| 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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