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Interesting Article
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Posted: Friday, February 07, 2003 - 07:02 AM UTC
I was doing some research (web snooping) and ran into this. If you look at the date it's kinda old but interesting none the less
http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/1997/0197/techno.pdf
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Posted: Friday, February 07, 2003 - 07:17 AM UTC
I think that they are going to go with an improved Nimitz design for CVN-77 George Bush. They still have not settled on a design for CVN-78 yet.
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Posted: Friday, February 07, 2003 - 05:30 PM UTC
I thought that the USS Bush was to be the last of the Nimitz Class? And that a totally new design for a carrier is in the works.....going back to maybe an oversized escort carrier, with an airwing of 40-50 aircraft....smaller ship, but more of them?

Or am I just dreaming here and they have decided to produce the Nimitz class out beyond the 10th ship in the USS Bush?
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