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The U.S. Navy’s Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers are the largest and most technologically advanced warships ever built, ...
Aircraft Carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) Christening Ceremony. Each ship in the new class will save more than $4 billion in total ownership costs during its 50-year service life, compared to the ...
Ford-Class Carriers: A $13 Billion Bet on America’s Naval Future. America’s great love affair with the aircraft carrier continues unabated, with the creation of the Ford-class aircraft carrier.
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the nation's first Ford Class aircraft carrier, is readying for christening on Nov. 9 and a rigorous set of tests and evaluations after that. The 77,000-ton, next ...
The Navy is making lethality enhancing “modifications” to its next several new Ford-class aircraft carriers, to include integrated “digital shipbuilding” and weapons-oriented adjustments ...
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the first of a new class of US Navy flattops, set sail for sea trials last Friday, and the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), the second of the ...