The Navy has begun the process of retiring its oldest aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, which was commissioned in 1975. Huntington Ingalls Inc. has received an $18.4 million contract from U.S ...

The Navy has begun the process of retiring its oldest aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, which was commissioned in 1975. Huntington Ingalls Inc. has received an $18.4 million contract from U.S ...

Building on the lessons of USS Enterprise, the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier before it, the Nimitz was commissioned in May 1975 and was the first of 10 such vessels in a new class of ...

The 48-year-old USS Nimitz (CVN-68) was commissioned in 1975 and built for a 50-year service life. The Nimitz is one of the largest warships in the world, with a length of 1,092 feet, a beam of ...

When USS Nimitz was commissioned in 1975, it became the second nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ever constructed for the U.S. Navy, following USS Enterprise one decade prior. All ten ships in this ...

Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) conduct flight operations in the Sea of Japan, Mar. 8. Laid down in 1968, launched in 1972, and commissioned in 1975 ...

The Nimitz, which was first commissioned in 1975 and given a service lifespan of 50 years, left Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego — once its homeport for 11 years — for a regularly ...

The USS Nimitz has been the template of American sea power for nearly a half-century. Commissioned four days after the fall of Saigon ended the Vietnam War in 1975, the 100,000-ton supercarrier ...

“Please be advised that the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) will homeport shift ... The ship, which was commissioned in 1975, was built for a lifespan of 50 years. The service extended Nimitz’s life ...

USS Nimitz was first commissioned in 1975, and following this deployment, she moved to Norfolk, Virginia, for her planned decommissioning process. Due to the warship’s nuclear reactor ...

As the Navy's oldest aircraft carrier in active service, the 1975-commissioned USS Nimitz is scheduled to move to Norfolk, Virginia and begin its decommissioning process on the East Coast next year.