How about a remake of 'The Final Countdown' ?
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Congress recently authorized Boeing to make a few more Super Hornets, mostly due to the delays in getting the Navy Lightnings to get delivered but I'm sure there was political pressure to keep the assembly lines working for a couple more years.
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This would be the only logical remake, having them actually change history, then dealing with the consequences, then (probably) going back and preventing themselves from changing history. Enterprise vs. Enterprise.
Looks like I had some old information (The Navy needs to update their web pages!). The Navy retired their Prowlers last year, but the Marines still fly them. Those squadrons are land based, but can fly from carriers.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but James Farentino passed away on January 24, 2012.
^ Eh? Oh, much apologizings, I had no idea.
And because no one has, but we've all thought about it...
According to Wikipedia the F-14 Tomcat was retired from U.S. Navy in 2006. Replaced with F-18 super Hornet.
The Zumwalt is an attempt to add stealth to a surface warship.
The Zumwalt is an attempt to add stealth to a surface warship.
You feel old... I was 19 years old watching "Argonauts" A-7Es flying back to Lemoore after a carrier cruise (one of the last, also on Nimitz, IIRC)!
I guess so! The last VS squadrons and their Hoovers have been out of the fleet for five or six years, too.
Thank god for the longevity of the Hawkeye, a flight deck with no Grummans... just doesn't seem right.
Yeah, I'm not sure a Superbug could handle a Zero.
Oh, damn!
Hey, I mentioned it!
Not the first attempt. That would be an experimental ship called the Sea Shadow. The second would be the Arleigh Burke-class, which is why they have a faceted shape. Zumwalt is a lessons-learned follow on to the Burke.
I am not a big fan of remakes. I am sick of Hollywood remaking movies. Hollywood has no imagination and has run out ideas to make quality movies. Maybe if they were to read a book....
I like the idea of having the modern/future carrier change history- just make that happen half way through the movie and then deal with the ramifications and an attempt to correct things. I always thought it was a bit of a cop out to have the time warp show up just as they were about to intervene.
Great book series- one of the better time travel books in general and the interaction of technologies and societal differences was wonderful.
Great book series- one of the better time travel books in general and the interaction of technologies and societal differences was wonderful.
My thoughts exactly.
Maybe we will get a replacement one day.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/does-the-us-navy-need-21st-century-f-14-tomcat-14063
http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/top-gun-day-special-the-super-tomcat-that-was-never-bu-1575814142
Some might nix the idea of the supercarrier altogether
http://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2011-05/twilight-uperfluous-carrier
Then too--there is a better idea
http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=3719#.V1MWJzUrKUk
Rather than a movie remake of The Final Countdown they could do a whole TV series adapting Birmingham's "Axis of Time" books, in which an entire 21st Century battle group is time-warped into an alternate universe, emerging right in the middle of Fletcher's task force on it's way to the Battle of Midway. A few ships emerge at different times and places as well, giving the Axis access (pun intended) to some future-tech and knowledge of how things would have worked out, and thereby altering the entire course of not just WWII, but the whole history of the 20th and early 21st Century. One of the best things about the books was the way Birmingham dealt with the social conflicts between the 21st Century peeps and the WWII era peeps- it was as big a challenge for them to overcome as adapting their advanced tech to the 1940's.
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