[Theoria]

'Crew members are shortly to be given a special app for their mobile phones to help them navigate around the ship. '

Golly, what could go wrong. Malware on a battleship, sounds fun.

[rlmorel]

"...Crew members are shortly to be given a special app for their mobile phones to help them navigate around the ship..."

[smokingfrog]

Running naked through the ship?

Highly irregular, old chap!

[Red Steel]

Brits get back to big deck carriers.

[Kozak]

LOL. It’s less then 2/3rds the size of a US CVN. How do our sailors manage without an app?

[2ndDivisionVet]

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is nearly twice as big, displacement-wise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gerald_R._Ford_(CVN-78)

[Jet Jaguar]

[Vendome]

We’ll have to help them eventually...

[mountn man]

Awwwwww...look at the cute little boat.

Whats it gonna be when it grows up?

[867V309]

Two superstructures.  Two superstructures.

But I repeat myself.

[Slings and Arrows]

Maybe I’m missing something here, but doesn’t the lack of an angled flight deck mean that the carrier can’t simultaneously launch and land aircraft?

[octex]

Thanks to you, sukhoi-30mki, for all of your postings about military matters.

As an 18 y/o, I was assigned to the USS FDR (CVA-42) in the V-2 Catapults Div. The ship (sister to the Midway and Coral Sea) was over 900 ft. It was designed for a crew of around 3800-4000, but with our air squadrons onboard we were over 5000. ..........The Brits intend to run a similarly sized carrier with only about 700 crew???

I know it was a WW II carrier that was operating in the early ‘60s with a high efficiency rating, and yes we carried nukes.

I joined the ship when in the shipyard for updating, so learned my way around the ship pretty quickly. I can’t even wrap my head around the idea that the Brits think they have to provide cell phone apps to help the twits find their way around their own ship!!!!

[cva66snipe]

However, the new design has put paid to one of the quainter traditions of British aircraft carriers, known as the “five-deck dash”. “The idea is for a crewman to run naked all but an anti-flash mask on his head through five decks without being identified. You can’t do that with the complex layout here,” said one of the carrier’s crew. Some guarantee of British maritime security

Is that anything like being inport & the Fire Pump Rover or AC&R Rover Watch Mooning The Chief Of The Watch in DC Central from the cameras in the Shaft Alleys? LOL

[cunning_fish]

>>>Crew members are shortly to be given a special app for their mobile phones to help them navigate around the ship.

Walking through the ship recently on a clear winter’s day was like walking through the giant set of a sci-fi movie. Cables and wires of all kinds seem to stretch for miles. In all, 12,500 miles of fibre-optic cable will be installed and 18,750 miles of copper wiring. The flight deck space is more than three football pitches .<<<

LOL. I really hope it works better than Jag and Range electronics:)

[Bender2]

Re: Crew members are shortly to be given a special app for their mobile phones to help them navigate around the ship.

Considering the crop of idiots we have spawn since the 1960s and the way the Liberal have changed the education system during that time frame... are we surprised when ever cashier we come up to has to look at the printout to know how much change to give you?