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Originally Posted by The Reaper
A buddy of mine commanded the HST carrier battle group. When I asked him how fast the Truman was, he said that it was pretty impressive.
Probably still not as fast as the Enterprise with its eight reactors.
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The top speed is classified, but it's a lot faster than most of her escort ships can sail. Enterprise has 20,000 more Shaft Horsepower than any of the Nimitz classes (280,000 -vs- 260,000).
As an aside, they just started construction of the next class of CVN's on August 11. The as yet un-named CVN-78 will be bigger, faster, and require fewer Unreps than a Nimitz Class, but have a smaller crew.