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Weapons & War
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| The BIGGEST weapon, without a doubt is the aircraft carrier. The Nimiz Class carrier usually supports 85 aircraft. It only takes a carrier or two to outnumber the air force of a small to medium country. The cost of a Nimitz Class Carrier is only 4.5 Billion Dollars. Source For Pictures: U.S. Navy |
Below is the List of Active Aircraft Carriers |
| Carrier | Date Completed |
| Kitty Hawk | 29 Apr 1961 |
| Constellation | 27 Oct 1961 |
| Enterprise | 25 Nov 1961 |
| John F. Kennedy | 7 Sep 1968 |
| Nimitz | 3 May 1975 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | 18 Oct 1977 |
| Carl Vinson | 13 Mar 1982 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | 25 Oct 1986 |
| Abraham Lincoln | 11 Nov 1989 |
| George Washington | 4 July 1992 |
| John C. Stennis | 9 Dec 1995 |
| Harry S. Truman | 25 July 1998 |
| Ronald Reagan | 4 March 2001 |
| George H. W. Bush | Under Construction |
| You can click on the pictures to enlarge them but beware they will be huge and slow loading on a telephone line. Broadband is best. |
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Abraham Lincoln |
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Carl Vinson |
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Constellation |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Enterprise |
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George Washington |
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Harry S. Truman |
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John C. Stennis |
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John F. Kennedy |
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Kitty Hawk |
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Nimiz |
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Ronald Reagan |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
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George H. W. Bush. Not completed. This is an artist's rendition. |
| How big is an aircraft carrier? Well the height of the USS Eisenhower is 24 stories high to the tip of its mast. Its flight deck is 4.5 acres. If you had 5 of them laid out tip to tip they would be over one mile long. Its propellers weigh 66,200 pounds each. It has a crew of 6,287 people.Its anchor chain weighs 365 pounds per link and has 1,082 ft on each anchor. Total weight of anchors and chain, 735,000 lbs each. Number of meals served per day, 20,000. |