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Posted: 8/23/2004 10:57:45 PM EDT
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I called the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) home for a few months back in the early 80's.
A "Nimitz-Class" carrier is the Nuclear powered, Midway was a old diesel boat, what else you want to know? |
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:04:28 PM EDT
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Hmm, I guess highlights, aircraft capacity, defense armament, crew size, anecdotes, whatever anyone feels like volunteering. |
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:07:11 PM EDT
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This is a good place to start....
Haze Gray & Underway World Aircraft Carrier Lists And Photo Gallery www.hazegray.org/navhist/carriers/ |
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:07:49 PM EDT
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USS Midway (CV-41) is a unique carrier in that she started out as a straight-decker, i.e. WWII design. They eventually converted her to an angle-deck design. She was also powered by 12 boilers, not diesels.
Displacement: 62,000 tons full load Length: 979 feet Beam: 121 feet Flight Deck Width: 238 feet Speed: 30-plus knots Power Plant: 12 boilers, four geared steam turbines four shafts, 212,000 shaft horsepower Aircraft: Approximately 65 Complement: 2,533 ship's company; 2,239 in air wing The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) class are the largest warships in the world. They're powered by 2 nuclear reactors and are much newer than the USS Midway class. Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, Va. Power Plant: Two Nuclear Power Plant (A4W Pressurized Water Reactor) Four shafts, Four propellers, with five blades each Length: overall 1,092 feet (332.85 meters) Flight Deck Width: 252 feet (76.8 meters) Beam: 134 feet (40.84 meters) Displacement: Approx. 97,000 tons (87,300 metric tons) full load Speed: 30+ knots (34.5+ miles per hour) Aircraft: 85 Crew: Ship's Company: 3,200 Air Wing: 2,480 Check out www.fas.org and www.globalsecurity.org as well. |
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:08:37 PM EDT
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I used to watch the nuclear subs being built at the General Dynamics Groton Yard and those are pretty neat to see.
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:10:01 PM EDT
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Just remember that the first US Carrier (USS Langley CV-1) was a converted collier, the USS Jupiter (AC-3).
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:19:04 PM EDT
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Carriers arent as expensive as you think. They're only like $4b or so. A single B-2 bomber is like a $1b or so isn't it?
Fuck, we should double the number of carriers. It'd only cost maybe $50b. We dumped $90b into Iraq in a single year. More more more carriers. 20 fucking carrier groups, how'd you like them apples? |
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:23:58 PM EDT
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They're
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:27:42 PM EDT
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Here is really nice pic of the Nimitz
 Here is one of her pulling into Pearl Harbor  Here is a couple of Midway  
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:34:41 PM EDT
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Raven just found him some new wallpaper. <cues theme from The Final Countdown>
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:37:12 PM EDT
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God, the Midway must have been a bitch to land on.
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:39:24 PM EDT
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All I know is that watching fireworks from the USS John C. Stennis was fun.
Them things are big. |
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:50:10 PM EDT
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Midway was a steam turbine driven carrier, as has been every carrier from the beginning of WWII until now. Even the nukes are steam turbines, just heated from a different fuel source. |
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Posted: 8/23/2004 11:51:20 PM EDT
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One of my favorite movies, at least until Martin Sheen turned into an asshole. |
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Posted: 8/24/2004 12:52:23 AM EDT
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Here is Nimitz avoiding a GreenPeace Protester in a Zodiak.
  Fritz |
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Posted: 8/24/2004 1:42:10 AM EDT
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Newest carrier being built is costed out as 11.3 billion, or there abouts. 70% of the USN budget goes to personell. Adding carriers requires adding carrier groups, all the support ships, smaller warships, port facilities, and aircraft. Even when we were working on a 600 ship navy, we didn't go "20 carrier", I'm sure it has something to do with operating costs. |
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Posted: 8/24/2004 3:44:06 AM EDT
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The first nuclear-powered carrier was U.S.S. Enterprise. All carriers after Enterprise are powered by 2 reactors, but the Enterprise is powered by 8. Yes that's right, there are 8 nuclear reactors on the Enterprise, 2 each couple to one of the four shafts. These are basically submarine reactors, and provide quite a surplus of power.
I have heard many a sea story about the alleged top speed of the Enterprise being 50kt. |
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Posted: 8/24/2004 4:15:45 AM EDT
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Once you got it above 45 Kts, the cavitation was pretty bad. |
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Posted: 8/24/2004 4:19:36 AM EDT
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Unfortunately..... hey, even sharks need to eat too, right?
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Posted: 8/24/2004 6:50:33 AM EDT
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PBS produced a show on aircraft carriers, it was really interesting watching it. The thing that I remember the that sticks in my mind the most, was trying to land a plane on a carrier, the commentator referred to it as a "controlled crash landing."
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Posted: 8/24/2004 7:02:18 AM EDT
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The pair of aircraft carriers was USS Ronald Regan and USS John Stensis, if you had been there a bit earlier last week you would have seen three - USS Abraham Lincoln was in town as well.
I've been stationed on the carriers USS Midway, USS Carl Vinson, and USS Abraham Lincoln. Midway did have something special about her, I've never met a sailor who wouldn't say otherwise. The crew there was tighter and better trained then any I've been assigned to since. I think some of it is due to the fact that Midway was old Navy with boilers rather than nukes. The aircraft carrier is still the most complicated piece of weapontry ever designed. They are simply amazing to watch in operation - but the cost of admission is rather steep! I retire in 36 days and a wakeup and will say with pride that I served this country aboard aircraft carriers for my three sea tours. Watching 90,000 tons of steel glide thru the seas is a sight to see, watching dozens of jet fighters and bombers launched in minutes is amazing, and watching the whole thing happen at night in weather is an "E" ticket ride unlike anyother on the planet. If you want to get a behind the scenes look at carrier life have a look at "Carriers: Fortresses at Sea" which is a Discovery channel production that I was involved with aboard USS Carl Vinson. There's another good one covering the USS John Stensis too but I can't remember the name of it. USS Midway 1986  USS Midway 2004 
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Posted: 8/24/2004 7:02:48 AM EDT
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I think the really cost of the carriers is in the planes and all the people x time. I think they are pretty expensive, but worth every penny. Think how we would be without them? |
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Posted: 8/24/2004 7:03:35 AM EDT
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First you need to master English.  SGtar15 |
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Posted: 8/24/2004 7:14:02 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/24/2004 9:17:15 AM EDT
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I expected a black woman.....not white in black. Share with a brotha would ay?? Sgatr15 |
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Posted: 8/24/2004 9:19:38 AM EDT
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I wonder if the Midway wallows in port.....
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Posted: 8/24/2004 9:21:03 AM EDT
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Just 4 u........
 With an evil assault weapon, which I can buy NIB, in the store.... IN 19 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Posted: 8/24/2004 9:22:47 AM EDT
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Here, it's smaller: 
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Posted: 8/24/2004 9:27:48 AM EDT
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I've stood in awe as I watch the Nimitz one year and the Abraham Lincoln the next year enter the San Francisco Bay for fleet week.
DAYUM! It's hard to believe that something that huge-made of steel-floats. Absolutely incredible. I was also at San Diego once, driving past the shipyards, and I saw a submarine that was as big as the small aircraft carrier almost next to it. This was from about 2 miles away, so the perception may have been skewed, but that sub was BIG. |
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Posted: 8/24/2004 9:29:11 AM EDT
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Sexual, did you ever get on with the P.D.?
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