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US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
US Navy 060617-N-0490C-010 The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) conducts a turn in the Atlantic Ocean. Eisenhower is underway conducting routine carrier operations.jpg

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower underway in the Atlantic Ocean
History
U.s.
Proper noun Dwight D. Eisenhower
Namesake Dwight D. Eisenhower
Architect Newport News Shipbuilding
Price $4.v billion (2019 dollars)
Laid down 15 August 1970
Launched 11 October 1975
Sponsored by Mamie Doud-Eisenhower[1]
Commissioned 18 October 1977
Renamed from Eisenhower
Reclassified CVN-69, 30 June 1975
Homeport Norfolk
Identification
  • MMSI number: 368962000
  • Callsign: NIKE
  • ICS November.svg ICS India.svg ICS Kilo.svg ICS Echo.svg
  • Hull number: CVN-69
Motto Greater Each Day
Nickname(due south)
  • Mighty Ike
  • Ike
Status in active service
Badge USS Dwight D Eisenhower CVN-69 Crest.png
Full general characteristics
Class and blazon Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
Displacement 101,600 long tons (113,800 short tons)[2] [iii]
Length
  • Overall: 1,092 feet (332.8 m)
  • Waterline: 1,040 feet (317.0 m)
Beam
  • Overall: 252 ft (76.8 grand)
  • Waterline: 134 ft (40.8 m)
Superlative 244 feet (74 m)
Draft
  • Maximum navigational: 37 feet (11.iii k)
  • Limit: 41 feet (12.5 m)
Propulsion
  • 2 × Westinghouse A4W nuclear reactors (HEU 93.5%)[4] [v]
  • iv × steam turbines
  • four × shafts
  • 260,000 shp (194 MW)
Speed 30+ knots (56+ km/h; 35+ mph)
Range Unlimited distance; 20–25 years
Complement
  • Ship's company: three,532
  • Air fly: 2,480
Sensors and
processing systems
  • AN/SPS-48E three-D air search radar
  • AN/SPS-49(5)5 2-D air search radar
  • AN/SPQ-9B target acquisition radar
  • AN/SPN-46 air traffic control radars
  • AN/SPN-43C air traffic control radar
  • AN/SPN-41 landing aid radars
  • iv × Mk 91 NSSM guidance systems
  • 4 × Mk 95 radars
Electronic warfare
& decoys
  • AN/SLQ-32A(V)4 Countermeasures suite
  • SLQ-25A Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
Ammunition
  • ii × RIM-7 Sea Sparrow Missile launchers
  • 2 × RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers
  • 3 or iv × Phalanx CIWS twenty mm cannons
Armor Unknown
Aircraft carried xc stock-still wing and helicopters

USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) (known informally as "Ike") is a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier currently in service with the United States Navy. Commissioned in 1977, the ship is the second of the 10 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers currently in service, and is the outset ship named later the 34th President of the United States and Full general of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower. The vessel was initially named simply equally USS Eisenhower, much like the lead transport of the class, Nimitz, but the name was inverse to its present form on 25 May 1970.[half-dozen] The carrier, like all others of her class, was constructed at Newport News Shipbuilding Visitor in Virginia, with the aforementioned design as the lead ship, although the ship has been overhauled twice to bring her up to the standards of those constructed more recently.

Since commissioning, Dwight D. Eisenhower has participated in deployments including Operation Eagle Claw during the Iran hostage crunch in 1980, likewise as the Gulf State of war in the 1990s, and more recently in support of U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The carrier currently serves as the flagship of Carrier Strike Grouping 2.[7] [8]

Design and construction [edit]

On 29 June 1970, then-Northrop Grumman Newport News of Newport News, Virginia, was awarded the contract for construction. On 30 June 1975, her designation was changed from CVAN-69 to CVN-69. She was laid downwards every bit hull number 599 on 15 August 1970 at Newport News shipyard at a price of $679 1000000 ($4.5 billion in 2020 dollars), launched eleven Oct 1975 after christening past Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower's widow, and commissioned 18 October 1977, Helm William E. Ramsey in command.[1] On commissioning, she replaced the aging World War II-era carrier USSFranklin D. Roosevelt in the fleet.

Service history [edit]

1970s [edit]

Dwight D. Eisenhower was initially assigned to the United States Atlantic Armada, and, after receiving over a year of preparation, the ship was visited past President Jimmy Carter with his wife Rosalynn Carter, Defense Secretary Harold Chocolate-brown and National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzeziński. In January 1979, she sailed for her first deployment to the Mediterranean Sea. During this deployment, while off the coast of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin visited Dwight D. Eisenhower, The carrier returned to Norfolk Naval Station in July of the same twelvemonth.

1980s [edit]

Under the command of her second Commanding Officer, Helm James H. Mauldin, her second deployment occurred in 1980, when she was dispatched by President Carter to the Indian Bounding main, in response to the Islamic republic of iran hostage crunch. She relieved sis-carrier Nimitz three days after the Iranian earnest rescue attempt. To assistance maintain morale, Captain Mauldin allowed the men aboard to participate in "Flight Deck Olympics". The Navy besides authorized a special ration of beer, consisting of six cans per homo, which was dispensed over a two-calendar month menstruation.[6]

Dwight D. Eisenhower returned to the Mediterranean Sea for her third deployment, nether the command of her 3rd Captain Eastward. W. Clexton Jr., from 5 January to 13 July 1982. During this deployment, 11 passengers and coiffure were lost when Mamie, her onboard logistics aircraft, crashed near Souda Bay, Crete, on two Apr. She also participated in the 24 June evacuation of the U.Southward. Embassy staff from Beirut, Lebanon, equally that state descended into civil war.[6]

Ike embarked on her fourth deployment from 27 April to 2 December 1983. In addition to several major exercises with NATO, Egyptian and U.S. Air Force personnel and assets, she came under direct threat of attack every bit Libyan dictator Muammar al-Qadhafi vowed to turn the Gulf of Sidra into a "ruby-red gulf of blood" should the send enter the zone claimed by Libya. Further tensions between Libya, Republic of chad, Sudan, and Egypt forced Ike to be ordered to the disputed area. Between 2 and 5 August, the ship's Combat Air Patrol intercepted two MiG-23 Flogger and two Dassault-Breguet Mirage V aircraft headed toward the carrier in carve up engagements. The Libyan aircraft immediately turned back toward their bases, catastrophe both incidents. Diplomatic measures deflated the crisis days afterwards. On 26 August, Ike sailed inside sight of the embattled city of Beirut, Lebanon. The ship launched reconnaissance sorties in support of the U.S. Marines and other international peacekeepers coming nether attack ashore. After 93 days at bounding main since her previous port visit, Ike visited Italy on 21 Oct. She in one case again had to brand speed toward Beirut, just 5 days later on on the 26th, because of suicide attacks that killed well-nigh 300 American and French troops on 23 October. Ike would remain on station until relieved by carriers Independence and John F. Kennedy in mid November.[6]

In May and June 1984, for the 40th anniversary of D-Twenty-four hours, Ike was deployed to Normandy, France and Portsmouth, England. The port visit in England included a visit from Queen Elizabeth II. After her fifth deployment Dwight D. Eisenhower went into Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock in October 1985 for a major overhaul. The eighteen-month thou menstruation included the addition of the Shut-in Weapons System (CIWS), NATO Sea Sparrow Missile System, Naval Tactical Data System, anti-submarine warfare module, communications upgrades and rehabilitation of 1,831 berths in 25 compartments. She re-entered the fleet in Apr 1987.[9]

On 29 February 1988, Ike started her sixth deployment to the Mediterranean. While returning to Norfolk, on 29 Baronial 1988, she collided with an anchored Spanish bulkcarrier, the Urduliz, while entering the harbor to dock at Norfolk Naval Station when current of air and currents pushed the carrier off course, merely only acquired pocket-sized damage to both ships.[6] [ten] Dwight D. Eisenhower entered Norfolk Naval Shipyard (Portsmouth, Virginia) in September 1988; she returned to the fleet in April 1989.

1990s [edit]

Dwight D. Eisenhower (foreground) at Norfolk in 1985 aslope Nimitz, John F. Kennedy and America.

In 1990, Dwight D. Eisenhower completed her seventh Mediterranean deployment. The deployment became a commemorative issue in the worldwide "Dwight D. Eisenhower Centennial", celebrating the 100th anniversary of the belatedly president's nativity. During D-Mean solar day anniversary ceremonies off the coast of Normandy, President Eisenhower's son John Eisenhower and D-Twenty-four hours veterans embarked in the ship, while Carrier Air Wing Seven conducted a memorial flyover of the American cemetery at Omaha Beach in Normandy, France.

Gulf War [edit]

In response to Iraq'south invasion of Kuwait, Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first carrier to conduct sustained operations in the Ruby Body of water, and but the second nuclear-powered shipping carrier ever to transit the Suez Culvert. Ike served as a set striking force in the issue Republic of iraq invaded Saudi Arabia, and participated in maritime interception operations in support of a United Nations embargo confronting Iraq.

Subsequently completion of an extensive shipyard menstruation and work-up, the carrier deployed 26 September 1991 to the Western farsi Gulf to continue multi-national operations with coalition forces in back up of Operation Desert Storm. Ike returned to Norfolk on 2 April 1992, and, on 12 January 1993, entered Norfolk Naval Shipyard for overhaul and conversion, returning to the fleet 12 Nov 1993.

Post–Gulf War [edit]

In September 1994, Dwight D. Eisenhower and elements of the U.Due south. 10th Mount Division beginning tested the concept of adaptive force packaging. The segmentation'south soldiers and equipment were loaded on board, and the send'south Regular army/Navy team headed for Port-au-Prince to pb Functioning Uphold Democracy, the U.S.-led effort to restore the elected government of Haiti.[11] [12]

1 month later, in October 1994, Dwight D. Eisenhower departed for a six-calendar month deployment which included flight missions in support of Operation Southern Watch and Operation Deny Flight. This deployment marked the get-go time that women had deployed as coiffure members of a U.S. Navy combatant. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3), and the Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Group 8 staff team included more 400 women. The integration of women caused some negative headlines for the Navy. During the deployment, fifteen women serving aboard had to be reassigned ashore because of pregnancy, earning the ship the nickname The Love Gunkhole.[13] There was also a case of a sailor who filmed himself having sex with a female.[thirteen]

Dwight D. Eisenhower returned to Newport News Shipbuilding on 17 July 1995 for an eighteen-month complex overhaul, completed on 27 January 1997. Among other upgrades, they installed a new Avant-garde combat direction system. The send departed on her 10th deployment on 10 June 1998 and returned in December. In Feb 1999, she returned to the Norfolk Navy Shipyard for a six-month refitting and returned to the fleet in June. Upon completion in June 1999, she returned to full duty in the fleet.[ citation needed ]

2000s [edit]

F/A-18E/F Super Hornet parked on the flight deck of Dwight D. Eisenhower, every bit the ship operates in the Persian Gulf, Dec 2006.

Deploying in February 2000 and returning that August on the "Millennium Cruise", for the showtime time Ike 's embarked aircraft dropped ordnance in combat while enforcing Operation Southern Lookout man'south No-Wing Zone over Iraq.

On 3 October 2006 with Carrier Air Fly Seven (CVW-7), Dwight D. Eisenhower returned to body of water as flagship of RADM Allen G. Myers, commanding Carrier Strike Group Eight (CSG-8), which included guided-missile cruiser Anzio, guided-missile destroyers Ramage and Mason, and fast-set on submarine Newport News.[fourteen] She visited Naples, Italia, and then Limassol, Republic of cyprus, for iii days in October 2006 before departing to the east. She entered the Farsi Gulf in December 2006.[15]

On 8 January 2007, a U.Due south. AC-130 gunship based out of Djibouti was dispatched to target Al-Qaeda operatives located in Somalia. Dwight D. Eisenhower was deployed in the Indian Sea to provide air cover for the operation and, if needed, to evacuate downed airmen and other casualties.[16] She joined other U.S. and allied vessels from Combined Task Forcefulness 150 (CTF-150), based out of Bahrain.[17] A U.S. spokesperson did not say which particular ships comprised the cordon, simply the task force included vessels from Canada, France, Deutschland, Pakistan, the United kingdom and the US. Ships of CTF-150 from the U.Southward. Navy include the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer Ramage and the Ticonderoga-form cruiser Bunker Hill.[xviii] The aim of CTF-150's patrols is to "... cease SICC leaders or foreign militant supporters escaping" Somalia.[19] In March 2007, following the Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel, Dwight D. Eisenhower began battle group exercises off the Iranian coastline. The post-obit month, in Apr, the ship was relieved by Nimitz.[20]

A French Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft conducts bear on and go landings aboard Dwight D. Eisenhower during a coalition grooming do.

On iv October 2008 Dwight D. Eisenhower Little Officer second Class Robert Lemar Robinson was killed aboard ship during grooming exercises off the coast of North Carolina. The crewman was struck and mortally wounded, by an aeroplane at viii:15 p.m. on the carrier's flight deck.[21]

On 21 February 2009, Dwight D. Eisenhower deployed for the Arabian Ocean and surroundings rotating into the forrad-deployed forces there. She served as the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 8 commanded by Rear Admiral Kurt Westward. Tidd. Also embarked was Carrier Air Wing 7 and the staff of Commander, Destroyer Squadron 28. Other ships of Strike Group viii were Bainbridge, Halyburton, Scranton, Vicksburg, and Gettysburg. In add-on to supporting Operations Iraqi Liberty and Enduring Freedom, the strike group conducted maritime security operations including anti-piracy operations. On 16 May, Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first Nimitz-class carrier to dock pier-side in Manama, Bahrain. The last carrier to moor pierside in Bahrain was Rendova in 1948. On thirty July 2009, Dwight D. Eisenhower returned to Naval Station Norfolk afterwards an almost half-dozen-month-long deployment.[22]

2010s [edit]

Dwight D. Eisenhower (groundwork) on mail service-maintenance qualifications in the Atlantic Body of water, meets up with Enterprise returning from a prowl to the Mediterranean and the Farsi Gulf in 2011

On 2 January 2010, Dwight D. Eisenhower again deployed to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operation in the Middle East. She served every bit the flagship of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group commanded by Rear Admiral Philip S. Davidson. While in theater, the strike grouping provided security cooperation, frontwards naval presence, maritime security, and crisis response. In addition to Ike, the strike group was made up of Carrier Air Fly 7; Commander, Destroyer Squadron 28; the guided-missile cruiser Hué Metropolis; and guided-missile destroyers McFaul, Carney, and Farragut.[23] [24] On 28 July 2010, Ike returned to her homeport in Norfolk.

The transport was placed in a planned incremental availability at Norfolk Naval Shipyard from September 2010 through June 2011. The transport was deployed again 7 June 2012 to the Middle East in support of Operation Indelible Freedom. The ship returned to homeport 19 Dec 2012.[25] On 22 Feb 2013, Ike and Strike Grouping 8 departed for another Mediterranean and Mid-East deployment. Afterwards pulling into Marseille, France[26] in early March, the German Sachsen-class frigate Hamburg became the first to fully integrate into an American strike group. Hamburg, commanded past Commander (FKpt) Ralf Kuchler (GN), remained with the strike group while information technology operated with the 5th armada.[27] The transport returned to homeport iii July 2013. On 6 August the ship began an ammunition offload in grooming for an upcoming docked planned incremental availability (DPIA) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.[28] On 26 Baronial 2014, the ship was moved to Berth 42-43 from Dry out Dock #viii at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, and as of iv February 2015, the DPIA was four months behind schedule, with the ship planned to remain in the yard until at to the lowest degree April 2015.[29] On 3 September 2015, the send went back to sea.[thirty]

On 8 June 2016, Dwight D. Eisenhower and her Carrier Strike Group sailed the Atlantic Ocean into the U.S. sixth Fleet's area of operations (AoR) in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe.[31] On 22 November 2016, Military Times reported that since June 2016, when the ship entered the Persian Gulf after launching strikes from the eastern Mediterranean, the carrier'due south Captain, Paul Spedero, reported that sorties from Dwight D. Eisenhower had dropped nearly i,100 bombs on ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria. Ike returned to homeport Norfolk 30 Dec.[32]

On 18 March 2016, while she was sailing off the coast of Virginia, eight members of her deck crew were injured when the arresting gear cables failed and "came autonomously", during the routine landing of an E-2 Hawkeye aircraft. Six of the injured deck crew were flown by helicopter to nearby shore-based hospitals, while the other two remained and were treated aboard transport. None of the eight suffered life-threatening injuries. The Eagle immediately resumed flight and landed safely at Chambers Field, Norfolk Naval Station, with no reports of injuries to her crew or damage to the aircraft.[33]

In December 2016, the transport completed her 17th deployment to the Mediterranean and the Farsi Gulf in back up of Performance Inherent Resolve.[34]

2020s [edit]

On 13 January 2020, Dwight D. Eisenhower left Norfolk for her Composite Training Unit Practice ahead of deploying. After exercising with Carrier Strike Group 10 until late Feb, Dwight D. Eisenhower immediately deployed to the Persian Gulf without returning to port, due to Dynamic Forcefulness Employment (DFE), a strategy to aid make naval deployments less predictive.[35]

On 26 June 2020, the send surpassed the USSTheodore Roosevelt's tape of 160 consecutive days at bounding main without a port call past reaching its 161st solar day. This new mark is attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic and the transport's operational commitment to "remain make clean" past fugitive whatsoever contact with ports that carried the potential of introducing the novel coronavirus into the crew.[36] On 25 and 26 July 2020, the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) co-trained with USS Dwight D. Eisenhower southeast of Crete.[37]

On three March 2021, Dwight D. Eisenhower 's Strike Group conducted Do Lightning Handshake with Regal Moroccan Navy frigate Tarik Ben Zayid and Imperial Moroccan Air Forcefulness fighter jets.[38] On five March, Italian frigateLuigi Rizzo underwent alongside her in the Strait of Gibraltar.[39]

On ii April 2021, Dwight D. Eisenhower, with Carrier Air Wing three and her Carrier Strike Grouping, transited the Suez Canal into the Cherry Sea in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.[40]

Overhauls [edit]

A MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter unloads ammunition onto the flight deck of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

  • March 1978 to July 1978 - Post Shakedown Availability
  • January 1981 to May 1981 - Selected Restricted Availability
  • August 1982 to October 1982 - Selected Restricted Availability
  • October 1985 to April 1987 - Circuitous Overhaul - forrad port sponson added; Mk-25 BPDM replaced with Mk-29; 3 CIWS added; SPS-49 search radar replaces SPS-43.
  • October 1988 to March 1989 - Selected Restricted Availability
  • October 1990 to Jan 1991 - Selected Restricted Availability
  • January 1993 to November 1993 - Selected Restricted Availability
  • October 1995 to January 1997 - Circuitous Overhaul - aft boarding dock added.
  • February 1999 to June 1999 - Planned Incremental Availability
  • May 2001 to March 2005 - Refueling and Circuitous Overhaul - bridle catcher removed; top two levels of isle replaced; new antenna mast; new radar tower; ii RAM supercede 1 CIWS/ane Mk-29 at forward port sponson/aft starboard sponson; ii CIWS at island/stern removed.
  • Jan 2008 to July 2008 - Planned Incremental Availability
  • September 2010 to June 2011 - Planned Incremental Availability
  • September 2013 to May 2015 - Planned Incremental Availability - ii CIWS added; one on newly installed forward starboard sponson, one on newly installed aft port sponson.
  • Baronial 2017 to November 2018 - Planned Incremental Availability
  • September 2021 to October 2022 - Planned Incremental Availability[41]

Eventual replacement [edit]

Dwight D. Eisenhower is scheduled to be somewhen replaced around 2029 by the new USSEnterprise(CVN-lxxx), a Gerald R. Ford-class carrier, that equally of fall 2018, is in the steel cut and fabrication stages of structure.[42] The exact appointment of the ship's inactivation and decommissioning will likely depend on many factors, including Defense Department funding considerations.[43]

Awards [edit]

Dwight D. Eisenhower has earned a number of awards, including the Boxing "Due east" in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1990, 1998, 1999, 2006, and 2012 equally the most boxing efficient carrier in the Atlantic Fleet. In 1999, she won the Marjorie Sterrett Battleship Fund Accolade for the Atlantic Fleet.[ commendation needed ]

In pop culture [edit]

  • Season one, Episode xi of Popular Mechanics for Kids was filmed during 3 days in November 1997 onboard Dwight D. Eisenhower.[44]
  • The U.Southward. game testify Wheel of Fortune taped 2 weeks of shows onboard airing in May 1995, the first week featured contestants in the armed forces while the second featured contestants from the Norfolk area.[45]

Encounter also [edit]

  • Listing of shipping carriers of the United States Navy
  • List of aircraft carriers (worldwide)
  • U.S. Navy Numbered Fleets
  • Carrier Strike Group
  • Carrier air wing

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References [edit]

  • This article incorporates text from the public domain Lexicon of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

External links [edit]

  • USS Dwight D. Eisenhower official site
  • Story archive – U.S. Navy – USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
  • Eisenhower bolsters United states security presence off Somalia Jane'south Navy International, Jan 2007
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Sea Stories domicile page
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Reunion −2008 dwelling house page
  • USS Dwight D. Eisenhower webpage
  • Maritimequest USS Dwight D. Eisenhower CVN-69 Photograph Gallery
  • USS Dwight D. Eisenhower history at U.S. Carriers
  • USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) command histories – Naval History & Heritage Control

When Will the Uss Eisenhower Deploy Again

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