Comments by "That Car Guy" (@ThatCarGuy) on "HMS Queen Elizabeth leaves Portsmouth home under the cover of darkness" video.

  1. Keep up the great work. Hope to see the UK with nuclear carriers some day.
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  2.  @kopite8971  Why? Nuclear is better then conventional be it carriers,submarines, or even ships
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  3. ​ @mr_slidey  "there are many reasons that the UK went with conventional carriers over nuclear such as being able to dock in more ports and go through more countries' territorial waters, " There is such a minor difference. Off the top of my head only New Zealand doesn't allow them, the majority of the world allows them. Otherwise why not also make conventional submarines? Nuclear is better. "having to have supply ships for the rest of the carrier group anyway so fuel isn't a huge additional concern, " Nuclear carriers are the resupply ship in the CSG, so during war time, you need less ships to defend resupply ships if the carrier is doing it. "USS Carl Vinson sets milestone, delivers over 1M gallons of fuel since January The aircraft carrier has conducted 15 separate fuel at sea evolutions this year." "astronomically more expensive for little gain." It's not much more expensive for much more gain. All the fuel for a conventional carriers adds up while also needing to build more resupply ships and fuel those as well cuts the cost very close to each other as nuclear carriers need to be refuel once every 20-25 years. With nuclear propulsion you can have CATOBAR or EMALS, power future laser weapons, you have more fuel for your airwing, have a larger airwing, have better sortie rates, can refuel the CSG, can go on longer mission times(double) as you can hold more fuel, food and water and so on. " Both HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales will keep 45 days' worth of food in its stores." "The ships normally carries enough food and supplies to operate for 90 days. Four distilling units enable NIMITZ-class engineers to make over 400,000 gallons of fresh water from seawater a day, for use by the propulsion plants, catapults and crew. The ship carries approximately 3 million gallons of fuel for her aircraft and escorts, and enough weapons and stores for extended operations without replenishment."
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