00X/004 future nuclear CATOBAR carrier thread

[Blitzo]

Can the 003a really still finish construction before 004 if they're only starting to clear space for it now? This would be starting more than a year later if I'm not mistaken.

In addition to what Tomboy wrote about construction methods, if the CVN at DL is bigger, and more complex than the CV at JN, and if the CVN at DL is... well nuclear powered as the name entails, then yeah it is plausible the CVN could happen to end up making more time such that despite its earlier appearance it reaches key milestones later.