Feet of Clay
What the NATO military doesn't want you to know.
They post videos online of themselves lining up aircraft loaded with half their fuel load and half their actual weapons capacity installed in the pods under their wings.
Catapults can launch large payloads, but it's very risky to try to launch an aircraft fully loaded with fuel and weapons.
They didn't tell you that.
So, the frenetic pace of launches—approximately 50 seconds on the deck for each launch—is fantastic. They have their engines already running, lined up, and go one by one to the launch ramp, engage the hook, and are launched immediately.
They didn't tell you that to be ready, they needed fourteen hours of overhauling, preparing the aircraft in the hangars before launch, and they were taxied and lined up, each one very slowly, towed by the deck tractor, which takes at least five minutes to position each aircraft. So let's do the math: there are usually ninety aircraft; Eight helicopters, four flying eyes, Hawkeyes AWACS aerial surveillance aircraft; four fighter jets adapted to refuel other aircraft in flight. I'll explain their role during the Mayan landing later; twenty to forty interceptor fighter aircraft to escort the fighter-bombers; thirty fighter jets launching bombs, anti-ship missiles, and torpedoes; and four tilt-rotor landing and vertical takeoff personnel and cargo transport aircraft.
The landing.
Called a controlled accident, the landing maneuver is an adventure during the day with sunlight, but at night, the guys are truly fantastic. Even with electronic landing aid instrumentation, they will land in little more than 200 meters at takeoff speed with the engines in afterburner at takeoff power. They must hunt the aircraft carrier at a maximum speed of 57 knots, with the runway diagonal to the ship's displacement.
The aircraft's approach occurs in circles or ellipses surrounding the aircraft carrier while its companions hurl themselves against the deck, hunting for the aircraft's five restraint cables to ensure touchdown. If it jumps all five cables, it must take off immediately and try again.
If it manages to be stopped, it slows down, brakes the aircraft, and returns to clear the runway, which takes five minutes.
Do the math: seventy fighters in flight times five minutes equals 350 minutes to collect all the fighters that were launched in 350 seconds.
They never told you that. This secret is closely guarded. The crux of American naval strategy.
That's why they need tanker aircraft to refuel those orbiting the aircraft carrier, waiting to land with relative ease; there's no guarantee it will work. It takes six hours of hellish work to retrieve all seventy aircraft that will never be launched in the same attack or defense operation. They're not idiots; they launch at most fifteen or twenty, at most.
Another foot in the sand.
Jet planes are fantastic; they fly at over two thousand kilometers per hour. That's not true. They do this for a few minutes, five at most at top speed. Flying at that speed, they don't stay in the air for more than an hour, at most; the range depends on the weight and flight speed.
It's like how in the Olympics, a marathon takes two to three hours at a jogging pace, but the hundred-meter sprint lasts nine seconds.
They didn't tell you that either.
To transport a US aircraft from Florida to Venezuela, it needs to be refueled in mid-air or make a technical landing on islands en route. That's why the US has more than 950 air bases throughout Europe and some in Africa, Japan, South Korea, Central America, and the Antilles. They dream of bases in the Southern Cone of South America.
A fighter jet poses no threat by leaving its bases in the Antilles and arriving in Brazil without refueling, which is why they have more than 500 aerial refueling tankers.
To leave the Guam base in the Pacific and bomb Iran, the B2 stealth aircraft were followed by escort fighters and AWACS and more than 56 aerial refueling aircraft. These aerial refuelers are then refueled by other aerial refuelers, forming a refueling cascade before returning to the nearest base.
A flight of a B52 strategic bomber loaded with fuel from the US to the Mediterranean Sea takes more than twenty hours of flight time and consumes US$1,000,000.00 in fuel per aircraft.
They never told you about the clay feet of military strategy.
No aircraft carrier can operate more than thirty aircraft. No aircraft can operate beyond a useful range of 700 km.
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