Aircraft carrier arrives in the UK for NATO Exercise Steadfast Defender 🇮🇹 🇬🇧

[@CobraEmergency]

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[@twcc406]

Good to see Giuseppe Garibaldi for, maybe, one last time. Nice to see the Deck Approach Projector Sight is still installed on the FlyCo roof ... a rather unique installation and very different to that adopted on the Invincible class carriers, the two Indian carriers, the Spanish carrier Príncipe de Asturias or the Brazilian carrier Minas Gerais. Fond memories of working in the yard at Taranto.

[@mihalich7740]

Пока этот корабль был вдалеке, - он выглядел таинственно (укрытый дымкой и туманом, на большом расстроянии от зрителя). Когда же этот корабль приблизился, - то есть, вошел в порт и стал настолько ближе к зрителю, насколько это можно, - он стал выглядеть красиво (в итальянском, понятно, стиле) и привлекать анимание зрителей своим внешним видом, своими пропорциями и своим дизайном.

[@mcallahan9060]

At this point it's a very specialized ASW warship that is due to retire very soon. I doubt she has any fixed wing aircraft onboard at this point because it doesn't need them. It would normally fly the AV-8B Harrier II, a risky aircraft to fly if you don't need to. Beautiful ship for being laid down in 1981. It's good to see her one last time. Well done Italy!

[@CobraEmergency]

Yeah, it was nice to see this oldie come in, a type of cruiser-carrier from an older time to berth next to a newer carrier from today's time. Quite the contrast, and also interesting to see how much more armed it is. One last big exercise! Would have been nice to have seen the Harriers on board!

[@sebastianoraffa2104]

She has been indeed downgraded to a heli carrier to support amphibous ops...he (in Italy we always refer to ships in the masculine when called by assigned name) though small (a bit of extra length and width would have not cost much and would have made her a bit more practical in handling the aircrafts) but a preatty design..she will be retired soon, but delays on the replacements of the small LPDs (a more questionable design, especially the early version) might make that a little less soon

[@ShariahThomas]

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[@ShariahThomas]

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[@garethparker7898]

I was laid down in 1981 it's not that old 😂

[@nicolasdiottalevi]

This is probably its last deployment in an international exercise, because ITS TRIESTE will enter service in the next few months and it Will takes Garibaldi's role

[@CobraEmergency]

Ah thank you for this info!

[@frank-ko6de]

This really makes you appreciate the depth of the US Navy Air craft landing dock stocks. This is not even 75 percent of any the of the Amphibious carriers in our system, let alone the armaments or service areas with personnel. Just wow.

[@nicolasdiottalevi]

@@frank-ko6de yes, but its substitute LHD Trieste will be quiet similar to a LHA America

[@frank-ko6de]

@@nicolasdiottalevi Ok, we'll see.

[@obvious-troll]

@@frank-ko6de there is always an american

[@lorenzo135]

0:35 looks like a a ghost ship.

[@heyrodders]

Great, thanks 👍

[@CobraEmergency]

You are welcome!

[@Rob1972Gem]

Please don’t take this the wrong way, but I didn’t expect the aircraft carrier to be smaller than the car ferry, going in the opposite direction at the two minutes mark in the video

[@frank-ko6de]

yes, its very small, which makes wonder about the capacity of the hangars for storing and servicing the air crafts.

[@vernongoodey5096]

Went down to Torbay when all the Cruise ships were laid up during COVID (remember that).HMS Queen Elizabeth was there on trials and was a hell of a lot smaller than the passenger ships. Hopefully this will protect her just as the Argentinians back in 1982 took out the Atlantic Conveyor thinking it was HMS Hermes

[@thecommentaryking]

​@@frank-ko6deRoughly 12 aircrafts/helicopters can be stored in the hangar of the Garibaldi if packed full

[@frank-ko6de]

@@thecommentaryking ok, thanks for the info. It just looks so small compared to a standard American amphibious carrier.

[@thecommentaryking]

@@frank-ko6de Well because it is 3 times smaller than an America class. The Garibaldi is 14,150 tons compared to the 44,000 of an America class

[@dont_give_a_flying_f]

Welcome to the UK chaps. Enjoy ur time here and enjoy the lovely weather. Maybe get a tan lol😅

[@jamesvalentine2845]

Surprised at the amount of traditional armaments. Its like a frigate crossed with a carrier.

[@CobraEmergency]

Yeah, that stuck out to me. It's a 1981 Cruiser-Carrier. So it's quite different to a modern-day 'super' aircraft carrier.

[@sebastianoraffa2104]

@@CobraEmergency oh far from a carrier...back in the days it also carried ASW torpedoes and anti-ship missiles....when Harriers were a long way from arriving, and it was not event certain they would have ever arrived on her deck

[@CobraEmergency]

Yeah, I was reading about its ASW role in a sub hunting group. Not too many of those around in modern navies but a lot more common a few decades ago following the escort carriers we saw in WWII. It was pretty interesting Now it's mostly a helicopter landing ship.

[@donkeymarco]

Also the 2009-2011 C550 Cavour has "traditional" guns, 2 Oto Melara 76 mm and 3 Oto / Oerlikon KBA 25/80 mm. The substitute of the Garibaldi, the L9890 Trieste, that should enter in service in march/april 2024, has 3 Oto Melara 76/64 mm that can use the subcaliber guided DART ammunition and the Vulcano ammunition, and 3 Oto Melara / Oerlikon KBA 25/80 mm. They have also AA missile Asterv15 for the Cavour, Asterv15, Aster 30 or CAMM-ER for the Trieste. The Trieste has also a Leonardo Black Snake towed array sonar operating in “passive” mode, specially designed for torpedo detection.

[@Fester_]

Proper weather.

[@la_unzumita]

Bad weather in Portsmouth

[@mcallahan9060]

Is there ever good weather in Portsmouth?

[@bobbiescrisps9208]

@@mcallahan9060sometimes

[@CobraEmergency]

There is only good weather when the British ships are leaving! All visitors must endure our monsoons. 😂

[@la_unzumita]

@@CobraEmergency Hahaha! I see ….. I hope to visit Portsmouth one day to see the warships with a good raincoat. 🌧️🌧️🌧️🤣🤣🤣

[@bobbiescrisps9208]

@@la_unzumita it was 33 degrees centigrade last year in the summer in Gosport just over the water from Portsmouth and didn’t rain for around over 3 months but when it rains it rains

[@FunnyDodoBird-be5ob]

If it works it works ark royal was still working before they scraped it

[@sparkiegaz3613]

Least it’s working 😂😂😂😂😂😂 also has some guns fitted 😮

[@KenSiakaKroma]

This is massive 😊 What's it length

[@mcallahan9060]

591 ft (That's 180 meters for all those countries that have not landed a man on the moon). Not a bad looking ship for being 44-years old though.

[@M.Đ-z4u]

@@mcallahan9060 nobody was on the moon 😂

[@jamesvalentine2845]

Oh no. The moon conspiracy tinfoil crazies are here 😂

[@canconservative8976]

Beautiful multi-purpose vessel, this is still the future.... by no means should it be scrapped, just keep updating the tech.

[@robertoorsi5771]

The old ship is at the end of its life.

[@jstock6799]

Can it stop dingies?

[@martinfox3478]

Garabaldi takes the biscuit !!

[@CobraEmergency]

😂

[@loufelizardo]

Let us be prepared at all times Help us God.

[@ratnavelvish18]

🤚🤚🤚

[@tylerdurden4006]

That is what operational carriers look like just fyi, not 2 "super" carriers that sit broken all the time wasting millions a week.

[@lukemcgahern2357]

That “operational carrier” will be retired in a few months and replaced by a small copy of the queen elibeth class called treste.

[@jamesvalentine2845]

​@@lukemcgahern2357makes you wish Britain had stuck to multiple smaller carriers that can cover each other while some are in dock instead of two super carriers that barely function. But we have to try and be Muricans

[@rowanmaguire7890]

@@jamesvalentine2845 we have multiple carriers and they are not 'stuck in dock'. They have each deployed multiple times across the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South Pacific in the last few years with only 1 major break down. They are brand new ships it happens to all of them, the good thing is the issue has been noticed and fixed pretty damn fast. So far we have consistently had either or both available to deploy at all times. PoW has been able to deploy with just 8 days notice whilst QE is already having her repair planned out and put into action, to me all this shows is the navy is still competent and efficient despite you doom sayers. Escorts have already begun joining up with PoW as she transits up to the Clyde to load ammunition and form our CSG.

[@jamesvalentine2845]

@@rowanmaguire7890 k

[@Hoglips123]

@rowanmaguire7890 dont worry, he is just a hater. Try to ignore him.

[@largezo7567]

she looks old

[@CobraEmergency]

Yeah, 1981. Due retirement soon!

[@leemurf2322]

Thats not a carrier its tiny

[@jamesvalentine2845]

If it's not a carrier then what is it? A car? A goat?

[@Benito-Musolesi]

Uk Carrier HMS PRINCE TAMPAX 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mihalich7740]

Пока этот корабль был вдалеке, - он выглядел таинственно (укрытый дымкой и туманом, на большом расстроянии от зрителя). Когда же этот корабль приблизился, - то есть, вошел в порт и стал настолько ближе к зрителю, насколько это можно, - он стал выглядеть красиво (в итальянском, понятно, стиле) и привлекать анимание зрителей своим внешним видом, своими пропорциями и своим дизайном.

[@CobraEmergency]

Agreed! Hard to make out and then it emerges! 😊