Talk:United States Navy/@comment-26441026-20150914043117/@comment-5846899-20150914054512

Amphibious Assault Ships are designated as LHDs in the US Navy. If that is what you are talking about, then if it were nuclear powered, it would probably be LHDN. If you mean Aircraft Carrier as in CVN, there is no designation for them. However, CVA stands for Attack Aircraft Carrier, so CVAN would mean Nuclear Powered Attack Aircraft Carrier. Carriers designated as attack, large or attack would carry on from the designation of the last ship, so if the last Carrier built was a standard carrier, CVN-30, and the next one was an attack carrier, then the next would be CVAN-31. So the designation of your ship would be CVAN-129, unless Harmon adds more ships after CVN-128.