The World's Most Tricked Out Aircraft Carrier May Finally Be Commissioned This Year
Terrell Jermaine Starr
Friday 6:50pmFiled to: USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78)
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The U.S. Navy is nearing the final stages of commissioning the world’s most technologically advanced aircraft carrier ever. Next month, the wildly expensive and yet incredibly awesome USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) will embark on a critical series of trials that will test its navigation, communications, ship handling, habitability, propulsion plant, and damage control, USNI News reports.
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Hosting the trials will be Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, the maker of the Ford, to ensure she is seaworthy. The ship will neither launch nor recover any aircraft during the tests, Ye-Ling Wang, program manager for future aircraft carriers at the Navy’s Program Executive Office for Aircraft Carriers, told USNI.
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