Comments by "Abraham Dozer" (@abrahamdozer6273) on "UK's biggest warship HMS Prince of Wales ready to resume duties" video.

If I were a British taxpayer, I'd hope that was warranty work.
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@romeo9017 I'm a old Veteran Navy Engineer and shaft couplings don't just "break". It was improperly made, improperly installed or perhaps the the subject of sabotage. "Sailing a ship" should be construed as "normal operation" and the RN should not be paying that tab (unless they suspect the third option and are not telling you).
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@thetruthhurts7675 I was born and raised in Quebec. The demand for F-35s far outstrips the production capacity of Lockheed-Martin to build them. It's a sales success and a marketing failure.
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@modelrailwaynoob Well, we (the other Navy Engineers that I meet with every week) discussed this failure and none of us could remember a shaft coupler failing in any warship we'd ever heard of and one of them goes back to the Korean War era. So tell us, oh arrogant insulting one. What do YOU know? I know! You build models! Well! You must know all about Marine Engineering after having played with HO Scale choo-choos.
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@@user-mr4uo5mw9n The Harrier should have been kept during the transition phase to the F-35 so that the RN could continue operations, like say the Italians have done. However advanced the F-35 is, no capability at all is not an advance in any way.
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@modelrailwaynoob Shaft couplers were the "latest tech" in 1839. The British taxpayer doesn't understand what broke.
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The Americans consider these to be smaller, simpler carriers. It's all a matter of perspective.
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@davidrobertsemail The ones tied up getting refits, doing training do not have airplanes on board. Do you honestly believe that any of them have carriers tied up with flights of planes on board? Never. Nowhere. The planes live on airfields when the carriers are not at sea and the Americans DO NOT have full flights of planes for each and every carrier that they have. The aircraft usually join the carriers out at sea. They don't run them down the highways and lop them onto the deck with cranes. I don't know what the Chinese do but their carrier fleet is in it's infancy and the have zero practical experience operating them.
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@davidrobertsemail The ski jumps can be removed fairly easily. The design allows for the retro-fit of angled flight decks. Whether the engineering plant can produce enough power to run electromagnetic catapults, I'm not sure. It may need more watts from somewhere. The planes? How about some Rafaeles?[snicker]
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I'm surprised that the word "sabotage" hasn't come up because shaft couplers don't typically fail.
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@HardyBunster Senile dementia? Don't know much about that, yet.
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@@phillipbanes5484 Sure. They oversold them. It will take a generation to fill all the orders. That's a Marketing disaster if you can sell them but not supply them.
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@@user-mr4uo5mw9n My country has 88 of them on order with the first one due in 2026. They are the "less complicated" F-35A. The "B" is a rather more complex beast.
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@graveperil2169 They already have them. They also have mini carriers and you can fully expect that Japanese pilots will land on her. TORA! TORA! TORA!
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You would never sail both at once except in the case of an extreme emergency. It is a typical warship rotation to have one at sea and one or two in refit or training. That's traditional for as long as there have been iron ships.
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@davidrobertsemail Usually, it's one ship will be at sea "combat ready" with one in refit and working up in training. The RAF air wing is not constrained by that rotation. The individual aircraft might be but the squadron doesn't all stand down ever. For the time being, the QEs aircraft are the Prince of Wale's aircraft
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@davidrobertsemail I'm not necessarily saying that it's a mistake. It's just that F-35 order lists are so long and production is so slow that you won't see more than a handful of them this decade, anyway. There is a huge global demand for these, Britain is one of many customers. You can't buy them off the shelf. The F-35B is literally as complicated as a space shuttle. These are not cheap cars and you don't step up production by adding another shift. The United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey, the Netherlands, Norway, Australia, Canada and Denmark are the original consortium members, all buying them, with Israel, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Belgium and Poland also purchasing the F-35. UK doesn't have particularly special "preferred" status there.
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@davidrobertsemail You'll never sail both carriers at once into a conflict, so you need one carrier's worth of aircraft but that's still along way away. I shake my head in wonder at designing a class of multi billion £ ships around an aircraft that was essentially a shiny colour brochure at the time. It was unproven (still is in a real combat role) of unknown design quality (still questions about how good a fighter is really is) and yet they were willing to bet the whole farm on this pair of Jacks.
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@davidrobertsemail If it were wartime you might but it is by no means certain that you'd be able to keep two at sea. Expect battle damage ... lots of battle damage as carriers will be lightning rods for attacks of all sorts. You''ll need to keep a spare in the boot. The air wing can come and go (They'll need to have lots of spares, too).
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Wait 'til this one goes on patrol in the South China Sea.
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@davidrobertsemail You would never sail all your carriers at once. Nobody does and nobody will. Having them half at sea is a good rotation (Usually, it's one ship at sea, one in refit and one working up in training). The RAF air wing is not constrained by that rotation. The individual aircraft might be but the squadron doesn't all stand down ever. For the time being, the QEs aircraft are the Prince of Wale's aircraft as they won't be at a "combat ready" status at the same time
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@davidrobertsemail You should have kept your Harriers instead of going full on with this expensive hanger queen. F-35 production is years behind and the F-35 B version that the Royal Navy requires are exceptionally slow to produce. The problem is the crazy aircraft the Royal Navy chose (and designed carriers around, sight unseen), not the ships.
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@davidrobertsemail You will never sail both carriers at once with air wings on board ... maybe in wartime. If you only have one carrier, you will only be able to sail a carrier half of the time.
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@asb358 You don't have enough Frigates to escort them but your NATO partners do and that is the nature of the alliance. The UK has operated in naval coalitions since the beginning of WWII. Nothing new here and it is a good thing, not a bad thing. p.s. The US Navy is extremely short of AS escorts and have the same sort of problems. The are fast-tracking the production of 100 new Frigates since their LCS project was deemed a flop.
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@davidhouseman4328 Could be.
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It didn't get the chance to be a rust bucket. Now, that pathetic old Russian carrier tied up in Murmansk ... THAT's a rust bucket.
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They don't produce them in "bunches" unfortunately.
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F-35-Bs are a slow, complicated build and they will never show up in a hurry. They are as complex as a Space Shuttle, not a Hillman Hunter.
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