RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/116425777452697466
Stray thought:
The flight deck of the CVN Gerald Ford looks amazingly empty as it transits the Suez Canal.
Normally, US supercarrier flight decks are chocka with parked a/c (the hangars aren't large enough to allow all a/c in her air wing to be struck down).
As one doesn't drive 100k tonnes through a canal at anything like fixed wing a/c launch speeds (wind over the deck is required), presumably the air wing is temporarily deployed to a friendly airbase while transiting?
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