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Hot re: Russia Warns RAF of Dangerous Interceptions & HMS Warship to Keep its Distance

It's a BAREcraft Carrier! UK's New £3.1bn Warship Dubbed Big Lizzie Heads to the North Sea for Six Weeks of Testing with Empty Decks and NO Planes to Transport

Russia Calls Britain's New Aircraft Carrier 'a Convenient Target'
  • Replicas of the F-35 Lightning II jets were delivered to RNAS Culdroe so crews can practise pushing them
  • Despite their convincing appearances the models at the Cornwall base lack engines, sensors or weapons
  • But naval personnel will get used to moving bigger, heavier aircraft than they ever have done before
  • HMS Queen Elizabeth - Britain's biggest-ever warship - was deployed in Firth, Scotland, earlier this week
Daily Mail UK/AP, 29 June 2017


The £3.1billion HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier was today
photographed making its way to the North Sea - with no planes on board.
Instead, life-size models of the F-35 Lightning II jets will be pushed around tarmac at Cornwall's RNAS Culdrose so flight deck teams can get a feel for the world's most advanced warplanes.

The real jets will be deployed on the 65,000-tonne vessel - named 'Big Lizzie' - which was put into the sea for the first time in Scotland on Monday.





Aerial photographs show the huge vessel heading out to sea without any planes on board which has resulted in the Navy practising flight-deck drills on land



Real jets will be deployed on the 65,000-tonne HMS Queen Elizabeth (pictured) which has been dubbed 'Big Lizzie'



On Monday, HMS Queen Elizabeth (pictured) left Rosyth to commence its first stage sea trials off the coast of Scotland





HMS Queen Elizabeth is seen with HMS Sutherland and HMS Iron Duke. The aircraft carrier proudly hit the waters earlier this week - but currently its crew only has replica planes to practise with


The arrival of the four jets was announced by the Flight Deck School, which will provide training to enable air handlers to manage fast jets and helicopters.

Chief petty officer Paul Ranson, Training Manager for all Embarked Training explained:
'We need to provide as realistic training as possible before the trainees go to sea.
'Aircraft handlers are vital to the new carrier, without them the Royal Navy cannot conduct safe aviation at sea.
'Flight decks are very dangerous, at sea even more so. It's our job to protect the aircraft and aircrew flying them.
'Managing the flight deck is mentally and physically challenging, so the training has to be quite rigorous and as realistic as possible'.




She was delicately guided out of the Rosyth basin in Fife, where she was assembled, by navigators, pilots and tug boats in a three-hour operation







Life-size copies of the F-35 Lightning II jets will be pushed around the tarmac at Cornwall's RNAS Culdrose by HMS Queen Elizabeth crews




The arrival of the four jets was announced by the Flight Deck School, which will provide training to enable air handlers to manage fast jets and helicopters


For the next six weeks, the huge vessel will spend her time in the North Sea and Moray Firth 'proving systems'.
She will finally head to her new home of Portsmouth, Hampshire, later this autumn.

Despite having no engines, sensors or weapons the four replica F-35s, dubbed the 'faux fighters' by the team at Culdrose, will be used as training aids so naval personnel can get used to moving bigger and heavier aircraft.

Paul, who will join HMS Queen Elizabeth as Captain of the Flight Deck, explained that 99 per cent of handlers have never been near an F35-B yet or moved anything nearly that large.
Two of the replicas have opening ****pits to practise rescuing injured pilots in a crash.
Built from fibre-glass by Cornish firm Gate Guards UK are fitted with water tanks to simulate fuel and weapons loads between 16 and 25 tonnes.




HMS Queen Elizabeth (pictured) conducted vital system tests off the coast of Scotland today after she left Rosyth on Monday





The replicas have been dubbed the 'faux fighters' by the team at Culdrose, who will practise wheeling the planes around the tarmac





Despite having no engines, sensors or weapons the four replica F-35s will be used as training aids so naval personnel can get used to moving bigger and heavier aircraft



Quote:

WHAT ARE THE MODEL PLANES MISSING?


Although the replica F35s will be useful for flight deck crews for pushing heavier planes than they are used to they are a far cry from the real thing.
The models are missing key elements that will be central to the actual jets.
  • Weapons
  • Engines
  • Sensors
However, the excess weight of these features will be made up with water, to maintain an accurate weight.

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The margin for error was so small that HMS Queen Elizabeth's crew had to wait for the right tide in order to squeeze under the Forth Bridge




The huge, 65,000-tonne flagship leaves Rosyth dockyard for the first time as the ship heads out on sea trials






Owner of Gates Guards UK, David Hobson said: 'It is fantastic for a local company in Cornwall to be part of this and to have played a part in helping the new aircraft carrier.'


Naval Airman Lee Gribble from IIIogan said: 'This is the closest that we are going to get to fast jets until we actually work with the real thing.
'I love being an aircraft handler - it's the best branch in the Navy.'
The Ministry of Defence has been contacted for comment.



WAR of WORDS

MOSCOW, 29 June (Reuters) -

The Russian military mocked Britain's new aircraft carrier on Thursday, saying the HMS Queen Elizabeth presented "a large convenient target" and would be wise to keep its distance from Moscow's warships.

The giant vessel, Britain's most advanced and biggest warship, embarked on its maiden voyage on Monday, prompting British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon to say he thought the Russians would look at it "with a little bit of envy."


Stung by that remark and angered by Fallon calling Russia's sole aircraft carrier "dilapidated," the Russian defence ministry issued a strongly-worded statement on Thursday, criticising Fallon and deriding the HMS Queen Elizabeth.

"These rapturous statements ... about the supremacy of the new aircraft carrier's beautiful exterior over the Russian aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov exposes Fallon's utter ignorance of naval military science," the ministry said.

"Like a bee, the British aircraft carrier is only capable of independently releasing planes from its belly closely flanked by a swarm of warships, support ships and submarines to protect it. That is why ... the British aircraft carrier is merely a large convenient naval target."


The ageing Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's only aircraft carrier, and a ship that Fallon has criticised more than once, was by contrast armed with an array of defensive missiles, the ministry said, warning the HMS Queen Elizabeth to keep her distance from the Russian navy.



"It is in the interests of the British Royal Navy not to show off the 'beauty' of its aircraft carrier on the high seas any closer than a few hundred miles from its Russian 'distant relative'," the ministry said.

Fallon offended Russia's military in January when he dubbed Moscow's sole aircraft carrier "a ship of shame" as it passed through waters close to the English coast on its way back from bombing raids in Syria.


Russia said at the time that Britain was staging a show by escorting the ship, the Admiral Kuznetsov, through the English Channel designed to distract attention away from the shortcomings of the British navy.

The Kuznetsov, which entered service in 1991 in the Soviet Union's dying days, is part of Russia's Northern Fleet near Murmansk and is currently awaiting serious repairs.

Russia, striving to promote a more assertive foreign policy amid chilly ties with the West, is in the process of re-arming its army and the navy.

But some experts at home and abroad say the Cold war-era Kuznetsov is now obsolete and that Russia needs a new generation of aircraft carriers.
END

NB; I bet the crew of the British warship are laughing their heads off...

+ Russia has a short memory. They choose to forget that years ago when one of their subs was trapped at the bottom of the ocean and the crew on board were dying from lack of air. They called the UK & the US for help.
The British specialist team got there first with all their equipment. The sub was raised and all crew saved.

Men and their war games eh? LBB ...
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