CVN-79

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Career (US)

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Launched:
Status:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	100,000 tons
Length:	1,092 feet (332,84 m)
Beam:	134 feet
Propulsion:	2 nuclear reactors
Speed:	30+ knots
Range:	Essentially unlimited
Endurance:	Limited only by food
Complement:	4,660
Armament:	Surface-to-air missiles Close-in weapons systems
Aircraft carried:	More than 75
Aviation facilities:	1,092 x 256 foot flight deck

CVN-79 is the hull designation for a proposed United States Navy Gerald R. Ford class aircraft carrier. Construction of this ship (if authorized) would not begin before 2010. In theory, CVN-79 would start to replace the Navy's Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.

Senator James M. Inhofe has stated an intention to name the ship the USS Wilderness, after the first major battle between Grant and Lee.^{[citation needed]}

In an episode of the television series JAG, CVN-79 was designated as USS Benjamin Harrison.