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USS Nimitz

[edit] Nimitz (CVN 68) class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier

• Builders:  United States (Northrop Grumman Newport News, Newport News, Virginia
• Displacement: 97,000 tons
• Aircraft: 85 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter
• Armament: 4 x Sea Sparrow SAM; 4 x Phalanx CIWS; 42 x RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile SAM
• Powerplant: 2 x A4W reactors, 4 x steam turbines (260,000 shp)
• Speed: 30+ knots
• Ships in class: 10 (includes 1 building)
• Operator:  United States Navy
• Commissioned: 3 May 1975
• Fate: 9 in service, last scheduled to serve through 2060