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Nimitz-class aircraft carrier unit cost = $8.5 billion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_a

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier unit cost = $8.5 billion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier

Waterluvian 10y ago
That's it? I would have expected more. I guess that price doesn't include planes or anything fun.
- AndrewKemendo 10y ago
  I'd think a long sustaining, nuclear powered city, filled with seamen would be cool enough.
- knodi123 10y ago
  The price probably includes the pair of nuclear reactors, depending on how you define "anything fun".
  - Waterluvian 10y ago
    Nuclear reactors are fun until they're not.
dbrian 10y ago
$20 billion in 2017 dollars
Someone 10y ago
The successor eclipses that, but not by much (percentage-wise). According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford-class_aircraft_carrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford-class_aircraft_..., the Gerald Ford costs $10.4 billion. The linked PDF, however, states (http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/668986.pdf#page95 http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/668986.pdf#page95): "The Navy awarded a construction contract for CVN 78 in September 2008 when 5 of the ship's 13 critical technologies were mature and with only 65 percent of the ship's three-dimensional model complete. Since then, the lead ship's procurement costs have grown by almost 23 percent from $10.5 billion to $12.9 billion—the limit of the ship's current legislated cost cap—with four technologies still immature. The ship's critical technologies continue to experience developmental challenges, which poses risks to the ship's testing and delivery schedule. CVN 79 is also subject to a cost cap of $11.5 billion and its program office has adopted a new two-phased approach to construction to manage its costs. While this strategy may enable the Navy to meet the cost cap, it will also transfer some ship construction to the phase following delivery."

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier unit cost = $8.5 billion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz-class_aircraft_carrier

Waterluvian 10y ago

That's it? I would have expected more. I guess that price doesn't include planes or anything fun.

AndrewKemendo 10y ago
I'd think a long sustaining, nuclear powered city, filled with seamen would be cool enough.
knodi123 10y ago
The price probably includes the pair of nuclear reactors, depending on how you define "anything fun".
- Waterluvian 10y ago
  Nuclear reactors are fun until they're not.

dbrian 10y ago

$20 billion in 2017 dollars

Someone 10y ago

The successor eclipses that, but not by much (percentage-wise). According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford-class_aircraft_carrier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_R._Ford-class_aircraft_..., the Gerald Ford costs $10.4 billion. The linked PDF, however, states (http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/668986.pdf#page95 http://www.gao.gov/assets/670/668986.pdf#page95): "The Navy awarded a construction contract for CVN 78 in September 2008 when 5 of the ship's 13 critical technologies were mature and with only 65 percent of the ship's three-dimensional model complete. Since then, the lead ship's procurement costs have grown by almost 23 percent from $10.5 billion to $12.9 billion—the limit of the ship's current legislated cost cap—with four technologies still immature. The ship's critical technologies continue to experience developmental challenges, which poses risks to the ship's testing and delivery schedule. CVN 79 is also subject to a cost cap of $11.5 billion and its program office has adopted a new two-phased approach to construction to manage its costs. While this strategy may enable the Navy to meet the cost cap, it will also transfer some ship construction to the phase following delivery."