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New US Aircraft Carrier, CVN-77 George H. W. Bush to be Christened Saturday, October 7, 2006
Northrop Grumman Construction Site ^ | Oct 2006 | Northrop Grumman/US Navy

Posted on 10/03/2006 8:06:52 AM PDT by Jeff Head

CVN-77 to be Christened on October 7th, 2006

From the Northrop Grumman site.

On Saturday, October 7, 2006, Northrop Grumman Newport News will christen the nation’s 10th and final Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, George H. W. Bush (CVN 77). The ship’s namesake and 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, is scheduled to attend the ceremony along with his wife Barbara and their daughter, Doro Bush Koch, Mrs. Koch also serves as the ship’s sponsor and will do the traditional honor of breaking a bottle of American sparkling wine across the ship’s bow during the ceremony. Employees of Northrop Grumman Newport News and their families are invited. The general public is also invited to the ceremony. Visit the links below for additional information.
Here are some of the latest construction pictures...a beautiful site to behold:


CVN-77 nearing completion


CVN-77 props added


CVN-77 Island lift


CVN-77 ready for christening


CVN-77 another view of CVN-77 ready for christening


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To: Jeff Head

Is this already in a testing phase or is it just theoretical? It seems to me that something like that would be vital to protecting the ship from anti-ship missiles. My worst nightmare is a huge number of chinese Silkworms (and whatever they've replaced them with lately) that our Phalanx weapons can't engage all at once.


201 posted on 10/03/2006 6:08:37 PM PDT by letsgonova19087
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To: COEXERJ145

Yes, I know...and I think it is, IMHO, rediculous. The USS Shanksville, Stockdale, America, United States...there are many more fitting names IMHO. I hope that bill gets held up.


202 posted on 10/03/2006 6:09:42 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: fredhead
number of Navy ships has not been this low since 1937.

Isn't that a jolly thought?

203 posted on 10/03/2006 6:11:07 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: letsgonova19087
Well the RIM-116 RAMs are replacing a lot of the Phalynx. They are much more accurate, dependable, and capable IMHO.

As to the directed energy or other exotic weapons. We have been testing the theories for a long time. If there is enough power, there is the possibility. But as yet it is just a rumor that the CVN21 program will utilize such.

I believe a rail-gun for future destroyers and cruisers is perhaps more likely sooner.

204 posted on 10/03/2006 6:12:55 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: Jeff Head
I agree. Enough naming ships for living people. A lot of the names I like are already assigned to our amphibious assault ships.

Available names I like are

America

United States
Lexington
Saratoga
Ticonderoga
Midway
Independence

All I can think of off the top of my head.

205 posted on 10/03/2006 6:14:29 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: Jeff Head

USS Shanksville. I like it. First battle in GWOT fought in sovereign American airspace. And we won.


206 posted on 10/03/2006 6:15:57 PM PDT by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: Non-Sequitur
Had Gore won we would be waiting for the commissioning of the USS Franklin Roosevelt

Sort of surprising there isn't one already. There is a TR, aka "The Big Stick".

Still I think we should go back to naming carriers after famous earlier ships. "Enterprise" goes way back, as does "Constellation", "Lexington", "Saratoga" and "United States" (there was once supposed to be a carrier, the first of a class, by that name but it got canceled. If the name weren't still in use by the original holder, the "USS Constitution" would make a great name for the next class of carriers.

207 posted on 10/03/2006 6:17:47 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: COEXERJ145

I always thought "U.S.S. Independence" had a nice ring to it.


208 posted on 10/03/2006 6:19:32 PM PDT by letsgonova19087
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To: Jeff Head

Cool name, but in the Air Force, we have another name for this type of ship... "Target"

I bet my brother will be pleased, though. He's a Navy Carrier puke, served on the Nimitz, and the Constellation. It is a pretty thing, though! God Bless it, the folks who constructed it, and it's future crews.


209 posted on 10/03/2006 6:21:25 PM PDT by Old Student (We have a name for the people who think indiscriminate killing is fine. They're called "The Bad Guys)
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To: Victor
Wow...sad. Professionals, all doing their job, but no attachment to the vessel other than the fact that it's a sub.

Before the advent of the so called "Fleet boats" in the 1930s, subs didn't have names, just class and number. Lots of "S-boats" were still in use when the war broke out, IIRC.

210 posted on 10/03/2006 6:21:48 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: SoCalPol

I am in SD temporarily -- is that the Reagan I see on the other side of the bay when I am going to the airport?


211 posted on 10/03/2006 6:22:43 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Critical Thinking"="I don't understand it so it must be wrong.")
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To: ichabod1
I'm glad he's still around and able to be there, and that Bar will be able to christen it

The story says that their daughter, and the current President's sister, Doro, will do the honors.

I seem to remember that Barbara has already Christened a ship, but I haven't a clue as to which one.

212 posted on 10/03/2006 6:24:39 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: El Gato

Laura christened the USS Texas. Don't know about the others.


213 posted on 10/03/2006 6:27:21 PM PDT by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: dcam
Then the G.W. Bush carrier will be a Clinton-class carrier, ugh.

I suspect it won't work out that way, although it could. More likely the next *class* will be the George W. Bush class. Not bad for an Air Guard pilot.

At least GHW Bush flew Avengers off of Carriers in WW-II, at one point being the youngest pilot in the Navy.

214 posted on 10/03/2006 6:32:11 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: dcam
In some twisted kind of way, naming a submarine after Clinton seems more appropriate.

Well they do resemble cigars after all.

215 posted on 10/03/2006 6:32:49 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: GW and Twins Pawpaw

Exactly!


216 posted on 10/03/2006 6:35:07 PM PDT by Jeff Head (www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
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To: riverdawg
There was a large adjoining suite for female, on-board guests. The "bathroom" (I won't call it a "head") had been painted hot pink, and it had a bidet

Seems very appropriate for a ship named "Kennedy".

217 posted on 10/03/2006 6:37:49 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: mad_as_he$$
Ok I'll buy the Lexington argument; but wasn't Langley our the first Carrier?

Yes, she was first, but was never intended for true operational use. She was an experimental ship, converted from a collier. Intended to provide experience in operating a carrier.

Lexington and Saratoga were built on battle cruiser hulls. Ranger was the first carrier designed as such from the keel up. However, they tried to make a smaller cheaper carrier, (sound familiar?) and it never really worked out well.

First successful purpose built class was the Yorktown class, consisting of Yorktown, Enterprise and Hornet. Yorktown was sunk at Midway, Enterprise was damaged but survived the war. Hornet, from which the Doolittle raid was launched, was sunk late in the war, but it took 16 torpedoes, both US and Japanese, plus bombs and a Kamikaze, to do the job. (She was damaged at Santa Cruz, and had to be abandoned due to approach of Japanese forces. US tried to sink her, couldn't, Japanese tried to tow her, couldn't, and they finally sank her with torpedoes.)

218 posted on 10/03/2006 6:51:07 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: COEXERJ145
Senator Warner introduced a bill to have CVN-78 named the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford.

At least Ford, like GHW Bush, was a Navy man. Bush even flew Avenger bombers off of carriers in WW-II.

219 posted on 10/03/2006 6:54:52 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: AFreeBird

I was trying to work cocaine into that somehow but I just couldn't do it. I was thinking mirrors and razor blades but the white lines...thats good.

"Don't come a knockin' if the USS Clinton is a rockin'!"
Do you think the entire flight line would be covered in astro turf?


220 posted on 10/03/2006 6:55:51 PM PDT by Holicheese (Beerfest could be the greatest movie ever made!)
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