Thunderbirds are GO!
Calling calling International Rescue
USA: this is an aircraft carrier. It carries aircraft to destroy enemy ships.
Japan: this is a helicopter destroyer. It carries helicopters (and some aircraft) to protect our fleet.
Indonesia: this is a humanitarian vessel. It uhhhh. Shhhhh
It tars humans?
I mean, barring the immense cost, a hospital ship capable of launching an entourage of aircraft for medevac or search and rescue would be invaluable to global humanitarian efforts I would think. Particularly after earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.
Says something about us where we can justify that expense for war but not helping people.
You’ll need something to deal with potential rubble during search and rescue, so make sure to carry some radar guided missiles on your rescue planes
All I’m saying is give war a chance
“I LOOOVE MINORS!” - some bald guy
- Be a huge country of 300 million spread around thousands of islands
- Have centuries long naval tradition
- Your Navy is shit
Indonesia 🌈
I kinda wonder why the billionaires only have super-yachts and not aircraft carriers
I’m pretty sure that most of these hyper-yachts have helicopter pads. For transporting one person and their mistresses, it takes up a lot less topside real estate. The plebes can spend time on a boat between harbor and yacht if they need to get on or off.
aren’t planes faster than helicopters though? I guess that doesn’t matter as much though as the yachts stupidly spend time near coasts normaly, but I still find it weird that there are AFAIK no privately owned aircraft carriers.
Probably because a skeleton crew for one of those is an absolute shitload of people (Nimitz-class carriers have a standard compliment of 3,200, not including the air division, so pilots and mechanics and such)… and like sure you could probably get rid of some stuff and cut that in half, but it would still require a lot more staff than a super yacht (20-50 crew), including nuclear technicians/engineers and stuff which would probably be expensive.
Plus you’d be spending a ton to demilitarize and make the below-decks spaces comfortable, as that’s the vast majority of the ship. But in so doing, you may actually alter the ballast of the ship causing it to float higher and become unstable…
Why bother when you can get a status symbol custom made for you, you know?
It’s not for attacking it’s for shipping military aircraft
This is good, a peace-focused aircraft carrier can do a lot for disaster relief. Just make it nuclear with onboard large-scale desalination plants, oh my
And some gigajoule-scale railguns, for… Humanitarian reasons.
Piracy is still alive and well, especially in the Pacific and around nations with less powerful naval defenses. It’s probably to push back against piracy, especially with much the rest of the world turning towards “me first” attitudes and an island nation’s heavy reliance on trade for prosperity. It may also be that the agreement to purchase an aircraft carrier might extend the willingness of other nations to continue helping to protect the trade routes: like it’s a show of good faith that they’re helping too and not putting all the burden on other countries.
