If your in the Royal navy look away

[nick197]

This could be a bit of rubbing salt into the wound but the US navy are in town with there latest Nimitz class aircraft carrier the USS george H W Bush. It ways 100,000tons and at the moment it has about 80 planes on including
SQUADRON PLANE TYPE
100 VFA-31 Tomcatters FA-18E Super hornets
200 VFA-213 Black Lions FA-18F Super hornets
300 VFA-15 Valions FA-18C(N) Legacy Hornets
400 VFA-87 Golden Warriors FA-18A+ Legacy Hornets
500 VAQ-141 Shadowhawks EA-18G Growlers
600 VAW-124 Bear Aces E-2C NP Hawkeyes
610 HSC-9 Tridents MH-60S Seahawks
700 HSM-70 Spartans MH-60R Seahawks
VRC-40 DET. Rawhides C-2A Greyhounds
Here's some pics



















If you wana take a look at the ship its at Stokes bay in Portsmouth. Thanks for looking

 

[Keil]

holy crap thats some serious bit of kit!

 

[Graeme GTR]

Bet that cost a few dollars.

 

[nick197]

Just a few mate, It's probably got more fire power than the whole of the RAF lol

 

[luke3]

So cool!!!

 

[Roy]

Oh my god that's big nice pics Nick

 

[Keil]

hopefully they can look after themselves now and we can leave them be and bring our troops home!

 

[Roy]

Well said Keil

 

[GrumpyTwig]

Looks like they're geared up for another peace keeping mission......


Mind you would love to look around one, amazing bit of engineering.

 

[pez1356]

think of all the Top Gun style tomfoolery that happens on that very boat...

 

[Rick197]

Im in the navy and OMG what a serious bit of kit!!! Shame we cant launch fast jets from the sea anymore and have probably lost that functionality about 10 years!!

 

[nick197]

Cheers everyone.

 

[jase]

How long is it there for nick.?
Is it going to be there next weekend during the cannon run thing.?

 

[Paul]

I would have it in the twisties....

Thats very impressive but you have to question why we dont have similar carriers over here... :s

 

[Webby]

Mostly because of the 'carrier decision' back in the late 60's. We had some great looking carriers then! But it seems the same decisions are made again and again. When the Ark Royal was scrapped the UK was without fast jets until the HMS Hermes and Invincible class took on the Harriers.

This was the Ark Royal parked next to the Nimitz in 1978.

 

[Liambo-201]

I saw one of these years ago over in the US and holy **** how these things stay a float is a mystery (i know how a vessel floats but damn) lol.

Some serious bit of kit.

 

[Foxspeed]

Just a few mate, It's probably got more fire power than the whole of the RAF lol

its like a floating city mighty impressive

was thinking the same..............when the defence cuts kick in we wont have much left.....

 

[Rick197]

when the defence cuts kick in we wont have much left.....

we havent got much at the moment lol!!

 

[Foxspeed]

we havent got much at the moment lol!!

i know............and it aint right ! when were planning on giving £8billion to foreign countries

 

[nick197]

How long is it there for nick.?
Is it going to be there next weekend during the cannon run thing.?

The rumour is its going out today but the BBC are saying tuesday. Its heading to a hotter place which admitadly is'nt hard lol.

It was over here as a work up exercise of the coast of cornwall and Wales. It was or would have been the first atlantic exercise for the EA-18G Growlers. To say the RAF and Royal navy buggered it up for them is an understatment. We promised them fuel diverts {Yeovilton and Lyneham} and air refueling facilities and we let them down. Our tankers were mainly unavailable and Yeovilton was shut. Then Lyneham would'nt except them because they were waking the locals up. I had F18 fighter pilots on the radio saying it was a joke and this is the last time they'll be on exercise over here.

So after promising all that they could only do about 30% of there training. Next stop there going to protect our troops not 100% ready thanks to our MOD