A Take a look at The place the Navy’s 11 Plane Carriers Are Now

WASHINGTON — The Navy is weighing what to do about the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower plane service, which has been battling Houthi insurgent assaults on delivery within the Crimson Sea for practically 9 months. The query is how you can replicate the service’s fight energy if the ship returns house.

The service has 11 nuclear-powered plane carriers. Typically, they’re on the brink of deploy, are deployed or have come off deployment and have gone in for upkeep and repairs.

The carriers have a lifespan of about 50 years, and midway by they bear a serious overhaul of their nuclear and different techniques, which may take a number of years.

Here is a have a look at the place the Navy’s carriers at the moment are:

Deployed 

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower — Primarily based in Norfolk, Virginia, and within the Crimson Sea, it left Norfolk on Oct. 14, 2023. Has been prolonged twice.

USS George Washington — It’s off the coast of Chile, crusing from Norfolk to San Diego after which on to Japan, the place it is going to be deployed, changing the USS Ronald Reagan.

USS Theodore Roosevelt — Primarily based in San Diego, it has been deployed in Indo-Pacific Command since January and is within the South China Sea.

USS Ronald Reagan — It has been the service deployed in Japan. It’s on patrol within the Philippine Sea and can be going to San Diego.

Getting ready to deploy 

USS Harry S. Truman — It’s based mostly off the coast of Norfolk in pre-deployment workups. It’s about midway by its coaching for deployment and doing workups with the strike group. It’s anticipated to deploy in October/November.

USS Carl Vinson — It’s within the port in San Diego and is in pre-deployment workups. It’ll go to the big, multinational army train often known as the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) in July and deploy into Pacific Command late within the yr.

USS Abraham Lincoln — It’s based mostly in San Diego and has simply completed its last composite unit coaching workouts and can deploy to Pacific Command in July.

Being repaired 

USS George H. W. Bush — It went into upkeep final December.

USS Gerald R. Ford — It simply returned from deployment and has entered its upkeep section, which ought to final a couple of yr.

USS John C. Stennis — In Might 2021, the Stennis went into what’s often known as RCOH — the main refueling complicated overhaul — which may take 4 years. It’s anticipated to return to responsibility in 2025. RCOH occurs about halfway by a service’s lifespan, and through that point, the ship’s electronics and fight and propulsion techniques are upgraded, changed and examined.

USS Nimitz — It went into upkeep in October 2023 and can transfer to workups later this yr.

Not in service 

PCU John F. Kennedy — Will probably be delivered to the Navy subsequent yr.

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