CVN-77 George H. W. Bush

Country:  United States

Class, [Type]: Nimitz, [CVN].

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

Launch date: 07 October 2006.

Commission date: 10 January 2009.

Displacement ( tons ): 102.000.

Dimensions ( metres ): 332,8 x 40,8 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 25 years.

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

Guns: 4 x GE/GD Vulcan Phalanx Mk15 CIWS 20mm.

Missiles:  SAM: 2 x Mk 29 launchers ( RIM-7P Sea Sparrow missiles ), 2 x RIM-116.

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 ?; Surface search: 1 x SPS-67(V)1; Air search: 1 x SPS-48E,3-D; 1 x SPS-49A(V)1,2-D; 1 x TAS/Mk 23, 2 x SPN-46; Air Control: 1 x SPN-43C; Landing aids: 1 x SPN-41; Fire control: 3 x Mk 91 ( missiles ).

Countermeasures: Decoys: 8 x Mk36 SRBOC, SLQ-25A Nixie towed torpedo decoy; ESM/ECM: Raytheon SLQ-32A(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: NGHW ()

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: Norfolk.

Awards (as of 10/02/2020): 

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