[A.A. Cunningham]

that usper(sic) Stennis class carriers

No such animal as a Stennis class boat.

The rest of your post is crapola too.

[meandog]

No such animal as a Stennis class boat. The rest of your post is crapola too.

Er, good catch, thanks (though I didn't need the "crapola" insult)...I meant Nimitz class...the "usper" was a typo for "super." BTW I was in the submarine service where there are only two class of ships: sub boats and "targets." Evidently you were a target.

[tanknetter]

No such animal as a Stennis class boat.

I've actually heard of the Nimitzes as being really divided into four different "classes" based on the engineering differences and upgrades incorporated over the course of a 40-year build program (from Nimitz being laid down in 1968 to Bush being commissioned in 2009). Nimitz, Ike and Vinson, then Roosevelt, Lincoln and Washington, then Stennis and Truman and finally Reagan and Bush.

Much in the same way that the Essex classes could be broken out several different ways (Essex, long-hull Ticonderoga, Oriskany, Hancock), or the Yorktowns (Yorktown/Enterprise, then Hornet), or the Kitty Hawks (JFK being more of a "cousin" than a class member).