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This group is to bring family's with Sailors serving aboard Aircraft Carriers together. This is the place to share information about life aboard Aircraft Carriers in the United States Navy.

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General Characteristics, Enterprise Class

Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, VA.
Date Deployed: November 25, 1961 (USS Enterprise).
Propulsion: Eight nuclear reactors, four shafts.
Length: 1,101 feet 2 inches (335.64 meters).
Beam: 133 feet (39.9 meters); 252 feet (75.6 meters).
Displacement: 89,600 tons ( 81,283.8 metric tons) full load.
Speed: 30+ knots (34.5 miles per hour).
Crew: Ship's Company: 3,350 - Air Wing 2,480.
Armament: Two Sea Sparrow missile launchers, three Phalanx 20 mm CIWS mounts.
Aircraft: 85.

 

USS ENTERPRISE (CVN 65), Norfolk, VA

 

General Characteristics, Nimitz Class

Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, VA.
Date Deployed: May 3, 1975 (USS Nimitz).
Unit Cost: About $4.5 billion each.
Propulsion: Two nuclear reactors, four shafts.
Length: 1,092 feet (332.85 meters).
Beam: 134 feet (40.84 meters); Flight Deck Width: 252 feet (76.8 meters).
Displacement: Approximately 97,000 tons (87,996.9 metric tons) full load.
Speed: 30+ knots (34.5+ miles per hour).
Crew: Ship's Company: 3,200 - Air Wing: 2,480.
Armament: Two or three (depending on modification) NATO Sea Sparrow launchers, 20mm Phalanx CIWS mounts: (3 on Nimitz and Dwight D. Eisenhower and 4 on Vinson and later ships of the class.).
Aircraft: 85.

 

USS NIMITZ (CVN 68), Everett, WA

USS DWIGHT D EISENHOWER (CVN 69), Norfolk, VA

USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70), Coronado, CA

USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71), Norfolk, VA

USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN (CVN 72), Everett, WA

USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73), Yokosuka, Japan

USS JOHN C STENNIS (CVN 74). Bremerton, WA

USS HARRY S TRUMAN (CVN 75), Norfolk, VA

USS RONALD REAGAN (CVN 76), San Diego, CA

USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH (CVN 77), Norfolk, VA

 

 

General Characteristics, Gerald R. Ford class

 

Builder: Northrop Grumman Newport News, Newport News, Va.
Propulsion: Two nuclear reactors, four shafts.
Length: 1,092 feet
Beam: 134 feet, Flight Deck Width: 256 feet.
Displacement: approximately 100,000 long tons full load.
Speed: 30+ knots (34.5 miles per hour)
Crew: 4,660 (ship, air wing and staff).
Armament: Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, Rolling Airframe Missile, CIWS.
Aircraft: 75+

USS GERALD R FORD (CVN 78) Under construction

USS JOHN F KENNEDY (CVN 79) Construction begins in 2012

 

Carriers of the Ford class will incorporate fourteen new design features including:

Advanced arresting gear.
Automation, which reduces crew requirements by several hundred from the Nimitz class carrier.
The updated RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow missile system.
AN/SPY-3 dual-band radar (DBR), as developed for Zumwalt class destroyers.
An Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) in place of traditional steam catapults for launching aircraft.
A new nuclear reactor design (the A1B reactor) for greater power generation.
Stealthier features to help reduce radar profile.
The ability to launch the F-35C Lightning II.

 

 

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Comment by Scott A Pope on January 3, 2011 at 9:46am
I agree as well, this is far from over.  The door is now kicked wide open.  What a shame, media sensationalism at it's best.  Are there not hundreds of more important stories to cover...?  Iran... North Korea... our government's deficit... really?
Comment by SCOTT MAHON on January 3, 2011 at 9:41am

I agree David....Its like someone was saving it until after the repeal of DADT ? This is just the beginning.......

Comment by E.G. - ND's Creator/Admin on January 3, 2011 at 8:05am

This is just my opinion, right or wrong. If the Navy punishes Capt. Honors for building moral for his Sailors while deployed they will be way out of line. If these were offensive videos, wouldn't we have heard about them four years ago from the Sailors themselves?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comment by Scott A Pope on January 3, 2011 at 7:17am
Amen.
Comment by Scott A Pope on January 3, 2011 at 7:12am
The videos may not have been a great idea but by no means should something this trivial cause harm to this Officer's career. No one was forced to watch the transmission. People are too sensitive and more importantly, people are hypocrites. What are the media's actual intentions by running this story every 30 minutes? Who is gaining from this story? Let the military take care of their own business.
Comment by Scott A Pope on January 3, 2011 at 6:32am
On the surface I believe this is another example of the media making a big deal out of something that just isn't very important. When stories like this are "breaking news" then there must not be much going on in the world. I am annoyed that the media takes things like this and exploits. I hope the Navy does not cave in to this attempted media manipulation. Just my 2 cents.
Comment by Russell Erhardt sr on December 24, 2010 at 7:25pm

Check out the USS Ranger Foundation

 

ussranger.org

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on December 22, 2010 at 10:25am
Interesting video....the Navy is testing a magnetic cat system. This is the first launch of an 18 at a test facility. I miss seeing the steam!!!


Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on December 9, 2010 at 8:49am
The latest "Boat Show" produced by the media department of hte USS Abraham Lincoln---see SECDEF Gates on his first visit to a deployed carrier and see about life on the "Abe"


Find more videos like this on Navy Dads
Comment by Russell Erhardt sr on November 25, 2010 at 1:53pm
Happy Thanksgiving to all
 

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