Newsnight - USS CARL VINSON

[flynavysomerset]

Informative 10 min look at life onboard the USS CARL VINSON and CVW-1 by the BBC. USS CARL VINSON

Regards to all,

FNS

[Lyneham Lad]

Just watched it on the Beeb's News website. An interesting and informative ten minutes - well worth watching.

[Hangarshuffle]

The Special Relationship is as stone dead as the fixed wing Fleet Air Arm, and only two or three replies to this thread proves it.

[AutoBit]

Hangershuffle if you've nothing worthwhile to say, don't say anything at all.

[tartare]

Interesting that they are spending so much time loitering and orbiting.
The perspective from news coverage is that it's take off, wham bam thank you mam and back.
That's a long day to spend with your posterior on a hard bang seat - waiting to plink a target.
You'd think there's be a market for a `Super-Reaper' type platform with double the weapon loadout that could spend all day out of reach of manpads, just waiting for a target to emerge.

[Davef68]

tartare, you mean something like this:

BAE Systems Mantis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Mantis)

Presumably the Yanks have something similar in development

[tartare]

Yes - twin turboprop - similar loiter time - but more hardpoints - able to carry 20-30 small diameter bombs, or large amount of Hellfires. And maybe a 30 mike under the nose - just for fun...

[Navy_Adversary]

Very good 10 minutes viewing, I enjoyed that.:)

[Sun Who]

X47 is the USN's future carrier-based UAV. Way, way in advance of both Mantis and Taranis.

X47 carrier landings (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxLnUKOA5xk)

Sun.

[orca]

But the UK will benefit directly because now we're fitting cats and traps and buying F-35C our drones could be like the X-47 and also operate from the boat.
It would be like a flexible basing option for the Combat Air mix.

Sorry, what?

STOVL?

Again?

So no wires?

So no drones?

Oh.