Are planes on US aircraft carriers flown by Navy or USAF pilots?
For the best answers, search on this site https://shorturl.im/av6va This is an entertaining question in that it provokes service rivalries on who's better. The aircraft flown from aircraft carriers are normally flown by US Naval and Marine Corps aviators. Experiments have been performed with the USAF landing on carriers, with less than desirable results (their planes aren't built for it nor do their pilots like a moving airport). Naval and Marine aircraft are maintained by appropriate service personnel. Can the USAF be disbanded, hmm. Well no one wants to see the golf courses and recreation centers go away. In all seriousness, no they cannot. The Navy does not focus on Logistics. We plan for warheads on foreheads. We depend on the Air Force to provide direction and fuel for long distance missions. Comments were made in regards to the anywhere, anytime strategy. In 2001, the USAF had to rethink it's posture and world-wide presence in that it could not adequately support operations for initial entry into Afghanistan. The bases were simply too far away and no one wanted to grant airspace to the flights. Aircraft had to make a circuitous route through international airspace to respond. Too time consuming. Now look at the Navy. The USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) dropped off its air wing and embarked several Army and Navy Special Forces Units with support craft (tanks, choppers, etc) and acted as a floating base. This shows the mutli-tasking ability of the Navy. In regards to the comment on landing large aircraft on a carrier. In 1963 the US Navy conducted experiments involving 80 landing and takeoffs of a C-130 Hercules. The aircraft took off without the use of JATO rockets or the catapults and landed without the arresting cables. Takeoff: 745ft. Landing: 460ft at max loading. At 85,000 lbs the craft landed in 296ft. The Navy determined that while attractive, the craft was too large for normal operation onboard. The Navy prefers to use ships to move large amounts of cargo as it is cheaper than aircraft. Hence why tanks are moved by ships (Military Sealift Command Roll-On/Roll-Off ships) manned by civilian and USN personnel. We are one big happy family that depends on each other for day to day operations. Each has a specific function to perform. Some do work, others build golf courses. Joking.
A number of air force planes were also navy planes over the years, such as the F-4 Phantom II or the A-4 skyhawk, while the F-18 flies with various air forces around the world. So some planes could land on a carrier. Other planes possibly could after slight modifications to tailhook and landing gear.But an air force pilot is not trained to land on a carrier and would probably crash.So plane yes, for some models, pilot no.
Navy has broadly classified into three branches.Surface,Underwater(Submarines),Naval Aviation.So, an aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying and recovering aircraft .Typically, it is the capital ship of a fleet, as it allows a naval force to project air power worldwide without depending on local bases for staging aircraft operations . Aircraft carriers are expensive to build and are critical assets. Carriers have evolved since their inception in the early twentieth century from wooden vessels used to deploy balloons to nuclear powered warships that carry numerous fighter planes, strike aircrafts, helicopters , and other types of aircraft.There is no single definition of an "aircraft carrier," and modern navies use several variants of the type. These variants are sometimes categorized as sub-types of aircraft carriers, and sometimes as distinct types of naval aviation -capable ships. Aircraft carriers may be classified according to the type of aircraft they carry and their operational assignments. here is no single definition of an "aircraft carrier," and modern navies use several variants of the type. These variants are sometimes categorized as sub-types of aircraft carriers, and sometimes as distinct types of naval aviation -capable ships. Aircraft carriers may be classified according to the type of aircraft they carry and their operational assignments.So Aircraft carrier belongs to Naval Aviation, hence NAVY.Jai Hind.
Only carrier-qualified planes and carrier qualified pilots land on carriers unless it is for a test. I have never seen an Air Force pilot on a carrier except as an exchange training program. Typically, they are in a staff position, DNIFOPS, duty not involving flight operations.This is a safety issue. Landing and taking off on a carrier is not something you do without training. If there were any air force pilots doing carrier qualifications, nobody I know knew about it, and there would be no tactical need.
Do the US Marines fly off of aircraft carriers in F/A-18s?
There are a lot of Marine Corps fighter pilots. You don't hear about it because people think of the Marine Corps as infantry. The Marine Corps has air, land, and sea capabilities. The Marine Corps does not have its own ships. Typically, a Navy carrier will have a Marine Corps fighter squadron aboard. The Navy provides other ships for Harriers and helos. They are smaller carriers designated LPH (Landing Platform Helicopter) or LPD (Amphibious Transport Dock). Don't ask me why an amphibious transport dock is called an LPD, except they have some helo landing platform capabilites. The smaller carriers are platforms for the Marines to conduct amphibious operations from. The large carriers are mostly Navy with a Marine fighter squadron aboard. The Marine Air Wing is about one-third of the Marine Corps. They have permanent bases with fighters in SC, NC, VA, several in CA, Hawaii, Japan, and some I probably forgot. This is only to give you an idea of how many fighter pilots there are.
I love the Jingoistic love of the Indian keyboard warriors to acquire six or eight carriers. So here are a few informative facts.Carriers are complex machines, especially the nuclear powered ones. Count on at least a third of the time in dock. So three carriers, one for each coast, won't do it if you want them asea always.There are three types of carriers:Super Carriers: around 100,000 tons, carrying about 90 planes. Only the US has these. They have a catapult launching system.Regular Carriers: around 40,000 tons, carrying about 40 planes each. Most of these don't have catapults and can only carry short take off and landing planes.The US has 8 of these, twice as many as any other country.Crap Carriers: built and operated by navies with no expertise in carriers. Both the Russian and Chinese carriers fall into this category.Carriers are accompanied by a battle fleet of 5 to 15 other ships designed to protect the carrier and do tasks the carrier is not designed to to.Carriers are really expensive, not just to acquire, but also to operate. A single US Carrier group costs $7 Million a day: the carrier alone costs $100 Million per year to operate. The upshot is that if you want a carrier group, you should have damn good reason for it – not just macho nationalism. That money could be better spent elsewhere.
Aircraft carriers role in WWII thesis statement?
Sorry to rain on your parade, but whilst there are many fine examples of American Innovation, this doesn't happen to be one of them. a) aircraft carriers were a British invention. The British designed and started building HMS Hermes in 1918, although she was beaten into service by a Japanese carrier (a direct copy of Hermes) which although not started until later actually launched some 6 months before. and b) It's also well known that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was inspired by the sinking of the Italian fleet at Toranto a year before by torpedo bombers of the Royal Navy. At Toranto, the Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft naval attack in history, flying aircraft from HMS Illustrious (a carrier in the Mediterranean Sea) and attacking the Italian fleet at harbour. The effect of the British carrier-launched aircraft on the Italian warships foreshadowed the end of the "big gun" ship and the rise of naval air-power. Therefore one has to ask, how does your thesis qualify as "innovations in America" ? You're talking about the use of a British invention to pursue British tactics !! Other British 'innovations' (firsts and inventions) relating to aircraft carriers were: - Hydraulic arrestor cables (HMS Courageous) - tricycle (i.e. modern) undercarriage fighters on a carrier (HMS Pretoria Castle) - jet aircraft on a carrier (HMS Ocean) - Optical landing systems (HMS Illustrious) - steam powered catapult (HMS Perseus) - angled flight deck (HMS Triumph) - Helicopter assault carrier (HMS Bulwark) - STVOL aircraft (Sea Harrier) - "Ski ramps" (HMS Invincible) By the way the record holder for most number of carrier landings is still Royal Navy Captain Eric Melrose "Winkle" Brown, CBE, DSC, AFC who also holds the record for the most number of different aircraft flown (487). A fascinating man. Sorry to be negative about your choice, but it's rather poor show pretending aircraft carriers are American innovations, when clearly they are predominately British. Whatever you decide, the best of luck to you.
In the US, the Navy (although Marine Corps aircraft and pilots are frequently deployed as well). All naval and Marine aircraft have to be carrier deployable, and landing and taking off from a carrier itself requires a special skill that Air Force pilots just don't have, and have no reason to be trained in. Naval aviation is a specialty in itself.Here's some carrier trivia for you to ponder: by law the commanding officer of an aircraft carrier must be an aviator. Before they ever get serious about training him to drive a ship, he's had years of experience flying aircraft, then they put him in as captain of one of the biggest ships we have.