People sometimes ask me, "How big is an aircraft carrier?". I had been aboard Theodore Roosevelt (5:57) for 2 years when one day I ran face to face into a friend I had known through middle school and high school. We recognized each other immediately. He had been aboard for a year and a half! So, we lived and worked aboard the same ship for a year and a half before we ever saw each other!
Funny how if you spent the same amount of time in a small town with the same amount of people it would be surprising if you didn’t happen to meet at least once but on a ship with much more population density it didn’t happen that way
One thing I will say is that the berthing compartments (where you sleep) have curtains you can pull to have privacy. If you make friends with some people. you can get leather sewed into your curtains to make sure you are in complete darkness. When I was onboard the USS Bataan, my rack was near the hull so I could hear the waves crashing against it. It sounded like thunder. So with the sound of thunder, and being rocked back and forth to sleep, it was always a joy to go to bed! I miss that.
A few years ago the U.S. tried to sink the Super carrier U.S.S. America. After 4-weeks they finally scuttled it. They used all possible threats short of a nuke. These Super Carriers are so big and built in a way that makes them very difficult to sink. Also if you watch the San Diego harbor live camera you can watch carriers, and other ships, going in and out. Great video!
Since the U.S.S. America was being scuttled it didn't have any munitions,jet fuel or any combustible materials onboard and with no secondary explosions sinking it was extremely difficult.
@@JustMe-gn6yf partly true. The main lesson was that there are so many compartments that are sealable the ship will survive. Even WW II Carriers we're not easily sunk. The USS Intrepid survived 4 direct hits by Kamikaze's. And though sunk after the Yorktown was able to survive 2 waves of planes from a Japanese carrier at Midway. The carriers today are much tougher in my estimation. Not saying it can't happen however.
Years ago, my brother served on the USS Forrestal, a carrier that's since been retired. I was able to tour the ship and it totally blew my mind. They truly are a small city on the water. During wartime, his ship could hold 5,000 men and women. It was HUGE. One really needs to see one to understand the scope of it all. One of my favorite memories.
When I entered the Navy at 18 years old in 1979, I was younger than you Bees. So it is actually young guys your age that are the backbone of militaries around the world. I guess it is a credit to our nations leaders that serving in the military no longer necessary for your generation. I served onboard a carrier called the USS Ranger CV-61 and it was the experience of a lifetime. Surprisingly I was never bored during the 3 years I spent on that ship. I worked in the dental facility providing dental care to the crew of 5,000. I think the Ranger must have been smaller then todays carriers and had fewer people. The food on the ship was top level and of course you can eat all you want and there was great variety. Imagine serving 20k, meals per day to 5k people. The logistics of that alone proves just how difficult it is to operate a carrier and supply it what everything it needs. The cost of operating a carrier is over 1 million USD per day... Let that sink in.!
I was on one of those so called supply ships for 3 years, we moved everything from sodas and food, spare parts, to bombs and missiles, small arms. You name it we moved it. We could keep a carrier running at full for ever. When I got to my second boat some Marines had showed their asses at a port and the Admiral let it be known on the carrier if one more person got in trouble for anything he would keep the ship at sea until they returned home, with a proper supply ship that is very easily done.
The berthing for enlisted personnel on a carrier is really spacious compared to many of the other ships operated by the U.S. I was on one during Desert Shield /Storm where the enlisted bunks more like a cot were 6 high with just enough room to roll over. Probably the worst part of being on a carrier is that they are so big that there are a limited number of ports that can dock them, so the ship anchors off shore and personnel have to ride "liberty boats" to and from shore. Additionally, consider that many people converging on a port city all at once, and there could be more than one ship at that one time. Crazy crowds everywhere. I am surprised you did not know more of the nuclear capabilities. We also have a number of nuclear powered submarines as well.
@@u4riahsc As a Marine, I never served on any submarine or even had the opportunity to visit one. I have seen a couple of videos showing that. I hear there is a fair number of "hot racking" as well.
I just happened on to your video today and being a Navy veteran of 6 years, I had to watch it. I did my 6 years before you was even born (1972-1978) and it was the best time of my life. I served on 3 different ships, none being an aircraft carrier. My first ship was a Destroyer Escort, the USS Brewton, DE-1086, and we followed the carriers, keeping an eye on any threats, possible crashes at take off and landing and for any man overboard accidents that would happen more frequently than one would think. My ship was a speck in the ocean compared to the carriers. We had a crew of under 500 so I don't think I would have ever been able to live on a carrier. I come from a small town in Oklahoma that never had a population over 1,000 people so I was fine on the USS Brewton. You did a great job on this video so I just become a new sub to your channel.
Keep in mind one of the nuclear aircraft carriers is being refueled at any given time, reducing that number to 10 being active. Of that 10, one is usually deployed, one is working up for a deployment, and one is in a maintenance period after a long 6 months deployment. Plus one stationed in Japan. In a push during combat or peacekeeping missions, the US Navy prefers to operate the carriers in pairs for 24/7 round the clock operations. So at any given time America is usually able to deploy 3 nuclear carriers, sometimes 4...
11:47 Getting your own bed is actually a step up. On some ships and submarines, you share your bed. Your counterpart on the opposite shift uses it while you are on duty.
You can see at 2:08 that there is one carrier with the UK flag, which the narrator skips over. The UK now has two carriers: HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales. They are the largest-ever warships for the Royal Navy and the most capable carriers in the world after the 11 American nuclear-powered supercarriers.
When I lived in Chesapeake VA I had the awe-inspiring opportunity to observe four aircraft carriers docked in a row at the Norfolk Naval Base My brother, a 28 year Navy veteran, said the most he had seen there at one time was three.
Working on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. The longest I went without touching land was 33 days straight sailing from Long Beach to the Philippines. Navy life, especially on a ship, is definitely not for everyone. My ship was only 860 feet long with about 3000 sailors and marines attached during deployment. The bells, the whistles, the drills, the watches, the stars at night, the blue ocean water, and the ports of call. Nothing else like it.
Once you close the curtains on your bunk, you are in your own little world...at least that's the way I looked at it. Earplugs in, book out. I was a voracious reader in the Navy. Once you got used to the tail hooks trying to knock a hole through your ceiling, it was a piece of cake :)
My father was on board the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz for the last 6 years of his 20 year career. My 3rd 4th and 6th Grade birthday was celebrated on the carrier as part of a mini field trip with a number of my school mates going on a tour (5th grade I lived with my grandparents while the carrier switched home ports from east coast to west Coast
The carrier strike force job is to literally put a umbrella of fire that enemy planes get shredded in or force them down. Basically once they hit that fire they are shredded to bits. All of it is protect the carrier at all costs. Check out our most famous and powerful carrier the enterprise. Born from ww2 and fighting in every major battle in the pacific she is the most decorated and the most powerful earning the titles of the grey ghost and the lucky E. She was scrapped postwar as she could not handle the jet age. The enterprise was rebuilt as the first nuclear powered carrier on the seas. She is still floating around somewhere in the pacific doing rounds. It’s something you should see.
USS Enterprise is actually decommissioned now. "She" is no longer in service. The carrier is actually a museum ship now because of it being the first nuclear carrier.
The USS Enterprise CVN-65 was decommissioned in 2017. It used to be homeported in Alameda, CA where I used to work at the Naval Aviation Depot. It is now apparently at HII Shipyard, Newport News, Virginia where it will apparently be dismantled and recycled. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65) I did a tour of the Enterprise when it was in Alameda sometime between 1987 and 1989. A very impressive ship. When it was in port, I could see it out my office window about 1/4 away at the piers. Incidentally, one of the Star Trek movies had shots of a couple of the Star Trek cast (Lieutenant Uhura and Lieutenant Chekov) in front of the Enterprise at the Alameda Naval Base. Here are a couple of photos from that scene in that movie: encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRyHhVEcDEFFqIRNtFI8JAC4ddQgTpODAqqywBQW5Mr5eOk15zudD7Tax6AXj-HmhkEsYs&usqp=CAU encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQTE6NJT2D4eiZLy7GTo7Y43obEfoegRvFz-yRZlkmh3ngKnkzyMJssUhG81KdVPLaNfvo&usqp=CAU
I was cg62. 350ish people. And a towed array (nixie and mfta), was not an stg, but the carrier is, at this moment in time, defenseless against surface and subsurface ships without escorts or a ctf.
So a little tip for anyone writing letters to someone in the navy (less important now with email) date every page of your letter. As those pick up points shift letter may show up out of sequence
@@dominickthornburghakaTRG I've been hoping someone would recommend that one. It truly is a great video with great visuals to help understand these monsters
My longest at sea time between 2 different aircraft carriers was 1 year and 9 months, 6 month IO cruise on the U.S.S. Midway CV-41, 3 days after we docked in our home port Iraq Invaded Kuwait, the next morning we were underway for the Persian gulf, on a 9 month long combat deployment for Desert Shield/ Desert Storm, after the cease fire i was transferred to my new command back in the states, 3 weeks after reporting to my new command, I deployed for another 6 months on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln CVN-72
I used to live near a navy base in South Carolina and had the opportunity to tour a submarine and and aircraft carrier. It is hard to grasp how large they are until you ar next to one and then inside one. It is just amazing. But when I toured the submarine....man oh man what ever their salary is it IS NOT ENOUGH! that job takes a special type of person. I just know I wouldn't be able to do it, and God Bless those that do! Much respect! Thanks for Sharing this video. I love your channel. And as a souther lady in the U.S. I loved your video on accents. That guy really nailed them! Good on you!
Those guys shooting the lines? My dad did that back in the 1960s during Vietnam. He was Chief Gunner's Mate on the U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard air craft carrier. It is no more though they did rechristen another ship (an amphibious assault ship) later with that name, but recently it suffered from a fire aboard and has been taken out of service.
It's unlikely missiles- short of a massive swarm of them- will get through to hit a carrier. The guided missile cruiser with the CSG is usually an Aegis anti-SAM type, and all the ships are equipped with CIWS- Close-In Weapons Systems, which are really big, computer-aimed gatling guns for short range defense. This is ignoring, of course, the fact that most missile carrying platforms would be taken out well short of the carrier by its aircraft. As far as torpedoes.... other folks in this comments section have already touched on that!
Living on a carrier is 24 hour work. You never just go for a walk for the hell of it, not even smoker either. Every movement has to have purpose or you'll be completely lost. The only time you can really get lost is in sleep for a little while. You get used to the small space and crazily I actually sleep better out there because of all the constant white noise is strangely comforting.
It would take more than a few torpedoes to sink a carrier. They have thousands of watertight compartments. But it is good that weaknesses were found so they can be corrected.
That doesn't include our America-Class Amphibious Carriers that have helicopters and F-35Bs, that are used by the Marines, also known as the 'Gator Navy'.
I don't know if they still do, but they had hot racking. That is when multiple personnel are assigned to the same bed (rack). While one would be up, another would be sleeping. When I was stationed in Guam (USAF) I had a friend at Big Navy (NAS Guam) who told me that sometimes three people shared a rack.
Not on carriers. I was stationed on the Stennis. Also didn’t happen on the frank cable or belleauwood. I was on all 3. I’ve heard of that happening on submarines
@@mollieorzehowski9409 That would make sense, he was on the USS Chicago, a nuclear sub. I just assumed that happened on all navy ships. I was an instructor at Keesler AFB, in Stennis Hall.
The UK was the first to have in service. It also came up with the angled flight deck. My sleeping compertment was all the wy to the rear end of the carrier, Guys that worked at the bow would commuute to their using the flight deck tow tractors. After awhile being out t sea i looked up at the bridge and saw that either the Flight Boss or the Captain had a rear view mirror. They were there to watch planes landing, but it put odd thoughtsin my head, I was on Nimitz.
Believe it or not, I couldn’t wait to get into my rack (bed) at the end of the day! It was the best place on the ship during deployment. Probably because I didn’t get to be in it very much! 😂
Beesley USS Gerald R Ford (CVN-78) aka "Ford" is newest carrier class, Ford Class to replace Nimitz Class. USS Ford is in active service since 2017. Plan is to replaced current Nimitz carriers with Ford Class. Next carrier of Ford is John F Kennedy (CVN-79) that is currently being built and scheduled to be commissioned in 2024. One of the newest carriers to be build will be named Doris Miller. This carrier will be 1st to be named after 1st African American named Doris Miller aka Dorie Miller. Miller was on a ship in Pearl Harbor when Japan attacked Naval Base. Miller, cook, assisted his captain who was mortally wounded. Then Miller manned anti aircraft machine gun to defend the ship. Sadly, Miller died years later during WWII when his another ship sank
That "sleeping space" or rack is called a "Coffin Locker", and I spent 20 of 24 months there in 86 to 88 on Back 2 Back WestPacs to Libya in 86 then Iran in 88. Wouldn't do it again 4 anything! And I didn't have a carrier with it 's bowling alleys to hang my hat, but a 4k ton frigate (Tin Can) as opposed to a 98K ton carrier. A frigate is no place to ride out a Typhoon in the Northwestern Pacific & thank GOD we survived it!
10:30 .. Brother I've never looked into the info of a carrier until this vid and learned a lot from it. I'm 56 years old, 18 years in the military (Army Spec-Ops}, four deployment's in three wars (Although Somalia wasn't a war) Yet I had no clue so you're not alone just because you're not from the U.S. .. Diversitas Varietas !
The angled flight deck was originally a British concept allowing aircraft to be launched while landing at the same time. Do not know why they didn't stay with that concept.
Think about this carriers are at sea for long periods of time try feeding 6000 people three times a day for weeks. These ships are airports hospitals schools and they are armed to the teeth Thanks Beesley great video Cheers
Bill Pickard aircraft carriers actually do 4 meal services a day. You have breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midrats (midnight rations). When carriers are at Sea they operate 24 hours a day 7 days a week so there's always someone constantly on duty and those people need to eat.
I got a buddy who’ll be working on carriers as a nuclear tech, he’s not too happy bout the sleeping quarters and not seeing sun but loves that his girlfriend can still send mail cheeply
Unless he feels like changing his Rating to a deck dog. The only time he'll see the sun is when it pulls into port. Or he goes up to the flight deck over watch, or the hanger deck.
It's like a dorm room for college except no parties. The 2nd UK carrier HMS Prince of Wales has since put to sea. HMS Queen Elizabeth and her Battle Group already crossed the Suez Canal recently and have met up with US carriers in the Indian Ocean and are continuing east representing the first global projection of the British Navy since WW2. China was having to deal with the US and Pacific Allies deployments/exercises in the area now...Oh shit! The British are here too.
Another drawback about life onboard a carrier they don’t mention is noise. People are constantly working and coming and going around you while you try to sleep. Not to mention the noise of elevators lifting and descending while planes take off and land. There’s no quiet on a carrier.
It is not easy landing a plane on an aircraft carrier. I use to work on a flight simulator that taught pilots how to land properly on a carrier deck. Don't forget, they have to land in high winds, on a pitching carrier deck due to rough seas, on a totally black night in the middle of an ocean!
Mark 2:26. Yes. Please, keep those 6,000 crew members in mind whenever you see a movie in which they depict a, Supercarrier, sinking. In the, "Monsterverse", their version of a, "USS Saratoga", is fictional. The, "USS Flagg", is also fictional in the, "G. I. Joe", movies. But in one of the, "Transformers", movies they used the name and likeness of an actual warship, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, as played by the, USS John C. Stennis, and the, USS Abraham Lincoln, in some scenes, because of reused stock footage from other movies. 😳
About sinking a US Carrier. Other than a nuclear tipped torpedo, it would take many, many conventional strikes to damage the carrier where it would impair its ability to be mission ready. A modern US carrier, in a battle ready state, meaning all water tight integrity doors and hatches closed and sealed, would be the equivalent of trying to sink bubble wrap. There are just too many compartments that would need to be compromised for the ship to sink. I’ll refrain from saying impossible, but it is highly improbable. Carriers are also capable of making repairs to get the ship back into an operational status pretty quickly. I lived and worked on 2 different carriers from 1980 to 1985 so I have a pretty good idea about what I’m saying here..
So, I have seen most of what you showed regarding American aircraft carriers. However, Ive heard that in addition to the five other protective ships that accompany them, we DO have a contingent of submarines as well. Im not sure if this vid that you reacted to is dated or If I heard wrong? God bless, Shirley.
I love your reactions. This is such a good video to explain aircraft carriers. Could you react to The Attack On Pearl Harbor by Montemayor if you haven't already
Beesley, you are a Son of of the British Isles. You have no idea how much we Americans love all you Islander Lots. Even though we may Despise the Crown 👑 and Church of England enough to Infiltrate the Royal Family every few decades, Wallis Simpson and now Meghan Markle for example, we Love you Lot.
working on a flight deck on an aircraft carrier is considered the most dangerous job in the military. the U.S. has put a lot of money into this tech because this is how the U.S. won the war in the pacific back in WW2. the U.S had 2 fleets of aircraft carriers circling Japan during this war and even had smaller version called jeep carriers.
Dude, I was on a cg, you don't understand the tightness of the berting. Also, difference in watch schedules... Lights on and off and people moving and bang about.
Mark 8:10. Ahem. What the narrator said is contradicted by the picture. (By the way, I took a break to view, "MeTV", since I can't record anymore. I mention it to explain the time gap between comments.)
No no your right to be impressed, most don't know this stuff, not all this info is new to me as my father served as an Industrial hygienist officer on one of the aircraft carriers.
The UK has two Carriers the HMS Queen Elizabeth and the HMS Prince Of Wales which have just as many aircraft and helicopters as the LHA USS Wasp class of Amphibious ships of the US Navy of which there are 6 plus I believe 1 in construction at this time. It carries multiple F-35's plus about over a dozen helicopters with 5000 Marine Infantrymen. The helicopters rate everything from Attack to multiple transport type. The Marines outnumber the number of Sailors on board.
The power of the carrier strike group is so formidable and so feared worldwide that literally positioning a strike group off the coast of a country can sway political decisions
4:35 Sorry Beesley. That is pretty much how nuclear works. Same (or about that) with the nuclear power plants in the UK. 12:00 There is a lot of downside to it. Very little personal space & it is pretty boring duty for most classifications. They do have some 'inventive' entertainment.
People sometimes ask me, "How big is an aircraft carrier?". I had been aboard Theodore Roosevelt (5:57) for 2 years when one day I ran face to face into a friend I had known through middle school and high school. We recognized each other immediately. He had been aboard for a year and a half! So, we lived and worked aboard the same ship for a year and a half before we ever saw each other!
Funny how if you spent the same amount of time in a small town with the same amount of people it would be surprising if you didn’t happen to meet at least once but on a ship with much more population density it didn’t happen that way
Holy toledo. Wow.
That’s pretty damn cool. Mahalo from Honolulu!
Thank you for your service!
Crazy! Oh, and thank both of you for your service.
One thing I will say is that the berthing compartments (where you sleep) have curtains you can pull to have privacy. If you make friends with some people. you can get leather sewed into your curtains to make sure you are in complete darkness. When I was onboard the USS Bataan, my rack was near the hull so I could hear the waves crashing against it. It sounded like thunder. So with the sound of thunder, and being rocked back and forth to sleep, it was always a joy to go to bed! I miss that.
I was a Marine on a Navy ship many years ago, mail was so important as we didn't have email or cell phones😁👍
Man you arent wrong, mail was the holy grail.(90's-early 2000s)
July 1980, Basic Training was much more bearable with 5 letters a week. Did she really have to drench one in perfume?
@@mrfuzzerkins4170 thanks for your support.
A few years ago the U.S. tried to sink the Super carrier U.S.S. America. After 4-weeks they finally scuttled it. They used all possible threats short of a nuke. These Super Carriers are so big and built in a way that makes them very difficult to sink. Also if you watch the San Diego harbor live camera you can watch carriers, and other ships, going in and out.
Great video!
Since the U.S.S. America was being scuttled it didn't have any munitions,jet fuel or any combustible materials onboard and with no secondary explosions sinking it was extremely difficult.
@@JustMe-gn6yf partly true. The main lesson was that there are so many compartments that are sealable the ship will survive. Even WW II Carriers we're not easily sunk. The USS Intrepid survived 4 direct hits by Kamikaze's. And though sunk after the Yorktown was able to survive 2 waves of planes from a Japanese carrier at Midway. The carriers today are much tougher in my estimation. Not saying it can't happen however.
I worked for a contractor at North Island and was constantly amazed at the size of the carriers when I walked past them.
Years ago, my brother served on the USS Forrestal, a carrier that's since been retired. I was able to tour the ship and it totally blew my mind. They truly are a small city on the water. During wartime, his ship could hold 5,000 men and women. It was HUGE. One really needs to see one to understand the scope of it all. One of my favorite memories.
Carriers: "You get a bunk, storage underneath and small locker"
You: "What? That's it"
Submarines: "Hold my beer"
You're not an idiot. I'm in the U.S. army but knew very little about aircraft carriers. Learned a lot from this video!
The war games with the Swedish sub was on purpose. They intentionally let them get close to the carrier to see how they would do it.
A lot of games have rules that handicap American units. Like you can't use this weapon system or you can only use all your assets.
Having the UK back in the carrier game makes me smile!!!
When I entered the Navy at 18 years old in 1979, I was younger than you Bees. So it is actually young guys your age that are the backbone of militaries around the world. I guess it is a credit to our nations leaders that serving in the military no longer necessary for your generation. I served onboard a carrier called the USS Ranger CV-61 and it was the experience of a lifetime. Surprisingly I was never bored during the 3 years I spent on that ship. I worked in the dental facility providing dental care to the crew of 5,000. I think the Ranger must have been smaller then todays carriers and had fewer people. The food on the ship was top level and of course you can eat all you want and there was great variety. Imagine serving 20k, meals per day to 5k people. The logistics of that alone proves just how difficult it is to operate a carrier and supply it what everything it needs. The cost of operating a carrier is over 1 million USD per day... Let that sink in.!
A million is so much more than anyone knows. There are about only 4 million shopping carts in America 🇺🇸
Your reaction on this is precious. "Where do you want to mail this too?...the middle of the ocean" very funny!
I was on one of those so called supply ships for 3 years, we moved everything from sodas and food, spare parts, to bombs and missiles, small arms. You name it we moved it. We could keep a carrier running at full for ever. When I got to my second boat some Marines had showed their asses at a port and the Admiral let it be known on the carrier if one more person got in trouble for anything he would keep the ship at sea until they returned home, with a proper supply ship that is very easily done.
The berthing for enlisted personnel on a carrier is really spacious compared to many of the other ships operated by the U.S. I was on one during Desert Shield /Storm where the enlisted bunks more like a cot were 6 high with just enough room to roll over. Probably the worst part of being on a carrier is that they are so big that there are a limited number of ports that can dock them, so the ship anchors off shore and personnel have to ride "liberty boats" to and from shore. Additionally, consider that many people converging on a port city all at once, and there could be more than one ship at that one time. Crazy crowds everywhere. I am surprised you did not know more of the nuclear capabilities. We also have a number of nuclear powered submarines as well.
Compared to a bunk on an attack sub that you cannot roll over - you have to get out of the bunk and turn, then get back in.
@@u4riahsc As a Marine, I never served on any submarine or even had the opportunity to visit one. I have seen a couple of videos showing that. I hear there is a fair number of "hot racking" as well.
I just happened on to your video today and being a Navy veteran of 6 years, I had to watch it. I did my 6 years before you was even born (1972-1978) and it was the best time of my life. I served on 3 different ships, none being an aircraft carrier. My first ship was a Destroyer Escort, the USS Brewton, DE-1086, and we followed the carriers, keeping an eye on any threats, possible crashes at take off and landing and for any man overboard accidents that would happen more frequently than one would think. My ship was a speck in the ocean compared to the carriers. We had a crew of under 500 so I don't think I would have ever been able to live on a carrier. I come from a small town in Oklahoma that never had a population over 1,000 people so I was fine on the USS Brewton. You did a great job on this video so I just become a new sub to your channel.
The 11 US carrier are super carriers, they dont include the wasp class carriers US has for helicopters and harriers. The total is actually 27.
Keep in mind one of the nuclear aircraft carriers is being refueled at any given time, reducing that number to 10 being active. Of that 10, one is usually deployed, one is working up for a deployment, and one is in a maintenance period after a long 6 months deployment. Plus one stationed in Japan. In a push during combat or peacekeeping missions, the US Navy prefers to operate the carriers in pairs for 24/7 round the clock operations. So at any given time America is usually able to deploy 3 nuclear carriers, sometimes 4...
@@ronclark9724 yup. there's a video on the percentage active/repair/maintenance. Same goes for planes.
That's 11 super carriers. They never add the 10 amphibious assault carriers that can carry another 20-25 F-35s each.
Not so loud😉
Never forget or under estimate the gatorbacks!
Good job! You seem to have a genuine interest/fascination with these types of videos. Knowledge is power!
11:47 Getting your own bed is actually a step up. On some ships and submarines, you share your bed. Your counterpart on the opposite shift uses it while you are on duty.
You can see at 2:08 that there is one carrier with the UK flag, which the narrator skips over. The UK now has two carriers: HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales. They are the largest-ever warships for the Royal Navy and the most capable carriers in the world after the 11 American nuclear-powered supercarriers.
I remember when they launched the QE they were still having issues with the F35 so she didn't have any planes.
When I lived in Chesapeake VA I had the awe-inspiring opportunity to observe four aircraft carriers docked in a row at the Norfolk Naval Base My brother, a 28 year Navy veteran, said the most he had seen there at one time was three.
I was in Navy, many years ago on subtenders and a destroyer, much smaller.
Working on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. The longest I went without touching land was 33 days straight sailing from Long Beach to the Philippines. Navy life, especially on a ship, is definitely not for everyone. My ship was only 860 feet long with about 3000 sailors and marines attached during deployment. The bells, the whistles, the drills, the watches, the stars at night, the blue ocean water, and the ports of call. Nothing else like it.
Once you close the curtains on your bunk, you are in your own little world...at least that's the way I looked at it. Earplugs in, book out. I was a voracious reader in the Navy. Once you got used to the tail hooks trying to knock a hole through your ceiling, it was a piece of cake :)
My father was on board the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz for the last 6 years of his 20 year career. My 3rd 4th and 6th Grade birthday was celebrated on the carrier as part of a mini field trip with a number of my school mates going on a tour (5th grade I lived with my grandparents while the carrier switched home ports from east coast to west Coast
The carrier strike force job is to literally put a umbrella of fire that enemy planes get shredded in or force them down. Basically once they hit that fire they are shredded to bits. All of it is protect the carrier at all costs. Check out our most famous and powerful carrier the enterprise. Born from ww2 and fighting in every major battle in the pacific she is the most decorated and the most powerful earning the titles of the grey ghost and the lucky E. She was scrapped postwar as she could not handle the jet age. The enterprise was rebuilt as the first nuclear powered carrier on the seas. She is still floating around somewhere in the pacific doing rounds. It’s something you should see.
USS Enterprise is actually decommissioned now. "She" is no longer in service. The carrier is actually a museum ship now because of it being the first nuclear carrier.
The USS Enterprise CVN-65 was decommissioned in 2017. It used to be homeported in Alameda, CA where I used to work at the Naval Aviation Depot. It is now apparently at HII Shipyard, Newport News, Virginia where it will apparently be dismantled and recycled. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)
I did a tour of the Enterprise when it was in Alameda sometime between 1987 and 1989. A very impressive ship. When it was in port, I could see it out my office window about 1/4 away at the piers.
Incidentally, one of the Star Trek movies had shots of a couple of the Star Trek cast (Lieutenant Uhura and Lieutenant Chekov)
in front of the Enterprise at the Alameda Naval Base.
Here are a couple of photos from that scene in that movie:
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I was cg62. 350ish people. And a towed array (nixie and mfta), was not an stg, but the carrier is, at this moment in time, defenseless against surface and subsurface ships without escorts or a ctf.
America also has 8 smaller carriers called Amphibious assault ships. I'll look for a video on them
So a little tip for anyone writing letters to someone in the navy (less important now with email) date every page of your letter. As those pick up points shift letter may show up out of sequence
You'd have fun doing a deeper dive into these.
I think you are right there mate!
ruclips.net/video/6OxM46oO1x8/видео.html Here is a link as to how they work in depth during war games.
@@dominickthornburghakaTRG I've been hoping someone would recommend that one. It truly is a great video with great visuals to help understand these monsters
So glad they mentioned the hanger below deck
@@TheBeesleys99 bro India have 2 aircraft carrier
My longest at sea time between 2 different aircraft carriers was 1 year and 9 months, 6 month IO cruise on the U.S.S. Midway CV-41, 3 days after we docked in our home port Iraq Invaded Kuwait, the next morning we were underway for the Persian gulf, on a 9 month long combat deployment for Desert Shield/ Desert Storm, after the cease fire i was transferred to my new command back in the states, 3 weeks after reporting to my new command, I deployed for another 6 months on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln CVN-72
11:55 .. Not to take away from my brothers at arms “Semper Fortis” But try that in the dirt or sand without a soft bed and only field rations !! 😉
I used to live near a navy base in South Carolina and had the opportunity to tour a submarine and and aircraft carrier. It is hard to grasp how large they are until you ar next to one and then inside one. It is just amazing. But when I toured the submarine....man oh man what ever their salary is it IS NOT ENOUGH! that job takes a special type of person. I just know I wouldn't be able to do it, and God Bless those that do! Much respect! Thanks for Sharing this video. I love your channel. And as a souther lady in the U.S. I loved your video on accents. That guy really nailed them! Good on you!
Those guys shooting the lines? My dad did that back in the 1960s during Vietnam. He was Chief Gunner's Mate on the U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard air craft carrier. It is no more though they did rechristen another ship (an amphibious assault ship) later with that name, but recently it suffered from a fire aboard and has been taken out of service.
It's unlikely missiles- short of a massive swarm of them- will get through to hit a carrier. The guided missile cruiser with the CSG is usually an Aegis anti-SAM type, and all the ships are equipped with CIWS- Close-In Weapons Systems, which are really big, computer-aimed gatling guns for short range defense.
This is ignoring, of course, the fact that most missile carrying platforms would be taken out well short of the carrier by its aircraft. As far as torpedoes.... other folks in this comments section have already touched on that!
I was on the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) 1991-1995. Still impressed by it.
Living on a carrier is 24 hour work. You never just go for a walk for the hell of it, not even smoker either. Every movement has to have purpose or you'll be completely lost. The only time you can really get lost is in sleep for a little while. You get used to the small space and crazily I actually sleep better out there because of all the constant white noise is strangely comforting.
I was aircrew on C2's. It was a fun job, I do miss it sometimes.
I know a couple of guys that worked fight decks in the 70s and 80s. Don't tick them off piolets. They can ground your plane lol
I served on CVN-73 back in the day, CATCC....and a plankowner too.
So did I. Just wasn't a plankowner. I was CAT 3. 93-96.
It would take more than a few torpedoes to sink a carrier. They have thousands of watertight compartments. But it is good that weaknesses were found so they can be corrected.
Weaknesses were given for public consumption. I would be surprised if it were actually true.
its usually 2 of each except for the supply ship
Subscribed. Love how excited you get over all this. lol.
They are faster than 35 knots. We were traveling 45 knots and the carrier was pulling away. Ive been told they can do 85 knots on a calm day
Way to blow opsec, your security clearance, and quite possibly your freedom in one RUclips post.
@@ArgosySpecOps really? I’m a nobody who happened to be boating in San Diego. They are not gonna pay attention to me
That doesn't include our America-Class Amphibious Carriers that have helicopters and F-35Bs, that are used by the Marines, also known as the 'Gator Navy'.
Ok….imagine doing this tuff at night or in bad weather. 🤔
Controlled chaos is a very accurate description.
I don't know if they still do, but they had hot racking. That is when multiple personnel are assigned to the same bed (rack). While one would be up, another would be sleeping. When I was stationed in Guam (USAF) I had a friend at Big Navy (NAS Guam) who told me that sometimes three people shared a rack.
Not on carriers. I was stationed on the Stennis. Also didn’t happen on the frank cable or belleauwood. I was on all 3. I’ve heard of that happening on submarines
@@mollieorzehowski9409 That would make sense, he was on the USS Chicago, a nuclear sub. I just assumed that happened on all navy ships. I was an instructor at Keesler AFB, in Stennis Hall.
The UK was the first to have in service. It also came up with the angled flight deck.
My sleeping compertment was all the wy to the rear end of the carrier, Guys that worked at the bow would commuute to their using the flight deck tow tractors.
After awhile being out t sea i looked up at the bridge and saw that either the Flight Boss or the Captain had a rear view mirror. They were there to watch planes landing, but it put odd thoughtsin my head,
I was on Nimitz.
Believe it or not, I couldn’t wait to get into my rack (bed) at the end of the day! It was the best place on the ship during deployment. Probably because I didn’t get to be in it very much! 😂
do the bunks have curtains?
My husband was a nuclear officer onboard the Nimitz CVN-68. His stateroom slept 4 people. He enjoyed officer of the deck duties and seeing sunlight.
I was Navy 1976 till1980 on the USS Iwo jima !
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USS Gerald R Ford (CVN-78) aka "Ford" is newest carrier class, Ford Class to replace Nimitz Class. USS Ford is in active service since 2017. Plan is to replaced current Nimitz carriers with Ford Class.
Next carrier of Ford is John F Kennedy (CVN-79) that is currently being built and scheduled to be commissioned in 2024. One of the newest carriers to be build will be named Doris Miller. This carrier will be 1st to be named after 1st African American named Doris Miller aka Dorie Miller. Miller was on a ship in Pearl Harbor when Japan attacked Naval Base. Miller, cook, assisted his captain who was mortally wounded. Then Miller manned anti aircraft machine gun to defend the ship. Sadly, Miller died years later during WWII when his another ship sank
That "sleeping space" or rack is called a "Coffin Locker", and I spent 20 of 24 months there in 86 to 88 on Back 2 Back WestPacs to Libya in 86 then Iran in 88. Wouldn't do it again 4 anything! And I didn't have a carrier with it 's bowling alleys to hang my hat, but a 4k ton frigate (Tin Can) as opposed to a 98K ton carrier. A frigate is no place to ride out a Typhoon in the Northwestern Pacific & thank GOD we survived it!
I worked the flight deck of 2 different carrier( Kitty Hawk and Carl Vinson) I tell you it's controlled chaos.
10:30 .. Brother I've never looked into the info of a carrier until this vid and learned a lot from it.
I'm 56 years old, 18 years in the military (Army Spec-Ops}, four deployment's in three wars (Although Somalia wasn't a war) Yet I had no clue so you're
not alone just because you're not from the U.S. .. Diversitas Varietas !
The guy on the Smarter Every Day channel has a series on a US submarine. Good stuff!
The angled flight deck was originally a British concept allowing aircraft to be launched while landing at the same time. Do not know why they didn't stay with that concept.
Think about this carriers are at sea for long periods of time try feeding 6000 people three times a day for weeks. These ships are airports hospitals schools and they are armed to the teeth Thanks Beesley great video Cheers
Bill Pickard aircraft carriers actually do 4 meal services a day. You have breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midrats (midnight rations). When carriers are at Sea they operate 24 hours a day 7 days a week so there's always someone constantly on duty and those people need to eat.
@@sadiekincaid5310 Thanks Sadie I'm told they have steak. If so, that's great they should get the best
These ship operated 24/7 and so someone was always trying to sleep after a while being really tired did the trick
a aircraft carrier holds more personal than people in my city so yeah.
As the saying goes, 4.3 acres of US soil anywhere you want it.
I did 2 deployments on the USS Enterprise CVN65.
I got a buddy who’ll be working on carriers as a nuclear tech, he’s not too happy bout the sleeping quarters and not seeing sun but loves that his girlfriend can still send mail cheeply
Unless he feels like changing his Rating to a deck dog. The only time he'll see the sun is when it pulls into port. Or he goes up to the flight deck over watch, or the hanger deck.
It's like a dorm room for college except no parties. The 2nd UK carrier HMS Prince of Wales has since put to sea. HMS Queen Elizabeth and her Battle Group already crossed the Suez Canal recently and have met up with US carriers in the Indian Ocean and are continuing east representing the first global projection of the British Navy since WW2. China was having to deal with the US and Pacific Allies deployments/exercises in the area now...Oh shit! The British are here too.
Another drawback about life onboard a carrier they don’t mention is noise. People are constantly working and coming and going around you while you try to sleep. Not to mention the noise of elevators lifting and descending while planes take off and land. There’s no quiet on a carrier.
It is not easy landing a plane on an aircraft carrier. I use to work on a flight simulator that taught pilots how to land properly on a carrier deck. Don't forget, they have to land in high winds, on a pitching carrier deck due to rough seas, on a totally black night in the middle of an ocean!
Mark 2:26. Yes. Please, keep those 6,000 crew members in mind whenever you see a movie in which they depict a, Supercarrier, sinking. In the, "Monsterverse", their version of a, "USS Saratoga", is fictional. The, "USS Flagg", is also fictional in the, "G. I. Joe", movies. But in one of the, "Transformers", movies they used the name and likeness of an actual warship, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, as played by the, USS John C. Stennis, and the, USS Abraham Lincoln, in some scenes, because of reused stock footage from other movies. 😳
About sinking a US Carrier. Other than a nuclear tipped torpedo, it would take many, many conventional strikes to damage the carrier where it would impair its ability to be mission ready. A modern US carrier, in a battle ready state, meaning all water tight integrity doors and hatches closed and sealed, would be the equivalent of trying to sink bubble wrap. There are just too many compartments that would need to be compromised for the ship to sink. I’ll refrain from saying impossible, but it is highly improbable. Carriers are also capable of making repairs to get the ship back into an operational status pretty quickly. I lived and worked on 2 different carriers from 1980 to 1985 so I have a pretty good idea about what I’m saying here..
Different colored on duty shirts--just like on Star Trek. : )))
Never be the guy wearing red!
I was stationed on an aircraft carrier for 3.5 years
The helicopters are more often used for cargo or mail.
So, I have seen most of what you showed regarding American aircraft carriers. However, Ive heard that in addition to the five other protective ships that accompany them, we DO have a contingent of submarines as well. Im not sure if this vid that you reacted to is dated or If I heard wrong? God bless, Shirley.
I love your reactions. This is such a good video to explain aircraft carriers. Could you react to The Attack On Pearl Harbor by Montemayor if you haven't already
Followed by his work on The Battle Of Midway.
Beesley, you are a Son of of the British Isles. You have no idea how much we Americans love all you Islander Lots. Even though we may Despise the Crown 👑 and Church of England enough to Infiltrate the Royal Family every few decades, Wallis Simpson and now Meghan Markle for example, we Love you Lot.
The US carrier has Millie’s and guns to kill missiles also
I was in the Navy from 02 to 08
You should do a review on the USS Enterprise the gray ghost. It’s a ww2 carrier
working on a flight deck on an aircraft carrier is considered the most dangerous job in the military. the U.S. has put a lot of money into this tech because this is how the U.S. won the war in the pacific back in WW2. the U.S had 2 fleets of aircraft carriers circling Japan during this war and even had smaller version called jeep carriers.
Dude, I was on a cg, you don't understand the tightness of the berting. Also, difference in watch schedules... Lights on and off and people moving and bang about.
The top speed they mentioned is incorrect. They are faster than that. The actual top speed is supposedly classified.
You really don’t understand unless you see one but that’s not always that easy
I served 22 years in the navy and being on FFGs and DDGs the carrier is a yacht compared to my row boat.....
I miss being at sea... did 11 deployments 6 plus month each.... best days of my life
Mark 8:10. Ahem. What the narrator said is contradicted by the picture. (By the way, I took a break to view, "MeTV", since I can't record anymore. I mention it to explain the time gap between comments.)
They didn't tell you that at least one submarine travels with each aircraft carrier group.
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I didnt know ,interesting information
Im deployed on a carrier right now and if you saw the way we acted when on deployment you say we are a high school at sea
The marine ambition assault ships are wicked too and can launch F35s…
For a good laugh, look up the video titled "SR-71 Speed Story!
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No no your right to be impressed, most don't know this stuff, not all this info is new to me as my father served as an Industrial
hygienist officer on one of the aircraft carriers.
We called the air crew skittles.
How come this is in the lost in the pond reaction playlist?
Cwiz guns can defend the fleet
The UK has two Carriers the HMS Queen Elizabeth and the HMS Prince Of Wales which have just as many aircraft and helicopters as the LHA USS Wasp class of Amphibious ships of the US Navy of which there are 6 plus I believe 1 in construction at this time. It carries multiple F-35's plus about over a dozen helicopters with 5000 Marine Infantrymen. The helicopters rate everything from Attack to multiple transport type. The Marines outnumber the number of Sailors on board.
The power of the carrier strike group is so formidable and so feared worldwide that literally positioning a strike group off the coast of a country can sway political decisions
If you ever decide to review any music, please start with any of Pentatonix, an acapella group. Any of their songs.
Aegis missile defense and ciws
4:35 Sorry Beesley. That is pretty much how nuclear works. Same (or about that) with the nuclear power plants in the UK. 12:00 There is a lot of downside to it. Very little personal space & it is pretty boring duty for most classifications. They do have some 'inventive' entertainment.