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Class overview
Name: Enterprise-class aircraft carrier
Builders: Newport News Shipbuilding
Operators: United States Navy
Preceded by: Kitty Hawk-class
Succeeded by: Nimitz-class
In commission: 25 November 1961
Planned: 6
Completed: 1
Active: 1

Name: USS Enterprise
Ordered: 15 November 1957
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company
Cost: $451.3 million
Laid down: 4 February 1958
Launched: 24 September 1960
Christened: 24 September 1960
Acquired: 29 October 1961
Commissioned: 25 November 1961
Decommissioned: Scheduled for 2013
In service: 12 January 1962 (maiden voyage)
Reclassified: CVN-65
Homeport: NAVSTA Norfolk
Status: in active service, as of 2011

 

General characteristics

Class and type: Enterprise-class aircraft carrier
Displacement: 93,284 long tons (94,781 t) Full Load
Length: 1,123 ft (342 m)
Beam: 132.8 ft (40.5 m) (waterline)
257.2 ft (78.4 m) (extreme)
Draft: 39 ft (12 m)
Propulsion: 8 × Westinghouse A2W Nuclear Reactors
Four sets Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 4 × shafts
280,000 shp (210 MW)
Speed: 33.6 knots (38.7 mph; 62.2 km/h)
Range: Essentially unlimited distance; 20 years
Complement:

5,828 (maximum)
Ship's company: 3,000 (2,700 Sailors, 150 Chiefs, 150 Officers)

Air wing: 1,800 (250 Pilots, and 1,550 Support personnel)
Sensors and
processing systems:
AN/SPS-48 3D air search radar
AN/SPS-49 2D air search radar
Electronic warfare
and decoys:
AN/SLQ-23
Mark 36 SRBOC
Armament:
  • 2 × Nato Sea Sparrow launchers
  • 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS mounts
  • 2 RAM launchers
Armor: 8 in (20 cm) aluminum belt (equivalent to 4 in (10 cm) rolled homogeneous steel armor)
Aircraft carried: Hold up to 90
70 (normally)
Aviation facilities: Flight deck: 1,123 ft (342 m)
Motto: Ready on Arrival;
The First, the Finest;
Eight Reactors, None Faster
Nickname: "Big E"
Notes: 915 engineers designed the ship. They made 16,100 drawings and 2,400 blueprints. The ship has about 625 mi (1,000 km) of electrical cables and 37 mi (60 km) of ventilation ducts. The ship has 4 steam powered catapults.

 

 USS Enterprise (CVN 65) 

 

 

 

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