Originally Posted by
SASless
...I would love to see either or both of these RN Aircraft Carriers do a long at Sea deployment as some of our Carriers have done.
The Nimitz did a 270 day deployment with 144 continuous days at sea during one stretch of operations.
Are you guys ready for that contingency?
USS Nimitz (CVN 68) history
i believe so. No other carrier in the world has beaten
HMS Invincible‘s 166 consecutive days at sea in 1982.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/ob...-a6779361.html