 USS Nimitz | |
| United States | 
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|---|---|
| Builders: | Newport News Shipbuilding |
| Operators: |  United States Navy |
| Preceding class: | Kitty Hawk |
| Following class: | CVN-21 development program |
| Commissioned: | 3 May 1975 |
| Ships in Class | |
| Ships in class: | 10 |
| Ships in active service: | USS Nimitz USS Dwight D. Eisenhower USS Carl Vinson USS Theodore Roosevelt USS Abraham Lincoln USS George Washington USS John C. Stennis USS Harry S. Truman USS Ronald Reagan |
| Ships building: | 1 |
| Ships fitting out: | 1USS George H. W. Bush |
| General Characteristics | |
| Class type: | Nuclear powered supercarrier |
| Displacement: | 10,000 tons |
| Length: | 317 m |
| Beam: | 40.8 m |
| Draught: | 11.9 m |
| Draft: | fd12m |
| Propulsion and power: | Nuclear propulsion 260,000 shp |
| Speed: | 30+ knots |
| Boats and landing craft carried: | 8 |
| Capacity: | 50,000 |
| Complement: | 3,200 ships company 2,500 air wing |
| Armament: | 16-24 surface-to-air missiles 4 close-in weapons systems |
| Armor: | dd |
| Aircraft complement: | Up to 90 |
| Aircraft facilities: | diff |