| Class overview | ||
| Name: | Nimitz-class aircraft carrier | |
| Builders: | Newport News Shipbuilding Company | |
| Operators: | United States Navy | |
| Preceded by: | Kitty Hawk class and | |
| Enterprise class | ||
| Succeeded by: | Gerald R. Ford class | |
| Subclasses: | Theodore Roosevelt class and | |
| Ronald Reagan class | ||
| Cost: | Approximately US$8.5 billion | |
| In commission: | 3-May-75 | |
| Planned: | 10 | |
| Completed: | 10 | |
| Active: | 10 | |
| General characteristics | ||
| Type: | Aircraft carrier | |
| Displacement: | 100,000 to 104,600 long tons (101,600–106,300 t)[1] | |
| Length: | Overall: 1,092 feet (332.8 m) | |
| Waterline: 1,040 feet (317.0 m) | ||
| Beam: | Overall: 252 ft (76.8 m) | |
| Waterline: 134 ft (40.8 m) | ||
| Draft: | Maximum navigational: 37 feet (11.3 m) | |
| Limit: 41 feet (12.5 m) | ||
| Propulsion: | 2 × Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors | |
| 4 × steam turbines | ||
| 4 × shafts | ||
| 260,000 shp (194 MW) | ||
| Speed: | 30+ knots (56+ km/h; 35+ mph) | |
| Range: | Unlimited distance; 20–25 years | |
| Complement: | Ship's company: 3,532 | |
| Air wing: 2,480 | ||
| Crew: | 6,012[2] (including airwing) | |
| Sensors and | AN/SPS-48E 3-D air search radar | |
| processing systems: | AN/SPS-49(V)5 2-D air search radar | |
| AN/SPQ-9B target acquisition radar | ||
| AN/SPN-46 air traffic control radars | ||
| AN/SPN-43C air traffic control radar | ||
| AN/SPN-41 landing aid radars | ||
| 4 × Mk 91 NSSM guidance systems | ||
| 4 × Mk 95 radars | ||
| Electronic warfare | AN/SLQ-32A(V)4 Countermeasures suite | |
| & decoys: | SLQ-25A Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures | |
| Armament: | 16–24 × RIM-7 Sea Sparrow or NATO Sea Sparrow missiles | |
| 3 or 4 × Phalanx CIWSs or RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles | ||
| Armor: | 2.5 in (64 mm) Kevlar over vital spaces[3] | |
| Aircraft carried: | 85–90 fixed wing and helicopters[4 | |
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