Additional Info

• Ships in class

  NAME	NUMBER	LAUNCHED	COMMISSIONED
  USS Gerald R. Ford	CVN 78	9 November 2013	22 July 2017
  USS John F. Kennedy	CVN 79
  USS Enterprise	CVN 80

• Length
  • 333 meters.
• Beam
  • 78 meters.
• Draft
  • 12.4 meters.
• Displacement
  • 100,000 tons.
• Propulsion
  • 2 Nuclear reactors Bechtel A1B.
  • 4 Steam turbines.
  • 4 variable pitch propellers.
• Speed
  • More than 30 knots.
• Complement
  • 4,539 crew, air personnel and staff.
• Sensors
  • Multifunction Radar: DBR (Dual Band Radar) integrated by the following radars:
    • Raytheon AN/SPY-3 3D in band X
    • VSR (Volume Search Radar) in band S.
  • Navigation radar: Raytheon AN/SPS-73V.
  • Fire control:4 Mk-95
• ESM/ECM
  • SEWIP (Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program) Block 3.
• Countermeasures
  • Countermeasures against torpedo SLQ-25 Nixie.
• Systems
  • Combat system SSDS (Ship Self-Defense System) Mk-2 Mod. 6
  • Data Link-11/4A/16
  • AN/USG-2 CEC (Cooperative Engagement Capability)
• Weapons
  • 2 launch Raytheon GMLS Mk-29 for ESSM (Evolved SeaSparrow Missile) RIM-162
  • 2 launch CIWS Mk-49 for RIM-116 RAM.
  • 3 CIWS Raytheon Phalanx Mk-15
• Aircraft carried
  • Flight deck dimensions: 333x77 mts.
  • 4 catapults EMALS (ElectroMagnetic Aircraft Launch System).
  • 3 lifts
  • Capacity for more than 75 aircraft: Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, Boeing EA-18G Growler, Grumman C-2 Greyhound, Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye, Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II, Sikorsky SH-60 y UAV´s