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The United States Navy has approximately 470 ships in both active service and the reserve fleet; of these approximately 50 ships are proposed or scheduled for retirement by 2028, while approximately 95 new ships are in either the planning and ordering stages or under construction, according to the Naval Vessel Register and published reports.
With the ten-ship Nimitz class complete by 2009, October 2013 saw the launch of Gerald R. Ford, lead ship of the planned ten-ship Gerald R. Ford class. This was followed by the launch of John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) in October 2019, while construction is underway on Enterprise (CVN-80) and Doris Miller (CVN-81). [12]
This category is for ships that the Navy proposed building, and named. These proposed ships never entered service or are still under construction. Subcategories
USS Frank E. Petersen Jr., a Flight IIA "T.I." ship, commissioned in May 2022 This is a list of Arleigh Burke -class destroyers , serving the United States Navy , including ships in active service as of September 2023, [update] as well as those currently under construction or authorized for future construction.
This is a list of aircraft carriers which are currently in service, under maintenance or refit, in reserve, under construction, or being updated. An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck, hangar and facilities for arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. [1]
The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire ten of these ships in order to replace current carriers on a one-for-one basis, starting with the lead ship of her class, Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), replacing Enterprise (CVN-65), and later the Nimitz-class carriers.
The design of Bougainville is based on USS Makin Island, which is an improved version of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship.While Makin Island has a well deck, the earlier two Flight 0 America-class ships USS America and USS Tripoli were designed and built without a well deck to make space for aircraft and aviation fuel. [11]
The US Navy (USN), through the Military Sealift Command (MSC), operates a Combat Logistics Force (CLF), a large fleet of auxiliary ships responsible for refuelling, rearming, and resupplying its combat fleets. However, unlike the vessels they support, CLF vessels are not commissioned ships and are operated by mostly civilian crews. Although ...