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Analysts Welcome Next-Gen U.S. Carrier Award
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| 11 Sept 2008
| Michael Bruno
Posted on 09/12/2008 6:28:10 AM PDT by Yo-Yo
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Wall Street analysts are smiling on the early and friendly contract award to Northrop Grumman ... Perhaps a backdoor payoff to NG for cancelling the KC-X contract?
CVN-78 Gerald R. Ford
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:28:10 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
To: Yo-Yo
Gerald Ford?
Isn’t it about time we reuse Yorktown, Hornet, etc.
Otherwise, we’ll have a USS Clinton soon...
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:30:03 AM PDT
by
chrisser
(The Two Americas: Those that want to be coddled, Those that want to be left the hell alone.)
To: chrisser
Otherwise, well have a USS Clinton soon...We already have the USS Jimmy Carter.
To: chrisser
as long as there is NEVER a uss jimmy carter carrier.....
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:34:57 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(The Second Amendment is the Constitutions reset button)
To: Yo-Yo
Ford-class carrier...Having a hard time suppressing a chuckle over that.
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:35:45 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: chrisser
Can’t happen overnight. Most of the venerable carrier names from WW2 are being used on LHA/LHD’s.
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:36:51 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Tallguy
I’m pretty sure USS Yorktown is available.
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:38:54 AM PDT
by
chrisser
(The Two Americas: Those that want to be coddled, Those that want to be left the hell alone.)
To: Yo-Yo
Perhaps a backdoor payoff to NG for cancelling the KC-X contract? Northrop-Grumman runs Newport News, Avondale (LA) and Ingalls (Pascagoula, MS) shipyards. Is there really any competition? I can't recall the last carrier that wasn't built by NN.
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:39:40 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: chrisser
Im pretty sure USS Yorktown is available.So is USS World Trade Center.
Naming our capital ships after politicians (and lousy politicians, at that) is a terrible mistake, a sign of weakness and corruption, AND will inexorably lead, as some have pointed out, to a USS Barbara Boxer some day.
Let's get back to national pride.
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:42:04 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(When He rolls up His sleeves, He ain't just puttin' on the Ritz)
To: Yo-Yo
I'm generally not a fan of cost-plus contracts. However, with all of the new components to be engineered and fabricated (and with many design changes that will undoubtedly be made on the fly), it was probably the only way to persuade NG to go forward with the program.
To: Jim Noble
Naming our capital ships after politicians (and lousy politicians, at that) is a terrible mistake, a sign of weakness and corruption, AND will inexorably lead, as some have pointed out, to a USS Barbara Boxer some day. Good point. Imagine the 'horsetrading' that goes on between the parties over approving the names of capital ships? Sooner or later the Dems will slip one in that's going to make heads explode on this board.
Incidentally, most ship's have nicknames bestowed by their crews, past & present. Do you suppose the USS Boxer might be "Babs"?
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:48:31 AM PDT
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: Tallguy
Ford-class carrier... *****
Having a hard time suppressing a chuckle over that.
Yup. I've often thought that the WWII carrier names should've been reserved for the first ship in each new class of carriers.
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:50:38 AM PDT
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Jim Noble
Jim Nble wrote - “Naming our capital ships after politicians (and lousy politicians, at that) is a terrible mistake, a sign of weakness and corruption, AND will inexorably lead, as some have pointed out, to a USS Barbara Boxer some day.
Let’s get back to national pride.”
..... Emphatically agree.
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:51:56 AM PDT
by
Senator John Blutarski
(The progress of government: republic, democracy, technocracy, bureaucracy, plutocracy, kleptocracy,)
To: Yo-Yo
Let’s take the $60 billion we spend on illegal aliens every year and spend it on carriers, instead.
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:53:52 AM PDT
by
snowrip
(Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
To: Charles Martel
Northrop-Grumman runs Newport News, Avondale (LA) and Ingalls (Pascagoula, MS) shipyards. Is there really any competition? I can't recall the last carrier that wasn't built by NN. Constellation (CV-64), I think, launched in 1960.
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:54:30 AM PDT
by
hc87
To: chrisser
Seriously though, why in the John Effin’ Kerry are we naming an aircraft carrier after Gerald Ford? Unless the person received the CMOH, or had some huge historical significance, they should NOT be naming our Navy’s ship after people.
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:56:35 AM PDT
by
rivercat
(Sarah Palin '12)
To: 17th Miss Regt
We already have the USS Jimmy Carter. Well, at least a submarine is phallic, so I can see a bit of similarity.
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posted on
09/12/2008 6:58:41 AM PDT
by
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posted on
09/12/2008 7:00:18 AM PDT
by
magslinger
(A politician who thinks he is above the law is actually beneath contempt.)
To: Jim Noble
to a USS Barbara Boxer some dayThey could name a dirigible after her, since there's nothing in there but lots of gas.
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posted on
09/12/2008 7:00:51 AM PDT
by
rivercat
(Sarah Palin '12)
To: 17th Miss Regt
USS Jimmy Carter, only submarine designed with opening windows - insisted on by its namesake - LOL
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