How many aircraft carriers are there in the United States?

According to the statistics of 20 15 in the United States, there are 12 large aircraft carriers in active service in the United States, including Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers 10. Among them, except Kitty Hawk's home port is located in Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, the home ports of other 1 1 ships are located in the five major aircraft carrier bases in the United States.

At present, in addition to the twelve large aircraft carriers in service, there are two Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers under construction (No.2 and No.3).

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1. American aircraft carrier and active fleet:

1, Kitty Hawk, belonging to the Pacific Seventh Fleet;

2. Constellation, belonging to the Pacific Fleet;

3. Enterprise, belonging to the Atlantic Fleet;

4. Kennedy, belonging to the Marine Corps Military Training Fleet;

5. Nimitz, belonging to the Atlantic Fleet;

6. Eisenhower, belonging to the Atlantic Fleet;

7. Karl Vinson, belonging to the Pacific Fleet;

8. Roosevelt, belonging to the Atlantic Fleet; Although theodore roosevelt was built as a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, the performance specifications of the six late Nimitz-class aircraft carriers from her have changed greatly compared with the existing three, so people often refer to these six new ships as "Roosevelt-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers", but this is not the official classification method of the United States.

9. The Lincoln belonging to the Pacific Fleet; The aircraft carrier abraham lincoln ·CVN-72 was named after the16th President abraham lincoln, who led the American Civil War. It is the second ship of the US Navy to use this name. The first warship named after Lincoln was the Washington-class nuclear-powered ballistic submarine Lincoln, which was launched at 1960.

10, Washington, belonging to the Atlantic fleet; Battleship Washington started construction at Philadelphia Military Port on June 1938+04, and entered service on May 194 15. The ship is equipped with advanced radar and has strong night fighting ability. In Guadalcanal naval battle, it used advanced radar system to aim at enemy ships at night and sank the Japanese battleship "Kirishima" in one fell swoop, which is famous.

1 1, Stannis, belonging to the Pacific Fifth Fleet; Stannis was named after John C. Stennis, a famous senator from Mississippi. The ship 1993 was launched, and 1995 was officially put into use on February 9. Its home port is Bremerton, Washington, and its core carrier battle group is one of the main overseas military units of the US Navy.

12, Truman, belonging to the Pacific Fleet; Truman, named after Harry Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, started construction on 1993 and was launched on1September, 996 13. It is one of the newest super-large combat ships in the world, and was incorporated into the US Atlantic Fleet in July 1998.

13, Reagan, currently under construction.

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