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 | |
