CVN-70 Carl Vinson

Country: United States

Class, [Type]: Nimitz, [CVN].

Builder: Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.

Launch date: 15th March 1980.

Commission date: 13th March 1982.

Displacement ( tons ): 80.753 standard, 103.658 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 332,85 x 40,85 x 12,5

Main machinery: 2 x GE A4W/A1G pressurized-water reactors, 4 sets geared steam turbines ( 280.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 31.

Range ( miles ): Aproximately 20-25 years.

Complement: 5680 ( 555 officers: crew, air wing, flag staff and marines ).

Guns: 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.

Missiles:  SAM: 2 x Mk 57 Mod13 launchers ( RIM-7P Sea Sparrow missiles ), 2 x Mk49 GMLS launchers ( RIM-116 RAM missiles ).

Military lift: An aviation payload of some 14,909 tons is carried, including 9,000 tons of aviation fuel and 1,954 tons of aviation ordnance.

Radar: Navigation: 1 x Furuno 900; 1 x SPS-64(V)9; Surface search: 1 x SPS-67(V)1; Air search: 1 x SPS-48E,3-D; 1 x SPS-49(V)5,2-D; 1 x TAS/Mk 23, 2 x SPN-46; Air Control: 1 x SPN-43C; Landing aids: 1 x SPN-41; Fire control: 4 x Mk 95 directors ( missiles ), 4 x Mk 91 ( CIWS ).

Countermeasures: Decoys: 8 x Mk36 SRBOC, SLQ-25A Nixie towed torpedo decoy; ESM/ECM: Raytheon SLQ-32(V)4 suite; BAE Systems SLQ-20B signal processor.

Helicopter: MH-60R, MH-60S.

Aviation: F/A-18E/F, F-35C, EA-18G, E-2D, V-22B.

Callsign: NCVV ()

Comment: The angled deck is 237.7 m long and is equipped with four arrestor wires and a Mk 7 Mod. 3 barrier, as well as four 47-ton-capacity elevators. The hangar has 7.6 m clear height. . Has four C13 Mod. 1 catapults.

Homeport: Mayport.

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