Inside the Crazy Construction of Newest US Navy $13 Billion Aircraft Carrier

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[lloydryan]

I am an 85 year old Marine. I fell in love with CV6 USS Enterprise when I read Commander Edward P. Stafford's book the BIG E, that was soon after I was discharged from the Corps. I have read every book watched every movie and video about her. I wore out three books reading them over and over. I have watched the series about her twice. I believe the only people more knowledgeable about her are the professional historians. To see her reborn for the ninth time is outstanding. I just hope I'm there when she is launched and commissioned. (Not physically I'm ancient)

[chrismaggio]

I am a Plankowner on CVN72, Abraham Lincoln. The days living and working in the shipyard were as unusual as I could have imagined for a young sailor. But what an honor to watch them day after day bring our monstrous vessel to her full size and weight, piece by piece, with the smell of welding and paint and cleaning chemicals permeating our uniforms. The men and women in the shipyard were tough as nails but somewhere in the hull you always heard some laughter and singing. I won't forget that sound among all the construction... We were riding the newest greatest most expensive Navy ship ever built!...Right up until the time CVN73 was floated, then the torch was passed.

[multitieredinvestor]

Loved that area when I served at Fort Monroe. I was hired to be a photographer at Williamsburg, but stupidly turned it down to return to my old job at the Atlantic City Press. Doris Miller is revered where I now live in Central Texas. Don’t matter his race, he was a hero and this will be the third major structure named for him. A VA medical center, school and the ultimate, an aircraft carrier. What an honor.

[mikewarbin]

Makes me proud that we are able to build such a beautiful ship!!! Go Navy!!!

[TomokosEnterprize]

The Mews has many wonderful builds. Extraordinary builds over many years indeed.

[darktoadone]

The work these folks do is outstanding, thank you to all the shipyard workers, I used to work at the Charleston Naval Shipyard many moons ago. Unfortunately the Gov't shut it down.

[userbosco]

I'm fortunate to have grown up as a Navy brat and settled in Va Beach. My father was a Naval aviator and would treat us kids to tours and dependents cruises routinely. I've never been on a Ford class, but did do a dependents on the Enterprise. If you haven't seen an aircraft carrier up close, or had the oppty to tour one, try to do it if in the Norfolk area. Makes you appreciate where all those tax dollars are going! God bless the US Navy!

[fortified]

Damn they'll have three giant Carrier this decade.

[nottheroyalnavy]

Love your vids and hope you make more 😊

[DavidFrehlini-yy]

USMC 64--68. Marine Detachment USS Saratoga 66--68. (I had to go to Vietnam first. 65--66). This is a great and very interesting video. And yes. We enjoyed it. Thank you very much.

[Library]

For a low cost Maintenance and repair of the US Navy Ship, USA or the US Navy should have a NASSCO type Repair and Maintenance shipyard in Subic Bay Philippines

[detroitboy]

The modern American carriers do not have keels like older ships; indeed most navy ships do not as most are built like torsion boxes. Once all assemblies are welded together the entire structure essentially becomes one piece, making it very rigid and very tough. Ships with real/traditional keels are built from the bottom up, where modular assemblage ships like CVN 80 are more akin to a lego construction. Also, that part that is cast is not the rudder but the pintle, the part that bears the rudder shaft. Rudders themselves are not cast but welded torsion boxes, just like the rest of the ship, making them very tough.

[lonnybush]

It's about time for an enterprise.

[JamesFAFOCreel]

I spent 2 years of my life in this shipyard

[chrisperry]

I worked in a shipyard. What an experience.😊😊😊

[martykarr]

Been to NNSY twice, first for Ike's 1980's COH and then later for PCU George Washington.

[OFCbigduke]

I love it when she says only the most high tech equipment is used in the construction and it shows a guy with a socket wrench...but I get it.

[garymiller]

This is an incredibly fabulous video! I went on a private tour of NNSBD when I was a teenager but I wasn't allowed to see anything like this on the USS Nimitz, which they were contracting at the time. 😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

[timothybrimm]

I was temporarily stationed aboard the USS Enterprise in the 70's, just a lowly swabbie !

[davido]

Interesting how some of the structure is blurred out, I imagine for security concerns.