Canberra Class

[Asturias56]

I think you've just proved my point - put a flat deck on a boat and people start to think it's an Aircraft Carrier...

The Canberra's are delivery trucks and buses that just happen to use helicopters for final delivery - they are not and never could be equivalent to a proper aircraft carrier. In fact they should be kept as far out of the firing line as possible

[Gnadenburg]

The Canberra class has exercised in an ASW role. Perhaps an ad hoc role but this link can offer thoughts on a useful role as an ASW helicopter carrier based on the ability to carry 4 x ASW helicopters.




https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/si...arine-warfare/

[hunterboy]

Isn’t an aircraft carrier just a bomb delivery truck? The final mile being achieved by F-18 and F-35’s?I should imagine it will be rolled out as an aircraft carrier against weaker adversaries and kept in port against stronger ones. Though to be honest, picking a fight against a stronger country is a bit foolhardy.

[Herod]

I would suggest few countries (apart from the Brits and the Yanks) would be foolhardy enough to send them up against the likes of Russia or China

Let's leave the Brits out of that idea.

Though to be honest, picking a fight against a stronger country is a bit foolhardy.

Yep

[junior.VH-LFA]

Still more useful than the Melbourne ever was though

[Union Jack]

Originally Posted by hunterboy

Isn’t an aircraft carrier just a bomb delivery truck? The final mile being achieved by F-18 and F-35’s?I should imagine it will be rolled out as an aircraft carrier against weaker adversaries and kept in port against stronger ones. Though to be honest, picking a fight against a stronger country is a bit foolhardy.

Well said. Based on my RAN exchange service, I should imagine that she will be used on very much the same lines as HMAS Sydney (III) - Part 2 | Royal Australian Navy very successfully was employed in the later years of her life.

Jack