Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!jrll@Portia.stanford.edu From: jrll@Portia.stanford.edu (john ralls) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Naval Loose Ends Message-ID: <6261@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 5 May 89 00:34:57 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM Lines: 19 Approved: military@att.att.com From: john ralls Someone asked as a by-the-way which carriers are nuclear and which conventional. All CVs before Nimitz (CVN-68) except Enterprise (CVN-65) are conventional. Someone else asserted that CIC's (Combat Information Centers) on modern ships are down in the hull, where they are safer. Actually, in US ships, the CIC is immediately behind the pilot house (often refered to as the bridge). This is so that the Captain may easily move from one to the other, keeping track of the tactical situation. The one surface ship exception of which I know is Long Beach (CGN-9), which does have a CIC down below the main deck, with an elevator for the Captain to go between the two. Submarines, of course, have everything below the waterline. :-) John