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MI L I TARY STRATEGY
Número 5 - 2012
realizados pelo Shipbuilding
Carrier Innovation Center em
Newport News, uma possibi
lidade avaliada teria sido a de
se remover o elevador número
um (a estibordo, perto das
catapultas de proa) e simp
lesmente torná-lo parte do
convés de voo. Os elevadores
dois e três seriam ampliados
e reforçados para suportarem
até três aeronaves cada. Isto
poderia melhorar muito a
efciência durante a operação
de aeronaves. De acordo com
o Contra-Almirante Alfred G.
Harms, então Comandante
do Carrier Group Three (citado
pela GlobalSecurity.Org):
“O elevador número umé rara-
mente utilizado. Especialmente
à noite devido a considerações
bridges, pipelines and other
ship above-deck structures.
Moreover, the basic design
of CVN-21 is diferent than
CVNX-1 in that changes were
meanwhile introduced in the
deck spacing and arran
gement to be in line with
CVNX‑2. These modifcations
are a result of the power
plant change and other
improvements introduced in
the internal spacing within
the ship which will result in
a reduction in manpower
levels. Crew reductions are
expected to be roughly eight
hundred fewer people –
other than the carrier air wing
(CAW or CAG). Based on these
design changes the Navy
and the U.S. Department of
Um Boeing EF-18G Growler
do VAQ-129 pintado em três tons
de azul e ostentando emblemas
que relembram as cores usadas
pelos bombardeiros Grumman TBF
Avenger em 1944, no ápice dos
combates navais contra o Império
Japonês no Pacífico.
A VAQ-129 Boeing EF-18G
Growler painted in a three-tone
blue camouflage and markings
recalling the very colours sported
by the shipborne Grumman TBF
torpedo-bombers in 1944 at the
height of naval combats against
the Japanese Empire in the Pacific.
© U.S. Navy
O veterano avião de guerra
eletrônica quadriplace Grumman
EA-6B Prowler está gradualmente
sendo substituído pelo mais
moderno e eficiente Boeing EF-18G
Growler (biplace) nas carrier air
wing. Derivado do bombardeiro
de ataque biplace A-6 Intruder da
era Vietnã, o Prowler tem tido uma
longa e útil carreira a serviço da
U.S. Navy e do U.S. Marine Corps.
The veteran four-seat electronic
warfare Grumman EA-6B Prowler
is now being gradually replaced
by the more modern and more
capable two-seat Boeing EF-18G
Growler in the carrier air wings.
Derived from the Vietnam era two-
place A-6 Intruder attack bomber,
the Prowler has had a very long
and useful career with the U.S.
Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps.
© U.S. Navy
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