I'll tell you something else. When we left Pascagoola MS for a Med cruise, we left the Ike behind us on the horizon in about two hours out of port. But after 8 hours it had caught up to us, and in another 45 minutes it left us behind on the opposite horizon!!!

We were doing flank 3 (a good 40 knots) and when the carrier went by us, I thought we had stopped. They had to be going at least 30 knots faster than us, and we were still at flank 3. Those nukes do take a while to get wound up, but once they got the rods pulled and the momentum up, they fly.