"RN carriers korean war?" Topic
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| desert war | 04 Jun 2013 1:35 p.m. PST |
The Royal Navy aircraft carriers made a big contribution to the UN effort in Korea, but why didn't they deploy jets on their carriers? They had sea vampires and seahawks. |
martin goddard  | 04 Jun 2013 1:43 p.m. PST |
Possibly because the support carriers like Unicorn were too small to launch jets? Martin |
79thPA  | 04 Jun 2013 2:12 p.m. PST |
It would also depend on their role. I don't know anything about their service but prop planes were still flying close support missions. Having them doesn't mean you have to deploy them. |
 Doms Decals | 04 Jun 2013 2:36 p.m. PST |
Bit of both – the carriers used in Korea were all light fleet carriers (Triumph, Glory, Theseus and Ocean, plus HMAS Sydney – the support carrier Unicorn was actually slightly heavier than the operational carriers.) They were really on the small side for jet operations (doable, but not desirable….) and their ground support tasking made it pretty academic – jets would've taken up more deck space for less useful load, and even air to air, the Vampire wasn't a great improvement on the prop stuff anyway – the FAA was still at the stage where its jets weren't up to much, having persevered for a couple of years too long with milking the last ounce of performance from piston engined types. |
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