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Subject: CVF propulsion question
EssexBoy    6/29/2008 5:53:12 AM
Hello, can anyone help a non-engineer understand something? On the CVF propulsion page on the Navy-Matters website it states that modern steam propulsion never seemed to be a likely option for CVF. Yet on the PA2 page of the same website it states: "however DCN had done a considerable amount of work investigating propulsion options, and despite a close association with Rolls-Royce, for an aircraft carrier of this size equipped with steam catapults it favoured using a modern steam (boilers and turbine) propulsion system with conventional shafts. As DCN was leading the ship platform design and build aspects of the Romeo Project/Juliete, it's ideas would have predominated if that Project had continued." Does anybody know why the UK weren't interested in steam propulsion? Was it simply that they were initially only interested in a STOVL carrier and therefore didn't need the steam for catapults? The reason I ask is that from my limited knowledge it appears that using steam propulsion the UK could have built a smaller, cheaper CATOBAR carrier and avoided a lot of the problems involving manufacturing and basing the CVFs. Do you think this would have been possible? Thanks Essex
 
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ArtyEngineer       7/5/2008 8:10:38 PM
Anyone know if the CVF's are going to have berthing to support the deployment of a decent sized element of Royal Marines?
 
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Herald12345       7/22/2008 12:34:16 PM

Anyone know if the CVF's are going to have berthing to support the deployment of a decent sized element of Royal Marines?

I would say yes it should, given that it has a lot of hidden LHA characteristics.
 
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ArtyEngineer    Herald   7/23/2008 11:16:06 PM



Anyone know if the CVF's are going to have berthing to support the deployment of a decent sized element of Royal Marines?





I would say yes it should, given that it has a lot of hidden LHA characteristics.


 

For the artilleryman, turned naval expert,

 

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I provide it free of charge.

 

I agree that there is probably a surge capacity for up to 50 aircraft; even in that bolluxed two island designed aircraft carrier.

 

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