![]() USS Nimitz | |
United States | ![]() |
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Builders: | Newport News Shipbuilding |
Operators: | ![]() |
Preceding class: | Kitty Hawk |
Following class: | CVN-21 development program |
Commissioned: | 3 May 1975 |
Ships in Class | |
Ships in class: | 10 |
Ships in active service: | USS Nimitz USS Dwight D. Eisenhower USS Carl Vinson USS Theodore Roosevelt USS Abraham Lincoln USS George Washington USS John C. Stennis USS Harry S. Truman USS Ronald Reagan |
Ships building: | 1 |
Ships fitting out: | 1USS George H. W. Bush |
General Characteristics | |
Class type: | Nuclear powered supercarrier |
Displacement: | 10,000 tons |
Length: | 317 m |
Beam: | 40.8 m |
Draught: | 11.9 m |
Draft: | fd12m |
Propulsion and power: | Nuclear propulsion 260,000 shp |
Speed: | 30+ knots |
Boats and landing craft carried: | 8 |
Capacity: | 50,000 |
Complement: | 3,200 ships company 2,500 air wing |
Armament: | 16-24 surface-to-air missiles 4 close-in weapons systems |
Armor: | dd |
Aircraft complement: | Up to 90 |
Aircraft facilities: | diff |