The U.S. Navy held a commissioning ceremony for the USS Miguel Keith (T-ESB-5) at North Island Naval Air Station in San Diego, California, officially commissioning the 785-foot-long (239 meters), $525 million ship, according to a 10-day report on Military.com. The new 785-foot-long (239 meters), $525 million warship was officially commissioned. “With a displacement of 90,000 tons, the USS Miguel Keith is second only to the U.S. Ford and Nimitz class aircraft carriers, and has a diesel-electric hybrid power plant. It has a maximum speed of 15 knots and a maximum range of 9,500 nautical miles (about 17,594 kilometers).
According to a news report cited by the Liberty Times today, the world’s largest conventionally powered ship, the USNS Miguel Keith (T-ESB-5), a 90,000-ton expeditionary mobile base ship, was recently commissioned and will depart for duty in the Western Pacific this summer. The US Southern Command, Admiral Craig Faller, noted that the Miguel Keith may be sent to the South China Sea to counter the “Chinese threat”!
According to Military.com 10, in addition to departing for the Western Pacific this summer, Admiral Faller said the USS Miguel Keith could travel around the world during her service, such as the Caribbean, the South China Sea and the Strait of Hormuz. He also declared that the ship’s officers and men would travel to the front lines of global conflicts to confront threats to the United States, particularly China.
According to the newspaper, it took about two years to build the USS Miguel Keith expeditionary mobile base ship, which will be permanently deployed overseas, with its first operational base on Saipan. The ship will carry about 100 Navy soldiers and 44 civilian crew members, and its massive hull allows it to deploy a wide flight deck that can accommodate the U.S. Navy’s largest heavy-lift MH-53 helicopter as well as the Marine Corps’ F-35B fighter aircraft.
According to the report, the USS Miguel Keith’s displacement of 90,000 tons is second only to the U.S. Ford-class and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, and already exceeds the displacement of all other countries’ aircraft carriers. For example, the British carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, which is about to deploy to the Indo-Pacific, has a displacement of only about 70,000 tons. Russia’s only aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, displaces more than 60,000 tons, while the world’s smallest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the French Charles de Gaulle R91, has a displacement of more than 10,000 tons. (Gaulle R91), the world’s smallest nuclear-powered aircraft ship, the French Charles de Gaulle (Charles de Gaulle R91), displacement of only 35,000 tons.
According to the Liberty Times, the Miguel Keith has a diesel-electric hybrid power plant, a top speed of 15 knots and a maximum range of 9,500 nautical miles (about 17,594 kilometers). The ship is equipped with a flight deck of about 4,830 square meters, as well as fuel storage, repair shops, armories and quarters for up to 250 people. The ship is also capable of performing a variety of missions, including air mine countermeasures, anti-piracy, maritime security operations, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and crisis response.
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