The dual-band radar (DBR) aboard the Navy aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), the ship’s primary sensor system, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Irvine cooked alongside the culinary specialists who are responsible for running the ship's "mess deck" where sailors eat. Irvine's visit comes a few months after the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike ...

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..

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 ...

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier and one other warship to remain in the Mediterranean Sea for several more weeks to maintain a two-carrier ...

The USS Doris Miller and the USS Enterprise are the only two Ford-class vessels not named after presidents. President Joe Biden announced Monday that two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers ...

President Joe Biden announced on Monday that the next Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers would be named after former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The future USS William J.