Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...
The USS Gerald R. Ford, the U.S. Navy’s first Ford-class supercarrier, finished its first planned incremental availability (PIA) and is now preparing for initial workups and its first ...
See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.
Instead of preservation as a museum ship—which might allow certain foreign visitors to learn too much about existing aircraft ...
When the Kennedy was set to relieve the Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier USS America ... billion shy of the $13 billion first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford. Measuring 1,092 feet in length — only ...