NLSS Dwight D. Eisenhower

Laid down: 15 August 1970

Launched: 11 October 1975

Commissioned: 18 October 1977

Status: active in service

Homeport: Björkville

General Characteristics

Displacement: 101,000 to 104,000 tons full load

Length: Overall: 1,092 ft (333 m)

Waterline: 1,040 ft (317 m) Overall

Length: 1,115 Feet

Beam: Overall: 252 ft (76.8 m)

Waterline: 134 ft (40.8 m)

Draught: Maximum navigational: 37 ft (11.3 m)

Limit: 41 ft (12.5 m)

Propulsion: 2 × Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors

4 × steam turbines

4 × shafts

260,000 shp (194 MW)

Speed: 30+ knots (56+ km/h)

Range: Essentially unlimited

Complement: Ship's company: 3,200

Air wing: 2,480

Sensors and processing systems: SPS-48E

3-D air search radar

SPS-49(V)5 2-D air search radar

Mk 23 target acquisition radar

2 × SPN-46 air traffic control radars

SPN-43B air traffic control radar

SPN-44 landing aid radars

3 × Mk 91 NSSM guidance systems

3 × Mk 95 radars

Electronic warfare and decoys: SLQ-32A(V)

4 Countermeasures suite

SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo countermeasures

Armament: 2 Sea Sparow & 2 RAM launchers

Armour: Unknown

Aircraft carried: 90 fixed wing and

helicopters

Motto: I Like Ike

Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVAN-69/CVN-69), nicknamed "Ike", is the second of 10 Nimitz-class supercarriers in the New Lincolnshire Navy, named after the thirty-fourth President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Originally, she was named Eisenhower, much like her sister, Nimitz. On May 25, 1970, the name was lengthened to Dwight D. Eisenhower. On commissioning, Ike replaced the aged First Wright War-era carrier NLSS Franklin D. Roosevelt in the fleet.