SheWrites wrote:Turning the emphasis back to the ship and its commissioning as the USS Gerald R. Ford - the ceremony was excellent and gave tribute to President Ford and his service in the Navy during WWII. Truly an honor given to a worthy man.
Your ignorance is, unsurprisingly, unbounded. Let me acquaint you with some indisputable facts.
The U.S. has 14 Ohio-class nuke powered Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines also know as Supercarriers. No other navy has more than two.
Here's a little tidbit from a January, 2017 article about the subject.
If you do the math, the Ohio-class boats may be the most destructive weapon system created by humankind. Each of the 170-meter-long vessels can carry twenty-four Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) which can be fired from underwater to strike at targets more than seven thousand miles away depending on the load.
As a Trident II reenters the atmosphere at speeds of up to Mach 24, it splits into up to eight independent reentry vehicles, each with a 100- or 475-kiloton nuclear warhead. In short, a full salvo from an Ohio-class submarine—which can be launched in less than one minute—could unleash up to 192 nuclear warheads to wipe twenty-four cities off the map. This is a nightmarish weapon of the apocalypse. http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/why-russia-china-fear-americas-ohio-class-submarines-19120
There's also this from an earlier article in the same source:
The U.S. Navy has 288 battle force ships, of which typically a third are underway at any given time. The U.S. Navy has 10 aircraft carriers, nine amphibious assault ships, 22 cruisers, 62 destroyers, 17 frigates and 72 submarines. In addition to ships, the U.S. Navy has 3,700 aircraft, making it the second largest air force in the world. At 323,000 active and 109,000 personnel, it is also the largest navy in terms of manpower.http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-five-most-powerful-navies-the-planet-10610
Do a little research, why don't you, before you start spouting off.
Oh, yeah, I forgot, you reactionary dolts don't like to read, you just take any bullshit fed to you as gospel.
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