I would think AF personel would know ship designations more so then laypeope, they are military, they overfly ships, write reports and do briefings, they know their ships.
Nothing the AF flies equips it to manage something the size of, or with the endurance of the 303. If they choose to borrow from naval terms, fine. General Hommond has also referred to the 303's as Battlecruisers, remember when they were using a CVN to power the gate to contact the Asgard, and were using naquadah for the power cable. Hammond stated that a general had to give up a battle cruiser for that supply of naquadah.
It is a Battle - it is heavily armoured, thick skinned, Cruiser - a well armed warship with the capability to carry out a variety of missions. A destroyer is more dedicated to one role. Battle ship would be kept for future larger more capable classes, Carrier was not used as you can hardly call a large ship with 6 A/C a carrier, unless that was it's primary weapon, the 303 has other primary weapons systems. I think the early term for such a warship was armoured cruiser, which evolved into the BC. In this case BC is not a cut down BB like the Hood, but a uparmoured multirole cruiser.
"The armored cruiser was a naval cruiser protected by armor on its sides as well as on the decks and gun positions.
Battlecruisers (short for battleship-cruisers) were large warships of the early 20th century. They evolved from armored cruisers as new technology made it possible to build bigger ships." Wikipedia
Really the Prometheus has more in common with the Russian Kiev-class CVHG.
Nothing the AF flies equips it to manage something the size of, or with the endurance of the 303. If they choose to borrow from naval terms, fine. General Hommond has also referred to the 303's as Battlecruisers, remember when they were using a CVN to power the gate to contact the Asgard, and were using naquadah for the power cable. Hammond stated that a general had to give up a battle cruiser for that supply of naquadah.
It is a Battle - it is heavily armoured, thick skinned, Cruiser - a well armed warship with the capability to carry out a variety of missions. A destroyer is more dedicated to one role. Battle ship would be kept for future larger more capable classes, Carrier was not used as you can hardly call a large ship with 6 A/C a carrier, unless that was it's primary weapon, the 303 has other primary weapons systems. I think the early term for such a warship was armoured cruiser, which evolved into the BC. In this case BC is not a cut down BB like the Hood, but a uparmoured multirole cruiser.
"The armored cruiser was a naval cruiser protected by armor on its sides as well as on the decks and gun positions.
Battlecruisers (short for battleship-cruisers) were large warships of the early 20th century. They evolved from armored cruisers as new technology made it possible to build bigger ships." Wikipedia
Really the Prometheus has more in common with the Russian Kiev-class CVHG.
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