07-27-2006, 11:40 PM
Quote:The failure rate may have decreased now as well considering that when I got those numbers the Navy was in a draw down, as you well know, so they may have made things more difficult then because there were less Boomers and Fast Attack out there and a lot of the aging CGNs were being replaced with non-nuclear CGs without a serious decrease in the number of Nuke people. I can't remember off the top of my head, but didn't they also mothball 5 CVNs? Seem to remember during DS 1 there were 12 CVNs and last I heard there were only 7 CVNs operating.
Your information is incorrect. There are currently ten commissioned CVNs, including USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65) and nine USS NIMITZ (CVN 68) Class ships. The tenth and last NIMITZ Class ship (GEORGE H. W. BUSH (CVN 77)) is under construction, to be commissioned in late 2008/early 2009. The first of the next class of CVNs is scheduled to be delivered in 2015. The second ship of the class is scheduled to be delivered in 2018 or 2019, at which point all US aircraft carriers will be nuclear powered (CVN 79 replaces USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (CV 67)).