Sara has a pre-implemented escort. Also Americans are huge. Both can make 33 knots.
IRL they'd probably be traveling ~15-18kts under most circumstances. Top speed is generally reserved for bad situations as it uses lots of fuel and can damage the engines.
IRL they'd probably be traveling ~15-18kts under most circumstances. Top speed is generally reserved for bad situations as it uses lots of fuel and can damage the engines.
Depends on the wind for carrier operations. Sara is fast enough to launch her planes with no wind due to her speed, and Iowa can keep up.
IRL they'd probably be traveling ~15-18kts under most circumstances. Top speed is generally reserved for bad situations as it uses lots of fuel and can damage the engines.
They'd travel at a slower speed for fuel efficiency, but they can sustain high speeds if they had to. Especially carriers, for flight ops. It's the compact destroyer machinery that was more finicky (but only relatively -- American turbines and boilers matured in the interwar years)
IRL they'd probably be traveling ~15-18kts under most circumstances. Top speed is generally reserved for bad situations as it uses lots of fuel and can damage the engines.
The average speed during wartime cruising for the Iowa class 18.7 knots incidentally the average speed of the Essex class in wartime cruising was 18.7 knots. The average speed for Saratoga was notably lower at 17.0 likely reflecting operations during the earlier war period where fuel economy was more of a concern.
Honestly, I half expect Enterprise to have curly blonde James T. Kirk hair and a Star Trek-like shuttle amongst her aircraft...
Nah, I doubt there will be any Trek references as far as planes go (that'd be a bit too shark jumpy, not least of all because by the time Star Trek aired, the CV6 had already been scrapped and CVN-65 had been in service for about 5 years or so). I'd expect her to be a massive flirt more than anything, or be partially obsessed with space exploration; those would be nice homages.
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