http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/ HAZE GRAY AND UNDERWAY! Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:51:29 GMT Warchild http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5405 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5405 From military.com Navy Establishes Carrier Strike Group 1 October 02, 2009 Navy News SAN DIEGO, Ca. - The Navy formally established Carrier Strike Group (CSG) Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:09:37 GMT Richard Wakeham http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5404 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5404 AND AUSTRALIA IS PLANNING ON F-35 LIGHTNING IIs ANDCURRENTLY PURCHASING SUPER HORNETS. I HOPE OUR FLEET AIR ARM DOES RECEIVE FIGHTER TEETH AGAIN! Richard in Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:56:42 GMT Carl Mottern http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5403 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5403 AMERICA, Navy and Vet Pals   Subject: Unexpected Pleasant Conversation       I had stopped at Home Depot for a new bathroom fixture.  Had left Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:14:57 GMT ao1_pr1_7191 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5402 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5402 Big news for the RAN. I think the plan is to eventually have two LHDs for the Aussies.. Navantia (Spanish Shipyard) Lays Keel for the First LHD for Australia Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:11:45 GMT aw1cfmottern http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5401 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5401 Putting the ex VARYAG in service would be the equivalent of the US attempting to ressurect SARATOGA, and I dont mean CV-60. More like the one fetured here at Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:58:34 GMT ao1_pr1_7191 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5400 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5400 You are confused about the musuem/tourist attraction. The Chinese have another Russian CV, Minsk, used as a tourist attraction but it went bankrupt in 2006 but Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:08:56 GMT aw1cfmottern http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5399 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5399 The aircraft is P-3B, BUNO 152748, last aircraft to fly for VP-93. Inactivated and stored for public display at the Selfridge Museum since 1994. The ONLY Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:35:19 GMT bigredlancer2005 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5398 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5398 What is the BuNo of your P-3? Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:04:14 GMT Fred http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5397 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5397 I thought I remembered seeing that the Chinese made the Variag into a museum for a nautical theme park? I remember seeing thatthey mader a special cove for Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:34:55 GMT garry_777_2000 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5396 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5396 Don't discount anything; there is such a thing as "reconstruction," and yes, it would cost a lot of money, but it has been done (we did it with the Midway who Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:22:51 GMT Eric and Kathy Craft http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5395 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5395 Gerry, for China the Varyag is a one off piece of junk. I am actually amazed that they are playing with it at all. However if they are putting money into her, Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:13:30 GMT ao1_pr1_7191 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5394 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5394 Eric, what good would it do China to have a single CV used for training? Training for what.? It's is much speculated on Chinese military forums that the ship Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:06:36 GMT Eric and Kathy Craft http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5393 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5393 It looks like China is turning the old girl into an AVT. Let's face it, she's a piece of junk at this point and will never be suitable for a front line Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:42:51 GMT garry_777_2000 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5392 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5392 Gerry; from the looks of those photos, this is not a mock reconfig or some type of config into a museum, etc.; looks to me like it is undergoing some type of Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:42:07 GMT ao1_pr1_7191 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5391 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AIRCRAFT_CARRIERS_WORLDWIDE/message/5391 The PLAN(Peoples Liberation Army Navy) has had in their possession the never finished Russian Carrier Varyag since 2001. It has been in the shipyard at Dailan