July 23, 2010 - USS Abraham Lincoln passes USS Nimitz while pulling out of San Diego for COMPTUEX

3-part video. USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) passes by USS Nimitz (CVN 68) while leaving San Diego Bay from NAS North Island to begin Comprehensive Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), the last step of preparation before its 2010 deployment. The Lincoln is a Nimitz class nuclear powered aircraft carrier of the United States Navy home-ported in Everett, Washington.

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[teesfella]

huge ships!

some questions...which US Carrier is the biggest? which one is the most advanced? which has the fastest jets on? which carrier would you sail on given the choice if you went into conflict as a sailor..

[danieldeibler]

@teesfella I could be wrong, but I think the "biggest" would probably be USS Enterprise. The most advanced is probably USS George H. W. Bush, unless you count the Ford. I don't know about any carriers having faster jets than the others. You might be able to figure that out by looking at the number of Super Hornet vs. Hornet squadrons on a particular carrier. Personally, I'd take the newest, so the Bush or the Ford.

[KLsemperFi7]

@danieldeibler They're all the same size... they're all CVN designated ships, all the same super carriers. Most advanced would usually entail the most recently built one, but eventually they are all retrofitted to be the same for uniformity and function. The Ford isn't even built yet and is a different class of Carrier. The most recent one's are the Nimitz class. The Ford class will be built off the Nimitz platform, but slightly bigger and more advanced

[danieldeibler]

@KLsemperFi7 USS Enterprise is 31 ft longer and 5 ft wider than Nimitz and Ford class carriers. Improvements in flight deck design, in addition to reducing the number of reactors required, allowed us to make the Nimitz class smaller. When we designed the Ford class, we started from scratch, but designed everything to fit in the same hull form as the Nimitz class. They may look mostly similar from the outside (minus the island and missing aircraft elevator) but the inside is completely different.

[turner593]

cool video and great camera what was it if you dont mind ?

[danieldeibler]

@turner593 Sony CyberShot DSC-HX1

[infokemp]

If US designed in them in 1970's-80's, making every non-western nation design their policies in relation to what the US will do with these monsters at sea what are they replacing them with!

Ever since the Iowa class was decommissioned there has been constant calls for them to be reactivated if only for carrier escort or to support the USMC with a armoured missile platform - the US may have a economy only half the EU's size but your weapons are the best - amazing engineering! Thank God for USA!

[Bancroft98]

@danieldeibler After AE school turned into a disaster...i was sent to the USS Forrestal(cv-59)from Oct '88-May'92 leaving as an ABH3.In Dec of '88 i went TAD(as an AA) to get flight deck qualified on the USS Coral Sea(cv-43)in the N Atlantic.I have never been so cold in my life...especially when the the boilers went out on the showers the last couple days....BRRRR!!

[szlaht]

Chciałbym zobaczyć jak taki okręt idzie na dno:)

[82ndairborne100]

AWESOME, Thanks for your service!

[Planetar17]

There are ten of these beauties in the Fleet vs. the Big E all by her lovely lonesome.

[brose1959]

Manning the rails was a pain in the a^&, unless you could be at relaxed parade rest. Some of the canoe clubbers(academy dudes) trying to kiss their bosses butt made us stay at parade rest the entire time, until boats whistled moored. Great times. Go US NAVY.

[USSWISCONSIN64]

@apclypseishere i got a feeling that you are a US Navy history buff