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

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.

The Navy will name two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

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

Nimitz-Class Carrier Extensions: Delays and Challenges for the U.S. Navy The U.S. Navy has been forced to rely on their Nimitz-class aircraft carriers for longer than expected. The Nimnitz-class ...

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

The nation’s next two aircraft carriers ... the fleet as 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 ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.’s HII business unit, Newport News, recently secured a deal to work on facility upgrade requirements for the Nimitz class aircraft carrier’s defueling and ...

The next two Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers are part of an effort to replace the aging Nimitz-class aircraft carriers — the USS Gerald R. Ford was commissioned in 2017, and the USS John F.