New Zealand Girl Reacts to HOW AIRCRAFT CARRIERS WORK | CITIES AT SEA

hi guys and welcome back to another video my name is courtney if you don't know me already and on my channel i react to drum core international videos military videos and sport videos and other things as well but mostly surrounding america so if you want to get a new zealander's perspective definitely hit that subscribe button down below in today's video we have a guaranteed video request from robert thank you so much to robert for recommending this video he's recommended a military video which i love i love military videos so so much so thank you so much to robert for recommending this he has recommended me to watch cities that see how aircraft carriers work as you maybe already know i reacted to an aircraft carrier for the first time i'll link it somewhere up here but it kind of just showed the what it kind of looked like right so i didn't have any understanding what was going on so i'm really looking forward to watching this video to see how it actually works and stuff like that so thank you so much to robert for recommending this video if anyone else has a recommendation they want to recommend head over to my website which i will link down below and you can do it on there but without any further ado let's get into the video this video was made possible by brilliant learn with brilliant for 20 off by being on the first 200 sign up at brilliance.org a single aircraft carrier is enough to markedly change the level of a nation's military might these ships are one of the strongest single assets a military can have in general under international law aircraft carriers can legally position themselves up to 14 miles or 22 kilometers from any country's coast clearly the strategic influence of being able to place a military air base just miles from any coast in the world is enormous especially given that 80 percent of the world's population lives within 60 miles or 100 kilometers from the ocean while plenty of military vessels are capable of launching helicopters there are just 19 aircraft carriers worldwide currently in service capable of launching fixed-wing airplanes china thailand india russia and france each have one italy has two and the u.s has the eleven largest in the world okay hundreds require over six thousand and often stay deployed for up to a year there are fully fledged cities it's crazy the most advanced aircraft carriers like the french navy's charles de gaulle are capable of launching an aircraft every 30 seconds that means that for a brief period when launching aircraft at its maximum rate the aircraft carrier charles de gaulle becomes busier than charles de gaulle airport in paris to be able to achieve such a capability on a moving ship is no easy feat while the operation of these vessels gives militaries enormous strategic advantage they also represent one of their greatest operational challenges an aircraft carrier's offensive weapon is its aircraft on board carriers tend to only have a small number of defensive weapons such as surface-to-air missiles and machine guns but of course just like any powerful military asset these carriers are big targets it is for this reason that carriers never travel alone while on deployment while the exact composition can change depending on the mission the carrier strike groups american carriers travel with are typically made up of a guided missile cruiser equipped with tomahawk missiles two guided missile destroyers an attack submarine and a supply ship an aircraft carrier is the flagship of this strike group meaning that in its command area it not only has a bridge and an air traffic control center it also has a flag bridge where an admiral commands the entire strike group each of the group ships serves some combination of offensive and defensive roles the only exception is the supply ship most aircraft carriers don't need regular refueling all 11 american carriers and the french one are nuclear powered meaning they can sail on a limited distance for 25 years without refueling even conventionally powered aircraft carriers like the uk's hms queen elizabeth can travel up to 12 000 miles or 18 000 kilometers without refueling making the need for stops infrequent or french carrier could hypothetically sail non-stop for years or even decades what they can't do is carry enough food which is always needed an aviation fuel which is needed for combat operations to stay at sea for more than a few weeks at a time it would be inefficient and place the carriers in a position of vulnerability to have to visit a port every few weeks to restock especially during combat operations so they don't they restock while at sea the supply ships that move as part of the strike group will sail off to a nearby port to take on fuel ammunition food and mail sail back to the strike group then match speeds inside the carrier from there the two ships will shoot lines across to each other these lines are used to pull hoses over to the carrier which are used to transfer aviation fuel to transfer solid supplies there are two methods the first is attaching pallets to dollies that wheel cargo over to the carrier like a zipline the second method which is considered simpler yet more dangerous is using helicopters to pick up pallets from the resupply ship and flying them over to the carrier these transfers bring both crucial supplies like food and some less crucial items like mail but this isn't the only way mail arrives on american aircraft carriers each carrier actually has a mailing address just like any building in the u.s for example this is the uss gerald r ford address families of sailors can send mail to these addresses in the same way that they could to any other and in fact they cost the exact same as a shipment to any other us address even if the ship is on the other side of the world sailors can even order packages online to their ship expedited mail often makes it from an address in the u.s to a carrier sailing somewhere around the world in just 10 days having this speed requires more frequent deliveries than those of the logistic ships but conveniently carriers are airports at sea american carriers currently use a fleet of c2 greyhounds as cargo aircraft providing a high frequency often daily connection between carriers and shore when cruising in the south china sea for example as the uss ronald reagan did in november 2018 mail might be sent to singapore by conventional needs a c2 greyhound would then fly from the ship to singapore pick up the mail and fly back as carrier sail around the world the pickup points of the c2 greyhounds are continuously shifted to nearby friendly nations while mail does wonders for increasing crew morale that's actually the lowest priority cargo for the c2 greyhounds the aircraft are integral for bringing on spare parts for all the carrier's aircraft and transporting vips press and other individuals to and from the carriers the c2 greyhound is about the same size as an inbreyer 145 a civilian aircraft capable of carrying 50 people so it's not tiny the longest aircraft carrier in the world which also happens to be the newest is the uss gerald r4 but even she is only 1 106 feet or 337 meters long with commercial airports a runway of 5 000 feet or 1500 meters like the one at london city airport in london is considered short while large airports like london heathrow will have runways longer than 10 000 feet or 3000 meters so how do c2 greyhounds and other aircraft on carriers deal with having runways of only 100 feet or 330 meters long they don't they take off with just 325 feet or 99 meters of space all u.s and french carriers use a system of catapults to get aircraft up to take off speed within three to four seconds this allows these carriers to launch a decently sized aircraft like the c2 greyhound with their relatively short decks other carriers like the chinese and indian ones don't have catapults so they can only launch lighter shorter range aircraft capable of taking off with a very short runway both these two types of carriers have arrestor wires that aircraft catch on landing to decelerate with a short distance given every other aircraft carrier out there can only operate with aircraft capable of vertical landing what takes place on the flight deck is carefully choreographed chaos on american carriers everyone's job is easily identifiable by the color shirt they wear yellow shirts deal with navigating aircraft around the deck blue shirts are assistants to yellow shirts driving tugs operating elevators delivering messages and more red shirts do all the handling and mounting of ammunition purple shirts manage aircraft fueling green shirts are worn by a few different groups including catapult crews maintenance personnel cargo handlers and more white shirts are also worn by a mix of personnel including those helping aircraft land working as medical personnel and more and lastly brown shirts are worn by plane captains or not those that fly the aircraft they're individually in charge of overseeing all work for getting an aircraft ready for flight the flight deck is a dangerous place given its small size it's so small that all the carriers aircraft can't fit on it but of course just below the flight deck is the hangar a large carrier can carry up to i can't believe this is a ship right aircraft from the flight test for storage when not in use about 6 000 people working aboard each american carrier 3200 of them have jobs related to running the ship itself that includes everything from working in the engine room maintaining the nuclear reactor cleaning the decks to actually working up in the bridge commanding the ship many of these jobs are below deck and since all the above deck space is used for flight operations many on board can go weeks without seeing sunlight 2500 other personnel are part of the carrier's airway if this was an airbase on land these would be everyone working there including air traffic controllers aircraft mechanics fuelers pilots and more the few hundred remaining personnel work assorted other jobs in terms of personal space enlisted personnel the vast majority of those on board only get a single bunk in a room with sometimes more than 100 others higher ranked individuals though of course have more spacious accommodations as long-term homes for thousands of people these ships also have a few small luxuries like stores gyms barbershops this space is at a premium when six thousand people are packed into one floating hall and the mission is paramount since their heyday in world war ii some have started to question the place aircraft carriers have in modern warfare every operating country aside from the us tend to at any given moment have their ships either in combat in training or at home the us tends to use as carriers for a fourth function power projection at any given moment there is almost certainly an american carrier cruising somewhere in the world in fact january 2017 was the first time since world war ii that there was not an american aircraft carrier on deployment even if there wasn't an aircraft carrier on deployment they're fast they have a top speed of 35 miles or 56 kilometers per hour meaning that a norfolk virginia-based carrier could get to the middle east in just a week wow in the pacific the us has an even greater advantage since it has the uss ronald reagan based in yokosuka japan from where it could reach the shores of north korea for example in just 29 hours american carriers spend plenty of time just creating the world's oceans reminding other countries of the uss military power for example the uss ronald reagan returned from a four-month deployment from august to december 2018 during which it saw zero combat it spent much of the time cruising around the south china sea an area in which china is attempting to assert military control much to the us's displeasure elsewhere in asia american carriers also regularly make visits to the korean peninsula to remind north korea of their presence this reached a peak in november 2017 as tensions with north korea reached a peak when three american carriers loomed near korean shores with their enormous power though aircraft carriers represent an enormous target especially in the era of stealthy drones and precise missiles the sinking of a single u.s aircraft carrier could result in more american military deaths than the entire iraq war in addition to the loss of tens of billions of dollars in military assets while no aircraft carrier of any nation has been sunk since world war ii it's potentially more possible than one would think u.s carriers regularly participate in war games where combat conditions are simulated with allies there have been two concerning incidents in 2005 and 2015 where swedish and french submarines respectively have won the games against u.s carriers what this means is that the two country submarines approach close enough to the carriers where they could have if they were an enemy in real combat launch torpedoes and potentially sank the carriers this in essence proves that aircraft carriers with all their defense are not as unsinkable as some may say meanwhile the us has already received the first of 10 in a new class of carriers while china india and the uk each have carriers under construction so just like their possible obsolescence we can be sure that the aircraft carrier won't be leaving the world's oceans anytime soon i knew that america was really strong with all your military equipment and stuff but i had no idea they had that many aircraft carriers i just can't believe how big they are right 6 000 people i can't imagine i just can't imagine that um huge huge kudos to those who live out on those ships that way like that's literally you're dedicating your entire life to living at sea it must be really really hard but um you know they've got gyms on there and they've got a store in there obviously not still not an ideal situation but very very interesting i'm really impressed in the uh the size of the american military and how much equipment they have and how much power they have over the world right it's really interesting to me my uh my brother is in the new zealand navy and it's just like it's nothing like this right as you can imagine new zealand military is very very very very very small we're a tiny country and a tiny military so it's always so amazing looking at the like technology and stuff from the american military i heard that the american military is the most technologically advanced so yeah looking at all these things like how they can how they've created technology to you know take off on such short runways and i don't know even the mailing system that was really interesting to me i'm sure it's not just for america but i don't know it's just really interesting to me this video i learned a lot actually um thank you so much to robert for recommending this video i actually see another video here it's called how submarines work so i'm gonna react to that video soon as well because there's something else that will interest me for sure um so stay tuned for that but yeah did you guys learn anything new from this video let me know down below or if you want to teach me something else that wasn't mentioned in this video definitely write a comment down below i'm super intrigued and curious about stuff like this so so thank you so much to robert for recommending this video definitely a super super interesting one um and everyone now subscribe if you haven't already and i will see you all in my next video bye guys [Music]

Channel: Courtney Coulston

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Length: 14min 54sec (894 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 03 2020