| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Enterprise-class aircraft carrier |
| Builders: | Newport News Shipbuilding |
| Operators: |  United States Navy |
| Preceded by: | Kitty Hawk-class |
| Succeeded by: | Nimitz-class |
| In commission: | 25 November 1961 |
| Planned: | 6 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Active: | 1 |
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| Name: | USS Enterprise |
| Ordered: | 15 November 1957 |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company |
| Cost: | $451.3 million |
| Laid down: | 4 February 1958 |
| Launched: | 24 September 1960 |
| Christened: | 24 September 1960 |
| Acquired: | 29 October 1961 |
| Commissioned: | 25 November 1961 |
| Decommissioned: | Scheduled for 2013 |
| In service: | 12 January 1962 (maiden voyage) |
| Reclassified: | CVN-65 |
| Homeport: | NAVSTA Norfolk |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2011 |
General characteristics |
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| Class and type: | Enterprise-class aircraft carrier |
| Displacement: | 93,284 long tons (94,781 t) Full Load |
| Length: | 1,123 ft (342 m) |
| Beam: | 132.8 ft (40.5 m) (waterline) 257.2 ft (78.4 m) (extreme) |
| Draft: | 39 ft (12 m) |
| Propulsion: | 8 × Westinghouse A2W Nuclear Reactors Four sets Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 4 × shafts 280,000 shp (210 MW) |
| Speed: | 33.6 knots (38.7 mph; 62.2 km/h) |
| Range: | Essentially unlimited distance; 20 years |
| Complement: | 5,828 (maximum) |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-48 3D air search radar AN/SPS-49 2D air search radar |
| Electronic warfare and decoys: |
AN/SLQ-23 Mark 36 SRBOC |
| Armament: |
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| Armor: | 8 in (20 cm) aluminum belt (equivalent to 4 in (10 cm) rolled homogeneous steel armor) |
| Aircraft carried: | Hold up to 90 70 (normally) |
| Aviation facilities: | Flight deck: 1,123 ft (342 m) |
| Motto: | Ready on Arrival; The First, the Finest; Eight Reactors, None Faster |
| Nickname: | "Big E" |
| Notes: | 915 engineers designed the ship. They made 16,100 drawings and 2,400 blueprints. The ship has about 625 mi (1,000 km) of electrical cables and 37 mi (60 km) of ventilation ducts. The ship has 4 steam powered catapults. |
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