Interesting points about US aircraft carriers
The length of an aircraft carrier sometimes reaches 350 meters
The speed of these ships is about 65 km per hour.
Nimitz’s engine power is about 260,000 horsepower.
The US Nimitz aircraft carrier weighs 110,000 tons.
It takes about 3 years to refuel an aircraft carrier.
The engine of these marine giants works with atomic reactors.
The deck area of the largest American ship is about 2 hectares.
There are 6,290 officers serving on the Nimitz aircraft carrier.
The Enterprise has the height of a 20-story building.
These ships are the most complex machine made by human hands.
Aircraft carriers can continue to operate for up to 15 years without stopping.
America’s newest aircraft carrier can accommodate up to 270 fighters.
Under each ship, like every city, there is a street and an alley and a postal address.
Some officers may lose their hostel and look for its address.
Under each ship, there are restaurants, cinemas, coffee shops, and jewelry stores.
Nimitz uses as much electricity as a big city like Hamburg, Germany.
The largest kitchen in the world is located inside the USS Nimitz.
More than 13,000 eggs and about 4 tons of steak are consumed in this kitchen every day.
The ship’s cold store stores food for the entire crew of the ship for 2 months.
The Nimitz ship has a 55-bed hospital that also performs heart and brain surgeries.
Most of these officers do not see or know each other during their service on the aircraft carrier.
It is forbidden for any officer to enter another department, and if they violate, they will be severely punished and imprisoned.
The guards of the special part of the atomic reactor and atomic missiles are allowed to shoot directly at strangers.
The officers of the lower divisions may not see the color of the sun and the sky for months.
Officers go to shops and stores on Sundays and spend their salaries.
The biggest danger that threatens these ships is not a military attack, but an internal fire.
Due to carrying thousands of tons of ammunition and millions of liters of gasoline, there is always a risk of internal fire.
The flight deck is the most dangerous part of the ship and the officers of this part receive the highest salaries.
The system for launching planes from the deck is called catapult and it works with water vapor, the catapult can increase the speed of a 20-ton fighter to 270 km/h in 2 seconds.
The entire body of the ship is covered with armor of a kind of steel alloy and does not allow the penetration of any torpedo.
If a torpedo penetrates the ship, due to the cellular structure of the ship, it will not damage other parts and the ship will not sink.
An aircraft carrier is escorted by 2 battleships and 3 frigates and is practically invulnerable.
Although the ship itself is not considered a combat weapon, but in order to increase its defense power, each aircraft carrier is equipped with seasparrow surface-to-air missiles, RAM anti-missile missiles, and four 20 mm rotating cannons with a range of 1.5 km.
It also has CHAFF and flare systems and towed baits.
The United States has 13 nuclear aircraft carriers and each carrier has an annual maintenance cost of about 1 billion dollars.
At that time, the Soviet Union could only build an aircraft carrier and its name is Kuznetsov.
According to maritime and international laws, aircraft carriers are considered part of the territory of the same country.
This post is written by HosseinBachariZadeh