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USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is an aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the lead ship of her class. The ship is named after the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, whose World War II naval service included combat duty aboard the light aircraft carrier Monterey in the Pacific Theater. [ 17 ]
The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire ten of these ships in order to replace current carriers on a one-for-one basis, starting with the lead ship of her class, Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), replacing Enterprise (CVN-65), and later the Nimitz-class carriers.
Equipped with 4 steam-powered catapults. [ 10 ] 36°58′50″N76°26′18″W36.9805°N 76.4384°WUSS Enterprise (CVN-65), formerly CVA (N)-65, is a decommissioned [ 12 ] United States Navy aircraft carrier. In 1958, she became the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, and the eighth United States naval vessel to ...
The “biggest badass” warship in the world has moored off the south coast of England. The 333m-long USS Gerald R Ford, which is the newest and largest aircraft carrier in the US fleet and the ...
The USS Gerald R. Ford, and the strike group bearing its name, are set to return Saturday to Naval Station Norfolk. The Navy’s newest and largest aircraft carrier deployed for the first time on ...
The USS Gerald R. Ford is one of the world's largest aircraft carriers and is the latest and most cutting-edge aircraft carrier in the United States. It was already in the Mediterranean ...
These were followed by the Nimitz class and the modern-day post-cold war Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear supercarriers, the only two classes of supercarriers that are currently in active-duty service. [7] With the ten-ship Nimitz-class complete by 2009, October 2013 saw the launch of Gerald R. Ford, lead ship of the planned ten-ship Gerald R. Ford ...
ABOARD USS GERALD R. FORD (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, and thanked its crew for their ...