Sounds like something Venezuela or Zimbabwe would do.
I think Venezuela has more admirals than ships
Well, if they do buy it and try to operate it on their own, the comedy sure to ensue might be priceless............
does Angola have the ability to support this ship? dock it? maintain it?
Torpedo magnet!
Straw Man?
Tiny Mouse Makes a Big Splash
It seems their biggest ship to date is approximately one-half the size of one of the US Navy’s Perry class FFGs. WTF? A carrier needs sea room to operate effectively - form a protective bubble around itself, maneuver to launch/recover aircraft, etc. They are not coastal beasts. Yet the Angolans don’t seem to have anything that could go out “blue water” with it. Let alone any kind of ASW or AAW capable ships that could defend a carrier. In short it would rapidly become a very expensive sitting duck, and then shortly thereafter a nice man-made reef for divers.
It’s so cute!!
Last week it was announced that Angola was refusing registration of some muhamedan groups and closing illegal mosques. Perhaps they are fearful of ground attacks by irate Muslims and feel the aircraft are safer at sea? Perhaps war with Congo or Zaire?
Very odd indeed.
Angola ....it was reported...has decided to get rid of all its mosques......good reason to beef up the military. If this report is true I’d like to buy some Angolan imports....what do they import?
What a opportunity to aid the anti-islamics, and all this board has done is insult and denigrate the effort.
Just wow
LOL
Okey Dokey...
Need carrier group to keep it alive....
Kan’t afford it....
With a deck this size just think how many people can fish with their cane poles and their coffee cans full of worms.
That brings to mind Zambia’s space exploration program in the 1960’s. The training of prospective Zambian astronauts included having them crawl into barrels, which were then rolled down a slope, to simulate weightlessness in space.
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick wanted to bid but getting ship into the Alps was too difficult.
Class and type: Príncipe de Asturias-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: 15,912 tons standard,
16,700 tons loaded
Length: 195.9 m (643 ft)
Beam: 24.3 m (80 ft)
Draught: 9.4 m (31 ft)
Propulsion: 2 × Bazan-General Electric LM2500+ gas turbines in COGAG configuration, one shaft, 46,400 shp
Speed: 26 knots (48 km/h; 30 mph)
Range: 6,500 nautical miles (12,000 km; 7,500 mi) at 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Complement: 830 (total); 600 ship crew, 230 air crew
Sensors and
processing systems: Raytheon SPS-52C/D 3D air search radar,
SC Cardion SPS-55 surface search radar,
ITT SPN-35A aircraft control radar,
FABA SPG-M2B fire control radar,
SELEX Sistemi Integrati RTN-11L/X missile approach warning radar,
Selex RAN 12 L target designation radar
Electronic warfare
& decoys: Nettunel electronic countermeasures unit,
Super RBOC,
Sensytech AN/SLQ-25 Nixie decoy
Armament: 4 × FABA Meroka Mod 2B CIWS,
12 × Oerlikon L120 20 mm guns
Aircraft carried: 29 fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft
Aviation facilities: 12° ski jump 46.5 m in length