Brit Reacting to Evolution of American Aircraft Carriers
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Carrier vet here. Fresh food is airlifted and transferred aboard aboard from a supply ship that is dispatched from a friendly port. The replenishment is called an unrep, or underway replenishment, and it's one of the most complex operations undertaken while underway. Picture two ships, both displacing tens of thousands of tons, steaming side by side within 100m of each other and traveling 50 km/h, with ropes, pulleys, and fuel hoses connecting them. The aircraft carrier receives hundreds of thousands of liters of jet fuel in the space of a couple hours, along with hundreds of tonnes of supplies and foodstuffs, including fresh produce, dairy products, and proteins. It's amazing to watch. That would be a good react video too!
What carrier were you on? I was on the Connie, 99 till her decommissioning. I would love to see his reaction to a unrep / vertrep. OSC ( SW ) Ret.
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My father was on the Nimitz 82-88
@@johnmagill7714 America, CV-66. I was a flight deck electrician. Many, many unreps and vertreps. Our break-off song was "America" by Neil Diamond.
@@johnmagill7714 I had always hoped that one of the Kitty Hawk class would have been preserved for museum status. Maybe one of the Nimitz class can be. I just want people to experience how nearly incomprehensibly BIG a modern super carrier is, up close.
My grandpa served on the Intrepid in WW2. When I was a teen we went to NYC to go see it. It was docked and turned into a museum. I don't remember much of the ship, but it was the only time in my life he said anything about the war. He said his first time out they got hit by kamikazi and all the guys on that side of the flight deck were burned to death. Then he said he didn't want to talk about it and was really quiet for the rest of the tour. It must have been pretty surreal for him seeing it like that, as a museum, so many years later.
My salute to your grandpa. My father was on the CV-5 Yorktown that was sunk after the battle of Midway. He was a teenager at the time and ended up in the water. Then he stayed for 20 years.
As someone whos grandfather also served on a carrier, USS Hornet in WW2 and a former sailor myself who served on the Eisenhower CVN-69 I can understand fully how that tour went. My grandfather got to come and tour the Eisenhower when we returned from deployment before they started the breakdown for our 19 month overhaul. Only time he was quiet was when we were on the flight deck, as he said he saw too many good men go down up there. My division officer even worked with me to play a prank on him, when I was showing him our work area (I was an AO - ordnanceman) another sailor yelled out "OFFICER ON DECK" he snapped to attention and saluted without even thinking about it! 🤣😂 The Lt said "At ease there grandpa!" he was flushed but started laughing just saying "You can take the sailor of the boat sir, but never from the sea!" They got along great for the rest of the tour.
@@shawnadams1460 Great story
Kudos for not shying away from longer running times.
My father was assigned to the Yorktown CV-5 as his first ship. He said when he arrived to board the ship he could not believe the size of the ship. It held almost as many people as the town he came from in New York. It served well in Coral Sea and Midway before being sunk. They tried to save it for 3 days but had to let it go. They were very solid ships.
They probably would have saved her. If that Japanese sub hadn't found her all three of the Yorktown class took poundings that should have sunk them several times over. Very tough ships. hornet took the damage that made her a hopeless wreck, survived the attempts to scuttle her by the U.S. and drove the Japanese surface fleet to distraction finally managing to scuttle her
The US ships were designed with damage control in mind, and crews trained accordingly.
@@kdrapertrucker They did 2 weeks of repairs on the Yorktown in 72 hours at Pearl after Coral Sea and she had to catch up to the other carriers at Midway so she was not really battle worthy but serviceable. My Dad told the story of returning to Pearl after the sinking and all they had was their underware because the rest of there gear went down and they stood attention on the deck as they came into port with the nurses and other sailors whistling at them standing in the breeze in under ware.
If you ever get the chance to come and visit America, there are 5 aircraft carriers that are now museums. I've not been to one yet. I've only visited the USS North Carolina, a WW2 battleship that is also a museum
My father was an officer on the USS Saratoga circa 1955-1957. He told me that every time they took to sea, they lost twenty percent of their aircraft due to accidents.
interestingly, because of how big and rough the Great Lakes can get. Early aircraft carriers were tested in them to be both safe and give a reasonable approximation of the open ocean. Yes the Great Lakes are that big
How did they get them out of the lakes after testing? 🤔
@@sssspider The lakes are connected to the St. Lawrence riverway, which leads to the Atlantic ocean. I don't know for certain, but I'd have to imagine that's how they went in and out, since big container ships do it all the time.
Not sure if actual ocean going carriers went in there, but they did convert a couple of great lakes cruise liners to flat tops for pilot training during WW2.
@@rafetizer you would be correct
They say wooden decks were a drawback, but in practice they actually weren't. They would take damage easier, sure, but they were FAR easier to repair than a steel deck.
It's one of the reasons why American damage control teams were so effective in the Pacific.
How big do you want your carrier? America: "Yes"
1) Credit should be given to the Royal Navy for doing much of the early developmental work on aircraft carriers during World War One and shortly after. The HMS Furious and HMS Argus were the first ships that resembled modern carriers.
2) For the crash at 24:08, I believe the pilot survived. You can see that the nose of the plane containing the pilot was separated from the rest of the burning plane.
3) At 29:08, you can see a relatively large plane with its wings folded back to save space. The extra expense of adding this capability is one reason why the U.S. Navy usually flies different planes from those of the Air Force.
4) The ability of the Nimitz-class carriers to desalinate 400,000 gallons (1,514,165 liters) of sea water per day is mind-boggling. That's 4.63 gallons (17.5 liters) per second!
Smarter Every Day has a great series where he gets to ride around on a nuclear submarine for a few days. It's fascinating.
Came here to say this. He has an entire video just dealing with the food situation.
they buy unripen bananas and store them in the cool rooms. this allows the bananas to slowly ripen and last for several weeks for the crew to eat. same goes for a lot of other fruits and veggies, they stock some ready to use immediately and others for future weeks. after several weeks and all the fresh produce is eaten, they move onto canned fruits and veggies until the stocks are replenished. there are several videos on how carriers resupply and organize their food provisions.
I had a teacher who was on a carrier in WW2 he said some of the most hectic time was during resupply because during war there was a time limit on how long they had before disengaging so it was all hands on deck moving food and spare parts across the flight deck and hanger and a chance to get out of the belly of the carrier and see daylight
Carrier vet here. You do realize there's an airport on the roof, right? I served during Operation Desert Storm, and even in the middle of that, we were still getting regular fresh food. We had to drink UHT milk, but we had real tomatoes!
@@driggs2821I submarine crews eat the best but wouldn't the crew on the supply ship get the best food ?
"Deck edge elevators" that explains that scene to me now in 'Top Gun: Maverick', I wasn't sure what I was looking at never seen those in action before.
Love the military ones you are doing. Utterly fascinated by ships, planes etc.
Procedure for landing is once you touch down you push the throttle to full power so if you missed the wire you mange to recover enough speed to get airborne again.
That guy that rammed the flight deck around 24:20 with only the cockpit and nose of the jet intact was probably like, "That still counts as a landing!" (provided he survived which it looks like he did)
During a symmetric / great-power war (e.g., WWII), smaller warships are much more dangerous to work on. Destroyers (to say nothing of torpedo boats) are way more likely to land in Davy Jones' locker, than carriers.
The bedrooms and kitchens and such were usually on the middle decks of a carrier: below the flight deck, but above the engine decks.
24:08 since WW2, they had a crewman certified to film all aircraft carrier landings, and to a point that the pilots started to say that "they are like vultures" and since then to this day the emplacement in the carrier where they film the landings is called the vultures nest
3:30 - "How did that aircraft save itself?" - Carrier pilots are trained to push the throttles to "military power" (maximum, not counting afterburner) right as they touch down, _just in case_ they miss the arresting cables, or if the cable they caught breaks. That way, they've got enough thrust, combined with their remaining speed, to climb away and go around again. The arresting gear is designed to drag a plane to a stop _even with_ that much thrust being applied.
One of my little sisters served on the Ford whilst it was in port as a M3 (machinist mate) and Quartermaster.
On rare occasions she was allowed to observe some drills on the flight deck. A thing not mentioned in this video is that because of the "pitstop" area, a plane that has just been recovered can be completely rearmed, refueled, and relaunched in just under 4 minutes. Meaning if absolutely necessary, the Ford can launch 16 aircraft, receive 2, and fully rearm and refuel 1 aircraft every 4 minutes, whilst moving at top speed. The efficiency is insane.
I spent quite a few years working on aircraft carriers and submarines at our local navy yard, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. I've always been amazed by the technology involved, and the absolute massive areas inside of the ships.
RE: fresh fruit in the aircraft carrier's mess. .... It is quite literally an airport. They don't have to keep fruit in a freezer, they can get it shipped in anytime they are near friendly land. In long term operations in hostile waters, they wouldn't have (nearly as much) fresh fruit.
I served in Engine room of USS Dwight D Eisenhower CVN69 (Nimitz class). They have 8 steam turbine generators rated at 8MW each, but half of them are dedicated solely to powering the reactor coolant pumps, and 2 of the remaining can be switched over to serve as backup for those. Also have 4 Diesel generators at 2MW each to power the ship and the reactor pumps in the event of a shutdown of both reactors.
As a carrier sailor (USS Hornet CVS12) I find this information fascinating! I would like to add, and frankly I was told this and it makes sense, but I'm not entirely sure it is true, the Essex class carriers having a canoe type stern, could steam backwards nearly as fast as forward in the event of damage to the forward section of the ship as they didn't have catapults to contend with. They could still launch aircraft. An interesting note, when Hornet lost its forward flight deck during the typhoon of 44' and they rebuilt that section into a hurricane bow, they left the port holes of the old configuration. Hornet is now a museum in Alameda CA. If you visit that area of the ship and look through those port holes, you'll be looking at a steel bulkhead directly in front of you. Just my two cents.
From my time on destroyers, I think I can answer the question about fresh fruit and foods. We have refrigeration areas known as "reefers". I think there might be freezers as well, I can't remember. Also, we didn't always have fresh fruits and veges, some of it would be canned as well. Depends how long it was since the last replenishment happened. Pretty sure the carriers operate the same, except on a much larger scale. Also probably all that extra room gives more options.
Also, there's 3 of the mess deck areas for the ship and air crews as well.
I remember a story about the Enterprise. They used to be involved in launching aircraft along side to bigger carriers during her sunsetting years. They would get next to whatever larger carrier was with them and launch planes as fast as they could to outshow the bigger carriers. Kind of a "fuck you, we do it better" thing
Really awesome factoid about modern US carriers, when they are sent on humanitarian aid missions they can dock in a port and provide medical aid via their medical wards, fresh water, supplies and food, and even plug into the electrical grid to supply power. On top of being an airport to fly whatever is needed in and out
@Lav you should react to the best carrier in WW II USS Enterprise to see how much of a amazing ship holding the line of freedom
Enterprise vs. Japan. It still hurts my soul to know that it was scrapped.
Landing on an aircraft carrier under way has been described as a controlled crash on a postage stamp dancing in the wind.
You said in another video that you’ve learned a lot from RUclips, I’ve been watching for a while and it shows👍 self taught average bloke is a force to be reckoned with.
They were going to figure out naval aviation no matter how many people were need to be sacrificed.
The hand sign made by the pilot was Hook'em Horns. is the sign of the University of Texas.
4 take-offs a minute makes sense to me. We can build a car every minute on a production line. NASCAR pitstop teams can fully service one in way less than a minute. The best pitstop times being around 12 seconds. Americans can turn anything into a race against the clock, as long as we are properly motivated. That competitive spirit becomes absolutely beastly when directed towards military applications.
When planes are landing on an air craft carrier, there are several arresting wires to catch the hooks that trail the planes. If a plane misses them all, they go off the edge of the ACC, and for that reason, they are increase power when landing, so they have enough power to get back in the air IF they are not caught by the arresting wires.
Something to think about, remember that the super short landing strip is also jumping up and down with the waves , its in constant motion which makes it that much more difficult to hit your mark ,if you miss it there may not be space and momentum to get back up before you run out of luck!
My father served on an escort carrier in the Pacific during WWII - they were smaller than regular aircraft carriers.
the reason why there is so much footage of these aircraft carriers is because all landings are recorded so that if anything goes wrong an accident report can be put together and hopefully the mistakes will be resolved
In reference to the test pilots on the Langley, it's not that they were test subjects, but rather they were innovators taking risks to develop new technology. Many of these pilots were closely related to the design process of the carrier operations, and given they were on the cutting edge it is closer to call them scientists or engineers than to call them Guinea pigs.
35:10 Thats the Devil Horns gesture. Pilot is probably a fan of the Metal music genre, of which the hand gesture is Mostly synonymous with. A lot of Metal goers use that gesture to exclaim approval & excitement at high energy events. The gesture carries a mild degree of 'counter-culture' or 'being a rebel' with it. Great video!
Luka you should do a reaction video of Naval Legends IJN Yamato and DKM Bismarck also USS Iowa. Because you have been doing Military and War reaction videos of similar things. I think that you might find them interesting.
I served on the USS John F. Kennedy in 2006-2007 when they decommissioned it. Until you are on a carrier you can not understand how massive they actually are.
I like to comment on naval talk and have on various sites. I served on 8 classes of ships, and shore stations so I have a lot of experience in this regard.
One of my ships was a fleet oiler during the Vietnam era. We were always quite busy refueling all the fleet elements at sea. One of those that came along side was USS Enterprise. She was to take on aviation fuel, and whatever. She approached and apparently duty called, she broke off, powered up and was gone over the horizon in nothing flat! I met an engineer off that ship later on and he said they were overpowered and never used all what was installed in the ship. We are talking reactor wise.
The lack of flight deck armor really wasn’t a flaw. It just highlights the difference in priorities. British flight decks were armored, but they prioritized defense over everything else because they primarily operated where they were always within range of land-based enemy aircraft. The Americans however, did not have flight deck armor because they prioritized strike power over defense. Less armor means you have space to carry more aircraft. This was a very effective strategy in the Pacific. For defense the Americans relied on other things like combat air patrols, radar controlled anti-aircraft fire, and a layered defense consisting of battleships, cruisers, and destroyers.
How do you know when Lav has his computer fixed ..3+ vids a day 👍
The man's become a workhorse
It's only alluded to a couple of times in the video, but Great Britain developed several innovations that the US Navy adopted.
One of the reasons that US Navy leaders didn't want British carriers to join the final assault on Japan was that British carriers had much shorter range than American carriers. One major reason was that British carriers had steel decks, compared to the wooden decks of the American carriers. The greater weight resulted in shorter range.
Once Japan started mass kamikaze attacks, strikes that would penetrate American decks resulted in little piles of crumpled metal on British carriers.
The very first crash shown in this video was onboard USS Lexington (AVT-16), my first ship. I got off active duty about 1 month before it happened.
The new Gerald R Ford aircraft Carrier introduced 23 new electronics and advanced systems. The reason why it had so many problems getting underway and being commissioned, is because 800 of the systems had small details that have to be worked out it is not a criticism that they were behind schedule it was a Testament that they brought 23 new systems on board and made them function in as short as 13 years, that's is an amazing feat.
That E2C that almost crashed used “ground effect” to save it. Ground effect is caused by Air compression against the surface of the water (or ground) under the wing, which provides additional lift. A wing in ground effect is extremely efficient so he used it to save his ass. Great example of a pilot who knows his plane. That said, he still had to change his shorts!!😂
Wanted to say that while it is true that the flight deck of a carrier IS the most dangerous place to be in the Navy, they do everything they can to make it as safe as possible. I was a Red Shirt (29:33 in the vid), an AO - Ordnanceman on the USS Eisenhower CVN-69, a Nimitz class Super Carrier. A few things they do to make it safer is plan out exactly who is launching and recovering and when, doing FOD (Foreign Object and Debris) walks where everyone lines up and walk the entire flight deck looking for anything that could be sucked into a jet engine and cause damage and extensive training for all flight deck crew. Ours was based on the munitions as that was our job, to take the orders and bring the ordnance to the flight deck and give them to the flight crew. And on heavier munitions we would break out the lovely named hernia bar to attach to the front and back of the bomb and lift it manually into place...always a fun time (0.o). Also all flight deck crew have to do extensive firefighting and safety courses and keep up to date on them. You have to know how to handle every part of fighting a fire as you never know where one could break out. That being said, I saw half of a Med tour and weeks of flight training for the air crews and only ever saw one serious injury where a plane was being directed on the flight deck and someone didn't see it, the jet wash literally rag dolled him over the flight deck for a few meters and he hit one of the tugs and broke some bones.
To answer your question about food, they have large refrigerators onboard. I mess cranked twice on deployment, once when underway and once in dry dock. As they said they have roughly 90 days worth of food onboard (though initial supply never lasts that long), when we get low there are supply ships that come in and we basically shoot cables over to them and then pulley over supply crates, as you say it is mental to watch or be a part of, but necessary. The two ships match speed and hold a set distance between them until the resupply is done.
My favorite video on aircraft carriers is "The Enormous USS Ronald Reagan Super Carrier | Aircraft Carrier: Guardian Of The Seas" by the channel spark. Absolutely amazing information and visuals. Would definitely recommend reacting to it!
My dad served on the USS midway from 71 to 72 during the Vietnam war. He was an aviation technician he worked on the electrical systems on the A-7 attack aircraft. You should do a review on the USS midway.
The reason aircraft have the possibility of saving themselves from failed landing attempts, as described to me by various Navy Pilots, is that they don't fully throttle down their engines when doing an arrest landing on a carrier deck, if that arrest wire doesn't catch, or they break, the pilot is able to quickly accelerate the engine to get back up to take off- speeds. It's not a gentle air-break, idle-engine, flaps at max kind of landing, glide-path quiet and relaxed kind of landing they teach recreational flyers. It's more like aiming a flying dart at the board, and if doesn't stick, you gotta be ready for the bounce! It's a very hard landing, and an aircraft's landing gear and airframe has to be specifically designed for it which is one of the several reasons why the F-35 variants for the Navy and Marines are different from the Airforce variant.. Similarly, the catapult take-offs from a carrier deck have more in common with rocket launches than typical take-off maneuvers.
They really are floating cities. Just think about everything they need on board that ship. You have nuclear reactors, engine rooms, electrical generator rooms, electrical switch board, internal communications systems, an onboard fire department, a ships store, gyms for exercise, galleys (kitchens) to cook four meals a day for 5000 to 6000 people, barber shops, mess decks (places to sit down and eat), medical departments, dental departments, ships office spaces, berthing spaces ( the place where the crew sleeps and their personal lockers for clothing and anything else they can fit in them), equipment spaces for electronic systems, chilled water plants that are use for water cooling a multitude of electronic equipment, fabrication shops to repair and build various things that may break and need to be repaired/replaced, storage rooms for spare parts, office supplies, food items storage (refrigerated, freezers, non-refrigerated), fuel storage bunkers (the ship itself doesn't need fuel, but the jets do, the tractors that move jets around do, the tractors that help move bombs and missiles around do), there's all kinds of different repair shops on board. I'm not listing everything, but you get the idea. As for food, they can store about 90 days worth at a time, while they are underway, they hook up with replenishment ships at sea and get resupplied with fresh food, fuel, mail, spare parts, whatever they need to stay on patrol. It's a super complex job running a ship, more so for a ship of this size. I didn't even touch on everything they need for the aircraft. They have to support a floating airport, so everything that's involved with that needs to be there too. The list of functions and stuff you need to do all that goes on and on and on....
While landing, at the instant of touching down on the deck, the pilot increases power to max. If his tailhook misses all 4 cables, he'll have enough speed to take off and try again. I remember when the Enterprise fire occurred. This was in excess of 50 years after U.S. began trying to learn how to operate aircraft on ships. Other nations that try to operate aircraft carriers have not proven willing to persist in trying through expensive disasters.
If you’re into aircraft carrier history at the moment, then you should seek out videos covering the 1967 fire aboard the USS Forrestal.
Ya i believe after the rocket misfire. The navy required everyone to attend fire training school. They had almost all their fire fighters wiped out and the remaining saliors did not have the knowledge needed to safely fight the fire.
HMS Hermes and the IJN Hōshō were the first aircraft carriers in 1924. Next year is the 100th anniversary.
The hand "sign" the pilpot was indicating that he wasn't touching the . The launch is all handled by computer for the first 1 point something seconds.
So “bridle catchers” the reason these were a thing for a time was multifold
1 to save storage space on the ship because bridles could be recycled on the ship
2 improvement in machine shop technology meant bridles could be tested and repaired on the ship
The reason why bridles were phased out is because they figured out a way to have a connection on the nose wheel of the plane that was sturdy enough, but wouldnt be in the way during landing on the ship, and taking off and landing on land …. If you look back at old photos of the same ship you can see bridles being added …. Then taken away one at a time
• (Near naked man walking on flight deck.)"What's going on there? - Possibly, the initiation of crossing the equator.
• My first command was shore duty in Thurso and later Londonderry. The next duty was aboard my first ship, the USS Saratoga (CVA-60), aircraft carrier. In the beginning, I would often take opportunities to watch launch and recovery operations from an exterior part of the island, the superstructure above the flight deck. I marveled when I first saw a recovery operation. There were four arresting wires (cables) laid out. The tailhook of a landing plane would snag one to come to a quick, almost lurching, stop. I did not suspect missing those cables was something which could happen. I'm watching this evolution standing behind two crew members having a view between their heads. When a plane failed to hook a wire, I thought I was witnessing a catastrophe about to happen. The jet is on the deck and moving fast! Each of my hands came up and eagle clawed the backs of the two in front of me. The jet takes off from the angle deck as if this was normal. The two sailors turned to me and looked as if I was abnormal.
You should do a reaction on the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which is probably the most insane naval engagement I've ever heard of.
Very interesting content, Thanks for videos!
fresh fruit can be kept in an ammonia freezer that is how we have fresh apples in february or march I lived in central Washington for many years it's amazing what you can preserve in a low-oxygen enviroment.
My now-deceased oldest brother who was in the US Navy and the US Army served in the magazines of the USS Saratoga from 1960 until 1963. A year and a half later he served as a Military Policeman for four years eventually becoming the chief security NCO at a CIA training base on Albemarle Sound on the Northeast coast of the state of NC. After his discharge from the US Army, he took a job with a CIA front Company Anderson Security Consultants, and became chief of security at the same training base. After five years there he became a police officer in a nearby town eventually becoming the Chief of Police. He was a law enforcement officer for the rest of his life ending his career as chief investigator of a Virginia penal institution investigating crimes that took place within the institution. As to that first Carrier Classic my home state UNC Tar Heels defeated the Michigan State Spartans on Nov. 11, 2011, 67-55 in the first such game with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in attendance.
Technically a carrier is a steamboat it just uses a nuclear reactor to produce the steam to power the propellers
The ship at 19:16 Is the USS Constellation CV-64. I was on her from mid 1999 till her decommissioning..
As a F/A-18 Pilot i can say that its not always the first try you're gonna hit that arresting cable.Even tho there are like 5 of them.
Yeah the old WW2 aircraft carriers were made of steel but had wooden decks for planes to launch and land on which had to be changed like every two years plus it was a big fire hazard when a bomb hit the deck. The enterprise had a deck of Washington state pine that was fairly strong though it caught fire fast during the bomb hit that tore out her elevator.
Modern carriers have an asphalt deck that is treated on top with a coating that makes it act like an airport runway. It’s much less prone to fires. Also carriers are much more armored than past ones due to how they are designed to literally take it without budging and still move.
An American carrier took so much ammo yet refused to sink and it took a perfectly placed charge just under the water line to kill the carrier. And that was just a naval exercise on the decommissioned USS America for an artificial reef. It was an exercise to see how much damage a carrier could actually take before it sank and the results speak for themselves as even we couldn’t sink our own carrier. It also helped the military learn how to tune the guns better to target better and faster.
You should take a look at DCS World. It's the most realistic military flight simulator available to the public, and has most of the airplanes you have looked at recently.
Like your videos watching you react to them makes it learning cool stuff feel fun
That's the take off interval they are telling you. The actual MITO (Minimum Interval Take Off) time is probably classified.
My grandfather was drafted in WW2 into the 165th Infantry Regiment which was part of the 27th Infantry Division. My grandfathers Battalion was nicknamed the "Fighting Irish" and "Fighting 69" was first tasked in what ended up being the worst battle in WW2 for the American's. *The Battle of Makin saw 1000 American Casualties and 400 Japanese Casualties. The 27th Infantry was tasked with supplying the "Landing Force" to take the tiny Atoll and they of course chose my grandfathers 165th Infantry Regiment. When they were invading the island my grandfather was taking cover and saw their Battalion Leader Col. Gardiner Conroy in the open. My grandfather yelled to Col. Conroy, "Sir, you should take cover their are Snipers in those tree's". The Colonel head my grandfather and stood straight up and screamed, "No, GD Snipers are going to stop the United States Army!". Immediately after saying this Colonel Gardiner Conroy was shot in the head and killed. My Grandfather survived this hair raising battle in one piece and his next mission to invade Saipan. My grandfather was a heavy machine gunner and during the big Banzai Charge at Saipan my grandfather had his leg shot off. He walked around with a wooden leg for the rest of his. However he lead a good life when he got home from the war he married my beautiful grandmother and had 7 children and 9 grandchildren and worked at the Chicago Post Office Building for 40 years. He passed away in 1993 RIP Grandpa McIntyre.
In the navy army Air Force Marines the keyword is Training, Training, Training. and sharpen your talents. These Military Personal are good at what they do because they know exactly what to do in every moment of the day is Evrry Situation.
"...Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
- President Dwight Eisenhower, five-star General, Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in 1953
This channel is very good man, they post some very interesting and well researched topics , I recommend reacting to more of his videos
Also top weight had to be limited to keep the ships stable armored flight decks required the hanger deck be made shorter meaning you lose clearance for bigger aircraft on the hanger.
Lav luka deserve every sub guys,he is doing all this for us❤️
You're ignoring two factors that make for shorter take-off and landings: wind over the deck and the forward speed of the aircraft carrier. Forward aircraft carrier speed produces much of the wind over the deck and the rest is generated by steaming into the wind. A plane that takes off at 100 MPH air speed starts off with 25-30MPH from the aircraft carrier moving plus wind speeds of another 10 to 30 MPH. Now add in the acceleration of the catapult and the airplane flies before it reaches the bow.
U.S.S. Enterprise CV-6, nicknamed "The Grey Ghost" by the Japanese because they believed they sunk her 3 times, was the most decorated American ship of World War II.
So....could all this carrier-related content portend a "Top Gun" movie reaction? 😁
Late US Senator John McCanin was the pilot in the plan on the USS Forestal
The original video did Enty dirty...Enterprise was at times the ONLY carrier in the Pacific during ww2, and had been claimed "sunk" numerous times. CVN-65 is also a one off...guess the name. Hint, CV-6, and CVN-80 have the same name...
4:20 Just a small technicality from the original video. _That_ USS Pennsylvania didn't exist in 1910. The footage shown was from the 1920's
I have a short on my page of the USS Lexington.
There have been carriers for over a century, so they do know what works, but it's still risky...
You should do a series of vids on the mess halls on each of the type ships and subs I've saw videos on the Eisenhower and bush carriers and one on the Texas which is a sub it is amazing the storage and freezers when the food is kept
U.S. Nave....best airforce and aviators in the world....second largest airforce.
was on USS Constellation (CV-64) 91-95 and RIMPAC for a short time on the JFK
Need to see some Battleship action.
Yeah, Not What You Think is a great channel with top-notch content.
There was a WWF/E event on aircraft carriers in the past. It was on the USS Intrepid in 1993.
Can you imagine working on one of these??
Star Trek.
It is both terrifying and fascinating.
British carriers had an armoured flight deck their survival in the pasific against japanese kamikaze caused the American's to copy them.
You gotta react to "The Fighting Lady" its about the second USS Yorktown (CV-10)
4:47 The man's naked! I wonder what is going on there that he is just strolling down the deck literally stark naked. He isn't even wearing a jock strap.
touching the controls.
USS Midway CVA 41 had its headaches. She was not sea kindly; I don't recall all the details, but she was top heavy, and it seems to me there was some hull configurations, trying to compensate for this. I saw here in dry dock in Yokosuka Japan.
100 yards is a long way
As Thomas Edison said, I did not fail 10,000 times, I learned 10,000 ways it will not work.
Failure can teach us just as much as success and can avoid any mistakes in the future that might have been overlooked.
Must be an old video. The EMALS launch system is now working fine.
Hopefully they'll now be retrofitted onto
the QE's in order for its aircraft to carry
more ordnance at greater range
@@stephenchappell7512 I doubt it. The QEs have that ski jump bow.
@@HemlockRidge
Yes indeed they do but they were designed from the outset to be flexible enough to accommodate EMALS should that future (at the time) launch system prove successful
(contrast the QE's with other ski-jump carriers such as those operated by India and Russia and you'll see that the ski-jump is fitted onto, not into the superstructure)
@@stephenchappell7512 AHA! I didn't know that. Thanks.
Another good video would be a reaction to the flying US aircraft carriers
watch the naval battle of okinowa to see how many aircraft carriers the navy brought. none were built before 1942