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 force structure replacement for USS ENTERPRISE (EX-CVN ...

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 ...

Many aircraft carriers, just like the one used in "Top Gun: Maverick," have hull classification codes that begin with CVN.

Following the naming of the next two Gerald R Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers by the US Navy ... who served from 1974-77 for first-in-class CVN 78, and followed by John F Kennedy ...

Ford (CVN 78) conducted a successful replenishment ... "The primary mission of an aircraft carrier is to fly aircraft, and we need to be able to replenish the jet fuel without having to pull ...

NAVAL STATION NORFOLK — Capt. Mark Lawrence relieved Capt. James Von St. Paul as commander, Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 2 during a ceremony aboard the world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald ...

The recent collision involving the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-78) as it was in Port Said, Egypt, and a civilian merchant vessel highlights a real weakness of America’s vaunted aircraft carriers.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The next nuclear-powered aircraft carriers to be constructed will bear the names of two living presidents. President Joe Biden announced on Monday that the next Gerald R.