This week’s story takes us onboard USS Gerald R. Ford — the newest and ... of the three arresting cables stretched across the deck. The Ford is equipped with Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft carrier and the first of the Gerald R. Ford class, just left on its first deployment from Norfolk, Virginia, en... U.S. Chief of Naval ...

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78 ... and Combat Systems Readiness Assessment (C5RA). Ford's deck and engineering department transported two 7-meter rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) to Naval Special ...

The USS Gerald R. Ford has a length of 1,106 feet (337 meters), a height of 256 feet (78 meters) from the flight deck to the beam, and a flight deck width of 256 feet (78 meters). In comparison ...

The Gerald R. Ford class is the future aircraft carrier replacement class for Enterprise and Nimitz class aircraft carriers for the U.S. Navy. The Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) was ordered from Newport ...

Sailors assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) and Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 70 worked together to land four MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopters on Ford's flight deck while the ship was ...

The USS Gerald R Ford is finally setting sail ... move ordnance from the internal magazine complexes to the flight deck, a critical capability that directly affects the aircraft sortie rate ...

USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), which has spent more than eight months away in the Mediterranean, is returning home. https://www.wavy.com/news/military/naval-station ...

The United States Navy’s aircraft carrier fleet remains both the world’s largest and its most capable, and these vessels have provided the U.S. Navy with an unprecedented ability to project..

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