
Talking of scale, one of the construction blocks from the new UK carriers. Gives an interesting impression of the scale of it when you can actually see the innards.

And a US carrier is more than half as large again...

GrahamKennedy wrote:It's remarkable to think that a multi billion dollar nuclear aircraft carrier is used as a car ferry sometimes.But yeah, from what I read it makes a lot of sense.
Talking of scale, one of the construction blocks from the new UK carriers. Gives an interesting impression of the scale of it when you can actually see the innards.
And a US carrier is more than half as large again...
GrahamKennedy wrote:*snip image*
Captain Seafort wrote:GrahamKennedy wrote:*snip image*
Huh? No angled deck? Guess that's decides whether we'll be getting the B or C.
Atekimogus wrote:No expert here, but why only 40 aircraft? Isn't that kinda few considering the size?
Mikey wrote:I was wondering about that myself. Namely, "Why would the UKoGBaNI adopt a carrier design without an angled flight deck?"
Mikey wrote:I was wondering about that myself. Namely, "Why would the UKoGBaNI adopt a carrier design without an angled flight deck?"
Griffin wrote:Because this way it's not like the French one.
Tholian_Avenger wrote:Does it being designed for vertical and short take off operations have something to do with that decision?
Mikey wrote:Tholian_Avenger wrote:Does it being designed for vertical and short take off operations have something to do with that decision?
Probably not, considering the abandonment of the Harrier.
Captain Seafort wrote:Atekimogus wrote:No expert here, but why only 40 aircraft? Isn't that kinda few considering the size?
Not really. It's about half the complement of a Nimitz on two-thirds the displacement. Given that a smaller ship will naturally have a greater proportion of its volume taken up by machinery, that's pretty good. It's about the same as the Charlie G, on the same displacement and with larger aircraft.
Captain Seafort wrote:Mikey wrote:Tholian_Avenger wrote:Does it being designed for vertical and short take off operations have something to do with that decision?
Probably not, considering the abandonment of the Harrier.
That might actually be part of it, given that we were originally going to equip them with F35Bs.
Mikey wrote:What's the plan now? Does the Typhoon have a naval variant/STOL variant?
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