Daily Mail: Back in action: Enormous U.S. aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower makes high-speed turns at sea and practices launching fighter jets after two years in maintenance yard
* USS Eisenhower has been undergoing repairs since fall 2013
* Ship was released onto the high seas again last week
* Nuclear carrier used full engine speed to make sharp turns at 35mph
* 117,000sq ft ship houses 3,000 sailors and will return to full service in 2016
This is how one of the U.S. Navy's biggest war machines celebrated its first time on the seas after almost two years cooped up in a naval yard.
The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, an enormous, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, blasted out to sea off the coast of Virginia and put its tuned-up systems to the test.
Footage of the voyage - its first since fall 2013 - was recorded in late August and shows the vessel's huge engines pushing it through high-speed turns at some 35mph.
WNU Editor: Back in action after 23 months .... now that is a long stay in the maintenance yard. Yup .... they had additional problems as explained in this link .... Air Boss: Carrier Truman Will Only Have 40-Day Workup; Ike, Bush Likely Compressed Too (USNI News).
More News On The U.S. Aircraft Carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ike Concludes Availability with Triumphant Return to Sea -- Military.com
Aircraft carrier gets test drive after tune-up -- CNN
Carrier USS Eisenhower Leaves Norfolk Shipyard After Two Year of Repairs -- USNI
No comments:
Post a Comment