The Nimitz-class carriers cost was initially around $675 million; that figure has grown to between $4.5 and $6.2 billion to produce. This is due in large part to upgraded multirole systems, hull redesign to improve efficiency, and their role redesignation from strictly attack to ASW and other threat prosecution operations/defense. While the newer carriers may initially cost more to produce, their long-term operational costs are expected to be lower than previous ships of the class.
The newest Ford-class carriers are expected to cost around $9 billion each (in 2010 dollars). However, given the history of new-construction programs, that figure is likely to be much higher. There is also a possibility given the current budget situation that DoD will revisit the construction plans due to its overall cost, and opt to continue to build the cheaper Nimitz-class vessels
The Reagan cost $5 billion.
All ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers were constructed between 1968 and 2006.
The total cost of construction for each ship was around $4.5 billion.
Modern U.S. Nuclear Aircraft Carriers only need to be refueled once during their service lifetime, which is typically 50 years. The cost runs around $3 Billion USD, which averages out to about $60 million annually, which seems less than what we're paying for a year's worth of gas to fill up these days.
20 billion dollars
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier costs about $4.5 billion to make. The Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier cost would cost about $14 billion including research and development costs.
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No, the C-17 air transport aircraft is much too heavy & large to land on an Aircraft Carrier. Or for that matter take-off again.
I want to say it costed an LHD $1 Mill to transit so maybe a bit more for an aircraft carrier
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There can be hundreds of thousands of bolts on an aircraft
The aircraft carriers cost billions of dollar now and they were millions of dollars during world war two. When you consider the price of metal and the cost to assemble that much metal it is mind bogling they don't cost a trillion dollars once they put in all the interior things and computers and other screens. They are as big as a city and house over 5000 people. They now have the comforts of home and base. They video conference their loved ones now too.
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No, an aircraft carrier cannot go 100 knots. The top speed of an aircraft carrier is typically around 30-35 knots, which is fast for a ship of its size but much slower than 100 knots.
WWII Fleet carriers averaged about 2500 officers and men.