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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari
Fyretracker Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2010.07.07 16:56:00 -
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never mind that a single US carrier costs 4.5 billion for a Nimitz class(based on Wiki which was using y2000 dollars). i doubt the british people would want the royal navy to blow that much on one boat.
that said the US carriers are very adaptable boats, they have even served peaceful roles in Katrina and the Haiti quake as a temp landing field and fresh water production(pretty much unlimited desalination when you are driving around a nuclear reactor).
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari
Fyretracker Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2010.07.08 17:52:00 -
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DARPA is working on stuff like that though. then again DARPA works on everything that is considered far flung.
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari
Fyretracker Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2010.07.10 20:29:00 -
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The BS might be obsolete but god damn, no weapons system on any ship today will ever match the raw show of power that an Iowa Class could with a broadside. but they took way too many crew to operate for the size of ship by modern standards.
however i bet they could have refit to be nuclear powered, because they used steam turbines to drive the screws what is the difference between a boiler and a reactor? nothing really, even the Nimitz carriers are glorified steamboats.
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari
Fyretracker Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2010.07.10 21:27:00 -
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i dont think truely modern militaries will engage in open war for anytime in the near future. mostly because two big nations in a true war, one would likely get an ichy trigger finger on a certain weapons class and then its Defcon 1 time.. of course that is why we have proxy wars where we give smaller countries modern weapons....
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Viktor Fyretracker
Caldari
Fyretracker Heavy Industries
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Posted - 2010.07.12 05:23:00 -
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The USS Enterprise is a pretty damn old ship lets not forget.
but i think there is a design on the drawingboards to replace it. i know there is a campaign to make sure the replacement is also named Enterprise.
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