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Navy's Newest Carrier Successfully Completes Acceptance Sea Trials
Navy News ^
| 4/9/2009
| Program Executive Office Carriers
Posted on 04/13/2009 6:36:29 AM PDT by Freeport
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To: Freeport
These are great ships. I served in the Reactor and Engineering departments on three of them; The Ike, Theodore Roosevelt, and Nimitz.
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04/13/2009 8:05:05 AM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: Psycho_Bunny
That wouldn't be prudent...
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posted on
04/13/2009 8:36:24 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
To: YankeeReb
Construction on the JFK was started until 1964, after his death.
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04/13/2009 9:52:33 AM PDT
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zaphod3000
(Free markets, free minds, free lives.)
To: YankeeReb
Construction on the JFK wasn’t started until 1964, after his death.
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04/13/2009 9:52:42 AM PDT
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zaphod3000
(Free markets, free minds, free lives.)
To: Dixiekraut
How commonplace is it to name Naval vessels after living servicemen, politicians,etc.? Lately? All too common.
To: pabianice
and only enough for three Zumwalts of what was to have been a 55-ship fleet. The article says 30, and when he cancelled the Zumwalts, Gates also said that additional Burkes were being procured. The 55 hulls were supposed to be LCS, and those orders are being continued.
To: Al B.
The USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) was commissioned while the former Senator was still alive.
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04/13/2009 9:59:15 AM PDT
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zaphod3000
(Free markets, free minds, free lives.)
To: Al B.
Ronald Reagan was around when they decided to name CVN-76 after him but passed away before the ship was built. Reagan died in 2004, the year after the carrier was commissioned.
To: B-Chan
"Yep. The age of the big-deck fleet carrier is just about done. The future belongs to jeep carriers and carrier subs packing unmanned multirole aircraft." You may be right, but I'm always wary of pronouncements of obsolescence. About six months before Operation Just Cause, I was told the age of mass tactical parachute drops was over. Less than a year before Operation Desert Storm, I was told that the days of mass armor attacks and the main battle tank were over...
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04/13/2009 10:00:21 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: magslinger
To: Non-Sequitur
and only enough for three Zumwalts of what was to have been a 55-ship fleet. The article says 30, and when he cancelled the Zumwalts, Gates also said that additional Burkes were being procured. The 55 hulls were supposed to be LCS, and those orders are being continued. Won't happen. There are three Zumwalts funded, and that's it. DARPA "Technology demonstrators." The 55 LCSes are also finished. May be a dozen, tops. More likely less. 108 P-8s? Not a chance. Look for more UCAVs to be the majority of military aviation by 2030.
To: Non-Sequitur
I stand corrected. Thanks.
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04/13/2009 11:00:09 AM PDT
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Al B.
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04/13/2009 1:30:42 PM PDT
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magslinger
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To: magslinger
I was one of those people sent to perform the acceptance trial testing. I served on three carriers when I was in the Navy, JFK, Nimitz, and Ike. Even for an old carrier sailor, CVN-77 is impressive. I’d never been out to sea on a new ship before. I wish I could be there for the flight deck certification.
It’s sad to see first hand what the defense cuts are already doing to my Navy.
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04/14/2009 4:11:43 AM PDT
by
fredhead
(Liberals think globally, reason rectally, act idiotically.)
To: Freeport
Suddenly, Democrats call for a SinkEx...
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04/14/2009 8:42:10 AM PDT
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DesScorp
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