The Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) was ordered from Newport News Shipbuilding on Sept. 10, 2008, and is scheduled to be delivered in 2016. The Gerald R. Ford class will be the premier forward asset for ...

Ford (CVN-78) aircraft carrier, the U.S. Navy wants observers to believe the new supercarrier is ready for combat. The carrier, just entering the DOT&E’s Initial Operational Test and Evaluation ...

Ford (CVN 78). With full ship shock trials behind it, the USS Ford is completing the ship’s five-year transition from a balky test-and-trials platform to a functional combat asset.

and CVN-83 are the first six ships in the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs). The Navy’s proposed FY2025 budget requests $2,143.9 million (i.e ...

March 20, 2023: At the end of 2022 the first of the new American Ford class CVN (nuclear-powered aircraft carrier) finally left for its long delayed operational stress test cruise. This means two ...

What You Need to Know: USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) represents the pinnacle of modern aircraft carrier design, yet the vessel’s significant costs, complex maintenance, and vulnerability concerns ...

The U.S. Navy's first six Ford-class aircraft carriers are the Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), the Enterprise (CVN-80), the Doris Miller (CVN-81), the William J. Clinton ...

Ford class of nuclear aircraft carriers, the first new class in over 40 years, meant to replace Nimitz-class carriers that were first deployed in 1975. The carrier was given the CVN-78 designation ...

The delivery date for the second Ford-class aircraft carrier was pushed back a year, according to budget documents released this week. The USS John F. Kennedy is slated to be delivered in July ...