Builders:
N : Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, United States
Dimensions:
1092' x 133' 8" x 37' / 332.80m x 40.80m x 11.27m
Displacement:
81600 tons std / 91500 tons max
Complement:
3105 crew
2885 airgroup
72 marines
Armament:
4 x Vulcan Phalanx CIWS
3 x Mk29 octuple Sea Sparrow SAM launchers
Aircraft Facilities:
The flightdeck measures 1092' x 252' 6". The usual complement of aircraft is between 90 and 100, made
up of F-14 Tomcats, F/A-18 Hornets, EA-6B Prowlers, E2C Hawkeyes, SH3 SeaKings and SH60 SeaHawks. Four
elevators are provided along with four steam catapults.
Armour:
None known.
Powerplant:
Two Westinghouse A2W PWR reactors are fitted along with four General Electric steam turbines
providing a total of 280000shp.
Maximum speed is 30+kts.
Electronics Fit:
Radar:
SPS43 aircraft control
SPS48E air search
SPS49 V5 2D air search
SPS64 navigation
SPS67 surface search
3 x Mk95 fire control
Sonar:
None carried.
Other:
3 x Mk91 Sea Sparrow fire control
SLQ32 V4 ESM suite
Miscellaneous:
Four SRBOC decoy launchers and a SLQ-36 Nixie towed torpedo decoy are fitted.