Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers - News and Discussion

[bobp]

Today AH1Z Vipers...

https://x.com/HMSPWLS/status/1707370952772722792?s=20

[R686]

Today AH1Z Vipers...

https://x.com/HMSPWLS/status/1707370952772722792?s=20

Still love how the USMC are still using UH-1Y and AH-1Z.

I wonder if their eventual replacement will be the same as US Army the Bell V-280 Valor

[new guy]

Today AH1Z Vipers...

https://x.com/HMSPWLS/status/1707370952772722792?s=20

Still love how the USMC are still using UH-1Y and AH-1Z.

I wonder if their eventual replacement will be the same as US Army the Bell V-280 Valor

USMC Attack Utility Replacement Aircraft (AURA) programme.

[R686]

Today AH1Z Vipers...

https://x.com/HMSPWLS/status/1707370952772722792?s=20

Still love how the USMC are still using UH-1Y and AH-1Z.

I wonder if their eventual replacement will be the same as US Army the Bell V-280 Valor

USMC Attack Utility Replacement Aircraft (AURA) programme.

Thanks,


So more than likely

[bobp]

More Helicopters etc as the PWLS moves North and refuels its visiting friends....

https://x.com/HMSPWLS/status/1707726852045906195?s=20

[SKB]

(Defense Now) 1st October 2023

HMS Prince of Wales, hosted by Carrier Strike Group 10 and USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) will make Naval Station Norfolk it's temporary homeport this fall as it conducts aviation operations off the East Coast.

[new guy]

[new guy]

Westland 23 seems to be taking an easy to hard approach for it's eastern seaboard missions, going:

USCG ( just commercial dolphins)
USMC heli's (Normal heli's, attack and utility)
USMC V-22 ( Tilt-rotor but nothing new)
F-35B (SRVL, hard but done it before)
Mojave ( Completely new)

We had a nice starter and hooking warmup with fixed wing autonomous drone takeoff and landing demonstration.
Kept us watching with USCG and USMC in a climatic way,
really pulling us in with SRVL,
Climax of Mojave.
what a lovely story arch!

[Jackstar]

Royal Navy: Procession of US Coast Guard helicopters land on HMS Prince of Wales in "very rare" event.

https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defen ... nt-4355488

[Jackstar]

Meanwhile in Norway.

[bobp]

CSG sailing in and around the Norwegian Fjords....

https://x.com/COMUKCSG/status/1709458786757284021?s=20

[Poiuytrewq]

A great update

https://www.navylookout.com/photo-essay ... eployment/

[SKB]

(Navy Lookout/RN) 5th October 2023

[djkeos]

HMS Queen Elizabeth calls in Gothenburg on October 14.

Source: Försvarsmakten
@Forsvarsmakten 5 okt.

[bobp]

HMS PWLS visited by NATO heads


https://x.com/HMSPWLS/status/1710380278235934877?s=20

[bobp]

HMS PWLS crew busy sightseeing and entertaining visitors

https://x.com/HMSPWLS/status/1711446056754454855?s=20

https://x.com/HMSPWLS/status/1711743576529420804?s=20

[Jackstar]

[Timmymagic]

This will be at the Swedish air weapons range at Vidsel in Northern Sweden. UK has been making increasing use of it in recent years as its one of the few ranges in Europe where live aircraft bombs can be dropped. The UK only has the small Garvie Island off Cape Wrath that can be used, that has limited utility as representative targets cannot be set up.

[bobp]

PWLS has left Norfolk naval base ...

https://x.com/HMSPWLS/status/1712090828582105268?s=20


And has USMC F35B on board

https://x.com/HMSPWLS/status/1712199647496638890?s=20

[Jackstar]

[Jackstar]

HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives in Sweden, from the Swedish point of view, interesting.

[bobp]

USMC continue to test the F35B weapon loads SRVL yet to come.

https://x.com/HMSPWLS/status/1713642313946194187?s=20

[Timmymagic]

USMC continue to test the F35B weapon loads SRVL yet to come.

https://x.com/HMSPWLS/status/1713642313946194187?s=20

Interesting that there was a JDAM being wheeled over as well...

[SKB]

(Royal Navy/Navy Lookout) 17th October 2023

HMS Prince of Wales has crossed the Atlantic to begin a series of developmental Flying Trials (DT-3) off the eastern seaboard of the US. Aircraft embarked include Chinooks, Merlin Mk2, Wildcat, USMC V-22 Osprey and AH-1Z Vipers. The carrier has visited Naval Station Mayport and will operate out of Naval Station Norfolk during the autumn trials period. She has now embarked two F-35Bs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron VX-23 for trials with heavier loads and in high sea states.

[bobp]

A nice video of HMS Queen Elizabeth by the official Swedish Armed Forces YouTube channel: