Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departed Naval Base ...
A major flight deck fire in 1969 helped prove firefighting concepts learned from the Navy’s Forrestal ... of CVN-65 was not the end of USS Enterprise. CVN-80, the third Ford-class carrier ...
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 65) which inactivated in 2012.