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I saw this on "Discovery's The Military Channel" last week.
It's nto gonna be much larger than the currt Nimitz class, but it's going to be much more technologically advanced, with everything from on board communications, GPS location, defense systems, etc... It's gonna be a bad ***** (shut-yo-mouth), I'm just talking about the Carrier.

Still will have 4 screws, and able to do 30 knots. (That's moving for something that displaces 90 - 105,000 tons, plus. Twice the size of other countries carriers.

CVN-21 program

 

Niiiiiiiice.

Hersh, do you ever watch "future weapons" on the Discovery Channel?

That show is awesomne, and it's right up your alley.


http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/fu...reweapons.html

 

Please God tell me our boys and girls in white have that already.

 

You'd be surprised how long it takes to get something new in the .mil
I do P-3 and C-130 Navy reserve aircraft and the GPS install was finished about 2 years ago. Unfortunatly we got a cheapo system. Not certified for primary navigation and no integrity checking. The C-130s are getting new Garmin systems we're buying of the commercial shelf in 2008. The AMP Avionics Modernization Program with new GPS doesn't come on line until 2012.

Fritz

 

If they can put a Land Rover in a plane, and navigate by it's navi system, why the hell can't the military put GPS on all of our aircraft and in our ships?

 

Hey Hersh ,I like the "Shaft" reference .

 

Please Lord don't let them name it after a Texan.

 

looks cool my 2 deployments were on LHA & LHD's (carriers for helicopters)
took a trip over to the Lincoln when it was in the gulf with us in 03.

I think it should be the USS Ronald Reagan don't think he has one yet(but I don't know how they choose who they name them after)

 

USS Ronald Reagan

Also, I work at the yard that has built all of the LHDs.

 

It very well could be named after the person who pushed through the creation of it.

 

jamzwayne, believe it or not i know Richard the host, last person you would want to meet in the parking lot , he is the real deal. it is a good story, self made guy that has actually has used alot of that equipment. the ratings were good so he should get picked up for more shows

 

Give the man 2 Yeah my deployments were on LHD-1 USS Wasp and my second was on the LHA-4 USS Nassau ( i try to forget that ship)

I missed out on going on the USS Bataan & USS Iwo Jima's maiden Med cruise by 1 rotation on both of them. That sucked I was with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and we missed getting the new ship twice.

 

And here is an old carrier. The ex-Oriskany, a decommissioned aircraft carrier being sunk.



the rest of the pics.........

http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/...0651821814.asp

 

Man I am gonna have to go scuba on that ship when they open it.