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Weta,

 

That vdo made me yearn for Su33 w/AFM. How cool will it be to land her on a pitching and rolling carrier...ED, forget the Hog and start on the 33, please.

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Weta,

 

That vdo made me yearn for Su33 w/AFM. How cool will it be to land her on a pitching and rolling carrier...ED, forget the Hog and start on the 33, please.

 

Here, have some REP! :thumbup:

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Gave ya'll rep as well for posting cool vids. I never knew that funky, silver scale looking thing was to give rep. Anyone else want some rep?

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Btw, Interesting how they don't have several hundred people milling around the flight deck like the U.S. counterpart.

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Btw, Interesting how they don't have several hundred people milling around the flight deck like the U.S. counterpart.

 

Wonder whether it's because they can't afford to, or don't need to ;)

 

Probably a combination of the two. They can't afford to run real high-tempo operations and don't have the deck real estate to be able to.

 

If you're operating a couple of aircraft at once, it's not a big deal. If you're flying ten or twenty, marshalling, connecting to steam catapults, chaining down, unchaining . . . then you DO need a lot of people on the flight deck to handle all the various tasks going on.

 

 

Having said that, the USN carriers do need an incredible number of people onboard.

 

A Nimitz class at 1100 feet and 100,000 tonnes has 6000 people onboard.

The RN's Queen Elizabeth class at 931 feet and 75,000 tonnes will go to sea with 1500.

 

It's smaller, but it's not a quarter the size . . .

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IIRC, the K's maiden Mediterranean voyage only had 7 planes and a couple helicopters on board. Much of the full compliment of Su-33s are land based most of the time. Compare that to a US carrier that might have 60 or more aircraft. So yeah, low key is a good word for it! :) Of course, their intended roles are different and all.

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No doubt. It's just weird seeing multi million $$ jet operating on an empty deck - at least Russian sailors don't have to bear the cold.

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