What are these aircraft?!

[Arugela]

What are these aircraft. I assume they are some sort of helicopter, but they look like a bunch of balled up transformers. Any idea? Or was this done for the shooting of bumblebee or something?

Edited October 6, 2018 by Arugela

[tater]

They are helos with the rotors (and tails) folded.

They look like CH-53s to me.

[Tonka Crash]

They look like a mix of MH-60R & MH-60S to me, but could be some HH-60H or SH-60F depending on how old the photo is. The US Navy doesn't normally operate CH-53E off carrier decks. Not that it never happens, but CH-53 is normally based off amphibious ships and not CVNs.

Edited October 6, 2018 by Tonka Crash

[tater]

7 minutes ago, Tonka Crash said:

They look like a mix of MH-60R & MH-60S to me, but could be some HH-60H or SH-60F depending on how old the photo is. The US Navy doesn't normally operate CH-53E off carrier decks. Not that it never happens, but CH-53 is normally based off amphibious ships and not CVNs.

I was seeing the bulge on the side, I forgot the extra tanks on many of the Seahawks.

[Tonka Crash]

I saw the bulge too, but it didn't look big enough to me to be a CH-53. The one to the right rear of the main group and the one by itself near the deck edge look like they have the sliding door of the MH-60S instead of the stores pylon of the MH-60R.

[tater]

2 minutes ago, Tonka Crash said:

I saw the bulge too, but it didn't look big enough to me to be a CH-53. The one to the right rear of the main group and the one by itself near the deck edge look like they have the sliding door of the MH-60S instead of the stores pylon of the MH-60R.

Yeah, and all the non E-2 aircraft are FA-18s, so it's a new(ish) image.

[p1t1o]

On 10/7/2018 at 12:34 AM, tater said:

Yeah, and all the non E-2 aircraft are FA-18s, so it's a new(ish) image.

More than that, they are FA-18 E/F's, Super Hornets.

 

And Google reverse image search is your friend!

Its the USS Ronald Raegan, visiting Busan, south Korea, in October 2016

https://www.presstv.com/DetailFr/2016/10/16/489258/North-Korea-failed-missile-launch

https://www.upi.com/USS-Ronald-Reagan-leaves-South-Korea-following-exercises/2711509023067/

 

USS Ronald Reagan hosts Carrier Air Wing 5, which sports MH-60S's and MH-60R's

Here's a close up of a section of the deck from a different picture but same trip:

 

 

***edit***

Ooh look, you can see an EA18G Growler there in the top right too! Very new, in service 2008.

 

 

***edit#2***

Lets feel old together.

When I was a kid (lets say 1995), the spitfire was an old plane from 50 years ago.

You knwo what is an old plane from 50 years ago now?

F-14 Tomcat - first flight 1970, 48 years ago

A10 Warthog - first flight 1972, 46 years ago

F15 Eagle - first flight 1972, 46

B52 Bomber - first flight 1952, 66 years ago!!

 

For us Brits - RAF Tornado, first flight 1972, 46yo

 

The F14 is not just an old plane to todays kids, its an old fashioned plane.

And a B52 is as old to them as Baron Von Richtofen's fabric-and-wire Triplane was to me.

Thats....thats....ouch.

 

Edited October 8, 2018 by p1t1o

[MaverickSawyer]

14 hours ago, p1t1o said:

The F14 is not just an old plane to todays kids, its an old fashioned plane.

About that....

 

Heatblur Simulations would beg to differ.  

 

[razark]

On 10/6/2018 at 6:34 PM, tater said:

Yeah, and all the non E-2 aircraft are FA-18s, so it's a new(ish) image.

It just looks weird, seeing one basic aircraft type on deck.

 

14 hours ago, p1t1o said:

Lets feel old together.

I remember seeing the local ANG unit flying F-4s.  Now, they've transitioned to drones.

[tater]

A buddy of mine used to fly A-7s for the ANG, before they transitioned to F-16s... now our ANG fighter squadron (the Tacos) are no more.

[MaverickSawyer]

10 hours ago, razark said:

It just looks weird, seeing one basic aircraft type on deck.

It's not weird... It's reckless. What happens if you have to ground the Super Hornet fleet?

Yes, I know that it's supposed to simplify logistics... But gimme a CVW with a mix of Tomcats, Vikings, and Intruders any day.

[p1t1o]

6 minutes ago, MaverickSawyer said:

It's not weird... It's reckless. What happens if you have to ground the Super Hornet fleet?

Yes, I know that it's supposed to simplify logistics... But gimme a CVW with a mix of Tomcats, Vikings, and Intruders any day.

 

Modern warfighting trumps (pardon my language) nostalgia any day of the week. Theres huge advantages to a common, multirole type, not just sharing spare parts either. You can field a larger strike group, have much greater availability of aircraft, losses are more easily absorbed etc.

[Kernel Kraken]

On 10/6/2018 at 5:38 PM, Arugela said:

What are these aircraft. I assume they are some sort of helicopter, but they look like a bunch of balled up transformers. Any idea? Or was this done for the shooting of bumblebee or something?

Yep, those are transformers.

[Xpira]

Those are just arms to what is the “aircraft carrier.” 

[Arugela]

46 minutes ago, Kernel Kraken said:

Yep, those are transformers.

Technically they are. Every plane on a carrier is usually a transformer. 8)

Unless that is what you meant.

Edited October 12, 2018 by Arugela

[XB-70A]

On 10/12/2018 at 2:14 PM, Arugela said:

Technically they are. Every plane on a carrier is usually a transformer. 8)

Some even did too much:

 

I love the A-3 too:

(Funny picture, as the beast is surrounded by one of the few models which didn't have any folding wings)