SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The nuclear-powered supercarrier USS Carl Vinson and its strike team remaining San Diego Monday, marking the initial time a carrier strike team has deployed with the F-35C Lightning II fighter jet and Navy CMV- 22B Osprey.
The Osprey is changing the C-2A Greyhound for the carrier’s mission, which is to “support of global maritime protection functions,” according to a assertion from the Navy.
The Carl Vinson returned to its home port of Naval Air Station North Island last September, adhering to 17 months of retrofitting at the Puget Audio Naval Shipyard at a price of $367 million.
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier was docked in Bremerton, Washington, while going through a entire system retrofit to accommodate the F-35C Lightning II stealth fighters. Further endeavours although in Washington included upgrades to crew living spaces and upkeep on the ship’s hull, rudders and shafts.
The USS Carl Vinson can carry a lot more than 5,000 crew associates and 65 fixed and rotary-wing aircraft and has the pace, agility and maneuverability to travel a lot more than 5,000 nautical miles in considerably less than 7 days.
It was released in 1980 and in 2009 turned the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 1, primarily based out of San Diego. The supercarrier received notoriety for transporting Osama bin Laden’s physique to be buried at sea in 2011.
Joining the Carl Vinson on the deployment are numerous destroyers from Destroyer Squadron 1.
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