Now look at that. that is the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, that is going to replace the Nimitz class (and the old Enterprise). This one is pretty much completed, but is yet to be commissioned by the Navy. joining it will be another 9 vessels of this class.
now, three of them has already gotten their names, the CVN-78 will be called Gerald R Ford, the CVN-79 Will be called John F Kennedy, and the CVN-80 is to be named enterprise, honoring the two earlier Carriers to bear that name. Or something
I am wondering about the other 7 of them. what name will/should they get do you think?
They're going to get shit names after dull politicians like all the other ones.
Guaren-fucking-tee the last in the class will be the USS Barack Obama
USS Donald J Trump
What about names from the old Essex class? Valley forge? Shangri-La? Boxer?
Have they made any progress with that EMALS catapult or are they still flinging milk floats off the ship?
>>30147887
>single island
junk
>>30148005
>Needing two islands to get the job done
Yeah no.
>>30147887
>USN Ships will be named after dead assholes instead of something inspiring forever.
What did we do to deserve this.
>>30148028
>Not having two islands to do the job twice as fast.
>>30148079
USS Gaby Giffords is already taken.
What about the realy cool names like USS Two for flinching?
>>30148167
>What about the realy cool names like USS Two for flinching?
You think that's cool? You're thirteen.
>>30147993
They recently finished the last test launch, something like 240 in all.
>>30148079
just call them after citys or states like other countrys
or you do it like the bongs and name them actually cool names like HMS Vengance
>>30148205
>>30148079
Beside bugs and enterprise, US carrier were named after famous battle.
we need to go back to names like midways and coral sea.
>>30148217
> USS Tet
>>30148205
states are for battleships and citys are submarines
>>30148217
Unless you're going to name them after war crimes then you'll need to only pick WW2 battles
>>30148217
>USS Iraqi Freedom
>>30148243
>>30148236
>> Navy ship
>>naming them after land battle
saratoga, yorktown and lexington get a pass.
>>30148238
States are for subs now.
>mfw Oregon is finally going to have another ship named after it
USS Carl Fucking Vinson.
Suckle at the teat of the military industrial complex long enough and send enough taxpayer dollars into the black hole of procurement and they'll name a fucking carrier after you.
>>30148121
>He thinks that the administration in the islands is the limiting factor of sortie rate
Pro tip: it isnt.
And how is two small islands better than one larger.
>>30148243
It WAS practically a crime how badly we whipped other countries since then.
They should name the next stealth ship the USS Tonkin Gulf
>>30147918
The Obama should be like the other Freedom Class: the Gabby Giffords.
>shit armament, only a couple point defense weapons and 2 helos
>expensive for doing absolutely nothing
>>30147928
GTFO
>>30148275
I hate to break it to you, but the MiC isn't real.
Neither is Santa or the tooth fairy.
Can we name a carrier the 'Iran Air Flight 655'?
I think for carriers they should just keep recycling the old names from WWII there's already gonna be another Enterprise why not another Intrepid also?
>>30148297
>cant handle the bants
>cant understand the joke
>>30148304
I am inclined to agree that Independence are better ships, it will be neat to see Coronado firing Harpoons at RIMPAC 2016.
>>30148236
>USS Hue City
Just took a look on CMS-ID and the only fucking billets are carriers ;_;
>>30148320
Or after that time a perry destroyed an oil platform.
>>30148390
Did the speedboat that blew up the USS cole have a name? Gotta have a battle there somewhere.
>>30147983
Battles don't vote!
>>30148205
>>30148238
>>30148270
The old way used to be: SSNs (attack subs) named after cities; Los Angeles class
Examples:
>USS Dallas SSN-700
>USS Chicago SSN-721
...and SSBNs (Ballistic missile subs) were states; Ohio class. But now they're mostly converted to cruise missile subs (SSGNs)
However, these are all being replaced by Virginia classes. They have a mission module system, so they can be like the old Ohio (instrument of nuclear Armageddon), SSGNs (a submersible Ticonderoga), or an SSN (attack sub that torpedoes ships like a Los Angeles).
I used to hate the idea, but now I'm pretty stoked. Too bad the Seawolf didn't amount to much.
>>30148352
>get btfo
>IT'S JUST A BANT BRO
>>30148243
USS Nuking Nagasaki
>>30148413
Or that time a phalanx sprayed a friendly ship and needed a RN Type 42 to bail them out.
>The old way used to be: SSNs (attack subs) named after cities; Los Angeles class
>Examples:
>>USS Dallas SSN-700
>>USS Chicago SSN-721
>...and SSBNs (Ballistic missile subs) were states; Ohio class.
It started well.
>But now they're mostly converted to cruise missile subs (SSGNs)
>However, these are all being replaced by Virginia classes. They have a mission module system, so they can be like the old Ohio (instrument of nuclear Armageddon), SSGNs (a submersible Ticonderoga), or an SSN (attack sub that torpedoes ships like a Los Angeles).
>I used to hate the idea, but now I'm pretty stoked. Too bad the Seawolf didn't amount to much.
And I don't think you said a single correct thing in the second half.
>>30148430
>btfo
pls lurk more. Your autism is showing.
>>30148426
>The old way used to be
No, the OLD way used to be
SSNs: Creatures of the Deep
SSBNs: Dead Presidents
But as a certain person once said, Fish Don't Vote
>>30148433
Your butthurt is more detectable than a tin of jiffy pop being lowered via fishing pole in front of a SPY-3
>>30148486
>>30148486
Sea stories are best stories.
>>30148217
Battles don't vote.
>>30148486
>recounting US naval history makes me butthurt
Are you the same person as >>30148028
Who is once again failing to see that people are joking around?
Turn your computer off and clam down.
>>30148217
Were there any battles in Iraq/Afghanistan/Syria/etc. that we actually won?
>>30148426
4 OHIOs were converted to SSGNs. VPM is pretty much just Missile (tomahawk) tubes, maybe a dry deck shelter.
>Seawolfs didn't amount to anything.
Except acting as a solid design basis for Virginias.
Now the question is, what is the Ohio Replacement Class going to be named after?
Why not have corporate sponsors that can get naming rights?
USS Comcast...
>>30148536
Pretty much all the battles during the invasions of Iraq in 91 and 04 were successful
>USS Purity
>USS Liberty
>USS Excellence
>USS Rememberance
>USS Defiant
>USS Relentless
>USS Horizon
>USS Dauntless
>USS Avenger
>USS Victory
>USS Retribution
>USS Vengance
>USS Deceptive
>USS Tribute
>USS Supremecy
Any one of these will do. Feel free to add to the list
USN has money for 30 carriers.
But no money for some Zumwalts.
Can someone explain please?
I wish carriers would go back to contemporary naming again.
Since we got the Enterprise back, we should start naming some of them from other famous WW2 carriers again. It looks like the names Yorktown and Hornet are open so let's start with that and give Enterprise her sisters.
No ramp?
Fucking joke of a ship.
We could go for another USS Langley, though it'd probably be more fitting as an LHD instead of a full sized carrier.
>>30148770
The most important part of the Navy are their carriers to project force and both types of subs.
Everything else is just a buffer for missile spam.
>>30148770
Because a $4 billion ship with firepower of a Burke is a ridiculously stupid idea.
Because muh stealth argument doesn't account for 200 meter long 16 story tall behemoth being fucking visually traceable from fucking SPACE.
>>30147887
>the CVN-80 is to be named enterprise
>>30148538
>>30148426
>Seawolfs didn't amount to anything.
Take a look at everything that the USS Jimmy Carter is doing these days.... Its a one off that set the Multi-Mission Platform that has become more recent in the Virginia Class.
>>30147887
it looks like shit but all that matters is how fast you can spam them for protos tech push
>>30148316
MIUC military industrial university complex
i hate it when people give the research arm a pass.
>>30148538
>Ohio Replacement Class
The way things are going, more states with some politician to mix it up once in a while.
The tools of nuclear armageddon need better names. Look at the Brits, they have an SSBN named Vengeance (the last Trek movie had a Vengeance and it was basically the USS ED-209).
>>30148991
https://youtu.be/B1L3URogjWI?t=15s
>>30148243
>USS Hiroshima
>USS Nagasaki
>USS Two Bombs Wasn't Enough
I could get behind this.
What will probably happen: they'll be named after some boring literally who Senators to get votes on certain bills.
What should happen instead: name them all after retired carriers including the Shitty Kitty.
>>30148243
Top meme, fellow 4channer!
>>30148702
we royal navy nao
>>30149518
>USS Two For Flinching
>>30148829
USS Hornet when?
>>30147887
They'll be named after our near-future accomplishments.
USS Manila Bay
USS Taiwan
USS Woody
USS Hainan
USS Hong Kong
USS Donald J. Trump
USS Hulk Hogan
>>30147928
>tfw the USS Donald J Trump will be commisioned in your lifetime
>tfw it will be the biggest, most beautiful aircraft carrier and it will be built by the best people
>tfw it will be done on time and underbudget
>>30149488
>>30148991
This actually brings up an interesting causality loop within the Trek timelines.
>the Space Shuttle was named after Kirk's ship
>Archer's ship was named after the Space Shuttle
>Kirk's ship was named after Archer's ship
Cue O'Brien bitching about temporal mechanics.
>>30149752
>USS Hulk Hogan
I'd rather have USS Peter Thiel, thanks.
>>30149768
>>tfw the USS Donald J Trump will be commisioned in your lifetime
>>tfw it will be the biggest, most beautiful aircraft carrier and it will be built by the best people
>>tfw it will be done on time and underbudget
And it will promptly sink itself in the middle of the Pacific. Just to prove that its namesake caused everything with its name to systematically fail.
>Pic is Freedom trying to get away from Trump
>>30149778
>Cue O'Brien bitching
kek
>flash back to Worf's Pimping days...
>>30149752
If you have a USS Hulk Hogan, you need the USS Randy Savage to go along with it
>>30149942
>Captain, I must protest! I am not a merry man!
I wonder how many takes it took everyone to do that scene with straight faces.
>>30148265
Bunker Hill was another land battle used as a name for a carrier.
>>30149976
lol uss rowdy roddy piper
>>30148243
>USS Dresden
>>30150015
I can only Imagine. Insert Random Klingon Opera Reference here.
I hope Bill Clinton dies so we can name an SSBN after him.
>playing Hide the Cigar with taxpayer dollars forever
>>30149262
I green texted to make a point and prove what >>30148426
Said was wrong.
>>30149457
Ya, that's what my money's on. Trying to get a pool going at work with what it's going to be named. I also proposed that we name them after shitty US policies like the USS Appeasement of Hitler. I've always liked the way Brits name their ships though.
We should name our first railgun battleship the Yamato or the Osman just to rustle everyone's jimmies.
>>30148702
Wrong navy bruv
>>30149457
>USS ED-209
We need RoboCop nose art on our missile armed drones now.
USS Cowboy
USS Freedom,Liberty and Democracy
USS Bald Eagle
USS Patriot
USS Trayvon
USS Feminism
USS Dark Vengeance
USS Hammer Smasher
>>30148217
>USS Baltimore
>>30150110
kek
USS Skinwalker
>>30149695
>>30150144
All I want are some badass ship names, the limeys have no right to the best names if they can't even build a decent carrier.
Naming carriers after presidents is making everything entirely too political. If they did it with all presidents in order it'd be fine but they just pick and choose which ones to have based on the political climate at the time
>>30150351
Bosnia/Serbia.
Kosovo.
Iraq No-Fly and Kurdish support.
Somalia.
>No wars.
>>30148702
Sounding a little too much like the English tradition of naming ships after random words. The "HMS indefatigable" took part in the battle of Jutland FFS.
>>30150678
Indefatigable is far from the worst name for a warship. Now if it was the HMS Budgerigar you'd have a point about random names.
>>30150624
Like some people have said in this thread, I'd rather we go back to naming carriers in a contemporary manner like we did back then. We need to reuse some names from the older carriers from the classes in WW2.
>>30150624
I would be totally OK with the USS Boxer or USS William McKinley patrolling the western Pacific.
>>30150182
holy shit I lost it
>>30149720
One day...maybe.
>>30150857
But the Boxer is an LHD.
Name them after 2hus.
>>30150919
So we use it in the invasion fleet.
>>30150924
>CVN-99 USS Cirno
>Carrier Baka Group
FUND IT
>>30147887
Howabouts...
USS White Phosphorous
USS Depleted Uranium
USS Sarin
USS Napalm
USS Agent Orange
USS Fission
USS America Regrets Nothing
>>30151838
USS Firebomb
USS Heavy Metals
USS DIME
USS Thermobaric
USS Neutron Bomb
USS War Crime, the ship armed exclusively with the mentioned weapons and nothing else which is constantly deployed near China.
how about after people that america defeated
USS Saddam Hussein
USS Fidel Castro
USS Vladimir Putin
USS Vo Nguyen Giap
USS Gerd Von Runstedt
USS Wilhelm II
USS Zinovy Rozhestvensky
USS Napoleon Bonaparte
USS Harold Godwinson
USS Darius III
USS Two For Flinching
USS Hold My Beer
USS Take It Like A Champ
USS Loveboat
USS Freddy Kreuger
USS Vorhees
USS Mc Lovin
USS Bundy
USS Waco
USS Dredd
USS Doomguy
>>30148265
>"don't name them after land battle"
What would you suggest?
USS Pueblo Incident?
USS Gulf Of Tonkin?
USS 400 Yards Off Beirut Shelling A Stationary Civilian Target?
USS Yorktown Allah Akbarred Sitting In Port?
USS Surrendering To Iranian Gunboats?
USS Semi-Defiantly Sailing One Carrier Through South China Sea?
What modern American naval victory shall we honor, navyfag?
USS Dan Schneider
>>30153241
midway comes to mind
>>30148806
This.
We need a new Saratoga.
U.S.S. George Herbert Walker Bush Senior
Ah yes the aircraft carrier. Another great British invention.
>>30153241
Samar? Better name for a destroyer or a smaller CV though
>>30153957
Now if only the Brits will step up their navy game and make something good again.
>>30150225
That sounds pretty kick ass. "The Baltimore"
>>30153149
>USS Hitler
>>30154123
haha fuck me..
>>30150624
>the limeys have no right to the best names if they can't even build a decent carrier.
Must resist being baited... must resist
>>30148543
>This GBU-12 brought to you by Coca Cola!
USS William Jefferson Clinton
>named for the US president that won the Bosnian War
>>30148702
>USS Say UNCLE
>USS Blow Me
>USS Sucka Dick
>USS Gonna Bone Ya
>USS You Don't Want Any Of This
>USS You Wat M8?
>>30147983
They are used for LHDs..
>>30148702
>USS McDonalds
>USS Kentucky Fried Chicken
>USS Taco Bell
>>30148824
Kek
USS Dindunuffin
USS #Blacklivesmatter
>>30153237
USS Freeman
USS John Halo
USS Shepard (Canadian?)
USS Nukem
USS Bitterman
USS Payne
USS Brasky
USS Tibbetts
USS Andrew Jackson
USS Curtis Jackson
USS O'Shea Jackson
USS Daniel Jackson
USS Chester Arthur (WESTPAC deployment)
>>30153289
>midway comes to mind
>70 years ago
You've got a strange definition of modern.
>>30147887
USS Harriet Tubman
USS Rosa Parks
USS Katlyn Jenner
USS Beyonce
>>30148265
>>30150022
Ticonderoga, Bunker Hill, Bennington, Oriskany
>>30155062
Tico's still in service, ditto Bunker Hill. Both are Ticonderoga class CGs. Oriskany and Bennington aren't though.
>>30148205
>cool names like HMS Vengance
The British tradition of naming ships after mother-in-laws should not be copied.
>>30148702
USS Mission Impossible
>>30149932
Nice b8 m8
>>30153149
>People that America defeated
>USS Napoleon Bonaparte
>USS Department of Housing and Urban Development
>USS Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
>USS Obey Your Thirst
They're just as inspirational as the current line up.
>>30148079
Yeah why is this? I had thought it was for morale purposes so when a ship goes down its not so much of a morale hit if the ship was called something cool like "invincible" but my friend argued that people really don't care about the names and would suffer the same morale hit regardless of name
