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USS Lexington AVT-16 is one of the survivors of the World War II Essex-class carriers, she was laid doen 15 July 1941 and commissioned 17 Feb 1943. She has a full load displacement of 42,500 tons and measures 820ft (250.0m) at the waterline; 894.5 ft (272.8m) overall. She has a hull beam of 103ft (31.4m) and her flight deck has a beam of 185ft (56.4m). Draft is 31ft (9.5m). SHe has a crew of 74 officers and 1,382 enlisted (1,456 total).
She has been assigned as a training carrier since December 1962 and was scheduled for replacement in 1992. She cannot maintain or support tactical aircraft and her deck edge elevator has been welded in place. She is unarmed and mounts SPS-10 surface search, SPS-49 air search and SPS-64 navigation radars.
Lexington serves basically as a sea-based runway for touch-and-go landings in support of the training schools.
USS Forrestal, CV-59 is the first aircraft carrier to be built from the keel up after World War II and is the first true 'super carrier'. She was laid down 14 July 1952 and commissioned 1 October 1955. She has a full-load displacement of 78,200 tons. She measures 990ft (301.8m) at the waterline and 1,039ft (316.7m) overall. Her hull has a beam of 130ft (39.6m) and her flight deck has a beam of 250.25ft (76.3m). Draft is 37ft (11.3m). Crew consists of 148 officers and 2,810 enlisted (2,958 total) with an air group of 300 officers and 3,100 enlisted (total of 3,400), a Marine detachment of 2 officers and 70 enlisted (72 total) is also carried.
She can maintain an air group of a maximum of 85 aircraft. Her armament consists of two 8-cell NATO Sea Sparrow SAM launchers (scheduled to be increased to three during her next refit) and three Phalanx CIWS mounts.
Her Radar suite includes a Furuno 900 series nav, a SPS-64(V)9 nav, a SPS-67 surface search, a Mk23 TAS target acquisition, a SPS-49(V)5 air search, a SPS-48C 3D air search, a SPN-41 microwave landing aid, a SPN-43A marshaling, a SPN-44 microwave landing aid, 2 SPN-42 CCA and 4 Mk95 missile fire control (to be upgraded to 6).
EW/ECM suite consists of SLQ-32(V)4, WLR-1H, WLR-8, WLR-11, SLQ-17, four 6-tube Mk36 SRBOC decoy rocket launchers and a SLQ-25A Nixie towed torpedo decoy.
During the Cold War, the air group was 20 F-14A, 24 F/A-18, 10 A-6E, 4
KA-6D, 4 EA-6B, 4 E-2C, 10 S-3A and 6 SH-3H or SH-60F.