Profile
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] |
Type, class: Aircraft Carrier - CVN; Nimitz class | |
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, Virginia, USA | |
STATUS: | |
Awarded: June 30, 1988 | |
Laid down: November 29, 1993 | |
Launched: September 7, 1996 | |
Commissioned: July 25, 1998 | |
IN SERVICE | |
Homeport: Norfolk, Virginia | |
Namesake: President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) | |
Ships Motto: THE BUCK STOPS HERE | |
Technical Data: see: INFO > Nimitz class Aircraft Carrier - CVN | |
Deployments / Carrier Air Wings embarked: | |
November 1998 - December 1998 with Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1) - shakedown cruise | |
November 2000 - May 2001 with Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) - Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Gulf | |
December 2002 - May 2003 with Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) - Mediterranean Sea | |
June 2004 - July 2004 with Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) - Summer Pulse 2004 | |
October 2004 - April 2005 with Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) - Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf | |
November 2007 - June 2008 with Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) - Mediterranean Sea, Persian Gulf | |
May 2010 - December 2010 with Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) - Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Sea | |
July 2013 - April 2014 with Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) - Mediterranean Sea, Arabian Sea | |
November 2015 - July 2016 with Carrier Air Wing 7 (CVW-7) - Mediterranean Sea, 5th Fleet AOR | |
April 2018 - ?? with Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1) - Mediterranean Sea, 5th Fleet AOR |
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