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Sortie duration generally dictates fuel consumption; it's the high intensity ops that refueling precludes and carriers will typically withdraw

from the combat area to refuel. What happens in trials is in no way indicative of what happens operationally.


They were directed to look at lower cost alternatives which included a cost scrubbed Ford.

And the recommendation for the smaller CVN-LX really hinged on some NRE and weight-based costs that are

arguably optimistic.


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