It's gotta be said

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Leaving behind all the politics, wars and so on for a second… that aircraft carrier you built America? The nuclear powered one? Pretty darn impressive.

 

[kanerf]

I believe all of the carriers in the fleet are Nuclear powered.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

I believe all of the carriers in the fleet are Nuclear powered.

Even more impressive! Our carriers run off the power of fossils.

 

[ruadisneyfan2]

Even more impressive! Our carriers run off the power of fossils.

Our submarines are as well. There's no place to fill the tank in the middle of the ocean halfway across the earth.

 

[ruadisneyfan2]

Leaving behind all the politics, wars and so on for a second… that aircraft carrier you built America? The nuclear powered one? Pretty darn impressive.


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That is the USS George Washington, over 35 years old now.
If you ever visit NYC, you can go on the USS Intrepid. It's an aircraft carrier that has been converted to a museum. They had a Concorde jet on the flight deck and for a while had a space shuttle too.

There is also the USS Midway, now a museum, in the harbor in San Diego, CA.

It's all such amazing engineering

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Our submarines are as well. There's no place to fill the tank in the middle of the ocean halfway across the earth.

Yeah we have nuclear subs too, no-one knows where they are at any given time - they carry our nuclear deterrent. We used to have a few diesel-electrics, but no more...

 

[ruadisneyfan2]

Yeah we have nuclear subs too, no-one knows where they are at any given time - they carry our nuclear deterrent. We used to have a few diesel-electrics, but no more...

Are you from the UK?

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Are you from the UK?

Yup!

 

[OrangeBirdGirl]

Yes, our carriers are sure impressive! As others mentioned we have two as museums, in NYC and San Diego, if you are ever in the area of one, it is very neat to check out. Even other small ships like destroyers they have many throughout the United States as museums. Also some submarines as museums, mostly all diesel WWII though.

Today I was looking up statistics of our (US's) carriers compared to a decent size cruise ship. A carrier and cruise ship are about the same length but the carrier is over twice as wide! And, think of all the exciting entertainment you have on a cruise ship. Not as much as on a carrier even though the larger size. They have gyms, you could golf off the back of the carrier (with bio-degradable golf balls), basketball on the deck. And, you could turn the surface into a running track when not needed for operations. One lap around is 1/4 - 1/3 of a mile (400-500 meters). For people on it, when you combine passengers and crew for a decent size cruise ship you are looking at the same number of people on an aircraft carrier.