USS Roosevelt Visits the UK. Brits In Awe
- Thread starter EagleSmack
- Start date
British warships will soon be running with British battle groups. You can run with foreign ones all you like - British ships and those from other nations also do the same - but we'll soon have our own carier battle groups again.
I'm afraid it would be no match for a Type 45.
I would like to apologize to the American people for all the childish nasty comments left by some of the idiots in my country, they are in the minority, just ignore them they're lonely and have no friends.~ jjj, Yorkshire
LOL. I think he's talking about BL!
Meet the HMCS Regina. Launched in 1993. She runs with the USS Constellation battle group.
Come to the next SINKX, we could use some Brit ships to toy with.
Way to go Canada! The brits could learn a thing or two from you folks.
That's what I call military power about time we woke up~ East End, England
So when Canadians do it in their limited 1970s ships, it's "heroic", the "mighty Royal Canadian Navy with its 14 1970s-era warships saving the world again."
Yet when the British do it in their 21st Century ships, which have proved very helpful to the Yanks, it is merely "to give the British some sense of importance" rather than to provide vital, powerful assets to American carriers.
Yeah, okay then.
The ship off the port quarter has absolutely no freedom of movement and is pretty much stapled to the carrier. The receive all orders from the bridge of the carrier.
HMS Daring joins up with US carrier groups
From:Ministry of Defence
First published:21 March 2012
On her maiden deployment, HMS Daring has worked with not one but two US Carrier Strike Groups - USS Carl Vinson and USS Abraham Lincoln.
HMS Daring with United States Navy Nimitz Class aircraft carrier the USS Carl Vinson in the background [Picture: Leading Airman (Photographer) Keith Morgan, Crown Copyright/MOD 2012]
HMS Daring, the first of six cutting-edge Type 45 destroyers, has been exercising with both 100,000-tonne carriers as she integrates with the UK’s closest allies.
That integration has taken the form of swapping sailors with several American ships, notably cruisers USS Cape St George and Bunker Hill, as well as the two carriers, allowing the two navies to share expertise and ideas and forge good working relationships.
The Carl Vinson leads US Carrier Strike Group One, while the Abraham Lincoln is the flagship of Group Nine; there are 11 such groups in all, each comprising one carrier, one cruiser, two destroyers, one hunter-killer submarine and a support ship, plus an air group of more than 60 jets, helicopters and piston-engined aircraft.
The culmination of this effort was HMS Daring working fully with the Carl Vinson and her impressive air wing of fast jets.
The bow of HMS Daring with United States Navy Nimitz Class aircraft carrier the USS Carl Vinson in the background [Picture: Leading Airman (Photographer) Keith Morgan, Crown Copyright/MOD 2012]
Daring’s Sampson radar and command and control system allow multiple targets to be tracked over ranges of up to hundreds of kilometres. That information is fed to the Aster missiles in the silo on the ship’s forecastle.
With her long-range radar, Daring can track many thousands of air contacts, giving her unprecedented surveillance of huge areas of airspace.
These capabilities make Daring a valuable asset for a US Carrier Strike Group, providing a comprehensive air picture of the complex Gulf airspace:
"Working with the US carriers and their air wings is the culmination of many months of training and hard work for the ship’s company," explained Lieutenant David Berry, one of two fighter controllers aboard Daring.
"For me, this is the pinnacle of my fighter controlling career and it is truly amazing to watch it all come together in this operational theatre. Taking control of F-18 Super Hornets in this busy operational environment is hugely rewarding."
Daring is attached to the Combined Maritime Forces on a wide-ranging maritime security mission tackling piracy, smuggling, people-trafficking, terrorism and other criminal activities, as well as working with coalition and regional allies.
Daring’s not the only Royal Navy vessel to link up with a US Carrier Group. In the Arabian Sea - outside the Gulf - the Abraham Lincoln joined forces with Britain’s ‘capital ship’, HMS Westminster.
The Portsmouth-based frigate is also on a maritime security patrol of waters east of Suez, while the Abraham Lincoln is conducting both that mission and supporting operations in Afghanistan.
HMS Daring with USS Abraham Lincoln
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/hms-daring-joins-up-with-us-carrier-groups--2
Henry VIII was in a film. Was he also fictional?
Ohhhh just you wait? You sound like a climate alarmist. What are you going to do when our new ships hit the seas if you can't keep up with our current Halifax Class frigites?
The Carl Vinson leads US Carrier Strike Group One, while the Abraham Lincoln is the flagship of Group Nine; there are 11 such groups in all, each comprising one carrier, one cruiser, two destroyers, one hunter-killer submarine and a support ship, plus an air group of more than 60 jets, helicopters and piston-engined aircraft.
The culmination of this effort was HMS Daring working fully with the Carl Vinson and her impressive air wing of fast jets.
The bow of HMS Daring with United States Navy Nimitz Class aircraft carrier the USS Carl Vinson in the background [Picture: Leading Airman (Photographer) Keith Morgan, Crown Copyright/MOD 2012]
Oh look... the brits are sending us more ships to do port quarter watch to free up the more advanced US Frigates.
So, two of these would have more strike aircraft than the whole of the RAF ! What have we let our so called " leaders " do to our once great country ? They will make us into a defenceless and vulnerable laughing stock if we let them continue.~ patrickd339, Liverpool
"The culmination of this effort was HMS Daring working fully with the Carl Vinson and her impressive air wing of fast jets."
Yes we have "fast jets" England.... lmfao
Stop quoting silly comments from MailOnline. The MailOnline comments boards are not representative of the British people as a whole, having been infested by Left-wingers and Guardianistas and others who have little grasp of real life - and certainly no knowledge of military matters - long ago.
There's a major difference between the American aircraft carrier and ours, when commissioned, ours don't have aircraft.~ Back of Beyond, UK
At least they have some planes to put on their carrier. Unlike us now, whose politicians have run down our military to the bone. VOTE UKIP.~ TW, London
Whoa! Whoa! Left-wingers? This guy says "VOTE UKIP".... that's YOUR PARTY!
FAIL!
Yes, he should quote The Blaze, like you do. There's journalism that's representative of the Briddish people.
Halifax Class frigates, whose primary weapons are Sea King helicopters, are no match for the world's most powerful air defence destroyer and its awesome firepower. Sorry about that. If you don't believe me, maybe petition your naval leaders to order one of your Halifax Class frigates to pick a fight with Type 45 destroyer. Then you'll see. The chances are, you'll not even be able to hit a Type 45 - which can shoot down an object the size of a cricket ball travelling at three times the speed of sound, and shoot down several of them at once - never mind beat it.
Last edited:
The Blaze? Is that the result of eating at Taco Time?
Bring them to SINKX and find out.
Stop posting comments from the idiots on MailOnline message boards - comments which are so obviously wrong - because it just makes you look like a typical thick Yank.
All thanks to Frank Whittle, of course.
Gladly. One Type 45 could probably sink the entire Royal Canadian Navy.
As I say, you'll not even be able to hit a Type 45, never mind sink it.
Isn't BL a UKIP fan?
At least they have some planes to put on their carrier. Unlike us now, whose politicians have run down our military to the bone. VOTE UKIP.~ TW, London
First you have to catch a Halifax in the sights. Good luck. They boogie. It's why they run flank on battle groups.
"and ladys and gents. If you look out of your left side you will see an extremely rare creature to be found in British water's. It is known as an aircraft carrier. Our native carriers are extinct and the last on can be found in pieces, in a Turkish breakers yard. This particular one is from America and is following it's natural migratory route to the middle east, where it will bring love, joy and happiness to all those that appose her~ laz, London
Left-wingers are UKIP fans though? lol.
and they have 10 of these, with new ones coming. Each one has the firepower to flatten the entire armed forces of any western country. This is why we need to be the USA's best buddies forever. All the other stuff is irrelevant.~ jimmypatterson, Thame
And that is why we keep the brit clunkers off the port quarter. They couldn't match the Halifax.