Like that time the Royal Navy sent out an aircraft carrier to hunt for submarines to find it was sunk by a submarine during WW2. What a brilliant idea that was. Always need them escorts.
@@aaronlimeuchin7352 HMS Ark Royal and/or HMS Courageous. They were then taken off because of how valuable and they are. I wish I could find the source telling me this, its now lost in the past.
@@ArcticuKitsu thanks for the information, sir. By the way, I did heard that during WW2, a British task force comprised of two destroyers called Ardent, Acasta and one aircraft carrier HMS Glorious sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneinsenau in Norway. I heard that it was among the worst blunders in the Royal Navy before the sinking of HMS Hood by Bismarck at the next year.
@@aaronlimeuchin7352 You're welcome. I did see something about that on wiki about HMS Glorious being sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneinsenau on wiki. I should have followed it, though with how late in the night it was I skipped past it. At a glance I knew it wasn't nice, wasn't aware it was a blunder like that. I need to now look more into that... Find a video, or something. Interesting so I can actually appropriately comment to that sort of happening. Recently learned more about Midway with how Americans basically "button mashed" (gaming wise) their way through that happening. Pure luck through chaos. Crazy stuff. I also play a game called Azur Lane so it has weird vibes when you note those names. A sense of 'familiarity'. Used to play KanColle. I thank them both for making me more aware of what happened during WW2.
@Hammer 001 I mean capital ships in general. Before subs and torpedo boats, cruisers and battleships often went solo - after, they needed a screen to follow them almost everywhere.
@HowlingWolf518 Torpedoes are pretty much on the back burner right now. Missile like the P-700 and Zircon are the preferred method of attack now as they allow subs or ships to attack from hundreds of miles away. Torpedoes are still a threat but they are still have to be extremely close for best accuracy so you can sink a ship but there is high chance that you would lose the sub too
@Hammer 001 But there *were* destroyers - Force Z couldn't sail alone like the pre-dreadnoughts and early dreads often did. Also, Indomitable was supposed to go with them for air cover, but was damaged on her shakedown run.
Queen Elizabeth has been gone for centuries. The carrier is named after a ship named after Queen Elizabeth 1 who was simply Queen Elizabeth in her time.
SG21337 unless you call her the uss enterprise from world war 2 who was announced by the Japanese 3 times that it was sunk in battle then being called the the gray ghost or the galloping ghost later when it was fixed for the 3rd time
If you ever feel useless, remember that theres a guard with an SMG guarding the deck of an aircraft carrier, which in turn is escorted by a small fleet of frigates and destroyers.
If some enemy special forces managed to get on deck you'd get the destroyer to shoot the deck right? This is why you're limited to the comments section.
@AJ No, supercells/tornadoes are something that fascinates me but not to the point of becoming a meteorologist. Plus I'd have to move to the US if I wanted to study those thoroughly and go storm chasing
sensible driver I could guess considering it’s not a very hard concept, however it’s titled what it is for a reason, and it does give some insight. I didn’t know they couldn’t travel alone, so the title alone helped me. I get your point, but remember, it’s only 2 minutes, and it wasn’t a bad video.
yup and the ones closest to the carrier are the Frigates, Heavy Cruisers, Destroyers, and Assault Ships. Towards the back are the Fleet Oilers, Tugs, and Escort Carriers with The Sub underneath the ship that is how a carrier taskforce is set up.
The best part about this is the description saying that it is the most guarded ship in the royal navy's history with a grand total 2 destroyers, 2 frigates and 1 submarine as its escort
That's why the US does not place a whole lot of symbolic value on any one carrier. Because we know that if the mission's that important - even a carrier strike group is expendable.
@@mugenjin4693 I don't get why the Hood was called the pride of the Royal Navy. It wasn't the best ship, the fastest, most well armored or armed, some crew at the time considered it a punishment to serve on, and it had a reputation for being awash with vermin. Why not oh, all the Queen Elizabeth-class, or Revenge-class, or the latest and greatest King George V-class battleships which also saw extensive service in WW1 and WW2?
@@MrElis420 Hood had her issues (though I think she wasn't as weak as some claim her to be, but just very very unlucky) but she was one of the fastest among the capital ships. As for the other ships you mention: they either had gun issues (KGV-class, though they were partially solved by the time of the Battle of North Cape) or a lack of speed (QE, Revenge). That doesn't take away any of the achievements of those ships of course.
Watch the full episode and and what they were talking about is actually a carrier strike group comprised of a Trafalgar class submarine then your frigates and cruisers and finally the resupply ship.
It will be escorted by an Astute class submarine, type 26 Frigate, two type 45 destroyers and finally a Tide class resupply ship. We don't have cruisers and the Trafalgar class subs went out of service years ago.
@@krashd fourteen ships can be sent to 14 different places, or rather 4 different places, maybe 5 due to the nature of ship deployment. With 6 destroyers, the British only have enough to make up one carrier battle group, and f all else. You need three ships generally to have one available at any one time
@Hammer 001 Ok I see you're just looking for an argument and I'm not willing to get into one. Both RN carriers and US carriers are great ships for their respective roles. The question of which is better is really only a question of what job you're asking the ships to do.
I am probably not the only American here who did a head desk expecting something more than a no brainer. Aircraft carriers are sitting ducks without a convoy. A very huge expensive duck with a huge target on its deck and hull.
This guy makes it sound like ours is the only carrier that does this; erm, all Carriers to the best of my knowledge run with battle groups; it would be folly to run solo. A carrier is just that; it carries aircraft; it's not a ruddy battleship armed to the teeth with guns, missiles, torpedoes etc. And even they rarely ran alone after WW2.
You’ve got to love Capt Jerry Kyd haven’t you? He is just so enthusiastic about his ship and the RN in general, What a great guy. It’s also fairly typical Navy humour to give command of the future fleet flag ship to a man who has the same name as a once famous pirates. Nice one guys!! Nice one.
@ Dylan Hurley: Glorious wasn't actually sailing alone though, she had an escort of two Destroyers, HMS Acasta and Ardent, obviously nowhere near enough to protect her from Scharnhorst and Gneisenau although Acasta severely damaged Scharnhorst in an heroic torpedo attack before she went down. There was a larger RN ship in the area, the cruiser HMS Devonshire but she was engaged in rescuing the Norwegian Royal Family and with them on board she was forbidden to engage and the Glorious and her escorts were sacrificed to keep Devonshire's location secret.
@@plymouth5714 still, it showed the obvious. Aircraft carriers are pretty much sitting ducks without its airwing ready to fly. The destroyers at least managed to put up some fight, if I remember correctly, that managed to do some damage to the German battleships.
@Alexander: That's perfectly true, the carrier's main defence are it's own aircraft. There was a story which I don't know if its true or not, that the Glorious could have been warned about the German ships but wasn't. The reason being that the position of the battleships was picked up from Enigma intercepts but no action could be taken without a plausible 'excuse' for having that information so the Glorious was sacrificed to protect Enigma. The same thing was reputed to have happened with the hunt for the Bismark - the Admiralty knew where she was from the Bismark's own enigma signals giving her position back to German High Command. In that instance however it was arranged for a Catalina from Coastal Command to 'find' her and to be seen by the ship doing so. When Bismark reported the sighting back to Germany we knew the Enigma intercepts were safe!
@@plymouth5714 The CO of Glorious was a sub captain who hated the very concept of an aircraft carrier. He was enroute to his XO's Court Martial for disobeying orders for trying to use the carrier, as a carrier, CAP and all that. If the CO didn't make it to the Courts Martial to testify, the case would have been dismissed. So the CO abandoned the fleet for petty BS. Almost all, if not all planes went down on flight deck, or in the hangar. Said flying planes wasted fuel the ship needed to operate despite aviation fuel and ship fuel are used for specific uses and kept separate. So, no CAP was flown, nor search planes. The CO willfully endangered his ship, and his escorts.
lists basically everything in a naval force 'ships, frigates, destroyers, submarines, and aircraft coming together all at once' literally 10 seconds later:' there's a sense of purpose and a BIT of power'
What I like about this ship are the two towers. One for the ship's operation and the other for the flight operations. It seems to me this is a better design then American designed aircraft carries where all operation are in one tower. I wonder if the Queen Elizabeth has more room?
The problem with the US design is they have difficulty seeing the whole deck. The islands have been moving further and further rearward because of this. That makes seeing forward much more difficult for navigation... and US Navy ships are perhaps the most collision prone in the ocean.
Here's a thought for you. In the battle of Leyte Gulf, the United States Third and Seventh Fleets including some Australian warships, comprised 8 large aircraft carriers, 8 light carriers, 18 escort carriers, 12 battleships, 24 cruisers, 141 destroyers and destroyer escorts, and many other ships.
Apparently a lot of you don’t know much about historical naval aviation. During World War II the US and UK did not just have aircraft carriers. They also had what were called escort carriers. It wasn’t until the cold war that the US replaced escort carriers with amphibious assault ships. UK used aircraft carriers that were significantly smaller to their American counterparts. Those carriers exclusively operated the British Sea Harrier. The only carrier type that operated catapult aircraft were the Audacious class carriers. Only two of those carriers were completed: the HMS Eagle and the HMS Ark Royal. With the introduction of the Queen Elizabeth class carriers, UK naval doctrine has taken a dramatic shift. This is the first time in years at the UK has invested this much national treasure into two very large aircraft carriers. This new doctrine is virtually identical to the US doctrine that we have maintained since the beginning of the Cold War. So while most of us Americans think having carriers protected is normal; that was not always the case in the United Kingdom. In fact it was that older doctrine that prompted Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to order the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano. At that time the carrier force was too spread out, so the sinking of that ship was intended to deter the Argentinians from any sort of pincer movement. Had the Argentinians attempted a pincer movement they could’ve surrounded the entire British task force.
It might be obvious to many, but to the nonmilitary oriented...the explaination is welcome, and the visuals are fantastic. I love the ski ramp jump for the aircraft...always wondered why the U.S. uses such expensive and mechanically complex launch techniques.
“Where a Merlin will be the first ever aircraft to land on her flight deck” are we just going to ignore the weeks of F35 testing the Queen Elizabeth has already conducted, plus the countless operations the MERLIN helicopter has already completed from HMS Queen Elizabeth herself.
Since their inception by the BRITISH...100 yrs ago...a carrier never sails alone. They are central to a battle group. They also have unseen escorts...below the waves. Hats off to all on duty.!
How was this released yesterday when it says its about to have its first helicopter landing? It's on its F-35 trials at the moment, helicopters were ages ago.
During Land battles and Sea Battles Ship Carriers and Destroyers are the most valuable assets of the game on the Battlefield of War but Ship Carriers are a higher Price than a destroyer and for a number reasons 1. HQ and Head Command of Navy and Destroyer Support 2. Suppiles and equipment Runs for ground assult battles 3. Plane and helicopter Air Support
The destroyers, cruisers, subs, etc. that accompany a carrier are not along simply to escort and protect the carrier. Together they comprise a carrier battle group which gives the CBG flexibility to carry out complex missions thousands of miles from home port.
There is NO comparison to a US Supercarrier, but its nice to see the UK understand why we have carrier battle groups. No Aircraft Carrier deploys alone given its value in the air!
The answer to the title is simple - The same reason why Pocket Battleship 'Deutschland' was later renamed 'Lutzow' in early stages of WW2. Can You imagine what would have happened in Britain should the ship named 'Queen Elizabeth' had been destroyed?
a carrier is never alone the set up for a task force is Tankers and Tugs go to the aft they will fallow the ship and refuel and resupply it when it is at sea Destroyers, Heavy Cruisers, Frigates, and Escort Carriers go to the sides their job is to protect the ship and The Sub goes underneath the carrier their job is to sink enemy vessels. This is the makeup of a task force it has been that way since HMS Argus was launched in the 20s.
They call it a strike group, the carrier is usually patrolled with a pair of frigates, a pair of destroyers and a submarine. The carrier also carries secret tech and *must* be protected at all times.
(Haven't watched the video) Well it can't be alone because it's just big and bulky It's not as fast or agile as a destroyer so if a submarine sneaks up on it and fires a torpedo It can't escape it (unless the sub misses) I believe it's also because its turrets aren't as strong as destroyers and warships Please don't reply "you know nothing" because I do know something about the navy and ships but I'm more of a rail and aviation enthusiast.
I agree with u but I think they have pretty decent turrets if they have a Vulcan not sure if they do but what u said is correct if the carrier is alone a sub can easily sneak and launch a torpedo
It not about agility, it about specialisation. The carrier specialises in aircraft and let's others run defence. That said a helicopter heavy load would be quite effective against subs.
British aircraft carriers often sailed on their own during WWII in the North Atlantic, but in the Pacific it was with a fleet during the second half, also in peace time after WWII they sailed on their own, this will be the first time a British aircraft carrier will always sail in a fleet during peace time
USS Theodore Roosevelt, has 6 escorts. 6. When they last landed here in the Philippines, they had to distribute the escort ships to multiple ports because a single port cannot accommodate their crews.
Maybe because it's an Aircraft Carrier????..
The British don’t have that many carriers compared to the United States Navy which is why they value their carrier much more.
Yes, the Queen Elizabeth can not sail because.... It has no sails :(
No U.S. aircraft carrier travels alone just an FYI
@@anonymousandy5574 they only 1 that currently active
@@robloxunspacecommand1935 I mean your carrier groups tend to be 10 to 15 ships large
Because unescorted Aircraft Carrier = artificial coral reef.
Like that time the Royal Navy sent out an aircraft carrier to hunt for submarines to find it was sunk by a submarine during WW2. What a brilliant idea that was. Always need them escorts.
@@ArcticuKitsu what is the British carrier's name??
@@aaronlimeuchin7352 HMS Ark Royal and/or HMS Courageous. They were then taken off because of how valuable and they are. I wish I could find the source telling me this, its now lost in the past.
@@ArcticuKitsu thanks for the information, sir. By the way, I did heard that during WW2, a British task force comprised of two destroyers called Ardent, Acasta and one aircraft carrier HMS Glorious sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneinsenau in Norway. I heard that it was among the worst blunders in the Royal Navy before the sinking of HMS Hood by Bismarck at the next year.
@@aaronlimeuchin7352 You're welcome. I did see something about that on wiki about HMS Glorious being sunk by Scharnhorst and Gneinsenau on wiki. I should have followed it, though with how late in the night it was I skipped past it. At a glance I knew it wasn't nice, wasn't aware it was a blunder like that. I need to now look more into that... Find a video, or something. Interesting so I can actually appropriately comment to that sort of happening. Recently learned more about Midway with how Americans basically "button mashed" (gaming wise) their way through that happening. Pure luck through chaos. Crazy stuff.
I also play a game called Azur Lane so it has weird vibes when you note those names. A sense of 'familiarity'. Used to play KanColle. I thank them both for making me more aware of what happened during WW2.
Next up on the Smithsonian: Why airplanes have wings.
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Welp.
Black Hawk: Am I a joke to you?
@@Chickenworm9394 is the Blackhawk a plane?
@@AugmentedGravity An aircraft, just not fixed-wing
Actually, no carrier is allowed to sail alone.
@timetowaste yes?
@timetowaste MACs can Merchant Aircraft Carrier
@@emer07jiffy I am thinking he meant naval aircraft carriers.
@@pootmahgoots8482 I personally find jer's comment informative
@@Krish0916 I do too. I wasn't aware that there were such thing as a merchant aircraft carriers but hey, the more you know.
Hasn't this been the case (edit: for capital ships) ever since torpedoes were invented?
Hammer 001 also the same time as the ram saw a renaissance in warfare. Not a very effective thing during that era though...
@Hammer 001 I mean capital ships in general. Before subs and torpedo boats, cruisers and battleships often went solo - after, they needed a screen to follow them almost everywhere.
@HowlingWolf518
Torpedoes are pretty much on the back burner right now. Missile like the P-700 and Zircon are the preferred method of attack now as they allow subs or ships to attack from hundreds of miles away. Torpedoes are still a threat but they are still have to be extremely close for best accuracy so you can sink a ship but there is high chance that you would lose the sub too
@Hammer 001 But there *were* destroyers - Force Z couldn't sail alone like the pre-dreadnoughts and early dreads often did.
Also, Indomitable was supposed to go with them for air cover, but was damaged on her shakedown run.
@@Hammer 001
Not likely
Keel breaking is relative to the size of the ship even 2000lbs wouldnt do it
Because even though Queen Elizabeth is immortal, anything bearing her namesake isn't granted the immunity.
Queen Elizabeth has been gone for centuries. The carrier is named after a ship named after Queen Elizabeth 1 who was simply Queen Elizabeth in her time.
Rob Dewey he was talking about the Queen Elizabeth The 2nd
SG21337 unless you call her the uss enterprise from world war 2 who was announced by the Japanese 3 times that it was sunk in battle then being called the the gray ghost or the galloping ghost later when it was fixed for the 3rd time
Japan: Damages Enterprise, says it’s dead.
Enterprise: Gets fixed
Japan: Damages Enterprise, says it’s dead.
Enterprise: Gets fixes
Japan: Damages Enterprise, says it’s dead.
Enterprise: gets fixed
Japan: oh for f***s sake
@@robdewey317 Its named after the Queen Elizabeth battleships i heard.
Next up: why cars can’t move without wheels
Why is that it always confused me
@@nuclearphoenix177 wheels provide a surface to move upon without too much friction and they're well, circular
@@nuclearphoenix177 and can roll
@@daniel26964 my god, i never knew that
@@daniel26964 who are you who are so wise in the ways of science
Only makes perfect sense. What navy would be so foolish as to send such a valuable unit to sea alone? Good on ya', mates!
@Vlodec yes bombers got taken out because of their size but because they were in a huge mass they didn't get taken down as easily
Ask the 4 japanese and 3 american carriers in ww2.
The only thing that ever goes out alone is a submarine
@FBI Mate, how many bloody FBI accounts are there? 🤣🤣
Yamato and the bismark
Never send a ship out in its own
If you ever feel useless, remember that theres a guard with an SMG guarding the deck of an aircraft carrier, which in turn is escorted by a small fleet of frigates and destroyers.
Actually that’s a rifle, the L85a3 but still useless to guard the deck of a ship guarded by other ships
He has the gun because if somebody on board the ship goes rogue or tries to sabotage the ship systems, he can respond with fatal force
If some enemy special forces managed to get on deck you'd get the destroyer to shoot the deck right?
This is why you're limited to the comments section.
@@tomstech4390 ya ofc. If I can’t have it they can’t either (sarcasm btw)
He’s not useless though? If someone boards the ship he can shoot on sight if he has to
Why tf am I watching this instead of studying. I'm not even British
Faby Ana lol study girl
@@Lisa-pn1eu
But finding out why this ship can't sail alone is much more important 😂
@Ngangam Haolai
Nooooo... what makes you say that?
@Ngangam Haolai
I know, I was joking. Eh, my exams are still a month away 😂
@AJ
No, supercells/tornadoes are something that fascinates me but not to the point of becoming a meteorologist. Plus I'd have to move to the US if I wanted to study those thoroughly and go storm chasing
The title is like saying why a gun can’t fire without a bullet.
u can dry fire
The most British thing ever, waving at the passing helicopter with a cup of tea in his hand, what a captain haha
Exactly 😎🫖🇬🇧
What a waste of 2 mins to state the obvious.
sensible driver 2 minute of your life gone, to learn a brief educational video. Wow. You should sue
@@generictoasterstroodle1080 Did you know why carriers never sail alone?
sensible driver I could guess considering it’s not a very hard concept, however it’s titled what it is for a reason, and it does give some insight. I didn’t know they couldn’t travel alone, so the title alone helped me. I get your point, but remember, it’s only 2 minutes, and it wasn’t a bad video.
GENERIC Toaster Stroodle It was some very basic knowledge. They don’t make carrier task groups for a reason
😂literally the reason why any aircraft carrier is escorted
A bit of unsustainable military bling.
That the UKs economic position make unsustainable.
yup and the ones closest to the carrier are the Frigates, Heavy Cruisers, Destroyers, and Assault Ships. Towards the back are the Fleet Oilers, Tugs, and Escort Carriers with The Sub underneath the ship that is how a carrier taskforce is set up.
The best part about this is the description saying that it is the most guarded ship in the royal navy's history with a grand total 2 destroyers, 2 frigates and 1 submarine as its escort
There isn't enough money to guard it.
@@iwx2672 no how its saying it's the most gaurded royal navy ship in their entire history
Next up: why boats have bilge pumps even though they're supposed to float
Imagine the moral hit of losing this ship. Almost like losing the Hood.
That's why the US does not place a whole lot of symbolic value on any one carrier. Because we know that if the mission's that important - even a carrier strike group is expendable.
@@colincampbell767 thats because usa has a huge amount of resources and manpower and money at her disposal. The UK unfortunately does not
@@mugenjin4693 I don't get why the Hood was called the pride of the Royal Navy. It wasn't the best ship, the fastest, most well armored or armed, some crew at the time considered it a punishment to serve on, and it had a reputation for being awash with vermin. Why not oh, all the Queen Elizabeth-class, or Revenge-class, or the latest and greatest King George V-class battleships which also saw extensive service in WW1 and WW2?
@@mugenjin4693 but history will never forget the name enterprise.
@@MrElis420 Hood had her issues (though I think she wasn't as weak as some claim her to be, but just very very unlucky) but she was one of the fastest among the capital ships. As for the other ships you mention: they either had gun issues (KGV-class, though they were partially solved by the time of the Battle of North Cape) or a lack of speed (QE, Revenge).
That doesn't take away any of the achievements of those ships of course.
Watch the full episode and and what they were talking about is actually a carrier strike group comprised of a Trafalgar class submarine then your frigates and cruisers and finally the resupply ship.
It will be escorted by an Astute class submarine, type 26 Frigate, two type 45 destroyers and finally a Tide class resupply ship.
We don't have cruisers and the Trafalgar class subs went out of service years ago.
Yes, a pity the British are building 8 of them to replace the 13 type 23s.
@Brian Coley I think what you are saying is Britain will be stretched in providing the proper escort for her Carriers?
@@johnlavery3433 It's not a pity if one new ship can protect the same area as half a dozen of it's predecessors.
@@krashd fourteen ships can be sent to 14 different places, or rather 4 different places, maybe 5 due to the nature of ship deployment. With 6 destroyers, the British only have enough to make up one carrier battle group, and f all else. You need three ships generally to have one available at any one time
Might as well have been titled "why HMS Queen Elizabeth cannot sail without propellers"
Alternative title: *"WHY Literally EVERY aircraft carrier Can't Sail Alone"*
Corrected title: "Why ANY Aircraft Carrier Can Never Sail Alone."
Cheers from the USA!
Cheers from the UK!
UK is cool tho
Comes complete with a water slide on the front, a teeter totter below deck, and training wheels on either side of the rudder.
@Hammer 001 He's just poking fun, no need to get defensive. RN and USN carriers are very likely to be operating in task groups together.
@Hammer 001 Why does the size of the rudder matter. Carrier's aren't famed for their maneuverability, it's not really in the job description.
@Hammer 001 Ok I see you're just looking for an argument and I'm not willing to get into one. Both RN carriers and US carriers are great ships for their respective roles. The question of which is better is really only a question of what job you're asking the ships to do.
@cleo0399 You'd have a long way to get over to us though luv. ☢🚢
@Hammer 001 the sarcasm was probably too stealthy for others to detect
You could re-title this video "Why you never send your king out by himself."
Isnt that why U.S carriers hav a carriers group sooo they won’t get destroyyed? Isnt it same with this carriers?
No. US carriers have onboard anti-missile defenses. It's a greater level of protection.
Edwin Mintey no, U.S. carriers have very similar defences to this vessel. If you look, the U.S. carriers will travel with up to 6 individual vessels.
@@harryabbott9994 You are mistaken, US carriers have missile defense, full stop. That is in addition to it's escort.
@@emintey they still travel in groups....
Edwin Mintey British carriers only have ballistic CIWS systems, the American carriers have RIM-116/162 missiles too
Royal Navy:you can't even touch one of us
Bismarck emerging from the sea : allow me to introduce myself
Aircraft carriers have been among us now for nearly 100 years. None of them have ever sailed alone. Not even in times of peace.
I am probably not the only American here who did a head desk expecting something more than a no brainer. Aircraft carriers are sitting ducks without a convoy. A very huge expensive duck with a huge target on its deck and hull.
Title: “Why HMS Queen Elizabeth Can Never Sail Alone”
Me: Cause she’s the queen.
This guy makes it sound like ours is the only carrier that does this; erm, all Carriers to the best of my knowledge run with battle groups; it would be folly to run solo. A carrier is just that; it carries aircraft; it's not a ruddy battleship armed to the teeth with guns, missiles, torpedoes etc. And even they rarely ran alone after WW2.
"Why the queen Elizabeth never sails alone"
*Royal navy has vivid memories of what happened to HMS glorious in WW2*
You’ve got to love Capt Jerry Kyd haven’t you?
He is just so enthusiastic about his ship and the RN in general, What a great guy.
It’s also fairly typical Navy humour to give command of the future fleet flag ship to a man who has the same name as a once famous pirates.
Nice one guys!! Nice one.
Replace HMS Queen Elizabeth to 'literally any carrier'
Wow! This is so unique when compared to other aircraft carriers!
HMS Glorious is the reason aircraft carriers never travel alone
@ Dylan Hurley: Glorious wasn't actually sailing alone though, she had an escort of two Destroyers, HMS Acasta and Ardent, obviously nowhere near enough to protect her from Scharnhorst and Gneisenau although Acasta severely damaged Scharnhorst in an heroic torpedo attack before she went down. There was a larger RN ship in the area, the cruiser HMS Devonshire but she was engaged in rescuing the Norwegian Royal Family and with them on board she was forbidden to engage and the Glorious and her escorts were sacrificed to keep Devonshire's location secret.
@@plymouth5714 still, it showed the obvious. Aircraft carriers are pretty much sitting ducks without its airwing ready to fly. The destroyers at least managed to put up some fight, if I remember correctly, that managed to do some damage to the German battleships.
@Alexander: That's perfectly true, the carrier's main defence are it's own aircraft. There was a story which I don't know if its true or not, that the Glorious could have been warned about the German ships but wasn't. The reason being that the position of the battleships was picked up from Enigma intercepts but no action could be taken without a plausible 'excuse' for having that information so the Glorious was sacrificed to protect Enigma. The same thing was reputed to have happened with the hunt for the Bismark - the Admiralty knew where she was from the Bismark's own enigma signals giving her position back to German High Command. In that instance however it was arranged for a Catalina from Coastal Command to 'find' her and to be seen by the ship doing so. When Bismark reported the sighting back to Germany we knew the Enigma intercepts were safe!
"Admiral, we've been glory-holed!"
@@plymouth5714 The CO of Glorious was a sub captain who hated the very concept of an aircraft carrier. He was enroute to his XO's Court Martial for disobeying orders for trying to use the carrier, as a carrier, CAP and all that. If the CO didn't make it to the Courts Martial to testify, the case would have been dismissed. So the CO abandoned the fleet for petty BS. Almost all, if not all planes went down on flight deck, or in the hangar. Said flying planes wasted fuel the ship needed to operate despite aviation fuel and ship fuel are used for specific uses and kept separate. So, no CAP was flown, nor search planes. The CO willfully endangered his ship, and his escorts.
No carriers sail alone, at least not in modern navies. Some may have done so in WWII under special circumstances.
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I knew I was doing something wrong in that F16
I love the design of this ship... It is really beautiful
So in other words carrier tactics relating to defense haven’t changed since World War Two.
Got it.
lists basically everything in a naval force 'ships, frigates, destroyers, submarines, and aircraft coming together all at once'
literally 10 seconds later:' there's a sense of purpose and a BIT of power'
No Aircraft Carrier can ever sail alone
The response time on them is far more than on a Destroyer or a Frigate
Short answer: Because without the escort it is vulnerable and it is one of the UK's greatest Naval Military assets.
What I like about this ship are the two towers. One for the ship's operation and the other for the flight operations. It seems to me this is a better design then American designed aircraft carries where all operation are in one tower. I wonder if the Queen Elizabeth has more room?
The problem with the US design is they have difficulty seeing the whole deck. The islands have been moving further and further rearward because of this.
That makes seeing forward much more difficult for navigation... and US Navy ships are perhaps the most collision prone in the ocean.
Here's a thought for you. In the battle of Leyte Gulf, the United States Third and Seventh Fleets including some Australian warships, comprised 8 large aircraft carriers, 8 light carriers, 18 escort carriers, 12 battleships, 24 cruisers, 141 destroyers and destroyer escorts, and many other ships.
Not a single aircraft carrier ever sails alone! This videos title is a complete clickbait!
Apparently a lot of you don’t know much about historical naval aviation. During World War II the US and UK did not just have aircraft carriers. They also had what were called escort carriers. It wasn’t until the cold war that the US replaced escort carriers with amphibious assault ships.
UK used aircraft carriers that were significantly smaller to their American counterparts. Those carriers exclusively operated the British Sea Harrier. The only carrier type that operated catapult aircraft were the Audacious class carriers. Only two of those carriers were completed: the HMS Eagle and the HMS Ark Royal.
With the introduction of the Queen Elizabeth class carriers, UK naval doctrine has taken a dramatic shift. This is the first time in years at the UK has invested this much national treasure into two very large aircraft carriers. This new doctrine is virtually identical to the US doctrine that we have maintained since the beginning of the Cold War. So while most of us Americans think having carriers protected is normal; that was not always the case in the United Kingdom.
In fact it was that older doctrine that prompted Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to order the sinking of the ARA General Belgrano. At that time the carrier force was too spread out, so the sinking of that ship was intended to deter the Argentinians from any sort of pincer movement. Had the Argentinians attempted a pincer movement they could’ve surrounded the entire British task force.
0:43 The first time I saw that ship, I said "What? The FBI has a warship?" Yes, I know it's F81.
Meanwhile at the FBI headquarters:
"Uh oh, I just realized what they meant by Internet Piracy."
The same reason every aircraft carrier won’t be alone but part of a battle group.
Yeah, that's the case with all aircraft carriers.
It may not be the biggest, most advanced aircraft carrier, but i think it's just awesome, and i love it!
Answer: Because a Kirov might be lurking out there!
R.I.P. HM Queen Elizabeth. We will never forget your particular brand of your legacy and essence of your life over the pervasive changes in time.
The Queen Elizabeth isn't vulnerable...
She is like 2100years old
It might be obvious to many, but to the nonmilitary oriented...the explaination is welcome, and the visuals are fantastic.
I love the ski ramp jump for the aircraft...always wondered why the U.S. uses such expensive and mechanically complex launch techniques.
Well of course you can't let the Queen sail alone. Even if she can hold her own she still needs her body guards.
How to never be Forever Alone:
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I mean, doesn’t take a genius to know a floating pile of money = we should protect it
Nice to see the beautiful Firth of Forth, Burntisland and the Binn.
I see the RN has to have tokens on there ships .
“Where a Merlin will be the first ever aircraft to land on her flight deck” are we just going to ignore the weeks of F35 testing the Queen Elizabeth has already conducted, plus the countless operations the MERLIN helicopter has already completed from HMS Queen Elizabeth herself.
Every Aircraft Carrier should have a fleet dedicated to guarding it.
The same reason no aircraft carrier can sail alone.
Are they going to take Hong Kong back with that ship??? Good luck
@@davidhigham4766 You mean even if you don't like the landlord.
There are very very few naval vessels, not just aircraft carriers, who don't "sail alone", because of obvious reasons.
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All Aircraft Carrier is escorted by other surface ships, well just like WWII, Enterprise was escorted by Battleship North Carolina.
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Since their inception by the BRITISH...100 yrs ago...a carrier never sails alone. They are central to a battle group. They also have unseen escorts...below the waves. Hats off to all on duty.!
How was this released yesterday when it says its about to have its first helicopter landing? It's on its F-35 trials at the moment, helicopters were ages ago.
Exactly, Not to mention that Jerry Kyd is no longer captain
Any chance of any u.s. carriers sailing alone? Genius.
Smithsonian: "The HMS Queen Elizabeth is a supercarrier"
United States: "lol you can think that"
I mean..... It is ....
You know the term supercarrier was coined to describe a british ship?
Probably because every aircraft carrier ever needs an escort to prevent it from being a floating target?
Duh carriers don’t sail without a fleet or battle group
During Land battles and Sea Battles Ship Carriers and Destroyers are the most valuable assets of the game on the Battlefield of War but Ship Carriers are a higher Price than a destroyer and for a number reasons
1. HQ and Head Command of Navy and Destroyer Support
2. Suppiles and equipment Runs for ground assult battles
3. Plane and helicopter Air Support
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The destroyers, cruisers, subs, etc. that accompany a carrier are not along simply to escort and protect the carrier. Together they comprise a carrier battle group which gives the CBG flexibility to carry out complex missions thousands of miles from home port.
The Queen must always have her knights to protect and shield her. Long live the Queen!
Très beau bâtiment, what a beautiful carrier 👍
So, basically nothing to see here.
An aircraft carrier sailing alone? They never have!
You would never send your King out by himself on a chess board, same principle LOL
2019? Anyone..
Good vid. 👍👍👍
I think it would have held up well if extended 12-15 minutes.
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This is nonsense, no modern carrier travels alone
, they have had escorts since WWII
There is NO comparison to a US Supercarrier, but its nice to see the UK understand why we have carrier battle groups. No Aircraft Carrier deploys alone given its value in the air!
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The answer to the title is simple - The same reason why Pocket Battleship 'Deutschland' was later renamed 'Lutzow' in early stages of WW2. Can You imagine what would have happened in Britain should the ship named 'Queen Elizabeth' had been destroyed?
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a carrier is never alone the set up for a task force is Tankers and Tugs go to the aft they will fallow the ship and refuel and resupply it when it is at sea Destroyers, Heavy Cruisers, Frigates, and Escort Carriers go to the sides their job is to protect the ship and The Sub goes underneath the carrier their job is to sink enemy vessels. This is the makeup of a task force it has been that way since HMS Argus was launched in the 20s.
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Well DUH! No carrier has ever sailed alone.
"Its dangerous to sail alone. Take this."
They call it a strike group, the carrier is usually patrolled with a pair of frigates, a pair of destroyers and a submarine. The carrier also carries secret tech and *must* be protected at all times.
(Haven't watched the video)
Well it can't be alone because it's just big and bulky
It's not as fast or agile as a destroyer so if a submarine sneaks up on it and fires a torpedo It can't escape it (unless the sub misses)
I believe it's also because its turrets aren't as strong as destroyers and warships
Please don't reply "you know nothing" because I do know something about the navy and ships but I'm more of a rail and aviation enthusiast.
I agree with u but I think they have pretty decent turrets if they have a Vulcan not sure if they do but what u said is correct if the carrier is alone a sub can easily sneak and launch a torpedo
It not about agility, it about specialisation. The carrier specialises in aircraft and let's others run defence.
That said a helicopter heavy load would be quite effective against subs.
@@davidhouseman4328 true but it still needs other ships with it. As I said I'm not really good at ships lol
Tell us about locomotives then
@@BeerDad69 ok... which one? Has to he British
If a super carrier of any kind EVER sails alone then someone has dropped a clanger so big and loud it would make Big Ben sound like a doorbell.
Smithsonian is dumbing down as much as TLC, Discovery and History Channels.
Discovery isn't as bad as the rest at least
@@fenfrostpaws2000 Let's agree to disagree on that. American Chopper was pretty disgusting before they finally euthanized it.
British aircraft carriers often sailed on their own during WWII in the North Atlantic, but in the Pacific it was with a fleet during the second half, also in peace time after WWII they sailed on their own, this will be the first time a British aircraft carrier will always sail in a fleet during peace time
Why are there so many videos on this carrier?
Guess your answer is in the description 🤷🏻♀️
its the newest warship in the british fleet.
Perhaps the Queen wants to pretend that the UK is still a world power of note?
Because is cool
Tim Tam's no its not
The only carriers that ever sailed into combat alone were the I-400's of the IJN back in WW2.
They aren't even in war why are they scared? Unless it's training missions but other than that nobody is gona sink a carrier out of nowhere
Because of a first strike situation? You aren’t at war until you are and if you have unescorted carriers around they’re going to be the first targets.
USS Theodore Roosevelt, has 6 escorts. 6. When they last landed here in the Philippines, they had to distribute the escort ships to multiple ports because a single port cannot accommodate their crews.