CVN-65 Enterprise

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Enterprise, [CVN].

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

Launch date: 24 September 1960.

Commission date: 25 November 1961.

Decommission date: 03 February 2017.

Displacement ( tons ): 75.704 light, 93.284 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 331,63 x 40,54 x 11,88

Main machinery: 8 x Westinghouse A2W reactors, 32 x Foster-Wheeler heat exchangers; 4 x Westinghouse geared steam turbines ( 280.000+ hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 33,6.

Complement: 5815 ( 571 officers ).

Guns: 3 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.

Missiles:  SAM: 3 x Mk 29 SAM launchers ( Sea Sparrow ); 2 x RAM Mk 31 SAM launchers (RIM-116A missiles).

Radar: Air: SPS-48E 3-D air search, SPS-49(V)5, 1 x SPN-43A air control; Surface: SPS-67(V)1; Navigation: Furuno 900, SPS-64(V)9; Other: 1 x Mk 23 TAS target acquisition, 1 x SPN-44 microwave landing aid, 2 x SPN-46 CCA; Fire Control: 6 x Mk95 ( missiles ), 3 x Mk90 ( CIWS ). TACAN: URN-25.

Countermeasures: Decoys: 8 x Mk 36 SRBOC; SLQ-25A SSTDS; ECM/ESM: Raytheon SLQ-32(V)4 suite; WLR-1H(V)7 intercept; BAE Systems SLQ-20B signal processor.

Helicopter: 7 x SH-60F/HH-60H.

Aviation: 10 x F-14B/D, 36 x F/A-18C, 4 x EA-6B, 4 x E-2C, 8 x S-3B, 2 x C-2A.

Callsign: NIQM ()

Homeport: Norfolk.

Awards (as of 03/02/2017):