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US Navy prepares Ford carrier strike group for possible deployment scenarios with COMPTUEX
With aircraft carrier USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78) and its carrier strike group (CSG) preparing for deployment later in 2025, ...
‘It’s world class training’: USS Gerald R. Ford works through COMPTUEX exercise
On Your Side got an up close look at USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) during their COMPTUEX Training Exercise. The aircraft ...
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USS Nimitz Sets Sail For Likely Final Deployment
Almost 50 years on from its commissioning date, the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) departed Naval Base ...
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Navy’s Ford-class aircraft carrier may come to Bremerton as early as 2029
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 (CVN-82 ...
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The Problem with U.S. Navy Ford-Class Aircraft Carriers
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 ...
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Gerald R. Ford Class Aircraft Carrier
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 ...
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How the Navy pumps 1.3 million gallons of fuel into an aircraft carrier without ever pulling into port
ATLANTIC OCEAN — USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) conducted a successful replenishment-at-sea (RAS) February 8 marking the ship's first time receiving fuel from a replenishment ship in more than 24 ...
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Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier
Ford class (CVN 78) was ordered in 2008 and is slated to be delivered in 2016 as the force structure replacement for USS ENTERPRISE (EX-CVN 65) which inactivated in 2012.