Re: The curse of the F-35......... @Aladdin Sane
You might think that.
HMS Queen Elizabeth has a total electrical generation capability of 82.4MW, which provides power for moving the ship and all other electrical demands on board.
The Gerald R. Ford class which will have EMALS will have about 600MW of electrical generation, which is in addition to the steam for the turbines that move the ship (i.e. none of the electrical power is used to move the ship).
The Nimitz carriers have about 200MW of electrical generation, which is also in addition to the steam for steam turbines that moves the ships, and that is considered too little to consider fitting EMALS on the current carriers.
(All figures are from Wikipedia)
So, you still think that QE has enough spare power for an EMALS catapult?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
