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Gerald R. Ford class |
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| Mobile anti-ballistic missile system |
Type |
Aircraft carrier |
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| 2008–present |
Service Period and Status |
2017–present |
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Program & Unit Cost |
Program cost:
US$37.30 billion (FY2018)
Unit cost:
US$12.998 billion (FY2018) |
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| 2008–present |
Production Period |
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Mass / Weight / Displacement |
About 100,000 long tons / 100,000 tonnes displacement (full load) |
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Width / Beam |
256 ft / 78 m (flight deck)
134 ft / 41 m (waterline) |
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Draft / Draught |
39 ft / 12 m |
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Crew |
Complement:
508 officers
3,789 enlisted
Crew:
2,600 approx. |
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Speed |
In excess of 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph) |
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Operational Range |
Unlimited |
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Armament |
Surface-to-air missiles:
2 × RIM-162 ESSM launchers
2 × RIM-116 RAM
Guns:
3 × Phalanx CIWS
4 × M2 .50 Cal. (12.7 mm) machine guns |
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Installed Power |
Two A1B nuclear reactors |
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Aviation Facilities |
1,092 ft × 256 ft (333 m × 78 m) flight deck |
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A THAAD battery consists of:
6 launcher vehicles
2 mobile tactical operations centers (TOCs)
AN/TPY-2 ground-based radar (GBR) |
System Components |
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| 8 |
Missiles / Rockets per Launcher |
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| 8.55–10 GHz X band |
Radar Band & Frequency |
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Range:
2,900 miles / 4,700 km |
Search / Detection / Coverage Range |
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| 900 kg |
Missile / Rocket Mass / Weight |
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| 6.17 m |
Missile / Rocket Length / Height |
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| 34 cm |
Missile / Rocket Diameter / Width |
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| Pratt & Whitney Single-stage rocket |
Missile / Rocket Engine |
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| Solid-fueled rocket |
Propellant |
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| >200 km |
Missile / Rocket Range |
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| 150 km |
Missile / Rocket Altitude |
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| Mach 8.24 / 2.8 km/s |
Missile / Rocket Speed and Velocity |
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| Indium-antimonide imaging infra-red seeker head |
Guidance System |
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