Portaerei europei
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Portaerei europei
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di MGC91
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These are the European aircraft carriers currently in service:
**HMS Queen Elizabeth**
– Royal Navy
– 80,600 tonnes displacement full load
– Conventional Propulsion
– STOVL
– 12-24 F-35Bs (Peacetime)
– 36 F-35Bs (Operational)
– 48 F-35Bs (Surge)
– Up to 12 Merlin HM2 (ASW), Merlin Crowsnest (AEW) or Wildcat HMA2 (ASuW)
**HMS Prince of Wales**
– Royal Navy
– 80,600 tonnes full load displacement
– Conventional Propulsion
– STOVL
– 12-24 F-35Bs (Peacetime)
– 36 F-35Bs (Operational)
– 48 F-35Bs (Surge)
– Up to 12 Merlin HM2 (ASW), Merlin Crowsnest (AEW) or Wildcat HMA2 (ASuW)
**FS Charles de Gaulle**
– Marine Nationale
– 42,500 tonnes full load displacement
– Nuclear Propulsion
– CATOBAR
– Up to 22 Rafale M
– 30 Rafale M (Surge)
– 2 E-2C Hawkeye
– 2AS365 Dauphins helicopters
– 1 NH90 helicopter
**ITS Cavour**
– Marina Militare
– 28,100 tonnes full load displacement
– Conventional Propulsion
– STOVL
– Up to 16 F-35Bs/AV-8B Harrier/
– Up to 6 Merlin/NH-90
ITS Trieste, SPS Juan Carlos I and TCG Anadolu are all classified as LHDs rather than aircraft carriers, with their ability to operate fixed wing aircraft (Trieste and Juan Carlos I) or UAVs (Anadolu) a secondary role.
Lmao. A cool fleet.
Russia lost Black Sea to a country with no fleet.
*You know kids, I’m also something of a superpower*
*Willem dafoe meme*
Double that and we are in a good position.
Germany needs one next.
Europe we can do it WE JUST HAVE TO STAY strong and don’t make the procedure a bureaucratic mess!
Netherlands need to build them, strong naval tradition, inventor of a lot of naval warfare tactics and military disciplines, and one of the best ship building industries in the world; if not the best. But perhaps aircraft carriers are not of this time anymore. Drone carriers seem to be a thing in future warfare. Carying submarine, land and air drones.
Why do they have ski jumps on the front?
I know it’s popular to talk about rearming in the land sphere at the moment obviously due to the Russian threat.
We should do that for sure to meet the threat but I think just as vital is rearming in the naval sphere, to cover the gap that the US navy will leave behind. Europe may have to project power into the Red Sea Indian ocean and around Africa in the future as a counterbalance to China, Russia and even India potentially (anything could happen) and we need a fatter navy to meet that threat.
If we wanted to we could probably build a better navy than the United States as we are not far off them in GDP our goals would be more limited than their worldwide coverage.
Full of seamen.
Just how OP likes it
I still can’t believe that the UK spent so much money on carriers that had no nuclear propulsion and no CATOBAR.
Short sighted penny pinching has no place in such decisions.
Nice european aircraft carriers with full deck of US aircrafts…
Russian one was too busy burning in its dry dock to make an appearance?
Not to sound like an idiot, but why are carriers so expensive? Its basically just a floating platform?
HMS Queen Elizabeth is 284m long and 73m at the widest. It can fit 48 fighters at maximum and cost £3bn (6bn for the entire project).
The largest cargoship in the world, MSC Irina, is 400m long and 61m wide, and cost around $150m.
Obviously some modifications would be useful, but for 20-40x the cost? And is it really smart to put so many eggs in one basket? Both in terms of fighter jets, but also resources in general.
It served a great purpose during ww2 and US dominance in the pacific, but would it be useful in a modern day war?
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Aesthetically the angled deck is just top, but man I miss the cold war carriers. Ark Royal, Eagle, Clemenceau and Foch just looked superb
I see only one aircraft carrier here and it has Rafales on it
Aircraft carriers are useful for when you need to project power overseas and over the sea. Europe is filled to the brim with airfields in friendly countries so relevance of aircraft carriers for European defence is minimal but not zero.
One Nuclear Carrier. France
We should build some EU carriers!
(as in owned and operated by the EU)
Is that all that Europe has.
I see only one real carrier (Le Charles). Shame we sabotaged ourselves and didn’t get a 2nd one.
If you look closely, you can tell these are props in a bathtub.