USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
Approximately 97,000 standard tons ( full load)
317 meters ( waterline ), 332.85 meters ( flight deck )
40.84 meters ( hull ), 76.80 meters ( flight deck )
74.37 m from keel to mast
12.50 meters
3200 crew 2480 aircraft personnel
2 nuclear reactors ( about 18 years with a reactor charge ), four five-bladed bronze propeller with a diameter of 7.62 m and a weight of 30 t
30 nodes
2 Sea Sparrow and Rolling Airframe 2 starter
Up to 85 ( currently 61)
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN -69 ) is the second aircraft carrier of the Nimitz class of United States Navy. It bears the name of the 34th President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower - Ike shortly.
She was laid in the shipyard Newport News Shipbuilding on August 15, 1970 Kiel, baptized on October 11, 1975 by the widow of former President and put into service on 18 October 1977. The carrier replaced the old USS Franklin D. Roosevelt ( CV- 42) of the Midway class. The construction cost amounted to about $ 4.5 billion U.S..
The Ike was overhauled extensively by 13 emergency operations from October 1985 to April 1987. The next major overhaul took place between 17 July 1995 and January 27, 1997 held in Newport News Shipbuilding for U.S. $ 3 billion, to which it was updated to the latest technical standards. In May 2001, then the next nearly four-year overhaul and re-tipping followed the nuclear reactors at Northrop Grumman in Newport News for $ 2.5 billion. As of October 2006, the next skirmish use followed in the direction of Afghanistan.
In 1994, with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower for the first time in the U.S. Navy soldiers as crew members of an aircraft carrier on their service.
Since 2007, the Carrier Air Wing Seven ( CVW -7) is stationed on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, from 61 aircraft (20 F/A-18C, F/A-18E twelve, twelve F/A-18F, four EA -6B, four e-2C, seven H- 60 and two currently stationed in Bahrain C -2A is.
End of February 2013 left the Ike Norfolk to support operations of the 5th and 6th Fleet. The German frigate Hamburg ( F 220 ) is part of Carrier Strike Group.