[central_va]

We should give all our non nuclear carries to Japan to overhaul and operate.

[tanknetter]

We should give all our non nuclear carries to Japan to overhaul and operate.

I think right now the only US carrier that's held as a reserve asset is the Kitty Hawk. Maybe Constellation, but I recall reading that she'd been struck. All the others have been struck, with all of them except Kennedy (held for museum donation) and possibly Ranger (also held for museum donation - but I'd read that the SEALS removed her screws using plastic explosives as part of a training exercise some years ago) and Independence (retired in good condition, apparently) in pretty advanced states of decay. One (America) has been sink-exed.

The US runs its carriers into the ground. I mean, we get good life and great value out of them, but the costs of operating them after ~50 years of service is exorbitant. In addition to how the conventionals were late 1940s/1950s designs without a lot of consideration given to manpower requirements (like is happening with the Ford class).

Building new would give the Japanese fresh ships with 50 year lifespans built to more economical manning standards. Going with the QE class would limit the need for them to reinvent the wheel with an indigenous design.

[SampleMan]

All of them? That would be zero.

[Secret Agent Man]

i thought all the ones we currently operate are all nuclear. From Enterprise (65) and all the Nimitz’s are all nuclear. If we have any non nuclear it may be not be worth trying to overhaul them if they’ve been mothballed for such a long time and will need so much upgrading.