It could be argued that the Iowa's post-modernization could be considered BBG though. The "G" suffix on hull classifications nowadays is for Guided Missile, and there were CVG (Guided Missile Carrier) at some point, and were even going to be a BBG, though it never got assigned to anything. Kinda puts in perspective how big our Navy is now. On another separate note, the DE(Destroyer, Escort) classification changed to FF(Frigate) in 1975. (Not saying anyone here did, but still good to put out there) The former, (Carrier, Nuclear) should not be confused with (Carrier, Night), which was first introduced in 1944 aboard USS Enterprise, then basically phased out when all Navy Pilots trained for night ops, and also to not confuse with CVN later on. In 1952, they merged the CVB(Carrier, Large) classification with the CVA (Carrier, Attack), then I believe merged it into just CV after the introduction of the CVN classification around 1975.Īlso, CVN and CV(N) are 2 very different classifications. I know there was mention of the CVB hull designation in regards to USS Midway, but something interesting I just read about it: CVB was given to the Midway class when they first launched.
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