Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "50 Insane Aircraft Carrier Facts That Will Shock You" video.

  1. You could say the same of the Boeing 747.
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  2. No, it isn't.
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  3. There is on average 90 aircraft per US carrier and there are 12 (?) carriers.
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  4. No, they don't, but the Gerald R. Ford have been built in mind to have them retrofitted once all kinks are worked out.
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  5. We will sell one of them shortly after Brexit and the second one after about 5 or 6 years when the country is almost bankrupt and desperately cutting costs.
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  6. It did, but not anymore.
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  7. I wouldn't go that far and I'm a Brit, the QE-class are similar in size to carriers the US was building in the 1960's, though tech-wise they are far ahead of the GRF-class as America's new carriers have cut crew size down from around 5,000 for a Nimitz to around 4,100 for a GRF while the QE-class will have only 1,000 crew seeing as almost everything on the carrier is automated and controlled by a computer.
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  8.  @thisguy3807  Congratulations on spending 18 billion on a souped-up Nimitz class at the bargain price of 5x Nimitz class carriers.
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  9.  @thisguy3807  We've decommissioned several, we currently have three mothballed meaning if war broke out we would have five in total.
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  10. The French had carriers before the CDG
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  11. No, it just means you cannot enter one unless you have express permission, whereas due to maritime law you can board any other vessel for inspections or to pursue a criminal, or even to impound it if the vessel or it's home nation have broken a law. You cannot however set foot on an aircraft carrier without it being considered trespassing and an international incident. This is why they rarely dock in friendly nations and instead sit off the coast, to deter idiots doing what those Aussie students did.
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  12. No, they are not, if they were then no one ever would be able to board a naval vessel without it being a declaration of war - regardless of what the vessel was doing at the time, but naval vessels are boarded all the time for inspections, you cannot however board an aircraft carrier for whatever reason. Maritime law.
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