The Aircraft Carrier: Everything You Need to Know

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48 thoughts on “The Aircraft Carrier: Everything You Need to Know”

  2. I actually like that now you seem to add all the caveats. Something I found annoying about your channel are endless omissions for the sake of a plain narrative

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  3. What is with the perpetual background music on these videos? I noticed it before and it annoys every time. Is this a new style that is in vogue or makes videos "better?" My $0.02 is it is annoying and distracting.

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  16. edit: this comment is just me nitpicking because i'm a massive naval warfare nerd. the video is good i just like nitpicking and i can do a lot of it

    No USS Birmingham? First airplane take-off from a warship in human history? No? No mention?

    Edit: And Pennsylvania barely gets a mention for the first airplane landing on a warship. Wonderful.

    edit 2: a close look into Hermes and none for the Yorktowns. My guy. (As of the end of the interwar chapter)

    edit 3: just realised there was ALSO no mention of the off-deck elevators on Wasp and the Essexes.

    edit 4: Ah yes, the Buffalo was directly replaced with the Corsair and the Wildcat and Hellcat aren't real. (43:35)

    edit 5: Mentioning Illustrious' 36 aircraft and not giving a point of reference is also hysterical to me. For reference, a Yorktown would generally have about 85. (Edit onto this edit: Has he mentioned another carrier's number carried at any point throughout this video? Like, he made 36 sound like a lot. It wasn't for the time and still isn't really- just look at the Yorktowns.) (nvm it just took him 20 minutes (1:09:20 he mentions the Kitty Hawks having their 90 with the Audacious and Invincibles with their 40 and 20 and the clemenceau with 40)) (and the 30 of the Kyivs)

    edit 6: (mentions an Essex in the context of wwII) (uses an image of one from way after the war ended (i think about the 60s))

    edit 7: -Light carriers designed from the bottom up to be between Escort and Fleet carriers -San Jacinto (Not a nameship and converted from a light cruiser)

    edit 8: 50:00 NO MIDWAY?? NO TArANTO? NO PEArL? skipping to Philippine Sea? Why?? (OOkay he went back to Midway and briefly Pearl but the way Pearl was talked about made it seem like carriers were hit there (which they weren't) and the lack of Taranto is really interesting)

    edit 9: 55:38 Hiryu's counterattack ultimately sunk Yorktown. Yeah, sure. Whatever, at this point.

    edit 10: 58:22 im sorry i just cant let you get away with putting an old-timey filter over an F-35B takeoff

    edit 11: not really that important but the lack of mention that a catapult is better than a ski jump at getting heavy aircraft airborne (hence the lack of F-35C on the QEs) is just like. i mean come on.

    edit 12: 1:01:50 Simon you've shown a lot of images of carriers with angled flight decks by now. Including in the context of WW2, as mentioned in edit 6.

    edit 13: 1:02:55 NUH UH. I am not letting you get away with saying Enterprise-class and showing an image of CVN-80 (a Ford-class carrier), nevermind the fact that CVN-65 never got any sisters so saying she had a class is a misnomer

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  22. So for all of their faults I don't think carriers are going anywhere. There just isn't a better way yet to make your presence known around the world which is a diplomatic capability that the US especially holds dear. The US would find money to make sure that they are able to keep that going. I think future innovation will have to be around defense. The basics of this will be things like missile defense systems that are proving themselves right now in Ukraine and Israel. Oddly enough it could also be as extreme as a resurgence of the submarine carriers of yore as a hypersonic missile would get torn to shreds the second it hit the water even if an adversary knew where it was. Even if a carrier doesn't go fully submersible they could benefit by allowing the ship to use ballast tanks to lower their profile in the water thereby presenting a much smaller profile to an incoming missile. These are just thoughts but I would see them more likely than the US abandoning carriers.

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  23. This was great! Request: Could you do an episode covering wartime production of ships, planes, tanks, etc. during WWII? You hear tales of the American war machine after Pearl Harbor, but really don't know how much of it was true or not

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  25. I love the extended mega projects series, and the writing on this one was excellent. But the editing was… spotty to say the least. And please do away with the AI depictions, splash that little bit extra for stock photography or actual photographs of the place/thing please.

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  27. It has never been 10, it has always been 11. The DOD loved having 11 so much that 17 yrs ago in 2007, the US Navy first mentioned that Congress needs to include 11 super carriers as law in the Defense Authorization bill. Again in 2010, the U.S. Navy told Congress that it wants to keep 11 aircraft carriers through 2045. Finally, in 2012, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta proudly told the sailors aboard the USS Enterprise that "The U.S. is 100% committed to maintaining a fleet of 11 super aircraft carriers, in part to project sea power against Iran"

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  34. That isn't how you say jaguar it is a word stolen from native American Indians specifically a South American nation. My ancestors specifically would trade and communicated with the people's there. So some of the languages spoken are still part of our Nations history, and when I say Nation I mean it as in the sovereign sort.

    I get that languages are living, and that that word has become a part of European vernacular. However much like black panthers it isn't accurate, or real.

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  37. Thank you Simon. My grandfather was the Flight Engineer at Test Flight Farnborough to Capt Eric "Winkle" Brown who was the first pilot to land a jet aircraft on an aircraft carrier. He also has the world record for most deck landings at over 2,000

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  46. Please stop using AI images for historical content.
    I'm not anti-AI, but this is not the place for it.
    Edit: and chill with the old timey filters. They're annoying at best, wholly unnecessary if you're sourcing legit footage, and putting them on shots of F-35s is distractingly silly.

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