CV-67 John F. Kennedy

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Kennedy, [CV].

Builder: Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.

Launch date: 27 May 1967.

Commission date: 07 September 1968.

Decommission date: 23 March 2007.

Displacement ( tons ): 60.728 light, 82.655 at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 321 x 77 x 11

Main machinery: 8 × Foster Wheeler boilers, 4 x General Electric steam turbines ( 280.000 hp ), 4 x shafts.

Speed ( knots ): 34.

Complement: 5000 ( 491 officers: crew, air wing, flag staff and marines ).

Guns: 3 x 20mm Mk 15 Block 1 Phalanx CIWS.

Missiles:  SAM: 3 x Mk 29 SAM launchers ( Sea Sparrow ).

Military lift: 5.919 tm aviation fuel, 1.250 tm ammunition.

Radar: Navigation: 1 x Furuno 900; 1 x SPS-64(V)9; Surface search: 1 x SPS-67(V)1; Air search: 1 x SPS-48E,3-D; 1 SPS-49(V)5,2-D; 1 x TAS/Mk 23, 2 x SPN-46; Air Control: 1 x SPN-43C; Landing aids: 1 x SPN-44; Fire control: 6 x Mk 95 directors ( missiles ), 3 x Mk 90 ( CIWS ).

Countermeasures: Decoys: 8 x Mk36 SRBOC, SLQ-25A Nixie towed torpedo decoy; ESM/ECM: Raytheon SLQ-32(V)4 suite; BAE Systems SLQ-20B signal processor, WLR-1H(V)7 intercept.

Helicopter: 7 x SH-60F/HH-60H.

Aviation: Usual configuration: 22 x F-14B/D, 24 x F/A-18C, 4 x EA-6B, 4 x E-2C, 8 x S-3B, 2 x C-2A.

Callsign: NJFK ()

Comment: The angled deck is 217 m long and is equipped with four arrestor wires and a barrier, as well as four elevators. Has three C13 and one C13 Mod. 1 catapults.

Awards (as of 23/03/2007):