Midway-class aircraft carrier

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USS Midway before SCB-110 upgrade
Class overview
Name	Midway class
Builders	Newport News Shipbuilding New York Navy Yard
Operators	United States Navy
Preceded by	Essex class
Succeeded by	Forrestal class
Subclasses	USS Coral Sea
Built	27 October 1943 – 2 April 1946
In commission	10 September 1945 – 11 April 1992
Planned	6
Completed	3
Cancelled	3
Retired	3
Preserved	1
General characteristics
Type	Aircraft carrier
Displacement	45,000 long tons (45,722 t) (standard) 60,000 long tons (60,963 t) (full load) [1]
Length	968 ft (295 m) overall 901 ft (275 m) waterline 924 ft (282 m) flight deck
Beam	121 ft (37 m) Waterline 136 ft (41 m) Overall
Draft	33 ft (10 m)
Installed power	12 Babcock and Wilcox boilers
Propulsion	Westinghouse Steam turbines 212,000 shp (158,000 kW)
Speed	33 knots (61 km/h; 38 mph)
Complement	4,104
Sensors and processing systems	As Built: 1 × SC-2 Surveillance Radar 2 × SG Surface Search Radars (On top Mark-37 GFCS) 1 × SK-2 Air Search Radars 2 × Mk-37 GFCS
Electronic warfare & decoys	As Built: 1 × TDY-2 ECM (Anti-Radar)
Armament	Original armament of Midway and Franklin D. Rosevelt: 18 × 5 in (127 mm)/54 caliber guns 21 × quad 40 mm Bofors gun 28 × twin 20 mm Oerlikon cannon Original armament of Coral Sea: 14 × 5 in (127 mm)/54 caliber guns 20 × twin 3"/50 caliber guns 14 × twin Oerlikon 20 mm cannons Refit armament: 2 × 8-cell Sea Sparrow launchers 2 × Mark 71 mod 0 Phalanx CIWS
Armor	Portside Belt: 7.6 inch Starboard Belt: 7 inch Lower Edge and Upper Belt: 1.96 inch Flight Deck: 3.5 inch Hangar Deck: 2 inch Main Deck: 2 inch
Aircraft carried	Up to 130 (1940s–50s), 65–70 (1980s)
Aviation facilities	Original Aviation Facilities: 2 Centerline Aircraft Elevators 1 Deck Edge Elevator 2 Aircraft Catapults 2 Hangar Decks 1950s Modernizations: 1 Centerline Aircraft Elevator 2 Deck Edge Elevators 3 Steam Catapults Angled Flight Deck 1970s Modernizations for USS Midway: 3 Deck Edge Aircraft Elevators 2 Steam Catapults Enlarged Angled Flight Deck

The Midway class was a class of three United States Navy aircraft carriers. The lead ship, USS Midway, was commissioned in September 1945 and decommissioned in 1992. USS Franklin D. Roosevelt was commissioned in October 1945, and taken out of service in 1977.^[2] USS Coral Sea was commissioned in April 1947, and decommissioned in 1990.^[3]