Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

The EMALS is an electromagnetic catapult that relies upon a linear induction motor, rather than a traditional steam piston, ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy faces significant challenges as it seeks to extend the service lives of Nimitz-class carriers to maintain its eleven-carrier fleet amid Ford-class production ...

The Navy will name two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

Indeed, this flat top—like all America’s carriers, not only the Nimitz-class but the newer Ford-class as well—were all designed to fight yesterday’s war. Today, the Nimitz and her progeny ...

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 ...

Plus, the costs of building new B-52s and maintaining existing units are much less than those of maintaining the aging Nimitz-class carriers and building the even costlier newer Ford-class boats.

"As far as Nimitz [class], everything has been laid out for them over lots of years. They have got everything set up, we had to start everything from the ground up here." Ford-class carriers have ...

The Nimitz Class aircraft carrier continues to ... The next generation of aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford class (CVN 78) was ordered in 2008 and is slated to be delivered in 2016 as the ...

Ford-class aircraft carrier ... An improvement on the Nimitz class' steam-powered catapult, the EMALS has a higher launch capacity, sending aircraft barreling down the 300-foot track at over ...