"That's a lot of flattops" Topic

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Xin

Wow!
That pic is now my desktop.
Thanks!

cool!

I totaly have to say the ref to Pearl made me a little queasy tho….Mikey

Why is 50% of our carrier fleet in port? That is highly unusual. What are we not covering?

Probably in port for refit/rest---very high optempo in past year!!

Warlock…if I said anything it would be Blue Fez and i'd be DH'ed…

I think you can figure it out…

I fly into and out of Norfolk every year as part of my vacation on the Outer Banks. In 1990 it was absolutely chock full of ships like I've never seen before or since (though it seems mighty full now). Two weeks later they were all gone. That's when I knew we were going to war over Kuwait.

Murphy, buy that empty stool a drink.

Tora! Tora! Tora!

I remember when Alamedia looked like that, sigh

So if the attack squadrons of Nagamo's fleet gated in their radio call would be "Climb Mt Nitaka whole bunches of times!!!" And …"Tora, Tora, Tora, Tora, Tora, Tora, TooooooooooooRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAA!!"

And what would a flight of Tupolev Bears radio?

And if Nelson's Squadron gated in from Aboukir Bay….

The Israeli Air Force would radio: "Torah! Torah! Torah!"

My four-year-old daughter, with her co-pilot Boots the monkey would radio "Dora! Dora! Dora!"

If the US falls over that 'fiscal cliff' these ships might stay in port for good! Anyway, that's what I call a navy, wish it was the RN. Why are so many US ships named after politicians? I much prefer the RN's names such as: Victorious, Eagle, Vanguard, Warspite, Dreadnaught, Cossack, Zulu, Swiftsure …..

Why is 50% of our carrier fleet in port? That is highly unusual. What are we not covering?

No, it's pretty normal to have 2/3rds of the fleet 'in port.' One third is deployed. One third is in major refit, and the last third are in work-ups to get deployed, so they're close to port.

Wow! Lot of money sitting at anchor right there! And think of the amount of accumulated expertise and skill in the thousands of crew, the human assets, this picture represents. Impressive.

They're converting them to starships….with transformable fighters…and cloaking devices, Ubitron Interface Modules, Krell Learning Device, Photon Phanny Whammers, spitfire violators, mayhem convertors, mark 1 Simple Blasters, not to mention The Few, The Proud and the Unusual.

The Russians would shout, "Udar!" which is technically, 'Strike' but it is what they yell when they launch ASMs.

Thats a lot of deck acreage….

Thank you, TGerritsen.

I hope Ike just got in. She could use a little paint.

It gives me great idea for a Zeon assault game objective! "Yukon" deployed Naval Infantry, SpecOps and naval MS in attack to seize those naval assets or destroy them to weaken the Earth Fed's sea power.

A little reality check here… Of the 5 'big decks' pictured, one is H. W. Bush which is still working up (and not active) and another is Enterprise which decommissioned last year. So only 3 are active duty 'decks'. Out here in San Diego you normally see 1-2 of the carriers tied up and once in awhile 3.

Xintao:

Thank you for posting. I drove past this scene two weeks ago in Norfolk and was going to comment in TMP, but your photos speak a thousand words.

Whatever happened to the Reagan-era concept of "homeporting," designed to spread the risk in the event of an enemy attack? The concentration of so many key assets in a single place shows that we are no wiser than we were on the morning of December 7, 1941. If anything, our leadership is even more negligent.

As mentioned, that's only 3 active-duty carriers. There are actually more flat-tops in Bremerton right now, but they're all inactive.

Remember that the US only has 11 active-duty carriers.