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Gerald R. Ford entered the fleet replacing the decommissioned USS Enterprise (CVN-65), which ended her 51 years of active service in December 2012. [19] [20] Originally scheduled for delivery in 2015, [21] Gerald R. Ford was delivered to the Navy on 31 May 2017 [6] and formally commissioned by President Donald Trump on 22 July 2017.
The USS Gerald R. Ford sails in formation with the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers USS Winston Churchill and USS Forrest Sherman in the Atlantic Ocean, Nov. 12, 2024.
On 28 July 2017, Lt. Cmdr. Jamie "Coach" Struck of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 (VX-23) performed the first EMALS catapult launch from USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) in an F/A-18F Super Hornet. [19] By April 2021, 8,000 launch/recovery cycles had been performed with the EMALS and the AAG arrestor system aboard USS Gerald R. Ford. The USN ...
On 2 May 2023, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) and Carrier Strike Group 12 departed Norfolk for a routine deployment. [191] On 8 October 2023, the day after the Hamas attack on Israel, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, directed the Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean "to bolster regional deterrence efforts ...
The Gerald R. Ford, named after the 38th president — who made a career in the Navy — is an “innovative warfighting platform,” the ship’s commanding officer stated in 2019.
The USS Gerald R. Ford is one of the world's largest aircraft carriers and is the latest and most cutting-edge aircraft carrier in the United States. It was already in the Mediterranean ...
The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire ten of these ships in order to replace current carriers on a one-for-one basis, starting with the lead ship of her class, Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), replacing Enterprise (CVN-65), and later the Nimitz-class carriers.
WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of extra duty at sea providing protection for Israel, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group will be heading home, the Navy announced Monday.