PLEASE tell me this is from some English version of "The Onion".
Could it really come to this, the nation and navy that pioneered aircraft carriers, and launched the first carrier born assault on ships in a harbor (Thanks, btw, for proving to the Japs it could be done...) has to get carriers "off the rack"?
I should think an aircraft carrier, like all warships, should be "bespoke"...
Ah! The old MAC ship. These days you also have to turn the bridge tower around 90 degrees or slice half of it away to produce a "through-deck).
Sorry Theo, some of us remember the Elk (Falklands Flotilla STUFT). Her Master asked for a Sea Harrier to be carried aboard - he wanted her to be renamed the Elk Royal.
I think this is a drawing of the Royal Navy SCADS concept (shipborne containerized air-defense system). An idea that looks good until the ship is hit by an Exocet. Warships and Merchant ships are designed and fitted out differently because it is expected that a warship can continue to fight with damage control if hit. Merchant ships do not need this resilience.
There was also the US Arapaho system for converting a merchant ship into a helicopter carrier with containers in the early eighties. RFA Reliant was not a success.http://www.btinternet.com/~warship/Postwar/RFA/reliant.htm
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PLEASE tell me this is from some English version of "The Onion".
Could it really come to this, the nation and navy that pioneered aircraft carriers, and launched the first carrier born assault on ships in a harbor (Thanks, btw, for proving to the Japs it could be done...) has to get carriers "off the rack"?
I should think an aircraft carrier, like all warships, should be "bespoke"...
Ah! The old MAC ship. These days you also have to turn the bridge tower around 90 degrees or slice half of it away to produce a "through-deck).
Sorry Theo, some of us remember the Elk (Falklands Flotilla STUFT). Her Master asked for a Sea Harrier to be carried aboard - he wanted her to be renamed the Elk Royal.
I think this is a drawing of the Royal Navy SCADS concept (shipborne containerized air-defense system). An idea that looks good until the ship is hit by an Exocet. Warships and Merchant ships are designed and fitted out differently because it is expected that a warship can continue to fight with damage control if hit. Merchant ships do not need this resilience.
Why not build HMS Habbakuk fom Pykrete or commission a Skyhook equipped ship?
There was also the US Arapaho system for converting a merchant ship into a helicopter carrier with containers in the early eighties. RFA Reliant was not a success.http://www.btinternet.com/~warship/Postwar/RFA/reliant.htm
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