Aircraft Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln CVN 72

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General Characteristics, Nimitz Class

Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, VA.

Date Deployed: May 3, 1975 (USS Nimitz).

Unit Cost: About $4.5 billion each.

Propulsion: Two nuclear reactors, four shafts.

Length: 1,092 feet (332.85 meters).

Beam: 134 feet (40.84 meters); Flight Deck Width: 252 feet (76.8 meters).

Displacement: Approximately 97,000 tons (87,996.9 metric tons) full load.

Speed: 30+ knots (34.5+ miles per hour).

Crew: Ship's Company: 3,200 - Air Wing: 2,480.

Armament: Two or three (depending on modification) NATO Sea Sparrow launchers, 20mm Phalanx CIWS mounts: (3 on Nimitz and Dwight D. Eisenhower and 4 on Vinson and later ships of the class.).

Aircraft: 85.

source: U.S. Navy