USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy, and the lead ship of her class. One of the largest warships in the world, she was...

over 100,000 long tons (100,000 t), the Nimitz-class ships were the largest warships built and in service until USS Gerald R. Ford entered the fleet in 2017...

in the rank of fleet admiral. The USS Nimitz supercarrier, the lead ship of her class, is named after him. Nimitz, a German Texan, was born the son of...

from United States Navy fighter jets based aboard aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt in 2004, 2014 and 2015, with additional footage...

and submarine commander Jack Nimitz (1930–2009), American musician USS Nimitz (CVN-68), a U.S. Navy supercarrier Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, a class...

aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) is the strike group's current flagship. Other units currently assigned to the group include the cruisers USS Lake Erie (CG-70)...

September 1977 as part of CVW-8 on USS Nimitz. Another cruise followed in 1980 to the Mediterranean. In 1980, Nimitz and VF-41 took part in a round-the-Horn...

24 August 1991) Source: USS Nimitz CVN-68 USS Texas CGN-39 USS Chancellorsville CG-62 USS Rentz FFG-46 USS Stein FF-1065 USS Harold E. Holt FF-1074 Battle...

8, 2012). "MV-22 Osprey Flight Operations Tested Aboard USS Nimitz". NNS121008-13. USS Nimitz Public Affairs. Archived from the original on 2013-05-24...

sent the USS O'Brien (DD-975) and USS McClusky FFG-41 through the strait on 11–12 December 1995. Finally on 19 December 1995, the USS Nimitz (CVN-68)...

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is the fourth Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered, aircraft carrier in the United States Navy. She is named in honor of Theodore...

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is a Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered supercarrier in the service of the United States Navy. The ninth ship of her class, she is...

carrier, USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which it also built. Newport News Shipbuilding also performs refueling and complex overhaul (RCOH) work on Nimitz-class...

the United States Department of Defense. It was set and filmed on board USS Nimitz (CVN-68), filming operations of the modern nuclear warship, which had...

the CIC and electronics equipment that was supposed to go on board the USS Nimitz, then under construction." In June 1974, Forrestal sent a contingent of...

Eisenhower. The vessel was initially named simply as USS Eisenhower, much like the lead ship of the class, Nimitz, but the name was changed to its present form...

by USS Nimitz and CVW-8 helped coerce the Iranian-backed terrorists into releasing their hostages. In December 1986, CVW-8 embarked on USS Nimitz for...

planes appeared in the movie The Final Countdown, which was filmed aboard USS Nimitz at Naval Air Station Key West, Florida. In January 1980, after the seizure...

on UFOs with Navy pilot and commander David Fravor, who witnessed the USS Nimitz UFO incident in 2004. In 1990, Lazar was arrested for aiding and abetting...

1918 – 4 August 1918) (Later Commodore) "USS Decatur (DD-5)". Navsource.org. Retrieved 12 June 2015. "USS Nimitz (CVA(N)-68)". Dictionary of American Naval...

featured in the 1986 Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising, defending the USS Nimitz and USS Saratoga combined battlegroups against, and getting seriously damaged...

squadron VFA-154 on board Nimitz. CVW-11 made two additional deployments aboard Nimitz in 2013 and 2017, before being reassigned to USS Theodore Roosevelt in...

USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), named for Senator John C. Stennis of Mississippi, is the seventh of the Nimitz-class of nuclear-powered supercarriers in...

pandemic was reported to have spread to the American aircraft carrier USS Nimitz when its first case was reported on 7 April 2020. One sailor received...

of the United States. Early deployment included escorting the carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68). She also was deployed in 1989 as a response to the capture and...

territorial claim, two Russian-made Libyan jets shot down by F-14 Tomcats from USS Nimitz Gulf of Sidra incident (1989), US-Libyan air engagement over territorial...

strike targets hundreds of miles away. The endurance of the Nimitz class is exemplified by USS Theodore Roosevelt, which spent 159 days underway during Operation...

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is the fifth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in the United States Navy. She is the third Navy ship to have been named after...

October 2012). "MV-22 Osprey Flight Operations Tested Aboard USS Nimitz". NNS121008-13. USS Nimitz Public Affairs. Archived from the original on 24 May 2013...

September, she conducted operations in the Western Mediterranean with USS Nimitz. Calling on Benidorm, Spain, she then passed through the Straits of Gibraltar...