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Can a helicopter lift a aircraft carrier?
Fox 5 News reported that the CH-53E “can lift an aircraft carrier”. The Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion is well known for its strengths, and is an extremely capable heavy-lift helicopter. So powerful in fact, that it can lift a load equal to its entire weight, externally. That is impressive for any aircraft.
Can a Apache land on a carrier?
APACHE gunships have landed on board Britain’s largest aircraft carrier as she returned to sea following a setback in port. HMS Prince of Wales has been joined by the Army Air Corps’ fearsome ‘flying tank’, which is conducting extensive trial on the Portsmouth-based warship.
What weapon is at the center of the modern carrier battle group?
Aircraft Carriers
Aircraft Carriers The aircraft carrier is a formidable long-range offensive weapon. It is at the center of the modern carrier battle group.
Are America’s aircraft carriers vulnerable to attack?
Some ideas never go out of fashion, no matter how unfounded they are. One such idea is the belief that America’s large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are vulnerable to attack by [insert latest threat here].
Navy planners are confident they can do that, relying on a layered defense that includes the carrier’s air wing, networked escort vessels hosting the world’s most advanced air defense system, a redundant overhead reconnaissance capability and the carrier’s own onboard defenses.
Can aircraft carriers be tracked and targeted?
The Navy’s large-deck, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are the biggest warships ever built—a thousand feet long, 25 stories high, with over four acres of space on the flight deck. This has led some pundits to presume the carriers can be easily tracked and targeted.
What is the purpose of the MiG-29?
The plane serves a dual purpose as a “both a fighter and an attack airplane,” meaning it can engage enemy aircraft with “all the different types of missiles and weapons systems,” as well as hitting all targets on the ground.