What to do With Used Aircraft Carriers?
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- Scrapped, sunk or saved! That's what the future holds for all aircraft carriers. Aircraft carriers may all start similarly, with the keel laying ceremony, but where they end up upon retirement, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT
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I remember that motorcycle, the Bajaj V15. I was tempted to buy it just for the cool factor of having a bike made from an aircraft carrier.
Yeah INDIA's INS Vikrant carrier which liberated Bangladesh made into Bajaj Vikrant 15 🔥
Why remember?
Those bikes are still running on roads
@@navinksingh nice point
@Navin Kumar Yes yes of course. I just said that because there are fewer around in my country nowadays (Argentina). Idk why, I heard it's a good bike, but here most bikes are between 110 and 250cc, and most bikers want either a workhorse or a sporty bike. The V15 doesn't fit either description, it's more of a cruiser(ish). Pulsar (Rouser) models are way more popular.
@@moteroargentino7944 those were sold in Argentina ?!
I thought they were sold only in india
Because of their reactors the newest Supercarriers will probably never end up as a museum ship.
In general its kind of sad that such a little amount of especially Battleships and Heavy Cruisers (from all nations) from WWII have survived as a museum. :(
I mean, we could recreate them,
(Example, Richelieu’s interior, and exterior are all know about, so, if you wanted to, you could recreate her)
Some are impossible to recreate accurately (the Iowa class and Belfast)
Some are just generalizations,
Some are modernized
Some are not recreatable accurately
True. Checkout this video if you haven't watched it already: czcams.com/video/gwG2Da7nLcM/video.html
We actually have 8 battleship museums in the U.S. Wish the U.K. had saved HMS Vanguard, though. Beautiful ship. There really is a dearth of heavy cruisers museums though. And it’s very sad that the last conventionality-powered supercarrier, USS John F. Kennedy, wasn’t saved as a museum. KMS Prinz Eugen would have been a great museum ship as well! You should check out the battleship New Jersey channel, it’s excellent!
IIRC they extract the reactor cores and ship them to INL to be processed and disposed of
@@jaybee9269 only heavy Crusier left is USS Salem
Fun fact:
The new Indian Aircraft Carrier is also named INS Vikrant.
Im so happy You talked about the INS Vikrant. Had a privilege to get on the flight deck of the first INS vikrant when i was young!!
So nice to hear you mention about how it was re incarnated.
The new INS Vikrant is also the first carrier built in India. Good for you guys!
For those who don't know, the original Vikrant that we showed in our video was built by the British Royal Navy.
India also modified a 2nd Russian carrier
I too remember being on board of INS Vikrant when it was a museum. It was a great honour...
considering its role in the 1971 Indo-pak war which led to the formation of Bangladesh .
personally I call it ''the ship who created a nation''
hopefully it doesnt sink.
@@coconutboy8198 haha! cute
Proud owner of v15 , my first bike . Still going strong ... Brilliant . Feels awesome even today riding it .
"As one might expect, art didn't pay the bills."
Great line.
Art doesn't pay the bills.
Unless the artist is one of the rare, rare few who become famous.
Or the wealthy need somewhere to store their money which can't be taxed.
@@pwnmeisterage the artists who become famous and the ones that are used by the rich as personal money printers are one and the same.
Art is a scam industry which is run by a duopoly of companies to help rich people avoid taxes
Lies again? AMWF CAR MLS EDUCATION
I'm gonna be visiting the USS midway in a week and I'm so excited. It's been probably 6 years since the last time I went and I can't wait to refresh my memory of how amazing the ship is
Tips (which you probably already know, but others may not): they have some areas which can only be seen by tour, such as the island (small and cramped), so sign up for that tour first and schedule everything else around it.
The engine room may or may not be accessible without a tour (I do not remember) but take it, as they will describe things you will never figure out on your own.
She was my home for 3.5 years, and they did, and are doing, a fantastic job of making her into a museum. I've only been on her as a museum ship twice, and the first thing that surprised me was the smell just before the top of the gangplank. Home! Some combination of paint, grease, fuel, who knows what. I had not expected that at all. I never even would have remembered it if someone had asked me.
@@grizwoldphantasia5005 Love the small details and the experience of just being on an aircraft carrier
@@grizwoldphantasia5005 I just went two days ago, the only place that has a guided tour is the island, the engine room was free to come and go as you pleased, it was a packed ship that day as well, she is a magnificent ship
I'm a Midway vet and will get to go see her again in September, 40 years or so after I saw her last. Looking very forward to it.
As a former crewmember of USS Enterprise (CVN 65), I always though decommissioned carriers should be repurposed as power plants and/or parking garages.
My reuse of the Enterprise would be a little different. With missiles and drones of today I would repurpose the ship and a screening ship for the fleets. Put as many anti missiles as you could on her with drones flying around if one get through. Plus it could control under water drones to intercept torpedo's. But they will scrap it.
Honestly turning former Aircraft Carriers into housing isn’t a bad idea. Especially if they were used to house veterans who have fallen on hard times
@@donaldgrant9067 Yeah that repurposing would take billions of dollars. Tough chance
@@shadowkillz9606 Well the military is going to spend Billions anyway. Beside what would it cost to build a new class of ships that could carry that much protection for a carrier fleet? After all Chinese missiles have a range of 1000 miles and Navy aircraft have a range of 600 miles. And missiles are cheap.
@@donaldgrant9067 Still won't repurpose
Still sad the USS Enterprise (CV-6) wasn’t saved and turned into a museum ship. If there’s a single ship in all of history that deserved to be preserved it was her. Unfortunately her little/ big sister USS Enterprise CVN-65 couldn’t be saved because she was nuclear powered.
That bike concept was pretty good 👍
Actually, the USS Card, a Bogue Class Escort Carrier, was sunk by Viet Cong commandoes in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) harbor in 1964. She was serving as an aircraft transport (AVT) at the time, but she was, in fact, "the last" American carrier sunk by enemy action. She was refloated and repaired and scrapped in 1971.
You also miss the fact that the US nuclear carrier fleet (CVN's) need to be scrapped in a way completely unlike the conventional carrier fleet. Because the CVNs need to be defueled and certain sections are too radioactive to be safely preserved, they can neither be "saved" as a museum ship, nor "sunk" either in a "SinkEx" or as an artificial reef/diving wreck. They can't even really be towed to Brownsville for scrapping. So, with the passing of the (old) John F. Kennedy and (old) Kitty Hawk, we will not have a "new" or preserved carrier museum ship and as the Nimitz class (and beyond) come to their end they will all need to be disposed of at one of the Navy's nuclear ship deactivation facilities. It's kind of sad.
Correct. We already published a video earlier this year, specifically on this topic (how Kitty Hawk and JFK were likely the last ones that could have been turned into museums). So didn't want to repeat those details in this video. Here it is in case you are interested: czcams.com/video/gwG2Da7nLcM/video.html
Bruh America is on whole other level compared to other world military
"Actually".
A lot more than "kind of" sad. Really it's f*ing depressing.
@@nakachinjah7240 but Russia is the true superpower
4:54 As a german i am surprised that the americans launched a carrier called "Bismarck Sea" during WW2. Kind of weird that they laid down a ship with the name Bismarck in it in 1944. :O
Obviously it wasnt a very lucky name, since she got sunk so soon after beeing commisioned.
F to those souls left on board. :(
Bismarck sea is an area near Papua New Guinea, the ship was named after that sea, not after the German Bismarck
The bismark was sunk in 1941, not 1944.
@@exiaa292 though both were named after Bismarck (the person)
The USS Bismarck Sea was named after the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, which occurred from March 2nd - March 4th, 1943. The Japanese were attempting to send a convoy with soldiers and supplies to Lae, New Guinea where they were fighting the Australians and the Americans. The US Navy successfully intercepted the convoy, and then sank 4 destroyers and 8 transport ships.
@@exiaa292 Wait til you find out that the Bismarck Sea is named after Otto von Bismarck...
Other navy ships: Precise measurements, efficient building, weapons testing
Aircraft carriers: Ceremonies, take it or leave it
Great job!👏 A phenomenal amount of work must go into these videos! I’d never seen the footage at 6:30 from the nuclear test, that was amazing!
Thank you!
I rode the USS Enterprise in 1987 and 1988, the USS Midway in 1988, and the USS Carl Vinson in 1990. Rest of the time I was riding amphibs, DD's, and other things. Good times.
Carriers could be converted into funky floating hotels.
Drunk guests falling off the flight deck in the middle of the night🥴
@@NotWhatYouThink As long as they pay in advance. 🤣
This was actually done with the sovjet aircraft cruiser/carrier Kiev. She was converted in a hotel in Tianjin, China.
Great Carrier Reef.. that's a great find! -)
No Matter how good, lovely or important you always be replaced as time passed- Video conclusion
Love your videos keep up with the great work!
I know a guy who worked on the intrepid during Vietnam, he’s pretty cool guy and helps me with model building every now and then.
4:34 thanks for covering this.
This channel is very addictive, you only want more ❤
I managed to see the "Intrepid" in August 2019. I also have been on board the "Midway" twice. It's a shame no other countries keep their carriers as museums.
imagine how long you would have to pee to fill up that thing to float an aircraft carrier🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Unfortunately it’s super expensive and America is really the only country that can afford it and even then we failed to save the Original Enterprise. Even Britain didn’t preserve the HMS Warspite and she was the pride of their fleet.
@@tyger5645 well that's Progress for you. you have to keep moving forward tech advancement will kill off the weak easily enough
Well some countries like Japan got all their carriers sunk
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Awesome
Idk if they still do it but when I was a kid in Southern California one of the things the Boy Scouts did was spend a weekend on the Midway. You and ur dad went onto the ship, stayed a night in the crews quarters, eat at the cafeteria, it was pretty cool
In the bay area you go to the enterprise
When INS Vikrant went to war, the world map changed forever ;)
A cool experience would be to have an old sailer from one of the carriers tell you his story about living abroad them in a tour form ( while visiting the ship)
I have dove the Oriskany site. Awesome dive.
As a child I would love to go to the city (45 minute drive in some cases) and see the Intrepid. Its always so cool to see planes and ordnance that are in the carrier. There is also a space shuttle in a tent towards the stern. On a side note USS New Jersey is also fairly close to New York (its in Camden) and was amazing to see. I recommend both to any history nerd
What did we learn? That every yacht with a helicopter landing pad is an aircraft carrier
The Great Carrier Reef is awesome.
Now this editing is amazing not saying the 3d animation is bad but realistic videos is more like it!
I saw the uss kitty hawk before. Sad to see it go :(
You know that intro is brilliant
I saw Kitty Hawk at in the Puget Sound shipyard late last year. Was just from the road but it was still really neat and not something I had been anticipating.
You missed the USS Enterprise which sits at the docks awaiting its fate. There has yet to be a scrapped US nuclear powered aircraft carrier. Maybe you can do a video on the navy’s nuclear recycling program
After being decommissioned and prepared, what a wonderful artificial reef. Placed end to end, this would be a massive reef providing an incredible refurbishing of aquatic environments.
You should do a video on the USS Ling. I found out about it when I was young and never knew what happened to it.
I saw the Oriskany up close and personal when she was being prepped for sinking, moored at Pensacola.
@4:30 I never thought I would see this, but THE FRONT FELL OFF by Clarke and Dawe....
As a former member of the USS enterprise (CVN 65), I'm surprised to hear they haven't made it into a parking lot or some powerplant.
You would know better than me having served on the ship but would the reactor be powerful enough to power large areas outside of the ship. I know Nuclear Reactors are super powerful. My state (Illinois) has 6 and that covers around half of our states energy use but the power plants of Aircraft Carriers are significantly smaller than regular ones.
So, either you took this comment from xpatsteve, or he took it from you. And given the age of his channel and prof pic, why the hell did you copy the dude's comment?
Nice Concept, but that requires Location. Think of how much Water will be needed to Operate those Former Reactors. That Carrier would have to be off Shore some. Making the Parking lot not achieved.
So it's not the Chakri Naurebet the smallest Aircraft Carrier after all. Thanks for the new learnings 😊
I SERVED INS VIKRANT DURING 1971 WAR THANKS FOR MENTIONING
If your interested in visiting old navy ships in the UK there’s the HMS Belfast (town class light cruiser) in London
I saw the aircraft/space vehicles on display at Intrepid in 2016
nice
Served on the America in 81, glad to see it sunk V3 division
i want the person speaking in this video to tell me bedtime stories
50+ years lifespan for American super carriers. It takes 5 years to build each one. US navy have 11, ten in active service and 1 either entering or leaving service. 2 or 3 of the ten are undergoing minor or major refurbishment. So say 7 usable. The active 7 spend half the time on deployment IE can use immediately. Other half on replenishment of supplies or training. Deployable at a few hours or days. But might take days to get to the hot spot.
The longest refurbishment is the mid cycle refueling and major upgrades about 6 months at the 25 year mark. The 2 latest carriers will bypass the refuelling cycle.
Without watching the video, I can say that I would happily buy an aircraft carrier if someone has one extra laying around.
The Oriskany is such a hard dive because it's like 8 miles off shore and the tower of the carrier is 100ft down
22 miles. The tower starts at 84fsw.
Can't stay down long on a standard AL80.
@@someguy5035 even worse. I've only dove it one time and when we got out there the weather was so bad we thought the boat was gonna sink lol
@@lovemvn6283 Dang, that sucks man. I hope it was awesome besides that. When I dove the conditions were great. Surface was calm and vis was 100ft+.
I was on a trip in Hawaii that was going from Oahu to Molokai and it was so bad we have turn around. There were people crying and throwing up. Looking back, it was pretty funny, but at the time it was pretty stressful.
Nice researched topic.
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My grandfather served aboard both the USS independence & USS Saratoga aircraft carriers he was a SK
A store keeper
But he never served in Vietnam 🇻🇳
& the USS kitty hawk was my favorite aircraft carrier of all times
Shalom dove 🕊️ of ☮️
USS America was used for target practice for almost four weeks.
Holy shit.
She was eventually scuttled in order to sink!
She must've been really well built.
Sucks that the carrier that's the most deserving of being saved (imo) was scrapped
Which one is that?
@@NotWhatYouThink the USS Enterprise (CV6)
I like my brain think that decommissioned aircraft carrier would scrapped and turn into one MEGACARRIER
my favorite is the USS Midway it is favorite because it was first to have an angled flight deck in US Navy it was also the first to have catapualt launching system and it also carried ...no it didnt carry F 14 for sure but F 18 C Legacy Hornets are not a small deal
I often felt older carriers could be used for humanitarian purposes.
Rip USS Kitty Hawk. I remember seeing it in Japan.
I am so happy for saying india aircraft career
Another fate that can befall a ship (though I don't know if any carriers were sold) is being sold to another navy to continue service. The most famous example of this is the USS Phoenix, which after surviving Pearl Harbor and WWII, she was sold to Argentina under the name ARA General Belgrado, which was lost during the Falklands War
plenty of Carriers have been sold to other countries, The Argentine Navy bought the Karel Doorman from the Netherlands and called her Veinticinco de Mayo and also used her in the Falklands war. Ironically, she was originally HMS Venerable and originally served in the Royal Navy. Ex-British carriers also served in the Canadian, Australian, Indian, Brazilian & french fleets. Former US Navy aircraft carriers have served with the British, French and Spanish Fleets. One Soviet Carrier was inherited by Russia and sold to India. Another Soviet carrier was under construction in Ukraine and it was sold to China who completed it.
Know the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi. The pictures look nice but there's literal spots where the hull is rusted straight through. It needs a proper restoration.
Can you do a video on Amphibious Assault Ships? I think that'd would be really interesting.
I like the idea of them being used for either fish habitats or museums
Is it possible for a multi-billion dollar corporation to re-commission a retired aircraft carrier to a hotel? Or is it just too expensive compared to a cruise ship.
i've never liked the idea of cruises but i'd definitely pay up if it was on an aircraft carrier
Cruise ship are built to go slow, carriers are built to go fast.
Well, Elon Musk's SpaceX purchased two decommissioned ENSCO 8500 series deepwater oil rigs to be repurposed as sea launch bases for Starship. Maybe he'll add a carrier for the lulz sometime.
@@Martinit0 Unless the carrier can withstand having a gigantic rocket plast off it's deck, there's no way it'll happen that easily, though still possible in some scenarios
You wouldn't want to
These videos are interesting, you should take a tour on a nuclear submarine or aircraft carrier, when I did it was super cool!
4:18 Thanks for mentioning Indian legend "The INS Vikrant" served country during 1971 indo pak war resulting Pakistan surrenders with 93,000 soldiers, it is till today largest after WW2 and eventually creating a brand new nation Bangladesh, The Vikrant is actually re-incarnates in 2022 but this time "Made in India".
And please make more video about Indian military and specially about new INS Vikrant 🇮🇳
Love from India, watching you since long time ❤️
Helped create a nation don't forget the MILLIONS of Bangladeshis that died for their Independence
Usa ,etc were working against Bharat.
@@stanielsoncoochiesmellehsm6114 and millions more would have died if India didn't intervene or the US/UK were allowed to help Pakistan out.
Went on the yorktown museum once, the second deck has nearly as much space as the top deck, although below that feels like a submarine lol
Note: CV-10
Just watched the evolution of aircraft carriers
Traditionally, aircraft carriers have some way to carry aircraft - not just a landing-pad. By the Baylander definition, the average frigate's a super-carrier.
I had a model of the Intrepid
I served on the Forrestal CVA-59
Tampa chose a merchant vessel over the Forrestal they said their Bay was too shallow. Right hmm? It was unceremoniously hauled off to a scrapyard.
You changed the thumbnail and name 99 times but the video was amusing
Actually there was small armed riverboats , like those apocalypse now, that were fitted with a helicopter pad so technically that was smallest aircraft carrier.
My response to the thumbnail is fired into space
an other nice example would be ITS Garibaldi Which, after serving as the first Italian aircraft carrier will be launching satellites into space near the equator
Iv been on a aircraft carrier and my hat almost fell off the ship bc of the wind lol
Owner of the Baylander: "So I own an aircraft carrier and turned it into a restaurant."
People: "Awesome!"
Owner: "Would you like to get on the ship?"
People:"Yea!"
The moment of pure disappointment when they see the Baylander.
I don't know, it's kinda cute.
@@rakisuzuki-burke4148 yea, to some it'll be cute
@@erwinserrano7023 sorry. Can you edit it? It didn't make sense at all.
06:42 besides all the radioactive material there’s also lot of oil to enrich the environment
ive been to uss midway!!!
Surprised I'm this early
The Amount of carrier the US has Built is mind boggling
The amount Carries the USA has built and decommissioned. The USA could give each NATIO Member Country. Two each for themselves. And still have enough left overs to sink.
pog
exactly not what you think
Tacos and fries??? I´d rather end up "mothballed" like some of the carriers, than having that combination. :D
Where is the Bay lander museum?
The USS New Orleans was sunk in SinkEx 2010.
Meanwhile the fish underneat what have i done to you..??
I was near midway
minute 6:30, a Russian Kinzahl as antiship funktion with real warhead
„It’s not what you think“
It is tho
In the recreation section, you omit the ex-Soviet Carriers, Kiev & Minsk who were sold by the Russians to China and they have been used as hotels & theme parks.
Lovely video - is there a chance that you willsubtitle for older video? Cant really enjoy them without as a deaf, and autogenerated is weird
When a american suddenly said “ay let name this ship Bismarck’s sea cus why not?”
2:50 "The useful life of an aircraft carrier is a few decades."
Well, no. I was on the USS Midway. It entered service in 1945 and was decommissioned in 1993. The USS Nimitz entered service in 1975 and is still in service, It's likely to remain in the fleet until 2025, maybe longer.
Depends on your interpretation of "a few".
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The carrier in the thumbnail is the now reefed uss oriskany
Do private companies sponsor air craft carriers? Or is a different kind of sponsor? Great vid!
It’s called a “ship sponsor”. Checkout the Wikipedia page about it.
And thanks!
Imagine getting keel hauled on an Aircraft carrier