USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)

Approximately 97,000 standard tons ( full load)

317 meters ( waterline ), 332.85 meters ( flight deck )

40.84 meters ( hull ), 76.80 meters ( flight deck )

12.50 meters

3200 crew 2480 aircraft personnel

2 nuclear reactors, four propeller

30 nodes

2 ESSM and 2 Rolling Airframe - starter

Up to 85

The USS John C. Stennis (CVN- 74) is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the Nimitz class of the U.S. Navy, named after the U.S. Senator John C. Stennis from the state of Mississippi. It is the seventh ship of its class. Your commissioning took place on 9 December 1995 her home port is Bremerton in Washington state.

In the first half of 2007, the Carrier Air Wing Nine ( CVW -9) was stationed at the John C. Stennis

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The first use led the John C. Stennis in the Persian Gulf in 1998, where she let her aircraft flying against Iraqi positions ( Operation Southern Watch). This was repeated two years later. Immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 crossed the aircraft carrier off the U.S. west coast. In 2003, the Stennis then participate in the Iraq War.

2010 was the Stennis in the yard. In the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard began in April a $ 137 million expensive, several -month overhaul.

In December 2011, the carrier was again in the Persian Gulf. End of December 2011, he went through the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran at the same time held a maneuver to rehearse blocking the road because of Western sanctions because of Iran's nuclear program. During this mission accompanying vessel rescued 13 Iranian sailors of the carrier from the violence of suspected Somali pirates.

John C. Stennis in fiction

• In the movie, the stop after a book by Tom Clancy from the year 2002, the John C. Stennis is attacked in the North Sea by Russian aircraft and severely damaged.
• 2009 a film crew spent a month at the ship scenes for the movie Transformers 2 to turn.