CVN-72 Abraham Lincoln

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Nimitz, [CVN].

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

Launch date: 13 February 1988.

Commission date: 11 November 1989.

Displacement ( tons ): 81.083 light, 104.208 at full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 332,85 x 40,85 x 12,5

Main machinery: 2 x GE A4W/A1G pressurized-water reactors, 4 sets geared steam turbines ( 280.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 31.

Range ( miles ): Aproximately 15 years.

Complement: 5680 ( 555 officers: crew, air wing, flag staff and marines ).

Guns: 2 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.

Missiles:  SAM: 2 x Mk 29 launchers ( RIM-7P Sea Sparrow missiles ).

Military lift: An aviation payload of some 14,909 tons is carried, including 9,000 tons of aviation fuel and 1,954 tons of aviation ordnance.

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 x SPS-49(V)5,2-D; 1 x TAS/Mk 23, 2 x SPN-46; Air Control: 1 x SPN-43B; Landing aids: 1 x SPN-44; Fire control: 6 x Mk 95 directors ( missiles ), 4 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.

Helicopter: 7 x SH-60F/HH-60H.

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

Callsign: NABE ()

Comment: The angled deck is 237.7 m long and is equipped with four arrestor wires and a Mk 7 Mod. 3 barrier, as well as four 47-ton-capacity elevators. The hangar has 7.6 m clear height. . Has four C13 Mod. 1 catapults.

Homeport: San Diego.

Awards (as of 23/11/2023): 

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