Summary and Key Points: The USS Nimitz, the oldest aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy, is set to be decommissioned in Fiscal Year 2026 after nearly 50 years of service. Launched in 1975 ...
The Nimnitz-class, which first debuted in 1975, has a fifty-year service life. For the namesake vessel, the first-off-the-line USS Nimitz, that fifty-year threshold is fast approaching.