Jack Keane: ‘No Doubt’ that the New Carrier Is ‘Symbolic’ of What Trump Wants To Do with the Military

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KEANE: "Yeah, there’s no doubt about that. This is a new class of aircraft carriers. The nimitz class which Leland referred to has been around for 40 years. So there’s two other aircraft carriers that will follow this one that will be built remarkably the same as we’ve got here, with all the advance technology that Leland was speaking of. One of the thins that’s very attractive — one of the things that’s very attractive about this also, given all the technology, the ship’s company which is going to be 2600 is actually 600 less than what’s on the nimitz class today. That’s a great accomplishment to the people who have designed this technology, that we can have that many people less on a ship. And also the quality of care for the sailors on the ship is going to be much improved as well as the min nance on the ship. 
— Maintenance on the ship. It will cost us less to take care of this ship as it has the other class. Also we should understand that the Navy is contemplating eventually going to smaller aircraft carriers because of the evolving threat that’s out there, particularly from the Chinese and the Russians and their ability to swarm missiles at our ships at sea."