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Originally Posted by ND1980LS
Well, IMO she will sit at Norfolk until she is officially released by the Navy and that is if she is to be released. If not she will go into storage in philly to sit for two years in reserve as she apparently has already been prepped in Florida for such a decision but this was done before the museum request. Even while sitting she is still an asset as in theory i.e. major floods or some natural disaster occurs she can be moved and provide shelter/medical and facilities for homeless etc in adverse conditions once provisioned for the job.
It will be interesting to see what happens to her because two years is not a long time for a retired u.s. carrier to stay afloat in storage but times are changing and they must adapt as well as their budgets.
Another interesting carrier point is that now there is only one conventional carrier at sea i believe and when thus retires next year were completely nuclear except for what lays in reserve if im not mistaken.
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The sole remaining conventional CV is Kitty Hawk (forward deployed to Japan) who is making her last significant deployment as we speak. She in turn will be replaced by the George Washington.
I just do not see a future in reviving any of the conventional CV's - their steam plants are old, extremely manpower intensive to operate and hyper-expnsive to maintain/repair. Both KHK and JFK have also been the end for more than a few careers (including CO's) directly as a result of their difficulty to keep in combat-ready condition, absent heroic measures...