Download or read book Future Aircraft Carrier Technology Volume 1 Overview Carrier 21 written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a letter to the Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences' Naval Studies Board, dated May 2, 1990, the Secretary of the Navy stated that the Conference Report on the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990 directed the Navy to commission an independent study of future aircraft carrier technologies. Stating further that the study should produce a technology plan for the evolution of sea bases for the most efficient and economical accommodation of tactical air power in the first half of the twenty-first century, the Secretary requested the Board to conduct a study providing: a survey of applicable technologies, an assessment of risks associated with the development of these various technologies, estimated magnitude of the costs of developing these technologies for future aircraft carriers, the likely impact of technologies on aircraft carrier design. The Secretary concluded by Stating that he envisioned that the result of this effort will be a menu of technology options that will affect future aircraft carrier designs, ' and that the final report of the requested study should be completed by June 30, 1991.
Download or read book Future Aircraft Carrier Technology Volume 1 written by National Research Council (U S ) Naval and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the cutting-edge technology and applications of aircraft carriers with this essential guide from the National Research Council. Featuring contributions from leading experts in mathematics, physics, and engineering, this book covers everything from the design and construction of modern aircraft carriers to their innovative propulsion systems, electronic warfare capabilities, and more. An essential resource for anyone interested in modern naval warfare and advanced technology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Defense Science Board Task Force on Future of the Aircraft Carrier written by United States. Defense Science Board. Task Force on Future of the Aircraft Carrier and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Task Force was tasked to address how aircraft carriers should serve the nation's defense needs in the 21st century and beyond. Specifically, they were asked to examine its applicability and potential for transformation in the future. This report makes a strong case for the Navy to aggressively pursue new sea-based air system concepts as it replaces its aging carrier fleet. In their report the Task Force states that transforming today's carrier force into the most effective, affordable sea-based air system possible is mandatory as an indispensable component of future military capabilities.
Download or read book Tomcat Rio written by Dave Baranek and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Topgun to Squadron Command You’re in the cockpit of the legendary F-14 Tomcat fighter, blazing along at twice the speed of sound seven miles above the ocean and the carrier that hurled you off its deck. You’re practicing dogfighting with “aggressors,” guys on your side flying F-16s. You’re patrolling the tense skies above Iraq, and with the push of a button you can launch the 100-mile Phoenix missile that can blow a foe to scrap before you even see him. You are an expert in fighter tactics and aircraft carrier operations, and it all leads to your command of an F-14 fighter squadron of more than three hundred people. Sounds like a week’s worth of daydreams, but it’s all real-life in the career of Dave “Bio” Baranek, and he shares it with you in the exciting, superbly crafted new book, Tomcat Rio. Dave – callsign “Bio” – pulled his readers into the exciting world of the F-14 and the Navy’s TOPGUN program with his popular books Topgun Days and Before Topgun Days. Now he’s back with the rest of the story, as he reaches the top level of expertise and proves it, not just in graded competitions but also where it counts, where you shoot at them and they shoot at you. Dave also shares the challenges he faced. A deadly foe called complacency. Learning a whole new mission late in his career. The unexpected trials that come with leading a squadron in the dynamic environment of Naval Aviation. This third volume is full of adventures, lessons, and inspiration. If you are a casual reader, you’ll turn the last page as a dedicated Tomcat fan. To make it all even more real, Tomcat Rio includes dozens of Bio’s best and most acclaimed photos. Photographer George Hall hailed one shot as “one of the best Tomcat photos ever taken.” In words and pictures, Bio immerses you in rich detail. He pipes you aboard as a member of an F-14 squadron. You share the camaraderie of Type A personalities. You plan risky missions, going toe-to-toe against America’s most volatile foes. You can almost smell the pungent jet exhaust, almost feel the gut-wrenching G’s of a dogfight, as Tomcat Rio pitches you into the thick of it as only Bio can tell it. Strap in! You’re going for one fantastic ride.
Download or read book Future Aircraft Carrier Technology written by National Research Council (U.S.). Naval Studies Board and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Science Board Task Force on Future of the Aircraft Carrier written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the final report of the DSB Task Force on Future of the Aircraft Carrier. The Task Force was tasked to address how aircraft carriers should serve the nation's defense needs in the 21st century and beyond. The task force considered the aircraft carrier's role, status, technology and environment. The report makes a strong case for the Navy to aggressively pursue new sea-based air system concepts as it replaces its aging carrier fleet. In their report the Task Force states that transforming today's carrier force into the most effective, affordable sea-based air system possible is mandatory as an indispensable component of future military capabilities.
Download or read book Future of the Aircraft Carrier written by William Howard and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Future Aircraft Carrier Options written by Bradley Martin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is an exploration of possible alternatives to potentially replace the U.S. Navy's legacy aircraft carrier force as it begins reaching expected service life. This is neither a formal analysis of alternatives nor detailed engineering study.
Download or read book Overview written by National Research Council (U.S.). Naval Studies Board and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aircraft Carriers written by Mark Beyer and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aircraft carriers are truly the fortresses of the sea! Students will get an inside-out view of these incredible floating cities, from how they are constructed to how they function as important parts of a country's defense. Students also will learn about the various aircraft that are on board and the crew that keeps aircraft carriers in ship shape!
Download or read book Aircraft Carriers and the Future written by Thomas D. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The object of the Future Aircraft Carrier Study conducted by the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) was to define design options and conceptual baselines for platforms from which sea-based tactical aircraft could operate in the first half of the twenty-first century. The study topics included roles, missions, and threat; effectiveness, investment, and management; manpower, maintenance, and supply; ship technology and design; aircraft technology and design; and surveillance and defense."--Executive summary (p. v).
Download or read book Modernizing the U S Aircraft Carrier Fleet written by John Frederic Schank and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Navy is currently designing the next generation aircraft carrier, the CVN 21. This class of carriers will use the same basic hull form as the current Nimitz class but will include a substantial redesign of the interior of the ship for improved weapons handling and stores management functions. It will also incorporate several new technologies including a new propulsion system and new aircraft launch and recovery systems. These improvements not only will increase the operational capability of the ship but also are anticipated to lower the ship's manpower requirements and maintenance costs. Under current force modernization plans, new ships of the CVN 21 class will be introduced every four or five years as the ships of the Nimitz class reach the end of their planned 50-year operational life. Under this strategy, Nimitz class carriers will be operating for over 50 more years and it will take decades to transform the aircraft carrier fleet to ships of the new class.On the basis of some preliminary calculations that appeared promising, RAND proposed to the Program Executive Office (PEO) for Aircraft Carriers an examination of a way to accelerate the transformation of the carrier force: replacing Nimitz-class carriers as they reach mid-life instead of refueling them. In this report we identify specific fleet management options for building new instead of refueling, and we evaluate their advantages and disadvantages. This report should be of interest to Navy and Office of Secretary of Defense planners examining fleet modernization options, especially those organizations addressing the costs of alternative force structure options.
Download or read book Leveraging America s Aircraft Carrier Capabilities written by John Gordon and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States seeks ways to stretch its defense dollars, pursue the Global War on Terrorism, and meet other national-security challenges, it is highly likely that policymakers will increase their reliance on aircraft carriers, using them more often and in more situations than they have in the past, especially if the vessels have the additional capabilities to respond appropriately. The current and expected use of aircraft carriers led the United States Navy in fall 2004 to commission RAND to explore new and nontraditional ways that the United States might be able to employ aircraft carriers in pursuit of traditional and emerging military and homeland defense missions. Over six months, RAND created and convened two Concept Options Groups (COGs)-small groups of experienced military and civilian experts, defense analysts, and potential users who work together to identify promising ways to employ military might in nontraditional ways-to explore possible nontraditional roles for aircraft carriers. One COG explored and identified new ways that aircraft carriers could be used in combat operations; the second COG examined ways that the vessels could be used in noncombat, homeland security missions or to help the nation recover from terrorist attacks or natural disasters in U.S. territories. Among the combat recommendations to come from the COG insights are that abilities need to be enhanced to reconfigure carrier air wings; among noncombat recommendations are that the availability of nonready carriers to respond to unforeseen crises needs to be improved. This monograph summarizes the activities, findings, and recommendations of both carrier COGs. It should be of special interest to the Navy and to uniformed and civilian decisionmakers with responsibilities related to naval and carrier operations, maritime domain awareness, or homeland security.
Download or read book Future Carrier Vs Super Carrier written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New technologies and emerging issues such as the Joint Strike Fighter and the shift to a littoral navy threaten the future of the super carrier. Since the carrier's inception, heated arguments have been waged as to the size and capabilities of future carriers. This paper explores whether the era of the super carrier--a large aircraft carrier that is superior in size, capability and status--is coming to a close by examining the United States' need for large carriers. An examination of the development of the carrier, threats, costs, emerging technology and capabilities will show that future carriers will remain large despite affordability. The carrier has evolved to support the air wing. Aircraft have provided the major source for change to the carrier. Successful development of Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft will expand the capabilities of the air wing and require new capabilities from the carrier. Conventional Takeoff and Landing (CTOL) aircraft have perpetuated the legacy of the super carrier. Integrated air wings of STOVL and CTOL aircraft will allow interoperability between Joint forces and coalition forces. Emerging technologies such as electro mechanical aircraft launching system (EMALS), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAV) will enable cost reductions in manpower and modify hull design. Measuring the total operating costs (TOC) will make estimating budgets for the new carriers more efficient and help achieve long-term goals by making it easier to remain on budget avoiding cost overruns. While other naval powers operate with smaller carriers, the U.S. is the only naval power that has the capacity and resources to operate super carriers. The capability of the carrier and its air wing are the key issues that must be addressed when discussing the next super carrier.
Download or read book Carrier 21 written by National Research Council (U.S.). Naval Studies Board and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps 2000 2035 Becoming a 21st Century Force written by Committee on Technology for Future Naval Forces and published by National Academies. This book was released on 1997-09-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After v. 1, each volume's t.p. names a different panel at the beginning of its author statement.
Download or read book Innovation in Carrier Aviation written by Thomas Hone and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a widely noted speech to the Navy League Sea-Air-Space Expo in May 2010, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates warned that “the Navy and Marine Corps must be willing to reexamine and question basic assumptions in light of evolving technologies, new threats, and budget realities.We simply cannot afford to perpetuate a status quo that heaps more and more expensive technologies onto fewer and fewer platforms—thereby risking a situation where some of our greatest capital expenditures go toward weapons and ships that could potentially become wasting assets.” Secretary Gates specifically questioned whether the Navy's commitment to a force of eleven carrier strike groups through 2040 makes sense, given the extent of the anticipated superiority of the United States over potential adversaries at sea as well as the growing threat of antiship missiles. Though later disclaiming any immediate intention to seek a reduction in the current carrier force, Gates nevertheless laid down a clear marker that all who are concerned over the future of the U.S. Navy would be well advised to take with the utmost seriousness. We may stand, then, at an important watershed in the evolution of carrier aviation, one reflecting not only the nation's current financial crisis but the changing nature of the threats to, or constraints on, American sea power, as well as—something the secretary did not mention—the advent of a new era of unmanned air and sea platforms of all types. Taken together, these developments argue for resolutely innovative thinking about the future of the nation's carrier fleet and our surface navy more generally. In Innovation in Carrier Aviation, number thirty-seven in our Newport Papers monograph series, Thomas C. Hone, Norman Friedman, and Mark D.Mandeles examine the watershed period in carrier development that occurred immediately following World War II, when design advances were made that would be crucial to the centrality in national-security policy making that carriers and naval aviation have today. In those years several major technological breakthroughs—notably the jet engine and nuclear weapons—raised large questions about the future and led to an array of innovations in the design and operational utilization of aircraft carriers. Central to this story is the collaboration between the aviation communities in the navies of the United States and Great Britain during these years, building on the intimate relationship they had developed during the war itself. Strikingly, the most important of these innovations, notably the angled flight deck and steam catapult, originated with the British, not the Americans. This study thereby also provides interesting lessons for the U.S. Navy today with respect to its commitment to maritime security cooperation in the context of its new “maritime strategy.” It is a welcome and important addition to the historiography of the Navy in the seminal years of the Cold War.
