US Navy launches world's most advanced nuclear aircraft carrier

[jubilee1919]

Pentagon
December 2, 2012
By: Robert Tilford

Navy launches world's most advanced nuclear aircraft carrier

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today via video message at the USS Enterprise (CVN 65) inactivation ceremony that the third Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier will be named USS Enterprise.

“Mabus selected this name to honor USS Enterprise (CVN 65), the Navy’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which was inactivated today in Norfolk, Va. Commissioned in 1961, CVN 65 served for over than five decades”, according to the news release dated December 1, 2012.

“The USS Enterprise was the first of its kind, and for 51 years its name has been synonymous with boldness, readiness and an adventurous spirit,” said Mabus. “Rarely has our fleet been without a ship bearing the name. I chose to maintain this tradition not solely because of the legacy it invokes, but because the remarkable work of the name Enterprise is not done”, Mabus said

The new USS Enterprise, designated CVN 80, will be the “ninth ship to bear the name.”
USS Enterprise and subsequent Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers will provide improved “warfighting capability, quality of life improvements for Sailors and reduced life cycle costs.”

The Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier will be 1,092 feet in length and have a beam of 134 feet. The flight deck will be 256 feet wide, and the ship will be able to operate at speeds in excess of 34 knots.” The Ford class has a unit cost of over $13.5 billion dollars. Enterprise will be built by Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding in Newport News, Virginia.

http://www.examiner.com/article/navy-launches-world-s-most-advanced-nuclear-aircraft-carrier-the-world

http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=15708

 

[jubilee1919]

[video=youtube_share;oWcXy0ePUdk]http://youtu.be/oWcXy0ePUdk[/video]

 

[jubilee1919]

[video=youtube_share;q4F_JcFZSU4]http://youtu.be/q4F_JcFZSU4[/video]

 

[singveld]

i prefer the future enterprise.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

one carrier = 13.5 billion.............


Obama gave out the banksters............over 20 trillion...............officially only 2 trillion lah............


2 trillion = 148 carriers......................US construction industry boom until .....................what recession ???!!!


with 148 carriers...........the whole world can only kowtow to USA...............LOL

 

[wMulew]

Dumbfuck country still trying desperately to cling on to it's "Super Power" status. The fucking country is currently running on funds from China. If China wasn't buying it's bonds and bailing it out, it would be in even worse shape than the EU. Instead of spending useless money on toys they will not be using, they could have used all that money to pay back everyone, to stop running a deficit and to ensure their own children does not inherit this mess

 

[Narong Wongwan]

Chinks supporters fall in to bash US!
Assemble here!

 

[wikiphile]

The Big E is back!

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

Dumbfuck country still trying desperately to cling on to it's "Super Power" status. The fucking country is currently running on funds from China. If China wasn't buying it's bonds and bailing it out, it would be in even worse shape than the EU. Instead of spending useless money on toys they will not be using, they could have used all that money to pay back everyone, to stop running a deficit and to ensure their own children does not inherit this mess

USA is simply doing what Israel wants it to do...............


as long as USD is reserve currency...............USA can keep spending..............if USD crashes............China will die 1st before USA..........

the bonds will be worthless and China will lose American consumers...............


with the Arab royalties kept in power by the Americans, they'll have to sell oil only in USD..............so USD will still be reserve currency..........

Iray and Iran tried to sell oil in other currencies...............and you know what happened to Iraq

 

[hairylee]

Dumbfuck country still trying desperately to cling on to it's "Super Power" status. The fucking country is currently running on funds from China. If China wasn't buying it's bonds and bailing it out, it would be in even worse shape than the EU. Instead of spending useless money on toys they will not be using, they could have used all that money to pay back everyone, to stop running a deficit and to ensure their own children does not inherit this mess

They are living as if there is no tomorrow.

 

[Timbuktu]

The world will not end so soon. It still has to wait for the rise of all the African countries...there're more than 50 of them in all.
That will be show-down when that happens.

 

[GOD IS MY DOG]

The world will not end so soon. It still has to wait for the rise of all the African countries...there're more than 50 of them in all.
That will be show-down when that happens.

shows how little you know of what's happening.............Africa is being re-colonised...............their resources falling under foreign control.........

 

[Timbuktu]

shows how little you know of what's happening.............Africa is being re-colonised...............their resources falling under foreign control.........

That's what I meant....only after de-colonized and when African states become independent, then there will be 5 super-blocks in this world before amalgadon can take place.

 

[jubilee1919]

i prefer the future enterprise.

 

[iluvgst]

China's DF-21D anti carrier missiles will send the multi billion dollar ship down to the bottom of the ocean.

 

[moolightaffairs]

imagine our shipyard building this kind of ship... with all the mama... the aircraft carrier will end up like the oil rig, listing on one side.

 

[DogVader]

This is great!!

 

[YellowRibbon]

3 years to build one aircraft carrier ?? By the time it is completed, the technology all outdated liao ???

 

[Enterprise]

The Big E is back!

Hello. Siang kah pay ger. I am also known as Gray Ghost in WW2.

 

[sleaguepunter]

The Big E is back!

"Big E" USN Enterprise CV6 already turn to razorblade in 1958.

It a shame that "Bull" Halsey could not raise the $$ to save her from the scrapeyard.