In Creta arrives the American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Harry Truman"

In Creta arrives the American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Harry Truman"

By Monday, is expected to remain at the port of Souda, the nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier Harry Truman. The ship call at the pier of the naval base at Akrotiri Marathi as supplies and recreation for the crew.

"Harry Truman" was built in 1996 in Norfolk, Virginia, two years after he joined the 6th Fleet and then performing missions in the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Indeed, this aircraft carrier set sail late last May from the naval base in Norfolk as flagship of the strike force of ships that were sent to travel to the Persian Gulf to do to carry out inspections of weapons to Iran.

The Truman aircraft carrier has a displacement of 90,000 tons, moving at 4 propeller speed 30 knots, and power given by the two nuclear reactors. The length of the aircraft is 333 feet, width 78 and height reaches 74 meters. The size of a deck of more than 4.5 acres.

At 2,500 booths Truman's 3,500 members live crew and another 2,500 people, who are the crew and technicians of 80 military aircraft, to climb aboard from 4 catapults. A typical size of the aircraft is that the daily consumption of drinking water reaches the 1,500 cubic meters, 18,000 meals are prepared daily. Also, the board issued daily, and also has its own television station.

The aircraft has air missiles - air Sea Sparrow, and antiaircraft guns, carrying cluster bombers, 4 F/A-18 Super Hornet and 3 F/A-18 Hornet, spy planes and small aircraft early warning E-2 Hawkeye all-weather, cluster electronic attacks to interfere with radar and flock 7 helicopters destroyed submarine.

Along with the call at Truman in Marathi and the accompanying rocket cruiser Normandy displacement of 10,000 tons. Normandy is equipped with air-to-air missiles, air-ground and anti-submarine warfare, while on board ship a total of 400 people.

On the day of arrival under draconian security officers and crews of both ships frequented by the old town of Chania and other parts of the island. Without such communication, the Communist Party protested the arrival of two warships, as well as the continued operation of foreign bases in Akrotiri. Communication protest the presence of the aircraft carrier, and adopted by the Committee at the bases.

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