Never heard of it. But why would th world need a bigger one might I ask?

so sailors can play 8 fullsize football games?


You mean to tell me that with all the crap busted around here, you start with the f[%&*ing ice machine?!?

it don't sound like anything I've ever heard of. What country's supposed to be building it and where did you hear about it?

I wouldn't put much faith in something like that being built....obviously the US navy probably gets handed a hundred sets of engineering plans a day from every major shipbuilder in the world, I bet the entertain building less than a tenth of the the plans they get, and then I bet less than 1% of those actually get approved for funding by congress.....to the best of my knowledge the US has 9 carrier groups in opperation around the world.....why they would want to replace any of these is beyond me....we hardly even need utilize these to their full capacity, usually just parking them on someones coast is enough to make them crap themselves....why would we need a bigger one? I'm going to assume that you heard about this from some low ranking naval enlisted that saw some picture he wasn't really supposed to see and blew it out of proportion.....

but what do I know .......

Good?....Bad?......I'm the guy with the gun.

I think what hes talking about is a proto-type featured in a popular mechanics magazine a few months ago. (It may not be popular mechanics but it sounded right, correct me if im wrong) It is bassically a huge floating military base that plans have been made for. What it would be used for would be to move it out to a area of conflict and "park" it their for a base in remote regions. I must say though the Navy has no plans what so ever to build this to the best of my knowledge. It was on the front cover of the magazine a while ago back.

Whatever it is, it sounds highly impractical, and ****load expensive. Given this, along with the US military's waning budget, I'm guessing that this thing won't be coming into service any time soon.

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yay! we're all a bunch of cynics and skeptics...

ever read "Beachcomber" when the red-bearded dwarves tried to sell the HMS Saucy Trout to the Royal Afghan Navy?

Edited by - Tawakalna on 1/14/2004 4:46:01 AM

@ mas "highly impractical and very expensive"?
sounds like it is something the navy will build then