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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
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Originally Posted by Pigfish
Apparently a carriers reactors can run a small city.  |
A Carrier is a small city!  |
:rotfl: I am familiar with the saying. I should have said a LARGE city.
Anyway a modern US Carrier is anywhere from 5-6 thousand people, tops. To me, population wise, thats a small town. Cept no small town requires the juice that a modern carrier does.
Read somewhere that when the Enterprise was first built she had four reactors. It ended up, in hindsight, being an over kill. Full power would have ripped out the propeller shafts and the big E always had more "juice" then she ever really needed.
I think these days she only has two, thus creating more space for fuel, ammo etc.