13 Action-Packed Aircraft Carriers | Smithsonian Channel

From risks below deck to bombing tests on the open sea, these 13 aircraft carriers are in the middle of all types of action.
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0:00 - Intro to 13 Action-Packed Aircraft Carriers
0:17 - Cannon Fires 4,500 Rounds A Minute
2:00 - Preparation For First Chopper Landing On Deck
5:25 - Uniqueness of The HMS Queen Elizabeth
6:30 - How A Carrier Is Set Up To Minimize Risk
10:27 - U.S. Pushed $10M Worth Of Helicopters Overboard
12:26 - New Carrier Relies on Old Tech
16:00 - The Crew That Assembles Bombs
18:56 - F-35B's First Bombing In The Open Sea
21:26 - Landing A Fighter Jet At Night
24:00 - Disaster On The USS Enterprise
26:04 - Myriad Of Risk For Carrier Crews
29:07 - HMS Queen Elizabeth's Crazy Stats
32:15 - F-35 & HMS Queen Elizabeth's Relationship
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"The sea was angry that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli."

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Its also good once you leave school for good. Stay sharp kiddo

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@@alanator6333 the heck ?

[@alanator6333]

@@AirshipsAviation11 ...it's informative. What's the confusion?

[@pppooppoo7763]

Kudos to the captain for ordering helicopters to be thrown away to save lives

[@rhondakennedy819]

Thank you for your service!!! Be kind to one another. Be safe out there people. Love to all

[@dennisfuchs8984]

We doing that about 50 yrs ago!! And before, I was a ABH and landed many off these! Where the hell were you !!

[@n1msu]

This is a brilliant compilation of documentary clips that link seamlessly making this a legit documentary in its own right. I was blown away (omg - no pun intended) to learn that some bombs being fitted to Navy fighters are actually modular and have to be fitted together individually by a team on the carrier. I wonder if this is for safety, space saving or both?

[@Justineexy]

"An American Carrier of a Similar size would need 3 thousand sailors" me: I mean American carrier are 40%+ larger..

[@DESTRUCT0NAT0R]

Yeah the US super carriers can have nearly 100 aircraft. Of course there's gonna be a ton more crew than whats needed to support 20 or so.

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@@Justineexy aye wasn't sure of the exact number but I knew it was up close to that.

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10:45 - Special. Praise God for this wonderful story.

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Lol ‘And at a top secret location ...’ (up pops the address in a sub title).

[@cobykoenig4807]

lol in the previous video the captain of the HMS queen Elizabeth said the US carriers don't have munitions elevators like they do which couldn't be further from the truth

[@mooseblood2425]

some of the jets have the USAF star on it

[@abangaming9946]

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[@charlesrexford2598]

What about cv59 Forestall wich had similar accident except they were loading live missiles and lost 167 crew also because they washed AFFF dispersed by sprinklers. AFFF is used to smother fuel fires or class bravo fires. Some of that footage looked quite familiar. So the Enterprise did not really learn much from Cv59. The biggest mistake was taking shortcuts live loading Jets. Eh I might be wrong about the Enterprise but the Forrestal suffered the more. That is why an airmens job is the most dangerous. The same can be said about pilots job. Still being stationed on an aircraft carrier was best experience in my life. Go USN.

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10:27 i don't understand why they had to push helicopters into the sea. If I was the captain i would order the pilots of the heli's to take off and circle the area until major bujang landed his aircraft. Makes more sense.

[@observantmagic4156]

Yeah I wondered the same. He must have a good reason.

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@@observantmagic4156 I would have done the same to save 5 people but at least would i look for another way first then resort to pushing them off the carrier

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I know right?

[@DESTRUCT0NAT0R]

Time. The choppers had been flying evacuation missions and were not prepped to fly immediately. Plus putting up more aircraft could've interfered with the Major flying the cessna. Captain made the most straightforward and fastest call to dump the choppers.

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17:00 no way those nails are regulation

[@derekbaker777]

Marriages must be tough for ppl in the Navy, especially with 4-6 month deployments. It takes a strong and special kind of lady to endure such long separations and not cheat on their spouces.

[@rgerber]

yeah and leave their husband alone with so many seamen

[@johnmdorseyjr8793]

We call it the R2D2 system

[@estellemelodimitchell8259]

RN is still using some decommissioned Harriers at their naval air station for practice purpose?

[@jackm7221]

6:07 well yeah, American carriers also are almost 200 feet longer along with a CATOBAR system and 5 times as many jets so yeah a bigger crew is necessary.

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[@observantmagic4156]

Why were the helicopters pushed off?

[@DestroyerWill]

During the evacuation of Saigon there was more incoming hardware than there was deck space, so to allow more landings gear was thrown overboard

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I though this channel was for aviation

[@rohaynejohnson9731]

But this video has some stuff about aviation

[@HarshTekie]

HMS QE2 ≠ Nimitz-class/Ford-class size. AKA 65K tons ≠ 100K tons. Every Brit here seems to be so insecure as to constantly compare themselves the USN's supercarriers - that they can do just as much with less. They don't even mention they are using entirely different F-35 than the USN! They are using the STOVL "B", whereas Nimitz/Ford-class (the carriers they like to cite as using much more manpower for the same tasks) use the "C" - which are the largest of the three. So a proper comparison should be done with the light carriers like Wasp-class, which can hold 20 F-35Bs vs their 22 but use a smaller crew, and deploy ground forces element in a Marine MEU! This clearly shows the Royal Navy has never gotten it out of their head they are second-tier naval power now.

[@jani-theancient6024]

Japan Australia and many other nations operating same type of helicopter carriers with ski jump. Its not catapult type carriers, its not nuclear AC. Then how this thing called as super carrier.

[@clarksavage6050]

13 Aircraft Carriers, excited. Watches, 7 segments on HMS QE, the rest on Vietnam War era CVNs... 🥲

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I love it how Americans always measure things in football fields and us brits always measure things in London buses :)

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I married most of them.

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I think I've seen this video before

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10:45

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C-wiz s the dumbest name considering the abbreviation is actually CIWS, it should be nick named the sews

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[@Dev-wm5wx]

Why didn't they just hover or fly the helicopters to allow the Vietnamese plane to land then re land them

[@GintaPPE1000]

No time to fuel and launch them all, and especially not when every minute you waste clearing the deck is time the Vietnamese pilot doesn't have to try again if he messes up.

[@jani-theancient6024]

Are they joking?? Japan Australia and many other nations operating same type of helicopter carriers with ski jump. Its not catapult type carriers, its not nuclear AC. Then how this thing called as super carrier.

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a thought, leasing an entire naval task force to a navy for 5 years at a lease cost of €6.5 Bn!!! the naval task force will comprise of a brand new (1 of 3 on order) state-of-the-art 124,000 ton stealth super carrier powered by a combined bio fuel cell & i-HYBRID marine propulsion system!!! 2 fuel i-HYBRID powered 38,350 ton STOL light aircraft carrier!!! also part of the naval task force will be 5 stealth guided missile destroyers, 3 stealth guided missile advanced combat frigates & 4 guided missile multi mission corvettes!!! replenishment support will be provided by the lesse navy's own fleet resources!!!

[@DV1287]

Ok mix of fighter craft and ships. Thought this was an aviation channel, not a maritime vessel and aviation channel. But whatever

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Naval aviation is still aviation.

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Glad to see people out there keeping traditions alive.

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Uk now officially canceled all its f35 order Loool To damn expensive and military budget cut

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[@KABUNTUKTUYU]

They should just ask the americans regarding carrier operation ,. And that is not a super carrier..

[@jani-theancient6024]

Britishers always presenting there thing to superior. Japan Australia and many other nations operating same type of helicopter carriers with ski jump. Its not catapult type carriers, its not nuclear AC. Then how this thing called as super carrier.

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