@@williamdrijver4141 Those 100 jet fighters aren't gonna deploy, transport, rearm and refuel themselves halfway around the world. There's something called power projection that superpowers like the US need. Aircraft alone don't do that.
Norwegian Air force: 30 F35A 5 P8 poseidon 4 C130J Super Hercules 16 Augusta AW101 + trainers (including 10 F35A) No nuclear reactors in the country 3,650 personnel, after mobilisation Norwegian Air Force could have 5,500 personnel Gerald R. Ford 24-36 F35C or F18 Super Hornets 4-6 EA-18G 4-6 E-2C or D Hawkeyes 6-8 SH-60F/H 2 MV-22 Ospreya or C2 Greyhounds 2 Nuclear reactors 4500 personnel
The fact that the US has a military like we have is why Norway and other NATO nations can get by having almost no military. Also, it’s really easy for those governments to pay for all their peoples’ healthcare when they don’t have to provide much for their own national defense.
When the Ford carrier strike group deployed to the Mediterranean in October 2023, she was accompanied by over 500 VLS missile tubes (vertical launch system)! Ford had an escort of four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and one Ticonderoga-class cruiser. Each also has various other cannons, torpedoes, etc… Even without the fighter-bombers, the 500+ missile tubes alone bring incredible destructive power.
Best part is the carrier itself is 2 nuclear power plants, which just displays the reliability of nuclear power without always having to be a destructive weapon
It's cute you think there's no nuclear capability from the carrier. There are nuclear bombs explicitly designed to be launched from carrier aircraft silly boy.
🇺🇲 As a Norwegian-American, this makes me feel such deep and cheerful contentment. I'm a proud American and I'll go to bat for the Old country. Skål from this Topper 🇧🇻
I sailed that stretch on 12th september. It seems I was 3½ weeks late. It would have been awesome to witness this massive carrier passing by. B.t.w. wasn't it this particular carrier (or: its supply vessel) that Somali pirates tried to attack a few years ago? I wonder how much khat they'd been chewing to come up with that brilliant idea?
@@ADM-wt9cn 2:59 Here? The Norwegian flag. The American (owner) flag would be the upper-most. It is further aloft, out of view. 1:59 - Here you see the American flag, some meters above the Norwegian flag.
To the people watching on land or the boats in the water..i speak from experience,you have no idea how good it makes the crew on board feel to see you there watching .This ship is about to become the most lethal war machine on earth and its crew will go non stop until the job is done.Thank you
Seeing this, 1 of our newest Aircraft Carriers makes me glad to have served on the USS Midway, in Yokosuka, Japan when I did ! thank you. From RDRT. bye, bye.
You'll notice the tug is being towed stern first. If the Ford had to stop unexpectedly in those narrow waters, an extra 25,000 horsepower pulling in the opposite direction could be the difference between a close call and an embarrassing oops.
Great story of Norwegian resistance to the German attack in WW2. War had not been declared, Hitler despatched one of the most modern battle cruisers of the German navy, the Blucher, with about 1,000 troops on board to seize Oslo. Arriving at night the Blucher had failed to respond to a challenge from a guard boat and then came to Oscarborg. The fortress was manned by an elderly officer, two regular sergeants and a couple of dozen conscripts with a few weeks service. The casemates shown early in this video fired. They were from early 1900's but large calibre, at point blank range, they did serious damage, causing major fire on board the Blucher, which carried on. When this video first shows the aircraft carrier, there is a block house on the shore line which was a static torpedo battery, containing WW1 vintage Whitworth torpedoes. These fired, scoring 2 hits and the Blucher sunk with great loss of life. The Gerald Ford probably sailed right over the wreck, I wander if the crew knew anything about what was below them?
Slight correction. Blucher was a *heavy* cruiser, not a battlecruiser. It's an entire weight class difference as historically, the German iteration of the battlecruiser concept was speed and armor at the cost of firepower and were essentially designed to be capable of taking hits, especially against the caliber of the guns the fortress had, and capable of functioning as secondary battleships as opposed to the more glass cannon approach the British had.
I don't know if cool is the right word, but thank you for this history lesson. It is far better to read about history than to live it. Here's to hoping our kids get to read about history. A lot more than they and we have had to live it. ❤🎉
I find it hard to believe that they didn’t need to fish out the Blucher in order for other large ships to cross that canal. I mean how frigging deep is that darn river? I’ll have to look into this
I am a Canadian, living right on the border across from Detroit, Michigan. I've talked to a U.S. serviceman who is a friend of my family and he's often said he loves Scandinavia. The people are so friendly and he says it's probably the most beautiful part of the world that he's ever seen. It is an awesome sight to see the Norwegian vessel escorting the U.S.'s newest carrier. It makes me so proud to be a citizen of a NATO country!
I can only imagine the tension that whole bridge team must be feeling trying to navigate those waters! Must’ve had to be the coolest of cucumbers in there!
@@Horible4 It’s not the mapping of the waterways that I was thinking about, but rather the fact that such a large vessel is going through them. The estuaries and channels of Chesapeake Bay have been thoroughly mapped for centuries, especially since it’s such a high traffic area. Even so, I still feel some concern when even my little destroyer goes a-steaming through those waters! And destroyers are much more maneuverable than carriers! There’s just so much to consider when driving ships: maneuverability, momentum, traffic density, etc. All of these considerations magnify in significance when in what we in the Navy and wider seafaring world call “restricted waters.” Now you have to make sure your position on your charts matches your actual position in the waterway, now you have to pay attention to the depth of water, now you have weird physical phenomena like squat and bank cushion to worry about, now you have to make sure that other watercraft around you don’t act dumb (ferries and pleasure craft are particularly notorious). My point is that no matter how well-mapped and well-traveled it may be, a narrow waterway is a narrow waterway. And if we destroyermen need to be on our A-games, knowing precisely when/where/how much we must turn and how fast we can safely go, when navigating narrow waterways in our naval equivalent to a high-performance sports car, then carrier drivers, having the equivalent of a semi-truck pulling an oversized load to contend with, must be on their A+ game!
@@joshschneider9766 sure, we do too. Does that mean they’re not trying to stay focused and collected during this transit? No. I’ve been underway several times at this point, and I’ve done a fair share of simulator time. Being on the bridge of a larger vessel isn’t as easy as most would think.
Goodness, how beautiful Norway is! To see that powerful vessel sailing through is really an amazing sight. I'm glad the Americans are so strong, because maybe the world would be controlled by the Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un's if not! Thanks for sharing!
Some Europeans like to criticize how much work hours we put in and not enough 'holiday' time off. While there are many things our leaders waste money on, we know our taxes pay for these defenses of not only us, but our allies. Like I said, theres no shortage of bad decision making here. I have a son serving on a carrier presently.
Norway is simply full of sights more beaitiful than this one. One has only to board a Hurtigruten ship and go along Norwegian coast. Paradise of Nature!! 👍
I am not a war promoter but must say the fear of conflict brings some awesome inventions. This behemoth is so so so massive, it’s not easy to comprehend how big it is just by looking in a video. Just look how small the planes look. Gorgeous beast.
As a USN vet having served in CGN in the late 80s....it wasn't obvious to me how large a CVN was until my ship came along side one at sea. Massive and striking and the amount of crew on board is amazing. Really is a city on the water.
As a former CV-67 sailor (ABE), it one big puzzle each day depending what planes are up and which ones are down for routine maintenance. And don't let the aircraft elevator fail or it really gets messy.
@@boats1980sf What do you do if the elevator fails? Genuinely curious what "really messy" means. Also how long does it take to put an entire deck of aircraft into storage, say if a storm is about to hit or something.
I love the subliminal context of having that many aircraft on deck at the same time; it's basically "showing" off for our friends and allies, but most importantly, trolling the Russians.
They were doing check-ups and inspection, some of these were ready for action too if you paid attention to what the crew were doing on the deck and what color their vests were They werent trolling the Russians, they were literally on yellow alert because Norway is fairly close to Russia and the surrounding waters are a potential danger which is why you only saw a bunch of crew and officers on the deck instead of the full ship crew on ceremonial salute duty The AA missile launchers and Phalanx were also not being serviced which means they were already inspected and ready for action The pilots who's planes were ready were probably chilling inside the island and waiting for any Ruskie plane or boats foolish enough to show up
And there's no such thing as yellow alert in real life. That's star trek. In real world semaphore flag code a yellow flag indicates heat stress levels the crew needs to consider.
The hangar deck is not for aircraft storage and unless the Ford is completely different then the carrier I was on, you can't fit the entire airwing in the hangar bays. With that being said what you see on the flight deck is only a portion of the airwing. I'm sure the hangar deck must be at least 50% capacity. Its never empty when the entire compliment of the airwing is onboard.
@@xGoodOldSmurfehxif you know what colors on vests mean, you should also know what minimum runway means... bro they aint launching shit off that deck right now. that's a flex configuration.
More air power than a lot of countries entire air forces. The US has 10 more of these "supercarriers", as well as 9 smaller flat-decked amphibious assault ships that might as well be called aircraft carriers anyway, because they launch and carry helicopters and Ospreys.
@@Gnomezonbacon Which are not nearly as capable as F35C variants... or the numerous other platforms a catapult system can launch like AWACs and refueling planes.
Yep and these CVNs can go pretty fast when they want to....I'm a USN vet. The advertised speed is 30 knots but nuclear powered vessel like the Ford can go faster if needed.
Video reminds me of scene from Close Encounters where you see large flying saucer and you say “Gee thats a pretty big ship, till the mothership comes after and you say, ‘Holy S-t’”.
Norway is super beautiful. Such an amazing country. Having the largest floating airfield in the world to sail across your town like that just further adds to that beauty.
@@typehyuga607 No (Tirpitz was way up in northern Norway). The wreck here is German heavy cruiser "Blücher" which was sunk by Oscarborg coastal fortress, about 2 kms to the north. Crew of 1,340, many died. It happened on 9th april 1940 on the first day of the invasion.
Wasn't this the very carrier (or rather, a supply vessel from its carrier group) that Somali pirates attacked a few years ago? I wonder how much *khat* they'd been chewing to come up with that brilliant idea. 🤪 The carrier immediately launched 6 sorties at the pirates' mother vessel, creating a new reef at the bottom of the sea.
I'd be out there watchign that too! I mean, I live in Seattle, and we have carriers sitting around and carriers in and out regularly and I still go down EVERY time to go watch em' go by. It's just amazing these floating airfields!!!
They literally saw floating in front of them with the firepower to level any country at a moments notice. Imagine seeing that thing pull up to your country and just knowing that it can start a full scale invasion immediately.
I lived in Bremerton and have watched various super carriers come and go over the years and it's still crazy how big they are when you get close like that.
I envisioned the Somali pirates when they attacked the carrier group with Kalashnikovs. What a brilliant idea - when one's been chewing a ton of khat. 🤪
Absolutely beautiful view there in Norway. Wonderful! I would have loved to be in a personal boat on the other side of the ships. I have worked with people in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland. We in a way are brothers and all contribute where and how we can -- how our societies should interact. From USA.
I saw HMS Queen Elizabeth on her way out to sea trials a few years ago leaving Southhampton. She was fucking huge. Can't even imagine how much bigger the Ford class would look.
The UK is no longer a naval power. Her navy used to be the most powerful in the world...now she has less than 70 ships total when she used to command thousands of the best and most famous vessels ever put to sea. She is the weakest she has ever been in her modern history. Pitiful state of what was once the mighty royal navy.
Her screws are also a bit farther underwater lol. Hull speed is also a pretty fascinating phenomena relating to a ship's wake generation (and subsequent drag) vs her length. Part of why such massive ships can make 30+ knots!
@@Werepie she’s so big I’d expect her to throw some waves off horizontally 🤷♂️ People jump the wake of great lakes freighters on jet skis up by my house. She’s probably designed better though.
My hope is that our sailors (US) are humble and kind to the people of Norway...and that we emphasize that we are united in our efforts to protect the interests of the West and to influence good in all the world. Go NATO!!!
All U.S. Uniformed Personnel on duty as a guest in a foreign Nation is expected to bring credit to His/Her Service, His unit, and His Country. Misconduct and disrespect is not tolerated. Failure to maintain these standards or bring discredit is punished to the fullest extent of The Uniformed Code of Military Justice.
@@philiphawkins6664 There have been times where US service members have committed crimes in a foreign country and managed to get away from it, even the US military authorities didn't really do anything. Those that were court martialed were simply acquitted.
i live in that town, drøbak. i was there that day. i was standing somewhere behind the camera man a bit higher up. i also saw Gerald arrive towards Oslo a few days earlier. this video is of it leaving
@@theblackbear211 ah, yeah. Sorry. Kinda used to people being assholes just because it’s an American vessel. Also a fellow I know from Norway has mentioned multiple times that the Fjords are not lightly guarded, so honestly there probably is quite a bit that could be done to any vessel that sailed those waters if Norway was getting antsy.
@@OneBiasedOpinion Also, (if you aren't already aware) the Oscarsborg Fortress (defending the Oslofjord) famously sank the German heavy cruiser "Blücher" which was leading a German invasion fleet - arriving at night and blacked out - thus buying time for the King and the Parliament to evacuate the capital and avoid capture during WW2.
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Un semplice missile russo o cinese, e poi ne parleremo se ancora sta a gala.😂
Why?
Flag is cheaper than bullet plus slute any flag is better than dug the bullet from fanatics
My life's salary to run that boat for a day, lol...
It is not only comically massive in size but also in capability. By itself, it represents a force larger than most countries entire air-force.
My country has 16 F-5 Tigers(one crashed so 15 now) and a couple of C-130 lmfao
@@SHVRWKbetter than nothing right.
Massive in cost: for the price of the ship alone a country could buy >100 5th gen jet fighters. And a few dozen helicopters 🙂
@@williamdrijver4141 Those 100 jet fighters aren't gonna deploy, transport, rearm and refuel themselves halfway around the world. There's something called power projection that superpowers like the US need. Aircraft alone don't do that.
The largest air force in the world is the US air force.
The 2nd largest is the US navy.
Norwegian Air force:
30 F35A
5 P8 poseidon
4 C130J Super Hercules
16 Augusta AW101
+ trainers (including 10 F35A)
No nuclear reactors in the country
3,650 personnel, after mobilisation Norwegian Air Force could have 5,500 personnel
Gerald R. Ford
24-36 F35C or F18 Super Hornets
4-6 EA-18G
4-6 E-2C or D Hawkeyes
6-8 SH-60F/H
2 MV-22 Ospreya or C2 Greyhounds
2 Nuclear reactors
4500 personnel
The fact that the US has a military like we have is why Norway and other NATO nations can get by having almost no military. Also, it’s really easy for those governments to pay for all their peoples’ healthcare when they don’t have to provide much for their own national defense.
@@americandissident9062 be careful your IQ is too high for the internet
Plus in a combat scenario there will be a fleet of destroyers and at least 1 submarine backing up the Ford carrier.
The Ford's catapult is clapped, it can't launch F-35s
When the Ford carrier strike group deployed to the Mediterranean in October 2023, she was accompanied by over 500 VLS missile tubes (vertical launch system)! Ford had an escort of four Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and one Ticonderoga-class cruiser. Each also has various other cannons, torpedoes, etc… Even without the fighter-bombers, the 500+ missile tubes alone bring incredible destructive power.
If you disregard nuclear weapons, the carrier battle group is the single largest military flex in the world
Best part is the carrier itself is 2 nuclear power plants, which just displays the reliability of nuclear power without always having to be a destructive weapon
@@normandy3065
So when you think about it, the Carrier basically is a “nuclear weapon.” It just does its damage over time.
@@drksideofthewal what damage are you referring to?
@@normandy3065
The carrier air group. I’m implying they could unleash similar destruction to a nuke, it would just take longer.
It's cute you think there's no nuclear capability from the carrier. There are nuclear bombs explicitly designed to be launched from carrier aircraft silly boy.
Imagine going back in time and grabbing someone from the 1700s sailing age and show them this, it'll be like seeing a literal spaceship today
I was expecting a bumper sticker on back saying 'We Brake for Nobody'!
I was expecting a sign on the side that said “We are friendlies. Please don’t shoot.”
Americans! Well, there goes the planet.
Hah! Totally forgot about that Spaceballs quote and so true!@@crispinjulius5032
@@crispinjulius5032 Better us than the Russians.
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🇺🇲 As a Norwegian-American, this makes me feel such deep and cheerful contentment. I'm a proud American and I'll go to bat for the Old country. Skål from this Topper 🇧🇻
I only recently found out that I've got some Norwegian DNA. (Also some surprise Swedish, Danish, Baltic) mixed in with the German/Frisian.
@@KillerRabbit1975 my Mom did our genealogy and we knew for a long time but it's good to get confirmation from the DNA test
Americans are so obsessed with genealogy its comical
Do you have many blonde people in your family?
@@alvarotorres9057 I am blonde haired in summer and dark haired in the winter
Seeing sailors and planes on the deck really puts into perspective how massive the Ford is.
It's actually smaller than I thought, looks pretty tiny
All designed to KILL people
When you're out enjoying nature and a city floats by.
That must be an incredible sight to see a US Navy aircraft carrier sailing down the Oslofjord.
I sailed that stretch on 12th september. It seems I was 3½ weeks late. It would have been awesome to witness this massive carrier passing by.
B.t.w. wasn't it this particular carrier (or: its supply vessel) that Somali pirates tried to attack a few years ago? I wonder how much khat they'd been chewing to come up with that brilliant idea?
Where is the american flag? Or was this sold to Norway?
@@ADM-wt9cn 2:59 Here? The Norwegian flag. The American (owner) flag would be the upper-most. It is further aloft, out of view. 1:59 - Here you see the American flag, some meters above the Norwegian flag.
Thank you good citizens of 🇳🇴 Norway
Would be interesting to hear what the response was of citizens of Norway.
That’s one very beautiful Hornet’s nest!
To the people watching on land or the boats in the water..i speak from experience,you have no idea how good it makes the crew on board feel to see you there watching .This ship is about to become the most lethal war machine on earth and its crew will go non stop until the job is done.Thank you
Thank you for your service!
@@billyjoe3309 your very welcome .
The most lethal (by far) war machines on earth are known as Akula, Ohio, Vanguard, and Triomphant.
@@saladbreath607 the most dangerous are the ones you cant see ..The subs in a carriers fleet are the ones that can change life on earth
The ship at the start is the Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate _Roald Amundsen,_ by the way.
She's a handsome warship.
Seeing this, 1 of our newest Aircraft Carriers makes me glad to have served on the USS Midway, in Yokosuka, Japan when I did ! thank you. From RDRT. bye, bye.
I served on the USS Kirk FF 1087 in Yokosuka 78-80.
@@stevepovkov9259 we may have had a beer together I was on building 19. Com7th fleet.
I served on Midway, OZ Div.
Thank you sir for your service. I am also a Navy veteran who served on the USS INCHON NORTH ATLANTIC 6TH FLEET...
Go Navy...
I have toured your ship! 2013 San Diego
I love how the carrier was TOWING a tugboat behind it like a trailer 😂
Or a recalcitrant child.
@@mkvv5687 LOL! That too! 🤣😂
It's usually the other way around in Russia 🤣🤣
@@nathanielalaburgDelhi True, true. Er, sorry...pravda, pravda.
You'll notice the tug is being towed stern first. If the Ford had to stop unexpectedly in those narrow waters, an extra 25,000 horsepower pulling in the opposite direction could be the difference between a close call and an embarrassing oops.
Great story of Norwegian resistance to the German attack in WW2. War had not been declared, Hitler despatched one of the most modern battle cruisers of the German navy, the Blucher, with about 1,000 troops on board to seize Oslo. Arriving at night the Blucher had failed to respond to a challenge from a guard boat and then came to Oscarborg. The fortress was manned by an elderly officer, two regular sergeants and a couple of dozen conscripts with a few weeks service. The casemates shown early in this video fired. They were from early 1900's but large calibre, at point blank range, they did serious damage, causing major fire on board the Blucher, which carried on.
When this video first shows the aircraft carrier, there is a block house on the shore line which was a static torpedo battery, containing WW1 vintage Whitworth torpedoes. These fired, scoring 2 hits and the Blucher sunk with great loss of life.
The Gerald Ford probably sailed right over the wreck, I wander if the crew knew anything about what was below them?
Slight correction. Blucher was a *heavy* cruiser, not a battlecruiser. It's an entire weight class difference as historically, the German iteration of the battlecruiser concept was speed and armor at the cost of firepower and were essentially designed to be capable of taking hits, especially against the caliber of the guns the fortress had, and capable of functioning as secondary battleships as opposed to the more glass cannon approach the British had.
I had that story and was wondering if this was the same one . Thanks for the confirmation .
Thanks for that history,I love learning history I did not know.
I don't know if cool is the right word, but thank you for this history lesson. It is far better to read about history than to live it. Here's to hoping our kids get to read about history. A lot more than they and we have had to live it. ❤🎉
I find it hard to believe that they didn’t need to fish out the Blucher in order for other large ships to cross that canal. I mean how frigging deep is that darn river? I’ll have to look into this
I am a Canadian, living right on the border across from Detroit, Michigan. I've talked to a U.S. serviceman who is a friend of my family and he's often said he loves Scandinavia. The people are so friendly and he says it's probably the most beautiful part of the world that he's ever seen. It is an awesome sight to see the Norwegian vessel escorting the U.S.'s newest carrier. It makes me so proud to be a citizen of a NATO country!
F-311 was a fine looking ship
no disrespect only my opinion fcuk NATO it's become top heavy and full of bureaucracy waste of my US tax dollars to foot other countries
I'm in Windsor also.
I live in Ann Arbor, MI. Not too far from Detroit. I’m a veteran but never got to see much of the world like the Navy does. Just straight into combat.
I thank you for your service neighbor! @@publicuser2534
With such a wide and lengthy ship, one guy has his phone in portrait mode.
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I can only imagine the tension that whole bridge team must be feeling trying to navigate those waters! Must’ve had to be the coolest of cucumbers in there!
The river has probably been thoroughly mapped out for decades given the amount of traffic through there. I doubt there was much concern.
@@Horible4 It’s not the mapping of the waterways that I was thinking about, but rather the fact that such a large vessel is going through them.
The estuaries and channels of Chesapeake Bay have been thoroughly mapped for centuries, especially since it’s such a high traffic area. Even so, I still feel some concern when even my little destroyer goes a-steaming through those waters! And destroyers are much more maneuverable than carriers! There’s just so much to consider when driving ships: maneuverability, momentum, traffic density, etc. All of these considerations magnify in significance when in what we in the Navy and wider seafaring world call “restricted waters.” Now you have to make sure your position on your charts matches your actual position in the waterway, now you have to pay attention to the depth of water, now you have weird physical phenomena like squat and bank cushion to worry about, now you have to make sure that other watercraft around you don’t act dumb (ferries and pleasure craft are particularly notorious).
My point is that no matter how well-mapped and well-traveled it may be, a narrow waterway is a narrow waterway. And if we destroyermen need to be on our A-games, knowing precisely when/where/how much we must turn and how fast we can safely go, when navigating narrow waterways in our naval equivalent to a high-performance sports car, then carrier drivers, having the equivalent of a semi-truck pulling an oversized load to contend with, must be on their A+ game!
None at all. They routinely practice shallow water navigation. Like weekly lol
@@joshschneider9766 sure, we do too. Does that mean they’re not trying to stay focused and collected during this transit? No.
I’ve been underway several times at this point, and I’ve done a fair share of simulator time. Being on the bridge of a larger vessel isn’t as easy as most would think.
Those fjords are far from shallow. A lot of them are thousands of feet deep. The fjords in Norway are amazing and their country is beautiful.
Goodness, how beautiful Norway is! To see that powerful vessel sailing through is really an amazing sight. I'm glad the Americans are so strong, because maybe the world would be controlled by the Putin, Xi, Kim Jong Un's if not! Thanks for sharing!
Some Europeans like to criticize how much work hours we put in and not enough 'holiday' time off. While there are many things our leaders waste money on, we know our taxes pay for these defenses of not only us, but our allies. Like I said, theres no shortage of bad decision making here. I have a son serving on a carrier presently.
You said it...refreshing that some actually realise that..
Norway is simply full of sights more beaitiful than this one. One has only to board a Hurtigruten ship and go along Norwegian coast. Paradise of Nature!! 👍
This comment made me puke. But yeah, Norway is beautiful i agree.
The world is already controlled by Israel and China.
I am not a war promoter but must say the fear of conflict brings some awesome inventions. This behemoth is so so so massive, it’s not easy to comprehend how big it is just by looking in a video. Just look how small the planes look. Gorgeous beast.
As a USN vet having served in CGN in the late 80s....it wasn't obvious to me how large a CVN was until my ship came along side one at sea. Massive and striking and the amount of crew on board is amazing. Really is a city on the water.
and many container ships are larger............@@rickbase833
Fun Fact: It's the only Ford that can make it past 100,000 miles without breaking down
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Facts are never fun
GM made the reactors...
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so it is the only one that can go more than 4 times across the planet?? wow such a weak boat..
OMG that aircraft carrier is one massive warship! Must’ve been one big sight for the natives to see.
Lying below is the german cruiser Blucher, sunk by ten fortress, ww2
I was in the airforce. We had huge maintenance hangars suitable for 4 maybe 5 planes. It always amazes how these 80 or so planes fit under deck.
As a former CV-67 sailor (ABE), it one big puzzle each day depending what planes are up and which ones are down for routine maintenance. And don't let the aircraft elevator fail or it really gets messy.
That’s so crazy that they can go under deck. No way!
Ingressive machine and crew
@@boats1980sf What do you do if the elevator fails? Genuinely curious what "really messy" means. Also how long does it take to put an entire deck of aircraft into storage, say if a storm is about to hit or something.
@@sam23696They don't. There are always aircraft on deck. They get chained down in heavy seas.
"you're gonna need a bigger boat"
"here, will this do?"
That escort ship was the equivalent of Mike Tyson's bodyguard.
I love the subliminal context of having that many aircraft on deck at the same time; it's basically "showing" off for our friends and allies, but most importantly, trolling the Russians.
They were doing check-ups and inspection, some of these were ready for action too if you paid attention to what the crew were doing on the deck and what color their vests were
They werent trolling the Russians, they were literally on yellow alert because Norway is fairly close to Russia and the surrounding waters are a potential danger which is why you only saw a bunch of crew and officers on the deck instead of the full ship crew on ceremonial salute duty
The AA missile launchers and Phalanx were also not being serviced which means they were already inspected and ready for action
The pilots who's planes were ready were probably chilling inside the island and waiting for any Ruskie plane or boats foolish enough to show up
It's definitely propaganda but also as the above guy stated a chance to clear the lower decks for maintenance and inspection of the spaces.
And there's no such thing as yellow alert in real life. That's star trek. In real world semaphore flag code a yellow flag indicates heat stress levels the crew needs to consider.
The hangar deck is not for aircraft storage and unless the Ford is completely different then the carrier I was on, you can't fit the entire airwing in the hangar bays. With that being said what you see on the flight deck is only a portion of the airwing. I'm sure the hangar deck must be at least 50% capacity. Its never empty when the entire compliment of the airwing is onboard.
@@xGoodOldSmurfehxif you know what colors on vests mean, you should also know what minimum runway means...
bro they aint launching shit off that deck right now. that's a flex configuration.
More air power than a lot of countries entire air forces. The US has 10 more of these "supercarriers", as well as 9 smaller flat-decked amphibious assault ships that might as well be called aircraft carriers anyway, because they launch and carry helicopters and Ospreys.
Also F35Bs now
@@Gnomezonbacon Which are not nearly as capable as F35C variants... or the numerous other platforms a catapult system can launch like AWACs and refueling planes.
Felt like the opening to space balls. Holy shit that thing is massive
Man, I always forget how much sound those huge machines make, it's crazy.
Yep and these CVNs can go pretty fast when they want to....I'm a USN vet. The advertised speed is 30 knots but nuclear powered vessel like the Ford can go faster if needed.
God Bless our sailors and the ship's support crews 👍 😎👍
We once had the USS Lincoln along our shoreline that took everyone’s breath away. It looked powerful!
When and where was that? I was stationed on The USS Abraham Lincoln from 1996 to 1999.
I made my first visit to Norway last month. Beautiful country and lovely people. Thanks for hosting our carrier! Someone have a moose burger for me… 😂
Beautiful lethal Ship. The US Military Industrial Complex is an amazing and expensive 💰 thing.
That escort ship was clean, sleek and radiated "Make My Day, do something stupid"
Video reminds me of scene from Close Encounters where you see large flying saucer and you say “Gee thats a pretty big ship, till the mothership comes after and you say, ‘Holy S-t’”.
Hey look honey, a town just floated by.
pardon me for coming through, excuse me. Don't mind me I'm just pretty much the largest thing that floats.
*most powerful thing that floats
the largest ships in the world are cargo ships
Norway is super beautiful. Such an amazing country. Having the largest floating airfield in the world to sail across your town like that just further adds to that beauty.
Crazy when you think lying down below is a German cruiser
Imagine how the world will have changed in another 83 years
Battleship tirpitz
@@typehyuga607 No (Tirpitz was way up in northern Norway). The wreck here is German heavy cruiser "Blücher" which was sunk by Oscarborg coastal fortress, about 2 kms to the north. Crew of 1,340, many died. It happened on 9th april 1940 on the first day of the invasion.
What an absolutely gorgeous ship. God bless 🇺🇸
Man! Awesome to see such a massive ship in such a naturally beautiful & tiny area!
The people on the deck really give you a sense of scale
Sailing right past the wreck of the WWII German heavy cruiser Blücher which sank just north of Oscarsborg fortress.
Awesome display of force. No one is better!
Wasn't this the very carrier (or rather, a supply vessel from its carrier group) that Somali pirates attacked a few years ago? I wonder how much *khat* they'd been chewing to come up with that brilliant idea. 🤪 The carrier immediately launched 6 sorties at the pirates' mother vessel, creating a new reef at the bottom of the sea.
I'd be out there watchign that too!
I mean, I live in Seattle, and we have carriers sitting around and carriers in and out regularly and I still go down EVERY time to go watch em' go by. It's just amazing these floating airfields!!!
They used to have some old battleship looking boats docked down in Tacoma for a while, still blew my mind seeing ships of that size
This is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
The amount of firepower on that relatively small area of space is wild.
They literally saw floating in front of them with the firepower to level any country at a moments notice. Imagine seeing that thing pull up to your country and just knowing that it can start a full scale invasion immediately.
I was in Baltimore for sailibration in 2012 and got a close look at Norwegian destroyer. I was impressed.
No matter what your views,,that is a serious bit of kit and very impressive 👍👍
It dominates the landscape. Wow, a sight to see for our Norwegian friends
Salute to the troops, and to all who have served!!
I lived in Bremerton and have watched various super carriers come and go over the years and it's still crazy how big they are when you get close like that.
Idk why, but Imperial March instantly played in my head when the carrier slowly came into view.
I envisioned the Somali pirates when they attacked the carrier group with Kalashnikovs. What a brilliant idea - when one's been chewing a ton of khat. 🤪
That Dog at the end was like... BARK!! . Master did you see that thing.. I am glad I could scare it off for you. Treat please!
When the wide-angle lens on your camera - isn't quite wide enough.
Great footage!
Can never get used to how big that thing is ❤
wow what a sight to behold. not everyday you see an airforce base float by😳
a single aircraft carrier ship that carry air power that dwarf 80% of countries around the world who has airforce
Great video. Thank you for sharing and a hello from San Diego.
all that's missing is the star wars imperial March theme
The ultimate in luxury - We just watched billions and billions of dollars go by
Absolutely beautiful view there in Norway. Wonderful! I would have loved to be in a personal boat on the other side of the ships. I have worked with people in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland. We in a way are brothers and all contribute where and how we can -- how our societies should interact. From USA.
An utterly amazing piece of kit.
Impressive video. The grace of the surrounding and power of the ship! Modern day viking…
My, first time to see up close of this incredible 'boat' 😂, thank you for sharing this video❤❤❤
Lmao i love the speed boat zipping past the frigate. Puts its size into perspective let alone the carriers.
Peace through strength
Wowww Ford!!!
that is awesome! thank you for the great footage!
Sometimes I forget the amount of miles the US military has covered since 1991.
safe journey great sailor's.....God bless America
Thats the Big Stick.
Mighty U.S. navy personified...
That my friends. Is the biggest military flex in the history of humanity.
I saw HMS Queen Elizabeth on her way out to sea trials a few years ago leaving Southhampton. She was fucking huge. Can't even imagine how much bigger the Ford class would look.
The UK is no longer a naval power. Her navy used to be the most powerful in the world...now she has less than 70 ships total when she used to command thousands of the best and most famous vessels ever put to sea.
She is the weakest she has ever been in her modern history. Pitiful state of what was once the mighty royal navy.
Beautiful ships!
USS GERALD R FJORD.
She puts off a smaller wake than the little motorboats following her. That’s incredible
Her screws are also a bit farther underwater lol.
Hull speed is also a pretty fascinating phenomena relating to a ship's wake generation (and subsequent drag) vs her length. Part of why such massive ships can make 30+ knots!
@@Werepie she’s so big I’d expect her to throw some waves off horizontally 🤷♂️ People jump the wake of great lakes freighters on jet skis up by my house.
She’s probably designed better though.
What would the Vikings say about the long boat?
"Thats one long boat..."
"Mind you, some of those carrier bytes can be pretti nasti..."
Oscarborg Fortress was the same fortress that sunk The German Cruiser Blucher in WW2
All you need is a Viking ship chasing it for continuity
What a beautiful Ship.
The USS Gerald R Ford is now reportedly in the eastern Med. One can surmise where and why....
Don`t shoot, we`re not KMS Blucher!
Meanwhile underwater..
Blucher: Yoy, what's up!
Its hard to believe that Carrier can float. As hard to believe as planes can fly without flapping their wings. Cool video...thanks.
My hope is that our sailors (US) are humble and kind to the people of Norway...and that we emphasize that we are united in our efforts to protect the interests of the West and to influence good in all the world. Go NATO!!!
All U.S. Uniformed Personnel on duty as a guest in a foreign Nation is expected to bring credit to His/Her Service, His unit, and His Country. Misconduct and disrespect is not tolerated. Failure to maintain these standards or bring discredit is punished to the fullest extent of The Uniformed Code of Military Justice.
@@philiphawkins6664all partners must be treated like they all have carrier strike groups. Respect is universal
@@philiphawkins6664 There have been times where US service members have committed crimes in a foreign country and managed to get away from it, even the US military authorities didn't really do anything. Those that were court martialed were simply acquitted.
@@dallasyap3064cable car incident in Italy
@@ScapoloMichael that's one of them
God bless all who serve for world peace.
I'm surprised the crew isn't lining the flight deck on their Dress Blues.
With Russia in such close proximity they’re probably very alert
Power projection 😀👍🏻
oh lawd he comin
USS Gerald ford 🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙌
i live in that town, drøbak. i was there that day. i was standing somewhere behind the camera man a bit higher up. i also saw Gerald arrive towards Oslo a few days earlier. this video is of it leaving
3:16 the tug is running astern presumably with a line attached just in case.
Ah, I see freedom has made its way to Norway.
I wonder how close it came to hitting a certain wreck around there
It might well have gone right over it. The wreck sits at 75 meters, and the carrier "only" has 12 meters draft.
@@ryanhodin5014
Wow I didn't realize the sound was that deep...no wonder Norway made a great place to harbor German battleships later in the war.
Star Destroyer of the Seas. I once saw this goliath in Halifax Harbour, Canada.
At Least they had the good sense to do it in daylight and with a Norwegian escort. ;-)
Those old Whiteheads could still be working.
You say that like Norway could have done something to this ship if they tried. 🤔
@@OneBiasedOpinion All good clean fun....
@@theblackbear211 ah, yeah. Sorry. Kinda used to people being assholes just because it’s an American vessel.
Also a fellow I know from Norway has mentioned multiple times that the Fjords are not lightly guarded, so honestly there probably is quite a bit that could be done to any vessel that sailed those waters if Norway was getting antsy.
@@OneBiasedOpinion Also, (if you aren't already aware) the Oscarsborg Fortress (defending the Oslofjord) famously sank the German heavy cruiser "Blücher" which was leading a German invasion fleet - arriving at night and blacked out - thus buying time for the King and the Parliament to evacuate the capital and avoid capture during WW2.
In Norway, it's called the Gerald R. Fjord.