Meet the Nimitz-class: US Navy's $8.5 Billion Aircraft Carrier
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As a Navy veteran from more than 50 years ago, this was a very well-thought-out overview of the Nimitz class carriers and their various squadron components. Great job, guys.
Respect Sir.
Have you fought in other countries with aircraft carriers before?
It's obsolete and will get sunk really easy with a few hypersonic missiles.
a swarm stealth hypersonic missiles DF15 each with multiple war heads can turn them to scrap metal.
@@wongyoonchark5050 yep. wonderful and obsolete. the general public and the .mil hasn't really got that, yet.
Fun fact, the US navy nuclear program is unblemished. If it’s safe to use on the high seas, it’s safe for domestic energy production.
Someone tell Germany lol
I served on the Nimitz during WestPac 1993. Air Dept / V-2 Division. It was quite the experience.
It’s astonishing the new carrier is even bigger. Raw power.
Smart power))!
Videos cannot possibly show just how big those things are. They are HUGE!
You think that's huge?!? What you think Tiny Elvis would say about that???
I once saw this ship with my own eyes and I couldn't keep my mouth shut
The first time I saw my ship, the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), my first and only thought was “It should be against the laws of nature that something that large and made of metal can float…”. Then I saw her in dry dock about six months later, and I realized she looks better in water.
@@usamachinery That's what she said
As a RAM tech on the Nimitz it was an experience of a lifetime. Even with extended deployments it only gave you more time to appreciate the mechanism of war she is.
does the Nimitz have a Ghostbuster? did you ever see one in action?
Until you see a supersonic missile coming above.
RAM Missiles?Was Sea Sparrow 90-92
cool story bro
Them Seahawk Helicopters are some real beasts to watch fly.
wow thank you for sharing this
❤.from England 🇬🇧
Gorgeous hardware - GO NAVY !!
What madlad is swimming aggressively at the US Navy
😂😂😂 had the same reaction to "enemy swimmers".
Great channel!
Fascinating - thank you. Around 6:45 I shuddered at thinking about what that 25mm cannon would do to the 'enemy swimmer' that was mentioned!! 😮😱
Same, wtf is a swimmer gonna do against a aircraft carrier
Excellent reporting. 5 Destroyers, 2 Submarines, 3 Cruisers will be perfect for this year's fleet. Officer's are choosing they're ships. Maintaining them, for a sudden battle, will be good for the fleet going forward.
God bless America. Greeting from Lithuania.
America spends all its money on endless wars. But us people here in America have nothing for the most part. Over half the population living in poverty or just above it.
No real public healthcare in America. If you get sick it cost you thousands upon thousands of dollar, so most don't even go to doctor, and then America also has the largest prison population on Earth with over 2.2 million people in cages. As the US constitution says slavery is legal as long as you been charged with a crime.
So its far from being blessed, most Europeans have it better then Americans.
You should better focus on your own country rather than blessing the U.S. The u.s is blessed with its own airforce, own navy, own armed forces and equipments, we are not like you to beg everything form EU and NATO and then trying to become a lion in front of russia😂
@@ComradeNationalist we are not begging anything from EU and NATO we are EU and NATO ;) ruzzia is a threat not only to us but to all free world. Let me remind you of ruzzian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
@@ComradeNationalist I say God Bless Nigeria, for without, we wouldn't have any Princes to give all our money to
Awesome!!!! Build more!!!!❤🙏
A lot of countries have aircraft carriers in the Navy but only the United States has a super aircraft carrier in their Navy.
Luv me some carrier strike groups
Beautiful ship! 🇺🇸
Beautiful ship
A MASSIVE SALUTE to the best there ever was and the best there ever will be for a very very long time.
Those things are amazing! Standing on the deck or looking over the side they take your breath away!❤ PS if you’re afraid of heights, never look over the side!😂
A friend who wore not eagles and lightning bolts but a globe with telephone on top. He said while he was below deck watching the power turbines when the R2D2/ seawhiz was fired up you could feel the whole ship vibrate.
Realy I like this powerful aircraft carrier
live in va. beach ----NAVY TOWN. ALWAYS PROUD
I have a dart board from that carrier that was on there from what I was told over 25 years. It was given to my mother who knew the chief storekeeper at the time. They were switching from metal tipped darts to the plastic.
Do they avoid any and all bad weather, is there a wave limit? Do they stow all surface aircraft or tie them down?
God bless the greatest military in the history of civilization!
Factually false.
@@McShag420 nope
@@jacobhill5756 Yep.
My first Ship, Nimitz 💪🏻💪🏻
I foresee carriers getting smaller and faster with the advancement of drones & unmanned aerial vehicles. They'll be able to carry much more aircraft with far less personnel. In the last 10 years they've made HUGE strides in the unmanned aerial vehicles. Imagine where they'll be in another decade (assuming we're all still here....).
I mean, that's great, but we're gonna be building Ford-class carriers for a long time. Perhaps a more nimble military production country like China can take advantage, though.
Introducing us to the 55 year old class of carrier? A half century to late aren’t you? Cmon man! Try meeting Ford!
Would be great to have a tour of this marvel. I bet the galley is huge.
I would NOT want to be an enemy swimmer fighting against a nimitz class aircraft carrier
Nimitz was my first carrier assignment but not my last. I was there about a month after they shot down 2 Libyan jets .
when you talk about fission, it remind me of Fukushima nuclear water waste dispute. It had to be thrown away. And these vessel including submarines been dirtying the ocean for decades
God bless America and watch over our military ❤❤🙏
God Bless America and No Place Else
I don't think a god would bless a country for having the best killing machines.
God's letting it happen.... better us have it then the enemy...
@@phyllishalley8972 If you believe that, god is responsible for cancer and every other horror under the sky. Must be a sick, sick being.
Huh?????
Y'all forgot to mention that it went through a storm at sea near Hawaii, which sent it back in time to December 6, 1941, and that the strike group very nearly prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor the next morning.
(half-joking. The USS Nimitz WAS the setting for the movie "The Final Countdown", the plot of which I just detailed above. Good movie, BTW. A movie that got me interested in aircraft carriers long before Top Gun came out.)
Lol except the Pentagon would nuke the Nimitz if it went back in time to stop pearl harbor...ask admiral kimmel.
@@chetgray5697 That would be a mean trick, since it would be 3 1/2 more years until nuclear bombs were invented...
But hey, maybe someone with a Delorean got involved. Who knows.
I’ve sailed on 3 of these carriers along with 2 others.
May i make friend with you
I am Thùy from Vietnam
Could’ve just said 5
@@JonnySublime 2 of them weren’t Nimitz class there guy. And yes, they were very different.
Enterprise,Midway,Independence. Did a CQ det on Nimitz. They were all different.
Recycle the metal of retiring carriers and make more advanced sufisticated aircraft carriers,,, God bless America the protector of the world 🙏🇺🇸🙏🌍🙏
Is the Nimitz carrier the one that seen the tic-tac uap a few year ago?
Now do the Ford class carrier. Puts this ancient beast to shame.
yep, perfectly fine to house nuclear reactors in a tin can with people all over next to it, but it's dangerous to let one power a city or something.
Even as a leftist myself, it's painful the damage that leftists/greens have done to the image of nuclear power. So much needless, ignorant fearmongering over it. It should have been one of the top pushes for environmentalists in terms of safe, sustainable, mass energy to replace dirtier and actually unsafer sources.
GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ITS ALLIES.
I am an European man living in the US for many years THANKS GOD we have the UNITED OF AMERICA to make this world a better place.
Nice vessel 🚢, fits perfectly to be afraid of interacting with anyone who has more than a handgun and being a pssy for almost two years straight now.
Damn. I love America.
I wish i could spend a month on that beautiful ship.
always prepared for last year's war
Wow that's an amazing aircraft, Carrier God Blessed America 🙏🙏🇺🇸💪❤️
Hello Nimitz
God I am officially old now. I served on the USS Midway and than the USS Nimitz. Time to put me to rest as well i guess
Marvelous! What a big coffin!
God bless America 🇺🇸 from yapes
This looks like a Star Destroyer from Star Wars! But for the good guys ;)
Not just an aircraft carrier. It's a "special military vessel."
I became a Boatswains mate, once i made E4 well do you want to volunteer for various assignments. No i did that early on. This is the short story, i did love my time & assignments in the navy but my wife made it very clear she would not be a navy wife. So i had to make my choice. I let my enlistment expire, after that together weve had an interesting life. As many military guys we could sit down and write short reader digest stories
I always hated writing stories or essays in school but today i could do it because of life experiences.
"$8 billion? Pfffft...hold my beer" - Ford Class aircraft carriers
You wouldn't believe that even during WWII the carrier was considered a second rate warship to the battleship, with very little value in warfare. Only the Japanese had the foresight to know the future value of the carrier, when they made them a priority at Pearl Harbor. It was the Battle of Midway that proved to everyone their future status as capital ships. And yes, before anyone says anything, I know that the RN had great success beforehand at Taranto and against the Bismarck, but the Admiralty was still working with a "battleship" mindset even after that.
The carriers saved the Pacific. They were of collosal importance
@@stevenbartlett5867 Yes, it was the same with the North Atlantic. However, the old Victorians in charge at the time were blind to the new technology that was just evolving into becoming a great threat in future naval warfare, that of the aircraft. My guess is that they couldn't understand how something so small and seemingly insignificant as a plane could ever sink a giant battleship, because they were still thinking with 19th Century mindsets. The battle with the Bismarck showed them still reliant on battleships and battlecruisers. It was only by chance that it was left to the ancient Swordfish biplanes to show them what planes are capable of (they were even dodging the Bismarck's gunfire!}. But even then the old men in the RN and the USN weren't convinced!
@@white-dragon4424 you are certainly right with that!! It's nice to see some good educated people write comments!
I admit it was a Godsend that the US was able to sink the Japanese carriers. It was luck our planes were flying to the Japanese carrier and they were changing the ammunition. God was on our side that day!
@@stevenbartlett5867Most don't realise that the only real tragedy at Peal Harbor was the loss of so many lives. See, no one in the USN realised it at the time that even then the battleships that were sunk were obsolete lumps of metal. The great fortune was that the true battle winners, the carriers, were out of port on that day.
@@white-dragon4424 It's that event (bombing Pearl Harbor) that we were thrown into war. Without a doubt it was a blessing the carriers weren't there. I remember reading when Winston Churchill heard of the attack, that he slept soundly that night knowing that the British weren't alone and the US was so industrialized, they could build anything at record speed.
I think there should be more plates of armor to come down from the sides to protect and the front and rear. Make these ships more fortified. Just thinking
They are designed to withstand a nuclear blast. They'll be just fine.
So, are we pretty much planning to replace as we decommission? Or, are we going to be out some carriers for awhile while new ones are built? seems like a big window of weakness/downtime between having our numbers back.
Bro who's gonna pay for it ? Oh yeah we just write checks who cares
@@josiahpierce5590 I don't mean money wise, I mean with numbers of ships. You can have all the money in the world but, they still take time to build. if you don't build as you decommission, you're down ships. That was my question.
I read where the navy is already planning on extending the service of the Nimitz, and I think it was two others in that class by two years each.
My Kate father was in the mighty USS. Texas in wa2. I mis him dearly. His bless the might United States. If typos, I have cancer
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Imagine the fact that 3 of the richest people in the world' can own 120 of these and still be the richest people in the world.
6:50 Denfensive System against Enemy Swimmers?
Has more navy personel on those carriers than most countrys have in there military
I'd like to spend about a month on one. Wonder how much trouble I couls get into.
It was Earnest J. King who led the USN to victory in WW2. He was the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO). As well as being thg Commander in Chief, United States Fleet (COMINCH).
Nimitz only held command over _part_ of the Pacific theater. King was his boss. As the CNO is the absolute top position in the navy.
So the hell what?
@@mikek5298English kid
00:45 (onwards) - DAMN! What a footage!
Good Lord that Phalanx gun is NASTY...
A great video for our enemies to watch as we are entering ww3.... tells them everything they need to know if they don't already know.
Can I have it when it's decommissioned? please?
can they defend vs hypersonic missiles?
Yes.
Welp, imagine if a CVN cost as much as a james webb.
Think how many more we could have if we had conscription.
Does anybody know if the USS Enterprise is still around?
Decommissioned in 2017.
These things are amazing but i wonder how they would do against a saturation attack of dozens, or maybe a hundred of anti ship missiles.
Only takes one or two to get through.
That’s what I was thinking. There would be so much damage and planes wouldn’t be able to takeoff
Drones that latch to the decking along with ones with cutter explosives, or chemicals. It's can be cripples very fast. When they designed and began construction of this ship, drones were not as advanced as they are. As we are watching with Gazan ingenuity fighting the IDF, drones are inexpensive and very damaging. A fight with the middle east is very worrying as the fighters there are experienced, armed in moodern equipement, innovative and have a cause. Western military is used to fighting villagers and farmers.
@@carsi7282 All they have to do is to get these "geralds" to waters that you swim in and then you are free to send your drones and missiles so the 2 chernobyls go brrr upon contact.
Yes, China has put massive resources into creating missile systems to take out US carriers, and it's quite possible they've already achieved the means to disable and remove our carriers from a battle at the very least. Would be devastating. On their turf, I'm not sure US can actually win a war against China.
Win the highest Jackpot National Lottery 3 times in a row and you still can't afford one!
Are all the Nimitz carriers still in service?!
Yes. The next USS Enterprise will be the ship that replaces USS Nimitz. The USS Ford replaced the old USS Enterprise.
@@white-dragon4424 what happens to the Nimitz carriers after end of service? Storage or scrapping?
@@edwardbrophy9749 I'm pretty sure that it'll be scrapped, like all nuclear powered vessels. The only difference between Nimitz and preceding Enterprise is that it'll be easier and cheaper to scrap.
8.5 billion damn :(
The most expensive thing on earth..
In australia we have a water pump ( snowy hydro v2) that will cost 22 billion! And provide less power then this air craft carrier! And be stationary and probably wont even get finished! 😅😢
what are the costs of these behemots to run a day?
Freedom isn't free😂
@@nickstevens4482 weird answer. Usa has freedom
I think that the current wars have shown that the impressive gear can be overwhelmed by sheer quantity. Exhaust the defenses and then it is open season.
akin to bruteforce technique in hacking too
Doubt. The aegis combat system was DESIGNED for saturation attacks and good look trying to overwhelm its defense systems because once you fire, it now has a bead on you.
@Ban00 good luck trying to hack a u.s carrier.
ummmm... a carrier can hold 170 attack aircraft, of the highest quality and caliber, often more than most countries entire air forces combined.
@fm-9129 people really don't understand just how bad we could shit on them.
Didnt mention the super carrier the Ford
Hey Iran.. You watching this?
What you gonna do? Ha Ha!
No one in the world stands a chance.
In thise days carriers are king if the sea but when hypersonic missiles invented not anymore it takes hundred years to create this without carrier US cant move thier assets
It's go go go from pH yes na yes God bless always ❤❤❤
So the U.S. can build 3 of these for the price of 1 F-22?
Toddler Sam, where is Your latest video? 🤔💪🏻👩🏻✈️
They can make more than 120 airplanes om the deck
✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼U.S.A!!!
U.S.A!!!
U.S.A.✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
Through the years imagine the trillions of tons of debris we just throw into the ocean. ammo, casings, planes, ships, etc.
How do you and your family sleep at night? Much better than Ukrainians, Jews, and Palestinians.
God bless USA, especially U.S.M.C
Little small ?
Americans always next level
Proud of our armed forces ❤🇺🇸😊
Why so many F-18's still... I thought they would be fazed out by now? Whats next?
A Submarine can hit that ship easily from big distance ????
The problem is, if one of these get sunk, it's a gigantic loss. How much $ in total would that be given all the aircraft and the carrier itself? Someone might just spam torpedoes and missiles like crazy at them in a real war.
Thats what the strike group is for. You'd first have to successfully hit the submarines that already know where you are before you even find where we are, then luckily enough get past the rest beyond that. You're probably looking at a -0.01% chance of taking our carrier.
What a unique and previously unvoiced weakness. I hope USN enemies do not have a fraction of your strategic prowess.