Why the First Aircraft Launched from a Carrier is Last to Land

[@NotWhatYouThink]

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[@bryanst.martin7134]

If you knew you had less than a generation to prepare whether you live or die, and if you die(your body/avatar) where do You wind up? But if you said yeah, well, and kept playing distracting games, will you curse those in the end because they won't risk their savings for their family for you who didn't prepare?

[@FakeLootAnimations]

I'm only here for the premium

[@voronmatt4748]

great game

[@D9fjg]

​@@bryanst.martin7134 So are you saying we shouldn't enjoy our lives in our free time and slave away all of it? Then what, once you're in your death bed you regret everything because you never had joy?

[@cruisinguy6024]

The first aircraft launched is actually the rescue helo; there’s one in the air anyway time flight operations are underway *just in case*

[@manifestman132]

A rent E2 also in the air?

[@BogeyTheBear]

In the old days they might have used a destroyer to serve as the plane guard, but pilots much prefer having a helicopter rescue them after a crash than a destroyer accidentally running over them during a rescue.

[@douglasseely8137]

the first aircraft to be launched is actually the search and rescue helicopters incase a jet or other aircraft have a malfunction during take off we already have a crew in the air ready to pick up the downed aircrew.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

and it’s the last to land for that very reason but unless I’m mistaken isn’t airborne the entire time the planes are away

[@ET_Don]

I believe the first jet to launch and last jet to land are the refueling jets?

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

@@ET_Don In most operations, the first to launch is one or two SAR helo(s). They'll commonly land when launch operations are complete, then relaunch shortly before landing operations start. I doubt that's changed since I served on Ranger (and would sometimes watch flight ops from right outside my work area on the O-10 level).

[@ET_Don]

@@bricefleckenstein9666 I know, I was just expanding on what the OP Douglas said about helos launching first. I was saying the first Jets to launch and last to recover are the tankers, I believe.

[@WeaponTheory-j5h]

B2 need a aircraft ?

[@Duvstep910]

RIP to the 2 growler pilots who lost their lives recently

[@anml1969]

Fun fact: when a plane is assigned to a carrier, once it lands for the first time, the air chief goes down to the plane and signs his or her name somewhere on the fuselage together with the registration number of the carrier. Each time a plane is reassigned to a new carrier, the new air chief does the same. So some planes have three, four or more signatures and ship numbers written on them.

[@roblowery3188]

Dude, your videos need to be studied by all other military journalists and content creators. In a KZbin full of trash videos slapped together by some bootleg AI, your videos stand out as the gold standard for entertaining, concise, and factually accurate presentations. Keep it up man!

[@kenricnarbrough8191]

plus that accent, its too good

[@alexv3357]

The F-35C's efficient engine, extended wings, 20,000lbs of fuel (more than the entire max takeoff weight of an AV-8B Harrier), and the ultra low-drag internal weapons bay give it an effective combat radius of nearly 700 nautical miles on internal fuel alone

[@andrewkruchoski7757]

way she goes...

[@Quicksilver1936]

That's still not a huge combat radius though.

[@alexv3357]

@@Quicksilver1936 It's a vast improvement over the Super Hornet, though, and the best of any carrier-capable fighter with external weapons and tanks (and indeed better than almost all 4th-gen fighters period), including the F-14's famously good legs

[@thxee182]

@@alexv3357 im sorry i have to disagree with you on that. the only thing the f-35 has over 4 gen is stealth and that is it. nothing more or less. the nave was given the chance to get the f-22 for there jets but they said no. i never liked the f-35. dumped so much money to get what a knocked off f-22 with vtol. how about we look at we have and improve it. not build something new. all jets need to have a built in gun. not including the f-111 or the f-117 they are bombers not fighters.

[@MillionFoul]

@@thxee182 And here I was thinking Pierre Sprey was dead, not shitposting on KZbin! Fat Amy quite literally kicks the shit out of every fourth gen in the inventory, and your garbage opinion isn't gonna keep us from buying nearly 3,000 of them for that very reason.

[@themuffinturret]

4:40 i knew them aussies were up to something

[@NeutronSplitter]

I remember hearing about that. People were getting butthurt that the US got defeated by the Aussie's. I look at it another way though. They managed to penetrate (Giggity) the largest and most sophisticated military in the world, which makes me very happy they're our friends. If they can do that to the US imagine what they can do to our adversaries.

[@slidey1788]

Check their pockets for sandpaper

[@captain_wolfsbane6468]

@@slidey1788 thats a low blow mate :)

[@slidey1788]

@@captain_wolfsbane6468 as low as an underarm delivery? 😜

[@b1646717]

4:11 lift generated by hope and willpower.

[@Ed_Stuckey]

A butt-pucker moment for sure.

[@GordonFreeman-sl6pi]

Such an impressive near mishap. The cool thing with props is that the spooling time (time it takes for the engine to reach full power) can be close to inexistant, pilots can change the angle of the propeller's blades to decrease thrust while having full power. So in case of emergency, switching the angle of the blades can provide immediate increase of thrust. Add to that the fact that unlike jets, the props are blowing air right onto the wing, helping generate immediate lift. That's why they don't have to land with full power as opposed to jets, they have a little bit more room for error.

[@ReasonableGuy-l7o]

11:00 I'm a retired Navy Supply Officer and I did a tour on an old CV. The thing that drove us nuts was when our cargo and mail got bumped by "Distinguished Visitors" or DV's. I get it, PR is an important thing but it just got carried away. * Deep breath* ...but I'm over it now. * twitch twitch*

[@Anon54387]

Do they really let people order Amazon packages aboard ship? It seems space would be really limited.

[@ReasonableGuy-l7o]

@@Anon54387 Yes. It's like getting the mail. I mean, within reason. There is limited storage space for the average sailor. I was a Supply Officer so I suppose if I bought a sea kayak or something I could have stashed it in one of the storerooms. Also on a long deployment there's a lot of shopping going on when they hit a foreign port. To sum up, I would say on a large ship like an aircraft carrier there's probably more Amazon shopping than on a small boy like a destroyer.

[@Derangedforsure]

I saw a bunch of old footage recently that showed how dropping bombs and rockets off of fighters isn’t the easiest thing to do. In the early days, they tended the rise back up into the plane

[@LordOceanus]

Not exactly a super exciting fact but the radar the video shows when he mentions the AN/SPY-1 at 1:40 is the AN/SPS-48 which is a much older (but repeatedly upgraded) E/F Band 3D air search radar. If you jump a second back to 1:39 the parabolic radar dish on the secondary (aft) tower is the AN/SPS-49 which is an L band 2D air search radar. Those two radars work together to provide area air surveillance to the carrier. The Radar at the top of the main mast (though not the very small one at the very very top) is the AN/SPQ-9B which is the guidance radar for the carrier's onboard RIM-162 surface to air missiles.

[@brodzilla623fordawin4]

Very cool

[@bryanst.martin7134]

The Navy is a dangerous place. The aircraft carrier deckmate's life expectancy in war tempo is about 90 days. And we been doin this 100 years. Lot's of "Lessons Learned".

[@HenriqueChaluco]

🙏

[@erasmus_locke]

It's all about fuel saving. The ship might be nuclear, but the planes are still limited to dinosaur juice.

[@dustinandtarynwolfe5540]

Reread the title of the video

[@1st2nd2]

Fun fact: "Dinosaur juice" does not contain the remains of any dinosaurs.

[@hifinsword]

At the 2:05 mark, the Hawkeye can see over 200 miles away, all the way to the GROUND surface. Surface ships cannot see beyond about 30 miles to the surface. The E-2 airborne search is about seeing inbound LOW-FLYING threats. Ships can see high-flying threats with their radars down to the radar horizon.

[@lotharhasek3673]

"Aber wenn sie ein Flacherdler sind,ist es schwer zu glauben". Das war sehr gut.

[@johnbianchi6430]

When I flew the P-3, we routinely shut down two engines (#1 and #4) when on long reconnaisance missions.

[@OpinionatedComments]

the advantage of being a flat earther is that they can see 200 miles away just standing in the front yard.

[@davekisor1486]

The first launch of the day is the helicopter. We called them helos, not choppers. In its rescue capacity it's referred to Angel. I wasan Aviation Electrician, carrier airwing light attack.

[@corvanphoenix]

Oi! The biggest threat to carriers isn't Aussies!

[@feritall]

1:49 the average person is not 🔥

[@RAPTOR-zo7gt]

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[@samsonsoturian6013]

The average person interested in you sure as hell isn't

[@bredsheeran2897]

@@samsonsoturian6013women are complicated :(

[@apathyzen9730]

She's looking for seamen

[@ronjon7942]

She seems a little young.

[@donlalonde]

The FIRST aircraft is a helicopter for "plane guard" duty...It posts itself a few miles off the starboard beam...In case of a man overboard or downed aircraft, it's close by.

[@Science4Real]

From the E2 Hawkeye to the F35C, each has a unique role in protecting and enhancing the strength of the entire carrier group

[@護国茶]

とても良い動画なのですが、日本語の翻訳の間違えだらけなので、チェックしてもらうと良いかも

[@Scott-j8m]

I’m always SO very fascinated by the content on this channel! This is in my top ten favorites list! Always interesting, informative, and satisfyingly uncomplicated. Just straight and simple. Really like the jokes, man! Keep ‘em coming. 😅

[@krystalmae5557]

Next video idea, "all types of ground vehicles explained" or "all types of aa weapons explained"

[@graphitegamez605]

Nah not war thunder 😭😭 i am already addicted!

[@Green_Gamer23]

real

[@Michael-j6s]

Same

[@dtar380]

9:40, bro called weapons “freedom” 💀

[@hifinsword]

The E-2 Hawkeye is the first FIXED wing aircraft to launch. Of course the plane guard helo is the first aircraft to launch if a ship isn't doing duty as plane guard. Yes, ships can also be plane guard and I have launched without a helo airborne as plane guard.

[@marshweber702]

The first and last to land during launch and recovery cycle is always the helo… not the Hawkeye…

[@عبدالله-ك9ر2ي]

Thank you for adding Arabic voice translation 🤍 Following you from Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦🇸🇦

[@MattNanneyPhoto]

It's always much appreciated to get the answer or general point in the first minute or so and not hidden later like most channels. Didn't have time to watch the whole thing right now but usually do, love the channel!

[@DavidSherman-m5l]

Just for future reference, helos are always launched first.

[@Travlinmo]

Submariners are quietly chuckling when you talk about these Helo’s tracking them. If we ever have a fight at sea between our boats and these targets… there is going to be a lot of dead surface warriors.

[@juliusrohr3647]

8:05 the comparison is made with a clean f/a-18 e/f, and a clean F-35C right? Because I think if you load up the Hornet with extra bags (it can carry up to 5) this comparison may be incorrect

[@braddblk]

I used to work on KA-6D tanker. There was a test S-3 tanker that could pass more gas than we could. With the retirement of both those aircraft and replacing them with an F/A-18 carrying a D-704 package caused a problem, the aircraft didn't have a lot of gas to share. The Navy had to rely on the Air Force tanker in the Middle East conflicts. My question is what is the fuel load of these UAV tankers and how are they controlled.

[@pablonylos8022]

Dobrze zrealizowany odcinek. Świetne napisy polskie. Dzięki. Pozdrawiam.

[@chuckguard6128]

You should do a video on how the different water bases torpedoes, air to sea harpoons, work to hit submarines. And how a destroyer or other ships fight submarines and what subs use to destroy ships and other submarine!!

[@felixhoefflin9655]

Die Faltbareb Tragflächen sind einfach, Platzersparnis. Tragflächen haben eine Mindestgröße, aus Materialerparnisgründen, weden sue knspp sn der Physikalischen Grenze gebaut. Die Meusten Flugzeuge haben trotz Katapult Probleme von einem Träger zu starten, da hilft bei einer Turboptop ein zusätzlicher Motor, fliegt das Flugzeug aber auf der Zielhöhe, braucht man den nichtmehr, er kann also abgeschaltet werden.

[@AnjanS-rp4qk]

Well, they're designed for Aircraft Carrier take offs and landings, so catapults are necessary. The Sea Harriers and a few others are exceptions. Necessity is the mother of invention!

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

11:48 Seems to me that the ingenious yet ugly Osprey replacement wins on VTOL but loses in operational range and sheer airspeed versus the C2.

[@overkill1340]

I think the Osprey has a slightly longer range than the Grayhound. Since range is usually calculated with minimal load, and the C2 payload can be heavier, the C2 is probably shorter ranged with a full payload. I'm not sure if it is significanly more than average failures, but Osprey does have an early record of failures, and without the ability to effectively glide or autorotate, they tend to be catastophic. On the other hand, the Osprey can carry the F-35s engine while the Grayhound cannot.

[@jessicacolegrove4152]

There is also the issue of the F35 when it comes to the cod aircraft. Apparently the C2 cargo hold couldn't handle the engine of the F35. Meaning that if a replacement engine was needed the C2 could not deliver hence the need for a new cod

[@richardbeckenbaugh1805]

The Osprey is a deathtrap. Still in development after years of operational deployment. The OMB says that the Osprey is the most expensive plane to operate in the entire inventory and there are many solutions that are cheaper. With the advent of cheap airborne LIDARs, the entire stealth system has become obsolete. With the Chinese supplying LIDARs to third world countries, operations even against them have become much more difficult. The U.S. banned the development of LIDARs in hopes of containing the technology, what they did instead was bankrupt a bunch of companies which the Chinese bought and obtained the technology much sooner than they would have otherwise.

[@overkill1340]

@@richardbeckenbaugh1805 LIDAR is neither new, or magical. I have LIDARS crawling all over my floor every week. Speed enforcement has been using them for years. Musk removed them from his cars a while ago to save costs. That ship has sailed. If they were the key to defeating stealth they would have been deployed en mass already and if third world countries have their hands on longer range LIDAR with stealth defeating ability, I doubt Israel would have been so successful in Iran a couple weeks ago.

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

@richardbeckenbaugh1805 Aha. Those pesky unintended consequences again! Thank you for the info.

[@stug77]

They should take retired older model E-2's and have them take their tops off and do COD when V-22's are grounded next. You couldn't do anything bulky but a lot of COD is packages and mail and passengers anyway, would take that load off the existing C-2 fleet.

[@cwf_media9200]

i couldnt look at the horizon i was distracted

[@NotWhatYouThink]

I bet whatever distracted you was round, not flat, right? 😜

[@cwf_media9200]

@NotWhatYouThink now I understand the pain of flat earthers imagine not liking those curves 🤤

[@NathanEllis-n3u]

Ikr. I couldn't dream if someone not being able to like curves.

[@slidey1788]

Men of culture, we meet again

[@NobbsAndVagene]

01:48 _... the average person standing at sea level_ (picture of 8/10 chick from BayWatch, 2024 colourized)

[@NotWhatYouThink]

8/10? You seems to have very high standards 😁

[@NobbsAndVagene]

@@NotWhatYouThink I think of 5/10 as the actual average person (if there was such a thing) and 10/10 as unattainable perfection, and much as a particle with mass can never achieve light speed, so can you never find a true 10/10, a perfect being. She is way above average, so 8/10 sounds fair enough. Doesn't it? Though I guess that depends on your type.

[@NathanEllis-n3u]

No yea she is quite the specimen

[@robertopiedimonte2078]

​​@@NobbsAndVagene this is not what you think 🤣 Yeah you are right and this is why Nadia Comaneci in 1976 got a 1.00 for her exercise. It was the first time ever a gymnastics athlete score a 10 and display was not ready with only three digits available!!! Perfection exist and is possible. It's not for everyone...

[@slarratt]

Looks OK from the back, when she turns around and she got an extra eye, or gammy teeth or a mustache... worth keeping the 2 back...

[@gustavoraffo489]

Cool, navy versions are awesome. Good job as always, Not What You Think!

[@Dellvmnyam]

Do you mean the planes launched from carriers in the first half of the 20th century are still in the air because they were the first launched from carriers and will be landed the last?

[@NotWhatYouThink]

🤓

[@nicola3809]

Veramente interessante. Non sapevo che l' F-35 per la marina non avesse il cannone, come non mi sarei mai aspettato di sentire che anche su una portaaerei si consegnassero i pacchi Amazon😂😂😂

[@AnjanS-rp4qk]

Just behind you !

[@scottmeredith3359]

I suspect I’m going to discover something that isn’t what I thought 🤔

[@timbrady6473]

Crazy that seamen can receive Amazon deliveries while at sea.

[@ScoutSniper3124]

Actually, the APU provides the hot gasses needed to spin up the engine and get it running.

[@JPMediaProductions]

9:38 Amen to freedom! 🙏

[@wdygoaphagfy]

Why when you are talking about the Firehawk drone at 14:17 do yo show a picture of a Bell OH-58 Kiowa?

[@jimcollins3420]

Among other things, I was an E-2B IFT (In-flight Technician) on the USS Midway for three years. For the reasons specified, yes, they frequently try to get the E-2 off first but you know, stuff happens. We were last or close to it many times also.

[@KlipsenTube]

That wasn't not what I thought. It was exactly what I thought.

[@rogerthat4545]

It's not what I thought. I assumed a fighter jet was the first launched

[@LeodiAstoriaXIII]

I kept rewinding the 1:50 mark because I couldn't believe it either.

[@semajniomet981]

Out of curiosity, how easily would RADAR be able to detect a (Fairey) Swordfish?

[@Diekgraaf]

Wir haben vor kurzem auf dem Deich gestanden um uns ein Feuerwerk in Aurich anzuschauen. Das ist etwa 30 KM weit weg.

[@marcelxd1633]

Challenge: Take a cup every time he says F35

[@stu176mmm]

1:50 definitely NOT average ❤

[@grugbug4313]

Solid! Top KEK! Peace be with you.

[@audreyplaysnice2086]

This is so awesome! Makes me even more proud of our military.

[@audreyplaysnice2086]

Until trump hands it over to putin or starts WW3 because someone insulted his hair

[@JP_TaVeryMuch]

10:44 [sniggers like a schoolboy] Growler and Penetrate in the same sentence. Ahh the joys of two countries separated by a common language! Growler is slang for sthg completely different is all I'll say.

[@thegeneralist7527]

Learn something every day.

[@aussiedanjones]

Can you please do an in-depth video on take off differences between land and carrier

[@Itower2010]

Nice video😊

[@jeepdude7359]

What horizon? 1:49

[@Joe-bm4wx]

The Hawkeye is NOT the first to launch. The first to launch and last to recover is the MH-60S.

[@andrealettich]

But are the Boa sonars that are launched recovered afterwards?

[@PhantomofPhreedom]

1:02 no wonder why f-35s on a aircraft carrier looked funny

[@cruddybanz410]

of course the higher you go the further you can see , the horizon will still come to eye level … earth is a level plane surrounded by water

[@restaurantattheendofthegalaxy]

🙄

[@PvtPartzz]

Does the F35 still have a greater range than the f/a18 when the latter has external fuel tanks?

[@griffinfaulkner3514]

No, but it can also carry external tanks if required, and the F-22 upgrade program is developing stealthy tanks that should carry over to the F-35. Even without those stealthy tanks, the F-35 still has a massive sensor and ECM advantage over every Hornet variant other than the Growler.

[@이탄들린자]

This video seems to have been translated from English to Korean. Although there are a few areas that could be refined, most of it was easy to understand. That said, there are some parts that feel slightly less polished. Overall, it was an excellent video, and I enjoyed watching it.

[@NotWhatYouThink]

The video was dabbled from English to different languages using AI. It’s not perfect, but it makes it accessible to many others :-)

[@IronCreed21]

"51 seconds ago" was crazy

[@DJ-gs8ly]

Removing the gun was a bad idea.. same thing happened to the phantom during Vietnam ..

[@G80G70]

4:15 저승 문턱까지 갔어ㅆ네. ㅎㄷㄷ

[@markomenalan]

9:42 this guy on the left: 👉👈🥺

[@ernestgalvan9037]

Wheel Chocks ‘in’ Opposite, with thumbs pointed out: Wheel Chocks ‘out’

[@Wormweed]

1:49 that's quite the average person, indeed.

[@AWACSSS]

اتمنى الاستمرار في تنزيل مقاطع عن الاسلحة السوفيتية السرية وسباق التسلح

[@MeteorMark]

@scimandan, Bob the Science Guy, Dave McKegan and MC Toon can use the example of the Hawkeye to once again prove the Earth is an Oblate Spheroid 🖖😉

[@vitr1916]

Is it possible a guided pathway of small drones to help aircraft landing in bad conditions? Like you see them in New Year events.

[@JanPhilippWeber-kb6gt]

Hawkeye wird als erstes gestartet damit anderen Flugzeug ein Verbindung haben zum Flugzeugträger.

[@EmptyRedBullCan]

Not the weather scanners jets?

[@ChomikChomikowsky]

"Skrzydła są dłuższe, żeby generować większy ciąg" :) Chyba jednak nie

[@Ilix42]

Why do some of the pods on some of the aircraft have tiny props on the front of them?

[@mizarluke]

It’s the easiest way for them to get power, since it makes them totally self contained. The propeller is spun by the aircraft’s velocity, and turns a miniature generator on the inside. It steals a little bit of airspeed, but it’s more efficient than having to route power out to each pod location on every single plane that might need to hold one of these pods.

[@Ilix42]

Power generation makes sense. My first thought was for tracking air speed, but they already have a sensor for that, so I figured that couldn’t be it. Thanks!

[@katsumiookouchi2954]

日本語訳というよりも日本語にないの単語を聞いているようだ。 E2が最初に　発進（HASSHINN）

[@Captain_Coleslaw]

I have wondered for a really long time why the carrier does not have a huge deployable ballon with a radar attached to it. I guess weight is an issue? But seems much cheaper and potentially more capable, and jam resistant

[@randus7053]

It probably has to do with maneuverability. A balloon can easily get popped by a jet, while an AWACs aircraft has to be chased after to attack it. Plus Balloons have their own separate logistical challenges of getting air in the balloon and getting back down.

[@breadcan]

RADAR emissions can be detected from some pretty extreme distances. If you just floated the RADAR over the fleet, the enemy would know its location long before the RADAR could detect anything. An E-2 only needs to stay within radio range of the fleet. You can detect the E-2 pretty easily, but you've still got to search a very, very large amount of ocean to find the fleet. In an age where anti-ship missiles can attack from behind the curvature of the Earth, that ambiguity is a life saver.

[@verdebusterAP]

Not feisable

[@bryanst.martin7134]

Wait, you didn't cover the UCAV. Actually used in an offensive role back a few years ago.

[@FinlayDaG33k]

11:09 that's one familiar mustache...

[@2023MooHyeon]

영상을 끝까지 안보고 결론을 내려 봅니다. 가장 먼저 이륙한 항공기는 편대를 만들기 위해 상공에서 머물러야 하기 때문에 버디버디 공중급유를 받음. 그래서 맨 나중에 착륙해도 문제가 없음 .

[@verdebusterAP]

If Saab was smart, they would be working a carrier variant of the Globaleye

[@LunaryxDiarmait]

If the controls for aircraft in War Thunder is improved, I might play it, but I don't like it how it is now.

[@Natediggetydog]

I wonder what the rate of cancer diagnoses is among retired AWACS crews? The amount of radiation they must get blasted with while sitting under a giant radar dish all day is no joke.

[@lukmanalghdamsi3189]

why the f18 in the thumbnail doesn't have a tail wings, back wings or whatever it called?

[@carlsoll]

8:08 That’s so fast :o too fast to comprehend and he’s like shaking the whole time O.O

[@ahtheh]

I am 100% sure, the US military is providing assistance to not what you think to increase enlistment

[@paulredinger5830]

You’d think they’d of learnt to equip EVERY FIGHTER with a gun or cannon after Vietnam.

[@TonyChan-eh3nz]

Navy F4's never had a cannon, yet they improved at the same time as the airforce ones. Why? Because they started to get actual training, not because of the cannon.

[@em1osmurf]

the original Navy Hummer...very familiar with it (CV-67 vet).

[@DJ-ir2qy]

Once again, this guy is wrong. The first and last aircraft to launch and recover is a Helo.

[@aterxter3437]

Am I the only one non-American waiting for a un-biased vudeo compairing the different aircraft of other nations, especially comparable types such as P8 vs ATL 2 Mh60 sea-hawk vs NH90 Navy, in terms of armaments, abilities, mission readiness ? That would make a really interesting point and give numbers about the ability to make joint operations

[@griffinbastion]

Binkovs battlegrounds has you covered

[@thewatersavior]

is there a team that goes to recover those bouys?