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Hootowl
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 03:19 pm: | 
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Nuclear powered ships are still steamers.  |
Blake
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 04:01 pm: |
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The article all-a-twitter is the BBC, so maybe the Brit carriers are really slow "COULD BE TWICE AS FAST AS ANYTHING WE HAVE".  |
Natexlh1000
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 04:10 pm: |
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My dad served on the New Jersey for one tour in Vietnam. He said that they took it up to maximum cruise speed and held it for a while just to see if she still had it in her.
He said they cleared the decks and the induction fans were deafening no matter where you were. I think he said it maintained 35Knots for a few hours.
Oil-fired steam for that one.
One other note:
He said all of the munitions fired upon the coast were stamped from WW2.
Leftovers. |
Cityxslicker
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 24, 2011 - 08:13 pm: |
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nice photoshop, this is the perverbial 'cool' pinto that can to 8 second quarters.
It aint what they have.
Those of you that were out on the big black barns, know the bigger the carrier; the broader the target. |
Mr_grumpy
| | Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 03:26 am: |
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Blake that's not difficult, the last British carrier "Ark Royal" has been decommissioned, & it's replacement isn't yet built.
Mind you the Ark was no slouch & could do over 30 knots, it had the same engine setup as Concorde, 4 RR Olympus turbines. |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 06:52 am: |
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Essex class carriers in WW2 had a top speed of 33+ knots. Oil burners.
Credit where due. The Brits invented the angled deck carrier where a landing plane could hit the gas and go around instead of running into a net barrier. ( and the planes and equipment parked in front of the barrier )
That imaginary carrier above looks like a typical Popular Science creation that has no chance of working, but looks cool on a magazine cover.
It sometimes takes a great effort not to write them and explain that the personal blimp for downtown commuting just won't fit in the street, and even on ski lift wires is less practical than, say, a ski lift. ( as a real example of "future tech" in a recent issue )
Perhaps the Chinese would be better off with a WW2 designed ice carrier. Unsinkable, resistant to torpedos and bombs, built with water and chopped wood fibers. Think fiberglass hull dozens of feet thick with onboard refrigeration.....
(Message edited by aesquire on August 25, 2011) |
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