All the world's aircraft carriers

The big carrier(s) from USA has about 6000 crew per ship.

 

We only have 10 of the big ones? I thought we had more....

 

Fun link Homer, thanks.

I particularly enjoyed the replica of a Nimitz-class carrier which is sitting somewhere in a small Chinese lake.



What will they come up with next?

 

Hey this is a cool visual too, a Nimitz turning hard port at her max of 35 knots:

 

What is the South Korean aircraft carrier? I don't remember ROK navy has any aircraft carriers. Currently there are two types of DDH (helicopter destroyers) in ROK navy, but they don't have flat decks.

The Japanese Hyuga DDH has flat deck, and it's relatively large for a DDH (18,000t full load).

[EDIT] After asking a friend, it may be the Dokdo class amphibious assault ship, which has flat deck.

 

AFAIKS this is the only fighter aircraft the nz airforce has

no wonder the nz airforce is the terror of the pacific

 

Uhm, why?

EDITED BITS: Found it.

 

the chinese have a half built russian carrier:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Chinese_aircraft_carrier

if the f-35 ever finally makes it to production then a lot of the worlds navys will likely choose LHD's over full blown carriers.

 

That's a conservative figure. Support vessels are left for dead under max steam.

 

We have a bunch of WWII fighters
But seriously, we have something vastly better & cheaper: a 2000km moat.

Fighter planes can't do strike missions to NZ & back from anywhere on land -> only navies with carriers pose an air threat & they all belong to friends, allies or countries with no regional presence.

 

I was about to say that they wouldn't get the funding to build such fleet nowadays - until I educated myself on the subject and learned that that half of the Nimitz-class ships were commissioned after fall of the Soviet block, and that the new Gerald R. Ford-class is already on its way.

Crazy. Well, the gigantic defense budget has to be used for something.

 

All the worlds spaceships
http://www.merzo.net/index.html

 

Im not sure, but our WW2 fighters are not allowed to do loop de loops, for fear the wings will fall off!
BTW - Im not advocating nz having any airforce (perhaps just a few cargo planes + helicopters), in fact Ild love to see the defense budget halved

 

what would you do with the extra $65 ?

 

Back in the dark ages of the 80s the Nimitz class carrier group (a carrier has a ton of support ships) cost $1 Trillion. Scrap building one group and invest $1T into economic incubation in the Middle East and you just might be a bit more for your money.

 

That's really cool thanks, tantalizing for the inner, middle and outer geek of me.