Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...
The Navy will name two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
The following is the Jan. 14, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: ...
The USS John F. Kennedy is a nearly-ready Ford ... after the namesake USS Gerald R. Ford, and will help the Navy continue its incremental phase-out of the fifty-year-old Nimitz class.
After the USS Gerald R. Ford, the Kennedy is only the second US Navy aircraft carrier to feature the new electromagnetic aircraft launch system, a more efficient mechanism for launching fixed-wing ...