How many carriers does the US have?

[Pongo]

Isnt the new US CVN class due out in 2006?

[Ripsnort]

I found a picture of the Danish Coast Guard in action...

 

[StSanta]

Look at the size of that gun.

Yay baby.

We're coming, and we're grumpy.

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Baron Claus "StSanta" Von Ribbentroppen
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up space"

[Eagler]

to answer the original post:

Not enough! One anchored offshore off every major port with sorties flown over every major population center sounds good to me. It'll help Palestine, China, India, and Pakistan, Iran, Iraq (insert troublesome country name here)- get their act together as well as help the Arabs figure out what to charge for a barrel of oil to the U.S. Then the missile defense system would not be needed, think of the savings  

Eagler

[Mk10 225th]

Hell, that's just like a rig me 'an my friend use for Bullfrogs here in Missouri.

We use a '60 though.  Doesn't tear the meat up as much as a .50 cal.

Mk

[funked]

Hi Pavel!  That was a troll for you.  

[fd ski]

Two cruises and minor ones on CVN 73 George Washington, few minor workup's on CVN74 Stennis.

They are big, ugly and they smell  


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Bartlomiej Rajewski
aka. Wing Commander fd-ski
Northolt Wing
1st Polish Fighter Wing
303 (Polish) Squadron "Kosciuszko" RAF
308 (Polish) Squadron "City of Cracow" RAF
315 (Polish) Squadron "City of Deblin" RAF

Turning 109s and 190s into scrap metal since 1998

Northolt Wing Headquarters

[Dowding]

"Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves!
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves!"

And you know it.  

You American upstarts, wait until you've had naval supremacy for 500 years - then you will know power!

You will also know how to milk your heritage, when you lose it all.

 

[This message has been edited by Dowding (edited 02-07-2001).]

[mietla]

 

Originally posted by fd ski:
They are big, ugly and they smell  

but they look so cool

[StSanta]

Dowding, has-beens like us are pretty good at the latter!

And, btw, Nelson got lucky.



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Baron Claus "StSanta" Von Ribbentroppen
9./JG 54 "Grünherz"
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up space"

[Boroda]

Hehe, Funked   USSR had only two ships that could be called "carriers": Kiev, equipped with VTOL Yak-38s, combat range only 250km, and Tbilisi (Admiral Kuznetsov), not equipped with a catapult, carrying MiG-29K and Su-27K 4-th generation fighters. I don't count large anti-sub ships like Leningrad, Moscow etc, equipped with Kamov helicopters.

Dowding, even Russian Navy has a longer cobat record then Americans. The only conflict between British and Russian navy in 1854-55 was lost by Russia in a Black sea, but we made much better in the Baltic, White sea and in the Pacific  

Anyone remembers Russian ships that helped North during American civil war?

 

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With respect,
    Pavel Pavlov,
    Commissar 25th IAP WB VVS

[Dowding]

Nelson was a tactical genius. It is heresy to say otherwise.  

The Royal Navy WAS the dominant naval force for half a millenia.

If America can come anywhere near that, I'll be impressed.