Kitty Hawk is the first ship of the Kitty Hawk class aircraft carrier of the US Navy. It was developed on the basis of forest-class conventional power carrier and entered active service as early as 196 1. The overall design of Kitty Hawk follows the design features of Forrest-class aircraft carrier, and its ship type, size, displacement and power plant are basically the same as those of Forrest-class aircraft carrier, but Kitty Hawk has made great improvements in superstructure, air defense weapons, electronic equipment and carrier-based aircraft equipment.
Kitty Hawk was built by New York Shipyard. 196 1 year, with a total cost of 400 million dollars, a length of 1069 feet (323.8 meters), a ship width of 252 feet (76.8 meters), and a total deck area of 4. 1 mu, which is about the size of three football fields and can be carried. The length of the ejection runway on the flight deck is 263 feet, and the length of the landing runway is 120 feet. The draft of the aircraft carrier is 36 feet, the standard displacement is 60 100 tons, and the full-load displacement is 86,000 tons.
Kitty Hawk has a floor of 1 1 from the ground floor to the top of the bridge, which is about 18 high, with a total of more than 2,400 cabins. From the ground floor, floors 1-4 are fuel warehouses, fresh water warehouses, weapons and ammunition warehouses and engine rooms, floors 5-6 are crew accommodation warehouses, food warehouses, restaurants and administrative offices, floors 7-8 are carrier-based aircraft maintenance rooms and maintenance personnel accommodation warehouses, and floors 9- 10 are hangars, combat duty rooms and pilots' restaurants. There are as many as eight island buildings on the mother deck of Kitty Hawk, which is the headquarters of fire fighting, medical care, communication, radar and other departments and aircraft carrier battle groups.
The aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk is driven by four steam turbine engines, with a total power of 280,000 HP, a maximum speed of 32 knots, a cruising range of 4,000 nautical miles at 30 knots and a cruising range of 12000 nautical miles at 20 knots. The ship's power system can provide14,000 kilowatts of electricity, with a fuel reserve of 7,800 tons and an aviation gasoline reserve of 5,800 tons.
Due to the large number of crew members on the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk, its various living facilities are also very complete. * * * Offshore Hospital 1, with 65 inpatient beds and 6 operating rooms. 4 department stores, 1 post office, 2 barbershops, 1 laundry room, etc. The "Kitty Hawk" aircraft carrier is also equipped with 2,400 telephones and Internet terminals, and can watch cable TV programs on six channels.
Date of commencement:1Feb. 27, 956.
Start date:1May 2, 9601day.
Commencement date: 196 1 April 29th.
Crew: 2930 crew members, including officers 155; There are 2480 aviation personnel, including 320 officers.
Displacement: standard 6 1 170 tons, fully loaded with 8 1700 tons. The main engine adopts 4 steam turbines, with 209000KW, 4-axis propulsion and a speed of 32 knots. Endurance of 4000 nautical miles /30 knots, 12000 nautical miles /20 knots;
Hull: 318.5m long and 39.5m wide.
Flight deck: 326 meters long and 76.8 meters wide.
Draft:10.8m.
Weapons and equipment:
3 sets of 8-pack "Sea Sparrow" ship-to-air missile launchers, 3 sets of "Dense Array" melee weapon systems, 4 sets of SRBOC electronic countermeasure bait launchers, and 1 SLQ-36 "Female Water Demon" towed bait.
Carrier aircraft: 80
There are 20 F- 14D fighters, 36 F/A- 18 fighters, 4 E-2C early warning aircraft, 4 EA-6B electronic jammers, 6 S-3B anti-submarine aircraft, 6 helicopters and 2 ES-3A electronic reconnaissance aircraft. SPS-49 air search radar, SPS- 10F surface search radar, SPS-64 navigation radar, Mk-95 fire control system.
Power plant: 8 boilers and 4 steam turbines.
Propulsion power: 209,000 kW
Maximum speed: 30 knots