is she smoking like a steam train ?The Prince of Wales was on 30 days notice to sail, She left port 7 days after receiving orders to replace HMS Queen Elizabeth for the NATO exercise.
is she smoking like a steam train ?The Prince of Wales was on 30 days notice to sail, She left port 7 days after receiving orders to replace HMS Queen Elizabeth for the NATO exercise.
The question you should be asking is she vibrating like a dilldoe.is she smoking like a steam train ?
when there is both is time to worryThe question you should be asking is she vibrating like a dilldoe.
I agree that these carriers are probably some of the most complex and sophisticated single items ever produced. But it is really unacceptable for them to be dogged with problems over something as basic bearing blocks and shaft couplings. After all ships have now had screw propulsion for over 150 years!Had a chat with a former RN officer yesterday, mainly about other matters, but of course this was mentioned too... he isn't surprised at this and called it - with a straight face - teething troubles. I laughed at that, but he explained it and it is a reasonable claim.
When a new class of ship, or major change to an existing class is brought in there are nearly always problems of some sort. This is the same in all navies, the US, France and others all have the same thing happen. He reckons it takes up to a decade for anything major to be sorted out...
He went on to say that this is why more ships are needed, to allow for such problems and to allow for an experienced production line to exist. He claimed, and I don't know about the economics of this, that it is worth subsidising foreign sales of ships to overcome the problems stated.
Would the crew be interchangeable?
I suppose the aircraft must be the easiest item to switch?
I agree that these carriers are probably some of the most complex and sophisticated single items ever produced. But it is really unacceptable for them to be dogged with problems over something as basic bearing blocks and shaft couplings. After all ships have now had screw propulsion for over 150 years!
Better sharpen my pitch forkReally ? according to some they are going to take the whole of Europe by next Tuesday week
Seen it myself first hand on jobs, where the council, or government are paying for something and the chap representing them telling the contractor to charge anything they like and they will pay.Same all over got to be, public sector is now totally inept and incompetent, while private sector is greedy and money-grabbing.
Was just reading yesterday that some of the places built under PFI initiatives are now getting hammered for maintenance charges written in to the small print. Schools contracted to keep the grass areas below a particular height so the contractors are there cutting grass every few days which the school has to pay for, etc.
I really don't know what the answer is.
You write a letter and tell them so, that'll learn 'em.I agree that these carriers are probably some of the most complex and sophisticated single items ever produced. But it is really unacceptable for them to be dogged with problems over something as basic bearing blocks and shaft couplings. After all ships have now had screw propulsion for over 150 years!
Thank you.Each ship has its own crew,
The crew belong to to the ship but the aircraft don't.
QE will shortly be heading to dry-dock at Rosyth.
Carriers are staggeringly expensive, but this is why we have two. (French only have 1)
Thank you.
Got to wonder why we decided to have two if the Russians and French reckon they can get by with one.
Is it because we knew that at any one time one maybe out of service like as now?
I guess its more to do with our maritime history, and an aspiration to remain a global superpower.
Think some of the F35s onboard actually report to sleepy Joe?
I've already told them. One of my sons was a BAe engineer on the PoW construction. Reply was propulsion units were bugger all to do with him.You write a letter and tell them so, that'll learn 'em.
Tell him to seek promotion.I've already told them. One of my sons was a BAe engineer on the PoW construction. Reply was propulsion units were bugger all to do with him.
Assisted by a huge ocean-going tug apparently. Maybe the modern answer is more bases on foreign soil. Hey Mr Trump!Fair chance he might have 1 operational though.
Not a military type, but I've always thought carriers are rather a large sitting
The Gerald R Ford has been dogged with trouble since construction started. And the RN could neither remotely afford one let alone two or crew them without mothballing the rest of the navy..Stupid build form the start, the US was willing to share the tech for its own system, could have licensed it and been in a much better position with a much better design.
@Muck Spreader you laugh, but we have an expensive and not very good design; the only thing worse would be to have an expensive and not very good nuclear carrier - just ask the French.