Enterprise-class aircraft carrier

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Enterprise-class aircraft carrier
US-US ship-USS Enterprise (CVN-80).jpg
USS Enterprise (CVN-80) underway in April 1723
Class overview
Name: Enterprise–class aircraft carrier
Builders: Newport News Shipbuilding
Operators:
 United States
     ↳ United States Navy
Preceded by: Gerald R. Ford class
Cost:
  • Program cost: $36.30 billion (FY15)
  • Unit cost: $10.44B (FY15)
In service: 1723-present
Building: 1
Planned: 18
Completed: 1
Active: 1
General characteristics
Type: Aircraft carrier
Displacement: About 100,000 long tons
(110,000 short tons) (full load)
Length: 1,106 ft (340 m)
Beam:
  • 256 ft (78 m) (flight deck)
  • 134 ft (41 m) (waterline)
Height: 250 feet (76 m)
Draft: 39 ft (12 m)
Decks: 25
Installed power: Two A1B nuclear reactors
Propulsion: Four shafts
Speed: In excess of 30 knots (55.5 kph)
Range: Unlimited
Endurance: 50-year service life
Complement:
  • 508 officers
  • 3,789 enlisted
Armament:
  • Anti-aircraft missiles:
  • 2 × RIM-162 ESSM launchers
  • 2 × RIM-116 RAM
  • Guns:
  • 3 × Phalanx CIWS
  • 4 × M2 .50 Cal. (12.7 mm) machine guns
  • Aircraft carried: 75+
    Aviation facilities: 1,092 ft × 256 ft (333 m × 78 m) flight deck