Posted on 08/21/2022 2:18:44 PM PDT by DFG
Good, whatever it takes to get out carriers scrapped, saves China the trouble.
Ships that have been converted to a museum are very expensive to maintain.
I spent some time when the E was in Norfolk in the 90’s.
Naval enthusiasts requested that Enterprise be converted into a museum. By 2012 this was deemed too expensive to make such an effort practical, in addition to the fact that the ship would need to be partially dismantled anyway to remove the eight reactors safely
It was a huge vessel. If I recall, there were over 5K men assigned to the crew back when I was there.
Twas a city on the water.
Funny thing is, out of five thousand fellow crew members, I’ve only rarely seen anybody from that ship once I left it.
Everyone’s gone into the Way-Back memory bank. “PooF!”
I’ll be amazed if it isn’t just sailed straight to china
Ships having the name Enterprise, are the most famous ships in the USN. Especially the one by that name in WW2, in every major battle of the Pacific War.
The name Enterprise is a Naval national treasure, hate to see this one scrapped.
Enterprise aircraft carrier would make a fun water front hotel.
It could be sold to China - I’m sure they’d like to use it as a floating casino.
The Big E did a “round the world” tour to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It sailed through the Suez Canal and want all the way to Perth, Australia.
Just give it to Ukraine. We give them everything else.
The Enterprise will be scrapped at a Chinese owned port. How many secrets will we pass along to the Chinese?
Hear, hear!
I came to post this myself.
Also, India? Better than the crappy Soviet era stuff they’re sailing...
Wasn’t this carrier once commanded by Kirk Douglas and got caught in a storm and ended up in 1941 the day before Pearl Harbor was attacked?
CVN-80 is being built by Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia. The first cut of steel ceremony, marking the beginning of fabrication of the ship's components, was held on 21 August 2017, with ship's sponsors Katie Ledecky and Simone Biles present. Construction began in advance of the purchase contract and construction award, in early 2018. Steel from CVN-65 will be recycled and used in the construction of CVN-80. Enterprise will also incorporate four portholes taken from CV-6, her World War II predecessor. Enterprise will replace USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and is scheduled to be launched in November 2025, with a planned delivery date of March 2028.
The keel was laid on 5 April 2022, three weeks ahead of schedule, making the ship about 13% complete.
A graphic showing what the future USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 80) is expected to look like when she joins the fleet after 2025. The aircraft are F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters, F/A-18 E and F Super Hornet strike fighters, E-2D Hawkeye electronic warfare planes, and an unmanned strike jet modeled on the X-47B sitting on the No. 4 catapult.
55 years in commission is a long time. The next USS Enterprise, CVN-80, is already under construction with planned delivery in 2028.
“Everyone’s gone into the Way-Back memory bank. “PooF!”” Ditto to that. Best memories are the food and getting shot off the CAT.
Unless they are talking about Southern California, how are they going to get it there? Tow it through the Panama Canal?
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