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Discuss FAA of the future or dreamtime?????? in The Fleet Air Arm on Navy Net; Sample CVF "Tailored" Air Groups (aka Carrier Strike Joint Force Air Groups)
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Air Group [1]
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("Peacetime", minor exercises)
9 - 12 x F-35B STOVL Joint Strike Fighters; 4 x Maritime Airborne ...
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FAA of the future or dreamtime??????
Sample CVF "Tailored" Air Groups (aka Carrier Strike Joint Force Air Groups)
Description
Air Group [1]
Likely Baseline TAG
("Peacetime", minor exercises)
9 - 12 x F-35B STOVL Joint Strike Fighters; 4 x Maritime Airborne Surveillance and Control aircraft/helicopters/UAVs
6 x Merlin HM helicopters
Total = 22 - 25
Strike Configured TAG [2]
("Crisis", major exercises)
18 - 24 F-35B STOVL Joint Strike Fighters; 4 x Maritime Airborne Surveillance and Control aircraft/helicopters/UAVs
6 x Merlin HM helicopters
Total = 28 - 34
Surge TAG
("Wartime")
36 x F-35B STOVL Joint Strike Fighters;
4 x Maritime Airborne Surveillance and Control aircraft/helicopters/UAVs
Total = 40
Forward Aviation Support Ship (ASS) or Amphibious Helicopter Platform (LPH) [3]
18 x Medium lift transport helicopters (Merlin HC.3 / FRC);
6 x Heavy lift transport helicopters (Chinook HC.2 / FRC);
6 x WAH-64 attack helicopters;
4 x Maritime Airborne Surveillance and Control aircraft/helicopters/UAVs
Total = 34
The aircraft carrier's hanger deck, 155m x 33.5m x 6.7m to 10m high, accommodates up to 20 fixed and rotary wing aircraft.
23-05-12, 07:30 #2Senior Member 
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I was under the impression that the CVF is capable of stowing ALL of its 40 aircraft capacity in its hangar, in proper maintenance bays.
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23-05-12, 12:25 #3Senior Member
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STOVL UAVs are going to come from where? No-one else is going to be investing in them for anything but back of a frigate / destroyer requirements.
23-05-12, 18:15 #4Bring back DASH!
Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaEdmund Burke: 'Wars may be deferred .. but they cannot be wholly avoided .. to purchase present quiet, at the price of future security, is .. a cowardice of the most base and degrading nature."
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