Midway Class
displacement: 69,909 tons
length: 1,001 feet
beam: 121 feet; extreme width at flight deck: 183 feet
height: 36 feet
speed: 33 knots
complement: 4,680 crew
armament: 18 5-inch guns, 84 40mm guns, 68 20mm guns
aircraft: 137
Vessels of Class:3
The Midway class missed the war by a few months, the USS Midway was commisioned after the surrender. The Midway class was invaluable in the Atomic age and the Cold War, when the aging Essex class needed replacing, while the Midway class didnt amount to as many vessels as the class they where destined to replace, these carriers where larger, and carried more powerful aircraft than the Essex class which where relegated to the role of Attack and Support/Anti- Submarine warfare (CVA-CVS) while the Midways where Battle Carriers (CVB).
The Midway class was a intermittent step between the Essex class and the later Forrestal and Enterprise classes.
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