The U.S. Navy’s Oldest Aircraft Carrier May Get A New Lease On Life
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- To help expand its fleet of aircraft carriers, the Navy could purchase two ships at once. That’s on the table right now.
It could also coax more life from its oldest carrier. That’s also under consideration, thanks to the House-passed 2019 defense spending blueprint.
A provision in the House’s 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) directs the Navy to consider extending the service life of the USS Nimitz, built at Newport News Shipbuilding and commissioned in 1975.
It tells Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer to brief the House Armed Services Committee no later than March 1, 2019, “on options that exist to extend the service life of USS Nimitz, to include the extension of major components,” according to the bill’s text. “Additionally, such a briefing should include cost estimates and major modernization components.”
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I'm 61 years old now, was onboard her at 19 years old...she was just 5 years old at that time....I hope she's still around before my time is up, or at least I go before her...I cant imagine seeing her cut up or sank for reefs. Live on my lady Nimitz!!
Thank you for your service!!!
Served aboard Nimitz in 1978! FLY NAVY!
82 - 84 Reactor dept, RM-div first COH
@@RichSobocinski does the bilge pump run on reduce pressure steam?
@@tartus4916 Maria, I really don't remember. I know some of our pumps were stream driven but I want to say the bilge pump was electric. Is there a particular reason you ask?
Lend-lease it to the Aussies.they've helped us out in every war we've been in.It'll drive the Chinee nuts.
Duc Canard Australia could do with a carrier with Some American crew (Captain, specialists, deck hands) Until Aussie sailors get the knowledge. The down fall here would be some Aussie politicians would want to place Chinese spies on ship to facilitate China's ability to improve their SARDINE cans.
As you might know both of Australian political parties are involved with China and corruption. Therefore. the vessel would have to come with a caveat that NO Asian to be on board irrespective of their PRESUMED qualifications.
In the mean time, America might want to think about getting some of those old WW2 A/Cs going and fitted out for 'copter work.
Landing troops, supplies, sub hunting, attack, etc, etc.
CAG Hotshot Australian politicians who can not see beyond the point of their nose.
TREACHEROUS TRAITORS who should be either shot at dawn under rule SMLE sub section MK6.
Or burnt (barbecued) at the stake.
ROB LLOYD - under your rule of engagement, the Impeached President Trump would have faced the Firing Squad long time ago for TRE45ON. Russia has the best weapon money can buy and it is called Donald J. trump. So why waste money.
Duc Canard: I think that will be a fine idea just refit it with stuff the Aussies want and give it to them as a gift kind of like how France gave us the Statue of Liberty.
Lend-Lease it to Vietnam or Malaysia. That'd piss them off more.
I am a plank owner of the USS Nimitz CVN-68. I came on board just after they laid the keel and put the hull in the water. It was an empty hull. I watched President Ford commission it. I was onboard during builder’s trials and went with it to GITMO. Lots of stories.
Was Hillary in Gitmo?
@@Swanlord05 imbecile
I worked at the Newport News Shipyard the summers of 67-68 and saw the first part of the keel of CVN-68 (one small section about 50 ft. long if I remember correctly) lying in the drydock. We were still working on CV-67 (hull 577 at the yard) which was the first John F. Kennedy. A buddy and I went down the drydock for a closer look during lunchtime one day. Time flies.
When constructed, unlike the one off Enterprise, the Nimitz class was designed to have a 100 year service life. There’s no reason to retire any of the class.
Ethril Palpatine cost of operation and modernization to launch light weighted drones
Sure there is..the maker of the Ford class bribing Congress..they have to get their checks...
@CAG Hotshot So muse them to their 50 year life span. The Ford class, just like the Zumwalt class, is far more about who gets their bribe checks than about the nations security..
JJ Thomas . . . .They have to get their "CHEQUES" not CHECKS.
cost of operation for inefficient vessel and manning required ? Personnel cost and upkeep in the billions per year.
The Nimitz should be kept in service until she can be replaced safely.
You don't retire a good weapon just because it old.
@Jamie Mezs You should when it gets unreliable and places the crew in danger.
Nam Yun
During the war of independence the Vietnamese fought the French with world war 2 weapons.
@Jamie Mezs The French were fighting the Vietnamese with WWII weapons too. I don't quite get your point.
Nam Yun
So you're comparing French military to a lightly armed citizen.
Ok then how do you explain the American military defeat.
Or Chinese military defeat 1978 dumb luck?
@Jamie Mezs No, Asymmetrical warfare. By the time that conflict was drawing to a close, the Viet Minh were as well armed as the French they were fighting and out-numbered them quite a bit. And it's not true the Vietnamese were just "lightly armed citizenry" many were veterans with experience fighting the Japanese during the previous 2 decades.
The Nimitz is not even close to being old and still has the firepower to take over countries! Hell the ww2 battle ships could still do one hell of a job. No country wants to hear that the Nimitz is off their coast! GO NAVY!
They could use the carrier as a power plant for cities during disasters and keep a skeleton crew and if war broke they could put it into action
Originally, 50 yrs. is the expected service length... pushing it significantly farther would a bit problematic without complete modernization of the Electronics and CIC controls...perhaps not mothballed but put in a sort of old school Coastal Defense Mode....use it as training platform and in an outright emergency pull it out if needed! But modernize what has to be done but no total rebuild!
They will gut that out
100 %..thier not sending the Nimitz.
With anything less then all the highest tech..and the new launch system for fighters..
Iran. The Aurora..is coming!
@@stanbodle6410 wont happen
@@danenberghelm I agree with your assessment. The security of the electronics on the Nimitz would be at risk if the Nimitz was used at the highest level of the Strategic Defense worldwide, since Bill Clinton sold out much of our high-tech capability to the Chinese when he was in office. If anyone disagrees with me, just look back and see what he did and was able to cover it up. That makes me Furious. Before he did all that, the Chinese could not even get a missile off the Launchpad successfully since they had many failures at trying to do so.
I watched her being built. The Eisenhower too. They were next to each other. They're still beautiful.
Go Navy!
The only aircraft carrier to travel back in time and come back to the future.
Never let a good ship go to the junkyard. Restore the nimitz.
I was there when we went back in time. It was home for me for 4 years, how I miss it!
@@carlosborbolla5573
Welcome back to the future.
Great movie.
Thank you for your service.
_ more than an aircraft carrier, our "cavalry" . . .
Nimitz Vs Japan
USS KITTY HAWK was also in that movie.
The ship featured in 95% of the footage is the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) which has just recently come out of the shipyards. The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) was overhauled and refueled a while back so it is good to go for now. The fleet is up and running shipmates!
Nimitz is back in home Port Bremerton WA, as of Spring 2021
Recently come out of the shipyards? Where do you keep your time machine? The ship is 33 years old, 32 when you wrote your comment. Most Essex class didn't even make it that long. All the carriers from CV 59 to CV 64 were just recently broken up in Brownsville Tx, where my dad used to work. CVN 65 (Enterprise) is done. The CV 67 Is up for donation and CV66 America is at the bottom of the Atlantic. Save the few Essex class And the Midway museum, (all are museums) CVN 68 needs replaced as except the museum it is by far the oldest. . Ford was supposed to but it isn't a good ship so we are running blast tests near it. Its already way past retirement age. George H.W. Bush needs reproduced and fast. These things should be prefab as much as possible and assembled in 6 months, as the slipways couldn't keep up with my demands if I were CIC. 6 are needed at once and 6 more in an emergency status for a total of 12 in 6 years. We dont need to go up against the Russian and Chinese navy with Viet-Nam era equip. Meantime I'd invite the Germans over for lunch and ask them how mag-lev works. Don't forget they need trained crews and planes so both need stepped up as well.
@@quierroamor I don't know what you are smoking, but you really really should stop. Assemble a Ford class carrier in 6 months? And BTW carriers don't use slipways. They are much to large for that. They are constructed in a drydock. As far as blast testing CVN78, that is a routine test done to all lead ships of any class, to test the response to shock.
@@johnjones5354 They built 16 Essex class in 3 years at Newport News "Drydocks". One every 3 months. They already had 4 more in production that were completed just after VJ day. They built a liberty ship in less than 5 days. They built 2710 Liberty ships in less than 4 years. Prefab could easily do a Nimitz class in 6 months. A lot of the upper works and other things are done after a ship is launched. Wartime production schedules if implemented could get out 6 in 3 years. Ford class is a failure. After 4 years after launching it still can't launch planes for days on end. I would NOT build another one. Copy The George H.W. Bush, the last Nimitz, but with any upgrades. Now put down The weird pipe you are using and get back to what you were doing.
@@quierroamor It takes more than 6 months to test and calibrate the control systems for the power plants. Been there, done that. If you don't know the difference between a WW2 carrier, and a nuclear powered supercarrier, then I feel sorry for you.
BTW, there were 9 Essex class carriers built at Newport News between 1941 and 1946, CV 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,21,and 32. The rest of the Essex class were built at Fore River Shipyard, Norfolk Navy Shipyard, New York Navy Shipyard, and Philadelphia Navy Shipyard. But hey, don't let little things like facts mess up a good story.
I was part of the MarDet, USS Coral Sea 77-80. Even though I’m a Marine, it was still sad to see her dismantled for scrap. Had a lot of good times and life time friends.
Keep it in the fleet. The way China is going we will need it.
We need to bring all of our ships out of museums and get all the aircraft in the boneyard up and running
We need to bring back the old Enterprise and jfk, Midway, Kitty hawk, Yorktown, all other carriers that still exist along with eltge Iowa class battleships, USS Alabama, USS texas, and any other battleships that exist
@@aydenstockham1143 yorktown sunked already that was sad
@@adrielbalaye9161 no, USS Yorktown cv-10 is in Charleston south Carolina
@@aydenstockham1143
This ship is way too big
To defeat China ccp
We need to build 1 / 100 th the size
Smaller faster better
And more of them.
Actually this is a landing strip. A mobile landing strip
So this is ok
But we need small fast ships as well. And many many many of them. Thousands.
@@creative-anon-ca______4560 isn't that the purpose of destroyers
I am for upgrading old carriers. Too expensive to dispose of.
You are right. Right now, the United States navy does not know what to do with the decommissioned Enterprise.
Indrid Cold Wait so Enterprise is still here? I thought they were in the process of scrapping her after removing the reactor?
Why you mad bro'? Still in the process to take out the other 4 reactors
Why don't just give to Malaysia navy or our neighbor australia to contest south china sea,to keep china at the bay.
@@indridcold8433 this is just plain wrong it is being decommissioned which for nuc powered ships is a multi year process to remove nuclear contaminated parts to prepare the ship for scrapping
The Nimitz is a Beast! Update her with modern technology and she is anyone’s nightmare! 🇺🇸💪
Restoration would be in order so that any decay is wiped out aswell
The USS Enterprise was launched in 1961 decommissioned in 2012. The Nimitz class was launched in the 1970's. USS Nimitz CVN- 68 could just be up graded and good as new.Like I live in Everett. Washington, Naval Station Everett was the home of the USS. Abraham. Lincoln. CVN- 72 for a few years. We even had the Nimitz for a while, talking about big ships!!.USS Enterprise was CVN-65. first nuclear powered air craft carrier. Only one of her class. Super carrier..Her cost at the time was beyond budget. and belief . Next.carrier Enterprise will be Gerald Ford class. CVN-80. in a few years.
Donate it to the Australian Navy to help reinforce its defence against China and any other threatening country
Can't do that. Ship has guns on it. They can't have that. Sheep waiting for the slaughter.
Why? They had no requirements for one. It's two LHD are more than enough for what they need.
That cost would sap up money needed for its 12 sub fleet and 9 frigates its building.
Why do so many of these type of channels use that gosh awful computer generated voice??? It's terrible
Apparently so identical channels won't have the content flagged as duplicate videos for separate channels belonging, so they put computer effects on the video, flip the image, and change the pitch and speed of the spoken voices.
I agree! I stopped watching it after just a couple of minutes. Can't stand it.
Leroy Routt I agree, it's terrible. Damn young ppl.
Great footage but awful commentary - nothing against the content, but the computer generated voice and music ruin what could have been a fantastic video.
im dreaming of a virtual reality woman , no arguing and always willing to please!
Also the 1980 Movie the Final Countdown was flimed on the U.S.S. Nimitz too if anyone can remember
Andrew & His Trucking Gnomes great movie
Yeah, I remember this movie. And I was stationed onboard her
II was stationed one the Nimitz also when the movie was filmed
I remember when the movie came out one of my favorites I have a copy of the movie
Good movie. You gotta dig Kirk Douglas.
I spent Memorial Day aboard the USS Midway.
Lots of old vets there that day including sailors that served on the old Carrier.
As the son and a grandson of WWII Pacific Fleet sailors it was an honor.
I remember CV 43 Coral Sea served 43 years. The Nimitz CVN 68 now 46 years. Interesting trade off, Overhaul cost vs. getting another 5 years. The ship will be older than the people who sail on it.
I love it. I think its a great idea putting this carrier back in service. Its alot cheaper to refurbish this carrier than to build a new one.
Funny how the Nimitz is considered obsolete when the final carrier of this class was just built a few years ago. Just goes to show how long it takes to build these ships.
That and it’s all about money. Have to justify the new ships somehow.
I was on Independence, (CVA-62) 1979 to 1982. At pier 12, Nimitz was right across. What it is, first the salt-water, then the rust. I recall making a repair and then a short time later it would be rusted again. To restore an older ship, much like restoring a rusted car, it would take a lot of welding and grinding and plating and wire-wheels and bracing along with perhaps some rubberized sealant. Would be a big job, but could be done.
If nuclear powered carriers are designed to run "indefinitely" they should be refurbished and updated?
They are. The new Bechtel A1B reactor cores of the Ford Class CVNs are designed to match "life of the ship," which obviates refueling. But the older Westinghouse A4W reactor cores of the Nimitz Class CVNs and A2W reactor cores of the Enterprise (CVN-65) were refueled about every 12-15 years or so. During nuclear refuelings, CVNs (and other nuclear powered ships) often undergo sometimes quite extensive maintenance evolutions, including 'refurbishing & updates' and more general repairs that require major shipyard availabilities. CHEERS
NOTHING lasts 'Indefinitely"
@@jtuttle11 that's what dry docks are for.... I served 6 yrs in the Navy ... bring them in R&R and get her back in action...the amount they would save over the years they could build 1 with the savings.
Alexandre Michel Georges Stiernon Tavera I agree and given to the marines as the navy gets the new stuff or make smaller task forces out of them for tensions in other regions. Stick the Missouri within its ranks for added fire power
@larry goerke
The cool part is we have floating dry docks so we can do that at sea if need be
I can't believe they called the Nimitz old. I remember her as a new ship. I guess i'm older than I think I am. Navy 1961-1981.
Earl Phillips
Thanks for your service, Earl!
The day the Nimitz was commissioned I was in transit between Norfolk & GITMO returning to MCB 5 detail from leave, there was a shit load of scrambled eggs on the runway!
Yeah man we are lucky to have that problem..I was in the Navy after 64 and saw the Enterprise in the Gulf of Tonkin and it's now getting dismantled BUT I'm not.
I like Enterprise. I was saddened.
IKR !!! I hear you Brother! Our times overlapped: 1977-83. Really weird to me, as a Plank Owner of our youngest Nuclear Powered Guided Missile Cruiser USS Arkansas (CGN-41). Commissioned 18 Oct. 1980 and decommissioned 18 Oct. 1997. Interestingly, Arkansas had cruised the equivalent of around the world 6-7 times on her initial uranium fuel load without ever have refueled.
Hats off to all who serve aboard the U.S. Carriers and support vessels alike who are away from there family's for months doing there job protecting all the good nations of the world!!
I served aboard the USS Oriskany (CVA-34)
@@Fireball409 I was on the USS Shangri La CVA 38 in 1965
I served 3 years aboard USS Forrestal in the 70's. Gone but will never be forgotten, the FID.
A video about the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) that is just packed with footage of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72). Couldn't find any footage of the Nimitz?
Will McCormick nimtz is the name of the class of the ship
corey jacobs yes you are correct, but the class takes its name from the lead (first) ship of the class. They are called “Nimitz class carriers” because the very first one built, CVN-68, is named the USS Nimitz, after Admiral Chester Nimitz. Just like how the new class of carriers are called “Ford class carriers”. Because the first ship of the class is CVN-78 Gerald R Ford.
I was about to say the same thing!
GREAT CATCH!
Exactly, I served on the Lincoln and reference to THE Nimitz is not the way to reference NIMITZ CLASS ships. It would simply refer to the one and only Nimitz CVN-68. I don't know why they can't find archival photos of the Nimitz. Good catch WM!
What is amazing is this: although we may consider her obsolete, the fact is no other navy to date has built a ship that can challenge her. We should keep her in service until that situation changes.
The fact is, you just couldn’t afford it anymore. Those were the day when you can just flexi your muscle and everybody will just have to fall in line. Fortune had change. America are no longer the hegemony that most fierce. America are technically bankrupt, surviving by borrowing and everything’s are falling apart.
Squeeze at least another 39 years out of this lady.
A traveling city with enough fire power to take on a whole country by itself!!!!
Modernize the island and radars. Replace the plumbing and electric. Fresh paint . And bon voyage.
Gender neutral bathrooms for the confused sailors.
As a Vet that was an EM aboard the Nimitz that would be a tall order. We were updating most of the lighting aboard the ship but with 50 years of 20 year old electricians it's gotten crazy.
All Nimitz-class carriers were designed for extended service overhauls if needed. They learned this lesson from the Enterprise. The ships would go into drydock for about 5-6 months and then return to duty fully operational.
I believe the oldest carrier able to be refurbished and set sail again would be the USS Intrepid CV-11 in New York harbor. It isn’t a nuke but when we retired her in 73 she was in tip top shape!
Given the cost of a new carrier (Ford Class), it makes more sense to rehab and refit the USS Nimitz. Extending the service life wouldn’t be
Cheap but it is less expensive than building an entirely new carrier. But then again common sense isn’t always in the mix, as politics
And defense industry lobbyists usually influence decisions.
The aerials of the ships in formation are amazing imagine that coming to get you😲
The small carrier Bonhomme Richard burned up during extended maintenance in San Diego. The Navy needs the Nimitz at least until the Bonhomme Richard is put back into service.
USS Bonhomme Richard was an amphibious assault ship (LHD) not an aircraft carrier (CVN). Apples and oranges.
I served on "numbnuts" from 1981-83 as QM2. Best years of my life.
I remember guys saying "numbnuts".
@@jerrybandy3827 Yeah! At first it pissed me off but I just let it roll off.
I was on the Coral Sea back in 65. It was a good ship I am proud to have been on the ship! Thank you!
Hail Brother, Arkansas '79-33
MarDet USS Coral Sea 77-80
Also the America class should be given atleast 2 if 4 extra boats in the planning schedule. One of the things that I always thought was a strategic error is our consolidation of shipyards and naval bases into one location. The need for more ships faster is an opportunity that shouldn't be wasted. Charleston SC should have its ship building capabilities expanded. As well as an west coast port like San Francisco and a gulf port. Maybe even hawaii. We should have multiple locations for building our ships. One attack on Norfolk would be devastating to a war effort.
Admiral Chester Nimitz would have been proud! 🇺🇸
It might be more efficient to keep Nimitz, even on reduced duty and training status, in waters close to home, similar to Lexington in the 70s. She would be primed, ready and we’ll manned in the event that an extra carrier is needed worldwide.
Get rid of Biden keep the Nimitz. Biden is worth about as much as bald tire or road kill possum
I ate Lunch everyday on the USS Kittyhawk...in 1968..it was in for repair work in Seattle...we were stationed there awaiting the New
USS Roark DE-1053...I am a Plankowner of this ship...original crew member( first crew aboard)...fyi
Nicely done footage in this video.
This should be “US Navies Oldest “Active Service NUCLEAR Aircraft Carrier”....”
Given the existence of the USS Lexington, a WWII Essex-class Carrier.
She could Easily be modernized and sold “cheaply” to an American partner like Australia or as a bargaining chip to India in a broader scope of trade
chris younts the Wonderful thing is India actually has friends. I have little doubt, to your excellent point, that Japan, Australia, even South Korea and the Philippines would contribute to an extra battle group in the SCS. It would actually be nice if it was Completely composed of All nation with Any territory dispute with China. Wouldn’t That be funny:) have a wonderful day buddy
Those ships move, turn faster than I envisioned....The waves in the beginning of this video are stunning to see. 👀
These ships were designed with a 50 year lifespan. This is amazing when you consider the environment these ships work in. However, the Nimitz is already 45 years old, and will be 48 when she retires. Just like an old car, the cost of maintenance increases exponentially the older the ship gets, and it reaches a point were the maintenance costs become excessive in keeping the ship (or vehicle) in service.
Looks like Nimitz will hit 50yr mark
As long as the hull and machinery are serviceable keep her in commission...
This is a good idea and the ship still has lots of life in her.
Took a close friend to Norfolk, to deploy on Nimitz in 1981 from cherry point. Pulled up to Uss Nimitz on one side Uss Eisenhower on the other side of the dock. OH MY ! One of them things you never forget !
The catapults on the Nimitz and other older carriers, being steam, still work, plus can be repaired at sea to keep the carrier in action. The two new carriers, one at sea for trials and one still in the yards, have electromagnetic catapults which are not performing as hoped, plus need a return to base to fix. Big problem.
Much like the B-52 -- it's a platform. And like the 52 -- a great hull.
"Navy's oldest carrier"
I do hope you mean oldest carrier still active, or I know a few Essex class Carriers that may want a word.
The Essex class carriers don't belong to the US Navy.
@@dundonrl Wait, what do you mean, who do they belong to then? And what about the Midway Class carriers, those are also older and I know for a fact that at least the USS Midway still exists because it's a museum in San Diego where I live.
@@cvandy2252 exactly they are museum ships, owned by either state governments, non profit companies, etc. The navy doesnt own them anymore
@@inTIMMYdator44 Gotcha that makes sense, thanks for clarifying.
a ship, so big, so massive, able to do more than 30 knots... thats raw power...
it can do more than 40 knots if it has to.
@@Rdwelker ,,, wow...
Keep the Nimitz, refit as needed and run it.
I went aboard the Nimitz early 1978 it was awesome to ride the P Boat out as she was anchored in Naples bay, to see the big floating island was mind numbing. You don’t want to see this bad boy patrolling off your coast. Loved the Nimitz go Navy. ABFC Rutherford V-4 Div
They kept the Enterprise nearly 60 years. Some of these ships haven't even come close yet.
this aircraft carrier is 5 years older than me as it was in operational status since 1975.
The Nimiz is a good ship and I am glad to hear it has a new lease of life although, in the longer term I would love to see her converted into a reef or museum in the future once it's reactors are finally removed.
or maybe made into a floating hotel or converted into a city for civilian use.
Its a lot cheaper to keep them with minimal maintenance then scrap them. Scrapping then costs hundreds of millions, even making museum pieces or training vessels is cheaper than scrapping them.
You're not going to make these carriers museum pieces or training vessels. Until you defuel them you have to keep highly trained personnel to maintain the safety of the cores. If you're going to extend the life you're talking a refuel, which will cost a coupl
Nice pictures however most of them are of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) not the USS Nimitz (CVN-68).
Lincoln is a Nimitz class carrier. There are some differences but not major ones.
"Old" Carrier. As in still more mission capable than any foreign countries flagship
I remember getting g stationed in Norfolk and the Nimitz coming up to the pier in 1976 .
Man that thing is huge .
Has it been that long. I was there when we laid the keel and I have slides of the keel. Greatest experience working at NewPort News.
Any great Navy has to have modern shipyards
I have an idea...give Australia the older carriers from the 70s. Help refurbish and modernise them and your staunchest ally can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our US cousins once more.
tripsadelica Only one readily available is Kittyhawk, and the shitty kitty would need so much modernization that you might as well build a new ship.
Oh, I didn't realise. The Aussie navy has a number of new ships but is a tadpole next to The US fleet and the Chinese Navy. If there are any good ships in the mothball fleet it would make sense to transfer them to the RAN as this would spread the policing load around.
tripsadelica Can Australia afford to keep and maintain such pricey military hardware?
Great but i think a lha harrier carrier would be a better fit for the Aussie Govt besides we have scrapped or sunk our conventional carriers.
Yes, I agree.
It's amazing to watch a ship as large as a carrier heel as it turns
Well I happen to agree with this article by redesigning an modernizing this this aircraft carrier it makes since to me .
The ship be shown CVN 72 is the USS Abraham Lincoln!
ric adams She was my last ship! Great ship, I remember those high speed runs and turns!
The gator sailors gave the Nimitz a nickname. “Numnuts”
May God bless all of you Navy men on this thread forever and always. Thank you all for your service.
Good Video/Info.
At least they could show the correct ship the USS NIMTZ is CVN 68
@ric adams - it's the thought that counts, I guess. Thumbs up.
This video is talking about a specific ship, and showing another.
Exactly Zack...thank you.
According to what I remember CVN72 is the USS John C Stennis.
@@regemet CVN72 is Abraham Lincoln. Nimitz is CVN68 as stated above CVN74 is John C Stennis
INCREDIBLE ENGINEERING 💯👍🏻💯
US Navy carriers are just awesome! Glad we are with them not against them....🇬🇧
I was flown to the Nimitz on the 'COD' in 1977 and had to just about be carried off the aircraft. I left her in 1981 under my own power and proud to have served on her. Haze gray and underway CVN68.
I remember the CODs. Mail call! I also remember they were the only planes that could take off from the deck without a catapult.
I had no idea the Nimitz was in retirement. It still outclasses 90 percent of other navies ac. Plus with the way we would use her she would be providing much needed option for a strategic deterrence against china, nk, and other navies who think they can bully there neighbor.
Why would the Pentagon not want to refurbish and upgrade the older Nimitz class carriers? Make them the aquatic version of the B-52!
From what I understand part of the problem with keeping older ships in service is the available power they have to operate newer systems that didn't exist back when the ships were built. The old reactors just don't make enough power and to replace them with newer ones they'd have to rip half of the ship apart to remove and replace them. Combined with the age of the components on the ship there comes a point were your better off building a new ship.
It’s such a far cry from refurbishment and re-engineing a B52 to gutting and rebuilding a carrier. Combine the cost plus the disparity between NavAir funding acquisition and USAF acquisition funding and it’s like ants to elephants!
“Nimitz “ A name of Great Service Determination and Perseverance as the Patriotic Standard for the Navy and US Citizens!
The Nimitz didn't come cheap when she was built but it would be far cheaper to repair and upgrade her than building a replacement. She is of the same class as most of our current Super Carriers. The Nimitz was the one that started it all so I think the old girl can still give a mean punch.
Who's she going to 'punch' at?
We tied up in Norfolk, with Nimitz sitting on the opposite side of pier 12 from us, after returning from the '74-75 Mediterranean Cruise. She was brand new. She looked gigantic compared to the USS Independence (CV-62) that was 1070 feet long. Nimitz was 20 feet longer with 20% more displacement. She was quite a sight! Indy was recently scrapped in Brownsville, Texas.
Just buy one million cans of rustoleum and she will be a beauty.
LoL ...they do...when I was enlisted we called it "red lead" even though there was no lead in the paint ...redish brick colored primer,
If you didn't polish it you scraped, hit it with a grinder wheel, premiered and painted it a lovely grey, grey and more grey...lol
Haze grey and under way!
50 million cans
@@scottm.franklinnc7942 Needle guns...... I remember needle guns.
Bob Dyer, Being in the Navy was s good feeling and seeing the world.
I was attached to VA-34 BlueBlasters A6 intruder squadron and served aboard the JFK CV-67 and our airwing broke in Dwight D Eisenhower CVN-69 brand new. Memories. I say bring everything back out of mothballs. Especially our huge Destroyers.
I said the same thing about USS ENTERPRISE but they scrapped her anyway. When you're 20 trillion dollars in debt you have to keep some equipment around a little longer. They're still better than any other carriers in the world.
CVN 65 was retired because it cost less to buy a new 2-reactor CVN, a new ship that would last 2-3 times longer than a refurbished Enterprise, that it would have cost to have her 8 reactor vessels rehabbed (if even possible -- there are significant material concerns with reactor vessels that have been irradiated for 50 years), then refuel her with 8 new reactor cores, plus overhauling the rest of the ship (including finding replacement parts for major propulsion plant components manufactured in the late '50's/early '60's and over electronic/mechanical upgrades to keep her relevant). She served far longer than originally envisioned -- it was time to honor her long service and let her go into history.
Right on!. I love that ship but its time to go out. she did her job well. Thank you The one and only U.S.S. Enterprise CVN65. With much love and respect.
scott besemer the big E was structurally falling apart.
It would have cost more to keep
It sea worthy than to build a new
Carrier.
Ya, te Enterprise was a great ship. Served on the Long Beach CGN 9 and cruised with the Jersey 63 in late 80's. Great Great War ships that did not need to go. All the new shit on the sea is stopped and or can not run because it is toooooo newwww and the learning curve has not been observed. Strange how the Govnt works or not works. :-/
THER ARENT -ENNY OTHER - CARRIERS IN IOTS CLASS WORTH NOTING........HAV U SEEN TH UTUBE CARRIER LAUNCHING LANDING FIGHTER JETS WYTH OUT AHDECK CREW....
The caption really needs to add the word "nuclear." We have several much older (i.e., WW 2) carriers that could be rehabbed to be operational. Not as capable, and still expensive, but we have them.
Kitty Hawk for instance...
No way those old carriers can be made to handle today's fixed wing aircraft. NFW ! !
Proud ship bearing a proud name of a great Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz truly an American Naval Legend
SUCH A BEAUTIFUL SHIP
I worked at both Newport news and Norfolk naval......the reason the wanna kept the nimitz class around is because they cant even get the newest ship the ford working.....we went from building the SAME carrier design for so long then they up and changed it so much, luckily they kept the steam catapults as a back up cause they were having trouble launching the planes with the magnetic launch systems....they changes too much at once i could name tons of things they changed from designs i worked on 5 of the carriers new construction and over haul, my crew built the island house for the ford and worked on 3 of the subs which the subs are built at 2 different shipyards
Remember that there are 7 ww2 fast battleships with 16 inch rifles not just 4
All so what about the nonnuclear carriers in the inactive fleet you could bring them back or refirb and sell them to Australia
My dad was a Marine attached to the USS Intrepid CV11, during WW2 .......he loved that ship......😃
Time sure fly by started my Navy career on this flat top in 1983 to 1988 and retired on this beast 2002 to 2003...
When I saw the title I was thinking this video was about the U.S.S. Enterprise which was the first super carrier ever constructed so I was a bit disappointed to see this was about the Nimitz.
I suppose that they scrapped the big "E" years ago.
I went on a couple of dependent's day cruises back in the 70s when it's home port was Alameda NAS so it will always have a special place in my heart.
The Nimitz is still a commissioned carrier, and is nuclear. Just a refit, refuel, and upgrade. Cheaper than a new one.
We should bring back the 4 remaining battleships and use them. Refit them with modern weapon systems.
Edward Finch better steel on them I would think
@@melaniejennings5170 Not sure your meaning, please enlighten me.
GOD BLESS ALL THAT SERVICE ON BOARD.
getting rid of these ships is like scrapping a rolls royce because the ash tray is full.
U.S. still has plenty of serviceable ships in stand-by. refit those and save the taxpayers some money.
don't try to reinvent the wheel.
Greg Brooks : Pax Americana is now 74 years and is likely to be extended unlike the Pax Britannia and Frankia that lasted only 20 years between wars because of British & French complacency in not continuing innovations in arms development and production. This encouraged & emboldened Nazi Germany to start WW2.... which ultimately became much more expensive not only in terms of money but more importantly in terms of human life & property....
The problem is, the Military Industrial Complex doesn't work that way. They only profit when huge expenditures are levied.
And votes are bought by the taxpayers to reelect Senators who have Shipyard in their states.
From what I heard the first 3 Nimitz class ships are not as easy to upgrade as follow on vessels.
I agree, but the navy wants expensive toys, if they wanted to the could strip the catapults, an arresting gear an go to F35s as their caple of vertical take off an landing. bring the weight down, more fuel an munitions. Replace the old reactors with the newer type an upgrade whatever else it needs. You still have a carrier, that could be cheaper an used for smaller conflicts this saving the newer carriers for more important things. But congress is to busy gutting the military to take care of illegals, Paris climate whatever, paying people not to work, an so many other wasted spending. They could build modern versions of the old Jeep carriers of WW2.
A carrier with a history...the recruits will love it and be proud. God bless America!
These carriers are essentially floating airports. So, they may not have the nicest amenities, fixtures, etc., However, they are still serviceable and can still do the job for which they were created, send and recover jets. Amenities and updates can be added as the years go by.
That's the ship that I wason in desert storm. The Abraham Lincoln CVN 72 . I guess they are using it as an example I don't know. I am kind of confused. They are talking about the NImitz and showing video of the Lincoln
It us to be right next to my ship USS Enterprise CVN 65 WOW I thought this ships where still 👍
Seriously....FACT CHECK!!! The Kitty Hawk is still in the yards in Bremerton, although decommissioned. And she was launched in 1960. Nimitz wasn't launched until 1972
Kitty Hawk was decommissioned and gutted years ago. It could never handle today's aircraft.
I was hoping they were going to refurbish and modernize the Midway and Ranger. They are small cut pretty cool.
When in doubt, give her the Yamato treatment.
Juan Manuel Penaloza
But why tho?
Why waste the cash? If I spent that much money on a ship for my navy, beat believe I’d squeeze it all the juice she was apparently worth.
@@thalmoragent9344 but turning an old warship into a spaceship would be so cool. Why the hell not?
Juan Manuel Penaloza
Ah, you mean the spaceship Yamato! I thought you meant the original one, so I thought you meant we should give it the treatment that the first ever one received and just torpedo and bomb it into oblivion...
My mistake!