USS George Washington Japan-73 is one of the largest aircraft carriers in the world built by the United States in 1980s, and it is the sixth Nimitz-class aircraft carrier.
The Washington aircraft carrier has a total length of 332.8 meters, a ship width of 40.8 meters, a full-load displacement of 6,543.8+0.02 million tons, a power system of 2 A4W nuclear reactors and 4 steam turbines, a 4-axis drive, a propulsion power of 260,000 shaft horsepower, a maximum speed of 35 knots and a maximum endurance of 6,543.8+0 million nautical miles.
Weapons and equipment are three sets of eight-pack RIM-7M ship-to-air missile launchers and four sets of "dense array" MK 15 short-range defense weapon systems; There are 80 carrier-based aircraft, including 36 F-/KOOC-0/4 fighters/KOOC-0 ~/KOOC-0/4, F/A-/KOOC-0/8 fighters and several EA-6 electronic warfare aircraft B.
The aircraft carrier Washington started construction on August 1986, was launched on July/990, and was incorporated into the Atlantic Fleet of the US Navy on July 4, 1992. In May 2023, according to the website of the Army Times, the aircraft carrier George Washington ended its maintenance at Newport News Shipbuilding Company in Virginia on the 23rd-several years later than scheduled.
Overall design of aircraft carrier George Washington
The aircraft carrier Washington has a displacement of about 97,000 tons, and there are 8 decks below the hangar deck, which can carry 6,543,800 tons of aviation fuel and ammunition. The overall structure of the ship is a closed hangar and a fully penetrated deck. The hull below the hangar deck is an integral box structure, and the superstructure above the hangar deck. The steam catapult is installed on the inclined and straight flight deck, and the aircraft elevator and automatic landing system are installed on the side.
There is a large hangar on the aircraft carrier Washington, which is mainly used for parking and maintaining aircraft. The net height of the hangar is 8.07 meters, the length is 208.48 meters and the width is 32.92 meters ... The height from the keel to the masthead is 76 meters, which is equivalent to the height of 20 floors. The hull has eight decks from the hangar deck.
The island building is located in the middle of the starboard side of the deck, with seven-story radar, navigation and communication antennas installed on it. An aviation bridge, a navigation bridge and a command bridge are arranged from top to bottom, which are used for navigation, port observation, formation command and aircraft take-off and landing control.
The flight deck on the ship is used for take-off, landing, parking, refueling and bomb hanging of carrier-based aircraft, and is divided into take-off area, landing area and standby area. Special devices such as catapults, arresting devices and elevators arranged on the flight deck of the Washington aircraft carrier basically follow the design of the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier.
There are four side plane lifts on board, three on starboard and one on port 1. There are also weapons elevators, material elevators and so on. Weapon elevators mainly transport aviation ammunition, and sometimes they are also used to transport the wounded. There is also a 14 aircraft gas station on the flight deck. There are three arresting cables and 1 emergency arresting net at the back of the inclined deck. The arresting cable is controlled by a hydraulic device and has a strong buffering function.
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