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The USS Gerald R. Ford cost $13 billion to build and up to $8 million a day deployed. Its 326-day deployment ended with a...
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The USS Gerald R. Ford cost $13 billion to build and up to $8 million a day deployed. Its 326-day deployment ended with a...
The Trump-class battleship, BBG(X), lead ship USS Defiant, is slated for as many as 200 vertical launch cells firing Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonics and...
After the first steel cut in 2011, the Navy finally took delivery of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-7) in August 2026....
The VCHT replaced gravity plumbing the Navy had used since the age of sail — narrower pipes, less fresh water, bends where straight drops...
The new F/A-XX will be an expensive platform that cannot live up to its promise simply because the tyranny of distance is so great...
Ford was built with thinner deck and bulkhead plates to save weight, and the steel turned out to be harder to work with —...
Ford was the Navy's first new carrier design in more than four decades, and it introduced 23 new technologies. Electromagnetic catapults replaced steam, new...
The problem is heat. F-35C exhaust needs jet blast deflectors tougher than the ones installed, plus classified spaces for the aircraft's mission systems —...
USS Gerald R. Ford was commissioned in 2017 with electromagnetic catapults and new arresting gear, but without the digital maintenance, logistics, and mission-data systems...
USS Nimitz was commissioned in May 1975 after seven years and almost $2 billion, and her design shaped nine more carriers through 2009. She...