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    The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire...
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    USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is an aircraft carrier for the United States Navy and the lead ship of her class. The ship is named after the 38th President...
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    USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) (category Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers)
    USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) is the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy. The ship was launched on 29 October...
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    the lead ship of the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford. Its main advantage is that it accelerates aircraft more smoothly, putting...
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    USS Doris Miller (category Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers)
    USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) will be the fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. Doris Miller is scheduled to be laid down...
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  • Ingalls to build Ford-class aircraft carrier". www.militaryaerospace.com. Retrieved August 1, 2017. "Naval Vessel Register - USS GERALD R FORD (CVN 78)". www...
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    future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-80). Designed under project SCB 160, Enterprise was intended as the first of a class of six...
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    USS Enterprise (CVN-80) (category Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers)
    third Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier to be built for the United States Navy. She will be the ninth United States naval vessel and third aircraft carrier...
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    The Nimitz class is a class of ten nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in service with the United States Navy. The lead ship of the class is named after...
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    nuclear powered aircraft carriers. The carrier fleet currently comprises the (CATOBAR) Nimitz-class and (CATOBAR/ EMALS) Gerald R. Ford-class supercarriers...
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    French aircraft carrier PA2 based on the QE-class design Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier – US Navy supercarrier List of aircraft carriers of the...
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    Charles de Gaulle. Future French aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier INS Vikrant (2013) "Porte-Avions...
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    A1B reactor (category Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers)
    reactor is an aircraft carrier nuclear reactor developed by the United States Navy. It is used in Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers to provide electrical...
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  • 1960s USS Ford, the name of several ships Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, or Ford-class, a group of American ships USS Gerald R. Ford, the lead...
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    powered carrier. These were followed by the Nimitz class and the modern-day post-cold war Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear supercarriers, the only two classes of...
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    developing the use of Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems with the construction of the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers. Historically it was most common...
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    designated her for dismantling. She has been succeeded by the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier Pre-Commissioning Unit John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), laid down...
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    Electromagnetic catapult (category Aircraft carriers)
    installed on the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers and the Chinese aircraft carrier Fujian. The system launches carrier-based aircraft by means of a...
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    counties of North Carolina. The shipyard is building two Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers: USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), and USS Enterprise (CVN-80)...
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    carrier class—the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers (formerly designated CVN-X, or the X Carrier)—to replace the existing Nimitz-class aircraft carriers...
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    commanding officer, Italian aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (CVH 550)". DVIDS. Retrieved 24 March 2021. "USS Gerald R. Ford Completes another Independent...
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  • Kennedy (CV-67), an aircraft carrier in commission from 1968 to 2007 USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), a Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier launched in 2019...
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    Advanced Arresting Gear (category Aircraft carriers)
    Navy's newest Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers. It was deployed in 2017 on the lead ship of the class, the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78). It replaces...
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    nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, HII is currently designing and building the next-generation of aircraft carriers – the Gerald R. Ford class, the first new...
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  • Gerald R. Ford, a 2013 supercarrier named for the 38th president Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, named for the lead ship Jerry Ford Invitational...
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    10 December 2019. O'Rourke, Ronald (10 June 2010). "Navy Ford (CVN-78) class aircraft carrier" (PDF). Congressional Research Service. Archived (PDF) from...
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    naming ceremony at the Pentagon for the aircraft carrier CVN-78, which was officially named the Gerald R. Ford. That same day, Secretary of the Navy Donald...
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    U.S. Gerald R. Ford-class, and France's Charles de Gaulle. The use of catapults allows an aircraft carrier to launch large fixed-wing aircraft. For example...
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  • next aircraft carrier Enterprise". WAVY.com. Rear Adm. Brian Antonio said the ship is expected to be ready by 2028. "Navy's Next Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier...
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    inability to elevate higher than 55 degrees limits the Mark 38 MGS in the anti-aircraft role. Mark 38 Mods 0 and 1 use the Mark 88 machine gun mounting. It was...
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