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.

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 ...

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.

The United States Navy maintains an edge when it comes to sheer numerical superiority over most nations. When you have ...

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

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 ...

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. Here are the ...