USS Gerald R. Ford

I would also point out that the EMALs was used in order to speed group sortie speed. Yet, it is much slower still than a ramped carrier. These ships are so fucking retarded, expensive, and useless too our fleets.
JUST

>I'm going to over simplify and criticize the development of technology I don't have the slightest grasp on, the thread

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>>34627078
Being able to shit on countries from +800nmi away.
>useless

>>34627078
>Yet, it is much slower still than a ramped carrier

I know this is bait, but retards are going to take it.

STOVL has greater sortie generation per aircraft, however nobody has build a STOVL carrier that is equivalent to the CATOBAR supercarriers.

>>34627047

>tfw we will have to look at a USS Barack Obama in our lifetime.

>>34627078
At least it can launch fixed wing awacs/tanker/cargo planes.

>>34627245
No.

Ford was a navy man.

Trump should name a tugboat the uss Obama. So no one can name an important ship after him.

>>34627249

You are dumb. That is not the point being made.

>>34627078
2 ramps are slower than 4 cats.

>>34627257
Reagan was an army man and still got a carrier. Though he expanded the navy unlike Obama.

>>34627292
so what's the names of the other 7 going to be?

>>34627635
Most of the good Presidents are already taken. Still some options, Jefferson sounds good but considering his relationship with the Navy probably inappropriate (probably why he's never gotten any good ships named after him). Adams would actually be fantastic. Grant would be decent even though he's not a naval man.

Could also go for some traditional names, pull Yorktown out of the bag.

>>34627047
>laid down 2009
>enter service 2017
>12 years

OP cannot into math

>>34627047
Brainlet spotted.

Ford took one year longer from lay down to commissioning than the Nimitz, and that was during the height of the cold war.

>>34627714
>Implying Yorktown won't be between BBBG-72 and BBBG-76

A class of ballistic/guided missile battleships is going to be designed, and the names will be Saratoga, Intrepid, Yorktown, Lexington, and Ranger.

>>34627714
My vote would be
>Lexington
>Yorktown
>Hornet
>Oldendorf, even though he was a battleship admiral
>Ernest King
>Bill Leahy

>>34627783
Intrepid is still afloat as a museum, they'd need to rename it.

The carrier: USS ENTERPRISE. Yes i don't give a shit there already is one.

>>34627789
He was army, but I could almost see Billy Mitchell getting it for his contributions to anti-ship aerial bombing, and his championing of the whole carrier concept.

2nd Ford Class carrier will be JFK. #3 will be Enterprise.

>>34627272
Dogs are even better

>>34627944
Him or Doolittle deserve one but we'll end up with half the rest named after congressmen

>>34627714
>Jefferson sounds good but considering his relationship with the Navy probably inappropriate

Explain. Jefferson was the president that declared war on muslim pirates and won.

>>34628111
He preferred the idea of a militia and coastal navy over a standing army and oceangoing navy.

>>34627714
>>34627635
>>34627292
Why do all of our Carriers have to be named after presidents? Or more importantly, why do all of our ship names suck? The British can come up with really good names for their ships. Even when they name them after some dead guy they still come up with good names for it. Like, it wasn't the HMS Duke of Wellington (boring), it was HMS Iron Duke.

>>34628024
>2nd Ford Class carrier will be JFK
I'm okay with this

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>>34627047
>300x169

Is that a picture for ants?

>>34627870
Good news: CVN-65 was decomissioned years ago and Enterprise is already scheduled as the name of the second Ford-class

>>34628160
>>34628024

My bad, although I'm certain that's changed.

>>34628135
>why do all our ship names suck

Fish don't vote.

I can guarantee that if the RN would make a giant battleship carrier and name it HMS National Health Service, it would be built as no one would oppose it. The USN learned in the 60s that if you want something, you have to have no shame in how you name vessels.

>>34627714
>lee
>stonewall
>stuart
>pickett
>longstree
>forrest
>beauregard

>>34628135
I honestly like understated ship names more than boastful ones like the Bongs use (Invincible, Victorious, Vengeance)..

>>34628220
the boastful name ships tend to get sunk in humiliating fashion.

>>34628135
I just want another USS Ranger, that's a good name for a task force lead ship.

Also this is confusing
>Ships referred to with female pronouns
>Named after dudes
What

>>34628260
the navy is full of traps, anon

>>34628269
that is what you get when 1/3rd of the sailors are flips.

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>>34628269
*blocks your path*

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>>34628220

Because of you, America will have USS Barack Obama, USS Hillary Clinton and USS Bernie Sanders.

>>34628260
there's the USS Gabby Giffords

>>34627047
If we were to suddently get into a war with someone we could cut that down to three months if you're that anal about it. The lengthy testing period is there to make sure we don't end up with another littoral combat shit situtation.

>>34628214
Naming a modern ship Stonewall wouldn't give the name any justice: it would be more like a "Tinwall".

>>34628347
Wouldn't that wind up being like 2-3 trillion in extra revenue a year? Did Bernie promise everyone free McMansions?

>>34628961
What makes you think there is any factual basis for that facebook-tier meme other than something along the lines of "Hannity said so, it must be true"?

>>34627783
>naming battleships after carriers

why

>>34628289
Boy, that girl has a pretty puffy vagina....

>>34628961
>Did Bernie promise everyone free McMansions

Worse. Open borders and "free" college for everybody in the entire world.

>>34627783
>BBBG
I know BB = battleship and G = guided missile, but what's with the extra B?

>>34627047
I want to ram it into the QE.

Naming ships after people still alive or president that haven't been dead for 50+ years is fucking stupid and political.

>>34628961
how will you give 100k dollar college educations to all the billions of negros & asians

>>34630003

Rule 34 in full effect already.

People have been crying out for the QE and Ford to meet up after all.

>>34629954
(BB) - Battleship
(B) - Ballistic Missile
(G) - Guided Missile

Think of like a midship VLS section, but it's massive and holds 4-8 Trident D5 missiles.

>>34627245

>tfw it'll be sunk by Cordis Die drones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIloOSvKDSw

>>34630260
>no ban please
Blue board but thanks for posting them in my /pol/ thread anyhow

>>34630355
>Blue board
We can post pictures of killing machines but not beautiful female bodies? Sheesh. It's like Germany 1939 here.

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>>34627245
>tfw we will have to look at a USS Barack Obama in our lifetime.

>>34630343
>carrier sunk
>edgelords that didn't take action to save it

>>34630322
"If feces or gas is present in the colon this is a possible source of discomfort. Using the restroom before (to pass stool) and afterward (to urinate) will increase the comfort so that you can remain compliant with the care of the vulva and vaginal area. In addition, urinating after dilating will reduce the chance of urinary track infections.

Once inside the vagina, do not push down or up or you may perforate the rectum or urethra (both serious complications)."

what the fuck

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>>34630260
>traps
>post-op
Hownew.ru?

>>34630274
At least this now mentally ill woman comitted to the procedure.

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>>34630417
>woman

well this thread went off the....rails

>>34627718
Doesn't enter service until 2021.

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>>34627272
TWO RAMPS?!

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>>34628234
>HMS Invincible
>Get ammorekt two minutes into the battle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Invincible_(1907)

>>34630322
showing dildo for 4 hours per day sounds hot

do they give tranny soldiers a special time for that?

>>34630593
>commissioned July 22, 2017

It's in service as of today.

>>34627047
why are all ship threads on /k/ so cancerous?
what is it about carriers that attract slaviboo and ameriboo autism?

>>34628135
>all of our Carriers have to be named after presidents
But they aren't. Unless you think Nimitz, Stennis, and Vinson were Presidents. This is a misconception. Carriers are named after people who have a large positive influence in the Navy (except Abe Lincoln there). It's coincidental that they tend to be presidents since they lead the effort to secure funding and expansion.

Obama slashed the military wholesale in a lot of ways. Of course he isn't getting a carrier name after him.

>>34627635
There's always going to be an Enterprise, I believe it's CVN-79

>>34628160
The Enterprise was CVN-75 too, was just decommissioned earlier this year to make room for the Ford class Enterprise.

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>>34630260
>>34630274
FUCKING WHY! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS EVIL!
I'm a Atheist but fuck, sometimes I WISH God was real so these freaks can spend eternity in fucking torment.

>>34631196
god was real
we have killed him

>>34627047
The F35 of the USN.

>>34631250
Go back to dead Nietschze.

>>34627835
The former USS Intrepid isn't in commission anymore, so the name is available.>>34627944

>>34627944
Billy Mitchell rigged the tests (no damage control, used larger bombs than were arranged for, USN didn't have the chance to inspect damage to learn how to improve our future ships) and his ENTIRE POINT was that the USN could be replaced by AAF bombers.
The USN will never name a garbage barge after him, you stupid fuck.

>>34631049
USS Enterprise just decommed was CVN-65.
I could give you a pass for the typo, but it wasn't decommissioned to "make room" for another carrier, it was decommed because it was old and it's time to replace it.

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>>34631393

>because it was old

At least she could go super fast with those eight reactors of hers.

>>34631501
>mobile chernobyl
o god i am laffin

>>34630260
>>34630274
>>34630322
build the wall

There are plenty of old presidents with military backgrounds. Over half of the presidents of the 19th century were generals.

Harrison
Arthur
Garfield
Hayes
Grant
Johnson
Pierce
Taylor
Harrison
Jackson

I'd pick Grant and Jackson. McCain will end up getting a spot undeservedly. Maybe they'll go with Intrepid or Kitty Hawk for the last one.

>>34630969
>massive incresement of defensive spending
>slashed the military wholesale

>>34631915
McCain will get a destroyer. His father and grandfather already have one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John_S._McCain_(DDG-56)

>>34631915
>Johnson
>>34631915
I hope that's Andrew, not Lyndon

>>34631974
I just realized realized Andrew Johnson was VP during Lincoln's assassination, and Lyndon Johnson was VP during Kennedy's assassination.

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>>34632034
FUCK

>>34627292
Reagan was a saint to a generations of retards.

>>34628135
Because they want political support. Fun fact: there's a USS Harry S. Truman because of a deal with Congress to name one after Reagan. HST was supposed to be United States.

>>34632034
Mention it to Alex Jones, he can probably turn it into a 5 hour woke episode

>>34632119
You have to be 18+ to use 4chan

>>34632129
Theoretically.

>>34628135
Don't worry anon, if the dumbing down of the US population and beaner invasion goes on, you will toally end up with
>USS JOOOOOOHNNNN CEEEEEEENAAAAAA
guaranteed.
How does that makes you feel ?

>>34632748
Well, a new stealth ship would be pretty cool

>>34632748
That'd be cool yeah

the next carrier we make shouldn't have a tower

discuss

>>34627714

just do USS Nimitz II, Nimitz III, Nimitiz IV, IV+, etc

>>34628180
The correct answer

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What is even the use of an aircraft carrier in Conventional Warfare?
I mean, wouldn't one proper hit to the flight deck be enough to destroy the takeoff and landing strips and defeat its entire purpose?

Obviously that's not what's happening so maybe /k/ can shed some light on this.

>>34633162

Aircraft greatly expand a fleet's range and each individual aircraft is capable of sinking entire ships on their own. Which is also why lots of anti-aircraft aircraft are needed to protect ships.

Fact is boats are not durable and easily sink. Which is why the goal is to kill the enemy first.

>>34627718
Neither can you, or you have selective reading skills.

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>>34631970
>McCain will get a destroyer

Trump needs to stop that. Completely destroy "Wetstart" Mccain's legacy.

>>34628111
That is a meme. North African piracy was ended only by the start of French settler colonialism in the region.

>>34631938
>massive incresement of defensive spending
>Obama

>>34631938
Its a retarded neocon meme

>>34631970
God i hope not, he is a neocon retard who killed US sailors

>>34633162
Attacking a carrier requires a concentration of forces. Concentrations of force are vulnerable to attack. So an aircraft carrier in a conventional war would be preceded by attacks on carrier killing weapons, coordinated to destroy those weapons before or when they reveal themselves to attack the carrier. With modern intel, ballistic/cruise missiles, and strategic bombers, effectively attacking a carrier would put the attacking forces in at least as much danger as the carrier itself. Would this approach be infalliable? Of course not. But war involves risks, and for the usefulness that airplanes bring the risk of the carrier being attacked and crippled/destroyed is worth it.

>>34627714

>Wasp
>Hornet
>Lexington
>Enterprise
>Yorktown
>Midway

There's a whole mess of WW2 carriers with distinguished careers that need to paid homage.