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8 x Babcock & Wilcox oil-fired boilers driving 4 x Westinghouse steam turbine engines operating 4 x shafts with total output of 150,000 horsepower.
Geared steam turbines developing 212,000 horsepower to 4 x Shafts.
PERFORMANCE
SPEED 33.0 kts (38.0 mph)[Diff.0.0 kts]
SPEED 33.0 kts (38.0 mph)[Diff.0.0 kts]
RANGE 17,275 miles (27,801 km)[Diff.+2,375 miles]
RANGE 14,900 miles (23,979 km)[Diff.-2,375 miles]
ARMAMENT
4 x 5" dual-mount anti-aircraft cannons
4 x 5" single-mount anti-aircraft cannons
8 x 40mm Bofors quad-mount anti-aircraft cannons
46 x 20mm Oerlikon single-mount cannons (total of 52 such cannons installed by the end of the war)
1943:
9 x 16" Mark 7 main guns
20 x 5" Mark 12 guns
80 x 40mm anti-aircraft cannons
49 x 20mm anti-aircraft cannons
1983:
9 x 16" Mark 7 main guns
12 x 5" Mark 12 guns
32 x BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles
16 x RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles
4 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS
AVIATION
Up to 100 aircraft of various makes and types. Example load: 36 x Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters; 37 x Douglas SBD Dauntless dive-bombers; 18 x Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo-bombers.
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