Comments by "AtomicBabel" (@AtomicBabel) on "The Drydock - Episode 088" video.

  1. That 18inch 45 is still sitting like that. At the gun range, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Virginia.
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  2.  @rintae4021  your escape clause "of course I could have missed them" is accepted. Yes, a trimaran CV has been considered and most recently in the paper designs for the CVN21 project. Why did it not go forward? Developmental cost, construction cost, infrastructure cost, drydock limits and time. Considering that CVN 75 costed $3.5B and grew to $7.5B in a decade for CVN77, another doubling was considered unaffordable. Fun fact, CVN78 would end up Congressionally Capped at approx $13B and will well exceed that before becoming deployment ready. Separately, the Panamax requirement for USN warship design was cancelled during WW2, the Midway Class aircraft carriers were designed without this restriction. Today, the size limit of a USN CVN is the Newport News drydock in which it is constructed. Can the USN take a few lessons from the RN and build a bigger ship or enable more from industry? This commenter would like to see that.
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