We're going to need a bigger wall.
They were already missing CV-6, not to mention 4 other sailing vessels and the WWI motorboat. Do we know which of the 5 sailing vessels that one is?
First cut of steel kicks off construction of the aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN-80)
- Thread starter B.J.
- Start date
They were already missing CV-6, not to mention 4 other sailing vessels and the WWI motorboat. Do we know which of the 5 sailing vessels that one is?
The one in the picture is CV-6, -65 is missing. Best guess for the sailing vessel is the US schooner of 1799.
The first laser bank goes to the USS-Ponce
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Weapon_System
This sounds high tech
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7449/full/nature12036.html?foxtrotcallback=true
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/08/new-light-by-combining-photon-with-one.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolaser
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8198504
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Weapon_System
This sounds high tech
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v497/n7449/full/nature12036.html?foxtrotcallback=true
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/08/new-light-by-combining-photon-with-one.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolaser
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8198504
Last edited:
Except it's installed on ship that will be decommissioned next year and won't be moved to a new ship which doesn't bode well for it's future.
At this rate by the time the actual starship Enterprise is launched, they are going to have to mount the ship models of past Enterprise ships along the corridor walls simply to have enough wall space. lol
Nope, she was the only ship of the Enterprise class, totally unique design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(CVN-65)
The Nimitz "class" has two or three sub-types depending on how you count them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier
Until the Ford class, there were only 5 supercarrier designs with the Enterprise being the only unique one. The Midway, Forrestal, Kitty Hawk and Nimitz comprise the rest.
It was installed on the Ponce 3 years ago.
The CVN-65 Enterprise was very distinctive, especially the original superstructure. It was the only one that was square.
I'm not sure why those schooners have square forecourses, but that's a nice piece.
"Big John" was also considered a class of one.
I know, I was referring to John F. Kennedy CV-67.
Kitty Hawk class then, as much as the George H W Bush has changes no other Nimitz class has, but is still very much a part of the class.
I'm refering to ships 1960 onwards that are supercarriers where the entire class hull was only produced once. I thought that was beyond clear.
It's beyond clear that the USN has always considered JFK to be its own class, not a Kitty Hawk.
http://www.nvr.navy.mil/SHIPDETAILS/SHIPSDETAIL_CV_67_5149.HTML
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Hawk-class_aircraft_carrier
"Subclass" which the Nimitz has 3 of, yet the navy classifies all 10 of them as Nimitz.
The original question was whether the Enterprise was a Nimitz class or that they were based off of it, she isn't, they weren't. All supercarriers look alike after the Midway era of design. But there are only 6 parent classes. Midway, Forrestal, Kitty Hawk, Enterprise, Nimitz and Ford.
Subclasses are variations of existing hulls.
I know what the question was, and I said that CV-67 was "considered a class of one" and I have provided a link to the official US government source on that. As far as the US Navy is concerned, there have been six classes of supercarriers:
CV-59 (Forrestal)
CV-63 (Kitty Hawk)
CVN-65 (Enterprise)
CV-67 (John F. Kennedy)
CVN-68 (Nimitz)
CVN-78 (Gerald R. Ford)
The Brits should have offered to buy that--and used the savings to SKYLON--instead of their own turbine design.
Suits me--and we'll have R. Lee Ermey teach TOPGUN
Just an aside. I wonder why no one ever thought to have camoflage look like a superior mirage of a different kind of vessel...I've seen dazzle camo...
Last edited:
