The Queen Elizabeth class design would be reworked with catapult launch gear, The UK Royal Navy has revealed details of its intention to fit its two aircraft carriers with assisted launch systems and recovery gear, enabling operations by a variety of fixed-wing uncrewed aircraft and, potentially, also conventional takeoff and landing crewed types.
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They should have done this from the outset and equipped it with F-35C and Sea Typhoons.
Old talk, was mentioned over a year ago. Old video sadly
About time this is just common sense now you can have f35c e2 Hawkeye f18 and typhoons all which cost less than f35b.
They did but they wanted to do it with electric magnetic. But it wasn't ready then. Plus they may buy different F35 Lightning jet's.
⚠️ If they proposed the original catapult & arrester gear, the cost would of escalated by millions, and so the government would of highly likely have to cancel the project, like the TSR2 or similar and we wouldn't want that.
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Therefore, based on the RN's requirements that were restricted due to cost, the designers set about working within that criteria.
Moreover, they embedded key elements so that in the future, it can fairly easily be upgraded with cats & traps, etc.
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The #royalnavy has been a pioneer for hundreds of years, with Pepys and Fisher both significantly developing the RN.
✅️ The first aircraft carrier, HMS Argus, launched in 1917
✅️ The first ski-jump was installed on HMS Furious in 1944
✅️ The first take off & landing of a jet on HMS Ocean in 1945.
✅️ The development of the steam catapult for jets in 1946.
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So, even though it may not look like it on the outside sometimes, I can assure you the senior service knows what she's doing.
Then there is the silent service to which I'll remain silent…
In the meantime, what I seriously suggest to the public is to support a proposal of spending 4-5% of GDP on defence.
– If you want peace
Prepare for war.
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If Labour get in power the Royal Navy better start looking for elastic bands if it wants new catapults.
Question is, does the UK has this technology…? If not, who can it get from? Only 2 countries have this technology to the best of my knowledge. US and China. Forget about China but is the US willing to share this technology with the UK? I doubt….As it is, the two aircraft carriers cannot even functional effective with its nitty gritty problems. Is this just another PR exercise?
Said this years ago. Could have saved millions. Who makes these idiotic decisions????
Not the most flashy topic but you could do a video on the state of british shipbuilding/shipbuilders. There are a lot of big projects going on to massively improve that industry right now.
Bae at govan and the academy at scotstoun, h&w at belfast etc
Retro fitting probably turns out to be the best decision. For starters if fitted during build and with all its teething problems too we would now only have one carrier.
Typical M.O.D. Waste billions on the Ajax Project, and build carriers without arresting gear.
They should've built them like that from the beginning. A waste of time and money now.
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