Do you like USS Aircraft Carriers ?

777 · Post by **777** » 07 Nov 2003, 14:58

With this topic I just want to know if some people are also interested in Aircraft Carriers ?
They are enormous ships. Very impressive, no other ship has such an effect on you.
Imagine a ship and an airport at the same time. And this with 100 planes(almost all jets)

For people new to the subject(or others too), have a look at some websites:

Some general sites:
http://www.news.navy.mil/view_gallery.a ... gory_id=10
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/where.htm
http://navysite.de/carriers.htm#64
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02idx.htm
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/fac ... ip-cv.html

Specific carrier website (CVN = Carrier Vessel Nuclear):
CVN 74 Stennis
http://www.cvn74.navy.mil/
CVN 76 R.Reagan
http://www.reagan.navy.mil/
CVN 70 Carl Vinson
http://www.cvn70.navy.mil/
CVN 75 Truman
http://www.navy.mil/homepages/cvn75/
CV 67 JFK
http://www.navy.mil/homepages/cv67/home.html
CVN 68 Nimitz (first of 'Nimitz class')
http://www.navy.mil/homepages/cvn68/
CVN 71 Roosevelt
http://www.military.cz/usa/navy/uss/car ... elt_en.htm
CV 63 Kitty Hawk
http://www.kittyhawk.navy.mil/

The USA has 12 Super Carriers (10 nuclear and 2 non-nuclear)

USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) (non-nuclear)
USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) (non-nuclear)
USS Enterprise (CVN 65)(unique)(not Star Trek)
USS Nimitz (CVN 68)
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69
USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)
USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
USS George Washington (CVN 73)
USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76)

The USA has also 12 Amphibious Assault Ships - LHA/LHD(smaller aircraft carriers)
Note: One of these was recently before Liberia (crisis)

http://navysite.de/ships/lha.htm

Andre

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 07 Nov 2003, 15:07

I prefer British ones.

777 · Post by **777** » 07 Nov 2003, 15:24

The only Two remainig non-nuclear Carriers left:

USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)

CV 63

USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)

CV 67

CV 67

Vonsmalhausen · Post by **Vonsmalhausen** » 07 Nov 2003, 17:37

anything with airplanes interest me

even wen they are on a schip.
never had the chance to see one, i surely won't miss the uportunity to go on a spottertrip onboard off one off these floating airfields :mexwave:

SierraFoxtrotMike · Post by **SierraFoxtrotMike** » 07 Nov 2003, 20:13

Personally, my favourite jet is the Tomcat F-14. It's a great plane. You can see it many times on France 2 with "JAG" and Armon Rab...

Regards

777 · Post by **777** » 07 Nov 2003, 21:08

You can see JAG too on VT4 or K2.

And do not forget TOP GUN the film on Tomcat and Carriers, and .....love

Andre

777 · Post by **777** » 07 Nov 2003, 21:16

USS Enterprise (CVN 65)...the first nuclear Carrier and only one

in his class

CVN 65

CVN 65

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 07 Nov 2003, 21:24

JAG was a brilliant series. It was on in the UK a few years ago. It was taken off air mid series and never came back on, but the flying sequences were absolutely superb and I wish I could see it again.

777 · Post by **777** » 07 Nov 2003, 21:28

Hi Comet, didn't you like the film Top Gun ?

Andre

Sabena_690 · Post by **Sabena_690** » 07 Nov 2003, 21:58

They are indeed amazing to look at... the number of people who died already due to those ships is even more amazing.

Frederic

777 · Post by **777** » 07 Nov 2003, 22:03

Hi Frederic, unfortunately that is always the result of a war machine.

Andre

Lien · Post by **Lien** » 07 Nov 2003, 22:57

Will there be any news on the latest: CVN-76 ?

Lien !

Post by **sn26567** » 08 Nov 2003, 08:52

Sabena_690 wrote:the number of people who died already due to those ships is even more amazing.

Frederic,

That can be said of every military gear. Is that a reason for banning them? The Romans already said: "Si vis pacem, para bellum".

I will translate if you want...

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 08 Nov 2003, 10:41

777 wrote:Hi Comet, didn't you like the film Top Gun ?

Andre

Yes 777, I have seen Top Gun (though not for a while now) and I did enjoy the flying sequences.

My favourite aircraft related films are, however, a little older - "The Dambusters", "Battle of Britain", "Reach for the Skies" and things like that which instill a sense of pride in the achievements of one's country.

777 · Post by **777** » 08 Nov 2003, 20:44

Hi Comet,

I have seen "The Dambusters" & "Battle of Britain" at least ten times. You never get enough.

Andre

777 · Post by **777** » 08 Nov 2003, 20:46

USS Nimitz (CVN 68) first of the Nimitz class nuclear Carrier

CVN 68

Sabena_690 · Post by **Sabena_690** » 08 Nov 2003, 20:57

Thanks André, but after 6 years of Latin I was able to understand what it meant

It's true... but still I have mixed feelings when I think about the thousands and thousands of innocent people that have been killed already by those pieces of power! And that counts indeed as well for bombers etc...

Regards
Frederic

777 · Post by **777** » 08 Nov 2003, 21:16

Hello Frederic,

I know it is off topic, but this is A exception:

DO not forget the 3000 innocent people that died in the WTC in NY the 11th September 2001.

I was in the WTC exactly 20 years earlier, september 1981 and have plenty of pics of it.

I can tell you the WTC was HUGE.

Thanks for letting all of us remember and never forget 9/11.

Andre

Lien · Post by **Lien** » 08 Nov 2003, 22:27

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) the second Nimitz class Carrier

CVN 69

CVN 69

Lien · Post by **Lien** » 09 Nov 2003, 01:42

USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) third Nimitz class nuclear Carrier

CVN 70