Any word on what spain wants to replace is carrier? How many airacraft are they looking at? 1 for 1?
The JC1 is such a spiffy looking ship and being very compatable with the F-35 would be a reasonable place to start.
With say 12 aircraft, you would be looking at around 1200t of fuel to last 14 days before resupply.
This is simular to the amount of aviation fuel carried by the USMC wasp class. (still a lot less than 8500t in a CVN). I don't know but this would appear to about doubling fuel space for the JC1 (I have heard around 700t). This is a minium, more would be better(say to 2000t, 3000t even better). Adding 4 weapon lifts.
Ideally I would allow aircraft to take off/land regardless of what state the lifts are in. So adding a 10m plug, so that the rear lift can be indesposed, but still launch aircraft. But the existing layout is workable.
Rear dock could be reduced or removed to make additional room.
I would imagine in surge conditions up to 24 F-35 could be crammed on board. However you would need sub weekly resupply to operate at this level.
These modifications would make a carrier about ~2 times more efficent at running fixed wing airops as a regular JC1.
But If you build 3 (or 2) JC1's each operating ~6 x F-35B's with a share pool of 3 for maintence. Then you have a carrier that can very effectively operate 18 aircraft (21 carried, 21 surge). You have 3 launch/recovery areas (can be located in different areas of the battlespace), room for helo ops, 2100t of aviation fuel, 6 aircraft lifts, 3 weapon lifts, way more hanger space (CVN sized combined), way more surge capability (like 36 aircraft if you could spare a resupply ship to continually refuel them as they would deplete 700t in a few days at any intense sortie rate). One ship could be customised by having extensive aircraft mainence facilities, but shared between all 3 ships.
And you would also have huge amphibious capability.
Perhaps a JC1 with the following modifications, 2 additional weapon lifts, 300t additional aviation fuel store. These combined would mean a 2 ship fleet would have:
4 aircraft lifts
2000t avation stores (~300 sorties)
6 weapon lifts
9500m2 of deck space
6600m2 of hanger space
Quiet reasonable. Fuel stores are still light (20% of a CVN), but as long as the carrier is operating with allies or not too far for a high frequency low volume decent supply line to be established. Ideally you would have 2000t of aviation fuel onboard each. Then you could increase the tempo of sorties to a reasonable level so you could operate 18 aircraft between them.
The JC1 is such a spiffy looking ship and being very compatable with the F-35 would be a reasonable place to start.
With say 12 aircraft, you would be looking at around 1200t of fuel to last 14 days before resupply.
This is simular to the amount of aviation fuel carried by the USMC wasp class. (still a lot less than 8500t in a CVN). I don't know but this would appear to about doubling fuel space for the JC1 (I have heard around 700t). This is a minium, more would be better(say to 2000t, 3000t even better). Adding 4 weapon lifts.
Ideally I would allow aircraft to take off/land regardless of what state the lifts are in. So adding a 10m plug, so that the rear lift can be indesposed, but still launch aircraft. But the existing layout is workable.
Rear dock could be reduced or removed to make additional room.
I would imagine in surge conditions up to 24 F-35 could be crammed on board. However you would need sub weekly resupply to operate at this level.
These modifications would make a carrier about ~2 times more efficent at running fixed wing airops as a regular JC1.
But If you build 3 (or 2) JC1's each operating ~6 x F-35B's with a share pool of 3 for maintence. Then you have a carrier that can very effectively operate 18 aircraft (21 carried, 21 surge). You have 3 launch/recovery areas (can be located in different areas of the battlespace), room for helo ops, 2100t of aviation fuel, 6 aircraft lifts, 3 weapon lifts, way more hanger space (CVN sized combined), way more surge capability (like 36 aircraft if you could spare a resupply ship to continually refuel them as they would deplete 700t in a few days at any intense sortie rate). One ship could be customised by having extensive aircraft mainence facilities, but shared between all 3 ships.
And you would also have huge amphibious capability.
Perhaps a JC1 with the following modifications, 2 additional weapon lifts, 300t additional aviation fuel store. These combined would mean a 2 ship fleet would have:
4 aircraft lifts
2000t avation stores (~300 sorties)
6 weapon lifts
9500m2 of deck space
6600m2 of hanger space
Quiet reasonable. Fuel stores are still light (20% of a CVN), but as long as the carrier is operating with allies or not too far for a high frequency low volume decent supply line to be established. Ideally you would have 2000t of aviation fuel onboard each. Then you could increase the tempo of sorties to a reasonable level so you could operate 18 aircraft between them.
