{"id":1707419,"date":"2022-10-23T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T10:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1707419"},"modified":"2022-10-23T07:05:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T11:05:19","slug":"u-s-navy-an-aircraft-carrier-superpower-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-navy-an-aircraft-carrier-superpower-for-a-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Navy: An Aircraft Carrier Superpower for a Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-navy-an-aircraft-carrier-superpower-for-a-reason%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1707419&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span>Including amphibious assault ships (LHA), there are now 47 active aircraft carriers in the world, operated by fourteen navies. More than a third of the flattops are in service with the United States Navy, which maintains eleven nuclear-powered CATOBAR carriers, including ten Nimitz-class and one Gerald R. Ford-class.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<\/p>\n<p><span>In addition, the U.S. Navy operates two America-class LHAs of a planned 11; as well as seven Wasp-class ships \u2013 while an eighth was seriously damaged by fire and subsequently decommissioned last year.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The current U.S. fleet of<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/09\/the-u-s-navys-nimitz-aircraft-carriers-now-on-the-brink\/\"><span> Nimitz-class carriers<\/span><\/a><span> will also be followed into service and replaced on a one-for-one basis by future carriers of the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/08\/is-the-u-s-navys-gerald-r-ford-class-aircraft-carriers-too-expensive\/\"><span> Gerald R. Ford-class,<\/span><\/a><span> which are more automated in an effort to reduce the amount of funding required to maintain and operate the vessels. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In its 2018 report to Congress, the Navy stated its intention to maintain a 12 CVN force as part of its 30-year acquisition plan.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Carriers have been a crucial component of the Navy for the past 100 years. Here are some carrier facts by the numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>The First Aircraft Carrier<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span>Converted from the collier USS Jupiter, USS Langley (CV-1, later AV-3) became<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/content\/history\/museums\/nmusn\/explore\/photography\/ships-us\/ships-usn-l\/uss-langley-cv1-av-3.html\"><span> the U.S. Navy\u2019s first aircraft carrier<\/span><\/a><span> when she was commissioned in March 1922. The first U.S. warship propelled by electric motors, she also became the test platform for developing carrier operating techniques and tactics while serving in the Pacific.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Reclassified as a seaplane tender (AV-3), she remained in service during the Second World War. While transporting U.S. Army P-40s to the Dutch East Indies in February 1942, she was attacked by Japanese aircraft and was scuttled by her escorting destroyers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Massive Number Built During World War II<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span>Even as the United States Navy operates more carriers than any other nation, it once operated an even more staggering number of flattops. During the Second World War,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/about.kaiserpermanente.org\/our-story\/our-history\/henry-kaisers-escort-carriers-and-the-battle-of-leyte-gulf\"><span> 155 aircraft carriers were constructed<\/span><\/a><span>, including 122 escort carriers.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h3><strong>First Nuclear Carrier<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span>Commissioned at Newport News, Virginia on November 25, 1951, USS Enterprise (CVN-65) became the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/content\/history\/museums\/nmusn\/explore\/photography\/ships-us\/ships-usn-e\/uss-enterprise-cvn-65.html\"><span> first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to enter servic<\/span><\/a><span>e. Along with USS Bainbridge (DLGN-25) and USS Long Beach (CGN-9), she was part of the nuclear-task force,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/content\/history\/museums\/nmusn\/explore\/photography\/ships-us\/ships-usn-e\/uss-enterprise-cvn-65\/330-psa-211-64-usn-711474.html\"><span> Operation Sea Orbit<\/span><\/a><span>, from May to October 1964, circumnavigating the globe without refueling. The \u201cBig-E\u201d first took part in combat operations in Vietnam, and late in her career was used in the Iraq War. At the time of her inactivation, Enterprise was the third-oldest commissioned vessel in the U.S. Navy after the wooden-hulled USS Constitution and the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/browse-by-topic\/ships\/modern-ships\/pueblo.html\"><span> USS Pueblo (AGER-2).<\/span><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Five Carriers Are Preserved as Museum Ships<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span>There are currently five U.S. Navy aircraft carriers that have been preserved as museum ships \u2013 including four Essex-class carriers: USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Intrepid (CV-11), USS Hornet (CV-12), and USS Lexington (CV-16); as well as USS Midway (CV-41), the lead ship of the late WWII class of carriers.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<h3><strong>No Others Will Be Saved<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span>With the decommissioning and planned scrapping of USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) and USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-67) \u2013 the last two U.S. Navy conventionally powered carriers \u2013 it is unlikely there will be another U.S. flattop preserved as a museum. Though there were<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/42643\/the-navys-last-conventionally-powered-aircraft-carriers-have-been-sold-for-literal-pennies\"><span> efforts to preserve those ships<\/span><\/a><span>, they instead were sold for just one cent each.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_73115\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73115\" class=\"size-large wp-image-73115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/U.S.-Navy-Aircraft-Carrier-1200x675-1.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier\" width=\"880\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/U.S.-Navy-Aircraft-Carrier-1200x675-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/U.S.-Navy-Aircraft-Carrier-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/U.S.-Navy-Aircraft-Carrier-768x432-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/U.S.-Navy-Aircraft-Carrier-1024x576-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/U.S.-Navy-Aircraft-Carrier-600x337-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/U.S.-Navy-Aircraft-Carrier.jpg 1280w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-73115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) participates in a composite unit training exercise (COMPTUEX). Truman is underway as a part of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HSTCSG) performing COMPTUEX, which evaluates the strike group\u2019s ability as a whole to carry out sustained combat operations from the sea, ultimately certifying the HSTCSG for deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Tommy Gooley\/Released)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Likewise, there were calls to save CVN-65, yet, in the end,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.usni.org\/2022\/08\/23\/navy-may-dismantle-former-nuclear-powered-aircraft-carrier-enterprise-at-commercial-yard\"><span> it was deemed too expensive and complicated<\/span><\/a><span> of an endeavor.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><span>A Senior Editor for 19FortyFive, Peter Suciu is a Michigan-based writer who has<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.clearancejobs.com\/author\/peter-suciu\/\"><span> contributed<\/span><\/a><span> to more than four dozen magazines, newspapers, and websites with over 3,000 published pieces over a twenty-year career in journalism. He regularly writes about military hardware, firearms history, cybersecurity, and international affairs. Peter is also a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/petersuciu\/?sh=2a2f53789bd3\"><span> Contributing Writer<\/span><\/a><span> for Forbes. You can follow him on Twitter:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petersuciu\"><span> @PeterSuciu<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Including amphibious assault ships (LHA), there are now 47 active aircraft carriers in the world, operated by fourteen navies. 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