On this day, 65 years ago, on September 24, 1960 (August 4, 1960, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the Enterprise, was launched. On September 24, 1960, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, was completed and launched. On September 24, 1960, the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier was completed and launched. It is the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and is still one of the main forces of the U.S. Navy. It is scheduled to be decommissioned in 2012 and replaced by a Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in 2015. It has a displacement of 85600 tons, a full-load displacement of 93970 tons, a crew of 4800, and 90 carrier-based aircraft. The cost is US$451.3 million (1960 price). The USS CV-6 Enterprise (Yorktown class) aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, nicknamed the Big E, is the U.S. Navy and the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. It is the first ship of the enterprise-class aircraft carrier. It was the world's largest warship before serving in the Nimitz class. She is the eighth US military ship named after a company. The name comes from a British sloop captured and renamed by the US military during the American Revolutionary War. Compared with conventional-powered aircraft carriers, the superiority of the Enterprise is self-evident. Normally warships need refueling, but nuclear power does not need to be so time-consuming and laborious. As long as the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is loaded with nuclear fuel at one time, the aircraft carrier can be guaranteed to sail for 10 years. More importantly, the density of nuclear fuel is very high. The boiler and fuel space saved by nuclear power can increase the loading capacity of aviation fuel from 6000 tons for ordinary power aircraft carriers to 11000 tons; In addition, the gases and air currents emitted by conventional-powered aircraft carriers will corrode the fighter aircraft and affect the performance of the fighter aircraft. However, the nuclear fuel used in nuclear-powered aircraft carriers does not smoke exhaust, so there is no such worry. Construction of the CVN-65 Enterprise began in 1958, was launched in 1960, and finally entered service in 1961. Soon after, the Enterprise blockaded Cuban waters during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and then was on duty in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, and sailed around the world without refueling. In 1965, the Enterprise was transferred from the Atlantic to the Pacific Fleet. It was sent seven times to participate in the Vietnam War and participated in the evacuation operation in Saigon on the eve of the war. In addition to large-scale wars, the Enterprise also participated in many geopolitical events during the Cold War, including the Baath Party's deployment to Lebanon on alert after seizing power in Iraq and Syria in 1963, sailing off the coast of India during the 1971 India-Pakistan War, cruising off North Korea after the detention of the Pueblo and the EC-121 shooting down incident, and attacking Ugandan President Idi, King of Scotland. Amin exerted pressure, participated in Rim of the Pacific exercises, rescued Vietnam boat people, went to the North Pacific to demonstrate against the Soviet Union, intercepted Soviet aircraft in Libya in 1986, escorted oil tankers entering and leaving the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War, fought with the Iranian Navy, and intervened in a coup in the Philippines, etc., with footprints all over the world. Entering the 1990s, the Enterprise was transferred back to the Atlantic Ocean and was on duty in the Mediterranean and Arabian Sea. During this period, the Enterprise was sent to the Adriatic Sea to support NATO peacekeeping forces in the former Yugoslavia where genocide occurred; He also intervened in the Kurdish Civil War in Iraq, carrying out air strikes on military positions in Iraq during Operation Desert Strike and Operation Desert Fox. In the late 1990s, the Enterprise began participating in Operation Southern Watch, and took the lead in participating in Operation Enduring Freedom and the War in Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks in 2001. Entering the 21st century, the Enterprise played a diplomatic pressure role for the United States on the Iranian nuclear issue and also responded to the Somali piracy issue. At noon on March 11, 2012, the USS Enterprise left Norfolk, Virginia, USA to begin its last mission during its service period. The seven-month journey will last and the destination is Middle Eastern waters. This mission is the 25th deployment of the Enterprise. On December 1, 2012, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, which had been in service for more than half a century, was officially retired from active service. The retirement ceremony was held at the U.S. Navy's Norfolk Naval Port Pier and was organized by U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray? Mabus presided over the ceremony. After thousands of crew members who once served on the Enterprise, shipyard workers who built the Enterprise, and their relatives, friends and family members attended the official retirement ceremony, the Enterprise will go to Newport near the Norfolk base. The News Shipyard safely dismantled the reactor fuel rods and then towed them south by tugboats, bypassing Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of the South American continent, and finally reaching Pugit Bay, Washington. There, naval engineers will dismantle the eight reactors of the Enterprise and tear the hull into metal fragments with a total weight of 90,000 tons. It is estimated that it will take three years and tens of millions of dollars to dismantle the Enterprise's radioactive fuel rods and reactor. At the moment of China, Yang News reported. Conclusion: The USS Enterprise has served in the U.S. Navy for 51 years and is the longest serving aircraft carrier in the Navy. During this period, a total of 100,000 people have served or worked on it. At the retirement ceremony of the USS Enterprise, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy announced that a Ford-class aircraft carrier under construction would be named Enterprise, which was passed down. As the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the advent of the "Enterprise" has brought the development of aircraft carriers into a new era. The "Enterprise" CV-6 in World War II was dismantled in 1958. In the more than 20 major naval battles against Japan during World War II, the Enterprise was only absent twice. It was also the world's first aircraft carrier to operate all-weather operations and set a record of 174 hours of uninterrupted take-off and landing of carrier-based aircraft in the Pacific War. The new CVN-65 Enterprise also maintains a record of 36 hours of continuous deck operations on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. In 1958, construction started at the Newport News Shipbuilding Company. That year, a certain country was installed in the National Steel Dry Dock. On September 6, 1960, eight nuclear reactor installation catapults produced by Westinghouse were hoisted on a unique domed island. On September 24, 1960, the side ballistic missile nuclear submarine SSBN-601 was opened to visitors on September 25, 1960. In order to complete the final equipment installation, it was moved from Pier 8 to Pier 2 in October 1961. Sea Trial North America's A-5 "Minzu League Member" heavy carrier-based attack aircraft (left) and Chance. Water's F-8 Crusader carrier-based supersonic fighter (right) catapulted for the first time aboard the USS Enterprise. He served with the Atlantic Fleet in 1961, and was reassigned to the Pacific Fleet in November 1965. On July 31, 1964, he completed global navigation in 65 days. During the deployment of the USS Bainbridge DLGN-25(Part 1) from Hawaii to Vietnam on January 14, 1969, with the CGN-9 nuclear-powered cruiser Long Beach (Center) nuclear-powered Lee Hai-class guided missile destroyer, an accident occurred. Aircraft and ammunition on the deck exploded, causing a fire, and five large holes on the flight deck were blown out. 25 crew members died. October 10, 1969. The Enterprise returned to Newport News Shipyard for the second refueling. Grumman's F-14 Tomcat was boarded. Following the "Pirates" during World War II, Grumman's aircraft returned to the aircraft carrier deck again, allowing this classic fighter jet to dominate Northrop, which was equipped with McDonnell Douglas's hard-working F/A-18 between sea and sky for 30 years. When it used the F-17 to bid for the Air Force's third-generation light fighter jet, it lost to General Dynamics's F-16. McDonnell Douglas bid for this model for the Navy's new generation carrier-based aircraft, but won the bid. This created another classic "bumblebee". Northrop and Grumman had a bad time throughout the 1980s. After the merger in 1994, they burst out with new vitality and attacked cities and seized territory in various fields. Take the aircraft carrier fleet for example, in addition to the F/A-18, which became McDonnell Douglas/Boeing's territory, in the entire aircraft carrier fleet, aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines, Burke-class destroyers,(General Dynamics's Bath Steel bears half of it), the E-2C early warning aircraft, the A-6 "Intruder" attack aircraft and the radar jammers on the EA-6B "Wanderer", all the way to the high-altitude "Global Hawk" are products of Norg Grumman and have also become one of the top five defense contractors in the world. In 1990, he returned to Newport News Shipyard for the fourth refueling and modernization. In 1994, he was once again assigned to the four rudders unique to the Atlantic Fleet Enterprise. Since then, all Nimitz classes have been regularly maintained for two rudders. The third and final update of the catapult Boeing's latest F/A-18 "Super Hornet" F-type ship. In June 2012, the USS Enterprise met with the latest USS George Bush CVN-77 at the shipyard and participated in military operations 26 times in its 51 years of service, such as the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraq War were decommissioned from the Norfolk base in Virginia on December 1, 2012. Question: Why is the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier called the USS Enterprise? The name USS Enterprise is a traditional ship name in the U.S. Navy. The warships previously called USS Enterprise have made immortal military achievements, especially the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6 USSterprise), which was famous in the Pacific War of World War II. The US military retains this name also to preserve the meaning of combat tradition.