[Ribbon-Grey]

Nimitz-class Super Carrier
- Nulcear Powered Aircraft Carrier -



- GR Nimitz Image A - GR Nimitz Image B - GR Nimitz Image C -

Origin: (Real World)
United States of America

Games Featured In:
Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War
Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
Ace Combat: Joint Assault
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

Operators:
Emmerian Navy
Estovakian Navy
Free Erusian Navy
General Resource Defense Force
Osean Maritime Defense Force
United States Navy

Notable Ships:
Carrier Barbette of the Osean Maritime Defense Force (AC5)
Carrier Buzzard of the Osean Maritime Defense Force (AC5)
Carrier Kestrel of the Osean Maritime Defense Force 3rd Fleet (AC5 + ACZ)
Carrier Vulture of the Osean Maritime Defense Force (AC5)
Carrier Kraken (AC6)
Carrier Washington of the USN Seventh Fleet (AC: JA)

Armament:
Sea Sparrow launchers: three or four (depending on modification)

Phalanx CIWS mounts: Three on Nimitzand Eisenhowerand four on Vinson and later ships of the class, except Washingtonwhich has three.

RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile: Two on Nimitz, Washington and Reagan, will be retrofitted to other ships as they return for RCOH.

Aircraft Compliment:
85 (current wings are closer to 64, including 48 tactical and 16 support aircraft)
Intended to operate aircraft currently including the F/A-18 Hornet, EA-6B Prowler, E-2 Hawkeye, C-2 Greyhound, SH/HH-60 Seahawk, and S-3 Viking for many missions including self-defense, land attack and maritime strike.

Overview:
The Nimitz-class super carriers are a line of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the US Navy, and are the largest capital ships in the world. These ships are numbered with consecutive hull numbers starting with CVN 68. The letters "CVN" denote the type of ship: CV is the hull classification symbol for Aircraft Carriers, and N to indicate nuclear-powered propulsion. The number after the "CVN" means that this is the 68th "CV", or aircraft carrier.

Nimitz (CVN-68), the lead ship of the class, was commissioned in 1975. As of 2006, George H. W. Bush (CVN-77), the tenth and last of the class, was built by Northrop Grumman Newport News and will enter service in 2008. Bush will be the first transition ship to a new class of carriers (CVN-21) to start construction in 2007 and will incorporate new technologies including a new multi-function radar system, volume search radar and open architecture information network, and a significantly reduced crew requirement. To lower costs some new technologies were incorporated into Ronald Reagan, though not nearly as many as will be involved with Bush.

Because of construction differences between the first three ships (Nimitz, Eisenhower and Vinson) and the latter seven (from Theodore Roosevelt on), the latter ships are sometimes called Theodore Roosevelt-class aircraft carriers, though the U.S. Navy officially holds no difference between the two groups (in fact, the time lag between carriers means that no two are the same). As the older ships come in for Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH), they are upgraded to the standards of the latest ships, virtually eliminating differences.

By tonnage, Nimitz class are by far the largest class of carriers ever built, holding the world record for displacement of any naval war vessel. When Bushis completed, the ten ships of the class will total just under a million tons combined displacement. Although the Nimitz class ships are the heaviest ships in the US fleet they are not the longest ships in the fleet, as that honor belongs to the carrier Enterprise.


Source(s):
Ace Combat Series (In-game Data)
Wikipedia

Accreditation:
Original Article by Heinkel
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[Ribbon-Azure]

I do recall someone... I think it was Ribbon-Vermillion saying that this was called the... Hubert Class Carrier in Strangereal.

[Zaku]

Free Erusea has one, too, in Operation Katina's last mission.

[MenAce]

Ah yeah, that one, Free Erusea. Thanks. It really makes sense that Namco included this ship in Operation Katina, since it was released along with the AC5.

[Apollo]

I heard that the next class of carriers (after Bush) were called CVNX. They had more advanced systems, modular designs and EM aircraft launchers instead of steam catapults.

[Demon Lord Razgriz]

I heard that the next class of carriers (after Bush) were called CVNX. They had more advanced systems, modular designs and EM aircraft launchers instead of steam catapults.

It's CVN-78(?), the Gerald Ford-class. The first one, USS Gerald Ford will replace the USS Enterprise.

[Apollo]

Ah, yes. The CVN-78 was a "transition" carrier that would feature some of the tech of CVNX. After CVN-78 got outdated, the Navy would start using CVNX.

[Demon Lord Razgriz]

Ah, yes. The CVN-78 was a "transition" carrier that would feature some of the tech of CVNX. After CVN-78 got outdated, the Navy would start using CVNX.

No.

CVN-78 is the CVN-21, CVNX, etc. It's the lead ship of the Ford-class. You're thinking of CVN-77, the USS Bush, the last of the Nimitz-class. But both the Nimitz-class & the Ford-class will sail together for at least until 2050 when the Bush will likely be decommissioned.

[BlueEagle1]

RIM-116 link is dead

[Ribbon-Azure]

Added in GRDF stuff... the GRDF carrier looks EXACTLY like a Nimitz.

[JianDaoXiao]

Added images of the GR Nimitz.
wow, now i know what feel Ribbon-Cobalt when his articles are deleted

[Apollo]

Needs an update: the U.S.S. Geroge H. W. Bush (CVN-77) was completed and comishened last week.

[Green Giant]

Actually, the commissioning ceremony was Sunday. I watched it on C-Span. (Yeah, I'm a geek.)

[Apollo]

Actually, the commissioning ceremony was Sunday. I watched it on C-Span. (Yeah, I'm a geek.)

Ah, I was close. But you sould still update the article.

[Demon Lord Razgriz]

Yes, we do need to keep these articles up to date. Though it should be mentioned that the Bush is different enough to be it's own subclass like the Theodore Roosevelt-subclass due to it using the building techniques & technology that'll build the Ford-class.

[Green Giant]

Why update the article?? We don't put information regarding real was ships, only the ones in the AC World.

[Apollo]

Why update the article?? We don't put information regarding real was ships, only the ones in the AC World.

Because THIS article is about real ships. It is outdated and therefore inaccurrate.