During a 1999 NATO exercise, the Dutch Walrus-class diesel-electric submarine HNLMS Walrus achieved a remarkable feat by ...

Key Points – The Nimitz-class aircraft carriers served as the cornerstone of US naval power projection for four decades, representing a “quantum leap” in carrier technology when introduced.

The next generation of aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford class (CVN 78) was ordered in 2008 and is slated to be delivered in 2016 as the force structure replacement for USS ENTERPRISE (EX-CVN ...

The Nimitz-class Carriers Are Fast. But Not Fast Enough to Defeat Chinese A2/AD The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is a great, lumbering beast with little in the way of real protection other than ...

The Nimitz-class carriers are a monumental achievement—an enormous, highly complex and yet highly successful ship design. The ships will carry on the Nimitz name through the 2050s, ...

“The Nimitz-class and Ford-class aircraft carriers, by design, can operate with F-35Cs, however, there are modifications to both carrier classes that are required in order to fully employ the ...

The Navy had announced in 2023 that the Nimitz would be retired in 2025, with the second-oldest carrier of the class, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, scheduled to retire in 2026.

For their part, the Nimitz-class carriers cost approximately $4.5 billion per unit. While that's a significant difference, the Navy suggests that the carriers in the new Ford class will save more ...

Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departed Naval Base Kitsap on Mar. 21, 2025, for a deployment to the Indo-Pacific.

The Reagan, the ninth of 10 Nimitz-class carriers, will remain homeported at Kitsap. Later this month, the ship is going into a 17-month maintenance period at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Kitsap.