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  • Another Legacy left behind

    03. 11. 2012 18:40


Spagz
Today the USS Enterprise CVN-65 set sail for her final cruise and tour of duty before being
decommissioned later this year.

Story here


Unfortunately as she is nuclear powered and the blueprint for todays Nimitz class, she wont
able to be set as a museum ship. After her mandetory reserve action fleet layup, she will be
gutted to retrive and disassemble the reactors and the rest scrapped or sank in very deep
waters. Again the US had a ship named Enterprise and again she made history and leaves
her legacy in her wake wherever she went. Fair winds and following seas Big E.

 

  • Re : Another Legacy left behind

    03. 11. 2012 18:51


jubdub1
It's going to be sank into deep waters, eh?
maybe the Decepticons could use her.

  • Re : Another Legacy left behind

    03. 14. 2012 16:12


normpearii

The only way I can see the Enterprise sunk is by Lots of bomb with fireworks going off,

Or temp activation of the Iowa to fire a salute salvo (2 guns due to #2 being sorta blown up) while fireworks are going off in a grand sinking ceremony.

  • Re : Another Legacy left behind

    03. 15. 2012 03:44


Sindher

Enterprise will be sunk off the coast of Iran via false flag attack, thus giving The US and it's allies the excuse to install democracy via 1,000,000 bombs.

(It's alot cheaper then to go through the whole process of 'cleaning' her) 

  • Re : Another Legacy left behind

    03. 17. 2012 00:55


fFoxfire

Originally Posted by Sindher

Enterprise will be sunk off the coast of Iran via false flag attack, thus giving The US and it's allies the excuse to install democracy via 1,000,000 bombs.

(It's alot cheaper then to go through the whole process of 'cleaning' her) 

The FM's give you a long leash now a day's snidher? as for the enterprize its a sad legeacy to be called it, Its a ship with so much history and pride only to be scuttled for a newer class ship, Still why we need a new type of Carrier? I would think it would be easier to remodle then to sink it, As a tax payer I dont think just sinking a hundrend millions of dollars is a smarty idea even if the investment was worth it.

-Fox

  • Re : Another Legacy left behind

    03. 17. 2012 10:00


Sindher

Originally Posted by fFoxfire

Originally Posted by Sindher

Enterprise will be sunk off the coast of Iran via false flag attack, thus giving The US and it's allies the excuse to install democracy via 1,000,000 bombs.

(It's alot cheaper then to go through the whole process of 'cleaning' her) 

The FM's give you a long leash now a day's snidher? as for the enterprize its a sad legeacy to be called it, Its a ship with so much history and pride only to be scuttled for a newer class ship, Still why we need a new type of Carrier? I would think it would be easier to remodle then to sink it, As a tax payer I dont think just sinking a hundrend millions of dollars is a smarty idea even if the investment was worth it.

-Fox



If I've said something out of turn and it warrants a speaking to, I'm sure the FM's would more then happily oblige.

Why not YouTube or Google what I've said? ' USS Enterprise, Iran, WW3'.

Here you go big man. This is pretty deep BTW, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufdw21ltc-8

  • Re : Another Legacy left behind

    03. 17. 2012 14:33


Spagz

Thats currently her area of operation, around Iran. I dont think they would even try TBH. If anything, Israel would torpedo her and Mossad would make up a bunch of intell fluff to blame it on Iran to thrust us into war with em. That would be more likely.

 

 

Anyway, its most likely she'll meet her end under the cutters torch at some breakers yard up in Washington.  Right now the US has a backlog of supercarriers waiting to be dismantled. From the Forrestal class ships, the Kitty Hawk class ships to the John F Kennedy.  Thats CV-59 all the way through CV-67 with the exception of Enterprise (CVN-65) and the America (CV-66). The America was scuttled in 2005 after being a live weapons test platform to determine how well the supercarriers held up against a direct attack. She took a massive pounding but stayed afloat. After the test, they scuttled her off the east coast in the Atlantic. She sits upright at a depth of almost 3 miles. All but the Kitty Hawk and John F. Kennedy are slatted to be scrapped or sank.

  • Re : Another Legacy left behind

    03. 19. 2012 13:40


Stormvanger

Originally Posted by fFoxfire
Still why we need a new type of Carrier? I would think it would be easier to remodle then to sink it, As a tax payer I dont think just sinking a hundrend millions of dollars is a smarty idea even if the investment was worth it.

She has been upgraded, several times.  That's why she was in service approximately 50 years.  But there's no way she can be upgraded again to reach the operational level of the upgraded Nimitz class or the new Ford class.

The new Ford class can hold the same firepower with a smaller crew, and it's internal spaces are redesigned to allow the capability of launching and recovering even more aircraft sorties per day, with some stealth features, better command and control, and other bits of modernization, many of which I'm sure we won't know about for years to come.

The Fords will be coming into service (even with expected delays due to cost and engineering) before the earliest Nimitz class ships begin to hit 50 years of age, when they too will start retiring in order of service life.

  • Re : Another Legacy left behind

    03. 19. 2012 13:52


FalleNStaR

Originally Posted by Sindher

Enterprise will be sunk off the coast of Iran via false flag attack, thus giving The US and it's allies the excuse to install democracy via 1,000,000 bombs.

(It's alot cheaper then to go through the whole process of 'cleaning' her) 

lol.  Its sad that this is probably true. Or at least the idea was probably on the table at some point(maybe durring Bush).

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