USS Luxington ATT-16

USS Luxington ATT-16 is an uncontrollable Naval aircraft carrier featured in Grand Theft Auto Online as part of the Heists Update.

Description
USS Luxington ATT-16 is the second large-scale military ship to appear physically in a GTA game, the first being the LHD-069 (an amphibious assault ship) in GTA San Andreas.

It is strongly based on the Nimitz aircraft carrier class of the United States Navy, including Phalanx CIWS turrets similar to those found on US Navy ships. Some design elements are also taken from the USS Enterprise carrier. The ship carries a fleet of P-996 LAZERs and Hydras. It is featured as a part of a heist setup mission for The Humane Labs Raid.

According to Agent 14, the carrier was comissioned in 1973.

Mission Appearances

 * Heists
 * Humane Raid - EMP

Trivia

 * The aircraft carrier's number, 96, is evidently a pun on the number 69, a recurring gag throughout the series.
 * 96 was chosen, instead of 69, probably because one of the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, the Dwight D. Eisenhower, already has the number 69.
 * Also, numbers close from 69 seem preferred to 69 itself in GTA V, making it a more subtle reference. Another example is the Route 68, which in the beta was going to be named Route 69.
 * It is odd that the P-996 LAZERs can be seen deploying from the carrier, since the P-996 LAZER is largely based on the F-16 Fighting Falcon, an aircraft that is not equipped, nor intended for usage on naval vessels.
 * The name USS Luxington is a play on the real life USS Lexington.
 * During the setup mission, the carrier is located under the place where the North Yankton glitch used to appear, before it was patched.