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a city-sized weapon that floats, paid for by everyone, aimed at someone
means A ship built and armed for combat at sea, carrying weapons and crew to fight other vessels or strike targets on land.
from A plain Germanic compound: "war" plus "ship." "War" comes from Old French "werre," itself from a Frankish root meaning confusion or strife — a cousin of the modern German "wirren," to tangle. "Ship" is solid Old English "scip," sailing unchanged through a thousand years of English. So the word is literally what it says: a vessel for the business of tangling violently with others, a meaning as old as the first oared craft that ever carried armed men toward an enemy shore.
- floating town
- Carriers house 5,000 sailors and onboard zip codes
- nuclear lifespan
- Some run 25 years without refueling
- old hull
- USS Constitution still commissioned since 1797
- firepower
- Single destroyer can launch 90-plus missiles at once
- price tag
- A new carrier costs over 13 billion dollars
hms victory — nelson's flagship at the battle of trafalgar, 1805, preserved in portsmouth
uss iowa — iowa-class battleship, served 1943-1990, now museum ship in los angeles
bismarck — german battleship sunk in 1941 after sinking hms hood in the north atlantic
uss constitution — oldest commissioned warship afloat, launched 1797, still in boston navy yard