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From: gordon@meaddata.com (Gordon Edwards)
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Subject: Re: Carriers in the Gulf: Risky?
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.034324.20791@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 03:43:24 GMT
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From: gordon@meaddata.com (Gordon Edwards)


In article <1991Jan22.013926.18118@cbnews.att.com>, dps@otter.hpl.hp.com
(Duncan Smith) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> From: dps@otter.hpl.hp.com (Duncan Smith)
|> 
|> I noticed something about the carriers listed as deployed:
|> 
|> America
|> Ranger
|> Midway
|> Forrestal
|> John F. Kennedy
|> Theodore Roosevelt

Forrestal is in Jacksonville.  The Saratoga is deployed to the Mid-East.

|> 
|> Aren't all except the last two conventionally powered? And all
|> except the last one, which is brand spanking new (CVN-71?), in
|> the region of twenty-plus years old?

Only the Roosevelt is nuclear powered.  The only non-Nimitz class carrier
with nuclear power is the Enterprise.

|> 
|> Perhaps this is an accident of rotation, but it looks to me
|> as if a decision has been taken to husband the CVNs.
|> 
|> Otherwise, where are Enterprise, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nimitz and
|> Carl Vinsen?
|> 

Depends largely on fleet assignments and what ships are in SLEP.

|> ps Is there going to be a CVN-72(?), maybe named Paul Revere?

CVN-72	Abraham Lincoln
CVN-73	George Washington
CVN-74	John Stennis
CVN-75	United States

CVN-72 is undergoing acceptance trials (I think) and 73 is under construction.

It is likely that 74 and 75 might be cancelled.  If this happens, it will
be the second aircraft carrier named the United States to be cancelled 
(CV-58 was to be the first of the super carriers, but was cancelled and
funding was concentrated on the Air Forces B-36).

-- Gordon     (gordon@meaddata.com)