I've been on the Teddy many times, though only while she's in port.
My favorite carrier moment was when I was on the Stennis. On 20JAN17, a group of sailors were waiting impatiently near the quarterdeck and took photos/selfies when Hussein's pic was removed and Donald J Trump's pic was placed in its rightful frame as Commander in Chief.
Sadly, stuff wears out. At some point it becomes more expensive to maintain it than to deploy a new one, as paradoxical as that may be. And the reactors in those things don’t last forever. The radiation does funny things to the metallurgy. Once those teakettles are done, their service life is over.
They're also quite obsolete now. Carriers (and indeed most of the surface navy) are no longer apex warfighting assets. They are slow-moving liabilities filled with dozens to hundreds of potential horrific casualties.
Hypersonic-missile delivery platforms are now the apex assets.
we need to design a submersible aircraft carrier or something else radically different for force projection. $ 50,000 rocket can take out a billion dollar
carrier
I heard that while reading trivia about the movie Top Gun, where someone was talking about the USS Oriskany. It was sunk for an artificial reef that was whimsically named the "Great Carrier Reef." KEK
And it’s the Theodore Roosevelt
I've been on the Teddy many times, though only while she's in port.
My favorite carrier moment was when I was on the Stennis. On 20JAN17, a group of sailors were waiting impatiently near the quarterdeck and took photos/selfies when Hussein's pic was removed and Donald J Trump's pic was placed in its rightful frame as Commander in Chief.
That must have been a sweet moment! Thanks for sharing fren!
Ah, the Roosevelt, was doing my carrier alphabet trying to remember that one.
Sadly, stuff wears out. At some point it becomes more expensive to maintain it than to deploy a new one, as paradoxical as that may be. And the reactors in those things don’t last forever. The radiation does funny things to the metallurgy. Once those teakettles are done, their service life is over.
They're also quite obsolete now. Carriers (and indeed most of the surface navy) are no longer apex warfighting assets. They are slow-moving liabilities filled with dozens to hundreds of potential horrific casualties.
Hypersonic-missile delivery platforms are now the apex assets.
we need to design a submersible aircraft carrier or something else radically different for force projection. $ 50,000 rocket can take out a billion dollar carrier
One carrier is the second most powerful nation in the world.
I heard that while reading trivia about the movie Top Gun, where someone was talking about the USS Oriskany. It was sunk for an artificial reef that was whimsically named the "Great Carrier Reef." KEK
What a great memory!!
"I like all you Navy boys. Every time we gotta go some place to fight, you fellas always give us a ride." - A few good men
Yeah, like Midway for instance . . .
Alas the sea is a harsh mistress, especially to a giant hunk of iron.