USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) will depart Tuesday for its second deployment, U.S. 2nd Fleet announced on Friday. The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, which includes guided-missile destroyers USS ...

Landing on an aircraft carrier is already one of aviation’s toughest challenges but doing it at night takes it to another ...

The USS Gerald Ford (CVN-78), at a staggering $13 billion, stands as the most expensive and powerful aircraft carrier ever built. As the flagship of the Ford-class carriers, it represents the pinnacle ...

CVN-79 is the second U.S. aircraft carrier named for President Kennedy. The first one, CV-67, which served from 1968 to 2007, was the U.S. Navy's last conventionally powered carrier.

"The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) was involved in a collision with the merchant vessel Besiktas-M at approximately 11:46 p.m. local time, Feb. 12, while operating in ...

CVN 78 is longer, at 1,106 feet compared to 1,092 feet, and can carry around 30 more aircraft. One of USS Gerald R. Ford's most essential improvements is its electromagnetic launching system ...

After nine eventful months which saw extensive operations in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Mediterranean Sea, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) finally arrived ...

The carrier was given the CVN-78 designation, where CVN refers to a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, and the number means it is the 78th aircraft carrier to be classified by the U.S. Navy.

Introducing a new ship, especially a large ship like a carrier, is a complex and often painful process. Fords are finally emerging from that process. At the end of 2022 the first Ford, USS Ford (CVN ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) has etched a new chapter in the annals of American naval history. The U.S. Navy's most technologically advanced nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has completed its final ...

Kennedy (CVN 79) Dead Load Testing HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division recently began topside testing of the electromagnetic aircraft launch system (EMALS) on aircraft carrier John F ...