Liberal: But.....but.....but, Eisenhower was a war monger we should rename the ship after someone peaceful......how about the USS Rachel Corrie?
They could nickname name it the pancake.
Wouldn’t it be cool if Congress would pass a bill requiring that all Navy WARSHIPS be named after “hawks”? Naming them after peaceniks, strawberry pickers and Democrat politicians seems a bit hypocritical to me, IMHO. ;o)
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If you’re the least bit prone to seasickness, this would be no fun.
Bet the guys on the bridge had a blast!
I have a good friend who was stationed on the Carl Vinson. He said and I quote, “you would not believe how sharp a turn she can make”, “dancin’ on the ceiling is a bit of an overstatement”, “walkin’ on walls is more like the ride I took”.
I am thinking what the video shows, and the capabilities of our Navy and its crafts, are much better than advertised.
Those little boats following the thing out to sea, are they just civilian spectators trying to run with the big dogs, or are they some kind of official escort.
For some reason that conjures up an image of all the planes sliding off into the water........LOL!
As a side note, I wonder if anyone has ever tried water skiing behind one of these things.......
If you served on the flight deck of this ship, you would be DAMM happy for its ability to turn like that.
When somebody gets blown over the side, they rack the thing around like that and it almost creates a force that keeps him on near the top of the water so he can be picked up. Outside of combat, that is the main reason they have the ability to perform this maneuver.
My brother spent 5 years on the Ike including a year in the Gulf when the Iranian jihadists took the hostages. He said it was the first and only time the Navy delivered beer to the ship. Luckily for him a couple of his buddies did not drink so he ended up with a 12 pack. Of course he is constantly busting my chops every time Navt beats Army in football but other than that he is a damn good brother.
Even the Chinese and Russians know they will easily do 50+ knots.
I've personally seen them BLOW BY a Destroyer Group with a rooster tail coming off the a$$ end nearly 1/2 the length of the ship.
She was doing 60mph easy.
From the late 60’s to early 90’s I would go fishing on the Chesapeake Bay a couple of weeks every summer.
I loved watching the ships going and coming.
The smallest naval ships exuded an aura of strength that the largest container ship couldn’t match.
The first aircraft carrier I saw, summer of 1973, made my jaw drop.
The thing was huge!
It gave me a warm fuzzy feeling to realise that monster of a ship and it’s crew were protecting my insignificant self.
I can’t imagine how much larger the new carriers must be.
Pictures don’t do them justice.
When I see pictures of these large aircraft carriers, I remember as a young child in the 1930s my godfather, an Annapolis grad then in the navy, telling my family at the dinner table that airplanes could never sink a battleship. “The battleship would just go on about its business.” He was captain of the “Porter” (not a battleship) when it was sunk in WWII.
I read this article and immediately thought it was a response to the Chinese DF-21 hypersonic missle talk that’s been going around. The US is basically saying, “this baby can move - it’s not going to be as easy to hit it as you think.”
“...shows the vessel’s huge engines pushing it through high-speed turns at some 35mph.”
Back in the days before the nation lost its mind, that kind of information was classified.