US Navy Ford Class nuclear carriers
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Re: The Building of America's next "super" Carrier
The US is just maintaing its current carrier force. The carrier shown here is scheduled to replace the Kitty Hawk. The next is scheduled to replace the Enterprise in 2013...and so on.
The US maintains twelve large carriers so it can always have 3-5 deployed. In an emergency, the US can surge seven or eight...but three or four will always be in the yards for maintenance and updates.
If you want them to last fifty years like the US carriers do, you have to take good care of them...and that costs money and means you have to have more of them.
Unless they are updated and reconfigured like the Indians plan on doing with the Gorshkov.MIGleader said:
MIGleader said:
The US is just maintaing its current carrier force. The carrier shown here is scheduled to replace the Kitty Hawk. The next is scheduled to replace the Enterprise in 2013...and so on.
The US maintains twelve large carriers so it can always have 3-5 deployed. In an emergency, the US can surge seven or eight...but three or four will always be in the yards for maintenance and updates.
If you want them to last fifty years like the US carriers do, you have to take good care of them...and that costs money and means you have to have more of them.
Re: The Building of America's next "super" Carrier
Nice ship dude... 4 billion dollars for a carrier? I always thought it was 5 (maybe it's 5 with the airwing). But then again I could be wrong.
So, how many aircraft will inhabit this ship? Which squadrons will have the honour of stationing there for the first time?
Nice ship dude... 4 billion dollars for a carrier? I always thought it was 5 (maybe it's 5 with the airwing). But then again I could be wrong.
So, how many aircraft will inhabit this ship? Which squadrons will have the honour of stationing there for the first time?
Spartan00006
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Re: The Building of America's next "super" Carrier
what does the us do with the old carriers?
do the sell them (india or any other "friendly" country)
maybe they should convert them into troop carriers and sealift vessels
how many troops could a Nimitz carry if it was a troopship (and equipment)?
what does the us do with the old carriers?
do the sell them (india or any other "friendly" country)
maybe they should convert them into troop carriers and sealift vessels
how many troops could a Nimitz carry if it was a troopship (and equipment)?
Re: The Building of America's next "super" Carrier
US hasn't sold a carrier to another country in years.
Most of them go to mothball reserve.
One carrier, USS America was used as a target ship to see how well a CV can take damage. The results are still classified
On its way for its last mission
Final Resting Place.
US has amphibs to carry troops. A carrier on that role is wasted.
Spartan00006 said:
US hasn't sold a carrier to another country in years.
Most of them go to mothball reserve.
One carrier, USS America was used as a target ship to see how well a CV can take damage. The results are still classified
On its way for its last mission
Final Resting Place.
US has amphibs to carry troops. A carrier on that role is wasted.