(CVN-84) Aircraft Carrier : Will be Real or Not
defenseuptodate.com – The US Navy continues to add to its naval fleet such as aircraft carriers. The carrier has greater capabilities than frigates, destroyers, and others. The carriers currently under construction by the US Navy are USS Enterprise (CVN-80) and USS Dorris Miller (CVN-81). However, recently there has been an issue stating that the future aircraft carrier of the US Navy is the USS Saratoga (CVN-84).
Quoted from the kristoffersuniverseinwar.fandom.com website, USS Saratoga (CVN-84) will be the newest aircraft carrier to be built by US NAVY. (CVN-84) will be built in the same place as the USS Enterprise and USS Dorris Miller at Newport News Shipbuilding.
If the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CVN-84) is built it will be the third aircraft carrier to bear the name USS Saratoga, the first being USS Saratoga (CV-3) which was launched in 1925, and commissioned in 1927 and sunk due to an atomic attack on July 25 , 1946 and the second USS Saratoga (CV-60), this carrier had an important role during the Vietnam war, (CV-60) commissioned in 1956 and decommissioned in 1994.
To Build USS Saratoga (CVN-84) will take huge cost approx $15.5 billion, this ship has dimensions like other ford class with a length of 1,106 ft (337 m), flight deck dimensions of 1,092 ft × 256 ft (333 m × 78 m) and with weights that are appx. 110,000 tons and also equipped with advanced weapons such as, Close-in weapons system (CIWS), Rolling Airframe Missile, Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile.
If the news of the construction of the USS Saratoga CVN-84 is true, the CVN-84 will be targeted for completion in 2032, christened in 2035, and commissioned in 2036.
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