America’s newest aircraft carrier is the USS Gerald R. Ford, the only non- Nimitz class ship in the fleet and the first of ...

When fully loaded, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier displaces approximately 100,000 long tons. Two nuclear reactors pour four steam turbines and four shafts, which produce 260,000 shaft horsepower.

The Specs of the Nimitz-class Carrier When fully loaded, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier displaces approximately 100,000 long tons. Two nuclear reactors pour four steam turbines and four shafts ...

The program includes replacing the SPY-1 radar with the SPY-6(v)4, as mentioned earlier, as well as replacing the AN/SPS-48 and AN/SPS-49 radars on Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers with ...

The newly named flattops follow the sea service's tradition of naming the nuclear-powered carriers after US presidents. The trend has many exceptions, including the first-in-class USS Nimitz ...

The White House announced Monday that the Navy will name the two latest Ford-class aircraft carriers after former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The future USS William J. Clinton and ...

The decommissioned aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy embarked on its final journey to be dismantled earlier this week. The Kennedy was moored at the Navy's Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility in ...

The Navy’s current aircraft carrier force consists of 11 nuclear carriers, including 10 Nimitz-class ships that entered service between 1975 and 2009, and the Gerald R. Ford, which was ...

The 1931–33 models were particularly pretty. But we’re discussing mid-’70s Nimitz-class luxury cars, were we not? The 1974 Imperial was all-new, and even more formal than the outgoing, 1969–73 ...

Bush will become the fifth and sixth ships of the Ford class -- the class of ships that is slated to eventually replace the venerable Nimitz-class carriers that are in operation today. "When I ...