Aircraft carriers of the Nimitz class are a type of American nuclear-powered aircraft carriers . Aircraft carriers "Nimitz" with a maximum displacement of up to 106 thousand tons are the largest warships in the world. They are designed to operate as part of aircraft carrier strike groups and engage large surface targets, to provide air defense to naval forces, and also to conduct air operations.
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 USS Nimitz - the lead ship of the series | |
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| Preceding type | Kitty Hawk type and Enterprise type |
| Subsequent type | type "Gerald R. Ford" |
| Years in operation | since 1975 |
| Scheduled | 10 |
| Built | 10 |
| In the ranks | 10 |
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| Cost | about 4.5 billion dollars |
| Main characteristics | |
| Displacement | 101 600 - 106 300 tons |
| Length | 332.8 m |
| Waterline length | 317 m |
| Width | 40.8 m (overVL ) [1] 76.8–78.4 m (maximum) |
| Height | 73.2 m [1] |
| Draft | 11.3 m |
| Reservation | 64 mm Kevlar above the living compartments [2] |
| Engines | 2 nuclear reactors A4W Westinghouse , 4 steam turbines 4 diesel engines [1] |
| Power | 260 000 l. from. (194 Mw ) 10 720 h.p. ( DD ) [1] |
| Speed | 30 knots (56 km / h ) |
| Sailing range | Unlimited distance |
| Crew | 3,200 crew members 2,480 people in the wing |
| Armament | |
| Radar weapons | Detection stations: SPS-48 , SPS-49 , SPS-67 Control VD : SPN-41 , SPN-42 , SPN-43 , SPN-44 or SPN-46 , SPS-64 |
| Electronic weapons | BIUS : NTDS / ACDS Tactical communication: Link-4A, -11, -14, 16 Satellite connection: SSR-1 , WSC-3 , WSC-6 , USC-38 MIS SAM : Mk 91 , Mk 95 EW : SLQ-17 or SLQ-32 , SLQ-29 , SLQ-36 Navigation: Tacan |
| Flak | 3 or 4 × 20 mm AC Mk 15 [1] or ASMD |
| Missile weapons | 16-24 PU "Sea Sparrow" [1] |
| Aviation group | 64 aircraft and helicopters (max. - 85 ... 90) [3] |
The armament of ships is based on carrier-based aircraft consisting of F / A-18 Hornet fighter-bombers, as well as electronic warfare aircraft, early warning radar , transport aircraft and anti-submarine helicopters. The total mass of ammunition is 1954 tons. Own airborne weapons are represented by anti-aircraft missile and anti-aircraft artillery systems. As well as equipment for troops on board, it includes up to 4 Abrams tanks, and 6 AAV7s .
The type was named after the lead ship of the series, Nimitz , commissioned in 1975 . A total of 10 aircraft carriers were built, including the latter, the George W. Bush, which was included in the fleet in 2009 . During their operation, ships were widely used in various military conflicts, including in Yugoslavia and Iraq .
Content
- 1 History of creation
- 2 Design
- 3 Key Features
- 4 Series Composition
- 5 The composition of the wing
- 6 Incidents
- 7 See also
- 8 Notes
- 9 Literature
- 10 Links
Creation History
Design
Key Features
In accordance with the classification of the US Navy ships, all ships of this type have a hull number ( Eng. Hull number ), for example, the first ship of this class has the number CVN-68 , where the designation CVN is an aircraft carrier with a nuclear power plant (C from Cruiser, V is from Voler (French), N is from Nuclear), and 68 is the serial number of an aircraft carrier in the US Navy .
- Manufacturer: Northrop Grumman Corporation , Newport News , Virginia
- Power plant: two A4W reactors, four turbines
- Length: 333 m
- Width of flight deck: 76.8 - 78.4 m
- Displacement: 98,235 tons, maximum 104,112 tons when fully loaded
- Speed: 30 knots (approx. 56 km / h )
- Deck-based aircraft wing (66 units): 48 F / A-18 Hornet multi-role fighter-bomber, 4 EA-6B Prowler REB aircraft , 4 Grumman E-2 Hawkeye Aircraft, 2 C-2 Greyhound transport aircraft, 8 Sikorsky SH anti-submarine helicopters -60 Seahawk .
- Crew: 3200 crew + 2480 air wing personnel [4]
- Cost: $ 4.5 billion
- Service life: more than 50 years
- Operating time of reactors without core replacement: about 25 years. By 2018, the core was replaced at the reactors of aircraft carriers Nimitz ( 1998 - 2001 ), Dwight Eisenhower ( 2001 - 2005 ), Karl Vinson ( 2005 - 2009 ), Theodore Roosevelt ( 2009 - 2013 ), " Abraham Lincoln ”( 2013 - 2017 [5] ).
- The content of each aircraft carrier costs about 160 million dollars a year.
Series Composition
| No. | Title | Shipyard | Pledged | Lowered | In the ranks | Written off | Port of registry [6] |
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| one. | No. 68 "Nimitz" | Newport news | 06/22/1968 | 05/13/1972 | 05/03/1975 | Kitsap | |
| 2. | No. 69 Eisenhower | Newport news | 08/15/1970 | 10/11/1975 | 10/18/1977 | Norfolk | |
| 3. | No. 70 Vinson | Newport news | 10/11/1975 | 03/15/1980 | 03/13/1982 | Kitsap [7] | |
| four. | Number 71 Roosevelt | Newport news | 10/31/1981 | 10/27/1984 | 10/25/1986 | San diego | |
| 5. | Number 72 Lincoln | Newport news | 11/03/1984 | 02/13/1988 | 11/11/1989 | San Diego [7] | |
| 6. | No. 73 Washington | Newport news | 08/25/1986 | 07/21/1990 | 07/04/1992 | Norfolk | |
| 7. | Number 74 Stennis | Newport news | 03/13/1991 | 11/11/1993 | 12/09/1995 | Norfolk [7] | |
| 8. | Number 75 Truman | Newport news | 11/29/1993 | 09/07/1996 | 07/25/1998 | Norfolk | |
| 9. | Number 76 Reagan | Newport news | 02/12/1998 | 03/04/2001 | 07/12/2003 | San diego | |
| 10. | No. 77 "Bush" | Newport news | 09/06/2003 | 10/09/2006 | 01/10/2009 | Norfolk |
Wing Composition
| Qty squadrons | Type of airplane | Title | Qty | Note | |
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| 2010: Typical Air Group | |||||
| four | F / a-18 | Mcdonnell hornet | 48 | ||
| one | EA-6B | Grumman prowler | four | ||
| one | E-2c | Grumman hawkeye | four | ||
| ½ | C-2a | Grumman greyhound | 2 | Transport | |
| one | SH-3H | Sikorsky sea king | 8 | ||
| Total: | 66 | ||||
| Squadron/ link | Title | Type of airplane | Title | Qty | Note |
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| 1991: CVN-71 Theodore Roosevelt, Iraq [1] | |||||
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| F-14 | Grumman tomcat | twenty | |||
| F / a-18 | Mcdonnell hornet | 19 | |||
| A-6e | Grumman intruder | eighteen | |||
| EA-6B | Grumman prowler | 5 | |||
| E-2c | Grumman hawkeye | four | |||
| S-3b | Lockheed viking | 8 | |||
| Ka-6d | Grumman intruder | four | Tanker | ||
| SH-3H | Sikorsky sea king | 6 | |||
| Total: | 84 | ||||
Incidents
On January 25, 1987 , while on the coast of Libya , the Sky-Warrior electronic reconnaissance aircraft EA-3B reported to the aircraft carrier a critical malfunction that made it impossible to land using the aerofinisher . On the Nimitsa, they urgently removed the excess aircraft equipment to the sides and pulled across the deck the so-called "Barricade" (elastic network) for braking an emergency plane. Skywarrior struck the barricade and fell overboard. A crew of 7 people died. [8]
See also
- U.S. Carrier Fleet
- Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carriers
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Aksyonov V. Nimitz-type nuclear carriers. - Foreign Military Review, 1995, No. 10, p. 43-51.
- ↑ Fontenoy, Paul E. (2006). Aircraft carriers: an illustrated history of their impact. ABC-CLIO Ltd. p. 349. ISBN 978-1-85109-573-5 .
- ↑ Gibbons, Tony (2001). The Encyclopedia of Ships. London, United Kingdom: Amber Books. p. 444. ISBN 978-1-905704-43-9 .
- ↑ In the realities of the USSR Navy and the Russian Navy, the term “Airwing” roughly corresponds to the term “separate naval fighter / assault aviation regiment” (OKIAP / OKSHAP). It should be noted, however, that the complete wing of the U.S. Navy carrier group has much wider strike and defensive capabilities compared to the forces of the naval base regiments TAVKR of the Navy of the USSR and Russia, due to the inclusion of Squadrons of AWACS, electronic warfare and deck aircraft transport aviation.
- ↑ https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=100447
- ↑ US Navy Fact File. Aircraft Carriers , on January 31, 2017.
- ↑ 1 2 3 https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=106596
- ↑ Fallen naval crew to be honored
Literature
- Friedman, Norman. US Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History. - Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press , 1983. - ISBN 978-0-87021-739-5 .
- Lambeth, Benjamin. American Carrier Air Power at the Dawn of a New Century. - Santa Monica, California : RAND Corporation , 2005. - ISBN 978-0-8330-3842-5 .
- Polmar, Norman. The Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2004 .-- ISBN 978-1-59114-685-8 .
- Stevens, Ted. Navy Aircraft Carriers: Cost-effectiveness of Conventionally and Nuclear-powered Carriers: Report to Congressional Requesters. - Washington, DC : Government Accountability Office , 1998. - ISBN 1-4289-7664-7 .
- Wertheim, Eric. The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft and Systems. - Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2007. - ISBN 978-1-59114-955-2 .
- Schank, John F. Refueling and Complex Overhaul of the USS Nimitz (CVN 68): Lessons for the Future . - Santa Monica, California : Rand Corporation , 2002. - ISBN 0-8330-3288-7 .
Links
- Ship Class: CVN 68 (English) (link not available) . http://www.nvr.navy.mil . - Naval Vessel Register. Date of treatment January 5, 2012. Archived January 15, 2012.
- Discovery channel video
- Busting the speed myth of USS Enterprise and Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier , a special report by NavWeaps.Com
- CVN-68 Nimitz -class Modernization - GlobalSecurity.org