majority of cabins for the 1,690 strong crew are reportedly not supplied with running water.
An Odungo dream come true....community showers
I read this yesterday and laughed.
This is what Obama resorts too. Playground banter.
Russia and Putin’s military force is JV. That’s what they’re saying.
Jut another one of the former Soviet Union’s naval shows of weakness?
Stick a sock in it Brits, you've made yourselves irrelevant.
I am sure only half of the nuclear weapons they drop on our cities will fail to go off. Obama is so wise to eliminate our fleet, nothing to rust.
I thought it had coal fired boilers.
The Russians spent $50B on the winter Olympics yet have only one questionable fixed wing AC carrier.
This story is coming from a paper who’s country currently lacks an active aircraft carrier. Their first will only be commissioned next year.
You want to see a real sign of weakness? take a look at the continued sorties the Russians flew over ISIS last year.
5600 in 1st 100 days, some 9000 over 5 months. Talk to a maintainer for an idea what we could sustain after an initial surge depending on a lot of set up. I don’t know, but I suspect it is a fraction on a sustained basis.
So they have a pos carrier. Only one. Perhaps they have a different view of power projection that doesn’t depend of naval aviation.
It may be junk but they sure seemed to be kicking ass when they were in Syria. I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving team.
A lot of people are forgetting that there is at least one known Submarine in this “floatilla”.
Carriers are almost obsolete for a modern war. Nothing but a big slow target for advanced guided missiles. They’re only useful for ops in turd-world countries.
What weapons WWIII would actually be fought with, we don’t know. But definitely not carriers.
I’d imagine future ships will be small, stealthy and fast. With racks of drones sitting below that can fly out like bees
Laugh if you want but the Royal Navy is not what it used to be either.
Build time: 1982-1990.
“...........Has Tow Boat In Case It Breaks Down”.
Seems to me if there was a towboat in case it breaks down there would have been a picture of it. I didn’t see any photographs of a towboat in this article.
C'mon, no carrier ever goes anywhere without an escort...< /sarc >
And the Japanese are all near-sighted, so they cannot fight at night; their diet is fish and rice so they are weak and stunted; and because Japanese mothers carried babies on their backs, they wouldn’t make good pilots when they grew up due to no sense of balance. These were common themes the Brits, and others, had of those people - until Dec. 7.
“Those who cannot remember the past . . .”
Ohhh nooo,
This can’t be true.
Putin says he is going to resurrect the Soviet Union and again rule the world.
And Russia is broke.
Very wise words indeed.
Just speculation. Running a steam railroad locomotive you would fuel (fire) the boiler at a rate close to the speed or tractive effort required at any given time. Running the boiler hotter would not only mean venting excess steam (a waste of power), but you would also likely have inefficient combustion -excess smoke being a tell tail sign.
The carrier is likely traveling at far less than maximum speed, but with potential enemy ships with just thousands of yards away they would need to ability to meanuver quickly -not waiting to build a full “head of steam”.
So, you might assume that the boilers at running at full capacity, grossly inefficient given the speed required, but excess capacity is lending the ability to go to full speed quickly -without lag time to build more steam. Again, running in that inefficient state it is expelling unburnt gases (inefficient combustion) and likely venting excess steam.
This may well be why the smoke plume looks rediculous.