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USS Eisenhower
(CVN-69)
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
is the second ship in the NIMITZ class.
General Characteristics:
Keel Laid: August 15, 1970
Launched: October 11, 1975
Commissioned: October 18,
1977
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding
Co., Newport News, Va.
Propulsion system: two nuclear
reactors
Main Engines: four
Propellers: four
Aircraft elevators: four
Catapults: four
Arresting gear cables: four
Length, overall: 1,092 feet
(332,85 meters)
Flight Deck Width: 252 feet
(76,8 meters)
Area of flight deck: about
4,5 acres
Beam: 134 feet (40,84 meters)
Draft: 37,7 feet (11.3 meters)
Displacement: approx. 97,000
tons full load
Speed: 35 knots
Cost: about $3,5 billion
Planes: approx. 85
Crew: Ship: 3,200
Air Wing: 2,480
Armament: three Mk 29 NATO
Sea Sparrow launchers, three 20mm Phalanx CIWS Mk 15
Homeport: Norfolk, Va.
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