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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] Matrix, it gets even better. Those reactors on all those ships you mentioned were originally designed for the nuclear submarine fleet. Later nuclear carriers had larger reactors. Only the [i]Enterprise[/i] was given the submarine-sized ones. And during her refit in the '80s, they decided that replacing the reactors with contemporary carrier reactors would involve too much internal reworking, and so she got eight contemporary submarine reactors. I don't know how much higher they're rated than the originals, but under normal carrier group ops, she only has four generating at any given time. But... An old friend of mine who was part of CINCPac at the time told me about the little jape the skipper of the Big 'E' pulled on some Russian observers of US fleet maneuvers -- evidently involving all eight reactors being brought online. The view from Norm's sub was of the [i]Enterprise[/i]'s stern settling a bit as she gradually outaccelerated the rest of the group, heeled hard over to port to run a ring around all of the ships accompanying her, and then took off along their original course like a bat out of hell. The [i]Enterprise[/i]'s top speed is still classified, but she was pulling up a rooster-tail as she left the battlegroup behind... --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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