Sinking the USS Enterprise Would be Easier Than Scrapping Her: The USS Enterprise, CVN-65, was the first nuclear-powered ...

The Nimitz Class aircraft ... carrier, the Gerald R. 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 ...

What You Need to Know: The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the eighth U.S. Navy vessel to bear the name. Commissioned in 1961, it revolutionized ...

Compared to the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise (CVN 65), the Nimitz class featured a much simplified powerplant comprising two Westinghouse A4W pressurized water ...