In response to the increasingly aggressive attitude of the Pyongyang regime - the last launch of a rocket in the waters of the Sea of Japan took place four days ago - the Pentagon has decided to send the naval group of the nuclear aircraft carrier CVN Carl Vinson towards the coasts of the Korean peninsula.
Third class ship Nimitz, launched in 1982, has a displacement of 91487 tons fully loaded. Thanks to a propulsion system, consisting of 4 steam turbines with 4-axis gears (2 A4W / AIG nuclear reactors), which allows it to deliver a power of 280000 hp, it reaches a maximum speed of 35 knots.
La Vinson can carry up to 85 aircraft, of which more than half are F / A 18E / F multi-role fighters Super Hornet.
The Navy entrusts its offensive capabilities essentially to aircraft carrier combat groups - Carrier Battle Group, CBG - each of which consists of a multi-role aircraft carrier (with mixed flight groups of interceptor, attack and ASW aircraft) and six escort units; this normally consists of one or two cruisers and two or three ASW destroyers.
The main tasks of a CBG are that of power projection where it is needed, as well as that of defense and control of the maritime area of responsibility.
After the Second World War, the battle aircraft carrier group it remained the pivot of US naval strategy. However, the first doctrinal use was due to the British and the Japanese, who obtained significant successes in Taranto, Pearl Harbor and (apart from aircraft) Trincomalee.
The Americans adopted it with enthusiasm and employed an increasing number of aircraft carriers as the nucleus of attack groups suitable for a war of movement against the Japanese fleet and against the territories occupied by the Japanese themselves. Such was the influence of the aircraft carrier on the final US victory, that this type of ship has maintained its pre-eminence in the Pentagon doctrine of naval warfare to this day, regardless of the operational theater in which it takes place.
(photo: US Navy)
