Focus NNS MAY 2022 Breakout: Enterprise (CVN 80) COMES TO LIFE
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Shipbuilders are “laying the foundation” for Enterprise (CVN 80) in a Newport News Shipbuilding dry dock. Take a look at this video to hear from some of the employees working to bring the U.S. Navy’s third Ford-class aircraft carrier to life using Integrated Digital Shipbuilding.
My grandfather helped build the CVN-65 Enterprise as one of many Master Machinists. Before that, USAF medic in Korea. He passed in 2002.
I was on Enterprise 65 when they were still using the "tower as radar" gizmo that no other carrier had and after they stopped using it, they had to put up with that big square island for the rest of her life, but they sure were proud of it when they told us Boy Scouts about it that day in 1970, or so, at Alameda NAS.
M. H. S. R. I. E. P.
In our tooling shop we have a huge drill press (18" cylinder, 15' tall) that I as an apprentice pm'd/tuned up. Inside the arm it had papers, from Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co, and the original manual. They bought it in 1938, which was too late for it to help on the CV-6, but I called them anyway with the machine no they had on the bill. All they said was that it did make ships in WW2 but that's about all the info they had. Thing can still drive 3" holes with chips you do not want to touch to this day.
"Let history never forget the name… Enterprise.”
"Live long and prosper!" 🖖
"Fair winds and following seas!"
I think more people associate the name of Enterprise with Star Trek, than as the flagship of capitalism. (Add the word "free" to the name.)
Nobody Remember USS Yorktown CV5 because it was sunk.
Make it so.
@@model-man7802 you remember the Yorktown. I remember the Yorktown because I built a model of her when I was 12. So that's two of us that remember that Yorktown.
Just blows my mind how we can build something like this. Literally building a metal skyscraper on its side that has to float and be an airport all at once. Amazing Job to all the workers. Be safe, be proud and keep building.
Just amazing how they can get all those compartments to go in the right place, the miles of wires and cables, and the order that equipment has to be installed. How it all comes together is so interesting. Of course the U.S. has had a lot of practice a building carriers.
@@aaaht3810 It is truly amazing and another shining example of American ingenuity and exceptionalism!
I watched an older documentary show on 'Carriers' (History Channel) that had the Captain being interviewed. He said something like: "I have to manage a city of 5,000 people, with two nuclear plants in operation in the basement, and an airport on the roof!" He said this with a grin, and it struck me as a pretty huge job to manage all that. :-) Thanks to all our proud members of the USN for your service. :-)
It's actually good Enterprise wasn't the first or 2nd, gives more opportunities for the early teething issues to be worked out on the previous ships and applied to her from the get go, making a better ship in the long run.
Yeah, heheh... perhaps appropriate that the first ship (which still had lots of bugs to work out) was named _Gerald R. Ford._
It’s worth mentioning that CVN-65 was her own class of ship a true 1 of 1. In fact Nimitz was supposed to be an enterprise class carrier
@@matthewcaughey8898 Yeah, Enterprise and Long Beach were supposed to be the new classes of nuclear carrier and cruiser, with those large planar radar mounts, but it didn't work out.
My Dad was also a Plank Owner for CV(A)N-65, and also was co-designer of the ships patch.
I will be watching the construction of CVN-80, USS Enterprise... with GREAT interest!!!
o7 you hard working men and women! You make us proud with that work ethic!
Nice job!! congratulations from Spain, it is a pride to be a NATO ally and to serve global security and freedom.
Absolutely cool to see soon the magnificent new USS Enterprise CVN 80 to be on the see. I'm really glad to see the workers and whoever is working on this ship the pride 👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Let history never forget the name Enterprise. The Enterprise will continue to sail with the finest crews. God Speed to USS Enterprise and her crew. Thank you to the veterans of CVN-65. No one wanted to mess around while the Big E was on station.
I would like to thank Newport News for the care and craftsmanship that went into building CVN 69 USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the COH that was underway when I reported aboard in 1986. This ship was my home for 4 years and carried 5000+ sailors thru Hurricane Hugo. I know that same care and craftsmanship will go into making CVN80 USS Enterprise the finest warship in the world.
Always good to see those keel blocks go in the dock. Katie and Samone will be there in a few weeks on Memorial Day and the final block will be put in and they will sign their names on it.
The knowledge base and supply chain necessary to build one of these carriers for most people would be unfathomable and for every other country - unattainable.
Be proud ship builders!
Best navy in the world, keep it up
There is sources say that the captain of the Uss Enterprise is Under the command of Captain James T. Kirk and assisted by Captain Spock.
Made in the USA 👏👍💪🇺🇸
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my son was laid off a shipyard apprentise a lontime eployee a wife and 3 three kidds had his picure in paper twice ford the ford
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Doris Miller should have been honored before the Kennedy.
It's great to see a new USS Enterprise taking shape. It's still a shame however that they never saved CV-6 Enterprise, the most decorated warship in the entire history of the US Navy.
CV-80 will undoutably carry on the legacy of CV-6.
Side note: CV-6 was the ship that my dad returned home from Europe on after the war.
@@davidrush4908 God Bless her and her sister ships.
That was downright criminal!
See my comments above. I commend you for knowing the record of CV-6. I can recall my father giving money to help save CV-6, the ship he flew from during the war. That was in 1958. But this government could not find the money to save the ship that literally save our country. At one point, before the October 26, 1942 battle off Santa Cruz, we only had 2 carriers left, Enterprise and Hornet. Hornet was sunk during that battle and Enterprise severely damaged. For about 6 months or so, Enterprise was all that we had to keep the Japanese at bay.
@@MrSuzuki1187 I had a great uncle that served on 3 of the 4 Yorktown class carriers. The only one he did not serve on was the Wasp. He actually started the war on the Lady Lex transferred to the Yorktown after Coral Sea because they added more AA guns to her while patching her up. He then was assigned to Hornet after we lost the Yorktown at Midway. Then when Hornet was sunk was assigned to Enterprise until she was sent for her major refitting after the Essex Class started to come online. He was assigned to the Essex for the rest of the war. Why was he assigned to so many ships. He literally could hit an enemy plane with an AA shell at 2 miles almost 80% of the time when he fired one from either the later 40MM Bofers or the older 5 inch guns that where replaced by the Bofers. He was a crack shot with any AA gun for some odd reason.
"And, Admiral... it is the Enterprise." - Pavel Chekov
Sadly, when they filmed that movie, cvn65 was at sea, and Ranger 'acted' as Enterprise. But still a good joke, lol.
@@nx9100 In fact, _Enterprise_ was assigned to duty in the Indian Ocean at the time, and would not have been available in any event. The _Ranger_ was the designated ship to serve for filming, because frankly not that many civilians would have known what the number on the tower meant anyway.
But yes, it was pretty much a requirement that the materials needed to be gathered from an _Enterprise_ reactor... 🙂
Pride and perfection, are not just words. When it comes to ships , May the new Enterprise be as battle worthy as all our carriers.
Yes.
Absolutely. When I hear people babbling about how the U.S. is not so great, actually, I simply remember that we have, by far, the most powerful fleet of ships, especially nuclear powered aircraft carriers in the world, built by dedicated professionals to the highest standards and served by dedicated crews trained and equipped to deter any aggression anywhere on the planet. Like the "Pax Romana," we live in an era that may be called the "Pax U.S.ana" or some such appellation by future historians.
I’d say as battle worthy as the ships with her name that came before.
@@elihavalot8111 I have a similar feeling however being the devils advocate I am I’ll just say remember that at one time Carthage had the most powerful navy, then Romans did, flash forward to Spanish and French had it followed by the British where are they all now? They don’t rule the waves anymore and they sure as hell are not the superpower they used to be. It all comes down to choice of leadership and the decisions that leader took which ultimately ended their power. Desperation leads to innovation, innovation leads to domination, domination leads to stagnation and that leads to the fall, that’s why it’s vital we all remain vigilant.
@@elihavalot8111 it's Pax Americana, and it's been in action since 1945.
My father was a TBM Avenger pilot on the first Enterprise carrier, CV-6 during WW ll. That ship is the most decorated one in world history. She participated in 20 of the 22 naval engagements during the war, the next closest ship was in 16, plus a presidential unit citation and many more. Everyone on the Enterprise thought she had a soul, as she escaped so many near disasters. Of the 7 aircraft carriers afloat before Pearl Harbor, only the Enterprise was still alive and fighting at the end of the war. Then came CVN-65 who also racked up an impressive war record during Vietnam. I hope this one can continue the legacy of the first two.
Oh she will, the ghosts of CV-6 and CVN-65 will be at her side the whole time!
Very few quibbles with what you wrote except that of the US carriers in service prior to Pearl Harbor 3 survived the war ... USS Enterprise (CV 6) of course, USS Ranger (CV 4) and USS Saratoga (CV 3). Ranger spent most of the war in the Atlantic Fleet supporting the British Royal Navy, Sara and Enterprise the Pacific.
“Second star to the right... and straight on till morning.” Go NNS, we’re all behind you!
CVN-80, USS Enterprise. The 9th US Navy ship to bear the name (and 3rd carrier). One of the proudest legacies in the US NAVY.
The name Enterprise goes way back to the first Enterprise that fought at the battle of Valor Island on Lake Champlain in 1777
Great to see the Enterprise legacy reborn. I served on board CVN 65, 4 Main Machinery Room, from 1982 until 1986. Please keep the videos coming.
I served as an RO and PPWS in 3 plant, 1980-84. Our paths may have crossed.
We need a new Yorktown carrier
Probably not going to happen because of the already existing CV-10 Yorktown
20 yrs in the Navy all deployments I went on was in the Enterprise battle group. So it was very disappointed when they decommission CVN -65 , but now I'm very excited to see her coming back. Fair winds and following seas BIG E.
Once upon a time they designed these things with pencils, notebook paper & slide-rules. Amazing.
I have developed a superstition as both a Navy guy and a history buff, when the US doesn't have an Enterprise in the water .. things go very screwy, ghosts, spooks and spectres, just scary stories .. but when they announced the retirement of CV-65 the goosebumps went on for hours. I am sooooo looking forward to this ship in the water.
Add this point, whenever this country needed her most there has been an Enterprise in service, often standing Harm's Way.
- During the Barbary War and later War of 1812 there was a tiny sail powered schooner with the heart of a 3 deck Ship of the Line, she fought and won a number of actions against both the Barbary State of Tripoli and later against HMS Boxer.
- No Enterprise during the Civil War, if there had been she would have been firing on fellow Americans.
- During the Spanish American War that era's Enterprise was serving as a training ship.
- WWI's Enterprise was a patrol craft working the U.S. East Coast.
- We know the ship that brought the name to Legendary Status due to her service during WWII. Sometimes the odds against her made it seem as if the war could have been called "The Japanese Empire vs USS Enterprise."
- We also know the immediate successor to CV 6, CVN 65. This ship was often very much on the minds of both Washington and the Soviet Union, both wanting to know where she was during the periods of the Cold War when that war threatened to go hot.
CVN 65 was on patrol in the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf on 9/11/2001. Her planes were the first to conduct reprisal strikes in reply to those terror attacks.
- During a training exercise right at the end of her career, USS Enterprise (CVN 65) proved that she was still the fastest carrier in the Atlantic Fleet and still capable of outrunning her gas turbine powered escorting cruisers and destroyers ... just to prove she could.
As a Navy veteran, I can think of very few examples of more truly superb engineering than what these magnificent men and women produce for our proud Navy. NNS makes all of us proud, generation after generation. Thank you.
God protects fools, small children and ships named Enterprise
It would be an amazing tribute to the legacy, if they refurbished and used the Island from CVN-65, and dropped it into position on the deck of CVN-80. That Island originally had flat panel radar arrays, and could easily have the new style radars added to it.
That would be awesome. Add in the name plate to CV-6 that rests in a park in Vale River, N.J.
As CVN65 is scrapped, her steel is being recycled for use in CVN80. The new built from ashes of the old.
Also, I believe there are portholes from CV6 that were saved and installed in CVN65's Captain or Admiral quarters. Hopefully, they'll be saved again and installed in CVN80
I am so happy, there is another Enterprise. But the fact they are naming a carrier Doris Miller, is just grand!
With these two ships you will keep the work force busy. Nothing better than coming across the James River and seeing the yard hard at work.
Although I wish more than anything we could save them and keep them forever, CV-6 and CVN-65 can both rest easy now, their legend and legacy will live on....
Epic. Good luck on the build. May the sailors who man her during her career live full lives.
Supposedly there was a piece of steel from the ww2 Enterprise in the second, they had better have found it and saved it... Because thats all thats left of her!
Earth, humanity’s first frontiers.
These are the voyages of the ships named Enterprise.their eternal mission , preserve world peace, maintain the values of freedom , and to boldly go where millions more will fight!
My husband served on CVN65 for two tours 1987-1990 and 2000-2004. His retirement flag was flown on CVN65.He has tears of joy knowing the BIG E will live on. Thank you NNSY for building a legacy for future generations to marvel and have pride in like my husband ❤
I am so glad to see that they recycled some of CVN 65 the Big "E" into CVN 80's hull
Holy crap!!!! I'm just now hearing this? This is awesome beyond awesome next gen Enterprise? And a nice round # too. CVN-80.
I'm a welder and have been the past 35 years. I've welded underground in the coal mines welded on Bridges,Nuclear waste containers, pressure vessels, train cars,etc and just got a call for a job in Newport News shipyard. I'm 52 and just wondering if it would be worth it?
In this day and age it's refreshing to see people taking pride in what they are doing. even though it may not be the most glamorous job it is certainly an important one.
What an awesome project carrying on the name USS Enterprise .. CVN 65 visited NZ once...thanks from NZ 👍
Fantastic. Now, please someone explain to me how all that steel FLOATS??? I know, the principal of displacement. But how does it float?
She gets to replace my ship! Was on precom unit at Newport News! Hope IKE gets to be a barrrier reef and not razor blades!
A U.S. Navy ships is not a it,but is referred as a she... Russians refer to their ships as he... other navies refer to ships as it...
I was on the boat 75-78. Alot of blood, sweat & a few choice words were spoken on that mighty ship. I am so glad to see the CVN80 taking shape. Keep up the good work Newport News. Alot of NAVY PRIDE here.
Can they change its number to cv1701 ? Just saying 😀
You a trekkie for sure
It wouldn’t be the US navy without Enterprise in the fleet
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I never served on CVN-65. I served on her sister ship, USS America (CVN-66). But even I appreciate that the Navy has never really been without a ship named Enterprise. Thank you, USN....
I was on USS Semmes DDG 18 1983-84 and served as plane guard in the Caribbean for America in 1983. Did UNREP next to her. Took pics of F-14s taking off and landing while alongside.
CVN-65 didn't have a sister,she was the only ship in her class.
@@dochlldy You are correct. My apologies. CV-66 was in the Kitty Hawk class, along with the Kitty Hawk (CV-63) and the Constellation (CV-64). Enterprise was in her own class as she was nuclear (hence, the CVN) while the other Kitty Hawk class ships were oil fired. The John Kennedy (CV-67) was a variant of this class, and not considered a true Kitty Hawk class carrier and like Enterprise, was given her own class.
do a video about how you are using the drydock to build 2 carriers at once?
I was in Norfolk recently, bringing a pleasure boat up to New England. Amongst all the other truly impressive sights around that area, I got to see CVN78. the G.R. Ford, and CVN77 the G.H.W. Bush, the last of the Nimitz class side by side. THAT was an impressive sight.
CVN-77 is damn beautiful, I'm right next to them on the Ford and the sight never grows old. Absolutely wonderful ships
How long til she’s haze gray and underway?
About time that proud name comes back.
They should have never scraped the old one but this is amazing
The old one had 8 nuclear reactors that had to come out when she was decommissioned. To do that that had to cut away huge portions of every deck above them. Thinking here into a museum after that would have been prohibitively expensive
@@jessicacolegrove4152 I think he was talking about the Enterprise before that one
Godspeed! May all who sail on her keep her safe!
It must be an exciting experience for everyone working to help build the new USS Enterprise as her hull takes shape. I know if I was a part of this team, I'd be happy and proud to tell people I know that I helped build her.
Enterprise needs to be renumbered to CVN 65-A. She will have the portholes from CV-6 The OG carrier. She will have Steel from CVN 65. Pardon my "Star Trek" but Logic dictates she be renumbered to CVN 65-A. That would be the Ultimate sign of appreciation for the gallant ships who came before her and what a way to honor the history of those ships. CV-6 20 battle stars!
Enterprise vs Japan... CVN-65 The first nuclear carrier and the BEAST of the mid east, from the space program to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Her sorties flew for freedom. Send an email to the navy and let your voice be heard....
I agree with the previous comment
Enterprise was my last duty station. Retired while she was in the gulf. We, the R-Div. "Bad Dogs", did alot of work to help keep the old girl, "ship shape", and ready to meet what ever challenge she was sent to accomplish. Ironic that i retired to, "Enterprise, AL". Carry on Newport News!!!
What is the truth about the fact that CVN-81 is to be donated to the newly established Czech Navy with its main Baltic base in Královec (previously
Kaliningrad, previously Königsberg) and rename it to "Karel Gott" ?
Interesting that the new carriers are named after Presidents and Stennis and Nimitz. And Enterprise. So looking forward to seeing her finished and at sea.
As a former X42, it makes my heart smile that there will be another USS Enterprise. My father, a retired Nuc engineer for NNS, and myself still pipefitting are both proud of our careers that both started with NNS.... thank you!
The previous Enterprise was nicknamed "Big-E," since CVN-80 is bigger, can we call her "Bigger-E?"
Ford-E?
Big E: CV-6
Bigger E: CVN-65
Biggest E: CVN-80.
How about MC^2? Get it?
Love it ! I did the last two deployments on it. Navigation department LCPO. We had a great team, awesome Gator, awesome ANAV and all the way down to my QMSn… I miss those days.
I have never heard a person with such varying inflection when speaking. Great subject btw! 🤙 Great to see the shipyard having guaranteed work for years to come...what Senators were responsible for this? kudo's to them for sure! 😎 should Americans worry that any of the plans may have been compromised to our adversaries?
I’d say the best thing the US could do rn is a large military buildup. Scare the hell out of the Russians and china
TURN DOWN the music. Can’t hear the people. Lol (and no, I’m not hard of hearing)
How they built vessels like this before computers is beyond me. Anyone who hav visited or served on large ships of war comes away in awe.
its pretty ironic the US didnt save CV-6 after everythimg she did in the War, meanwhile CVN-65 is still there and the next one is WIP
I served on the old Enterprise it being my last sea going assignment to the ships Engineering Department as the Ships Oil King before I transferred to shore duty and ultimately retired from the Navy
And they will succeed let's make sure history never forgets the name. "Enterprise"
Why the decommissioning of the this aircraft carrier , now you about ready to launch the same carrier (remodeled).
My apologies to the name Dory Miller in a previous commitment on a earlier video I referred to her as the lessly Miller again my bad and apologies for niss I'd her
3 years I will be 66!
The sad thing is that CV-6 was not saved and there is no way to save CVN-6 because of the holes that need to be cut in the ship to remove the reactors
Nice to know than CVN-65 will live on as part of CVN-80...
Sorry, she doesn't come to life until she is floating and on her own power.
We need more carriers in the pipeline.
Thanks Algorithm!
lol 2022 and they are using a tablet for construction.
Looking at that facility, there's a question that comes to my mind. Why can't US shipbuilding produce commercial vessels (cruise ships, container ships, etc.)? Why is all of that shipbuilding residing in Asia and Europe? If the US can build vessels with the size and complexity of an aircraft carrier, certainly we build any commercial vessel of any size.
Because its cheaper for commercial companies to buy ships from there. Military vessels are part of national security so are most often built at home.
The next enterprise after this will be a starship keep on trekking
Was on CVN-65 92-96. V-4 Grape Apes!
You don’t see China putting out videos like this.
So all the data is on a tablet? I suspect China will have one of those tablets soon, if not already.
Likely a special $10,000+ "secure" 2005-tech tablet that destroys itself if tampered with, and fetches content from a server.
She will have portholes preserved from cv-6
I'd like to see them being built! They said they're using steel from 65 Big E! That's cool. It be cool if they could some fittings or something like the wardroom table or just something from the 65. Maybe Air boss's chair or the wheel or something. Like somebody already said,the nameplates from CV6 Enterprise...just something to carry on!
I'd like to visit her when she launches. I served aboard Enterprise 65 as a Radarman from Jan. 1966 to Jun. 1968.
A lot of this could be done robotically, so much wasted manpower (yes I said it) with piddly little jobs.
Not really no
I am in awe of how these ships are put together..all the amazingly skilled people working together to build a beautiful vessel... Fabulous...
Think they will give it to Cpt Kirk. Since the Zumwalt is such a failure as a project?
The most badass name of any carrier.
Nice
Background music is too loud.
My cousin used to build carriers at the NNS, she's been retired a few years unfortunately.
The music volume ruined your video.