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"The idea that you can just hand a carrier over to a new user is just silly. First of all, no other NATO member land conventional aircraft on carriers right now (France is not a military member of NATO)."

No, but Britain is. And they could take it at the right time. See, the Brits have an order for a new full size carrier in the 65,000 ton range. They have a requirement for at least two. But they had a hard time deciding whether to go stovl or catapult....catapult gives you a bigger warload and range over stovl aircraft. So the first one is definitely gonna be stovl, but there's talk that they'd like to do the second one in a conventional layout. If they took the JFK, they'd get a cat-equipped carrier to use with conventionl JSF planes, and then evaluate the performance of both types of carrier at a cheaper price than two full fledged brand new carriers.

One caveat, here....the reason why the Navy is so hot to get rid of the JFK is because, and I quote for a GSA report, she's in "bad material condition"...specifically, two of her propellar shafts are in really bad shape. Britain may not WANT her. It's more likely that China or a country like Brazil would offer to buy her. Frankly, she'll end up as either a museum or in the scrap yard, methinks.

By the way...the Brits like to name their ships with adjectives. What would a Kennedy ship be named? HMS Adultrous, maybe?

HMS Boisterous? HMS Wreckless? HMS Inebriated?

How hard is it to change out propeller shafts?

"By the way...the Brits like to name their ships with adjectives. What would a Kennedy ship be named? HMS Adulterous, maybe?"

LOL

Perhaps something a bit more poetic?

HMS Philanderer