The second British aircraft carrier Prince of Wales is preparing for sea trials

The second British aircraft carrier Prince of Wales under construction is preparing to enter the first sea trials. As transmits "Warspot" citing the portal ukdefencejournal.org.uk, propellers were first turned on an aircraft carrier.

At the Abcock Marine shipyard in Rosyth (Scotland), where the second latest aircraft carrier for the British Navy is being built, preparations have begun for the launch of ship trials, which are scheduled for early November this year. On August 23, the propellers were first turned on the aircraft carrier.

Today, the water at the pier bubbled a little when we first turned the propellers. 40 revolutions per minute was enough to reach speeds in 6 knots. But, being tied, the ship did not leave anywhere until it left ...

- says the official account of the ship on Twitter.

The British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales is the second ship of this type and the first serial ship after the lead Queen Elizabeth, introduced into the Royal fleet December 07, 2017. The construction of the aircraft carrier began on May 26, 2011 with a steel cutting ceremony. The actual assembly of the ship from the blocks began in May 2014, in total 52 previously assembled blocks were used in the design of the aircraft carrier. Launched on December 21, 2017. Commissioning is scheduled for 2020 along with the lead Queen Elizabeth.

Length - 280 m, width - 73 m, total displacement exceeds 70 000 t. Speed ​​up to 25 knots (46 km / h), autonomy is 10 000 miles or almost 300 days of sailing. Crew: command personnel 60 people, personnel 600 people and air personnel 900 people.

The wing should consist of F-35B fighters and Merlin helicopters (in total up to 40 vehicles with the possibility of expanding the wing to 70 units). In the basic configuration on the aircraft carrier will be located 12 F-35B. It is assumed that the ship will be able to carry attack and heavy military transport helicopters, as well as V-22 Osprey convertiplanes.

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[Mavrikiy]

Today, the water at the pier bubbled a little when we first turned the propellers. 40 rpm was enough to reach a speed of 6 knots. But being attached

The yacht "Pobeda" was also effectively launched. We are waiting for bright shows, while there is bread.

[Kontrik]

Today, the water at the pier bubbled a little when we first turned the propellers. 40 revolutions per minute was enough to reach speeds in 6 knots. But, being tied, the ship did not leave anywhere until it left ...

The previous leak constantly gave .. And this one, as it were, did not go to the bottom at once ..))))
I don’t understand why the Anglo-Saxons need these huge floating galoshes ..? Well, everything is clear with the USA, they are promoting their democracy from across the ocean .. Well, is England going to use these aircraft carriers to defend its island? Abramovich see regular taxes paid

[maxim947]

Mattresses are another order for deck aviation.
And so .. 2 feet to him under the keel.

[Magic archer]

By the way, Americans can lease them! Was not so long ago here on the infa site

[svp67]

Quote: Kontrik

I don’t understand why the Anglo-Saxons need these huge floating galoshes ..?

Brexit guard ...

propellers were first turned on an aircraft carrier.

The main thing is not manual ...

[smart ass]

Envy silently

[Nikas Porechenkov]

Envy is not good! In rashka even to such aircraft carriers as walking to the moon!

[Lord of the Sith]

According to the performance characteristics, he is even inferior to Nimitz.
The mistress of the seas is not the same.

[svp67]

Quote: Lord of the Sith

The mistress of the seas is not the same.

Interestingly, they are being built at a shipyard in Scotland, and what happens if Scotland decides to become independent.

[The Siberian barber]

Quote: svp67

Quote: Lord of the Sith

The mistress of the seas is not the same.

Interestingly, they are being built at a shipyard in Scotland, and what happens if Scotland decides to become independent.

But nothing will happen, because FIG let go))

[svp67]

Quote: The Siberian Barber

But nothing will happen, because FIG let go))

Who knows who knows. Scotland definitely "did not sign" to leave the EU

[The Siberian barber]

So Ireland, too!))
If memory serves, then there were questions on the referendum.
They are crooks and ...... London-crooks

[svp67]

Quote: The Siberian Barber

So Ireland, too!))

They are going to dig the border there ...

[The Siberian barber]

Quote: svp67

Quote: The Siberian Barber

So Ireland, too!))

They are going to dig the border there ...

The good news

[K-612-O]

So even Kuznetsov. Here is the question, if the project wing is 40 units, how are they going to expand to 70? This is fuel, spare parts, BC, l / s again.

[Nikas Porechenkov]

Let me ask, what about the performance characteristics of the Great Aircraft carrier of Russia? Probably there are no analogues in the universe?

[Nestorovich]

Quote: Lord of the Sith

According to the performance characteristics, he is even inferior to Nimitz.
The mistress of the seas is not the same.

Well, the main competitor is not the same, he’s being rotten at the docks.

[Thrifty]

The question for specialists is that the Chinese aircraft carrier has a lifting capacity of 70000 tons, the Anglitsky -60000, but the British will have more air wings in the future! Due to what? ??

[Magic archer]

Wikipedia indicates that the Englishman also has ~ 70000. F-35 is smaller in size of Chinese Dryers. Plus, the Chinese are still relatives of our TAVKR. Which were never pure aircraft carriers

[voyaka uh]

The Chinese have them numbered: 001a, 002, 003.
The first aircraft has fewer than English, and it is smaller.
The rest have a little more than the Englishman, but they are already larger. The proportions: "displacement - number of aircraft" are approximately the same.
In theory, the Chinese should have more fighter jets fit in the hold, as their J-15 decks fold their wings, but the F-35B doesn't.

[totoro21]

Not an expert, but try to guess:
1) Does the displacement seem to be the same? And there and there 70 tons full?
2) The Brit has a standard air group of up to 40 cars. In the second Chinese, Vika speaks up to 36 aircraft, but there will also be turntables. So in the end, the group will be more, not less. Regarding the first Chinese, they sawed it from a Soviet aircraft carrier cruiser, some volumes could well remain occupied by some kind of missile launchers, or something like that, because there are less places for airplanes.
3) That there the Britons are going to shove in overload, and how they will do it - my grandmother said in two. Maybe they’re going to force the F-35 to the whole deck, well, option B can take off and land vertically with a short take-off, so what? Fuel and weapon reserves will remain the same, that is, such situevina will not last long.
4) The planes themselves are different. Su-33 and its Chinese counterpart are stupidly larger in size than the F-35. Therefore, ceteris paribus Sushki fit a little less.

[Retvizan 8]

I propose to put on a hackneyed record, as it happens with us: why Britain is throwing money out for some aircraft carriers, it would be better spent on supporting gay marriage and sexual minorities, on social support for runaway olegarchs and traitors.
Sorcasm.))

[Destiny]

Your sarcasm will not be understood by many here .. And the British fleet and the training of sailors are really quite worthy. A strong and experienced enemy worthy of respect.

[K-612-O]

It was once. The Falklands showed that the fleet was not a fleet, dry cargo ships were driven by harriers, and only the landing achieved the result.

[Nikas Porechenkov]

And how did the aircraft carrier fleet of the Russian Federation in Syria show itself?

[Nastia makarova]

most of Syria has been freed))) but how did the air force manifest in Hohland?

[Nycomed]

It was thanks to the Falklands that this program was conceived, because the Invincible-class aircraft carriers proved to be completely untenable. Even the "old man" "Hermes" was more useful.

[Nycomed]

They have everything for everything. Sarcasm)).

[Sergey-8848]

There is shipbuilding in England, and excellent, but the military aircraft industry with their own hands was completely ruined. They will wait all the same, that their state will be declared (but not 51st - there are more than enough applicants for this place. Their place is 69, instead of the decommissioned "Dwight Eisenhower").

[tlauicol]

unfortunate name, however, like Queen Elizabeth

[Paranoid50]

Quote: Tlauicol

unfortunate name, however, like Queen Elizabeth

Duc, it is not in vain that on his port side he has a well-built first-aid kit.

[Charik]

Yes, only they smoke weed on their submarines, sniff coke and breed pigeon

[Voronezh-90]

Britain is the size of a barely noticeable spit on the map, and has already built the second aircraft carrier while we are still repairing one Kuzya! Where's the justice?

[Lord of the Sith]

And about the British Commonwealth of Nations, where the 53 states that Britain steers have not heard?))
So much for the "spit on the map".

[K-612-O]

So 1 still can’t be put into operation, everything flows and flows, plus the lifts were covered in trials.

[akarfoxhound]

There is no justice here, here you have to ask "effective managers", such as Tolibas Taburetkin and the rest of the typical Co.. I propose to ask in the Vorkuta and Magadan area when they will have an interruption in the mine ...

[Alexey RA]

Quote: akarfoxhound

There is no justice here, here you have to ask "effective managers", such as Tolibas Taburetkin and the rest of the typical Co..

And what have managers to do with it, if our wise admirals, even on a simple large landing craft, cannot issue TK for ten years? At least Storetkin ordered the Mistral.
The funny thing is that as a manager, the furniture maker was really effective - no one has managed to get such prices out of our defense industry, and so many contracts have been concluded that some continued to be implemented last year.

[akarfoxhound]

Let me open one topic, prices like Tolibas in the Armed Forces have never really existed, everything is prohibitively expensive with lame quality with a crazy sale of everything worthwhile. I am not telling you this as an outsider. With the Mistrals there was generally a specific danger! When they were promoted, in the meantime I was studying at the Naval Academy, in Kuza. And about their combat, price and other values ​​I have typed in "tsifirki" in a way that no media will say. I will say one thing, we were cosmically lucky with the failure to supply these troughs. And the fact that for a considerable bribe to fashionable managers we "profitably" bought them at one and a half price, the happiness burned out in the final very unexpectedly, Crimea, penalty, refund of money in a larger volume than was thrown out in the purchase. But who knew about the fun 2014 year? In the navy, people almost danced there for joy. But that's a different story (out of many in an army stool)

[Greenwood]

Quote: Voronezh-90

noticeable spit on the map

This "spit on the map" has long been the most technically advanced state in the world with the largest number of colonies and territories in terms of area.

[Reading]

Britain will be significantly richer than Russia, and therefore it builds aircraft carriers.

[akarfoxhound]

Judging by the big minuses of normal posts here, in the wide non-brothers, the herds graze :)))

[Vladimir Nizhegorodsky]

Yes, it’s too late for Melkobritaniya to create aircraft carriers of old models.
These are huge mass graves.
Both China and the DPRK
And Russia has effective means of checking the aircraft carrier for possible water leaks.
Until destruction.

[Vladimir Nizhegorodsky]

Yes, and Iran is developing its own and quite successfully anti-ship missiles.
So behind.

[Nikas Porechenkov]

Raska recently even robots do not want to get together! And similar aircraft carriers will design and build 30 years with a dough cut!

[Vladimir Nizhegorodsky]

Dear user, do not minus my and other user comments without answering them and with which you do not agree.
And the country in which we live is not called as you called it.
If you are from another country, then do not insult normal people here.

[Greenwood]

There was an article with a detailed description of how difficult it is to drown an American aircraft carrier. But you continue this absurd bravado, turning a blind eye to the fact that the Russian fleet is in decline.

[Greenwood]

For some reason, the construction of aircraft carriers was considered justified in the Soviet Navy, considered justified in the current American Navy, considered justified in China, India, Britain, France, even Japan. And only in Russia suddenly the aircraft carrier became unnecessary (according to a significant part of the forum users). Probably because they are trying to console themselves and close their eyes to the decline of domestic shipbuilding.

[Vladimir Nizhegorodsky]

Well, again, they are minus it is not clear who and why ????
Write answers to what you disagree with.