[AlanGreenSpam]

How many aircraft carriers do we have total and where deployed?

I read that the size of the US navy is now 50% of what it was a few years ago.

[cva66snipe]

Here you go. http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org9-4.htm#1993 I think with ENTERPRISE gone were at ten. The Gerald R Ford was launched last year and should be close to comissioning.

[cva66snipe]

BTW deployment wise? We are supposed to headed into a one carrier deployed policy which is insanity. Any ship to stay ready both training and maintenance wise needs sufficient time at sea. Worse still sometime in the 1980’s there was added to NOB Norfolk another pier with a two carrier capacity making Norfolk Naval Base capable of having five carriers in port at the same time at the exact same place. Put five there, one in Newport News in overhaul, one or two up at Portsmouth at Norfolk Naval Shipyard and it's another Pearl Harbor in the making.

The entire Atlantic Carrier Fleet is now home ported in the same city and must cross the same tunnels. They are also about a mile or two downstream of the International Piers. IOW we have planners who are fools. My guess is Norfolk was expanded because at that time it was likely assumed the carrier fleet would be expanded by two or more carriers. That didn't happen. The USSR break up changed things but not anywhere near enough IMO to justify the severity of cuts we've seen.

[aumrl]

I believe we have 10
5 east coast, 5 west coast.
Check ‘Stratfor’ site for deposition.