Hrrm. I don't know how old this is, but CVN 77 will be the George H.W. Bush. This comes from the January 2004 Combat Aircraft: The International Journal of Combat Aviation, a magazine published in Britain.

The keel for CVN 77 was laid at Northrop Grumman's Newport News, Virginia shipyard on 06 September 2003.

The former President may have been a naval aviator, but I wouldn't have named a carrier for him at this point. He's still alive, for pete's sake. Enh. It's not like I have influence over naming policy, but I would have preferred they name CVN 77 after one of the WWII carriers. (Admittedly, you'd have to steal from the Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers if you weren't careful, but they're supposed to be named after cities anyways...)

Sigh.

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