It is known that the Nimitz class was designed to produce 260,000 shp, while there is speculation the design speed was 31.5 knots – fast enough to get out of harm's way.

Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) conduct a barricade drill on Oct. 28, 2019. US Navy Photo. The Navy is considering an extension of the service lives of the first few ...

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 ...

Summary: The U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, named after WWII Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, have been pivotal to U.S. sea power for nearly five decades. -These nuclear-powered ships ...

When the Nimitz-class carrier USS George H.W. Bush was commissioned in 2009, the Navy simultaneously retired its last non-nuclear carrier, USS Kitty Hawk.

Meanwhile, a second Nimitz-class carrier, the USS Carl Vinson, was underway in the other area of greatest concern to U.S. military planners: the South China Sea.

Naval Base Kitsap would swap the Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, for its newest, the USS John F. Kennedy, under a plan released Friday.

The previous Nimitz-class carriers first entered service in 1975, with the most recent of that class joining in 2009. Eleven carriers is a lot, more than that of any other nation, though it’s ...

The USS Nimitz is the first in its class and oldest carrier in the fleet, having been commissioned in 1975.The last Nimitz-class ship, the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), entered service in 2009 ...

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.