The patrol witnesses a civilian wooden yacht being strafed and destroyed by two Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" fighters, killing three crew members. When a surface contact is spotted on radar, Yelland launches two ready alert Grumman F-14 Tomcat fighter jets from VF-84 to intercept. Pacific fleet battleships, of which several were destroyed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The aircraft returns after photographing Pearl Harbor, but the images show an intact row of U.S. He orders general quarters and launches a RF-8 Crusader reconnaissance aircraft. Pacific Fleet Command at Pearl Harbor, Captain Yelland (Kirk Douglas), commander of the aircraft carrier, fears that there may have been a nuclear strike on Hawaii or the continental United States. Initially unsure of what has happened to them and having lost radio contact with U.S. While the ship passes through it, radar and other equipment become unresponsive and everyone aboard falls into agony. Once at sea, the Nimitz encounters a mysterious electrically-charged storm-like vortex. Tideman, whose secretive major defense contractor company designed and built the nuclear-powered warship. Defense Department - on the orders of his reclusive employer, Mr. The ship takes on a civilian observer, Warren Lasky (Martin Sheen) - a systems analyst for Tideman Industries working as an efficiency expert for the U.S.
In 1980, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz departs Naval Station Pearl Harbor for naval exercises in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The Final Countdown was a moderate success at the box office. It was set and filmed on board USS Nimitz (CVN-68), filming operations of the modern nuclear warship, which had been launched in the early 1970s. The film was produced with the cooperation of the United States Navy's naval aviation branch and the United States Department of Defense. Kaufman also served as an associate producer and had a minor acting role. Produced by Peter Douglas and Lloyd Kaufman (founder of Troma Entertainment) and directed by Don Taylor, the film contains an ensemble cast starring Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Katharine Ross and Charles Durning.
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