Key Points and Summary – USS Nimitz (CVN-68), first of the Nimitz-class supercarriers, is concluding a 50-year career that spanned the Cold War, Eagle Claw, Southern Watch, and post-9/11 wars in ...

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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. Naval ...

The Nimitz has been present in nearly all of the U.S. Navy's major operations during its lifetime, including both Iraq wars ...

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After seven months in port, the USS Nimitz is back at sea. The aircraft carrier, CVN 68, returned to operations on Friday, June 22, following a few days of sea trials. The carrier had spent more than ...

To extend the Nimitz’s service life, the Navy is investing $200 million during a five-and-a-half-month maintenance schedule. “Carriers are the linchpin of everything we do in naval aviation,” Rear ...

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is heading to the Middle East, and that will bring the total number of carriers in the region to two, a U.S. official told Task & Purpose on Monday. The U.S. military ...

BREMERTON, Wash. — The Bremerton-based aircraft carrier USS Nimitz its strike group are being redirected to the Middle East from their current deployment in the Western Pacific, according to two U.S.