indian owned INS Viraat (was called HMS hermes) arrives in Kochi for decommissioning refit.
The oldest aircraft carrier in the world sailed for the last time under her own power from Mumbai and will spend about a month and half getting critical equipment removed before being towed back to Mumbai for the decommissioning ceremony.
The carrier has served two countries and has fought in the Falklands war under the Royal Navy's banner following which she was again mobilized during Op Parakram
dont rest easy yet argies...some bigger better ones with even more of a curvy ramp is on their way ;^)
>indian owned INS Viraat (was called HMS hermes) arrives in Kochi for decommissioning refit.
Humiliating desu.
Colton Stewart
>floating skatepark
Gavin Clark
>ramp
Josiah Scott
ITT post actual aircraft carriers
Liam Williams
F.
A shame you sold it to the poos. Still, may she rest in peace.
Dylan Fisher
Trigger the ramps
Noah Baker
Fugging leled, is this how Ahbars from the formerly british isles see themselves? A golden lion. You were shit flinging baboons for years till your upgraded to silverbacks after Brexit. Argentina is literally whiter than you.
Thomas Cruz
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Caleb Sullivan
was that from the 70s?
we stopped using flat tops in ww1 m8 we invented the flat top
Alexander Powell
Ski ramps are better for launching STOVL planes like the F-35B. Us Marine Corp pilots literally came buckets when flying from the Invincible class. Ramps mean; less fuel used, able to take off in rougher seas and loaded with more armaments when compared to the same planes taking off from flat tops without the use of Catobar.
Catobar is expensive and complex (the British should know as they invented the technology), without using nuclear power and cats the QE class is able to reduce the crew compliment from 1000's to 100's, which is important to a nation the size of the United Kingdom (65million vs Americas 350 million) By reducing cost The Royal Navy can afford two carriers of the class, when catobar was in the table France was going to buy the other one but pulled out over the nuclear power issue and their own defence cuts. By using conventional power the Royal Navy will have one at sea at all times, unlike nuclear powered carriers which need 3.5 carriers to have 1 available at all times, America has 10 nuclear carriers for an available 2.5 currently, while Gerald R Ford is being built.
> The more you know Now fuck off to /k/ with this
Angel Torres
> ramps
Landon Sanchez
you gotta go back pedro
Angel Green
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Landon Stewart
>"her"
Luis Rodriguez
I'll F, because Thatcher's speech in front of parliament still gives me chills.
Falklands "war" is a historical moment, I can only imagine what it was to be following it live.
>Brits' faces when the Belgrano got BTFO
Gabriel Gomez
F
Leo Adams
A
Luis Wood
>Not powering your warships with nuclear reactors
Brandon Roberts
Fuck that piece of junk. What's going on in the background?
Anthony Harris
What RimPac was that?
Isaiah Wilson
>powering your ship with a dangerous engine with a target painted on it
Christopher Walker
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Christian Cooper
>having a ramp >being forced to carry inferior weapons loads because of it >not having unlimited energy >being proud of this Wew
Jose Jackson
>samefagging this hard
Ayden Robinson
>be at war >run out of fuel
Brandon Lopez
A fucking ramp !
Ethan White
>triggered
Christian Rogers
ramps are for countries that are too inferior to build catapults
Michael Phillips
>not even boats are allowed dental visits in britistan
Sebastian Cox
>dont rest easy yet argies...some bigger better ones with even more of a curvy ramp is on their way ;^)
Nicholas King
It's still not flat.
Noah Bell
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Brody Turner
>A >FUCKING >RAMP
Charles Anderson
>A >FUCKING >RAMP
Oliver Scott
>George W Bush
Mason Sanchez
why are you showing off your fleet that has protected us for free for decades and saved us billions?
vote hillary and keep paying them taxes cucks!
we will spend the money we aint paying you on ourselves :v
Jonathan Jackson
you run out of food before you run out of either if i recall correctly.
I remember them putting brown ass lettuce out once food started to run out every month.
Nicholas Robinson
ships in the back high fiving each other with tiny hands
>my sides
Robert Ross
>flag of absolute inferiority and eternal butthurt
Charles Kelly
It was getting too old and costly to operate.
Joseph Sanders
Mfw our new aircraft carries will cost less than $10 billion and actually work.
Elijah Brown
lmao noplanes are you going to have half a wing by 2020 ?
James Gutierrez
Hey guys what's going on in this thread with these obsolete hunks of metal you call carriers?
James Roberts
What is wrong with ramps?
Nolan Lee
>A >FUCKING >RAMP
Gabriel Phillips
It's the only hypersonic missile in the world, mate.
David Rodriguez
We're going to bring these bad boys out of retirement.
Expecting Russian missiles to work and not miss fire.
Noah Reed
All that crying about ramps on carriers is just Americans padding their already inflated ego by trying to make fun of a more efficient design. At least that's how I've come to see it after reading dozens of threads full of burgertards sperging out.
Adam Gomez
Goodnight, sweet princess.
F
Colton Gomez
We see them like training wheels on a bicycle. Sure, they help you, and that's great. For you.
Lincoln Long
>having to carry a smaller payload >more efficient Just think of the taxes you'll save by not bombing the enemy as much! Revolutionary tactics right there, chap!
Talk to me about our egos when we gtfo NATO and you become Russian clay
John Torres
>richelieu if only ;_;
Michael Bennett
>easier to take off >thus able to take off with more weight >somehow this means the planes can't carry as they could on a carrier which makes it harder to take off
Isaac Lopez
>the planes can't carry as they could the planes can't carry as much as they could*
Brandon Butler
Tbh, the thing will be blown to bits before the aircraft can use up that extra on the payload.
Aircraft carriers are just a floating metal tub with a target on it.
>I don't understand what the fuck I'm talking about Maybe if you had a military, you would Lrn2physics
Brody Bell
>>easier to take off >easier to balance
Daniel Garcia
I'm well aware that modern missile tech has basically made the carrier an obsolete piece of hardware But that applies to skiramp carriers too, and only when going head to head against other sufficiently advanced militaries. Payload makes a huge difference when bombing mud people.
Aiden Gutierrez
>why does this have two superstructures? British engineering completed by Polish workers.
Dylan Turner
why do you spen billions on ships when your enemy is entering to your counry by the airports?
south america is a pacific region now and we want it to remain like that.
Lincoln Stewart
Were using vtol's mate. Finn guy is right.
Camden Hill
For Britain's size and for real full on country on country combat the ramp system is most optimal.
Small amount of aircraft means only a small carrier is needed when bombing dune-coons. Also if actual naval combat would to happen, it wont mean shit, since the carrier is cheaper due to the design.
Since we are cheap.
Brayden Wood
sabaton are truly the champions of shit lyrics
Aiden Thompson
>Expecting Russian missiles to work and not miss fire.
Russian missiles brought down the F117 and the U2.
Now shut the fuck up.
Isaiah Rogers
>Two planes in all of world history
Benjamin Ortiz
Doesn't make sense for an aircraft carrier. Even less sense for a navy with only two. The carrier has to be supplied with aviation fuel anyway - why not refuel the ship at the same time? Also if it was nuclear there would be times we would only have a single carrier or potentially none available during refueling. Which is catastrophic.
Sebastian Thomas
>We're going to bring these bad boys out of retirement.
tens of thousands of flight hours. Only two kills.
kek
Josiah Garcia
A FUCKING RAMP
Ian Gray
One is like all the shippy steery stuff and the other is like the air traffic controly stuff. Sorry to be all technical.
Isaiah Cox
F
Samuel Ramirez
t.Quebec
Camden Green
Fuck you and fuck your carrier
Falkland is Argentina Gibraltar is Spain Kosovo Je Srbija Crimea is Russia Norway is Sweden
Landon Carter
Two of you most advanced aircraft (at the time Soviet equipment destroyed them).
Also, the US lost several thousands of helicopters and fixed wing aircraft in Korea and Vietnam - all destroyed by Soviet missiles (SAM and AAM) and AAA.
>tens of thousands of flight hours
Really? Tens of thousands of flight hours over hostile ground monitored by Soviet AAA/SAM? What a load of shit. So, the F117 spend more than 19,000 hours flying over Soviet AAA/SAM. Care to post one source that states exactly that?
Zachary James
I wonder if we should take a chunk of Sweden as well?
Benjamin Barnes
Have they shot down an sr-71? They did try too an awful lot too. Is it because they couldn't because their technology is behind western powers?
Justin Bailey
>the Soviets never managed to shoot down that one special aircraft, but have shot down thousands of other US aicraft >it follows that ALL Soviet missile systems suck
