The United States Class Aircraft Carrier the first Supercarrier of its era or proto-Supercarrier of the USA well would have been had politics and other factors not interfered
She was to have eight 1200 psi Foster-Wheeler boilers driving four Westinghouse steam turbines totalling 280,000 horsepower which drives four 20 foot diameter screws giving a speed of 33 knots.
Her armament originally was to be eight 5-inch Naval Guns mostly likely the 5-inch Mark 12 Dual-Purpose Naval Guns with sixteen 3-inch guns whether Naval or Anti-Aircraft in 8 twin turrets which can only be the 3-inch/70 calibre Mark 26 Anti-Aircraft guns and twenty 20-millimetre Oerlikon Anti-Aircraft Cannons.
Her Aircraft carried were to be 12 to 18 Specially modified P-2C Neptune heavy bombers and 54 FH-1 Phantom or likely the F-9 Panther or F2H Banshee fighter aircraft but she was supposed to carry a B-36 Peacemaker although that would probably be impossible given its size even with the flushed deck design and was to have four catapults.
The ship was to cost $124 million in 1949 or $1.2 Billion in 2019’s cash or a half a Gerald-R-Ford class carrier but she was cancelled in the 1950s although I bet had she been built she would have had a flight deck redesign during her development
So given the likelihood of a major design change during construction had she not been cancelled
What do we think would have about this ship?
This is a description of her very likely redesign that I came up with a while back
A 1090 feet long United States Class Aircraft Carrier that had an angled flight deck with a single carrier island and a single runway and extended forward runway. The bow of the ship had four 5-inch Mark 12 Dual-Purpose Naval Guns with four 5-inch Mark 12 Dual-Purpose Naval Guns aft.
Scattered across the ship were 8 twin-turret 3-inch/70 calibre Mark 26 Anti-Air Guns.
Picture of the United States Class Aircraft Carrier
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