darth Vader in the center in a raincoat)))

[Thrall]

Yeah, epic

[Examenatornick]

Something the orchestra plays with such things. These melodies are only to be applied to the old cartoon about the Polish mole or the pink panther.

[Jolly oldster sailor]

Silently envy.
That's epic

Do you have this in Belarus? And I don’t have ...

[raw174]

It seems to me alone that all these vertical take-offs are down the drain? This is some kind of hat, at the current level of technology ...

[Altona]

The stupid penguin timidly hides the fat body in the jumps ... Associative such a series according to the proposed picture.

[2329 Carpenter]

Quote: lucul

Quote: voyaka uh

Can not. We do not have such technologies.

So is Israel a backward country?

Lukul, do not forget to sing about Russian pensions. And then the pros do not collect everything.

[sabakina]

decided to purchase the F-35B with vertical take-off and landing.

Well, okay. Goryuchki they only have enough to circle around the aircraft carrier.

[Avior]

no, the combat radius of the F-35 is the same as that of the deck Hornets.

[Samara_63]

Great ship, with its introduction, Great Britain gains Sustainability in the oceans ...

[Ros 56]

Mom dear, I always thought that an aircraft carrier is being made for some type of aircraft. After all, the dimensions of the elevator and the dimension of the hangars and the equipping with equipment and various special devices depend on this. And they only plan to test it for compatibility with the F-35.

[voyaka uh]

"I always thought that an aircraft carrier is made for some type of aircraft" ////
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And you were very mistaken in thinking so. The aircraft carrier has been in service for 30-50 years. During this time, 3 generations of aircraft can be replaced. On the contrary, naval aviation is made for certain types of aircraft carriers.

[Avior]

Midway was laid under in 1943, and in the 90s he still took part in the Desert Storm - several generations of aircraft were replaced.