A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier displaces approximately 100,000 long tons when fully loaded. Two nuclear reactors pour four steam turbines and four shafts, which produce 260,000 shaft horsepower.

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

More U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nate Jordan On Monday, the Nimitz was spotted leaving Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington. The aircraft carrier was underway in the U ...

The nation’s next two aircraft carriers will ... part of the new class of Gerald R. Ford carriers, which are bigger and more capable than the aging Nimitz-class ships that began entering the ...