USS JOHN F. KENNEDY CVN 79 |
Keel Laid: August 22, 2015
Christened: December 7, 2019
Commissioned: 2025
Builder: Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News, Va.
Propulsion system: two A1B nuclear reactors, four shafts
Lengths, overall: 1.092 feet
Flight Deck Width: 252 feet
Beam: 134 feet
Draft: 39 feet
Displacement: approx. 100,000 tons full load
Speed: 30+ knots
Aircraft: 90 fixed wing and helicopters, 4 EMALS Electromagnetic
Catapults
Crew: Officers: 508 Enlisted: 3789
Armament:
- Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM)
- Mk 29 ESSM
- Phalanx CIWS |