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Theodore Roosevelt Class

Name	Builders	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned
CVN72 Abraham Lincoln	N	3rd November 1984	14th February 1988	November 1989
CVN73 George Washington	N	25th August 1986	21st July 1990	4th July 1992
CVN75 Harry S. Truman	N	29th November 1993	13th September 1996	25th July 1998
CVN74 John C. Stennis	N	13th March 1991	11th November 1993	9th June 1995
CVN76 Ronald Reagan	N	9th February 1998	March 2000	December 2002
CVN71 Theodore Roosevelt	N	31st October 1981	27th October 1984	25th October 1986

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.