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To: Syncro

So what will be the next series be? bigger and by what name?


16 posted on 01/10/2009 9:42:23 AM PST by bullfeather (illegitimate non carborundum)
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To: bullfeather
I don't know, and I don't even want to see a great United States Military ship named after William Blythe Jefferson Clinton.

Let's hope the need a garbage scow at that time...

20 posted on 01/10/2009 9:49:11 AM PST by Syncro (Mi TagLine)
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To: bullfeather

CVN-78 will be the first of a new class of carriers, and will be named the USS Gerald R. Ford.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cvn-78.htm


32 posted on 01/10/2009 10:14:17 AM PST by OA5599
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Followup info thanks to the link by OA5599...:

CVN 21 - 21st Century Carrier

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CVN 21 - 21st Century Carrier

The CVN 21 began as the CVX, a new ship class that is the second and long-term part of the Navy's two-track strategy for aircraft carrier recapitalization. The Navy's vision for CVX is to develop a new class of aircraft carriers to significantly reduce total ownership cost and incorporate an architecture for change and flexibility, while maintaining the core capabilities of Naval aviation (high-volume firepower, survivability, sustainability and mobility) for the 21st Century and beyond. Achieving this vision will require significant design changes to incorporate advances in technology and to focus the design on enhanced affordability since little carrier research and development has been undertaken since the 1960's.

39 posted on 01/10/2009 11:02:36 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (No Burkas for my Grandaughters!)
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