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To: A.A. Cunningham

Yep, I just checked their site and it looks like it is supposed to carry 40 birds. But they list the top speed at 27 kts. That’s crawling for a nuke. Either they are keeping the real speed classified (we list the Nimitz class as 30+ with the emphasis on the +) or they never worked out the problems they were having with the ships reactors.


16 posted on 09/24/2009 7:53:11 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.)
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To: GonzoGOP
But they list the top speed at 27 kts. That’s crawling for a nuke. Either they are keeping the real speed classified (we list the Nimitz class as 30+ with the emphasis on the +) or they never worked out the problems they were having with the ships reactors.

Problems are inherent. They decided to use their standard sub reactor. Even though they used two of them, the amount of power needed to push a torpedo shaped sub underwater does not compare to the amount needed to push a much bigger carrier.

Especially as building dock space was limited, so the ship is shorter and fatter than it should be, giving a higher block coefficient.

Plus the "hotel load" power requirement for a carrier is much greater than a sub with a limited crew and machinery.

If that's not enough, when they divert steam to the catapults, they lose a knot.

22 posted on 09/24/2009 8:11:32 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Hello, Mr. President we honor you today For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say "hooray!)
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To: GonzoGOP

I saw a show that had footage of the high speed rudder tests of the USS Reagan and seeing a ship that large moving that fast and banking through turns like that was amazing.


30 posted on 09/25/2009 12:32:55 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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