The Ford-class aircraft carrier is the U.S. Navy’s newest and most sophisticated vessel to date – and the first new class of carrier since the Nimitz class was first built in 1968.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Bush will become the fifth and sixth ships of the Ford class -- the class of ships that is slated to eventually replace the venerable Nimitz-class carriers that are in operation today.

The trend has many exceptions, including the first-in-class USS Nimitz, the USS Carl Vinson, the USS John C. Stennis, and the future Ford-class ships USS Doris Miller and USS Enterprise.

Clinton and the USS George W. Bush, will be the fifth and sixth carriers of the Ford class, which will replace the Nimitz class carrier. Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, has a Nimitz ...

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.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Building on the innovations of the Nimitz class, which was introduced more than half a century ago, the Ford class of aircraft carriers has been dubbed the next-generation “supercarrier.” ...