The CVN-76 and 77 are actually just a bit over $4 bil a piece to produce, so the cost has been getting cheaper. The yearly operating costs of a carrier can be like $150 mil a year. But each carrier has a carrier group, which comes out to about $1.5 bil a year to maintain. So the cost for one of these ships to stay afloat is pretty high. Especially since they have a service life of 50 years. Most of it is being attributed to the costs of maintaining the crew (somewhere between 5500-6000 crew members). Which is why the newer carrier are going to have reduced crew numbers and will be of a smaller displacement than the Nimitz.Dameon said:America's Carriers are costing outrageous amounts of money now, one Nimitz Class can cost between like 4 billion and 6 billion.....like 8 are going to be in service. Thats 40 billion dollers on carriers if you assume they are all 5 billion.
egoz said:now i'm curious, there are three votes for russian carriers and no defense to how they could be better. so what are the strong points of the russian carriers over the american ones? i honestly don't see any.
egoz said:now i'm curious, there are three votes for russian carriers and no defense to how they could be better. so what are the strong points of the russian carriers over the american ones? i honestly don't see any.
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