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HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH TAKES TO THE WATER AS NEW CARRIER IS MOVED FOR FIRST TIME
http://globalaviationreport.com/2014/07/17/hms-queen-elizabeth-takes-to-the-water-as-new-carrier-is-moved-for-first-time/ ^
Posted on 07/19/2014 3:28:37 PM PDT by Smartisan
Britain’s biggest ever warship HMS Queen Elizabeth took to the water for the first time today as she was moved out of dry dock.
Rosyth, UK – With just two metres to spare at either side of the 65,000-tonne aircraft carrier, a flotilla of tugs inched the ship from the dock where she was constructed at Rosyth, near Edinburgh, to a neighbouring jetty where she’ll be completed over the next two years.
After a two-day operation to flood the cavernous dry dock, tugs began the delicate task of moving the leviathan in her entirety for the first time at dawn today.
It took just three hours to complete the ‘float out’ – an operation which took place 13 days after Her Majesty the Queen officially named the vessel in a spectacular ceremony.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: nojets
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:28:37 PM PDT
by
Smartisan
To: Smartisan
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:29:56 PM PDT
by
Smartisan
To: Smartisan; Jeff Head
Where are the training wheels?
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:32:07 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Smartisan
If Scotland goes independent where will the UK build their ships?
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:32:41 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: GeronL
Plenty of big drydocks in Belfast.
To: Edward Teach
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:34:44 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: Smartisan
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:38:39 PM PDT
by
flaglady47
(The useful idiots always go first)
To: rlmorel
ping...
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:42:54 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
To: Smartisan
wondering why does this aircraft carrier, not have an
angled deck & 4 catapults for launching ops?
..all jump-jets/helo? ..no straight/linear planes?
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:43:09 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Jihadist/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
To: Smartisan
How long before Michigan State schedules a game on its deck?
To: skinkinthegrass
There’s more than one way to cook an egg.
To: Smartisan
This thing looks like a barge or maybe a pre WW2 carrier, what a waste of 65,000 lbs.
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:53:30 PM PDT
by
GT1945
To: Edward Teach
“Plenty of big drydocks in Belfast.”
Harland & Wolff...
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:53:32 PM PDT
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
To: skinkinthegrass
wondering why does this aircraft carrier, not have an
angled deck & 4 catapults for launching ops?
..all jump-jets/helo? ..no straight/linear planes? 
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:55:26 PM PDT
by
moose07
(the truth will out ,one day.)
To: Smartisan; All
true..but do the jump-jets have the range req'd? ..or are radar-
guided missiles/projectiles enough for force projection.?
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:57:02 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
To: moose07
nice jump-jet..not F-35?
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posted on
07/19/2014 3:59:15 PM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...0'Bathhouse/"Rustler" Reid? d8-)
To: flaglady47
I was a little worried it might be an ugly duckling in the water, but from most angles it actually looks pretty spectacular. Viewed from its starboard side I thought it bore a resemblence to the Italian carrier Cavour.
To: skinkinthegrass
F-35B
They have “every confidence” in its capabilities.
Hope those Harriers are in mothballs somewhere.
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posted on
07/19/2014 4:01:37 PM PDT
by
moose07
(the truth will out ,one day.)
To: skinkinthegrass
Probably not for US purposes, but for UK more than enough to waltz around the Med looking pretty, scaring the Spaniards, and defending the unmentionable isles in the South Atlantic.
To: Smartisan
Thank you for not mentioning the Unmentionables. :)
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posted on
07/19/2014 4:05:25 PM PDT
by
moose07
(the truth will out ,one day.)
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