We toured the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, which can house 75 aircraft (but doesn't have urinals)
Daniel Brown
Jul. 16, 2018, 5:55 PM
USS Gerald R. FordThe flight deck of the USS Gerald R. Ford. Daniel Brown/Business Insider
The USS Gerald R. Ford is the US Navy's newest and largest aircraft carrier — in fact, it's the world's largest.
Commissioned in July 2017, it is the first of the Ford-class carriers, which are more technologically advanced than Nimitz-class carriers.
It has an improved hull design and weapons stowage, a new weapons elevator, more space on the flight deck, a new electromagnetic-powered aircraft-launch system, three times the electrical-generation capacity of any previous carrier, and a lot more.
We recently got a chance to tour the behemoth as it was docked in Virginia's Naval Station Norfolk. Climb aboard for a closer look:
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