New Carriers for the RN!

[Patroklos]

Not really, since a new Nimitz with maybe three times the capability costs only 4.5 billion dollars.

We have the experiance and economy of scale though, so I am sure that has a bit to do with that cost. Good on them though, I do wish they had gone with catapults though.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Agathon
Britain's small man complex strikes again.

Here's hoping the Scots secede, so as not to be involved with this debacle.

You know where it's being built and who is paying for most of it? It's a subsidy to the Scots as it is.

[Will9]

Originally posted by Patroklos
Not really, since a new Nimitz with maybe three times the capability costs only 4.5 billion dollars.

How much will the USS Ford cost?

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Will


How much will the USS Ford cost?

More than that, IIRC.

On the other hand, it'll have a smaller crew and will never need to be refuelled, which will drive operational costs and yard time down.

[Dauphin]

Are there any Presidents not to have been given a ship in their name? (excluding the most recent who will no doubt get their chance)

[Will9]

nm, Dauphin edited his post

[Dauphin]

As I say, give it time for those. What about the others.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Are there any Presidents not to have been given a ship in their name? (excluding the most recent who will no doubt get their chance)

I think Carter is being skipped.

JM

[Patroklos]

Are there any Presidents not to have been given a ship in their name? (excluding the most recent who will no doubt get their chance)

Actauly, some pretty recent ones like Carter, Ford, Reagon, and Bush #1 already have one.

But yes, there are presidents that haven't had ships named after them. I believe presidents only entered our naming conventions recently for the most part, starting with our first SSBNs.

I think Carter is being skipped.

Carter got the second Seawolf-class submarine, since he was a submariner

[Dauphin]

Carter has a submarine ?

[BeBMan]

The Beatles got one too.

[Tattila the Hun]

Garfield got a cat named after him. Not a cat on a carrier, mind.

No Eurofighter? (No VTOL?)

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Sandman
£3 billion is quite a steal, really. Not that it will stay at that figure when BAE is involved. And the planes are added in.

So that's where they got the money to buy out Tenix!

[Will9]

Originally posted by Dauphin
Are there any Presidents not to have been given a ship in their name? (excluding the most recent who will no doubt get their chance)

Q. Adams (There is USS Quincy, but named after the town Adams and Q. Adams were born in), Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Johnson, Hayes (there is a USS Hayes, but I don't who it named after), Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, McKinley, Taft, Harding, Coolidge, & Hoover. I didn't check any after that.

[Krill]

So the unimportant people got left out? Figures.